PS3 “lead platform” for Castlevania: Lords of Shadow

Hmm. If it’s fixed camera, they’d better get it right.

Hmm.. lead platform… we’ll see.

Did they make the PS3 the lead platform before or after Kojima decided he wanted his name on the box?

Many developers have said it makes sense to lead on PS3 as it’s harder to go in the other direction. I don’t think there’s much to be read into it other than both versions should be very comparable, which is surely good news for all involved.

Good news. Should mean a better experience for both console versions.

Not another case of “Bayonetta PS3 syndrome” then… disaster averted!

Yessssssssssssss! Kojima is and forever will be a SONY Fan!

What is Kojima’s involvement with this title, exactly? I got the impression it was ‘basically very little’.

Lets hope it’s absolutely nothing to do with the story… or cutscenes.

I think it’s like when Nintendo say Shigsy has been involved in the making of a game. This basically means handing him a Wiimote or stylus and him saying the game is a’ight, before asking if he can go back to measuring things.

PS3 was the ‘lead’ platform for Ghostbusters.
And look how that turned out.

@11 –

@ 10 – yeah that’s pretty much how I envision kojima’s involvment in this

Kojima’s just an advisor.

So basically, he is nowhere near the story.

@11
Western devs Vs Eastern Devs

@14
Exactly…

fixed camera sounds good.
Played the GoW Collectin just recently and i enjoyed it pretty much not having to take care about the right view. U can get more into the actual action.
I hope more titles will adopt that in the future.

God of War’s camera while dynamic often made jumps dificult as you couldn’t see what was beyond the platform you’re standing on. This is also true of GoW3.
A fixed camera needs to give you the best view of what you’re doing.
They need to get this right. There have been times I have been desperate for the ability to rotate the camera in GoW.

Indeed, even in the GoW3 demo theres an awkward jump obscured by the camera angle.

While the jump itself seems easy enough I have died doing it on many occasions.

Yea for the record, I greatly dislike games that have fixed camera views. All too often, more times then not, that lack of a better views is going to cause problems.

I wish games would stop trying to be so cinamatic all of the time. Just be games. Movies don’t need multi cam views and the static aproach often adds to suspense, mood, or whatever. But a game is a game. Its far more interactive and as such I feel a movable cam just fits it better. I remember playing a 3D Castlvana on PS2 and it had a fixed cam. I never got through the game. Jumps and obsticals that I couldn’t see kept me from enjoying the game.

‘Movies don’t need multi cam views’

Remember that the DvD revolution was going to bring multiple views for certain movies/events and such?

Whatever happened to that idea?

it got used in pr0n.

i dont think fixed cam is an approach to make games more cineastic.
Its just a proper way of letting u enjoy the action without taking care for the right camera angle.
imo.
I also had troble here and there with some odd jumps, but well, didnt made me angry or whatever.
It will never be perfect, but imo steady cam is more enjoyable..
at least for linear games. for some of them. open world is obviously a whole different thing, aswell as some other story driven linear games.
After all i guess the static cam on gow was the price to pay for the immense graphics, which they propably couldnt have achieved with a free camera.

This is in my Top 5 Most Wanted games this year… it just looks so fucking good, so far at least.

Well that’s nice and sensible – should run equally well on both consoles then.