Topic: 19-Disk Castlevania Soundtrack Collection

[Ahasverus]

I don't think Konami will hand over the franchise to MercurySteam permanently. That'd just be foolish.

Give money that doesn't return enough profit, that's foolish. And, if LOS is good enough (very very good) MS could be purchased by konami, just like Rocksteady was purchased by WB a while ago. If you have a brilliant studio taht is fan of the saga, knows how to make it appealable to the masses and returns a lot of money, you purchase it. That's how companies work.
And, I really, really want MS to be owners of the Cv-Europe saga, k¡like Activision with Infinity Ward and Trechyard, the original COD saga started with Trechyard, Infinity Ward gave them a multi-million game, Activision bought Infinity Ward ('Till 2011 however) and the saga is now divided into the Trechyard Saga and the INfinity Ward Saga. The Trecyard saga is the more traditional, they please fans, and their games are not bad, but Infinity ward makes brilliant games.
That's how I foresee Castlevania, Castlevania japan, the traditional saga with good, budget games, and MercurySteam with their Castlevania-Euro and their big  AAA games. So those of you who want CV as a niche saga, could have your niche saga, and we who want CV to be as BIG as possible, could have both 
The joke is on you.

[crisis]

I was unaware you have the ability to predict the future.. btw I love the way how you shoehorn all your posts into pro-LoS talk despite the topic having nothing to do with it.

Splitting the saga between 2 studios sounds like a disaster waiting to happen, in my opinion. You're putting all your faith into LoS which is fine, but in reality there's not enough solid a foundation that gauruntees it'll be a instant hit. For instance:

1. Castlevania has never translated good into 3D.
2. MercurySteam's own previous efforts haven't gone so well.
3. The company has never worked on any CV game before.
4. Removing series staples in favor for a new fanbase (mainly the hacknslash players)
etc.

So if there's some doubt in my mind that says proceed with caution, it's entirely justified. As for yourself, the only reasons you have that makes LoS golden is a few pretty screenshots & a twitter account.

I'm all for fresh new ideas, but the way they're handling it ("the old CV stuff was garbage, so lets start anew") isn't wise in my eyes. Seems that you've been blindly converted to this new way of thinking without reading the fine print first. Without condoning or condemning LoS, we'll just have to wait and see what happens.

The joke is on you.

You're joking yourself if you're convinced LoS will sell over a million units..

[Ahasverus]

It may, or may not, but I at least have faith, and want change, and I don't whine with the whole "OH no! CV is going to be commercial now! They sold its spirit! let's boycott LOS! so we could have our Alucard in every game  "
IN response to you
1- Yeah, because Iga's team is incapable of doing that. This is not Iga team, so, I have faith.
2- Scrapland (the one everyone forgotten) is actually pretty good, read IGN review for example, it's not genre defining, but graphics and setting were praised
3- Rocksteady never worked on the Batman franchise and they delivered a masterpiece, the ones from Metroid prime didn't work in a metroid game before, and they created masterpieces.. serioulsy, is that a valid point?

4. Removing series staples in favor for a new fanbase (mainly the hacknslash players)
etc.

Seriously? I mean, seriously? do you want motorcycle skeletons or what? everything that have been promised and shown looks very Castlevania ish, only with a different art direction, that's all.
I'm not blaming you, I'm sure you are a very hardcore fan (Like me) and are very afraid of how bad things could turn out to be, but, hey, if it's good, why do we oposse to that?   And I don't know why we couldn't have the 2 sagas, Euro and Japo, so, we could have the good old storyline (We love it even if it's messed up) and classic gameplay and also the reboot

Funx2 IMO

About the soundtrack compilation, is there any chance of getting the last CD (The one with the remixes) separately? sounds a-m-a-z-i-n-g.

Edit: Typos  

[crisis]

Motorcycle skeletons were never a series staple, I was referring to other stuff. And to my knowledge nobody on the forum is boycotting LoS, so I don't know where you're getting that from. Also, IGA's team wasn't the only team that made an attempt to turn CV into 3D.

I'm against having "2 sagas under 2 companies", because instead of the whole "we do our thing & you do your thing", they could be working together to deliver an amazing product for everybody. You think the canon is messed up now? Adding another continuity will make things worse, even after Cox has said he sees no problem with fans trying to include LoS into the timeline (despite saying the game is not canon). Catering to 2 different fanbases, when they should be trying to mesh both together, is unnecessary. I'm just looking at the big picture 

[Reinhart77]

anyone order the big bundle?

[crisis]

Yup. It'll probably be in my possession by the beginning of next month..

[Danial]

I did too.  

So far, this is the most I've spent at one time on CV, and I'm not sure how I feel about that.

[Ahasverus]

Any word on the heavy metal song? do you already have the disk? would you kindly upload it to youtube? ^_^
Edit: I was going to make a bad joke about IGa and Aluacd but I decided not to post it because of it  could hurt some feelings

Edit 2: Why is the interview in a Square Enix site? mmmm smells like SE-Konami planning the next JapoVania... don't look me like that, I guessed the same when the teaser site at kojima productions went online 

[thernz]

It's a fansite. And they have articles on Ninja Gaiden and Mario so I don't think you should be thinking that.

[Reinhart77]

Oh my God!  Did you check out the Arcade music on Disk 17??

[olroxshade]

http://www.konamistyle.jp/sp/dracula_cd2010/list3.html#17

That link?

Hmm, classic, but Bloody Tears lacks...something.

[VGuyver]

most likely the tempo is what is nagging you about the arcade version.

[Kamirine]

anyone order the big bundle?

Yes, and I'll upload most of it (the latter of the cds) as soon as I get it.

[Profbeanburrito]

Just ordered mine, can't wait to get this

[Reinhart77]

man, if i didn't have job insecurities right now....  dang economy.