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

[crisis]

Or maybe you should just stop coming to the Castlevania Dungeon. Closing topics is for moderator/administrator's discretion, not yours.


You won't be missed, trust me.

[Ahasverus]

Or maybe you should just stop coming to the Castlevania Dungeon. Closing topics is for moderator/administrator's discretion, not yours.


You won't be missed, trust me.

I won't give you that pleasure, trust me.

Jesus what drama queens we have here.

[crisis]

Jesus what drama queens we have here.

AAAAARGH.

It's a video game. Grow up.

[Ahasverus]

[crisis]

1-) Then you should've PMed him.
2-) You are wrong.
3-) No one's forcing you to post. Don't like what you're reading? Then stop posting here or ignore the topic.


And, you're not helping by calling the kettle black.


when people say positive things bout los i am sooo happyyy
BUT WHEN PEOPLE HEAVILY CRITICIZES OR DISLIKES IT I RAAAAAAGGGGGEEEE JORGE PLZ CLOZE TOPIC AAARGHHH

[Flame]

But theres nothing better to talk about. all we have right now is LoS arguments.

[thernz]

I like the art too. It is nicely done. The book menu is probably one of my favorite things about Lords' presentation.

[Maedhros]

Yup, the book is fantastic. The animations there were really well done, it was really cool to read it.

[Kingshango]

I want to give my final say on the "Is Zobek Death?" debate:

In the LOS universe, there is no true Death, he simply doesn't exist like he did in the old canon. However, the lord of the dead is such a manevolent force beyond what the Earth as seen, he's feared as if he were Death himself.

My final comments: The lord of the dead is Death in this canon unless either A) Zobek dies permanently or B) Mercurysteam pulls the real Death (not the lord of the dead /necromancers) out of there ass making Zobek's existence as the lord of the dead irrelevant and  meaningless.

This is just my take on the whole matter, feel free to disagree if you want, im tired of discussing it.

Im gonna take some time off from the forums untill some real, concrete news about Castlevania pops up (screenshot's,  trailers, the works). Farewell for now.

[Flame]

I hope for the sequel they dont do that thing where the good box art is the US/EU exclusive art, while the regular art is the generic character CG. With japan getting a color variant of the "Exclusive" as their default art. That shit just wasn't really fair.

Its a very nice CG, but come on, with that amazing artstyle, FLAUNT IT.

Though maybe now that they have caught the attention they were trying to get by abiding by modern game box art conventions, they have a bit more freedom to break the mold a bit more, as it were.

[DragonSlayr81]

Though maybe now that they have caught the attention they were trying to get by abiding by modern game box art conventions, they have a bit more freedom to break the mold a bit more, as it were.

They SHOULD have more freedom. I mean, I love painting cover art. It's one of the reasons I loved, as a child, walking down the horror movie aisles of the local video store and staring at the VHS covers. Even the most low budget movies seemed to have cover/poster art that were fully painted, and looked uber cool. Now, I guess it's cheaper to photoshop static actor pics into a sort-of-collage. They sometimes do that with game covers too(take CG pics, and a totally different background piece, cut and paste characters side-by-side and such. Sometimes I just want somebody to have the balls to say, "You know way, I'm going to do it the classy way. Let's get someone to do a cool painting!". 

[Foffy]

Pastiche indeed. A parody, even..?

Yes, they are completely different characters. So why should there even be a disagreement on what and/or who he is? Why is there any kind of effort to convince anyone of that? Or other things like that - in order to make them appreciate LoS for qualities people associate with Original Castlevania / Akumajou? It's puzzling, because LoS doesn't even properly make an effort to utilize those things. It wants to go its own way with the title "Castlevania". That is what the developers themselves have said. Still, time after time, someone, wants to prove how much "Akumajou" there is.

Why? It's Castlevania. And apparently that's now different than Akumajou Dracula. Following that, no one, especially LoS fans, should care at all how anyone reacts to LoS if their opinion is based on it not being like "Akumajou". It can't eat both cakes if it's not willing to bake them itself.

I might be re-opening a can of worms here, but I think Cox made the situation worse when he said there is a difference between "Akumajou" and "Castlevania". It was like plugging a boat hole with ice cubes.

You noticed that too, hmm? I've noticed Cox has been inconsistent in explaining the game. First it was a remake of Simon's stuff, then it was a reboot, then it's considered a 'Ultimate'-ish entry, and the last thing I recall him saying was that it's in an entirely different line than every other single Castlevania game.

If so, why is it called Castlevania?

[crisis]

If so, why is it called Castlevania?

Clueless executives at Konami/Cox's superiors telling him what to say.

[beingthehero]

then it's considered a 'Ultimate'-ish entry

Pardon my ignorance Foffy, but what did they mean by that?

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

1. Crisis, that was pretty disrespectful, to tell people to stop posting.  Telling him to grow up is, somewhat disrespectful as well.
2. Ahasverus, you're overreacting over a rumor conversation and entering 'crazy fanboy' land. Don't be so quick to defend, man. And, you are also being somewhat disrespectful calling people here 'drama queens'.

We all have our human nature, in which when someone says something we agree with, we are thrilled, and when someone says something on which we disagree, we cry 'outrage'.

We are having such a heated discussion, when all we've seen is a motion capture team working on something (that may or may not even be Castlevania).

However, Flame is right... there aren't any other Castlevania-related things to talk about, so I guess it's come to this, for now.
I encourage people to post about other videogames in HG101, or post artwork/pics in Fan Stuff, or talk about other matters at Off Topic.
People don't have to live in the CV General Discussion section.  We have other sections for a reason.