Topic: Hopes and dreams for 2013?

[DragonSlayr81]

I wish for Castlevania to return to it's source-material, but keep things new and exciting. Los cattered to some people why were of the original series and those who'd never even heard of Castlevania. But in the end it alienated a lot of people who were long time fans. I wish for 2013 to be the end of this current dark age of CV and bring about a hopeful new outlook for the future of the series.

I believe there's a way to do something relatively new and daring without alienating classic fans. I'm a firm believer in that(that you CAN appease both classic fans and gain new fans without sacrificing each other to the flames of change). The fact seems to be, it's far more easier to give in to either side that try to win both of them. But, it CAN be done. I think people just don't wanna try. I mean, not only relating to this, but other aspects of gaming, you can try to expand the genres considerably, but many people tend to hold back out of fear. But, they also forget, not new road is tread on an old familiar one. You HAVE to break away and move forward, and that means break away from just trying to innovate classic franchises, grow a couple and get into that pioneering spirit that once was, new IPs, new ideas, not just "Castlevania, but we are trying something different" or "Final Fantasy, but a new spin on it!!". It's like we are in the Age of Contradiction and Hypocrasy.

[Tuxedo Mark]

My hopes and dreams for 2013 are to find someone and get married I feel like 26 is too old to be un-married, but maybe that's just my personal feelings.

I thought this was about just our hopes and dreams for CV.

If it's for stuff in general, then I hope to get my first kiss this year. Not having been kissed by age 34 is pretty embarrassing.

[crisis]

From WayForward's official site:

Q: You guys are super awesome, can you make the next [insert oldschool video game franchise] game?
 
A: It's an honor that so many people want us to take the reigns on so many great franchises, and we'd love to work with those IPs. But you should realize, any licensed IPs we work with; Contra, Aliens, BloodRayne, etc.; are not owned by us, and it’s up to publishers to hire us to make the product they want using their IPs. We can rarely pick and choose which IPs we want to make games from. So for example, if you want us to make the next Mega Man, Castlevania, or Metroid title, you’d have to write to Capcom, Konami, or Nintendo. That being said, feel free to do just that; it might actually work.

time to start flooding Konami's mailboxes, people

Not having been kissed by age 34 is pretty embarrassing.

b-but you have had sex, right?

[Flame]

bring things back to what fans want to see, which is, ya' know, Castlevania.

yeah you are totally right. IGA had totally lost his touch, and Mercurysteam did a pretty decent job at going back to a more classicvania style not seen since SoTN came along and ripped off Super Metroid, starting a series of soulless SoTN clones. (see I can be all edgy too)

For Konami to realize that what fans want to see does not necessarily make for games with minute sales.

The later IGA games say differently. It got stale, and yet, that is "what the fans wanted" (sans the artstyles of DoS and PoR which everyone hated).

Castlevania will sell and be competitive in its natural form

depends on what you consider "natural form".

so long as the games are great, inspired, and fresh.

like the MS games. You can't get any "fresher" than a reboot.

Bullshit gimmicks like LotR reboots

I dunno what game YOU were playing. I saw an epic Classicvania game like we have never seen.

or the most cliche anime tropes aren't necessary.

Ill assume that is referring to the anime cliche's IGA likes to throw in most of his metroidvanias.


 

Please don't insult people's intelligence, or your series like that, Konami.

yeah, Harmony of Despair really hurts my brain. It's insulting as a Castlevania game.

People aren't turned off to elegant artwork or pretty vampires.

no, but they are not for everyone. Ayami Kojima's work, while great, is still anime based, and that is something not everyone likes. And to be honest, she started to get a bad case of sameface with her character designs. And sometimes, her faces or proportions just looked plain weird. (She has gotten much better by Harmony of Despair thiugh)

The Artwork featured in LoS, while too scarcely used for my tastes, was still incredibly elegant and creative. it's just a shame that it is used so little in the game aside from monster bios and shit.

Also, Twilight kind of killed the "pretty vampire" thing. I think it's best to return to the good old fashioned Vampires are bloodthirsty monsters, not prom dates.

What people are turned off to are uninspired, stale games that cut corners due to production values and development periods that are way too low.

I don't think all of it should be attributed to that honestly. IGA was definitely nerfed by that, but some if it was himself. he has the ass backwards way of developing games that involves creating a gimmick first, and then writing the story around it, and that is terrible because it leads to overly gimmick driven stories and gameplay. He got Lucky with AoS, but further games declined in that respect. He also is not the best storyteller. His original stories can be potentially fun, but his sequels tend to be horrible. (Case in point PoR, CoD and DoS) Again probably due to his gimmick driven development practice which enphasizes the gimmick rather than the story, in a series that ever since SoTN, has been story intensive.



As for my hopes for 2013? More Castlevania, duh. i agree with most when i say that I would like someone interesting to take up the reigns of the next Castlevania once MS finishes up with LoS2. Wayforward being the preferred candidate. (or just in house like it used to be)

[sannyclause]

HO HO HO i hope LOS2 and mof are awsome 

[Successor The Cruel]

IGA IGA IGA IGA IGA IGA IGA IGA

Man, this is not about IGA. It's about making good games.
I don't know why with some people it has to be about one thing or the other. I don't know why some people think that just because one hates Lords of Shadow, they have to revere absolutely everything IGA has ever done. I'm not going to defend Harmony of Despair, because I don't think it's a good game, no matter who made it.

[Heuss]

"Castlevania has truly reinvented itself with its move to next gen platforms and we're extremely pleased at the positive response we've seen toward Castlevania: Lords of Shadow globally, mainly due to the dedicated fans who have supported the series for so long. The remarkable sales achieved in such a short time are a true testament of the work and dedication that went into this project, and we're very grateful to have partnered with such fine talent in the rebirth of one of Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc.'s most successful franchises"

Shinji Hirano
Nov 2010.

[beingthehero]

I hope to kiss tuxedo mark

[Ratty]

I wouldn't mind a revival of the Kid Dracula series. Maybe give kids their own offshoot of the CV series. I tend to find, nowadays, it's like adults are bogarding the majority of everything...

Bob Chipman talked about this danger in one of his very early "Game Overthinker" episodes, his mic quality sucks but at least there's no drawn out intro sketch. And he makes a lot of very good points and shows important parallels between gaming's over-focus on the adult market today and that same focus in the late 80s and early 90s which led to the still largely crippled mainstream/superhero comic book industry we have now.
Game OverThinker v11

My hopes and dreams for 2013 are to find someone and get married I feel like 26 is too old to be un-married, but maybe that's just my personal feelings.

f it's for stuff in general, then I hope to get my first kiss this year. Not having been kissed by age 34 is pretty embarrassing.

That's something you guys gotta make happen for yourselves, you can't sit around waiting for it to happen or thinking you're entitled to get a girlfriend/boyfriend. Talk to people, find others with similar interests, "worse case" scenario there is that you make new friends with similar values and interests.

As for Castlevania I would love to see more good new ClassicVanias or remastered collections of the pre-LoS 3D Games. But most of all just for the series to get back to its fun, cheesy monster mash roots.

[VladCT]

I just hope that the next take on CV would be good enough to shut up both sides of the IGA vs. COX pissing contest.

[Phoenix7786]

Oh thanks for the pep-talk Ratty. There IS someone I've been talking to though. I just hope she's "the one".

[Kamirine]

I hope that LOS2 ends on a high note and that Castlevania moves on beyond it.
Hopefully a new dev team will take on Castlevania and stick closer to the source material in the next reboot.

This. I'm looking forward to seeing what will happen to the series after LoS2.

[Reinhart77]

well, for 2013, i'm fine hoping for the best LoS games possible.  a LoS soundtrack or tie in comics would be nice too.  can worry about what comes next in 2014.  but, i wouldn't mind a finding out about a little side project with the scope of a The Adventure ReBirth or Harmony of Despair from team Japan or even Castlevania Puzzle if it's interesting enough.

[Flame]

I just hope that the next take on CV would be good enough to shut up both sides of the IGA vs. COX pissing contest.

Nonono, but then it will become an IGA vs. COX vs. NEWCOMER Pissing contest!

I'm kidding. I agree with that.  Though the above IS a legit possibility depending on how the next dev handles Castlevania...

[Chernabogue]

I hope we'll stop the eternal stupid debate of traditional/metroidvania vs. LoS.

God, I'm sick of this shit.