Topic: OFE timeline?

[le052383]

Was it ever official stated where the game timeline is?  I know from the stuff mention in the story that it is after the Belmonts went missin and from the game dialogue it is durin an era where pictures were just invented and shootin weapons that are smaller than a rifle are bein used


If we were to guess, it is obvious it is sometime after SOTN, but is it possible it is between Rondo and SOTN?  Richter disappeared for for some time I think (SOTN seems a bit hazy to me therefore I am not sure if he was not around for a coupleof years or right after the castle emerged for the second time)

It would be interestin if they put it between the two title though l have my doubts.  I think the timeline might not have been announced so iga can modify it whenever another game is made and is close to that era

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

In Reply To #1
OFE?  lol
Let me know if you want me to edit that title there for ya.

It's after SotN but before Bloodlines.  Since there's no "official" game in between those titles, and the Belmonts went missing after Richter's sillyness with Shaft and stuff...
...I'd say it's the mid-1800's.

Even in Rondo they had the Skeleton Rifleman guy (not that the anachronistic enemies of Castlevania have ever had any need to stay within the constructs of human history), so this is when flintlocks and stuff was being used (What Albus looks to be using).

[paletteswapmonster]

It's after SotN. The game takes place in the 1800s, but it hasn't been said exactly where in the 1800s. I'm assuming the late 1800s(which would probably mean that Dracula was at full power and that Shanoa was the only non-Belmont to beat him at full power).

[crisis]

Dracula's at full power in 1897, but this game takes place before then, since it seems that the Morris' aren't even around yet.

[paletteswapmonster]

Dracula's at full power in 1897

1892, actually. Dracula was alive in SotN for a short enough time not to screw up the cycle. Same goes for every other game in which he has been revived outside the cycle.

[Long John Silver]

In Reply To #3

the in game dialogue hinted very strongly that it was a premature resurrection.

spoiler i guess, highlight to see:
what with barlowe sacrificing himself to free drac from some sort of seal and for his body to become a vessel like isaac, only to have him defeated not long after his revival.

note, the monster book describes barlow as the vessel to drac.

[DragonSlayr81]

In Reply To #5

It depends, really. I always had a hunch that IGA choosing SotN being set in 1897 was to alude to the actual game being released in 1997. Square did a similar thing with Final Fantasy VII(which was also released in 1997), which in most of the Ultimania guides give nods to a "lucky seven" formula(7th Heaven Bar, FFVII's events taking place in the year 0007).

I do think 1892 is a more fitting date for Dracula's resurrection, especially if they plan on going with Stoker's story to somewhat of an extent, which Dracula was already up and about for sometime BEFORE 1897. Though, it depends.

OoE's strange in the fact that they never announced an actual date, but only said it was around mid-1800s. Usually IGA's a bit more precise than that.

[uzo]

He may be going for more ambiguous dates to dodge retcons and running out of room in the timeline.

[le052383]

In Reply To #1
OFE?

[Thomas Belmont]

In Reply To #8

Most likely. Iga stated in past interviews that he regretted putting actual dates in the time line.

[CapComMDb]

Yeah, OoE isn't on the official timeline yet:

http://www.konami.jp/gs/game/dracula/product/data.html

However, I say it's after photography became portable:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_camera

She's probably using Dry Plates, which would realistically put the game as early as the late 1870s. Anyway, dry plate cameras were small, portable, and had quick exposure times, which would make Shanoa's camera historically accurate.

Also, there's the record player and the records you buy in the store:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonograph#History

Remember too that epistolary phonograph recordings were important to the Dracula novel. In addition, actual disc records rather than cylinders weren't available until the 1890s, and disc records are what they sell in the stores (but he could clearly have made cylinders if he wanted, it's just most players wouldn't have had a clue what those were).

So realistically based on the technology, this is probably either immediately before or sometime AFTER Brahm Stoker's Dracula (1892). But it's clearly before Bloodlines as there's no WWI yet. I haven't beaten OoE yet, but it might include more ties with Brahm Stoker's Dracula.

But you know what, it's a game, and it's not like they had chainsaws in the 19th Century either But if Iga wants accuracy, it wouldn't make sense to put the game earlier than about 1877...

Anyway, interesting topic