*** Castle Crashers (PC) - Thread ***

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Castle Crashers is live on Steam right now for £9.99 on PC and Mac.
Bloody fantastic game, I remember owning this on the 360 and have to say there is no more fun to be had from a coop title.

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Castle Crashers is a side-scrolling beat-em-up that incorporates a small number of role-playing video game elements. After selecting a character, the player then selects a starting stage through an overworld map. After completing a stage, the player has the choice to revisit it or to move to another stage. The map also displays shops where the player character can buy items and weaponry using coins gained from defeated foes. Arena stages can be unlocked where the player character can take on challenges to unlock additional characters.

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Castle Crashers supports cooperative gameplay for up to four players, either locally or online. The game progression in terms of what stages are unlocked is defined by the hosting player; however, each player character will gain experience points and acquire wealth, weapons, and animal orbs independently as they progress with the rest of the party. In each stage, the player can use melee and combination attacks. Each character has a unique magical ability in order to defeat foes and a health meter that, if drained from enemy attacks, will cause the character to fall in battle. In single player mode, this ends the stage; however, in cooperative multiplayer other players may attempt to revive the downed character.

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Characters gain experience points by defeating foes which allow the character to level up. Each level gained allows the player to allocate points towards the character's four basic combat attributes.Certain level advances also grant new combination attacks. Progress is tracked for each of the playable characters separately. The character's magic level is also tracked by a meter and regenerates over time. Numerous weapons can be found in the game, each that have various effects to the character's attributes when equipped. The player can find animal companions for their character that may assist in battle, improve the character's attributes, or provide another special ability such as increased treasure earned from defeated foes

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I played this on my brothers 360 years ago, was a nice game I thought. Wasn't floored or anything by it though.

Kind of missing the point to play this online, its all about the local coop :)
 
Yeah, I was shocked when the Steam advert for this popped up but it was an instant purchase :) Very impressed that they've ported the Coop properly too, unlike the recent Eden release.
 
To play 2 player local co-op, the game only supports 2 gamepads. Single player, keyboard works fine. VERY POOR.

Requested a refund as in my opinion, this is not acceptable.

A console player would never be told to use a keyboard to play 2 player, so why should a PC gamer be forced to use 2 gamepads when the single player works fine with a keyboard.

Even when using a keyboard, the button prompts still relate to the 360 controller. Just lazy in my opinion.

Jamestown did this properly with local co-op and is a fraction of the price.

Very shoddy.
WELL..

I have no idea what is happening, I can now play Co-op with Gamepad AND keyboard although as of yesterday, it was not and it was a known problem reported many times on their forum.

Erm...
 
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To play 2 player local co-op, the game only supports 2 gamepads. Single player, keyboard works fine. VERY POOR.

Requested a refund as in my opinion, this is not acceptable.

A console player would never be told to use a keyboard to play 2 player, so why should a PC gamer be forced to use 2 gamepads when the single player works fine with a keyboard.

Even when using a keyboard, the button prompts still relate to the 360 controller. Just lazy in my opinion.

Jamestown did this properly with local co-op and is a fraction of the price.

Very shoddy.

Not sure I agree with you. It's a port from a console that is played far better on controller than keyboard. I didn't even bother trying this game with a keyboard and certainly wouldn't have ever considered trying 2 player on keyboards.

I can understand where you are coming from, but I don't think many people would really have entertained the idea of not using controllers and I kind of presumed that the vast majority of people have an xbox controller for their pc. Can't your friend bring one around?

Having said this, I bought the game at £10 and never really played it. It was a lot more dull than the hype surrounded the game let on.
 
pictures are huge and took longer to load than the 56k modem days, gave up with the thread because i had waited.. then typed this before the things had even half loaded... its 2012 right?
 
Not sure I agree with you. It's a port from a console that is played far better on controller than keyboard. I didn't even bother trying this game with a keyboard and certainly wouldn't have ever considered trying 2 player on keyboards.

I can understand where you are coming from, but I don't think many people would really have entertained the idea of not using controllers and I kind of presumed that the vast majority of people have an xbox controller for their pc. Can't your friend bring one around?

Having said this, I bought the game at £10 and never really played it. It was a lot more dull than the hype surrounded the game let on.

They give options for redefining keys and the game is more than playable with a keyboard.

My "friend" is my son ;)

There is no excuses for making a game sub par and missing features expected for that platform.

You make it sound as though I am being unreasonable wanting to play with one gamepad and a keyboard.

Using a keyboard for a player in a PC game, oh the stupidity.
 
WELL..

I have no idea what is happening, I can now play Co-op with Gamepad AND keyboard although as of yesterday, it was not and it was a known problem reported many times on their forum.

Erm...
 
Ah, I was getting confused becuase I thought you were wanting to play coop with two people on one keyboard and I don't think it's unreasonable to expect players to use two controllers or a keyboard and controller.

Now it makes more sense.
 
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