Topic: Little bit o news about Castlevania LOS sequel! (Spoilers here)

[beingthehero]

Anytime I hear talk about Dracula/Zobek killing Satan, I immediately think of this:

THE KILLING OF SATAN

To be fair, they could also simply release this as Lords of Shadow 2. I mean it has crosses, a hero and a sidekick, an immense quest, and Satan. It's as Castlevania as Lords.

[Reinhart77]

yeah, the year 1999 is significant now in Castlevania history, which is a good reason for having the "modern day" portion of the Lords of Shadow timeline based in 1999.  1999 could just as well be the date of Satan's return in this mythos, rather than Dracula's final return.

a LoS spin on Dracula's Curse would be fun.  i know it can be a little scary to think of depending on one's perspective, but i'd like to see what they'd do with the opportunity to introduce their own versions of Trevor, Grant, Sypha, and Alucard.  though i'd probably be irritated if they were all living in 1999.

[crystos]

i'll take a trevor game.. or the 1999 julius game

[Nycterida]

I'd hate it if the LoS sequel takes place right after the epilogue in "modern" (1999) times - they set up Dracula in their first game, so they can set up the Belmonts and their allies in the second one. Reimagining Dracula's Curse can be an excellent starting point.

[Reinhart77]

we'll see if there even "are" other Belmonts in this timeline.

[Ahasverus]

we'll see if there even "are" other Belmonts in this timeline.

It's confirmed tby Cox that Gabriel is not the /only/ Belmont so yeah

[Dremn]

No please, let IGA make the 1999 game. As for borrowing the plot of Dracula's Curse in the sequel, eh. That makes me more worried than hopeful. Cox promised us they were going back to the original concept of the series with LoS, and we ended up with something a lot more different.

[Vampire Killer]

No please, let IGA make the 1999 game.

Iga had his chance. Shit or get off the pot, I say.

[beingthehero]

What does that even mean?

[Mr.Bushido]

In my opinion LOS have nothing to do with 1999 thing, that just stuff of the Iga timeline, and if COX wants to make a game in that timeline I don't think it's a good idea, I hope he stay away from that. Let LoS do his own thing, I hope that they keep LoS as a timeline for casuals who don't even know what Castlevania is.

[X]

What does that even mean?

It effectively means 'finish your business or let someone else take a turn'

-X

[Inccubus]

About the music: I'm a huge fan of vg music. I have pretty much every cv ost and remix album ever, not to mention many more GB of other vg musics. I judge my vg music thusly, if I don't enjoy it enough to want to load it up in WinAmp, then it isn't doing it's job. The music in LoS is a Hollywood ost for a movie that came out in a vg format. If I'm fighting or exploring or whatnot, the music should inspire me, repetition of tracks kills that. I didn't even like that in CV3. On top of that the music itself is just bland. The ambient tracks are far more suited to putting me to sleep at night rather than accompanying any game play. The battle musics sound like they came out of a film. They sound no better than the music in Van Helsing. In fact Van Helsing actually does have some catchy themes so it's better than the LoS ost. I'm used to playing games that have music that make you feel excitement, and I'm not talking back to the times of chip tunes. Look at the ost for Xenosaga Episode 1. That is a great soundtrack with music that is well composed for a vg and performed by one of the most famed orchestras in the world, it is in stark contrast to the garbage in the sequels that more closely resemble LoS's pathetic attempt to reel in a general audience. I enjoy vg music for a reason and LoS has none of those reasons.

About the sequel: CV3 reboot sounds great, but for the love of god drop the stupid throwback names. They're ridiculous and piss me off more than anything. It's so contrived as to devalue the attempt to appease old-school fans. If you wanty to appease your core fanbase just add some classic tunes, kill the QTEs and ledge crawing. You wanna make a great CV game then stick to the basics and be creative about adding more to the experience. Don't just use a collection of stuff that's already been done. QTE's especially piss me off because it was stated that there wouldn't be any and they just weren't implemented well. They work in GoW because they don't slow or interrupt the pace of the combat and are executed in an epic over the top way. CV doesn't need that. There is one thing that LoS needed more than anything and that is creativity. The monster designs we're creative enough, the story was ok, but the music and gameplay need much more than it got. There really isn't anything interesting about how the gameplay was put together. Obviously there is always going to be something that is taken from another game or rehashed from the past, but it seems like that was elevated to an art form here. It's really like nothing new was added to the classic formula. There was nothing new for the most part that didn't come from another game. That should be the focus of the sequel gameplay wise, drop the pretentious crap from competitor titles and focus on new ideas to compliment the old-school core. A magical chain-whip type weapon could be much more interesting. Just look at Pandora's Tower they're doing some very interesting things there. Be inspired by the essence of that. Find new ways to make the CC/VK more interesting and versatile. And I don't wanna hear any more of this "lone warrior fighting supernatural monsters" crap. Castlevania is about a gothic action-adventure experience centered around classic horror figures. Nothing more, nothing less. At least that's what I think.

[Dremn]

Iga had his chance. Shit or get off the pot, I say.

He definitely has had more than enough chances to make it. I just want someone to give us closure on the original timeline already, I would not like MS to make it though. I really don't agree with their new vision of the series at the moment, but I give them credit for finally bringing back the standard Belmont protagonist.

[DragonSlayr81]

He definitely has had more than enough chances to make it. I just want someone to give us closure on the original timeline already, I would not like MS to make it though. I really don't agree with their new vision of the series at the moment, but I give them credit for finally bringing back the standard Belmont protagonist.

I think IGA had his chance, but to some extent, was also limited by Konami. Like I've said before, if there was to be a classic canon 1999, I wouldn't mind if MS and Cox collaborated with IGA. You can tell there's a lot that Cox and ALV(hehehe, I'm using the name) admired about IGA's CVs, considering they gave a lot of easter egg nods to IGA's characters(when they could've very easily chose to make nods to non-IGA CV characters, like Nathan Graves or Reinhart Schneider). It could be interesting to see such a game come out. It could almost be a "CV Dream Team" effort(get Yamane to collab with Arujo, and Ayami Kojima to design the main characters).

[Flame]

That.... actually sounds amazing. Mercurysteam/Cox + IGA +Yamane+whatsis name who did the LoS music?
 Mind=blown