Topic: "The Dragon Returns" - Castlevania Lords of Shadow Sequel (HERE BE SPOILER INFO)

[Ahasverus]

It's official name is Vampire Warrior, not Vampire Orc though. Althought it does look orcish.

Wish I could post the picture of him but I can't atm but he's seen in the trailers getting a mouthful of sword.

Yeah i've seen it it looks cool, we already know how lesser vampires look in loS

[DragonSlayr81]

It's official name is Vampire Warrior, not Vampire Orc though. Althought it does look orcish.

Wish I could post the picture of him but I can't atm but he's seen in the trailers getting a mouthful of sword.

Anyhow, im surprised people out surprised that QTE's are returning. I thought it was a foregone conclusion by now. Hell everything from the first game is returning, shimmying, plank walking (although there's no need to balance yourself) orchestral hollywood esq music. The only things that are different are the camera control, the void and chaos powers and it's open world.

I say expect the expected when it comes to this game and nevermind the unexpected.

Not surprised, but disappointed.

[Bergaron]

Errrrrrr, the Vampire "ORC" you can see in all trailers of LOS2... is cool... Gabriel jump and kill him with the void sword.. seriously, it's a good design, I do not see the problem....

On the other hand seems to be no time travel, young Trevor is a "ghost" of the castle (Carmilla?). I guess all the current state of the castle is related to the Toymaker, I guess that Gabriel has to regain all his power. The game looks good, although I do not like the white wolf was Gabriel (I know I know, it was obvious from the medallion) but still thought it might be Alucard.

[Ahasverus]

Not surprised, but disappointed.

Eh not that bad, cool, even.

[Shiroi Koumori]

Dropping a Carlyle interview.

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2013/07/21/how-robert-carlyle-influenced-the-design-of-castlevania-39-s-dracula.aspx

[Koutei]

Dave Cox: Lords of Shadow 2 is 'the last one for us'
Next Castlevania will have to come from new team
http://www.destructoid.com/dave-cox-lords-of-shadow-2-is-the-last-one-for-us--258461.phtml

Once we’ve done that, it’s time to say to somebody else, 'now it’s your turn.' Maybe it will be a young producer in the company looking for his first break. I think you’ve got to bring in fresh blood.

Young producer, first break and fresh blood. What kind of the future Castlevania comes?

[Ahasverus]

^OH YES
Or hagihara could return, I wouldn't be mad at all.

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Not happening never ever

Hope they get to an awesome neew team of young people that can take care of the series for a long time, hopefully a multicultural one (a mix of japan and west) and of course an ambitious scope.

[Dracul_Belmont]

I think that IGA's time to make the 1999 demon castle wars game, and that's it. Mercurysteam is doing a great job with Castlevania and from this time on, ''seriousness'' should be in the games.

[Kingshango]

Im all for new fresh developers working on Castlevania after LOS2 is done instead of just giving it back to IGA, hell the first Castlevania was practically done by young college graduates. But if he does come back. (and that's a big IF at this point) he can only do the Demon Castle War. No more bs, no prequel to Dracula's Curse, no sequel to SOTN, no filler story about Jonathan going to Vietnam to track down Dracula's castle in the jungle then coming back home with a very bad case of PTSD, which turns out to be Dracula's spirit tormenting his dying soul as a twist and call it "Castlevania Heart of Darkness."

It's Demon Castle War of 1999 or bust.

[Dremn]

Some of Mercury Steam's character designs/art direction + game design that is actually Castlevania = good to go.

I just hope LoS didn't convince Konami people enjoy QTEs and any other notes taken from God of War as the new idea of what Castlevania is. I would be more than OK with IGA's team back with an actual budget so they could create the 1999 game we've all been clamoring for for years.

If Konami is going to be done with the original timeline, then I hope we can finally see it off with the climatic game we've all been dreaming of.

Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 producer Dave Cox has dropped hints that Konami is looking beyond Mercury Steam’s game by stressing that the publisher has to make further improvements in the ‘next one’. He added that Mercury Steam will not be involved in the unannounced project.

Worst case scenario: Someone else makes another sequel in the LoS series.

[Kingshango]

So it seems Cox is still overseeing the series then huh?

Not sure what to feel about that tbh, but hey a least we're getting a new developer working on a new Castlevania, here's hoping for Wayforward.

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It's gonna be Double Helix

[Dremn]

Double Helix or Ninja Theory would be the top two worst candidates to take over the series. Give it to From Software or Platinum Games.

After Mirror of Fate, I am really going to miss Mercury Steam's art direction. They gave us the best Simon, Trevor, Alucard, and Dracula designs to date. Even the beastiary looked great. Honorable mention to the Night Watchman, probably one of the coolest looking bosses in the whole series.

[Bergaron]

My bet, a young and new Japanese team of Konami. And the game "Demon Castle War" or a prequel to this (to finish in the following), bet on safe.

[Kingshango]

Double Helix or Ninja Theory would be the top two worst candidates to take over the series. Give it to From Software or Platinum Games.

It's no secret by now that Konami goes for the cheap developers to work on their games. So the top worst candidates to us may be the top best candidates in Konamii's eyes. Im not sue how expensive From is but Platinum only got MGR because Kojima, their golden goose, requested it. So unless Kojima has any input, Castlevania could go to the worst developers in the world and Konami wouldn't give a single fuck.

[crisis]

I don't care which developer takes the series next, I just want them to return to the classic canon. And no, 1999 isn't the only story that's left untold.