Topic: Hopes and dreams for 2013?

[Nagumo]

What are you hoping happens in regard to the Castlevania series in the upcoming year?

• I would like to know it's already going to be revealed who is going to work on a Castlevania game next after LoS2.
• I hope the series returns to a more inspired art design. Roughly any artist who worked on the series from 1993 - 2009, or of course a completely new artist.
• Admittedly, I would like to see any elements introduced by the Lords of Shadow series ignored except for the wonderfully gothic design of the castle from LoS1.

 

[C Belmont]

I'm hoping that we get a new classicvania preferably one that isn't 2.5D but true 2D
most of all though I'm just hoping that 2013 will really bring the LOS saga to a definite conclusion and that Castlevania moves onto more interesting things.

[Kingshango]

I hope that LOS2 ends on a high note and that Castlevania moves on beyond it.
Hopefully a new dev team will take on Castlevania and stick closer to the source material in the next reboot.

[Successor The Cruel]

For Castlevania to get a lot better than it is now.

For Konami to realize the Mercury Steam games were the stupidest thing the series has ever done and bring things back to what fans want to see, which is, ya' know, Castlevania.

For Konami to realize that what fans want to see does not necessarily make for games with minute sales. Castlevania will sell and be competitive in its natural form so long as the games are great, inspired, and fresh. Bullshit gimmicks like LotR reboots or the most cliche anime tropes aren't necessary. Please don't insult people's intelligence, or your series like that, Konami. If your stuff is truly, truly excellent, and it's marketed intelligently, people will buy it. Word will carry. People aren't turned off to elegant artwork or pretty vampires. You can make a game about panda bears fighting in submarines, and if it's really awesome, people will play it. What people are turned off to are uninspired, stale games that cut corners due to production values and development periods that are way too low.

[Tuxedo Mark]

I'd like the team that made "Contra 4" to be given a shot at the series.

[crisis]

i just want to be happy 

[Heuss]

Never see a Castlevania with horrendous anime style

[Phoenix7786]

My hopes and dreams for 2013 are to find someone and get married I feel like 26 is too old to be un-married, but maybe that's just my personal feelings.

[DragonSlayr81]

I wouldn't mind a revival of the Kid Dracula series. Maybe give kids their own offshoot of the CV series. I tend to find, nowadays, it's like adults are bogarding the majority of everything, and want kids to meet them on their level than vice versa(which IMO, hurts kids, because kids should BE kids, not attain to be young adults at a younger age). It's kinda the "selfish adult" syndrome. I think kids nowadays are getting gypped. You could evidently see it on saturday mornings. Where it used to be the golden time for children, now they only run some regurgitated Cable programming, then cut to a multitude of sports programming(Because daddy needs his beer time with his friends EARLIER than usual, so kiddy, get the fuck out of the living room, it's MAN TIME!!!).

It's actually kinda strange who everything exists in stark contrasts nowadays. Nintendo exists MAINLY to deliver child/family friendly games, but rarely releases teen-adult aimed titles. Most other game developers have shifted to targetting solely teens to adults, but give chidren the shaft. Why can't there be a medium area? Doesn't it kinda make sense that, the wider demographic you aim your game selection to be, the more chance you'll have to appeal to more of an audience? More money? Isn't that what developers/companies are all about, money?

[Sumac]

I hope Castlevania will continue in a more dark and serious, western fantasy inspired, direction of the LOS, though maybe with different story this time. I'll be glad, if it not returns to the "metroidvania" formula forever. Level by level progression should be preserved with remotely high difficulty and platforming.

Castlevania deserved better treatment than rehashing its own guts again and again for the sake of I don't know why. It's deserved to be better than a 2D outcast game on portable consoles. It's deserved to be great and epic even, if it changes some aspects of the series.

[shelverton.]

My hopes and dreams for 2013 are to find someone and get married I feel like 26 is too old to be un-married, but maybe that's just my personal feelings.

Marrying at 26 is pretty early IMO. But maybe it depends on where you live. It seems 30-35-ish is the 'norm' here.. Which makes perfect sense cause people are somewhat grown up and ready at that age. Or as ready as you can be..

As for Castlevania? I just hope MoF and LoS2 are decent.

[Kramgnauh]

I would wish Castlevania would return to 2D sprites.... enemies, characters and environments looks so much more lively than the ones I seen in Mirror of Fate.

[X]

I wish for Castlevania to return to it's source-material, but keep things new and exciting. Los cattered to some people why were of the original series and those who'd never even heard of Castlevania. But in the end it alienated a lot of people who were long time fans. I wish for 2013 to be the end of this current dark age of CV and bring about a hopeful new outlook for the future of the series.

[JR]

I wish for Castlevania to return to it's source-material, but keep things new and exciting.

Amen.

Although it's already been said, I'd like to see a return to the Classicvania formula in 2D, with staples the series used to have: high difficulty, theme (Eastern take on Western horror icons), and a short yet competent storyline. Add gameplay innovations to the old formula. And if that can't be done, a retro-ish title like Mega Man 9/10 would be awesome, too. Of course I'm still open to other possibilities, but seeing a return to its roots would be my favorite.

And a return of Konami to the days of old. It's always good to have one of your favorite titles in the hands of a competent publisher.

[Claimh Solais]

I just hope to see more fun Castlevania games. I'd like Ready At Dawn to take the reigns if the lame-ass Konami CV team doesn't want to do it. Ready At Dawn knows what it is to respect the roots of a game while giving a fresh new experience. They did, after all, make God of War: Chains of Olympus, God of War: Ghost of Sparta, and Daxter, all of which are quality games that are impossible to tell that they were made by a different development team than Santa Monica or Naughty Dog.