Topic: Mercury Steam two new games: Aleph and NAKED.

[Maedhros]

I want to point you guys towards the one named ALEPH though.

http://www.meristation.com/pc/noticias/mercury-steam-tiene-dos-proyectos-en-desarrollo/58/2009711

More disclosure:

-Mercury Steam will receive (if the proposals are accepted) a 466.018,02€ grant and a 4.194.162,18€ lease for Aleph, while for NAKED it will be a 362.658,22€ grant and a 3.263.923,98€ lease.

Source: Neogaf - http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=898523

Someone tried to google Aleph and it's wiki said:

Looking up Aleph here is what wikipedia says:

The name aleph is derived from the West Semitic word for "ox", and the shape of the letter derives from a Proto-Sinaitic glyph that may have been based on a Egyptian hieroglyph which depicts an ox's head.[citation needed]

In Modern Standard Arabic, the word أليف /ʔaliːf/ literally means 'tamed' or 'familiar', derived from the root |ʔ-l-f|, from which the verb ألِف /ʔalifa/ means 'to be acquainted with; to be on intimate terms with'.[2] In modern Hebrew, the same root |ʔ-l-f| (alef-lamed-peh) gives me’ulaf, the passive participle of the verb le’alef, meaning 'trained' (when referring to pets) or 'tamed' (when referring to wild animals); the IDF rank of Aluf, taken from an Edomite title of nobility, is also cognate.[clarification needed]

You click on Edomite you get this:

Edom (/ˈiː.dʌm/;[1] Hebrew: אֱדוֹם, Modern Edom Tiberian ʼĔḏôm ; "red"; Assyrian: Udumi; Syriac: ܐܕܘܡ) or Idumea (Greek: Ἰδουμαία, Idoumaía; Latin: Idūmaea) was a Semite-inhabited historical region of the Southern Levant located south of Judea and the Dead Sea mostly in the Negev. It is mentioned in biblical records as a 1st millennium BC Iron Age kingdom of Edom,[2] and in classical antiquity the cognate name Idumea was used to refer to a smaller area in the same region. The name Edom means "red" in Hebrew, and was given to Esau, the elder son of the Hebrew patriarch Isaac, once he ate the "red pottage", which the Bible used in irony at the fact he was born "red all over".[3] The Torah, Tanakh and New Testament thus describe the Edomites as descendants of Esau.

Now, I searched "Edom Dracula" on google. Got this:

http://pelgranepress.com/site/?p=7141

Four Generations of EDOM

For years, it has been a legend. Somewhere in the dusty archives of MI6 is the complete version of Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula — the unredacted version. The full story revealed clear pointers to the sources and methods the Service used in Operation EDOM, an 1893 mission that sent a bold agent deep into the Balkans to awaken and then terminate a very dangerous asset indeed.

But the termination didn’t take. In 1940, desperate to stop Hitler’s march through Europe, the Service reactivated EDOM, and reanimated their Transylvanian asset. Once more, they found they had bitten off more than they could chew, and in the chaos of wartime Romania they put him to sleep. Or so they thought.

In 1977, MI6 discovered that they weren’t the only players in this game. Their asset had left his own sleepers behind in Moscow and Romania — and in London — and inside MI6. The Service had to reopen EDOM, awaken Dracula again, to find his agents in their own ranks — or so they said.

More Castlevania?

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More LoS from Mercury Steam? D:

[Dremn]

We knew this was going to happen...

For fucks sake Konami.

David Cox isn't around anymore either to watch Alvarez's ego this time, this is not going to end well.

[Maedhros]

They are asking for $5m for whatever game they are making. Maaan... even the budget is Castlevania-like...

[Dremn]

There isn't a doubt in my mind it isn't Castlevania after reading that post on GAF.

I will already guess Dracula will be the player again. How much farther into the future can they take this since LoS2 was in the modern era? Victor was the seemingly last living Belmont too, unless they pull a Trevor on us and decide there were others left in the bloodline after all.

I'm really worried that Alvarez is going to just go completely nuts over this one, now it's really starting to feel like the "Castlevania" I once knew, is completely dead.

[Nagumo]

I'm saying this with fingers crossed, but I think somebody is reading into this way too much. Having said that, more LoS would be like a cruel joke.

[Trevelyan]

From what the leaky people told us, Mercury was dead against doing anymore which makes it seem like Konami would have had to do A LOT of persuading ($$$) to get them to do another.  If LoS2 had been a huge success, sure, but it doesn't seem like it.  Unless MS had a change of heart...

I do think LoS2 wasn't as much of a financial failure as it may seem - namely, since LoS was made on a low budget with low expectations (and far exceeded them) and LoS2 presumably had the same budget (same VAs plus richard madden pretty much), it shouldn't have lost Konami much and may even have been profitable.  But still ehhhh.  Who knows.

[crisis]

hey guys check out the colored versions of this artwork, say wat you want about the lords of shadow games but you're buggin if you think the artwork in this series sucks

(click to show/hide)

[Kingshango]

That Gaf post feels like a reeeeeach.

[TatteredSeraph]

Sounds like there is an amount of ripping off of Hellsing as well here.

[Kingshango]

How can they even continue LOS when everybody has been killed except Dracula and Alucard? The only way it could be done is if it's a prequel.

[Dremn]

How can they even continue LOS when everybody has been killed except Dracula and Alucard? The only way it could be done is if it's a prequel.

Or they retcon LoS2 entirely, who knows what they're going to do. It sounds like this is just a proposal at the moment, so Konami could turn them down.

[Foffy]

How can they even continue LOS when everybody has been killed except Dracula and Alucard? The only way it could be done is if it's a prequel.

This is what one of the leakers here said, right? That if there was a new Lords game, it would be a prequel.

Crossing my fingers that this is not a Castlevania project.

[Nagumo]

How can they even continue LOS when everybody has been killed except Dracula and Alucard? The only way it could be done is if it's a prequel.

They could also be lazy and just revive Satan.   

[Chernabogue]

I wouldn't mind more LoS. (inb4 -1's)

[crisis]

if you recall the ending, the mirror of fate flashes & shows Dracula 1 last vision before he shatters it