Topic: Plots that can still be used in IGA's timeline

[darkwzrd4]

I didn't like DoS story wise.  There is a threat.  The bad guys are killed.  And, all is right with the world.  That being said, Dracula doesn't always need to be the big bad.  We don't always need the Belmonts either (I'm going to regret saying that aren't I?).  Let Alucard and the Belnades family take center stage for a while.  Soma should just be left alone to live his life. 

That timeline needs a new evil to take over.  Hell, it could be turned into a 3 sided conflict: good, the new evil, and a faction of monsters still loyal to Dracula led by Death.  It would added a new dimension that could make the storyline pretty interesting.

[Flame]

Oh I know. A spinoff with Alucard in his best MIB supernatural sector "Arikado" guise.

[X]

You guys seem to be forgetting something, the next TRUE dark lord

I doubt it very much. Dario lost his powers permanently after losing to Soma. Then he ran away and probably got arrested by members of Alucard's organization. Without his use of fire Dario is nothing more then some undergrad high school, punk kid with authority issues. He doesn't have what it takes to be a dark lord, just a real attitude problem. Demetri would've had much more success except for that inflated ego of his which brought him down. Hard.

[Ahasverus]

I always thought the next dark lord was going to be Alucard according to his last dialogue line. Would be weird O.o

[darkwzrd4]

I doubt it very much. Dario lost his powers permanently after losing to Soma. Then he ran away and probably got arrested by members of Alucard's organization. Without his use of fire Dario is nothing more then some undergrad high school, punk kid with authority issues. He doesn't have what it takes to be a dark lord, just a real attitude problem. Demetri would've had much more success except for that inflated ego of his which brought him down. Hard.

Dario wasn't a kid.  He was 37.  He and Demetri, like Graham, were supposedly born at the exact moment Dracula was defeated in 1999 and apparently absorbed some of his power.

I always thought the next dark lord was going to be Alucard according to his last dialogue line. Would be weird O.o

Well, he does have a legit claim to the throne by birthright.  So, it's possible.  He just doesn't want it and chose to side with good.  It would take a significant trauma to drive Alucard to follow in his father's footsteps. 
There is a scenario that I thought up in which he and Soma end up fighting each other and the battle doesn't end until one of them losses their humanity, but by doing so, they become the next Dark Lord.

[Ahasverus]

He said that "If the world needs a dark lords, there will be one, even if it's not Soma" and he also called the dark lord a "neccessary evil" maybe he thought he was needed to do that to keep the balance?

[beingthehero]

Nah, that speculation originated from (old) Wikipedia, of all places. Alucard was just hinting that DoS didn't really mark the end of the series. It would be bizarre for Alucard, of all people, to up and decide 'welp i've spent the better part of 600 years trying to stop Dracula, might as well become pops myself".

[Munchy]

Three ideas come to mind for IGA/old timeline:

1. Retelling of Bram Stoker's Dracula
2. Soleil's game that he will never get aka Legend of Dracula 3
3. Some kinda wacky remake of Legends? To make it canon-er?

I was also thinking, since it takes place in the way distant future, it'd be cool to do a new Getsu Fuma Den as a sort of spiritual successor to Castlevania. AoS already has glimpses of a focus on stuff happening in Japan.

[X]

Dario wasn't a kid.  He was 37.  He and Demetri, like Graham, were supposedly born at the exact moment Dracula was defeated in 1999 and apparently absorbed some of his power.

Yeah I should've remembered about that. But his attitude is definitely that of a kid's.

[Dominus Agony]

I was also thinking, since it takes place in the way distant future, it'd be cool to do a new Getsu Fuma Den as a sort of spiritual successor to Castlevania. AoS already has glimpses of a focus on stuff happening in Japan.

Although I'm not familiar with Getsu Fuma Den outside of his appearance in Harmony of Despair, it'd be great should they choose to use your idea, make Galamoth the main antagonist (thus linking Judgment, Galamoth being 10,000 years hence, Time Reaper, etc.)

As for additional games, how about a game set 100 or so years after Lament of Innocence? Or a "gaiden" prequel to Circle of the Moon? So many possibilities.

[Johnny Alucard]

Yeah I should've remembered about that. But his attitude is definitely that of a kid's.

You can blame bad anime-level characterization for that. DoS's dialogue and plot reeked of Saturday mornings.

[Fofa]

1. Retelling of Bram Stoker's Dracula

I'm all up for that, but I don't think that the action in the novel comes up until the climax. That would make for a boring game.

[Munchy]

I'm all up for that, but I don't think that the action in the novel comes up until the climax. That would make for a boring game.

Yeah pretty much. It'd likely be revised so that Morris and company pursue Dracula but fail to catch him before he slips into his castle, then the game starts.

[pimp dracula]

I'm all up for that, but I don't think that the action in the novel comes up until the climax. That would make for a boring game.

How about fighting some baddies during the pursuit? Like some of Drac's minions will try to mess with some towns and attack Quincy and the crew.

[Sumac]

Hm, I wonder why people want to see Getsa Fuuma Den to be aprt of the CV? There is no link between games whatsoever, aside from guest appearance in the HD and this game is kind of...specific (arguably non-canon e.t.c.). I really don't see why they should be somehow connected...

If there would be CV iteration of the Stoker's Dracula, it would be fun to compare it to the old Dracula game on the NES.