Topic: Castlevania in 2015

[Nagumo]

Wow, is there seriously anyone who hasn't left? Konami to be come fulltime sportclub company confirmed.

[Kingshango]

Konami may as well just put it's gaming division out of it's misery. It's very sad to see what they've become.

[Maedhros]

Castlevania, Silent Hill, MGS (after V), everything is dead.

I don't feel anything anymore.

And to think that LoS2 was the last game in the franchise... holy fucking shit... what a shit ending to a franchise.

[Dracula9]

Man, the Oath of Fëanor fucked everything up, huh?

Yeah, I just found out about Kojima's probable leaving earlier, that's a hell of a gut punch. 

[X]

I don't feel this is unexpected. Konami is company like any other--with ups, downs, and eventually a collapse, merger or buy-out. But yeah, this will definitely effect the CV series and other series' on a whole. Unless Konami sell's off all their IPs to other better-off companies before they go under.

[Shiroi Koumori]

It is better that they do the sell-off rather than just let every IP they have fade into oblivion.
Perhaps IGA already saw this coming when he left.

[Kingshango]

Some serious shit must be going down over at Konami when even the producers of Tokimeki Memorial and Love Plus have jumped ship.

Im getting some serious modern Sega vibes from all this.

[Nagumo]

I think they're taking steps to get out of the "hardcore video game" business. They have other business ventures which are more succesful, so I think losing Kojima isn't a big deal to them. They barely put out anything on both handheld and console compared to 10 years earlier. I'm curious if their E3 presence is going to be as abysmal as last year. 

[pimp dracula]

Is there a willing bidder that will buy Konami IPs out there? Atlus not long ago was bought by Sega.

[Nagumo]

Just sell it to From Software. Seriously, I can't think of anyone better.

[pimp dracula]

If it's a 3D castlevania, From is the best choice. But they are not really a big company that Sony have their life support. They rarely publish games on their own.

[Dremn]

Castlevania being snatched up from Konami, I can't even think if the consequences of that would be good or bad.

Honestly just let it die, let a successor come in time. I don't have the faith or patience in the series getting another reboot or new director at this point.

[Kingshango]

People thought I was joking when I said Castlevania's next destination will be pachislots and iPhones.

They looked at me and said I was mad, crazy and insane. (And they were right!)

Now it's looking more likely than ever before.

The announcement will be like a train coming to hit us and we're all tied to it's tracks and there's no Superman to save us this time.

Only thing left to do is to close our eyes and let the train hit us.

[Nagumo]

They're already trying to hire new people to take over the Metal Gear series. Too bad they apperently don't care enough for Castlevania to do the same for that series (maybe).   

[Dremn]

The whole situation is scummy as shit, Konami has lost all respect from me.