Topic: Mercury steam is working on TWO unannounced games....

[Kale]

So.. how about that haunted castle... awesome game eh?

I'm just kidding, I have never played it and it doesn't seem that great >.>

[uzo]

HC brought alternate main weapons, and new sub weapons to the series.

[Maedhros]

X7 was not fail on "every aspect" for one

X7 is a complete piece of shit, sorry man, but I can't agree with you. The graphics are terrible, the music is fucking ridiculous, the new character is completely unnecessary. X series was supposed to be dead in X5 anyway.

[Nagumo]

From reactions that I've seen about LOS and prospect of yet another "IGAvania" it looks like some people really want every CV game to be a SOTN clone. 

Not liking LoS ≠ Wanting SotN over and over again

You just keep generalizing, though.

[Flame]

X7 is a complete piece of shit, sorry man, but I can't agree with you. The graphics are terrible, the music is fucking ridiculous, the new character is completely unnecessary. X series was supposed to be dead in X5 anyway.

Because X8's graphics were so much better? The character models were spot on. and the cell shading made them look smoother. the environments themselves varied from alright to worse, but they were fine. The music definitely has a different feel to it, but it is still good music. dont know what kind of tastes you have, Sigma's battle theme was boss.

Inafune had absolutely NO claim to deciding the series to end at X5. He doesnt own the franchise, he was ever only a character designer. He was producer, and he LEFT during X5, telling the team to finish the series. He couldnt possibly have thought they wouldnt make an X6. And despite whatever he had planned, it DIDNT end at X5. X6-CM are just part of the timeline as X1-X5 are.

And again, as far as things go, it was a decent try for Mega Man's first 3D outing with the traditional formula. a shit first try, they could and should have done better, but a step in the right direction nonetheless. At least Command mission tried something new with much better results. It's graphics were pretty good too actually. So were it's environments.

*in b4 you disagree and think it sucked*

[Sumac]

Haunted Castle gives you the first Terrible castlevania game where the player could regret ever playing.

It wasn't that bad. You just need to setup the game on the lowest difficulty.
Graphics is nice, music is very good. It's nice little game as long as you don't try to complete it on Normal or Hard.

You just keep generalizing, though.

I have a good reason to.
Because most of the time, when people say what they want in new CV game it's usually "SOTN in 3D with Alucard".

[Successor The Cruel]

This is terrible news. I'd hoped to never see those guys ever again. More goblins ahoy!
Oh well. I guess I'll just go on not bothering all that much with new entries in the series until Konami does something I feel is captivating, and MercurySteam coming back doesn't sound very promising to me.

It's a shame about the current state of affairs with the Castlevania series, though. It sucks : p

[Inccubus]

I don't think it's MercuryStream's fault. At least not entirely. I think a lot of it was Konami's execs insisting on a "new" approach. Which apparently meant do everything every other successful action game has done and add a convoluted MGS story.

[Maedhros]

Because X8's graphics were so much better?

No, they sucked too.

[Kingshango]

I don't think it's MercuryStream's fault. At least not entirely. I think a lot of it was Konami's execs insisting on a "new" approach. Which apparently meant do everything every other successful action game has done and add a convoluted MGS story.

For real, Mercurysteam may have made the game but the suits at Konami are the one's who really pulling the strings during development. Let not forget that Konami told Araujo to make the music sound like a movie and ditch the melodic, or in his words "feminine" sounds that Castlevania has been known for so and it was their idea to drop the Castlevania 1 remake concept in favor of the reboot, so who knows how many of Mercurysteams design choices were actually Konami's meddiling at hand.

Looking at that concept trailer, Mercurysteam could have easily made a Castlevania game and have it look and feel like a Castlevania game but Konami just didn't want that.

[Flame]

They also wanted it to be an IP at one point, so they made them also try and stray from the castlevania atmosphere a bit. I mean if its basically a castlevania game but it isnt named castlevania, people would be like "Wtf why isnt this a castlevania game its made by konami"

[Inccubus]

Kinda like what Maximo is to GnG? I think that would have been a better rout anyway. Capcom tried it and when it wasn't as successful as GNG, they just went back to GnG like nothing had ever happened.

[Successor The Cruel]

I'm not going to pretend I know who's behind what, nor am I going to try to figure it out. All I know is this isn't very promising news to me, because chances are it's going to mean a continuation of the direction that was taken with Lords of Shadow, and one time was definitely more than enough for me D:

[Kale]

For real, Mercurysteam may have made the game but the suits at Konami are the one's who really pulling the strings during development. Let not forget that Konami told Araujo to make the music sound like a movie and ditch the melodic, or in his words "feminine" sounds that Castlevania has been known for so and it was their idea to drop the Castlevania 1 remake concept in favor of the reboot, so who knows how many of Mercurysteams design choices were actually Konami's meddiling at hand.

Looking at that concept trailer, Mercurysteam could have easily made a Castlevania game and have it look and feel like a Castlevania game but Konami just didn't want that.

I'd agree if they didn't lie about QTEs, which they did. So they can go to hell! HELL! I TELL YOU!

As for the generalizing sotn or whatnot, SOTN did do it best so far imo, with the exception of difficulty. So it's not a bad idea to do just that. But LoS really was not as good as they were hyping up to be. The attempts to copy other games really killed it... and badly. I enjoyed it but I can't replay it like I can a cv game.

[crisis]

The attempts to copy other games really killed it... and badly. I enjoyed it but I can't replay it like I can a cv game.

the los fanbois are tired of reading stuff like this, kale-chan