Topic: Lords of Shadow sequel is coming out this year, hinted by David Cox over twitter

[A-Yty]

What's the difference between Castlevania and Akumajo Dracula, except the different language? I don't get it.

There used to be no difference other than localization. Nowadays it's treated like a separate series; when marketing it to a broader audience, its "originality" (like taking stuff from younger series like GoW) is emphasized. When trying to sell the thing to the people who liked the ClassicUniverseVania, it's nods to the past games are emphasized (this and the need to like LoS often leads to people over-analyzing LoS quirks as references to those games).

In short: it's a bit of flustercuck 

[A-Yty]

Lame reason IMO, since it has many good qualities, like it's been said many times, LoS is basically a Classicvania in HD3D clothing,

..by the most rabid LoS enthusiasts, that is. It's an ok game, but it's far from being Classicvania in HD3D.

IMO.

[Chernabogue]

Cox has stated that he doesnt want to be Mr. Castlevania. Im going to grant MS maybe like 5 games MAXIMUM, probably less.

I bet on a trilogy.

[Sumac]

It's time for it to go back to its true roots. I can't be the only one who would like to see this happen, can I?

I think it even less likely than return of Kojima style. CV stopped being horror movies parody after SCV4 and later never returned to that particular style. Well, maybe CV64 was close to it, but its still was a far cry from just "movie parody style".

[Ahasverus]

Cox has stated that he doesnt want to be Mr. Castlevania. Im going to grant MS maybe like 5 games MAXIMUM, probably less.

It doesn't have to be Mercury...

I think about it, a sloppy attempt to meet both styles would explain a lot of the questionable decisions in castlevanias of recent years.

THIS x 10000000. Fanbase is so divided, (threevided?) that it's impossible to please all fans, all desires and all interpretations that they have for what is CV and what's not.

[Munchy]

I bet on a trilogy.

Makes sense. The games tend to come in threes. Maybe two, if the second one bombs hard for some completely random reason (like Konami's nonexistent marketing department), as was the case for the PS1 and PS2 games.

Don't see why LoS2 would bomb, as the first game seemed to get a decent following.

[Dremn]

What the dick Konami, where is this update already? This is just terrible.

[Kingshango]

Might as well wait till E3, it's right around the corner anyway and it's clear that want to keep it a secret until then. (Even though it's not a secret anymore)

The only thing we can hope for is a small leak of info (an official name even) a week prior to the reveal at the press conference.

[Nagumo]

Yeah, we won't hear anything until shortly before or during E3. Might as well be occupied with other things for a while.

[Chernabogue]

After all, this isn't too bad. It'll be better to have some work done on the game than an announcement with almost nothing done.

But yeah, it's long to wait.

[Neobelmont]

http://twitter.com/#!/Enric_Alvarez/status/196195867366133761/photo/1

new music huh? dang just copy past whole url thingy.

[Koutei]

It may be the Star Wars game.

http://twitter.com/#!/Enric_Alvarez/status/196228264983928832/photo/1

[Chernabogue]

Is that Tommy Tallarico on the second pic??

[Kingshango]

It may be the Star Wars game.

http://twitter.com/#!/Enric_Alvarez/status/196228264983928832/photo/1

Lords of Shadow 2 was a red herring, Mercurysteam have been really working on a Jedi Knight reboot all along! 

[Munchy]

Is that Tommy Tallarico on the second pic??

I would be weirdly curious to hear Tommy Tallarico compose for a Castlevania game. Loved his EWJ soundtracks but have no clue whether he'd match styles.