Topic: Operation: Akumajo commencing Viral Campaign

[Chernabogue]

As un Castlevania like as it sounds, the idea of playing as Dracula going around in a modern setting regaining his lost powers and raising a army of the undead to wage war against Satan sounds pretty cool.

Plus, him being a vampire will means the sequel will take place entirely at night so they're wont be anymore bright areas.

I can only agree with what you said.

[Nagumo]

Let's just say that I don't think it will be an improvement. 

[crisis]

The sequel can have bright areas with Dracula cuz vampires now sparkle in sunlight(duh). Also, Gary Oldman Dracula can walk around in sunlight but his power level is a lot less...

[Kingshango]

The idea I had in mind is that Dracula's health will drain slowly while in sunlight and wont be able to go into bat form (or whatever he can transform into) so combat in daylight would be a bad idea.

[KaZudra]

I find your lack of faith disturbing.

The only 3D games that got it somewhat right was the 64 ones and LoS.
even though LoI and LoS were baseed on DMC, LoS had soething close to platforming.
CoD.... LOL Konami seriously thought Dynasty Warriors was gonna be a good castlevania game...

..and yet you think Harmony of Despair is "fun as shit" and us haters dunno what we're talking about.

Harmony of Despair isn't a metroidvania. It may be based off of one, but it only shares Grinding (which is completely different) with metroidvanias.
Of course, I'm wrong and there aren't 11 stages to choose from that end when you kill the boss, oh wait!

So it's come down to this now? Clothing? Really?

Since SoTN, All Belmonts (except Simon for some odd reason) Have pretty much looked the same clothing wise.
Plus I don't think highly trained Vampire hunters would wear Trench or Tail Coats.
It may have looked cool the first or second time, but its repetitive nature is annoying, OoE was fresh to see a young man who looks like a man.

[Munchy]

Cox's answer to fan complaints:

Set the sequel in a modern-day metropolis.

Also have no Belmonts or any recognizable Castlevania elements outside of random name drops.

Also also, Gabeula drives a Prius and picks up girls, which becomes a dating game like in GTA4. Your success determines how powerful you can make your magic. Successfully perform elaborate QTE sequences to keep Zobek from cockblocking you.

[Kingshango]

Also have no Belmonts or any recognizable Castlevania elements outside of random name drops.

Also also, Gabeula drives a Prius and picks up girls, which becomes a dating game like in GTA4. Your success determines how powerful you can make your magic. Successfully perform elaborate QTE sequences to keep Zobek from cockblocking you.

The driving a Prius thing sounds cray(then again he is sitting down weaing jeans with two hell hounds in one the concept art) but the dating sim thing can actually see being done.

And by dating sim I mean luring a female into the shadows and feeding on her in a dark alley for blood or making her his bride.

[KaZudra]

Why don't you guys put something like...

Better Alone, Without Hideo Kojima.

Since most of the things people hate LoS for... Is Kojima Productions Fault.

Because everyone knows that the higher budget something gets, the more the producers have control over the project.

[whitedragon_nall]

Not this "blame Kojima" shtick again....

Cox has stated many times that Kojima was on board mostly to provide assistance and offer advice. Kojima gets a lot of well-deserved flak for the MGS series and it seems that some just want to push blame on him for LoS now. Now, I can't really say with certainty that he wasn't responsible, but why is it so hard to believe that maybe MS made most of mistakes on the game and not Kojima?

[Munchy]

Kojima did specifically tell Cox that LoS was his project, and that he didn't have to listen to all of KP's criticisms. So while Kojima and company assisted with things like the facial animations and gave the project the KP blessing, that was really the extent of his effect.

What made me doubt this was the insanity of the post credits sequence and Kojima's Shyamalan-esque love of absolutely stupid plot twists. But LoS's plot as a whole was nothing to write home about anyway, so it's not like some masterpiece was ruined or anything.

[KaZudra]

Not this "blame Kojima" shtick again....

Cox has stated many times that Kojima was on board mostly to provide assistance and offer advice. Kojima gets a lot of well-deserved flak for the MGS series and it seems that some just want to push blame on him for LoS now. Now, I can't really say with certainty that he wasn't responsible, but why is it so hard to believe that maybe MS made most of mistakes on the game and not Kojima?

Because MS Made the game, Kojima Productions Providied everything else, INCLUDING the Story Script, and Soundtrack.
Of Course Cox will but all the blame on himself, Look at Konami's Attention Toward Kojima, they don't wanna tranish thier golden boy and his accomplishments.
But Using your logic, MS and Cox were Completely in control of everything.... I'm sorry knowing about the process of entertainment I can't let that slide...

[Deko21]

So this thread is just a recap of HD being garbage, blaming kojima for LoS, and a bunch of other stuff that's been talked about for the last month or so...

Figures.

[Munchy]

Because MS Made the game, Kojima Productions Providied everything else, INCLUDING the Story Script, and Soundtrack.
Of Course Cox will but all the blame on himself, Look at Konami's Attention Toward Kojima, they don't wanna tranish thier golden boy and his accomplishments.
But Using your logic, MS and Cox were Completely in control of everything.... I'm sorry knowing about the process of entertainment I can't let that slide...

Music was done by MercurySteam composer Oscar Araujo.

Cox himself did some of the scenario writing, I think, as well as... someone known for comic books. His name evades me, but Cox mentioned him on his tweets.

I really should find a transcription of the game credits somewhere. Cox had mentioned it before, but Konami wanted pitches for a new Castlevania from the Japanese, European, and American branches. The European side noticed that MercurySteam wanted to work on the series, and their pitch won out with much enthusiasm from Kojima. IGA's teaser for the Alucard game is speculated to have been the Japanese proposition, and no one knows anything about the American one, it seems.

[KaZudra]

Fuck it,

LoS Doesn't Suck, and its purely speculation on who to blame.

HD doesn't suck, it could have done better, but it defiantly does not suck.

Every Castlevania game is enjoyable if you get your head out of your ass (except judgement, because broken AI will piss you off quickly)

This Campaign will probably go nowhere since its nowhere near 500 Likes on Facebook.

and all of this has an insignificant meaning because my ship is gone....

[Deko21]

Lets face it, the castlevania franchise has one of the worst fanbases out there second to the sonic fanbase.
We all act like spoiled little children who want konami to do this and that for us and us only. we dont care about anyone else. and we bash the games that arnt terrible but we bash them anyway cause they're not how we wanted them, and thus we must cry and cry and keep crying until konami does what sega did and give us a new platformer for a console or two so we can all just shut up. But then the game will be flawed in some way and we'll continue to cry about it. Dooming us for all eternity.