IGA as the backer exclusive superboss

I always pictured this fight to be similar to any Belmont fight. I'm pretty sure they intend for the swordwhip to be his drop, and I'd say that will pretty much be it. Perhaps a rare alchemy item or something of that nature. I also imagine he will be available to fight anytime from the main menu, but if he's extremely difficult you might be waiting until endgame anyway. I don't really have much of an opinion on his difficulty, but on the subject in general, I do hope there will be a optional/hidden boss that is stronger than the final boss. Galamoth was always intriguing because of that. And I'm pretty sure they intend for him to stay "backer only". I imagine people will get angry if they end up offering him to everyone as download content.

I'm also fairly certain the IGA boss will fight with and drop the Swordwhip (I do not know if that was confirmed of course but I'm betting on this being the case). I suspect 2 forms as is classic and for him to be the hardest boss in the game; and how can IGA NOT rise off a throne before kicking our asses?

Now as for whether or not the boss/weapon will be made available as DLC later, I find that a very touchy issue with people. I myself honestly want the IGA fight and the Swordwhip to remain exclusive to backers, so that whenever we play online and use it, people will know "hey cool, that player was a backer!"

I've also been told that my mentality is, forgive me for being crude, that of an asshole who just wants to show off his internet boner by showing off gear that players who didn't back will never have. "Hey man, did you want to back but couldn't? Didn't have the money at the time? To young to back at the time? SCREW YOU LOOK AT MY SWAG I PAID FOR AND YOU CANT HAVE IT!" A friend and I had a pretty nasty argument about this, as he fervently believes that holding something as significant as a boss and unique weapon "hostage" is a purely dick move, ESPECIALLY if they never sell it down the line.

Now for a less personal matter: how to price it if they do sell it? Shall we be reasonable and say $5? With the base digital game being $28 as per the tiers, that'd be $33 for the game and backer DLC. So those of us who shelled out $60 for the physical copy with the content: is $27 purely for a box and backer-exclusive slip case worth it?

I for some reason picture the IGA boss being a callback to dracula but super hard and fun. It just seems appropriate considering that most of the people backing this were fans of castlevania and it would be an amazing treat for IGulA to be hidden deep in there somewhere. Hopefully he just concedes defeat and leaves instead of dying so you can farm a super special shard and weapon drop!

Also as for bloodytears92's friend there are plenty of opportunities to slackerback still to this day, this offer has been open for way more than a generous amount of time. While I personally don't care if it is open to every as dlc later I also feel that everyone was given a fair shot at acquiring these bonuses.

For pricing though I believe the retail game should be 60 USD on release and we just got it at a discount for backing. So $5-$10 sounds appropriate if they release kickstarter stuff later.

Edit: Just to add to the backer argument, limited edition items have been around for thousands of years and will continue for thousands more. Sooo yeeaahh.... it's just kinda something you have to get used to.

There are a lot of ways to look at this. I can absolutely understand where he and the many people who share that mindset are coming from and truthfully I can agree with the sentiment.

What about a younger fan who cant back a project on his/her own and when asked, his/her parents refused? That person will NEVER be able to get the content and there was nothing they could do about it. What about a fan who's been going through a hard time regarding their finances and could not commit to the project because of that?

And of course, the idea of having content separated for only a select group has always been contentious. Just look at Pre-order culture. Now there is an important, inherent difference between a KS project and pre-ordering, but if this game were a sure-fire thing made by a publisher, and it came out as "pre-order to get an exclusive boss and weapon" the gaming community would be FURIOUS at the idea of locking off such important content forever, and rightly so. The very idea of "pay ahead of time for this game that may not be good so you can get things nobody else will get" is coming under a lot of well-deserved fire as of late.

The real heart of the matter here is an unfortunate one: no matter what Inti Creates decides, a group of people will be angry. If Inti decides to agree with us, that we are backers, and as such deserve exclusive in-game content, then there is going to be a lot of resentment from people who wanted to back, but could not, or people who never knew about the campaign to begin with and feel cheated out of cool stuff. Vice versa, if Inti sells the content later as DLC, well, a lot of the backers are going to feel cheated and less special.

Another counter-argument I know can and will come up is that a lot of us backed at above the base $60 pledge for the content. Full disclosure for the sake of example: I pledged $150 to the project. Someone is absolutely going to look at me and say "You have a hardcover artbook and soundtrack that will never be sold in stores, you've got exclusive box art AND a collectible sleeve, your name is in the credits, do you need in-game exclusives on top of all that to feel special?

Its touchy, it really is. And it all has to do with the fact that we are getting items and battles in-game that will be exclusive to us. Nobody can complain about physical items like art-books or soundtracks or stained glass statues, but extra content in the game itself? That will never not be touchy. 

I want what makes the most people happy so the game will do that much better. I won't mind as much if the content remains backer-only/becomes available widely. It was indeed stated that these things were backer-only content, though...

The thing is, regarding people that may feel like they missed out, they haven't...as has been pointed out by zero and others. The campaign has arguably been "live" for well over a year now. The igavania.com/back Fangamer backing lets everyone pledge up to the $500 mark, still inclusive of the backer-only extras. If someone missed out over the span of (I'm going to guess) nearly two years, or couldn't save up $ in that span of time, then...? Wouldn't have all that much sympathy, haha.

I think it's more likely that they would want to hop on the HYPE TRAIN only after the game is already out and proven to be the good product we knew it would be, years in the making. Many shun pre-orders and buy only after they have seen reviews or video coverage. I actually respect that, it's part of being a smart consumer in a way. Like I said, too, I'm actually fine with things we received as extras being purchasable for them later...but they should not decry the content as an injustice, that they deserve it and so on. If it's available, happy days, but if it's not, then the consumer shouldn't be surprised.

I think that IGA should be VERY difficult, as he is the only confirmed optional boss, and I also think that he should have between 2-3 forms, each new one harder than the last. You gotta FIGHT for those ultimate weapon alchemy drops! >:D

I hope he'll yell "DIE MONSTER!" at some point. If not, I'll be mildly disappointed. :p

Ahaha. I suppose that would make sense. She ALSO steals their powers soo....lol

Ummm...no. Not souls, shards. A dumb idea like that would NEVER sell. ;p