Topic: Lords of Shadow 2 may include some classic Castlevania themes

[Dark Nemesis]

If you put your music is bad, if you put classical music is bad. Good luck to the next development team take CV ..

Sometimes I have the impression that the community of CV fans are like some older women in the salon reading magazines.

Why? Because we don't act like dogs that someone threw them a bone and that's supposed to make us happy? So now we are forcing 2-3 remixes, if you could call them remixes at all, according to what we have heard from the first LoS and that will make it a more Castlevania sounding OST, when the majority of the tracks they will be general orchestrated versions?

[shelverton.]

If you put your music is bad, if you put classical music is bad. Good luck to the next development team take CV ..

I sort of disagree with this statement. If there's one thing that was never a problem with the franchise until LoS came along, it was the music. Be it brand new tracks or remixes of old classics - most of us REALLY liked the music in all games prior to LoS. And even if we have our own personal favourites, I think I speak for the majority of us when I say that even the "weakest" soundtracks in the series are pretty damn great when compared to a lot of other games out there.

Well, the only time I recall some people being upset about the music was when Harmony of Dissonance was released back in 2002. And then once again in 2010 when LoS came out, and more recently with MoF.

There are sooooo many talented composers out there, fully capable of creating new music that totally sounds like Castlevania. I'm confident that there are brilliant composers literally standing in line to make music for the next games. Hopefully it's someone who's actually a fan of older Castlevania music too.

Aruajo is a great composer but he's clearly not right for this franchise. I actually have a lot of respect for "forgettable" music - the kind that blends in without distracting, and just setting the mood and yadda yadda. If Castlevania didn't have a track record of some of the greatest, catchiest, awesomest melodies in the history of gaming, I guess I would've accepted the LoS/MoF soundtracks for what they are. Cause they're not BAD. They're just.... not right.

I guess my point is that the next CV team is really lucky because they have 25+ years of brilliant Castevania tunes to draw inspiration from. It should be no problem to make CV-sounding music because it has such a strong identity.

[crisis]

Not falling for that again. Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice, shame on you. Or was it the other way around?

You fool

Good luck to the next development team take CV ..

If it's Wayforward, then the series is in good hands.
Bloodrayne: Betrayal OST - Poisoned Halls
Bloodrayne: Betrayal OST - Peaceful Moon (NES Version)

Sometimes I have the impression that the community of CV fans are like some older women in the salon reading magazines.

Sorry that we as Castlevania fans have been gratiously spoiled over the past decades and have a high standard for excellent and catchy music in our games, a standard that LoS didn't meet for A LOT of us.

[Chernabogue]

If it's Jake Kaufman, then the series is in good hands.

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I should play some WF games, because you guys seem to love them. Though I'm not fond of the graphic style.

[Munchy]

Eh, I could take or leave remixes for LoS2. If they're just going to redo Bloody Tears again, I don't really care because it's already been arranged to hell and back again.

Now if they found something underutilized like Devil's Revival or Den of Worship, that would be another story.

[Flame]

I keep hearing this

"oh a few notes mixed in with random garbage"

But LoS had a few remixes which were just that... remixes. Only one that i remember was like that was supposedly part of the beginning in the satan fight. (I dont hear it personally)

the rest were pretty straight forward. (courtyard, Carmilla form 1, waterfalls of agharta, Music box)

[Lelygax]

And on a side note - and you can throw eggs at me for saying this - but I think the Legends versions of Vampire Killer and particularly Bloody Tears  are totally shiny. Too bad Bloody Tears is so damn short.

Good to see someone that share my tastes, I liked them too and at the time that I heard them for the first time it was really difficult to find a remix.

If you put your music is bad, if you put classical music is bad. Good luck to the next development team take CV ..

Sometimes I have the impression that the community of CV fans are like some older women in the salon reading magazines.

Thats not true...

[Dremn]

Anything will be good.

Pretty much this.

The one song I really want to hear the most is Beginning. Second favorite song in the series next to Simon's theme.

[Ahasverus]

Wayforward makes the best looking bad games.

[Flame]

I have to admit, Bloodrayne Betrayal is quite a boring game. No replayability at all, unless you are the klepto type who absolutely HAS to find every hidden collectible. (and even then, that becomes a chore more than fun) I liked it when I first played it, but after I beat it, it got boring real fast.

the NES soundtrack doesnt offer much other than sounding nice. If they had re-made the entire game, or a mini-game entirely in 8-bit or 16 bit sprites, that would have been something.

[crisis]

Perhaps I should've been more accurate and said Jake Kaufman is a way better and more capable composer than Oscar Araujo, when it comes to Castlevania-like tunes and melodies.

Wayforward makes the best looking bad games.

Chances are their worst game would've most likely still turn out better than Mirror of Fate.

[The Puritan]

?? Which track? / Got a link?

Castlevania Lords of Shadow ~ Mirror of Fate (Soundtrack): The Den

Closest I could find.

[darkwzrd4]

I would love it if there were some classic tunes in LoS2, but I think the classic tunes clash with the style of the LoS games. The orchestral music fit the situations and style better.

[Maedhros]

They need to make the music memorable. LoS music was terrible at that, I don't really remember a music from the game at all... it's mostly atmospheric, melancolic... =/

[Dracula9]

Now if they found something underutilized like Devil's Revival or Den of Worship, that would be another story.

You're welcome.

But honestly, does EVERY Lords-related discussion thread have to turn into a ragefest over which generation of the fans are the most correct? It's getting kind of old, guys.