Topic: Operation Castlefall, ressurecting Castlevania

[Morning star]

Well aren't you a positive person.

I actually think there are a lot of fantastic video games being released to this day and I am extremely hyped for 2015. So much to look forward to! And I've been a gamer since 1990. (Yes, I'm old)

As for Castlevania, I may not care for the last three games but nobody knows what happens next. If it's dead, it's dead. But if not, the quality of the last few games say very little, if anything, about any eventual games in the future. It's not like Mercurysteam will make the next game anyway.

Oh, and saying the last portable games sucked? Mirror of Fate perhaps, but Ecclesia? Wow. That is... unheard of. It may have been a rehash of the other games in some ways (graphically especially) but "sucked"? As in a "very, very, VERY bad game"? Wow... just, wow.

You nailed it. Not positive at all. Not my job to be positive. If they start sending me a check for being motivational, i will be that guy. You have my word

I hope you can forgive my difference if opinion but as of this moment my favorite series of all time has been made into a joke and it upsets me lol.

I hope your right about castlevania making a comeback though. And maybe your right about Ecclesia...

[shelverton.]

Well, I agree that Castlevania, right now, is a joke. And it's sad. But part of my new year's resolution was to become ridiculously optimistic at all times about everything

I am ignoring Castlevania for a while, focusing entirely on upcoming stuff that excites me: Majora's Mask 3D, Arkham Knight, Bloodborne, Code name STEAM, Yakuza 5, Salt & Sanctuary, Final Fantasy XV, Persona 5, Devil Survivor 2: Break Record, Bravely Second, Dragon Quest VII remake (if it ever comes here), Silent Hills and....dunno.... No Man's Sky.

But that is for another topic entirely.

[darkmanx_429]

I could be worse for Castlevania, it could have followed in the footsteps of Mega Man currently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75bBApllT3U

I'd rather have no new Castlevania if Konami decided to do something like...this.

Well at least there is Mighty Hero 9.

[Successor The Cruel]

For me, personally, it feels like a Castlevania game hasn't come out in, like, 5000 years. The last one for me was Order of Ecclesia, too, which was... what... 2008? I've virtually lost all interest in the series beyond revisiting titles I like every so often. The MercurySteam games seem like something else entirely, so it's as if the series I loved has been dormant since forever ago. It's gotten to the point where I'm quite apathetic and often don't think about Castlevania beyond the stray thought here and there (like now). When I do think about it, it's just a fond nostalgic memory of the past, but for the present... I don't care. If Konami released a notice that they would stop making Castlevania games, I would think it was interesting and a touch sad for a moment, but then I'd quickly continue as if nothing happened. If that same thing happened... 8 years ago (goddamn that's a long time, I'm surprised I'm still young and in my 20s), I would be devastated. Konami would have to completely reignite my interest in the future of Castlevania, because as it is now, I really don't care. 

*shrug* I don't know. Maybe the series just doesn't work that well for modern mainstream gaming sensibilities. You never want to say something like that, and you know it really isn't true, but the sad thing is that Castlevania has yet to really prove itself for today's market. It's just had such a long history of miss steps, which predate the MercurySteam games, really. Those were just the worst of the worst, but I'd say that, quality-wise, it started really going downhill in the DS/PS2 era, and people started getting tired of the same old, copy pasted, careless thing. Order of Ecclesia was just an unusual diamond in the rough. At least from my perspective. 

But yeah, the truth is, it's a great concept that really hasn't been able to find really solid footing since about Aria of Sorrow, I'd say, which was years and years and years ago.

[Claimh Solais]

Yeah, people really need to cool their jets. All this talk of Castlevania being dead or being quiet for too long really doesn't make any sense. Like it has been said several times, LoS2 came out barely a year ago (four months ago in Japan). That's not that long. Everyone keeps clamoring for a good big budget CV, yet they think it's been too long already? Come on.

Give it some time. MercurySteam was in charge of the franchise for four years, so the KCET CV team either has been busy with other projects or has totally dissolved. Hell, if the former, they're probably still working on other projects. Like said already, The Phantom Pain and Silent Hills are Konami's top priorities right now, but I'm sure that once at least one of those is knocked out of the way, Konami will begin to focus on Castlevania again.

But LoS2 hasn't even had a 1-year anniversary since its release. It hasn't been too long.

EDIT: Also, I've been reading some people saying that they haven't felt Castlevania has been Castlevania in years. Despite your personal feelings on the series, the point still stands that four games have come out for the series in the last four years (HD and LoS1 in 2010, MoF in 2013, LoS2 in 2014).

As for another operation for Castlevania, I wouldn't be on board. It just really doesn't make sense to have one. Rainfall made perfect sense, since what it was asking for sounded reasonable. Bring three great Wii-exclusive RPGs to America. But the ones we've come up with so far for CV? Operation Akumajo? Nuh-uh.

[X]

For me, personally, it feels like a Castlevania game hasn't come out in, like, 5000 years. The last one for me was Order of Ecclesia, too, which was... what... 2008?

This speaks for me too. LoS is not what I'd consider Castlevania despite the name, and me giving it a chance only to be let down harder then deadweight sucked into a Quasar. OoE was the last true Castlevania game we got and it's been well over six years and counting. Well I've waited this long so I suppose a few more years won't kill me.