Topic: Castlevania 1999, will it modernize itself?

[Saner]

it shouldn't be modernized but I think they will add some guns in there anyway.

but we certainly don't want CV 1999 to end up like Operation Darkness, although that theme was cool for that game alone.   

[benja86]

as long as it doesn't follow a fad like cotm that felt like konami was combining yu-gi-oh with castlevania being that card games were popular at the time

[Alexc2808]

In Reply To #32
I loved the DSS system.  It wasn't like yugioh at all.  If you through down in a card match with Dracula that would be one thing.  But just because yugioh is dumb doesn't mean you can't do magical cards in a cool way.

[erimocard]

In Reply To #33

What!? Yugo rulezz!!! D:

[Mathias Hyperion]

Van Helsing (I know we've moved on from that) was reasonable, apart from the horrible wide-eyed rasp effect that they put on Dracula when he was about to bite Anna. I though Dracula and his Brides turning into those bat monsters was quite good, though.

The 1992 film was also good, but on repeated viewings you start to notice it suffers from mediocre accents, erratic characterisation (was Van Helsing intelligent, insane, or noble?), and Keanu Reeves.

[erimocard]

The 1992 film was also good, but on repeated viewings you start to notice it suffers from (...) and Keanu Reeves.

LOL.

[Alexc2808]

(was Van Helsing intelligent, insane, or noble?)

Have you read the book?  That was 100% what Stoker was going for.

[erimocard]

In Reply To #37

Right. Well, I must say, he is the coolest character in the whole book.

[Mathias Hyperion]

Have you read the book?  That was 100% what Stoker was going for.

No, I haven't (not in its entirety, from cover to cover). Fair enough.

Reeves wasn't THAT bad, but when you compare him to the Jonathan Harkers seen in the BBC's 1977 adaptation and in 1979's Nosferatu the Vampyre, you do at times feel he missed the point somewhat. Or rather, he only hit the point by accident - he looks so uncomfortable in that role, it comes across as Harker's awkwardness and fear in Dracula's castle.

[benja86]

lol what if you play CV 1999 and find out that van helsing was
a vampire all along hoping to take over the demon castle for himself?

[MDI]

Julius should look like the former CVDF user, Insanitist. (If any of you veterans of the forum remember the photo of him with a whip, sunglasses, and black coat.)