Topic: Castlevania in 2015

[deadsanto123]

Ill give my first born for another castlevania like OoE

[BLOOD MONKEY]

Ill give my first born for another castlevania like OoE

Ahem... Don't you mean SotN or RoB?

[Dracul_Belmont]

If another LOS is being made, I think that it would involve Dracula as the main and ultimate antagonist. Maybe Gabriel would shed his vampiric side, becoming a battle of Gabriel Belmont vs Dracula (Inner Dracula or something). Trevor could return and maybe Victor didn't die somehow. That's how I would approach a LOS3 story.

[X]

If another LOS is being made, I think that it would involve Dracula as the main and ultimate antagonist. Maybe Gabriel would shed his vampiric side, becoming a battle of Gabriel Belmont vs Dracula (Inner Dracula or something).

Kinda like the lords of shadow. Where they had shed their wickedness and ascended to heaven leaving behind their negative and bestial attributes. The same could be done with Gabriel where he sheds all that is evil inside of him and can finally ascend--thus leaving behind a very evil and menacing Dracula who has absolutely no shred of compassion within him. The kind of Dracula CV should have had from the get-go rather then the emo guy we got in the end.

[Dremn]

I just expect Gabriel/Dracula as the protagonist again against some kind of new force with Alucard helping out. It will have absolutely nothing to do with "Castlevania" at that point.

[Anglachel]

I bet Zobek would return. He's hinted at being alive somewhere. Galamoth could be thrown in the mix too.

[Dremn]

I wonder if Sir Patrick Stewart would even want to work on LoS again.

[Nagumo]

Not to grind anyone's gears, but what's so compelling about the LoS timeline that people want to see more stories in it anyway? While it's I'm not not a fan of these games, but even if one really likes them, wouldn't you agree that the writing, even in the first game, is really, really bad?

Like how overwritten the first game but nothing really matters except what happend in the DLC? The awful gambit pileup at the end where the manipulator immediately turned out to be manipulated by yet another manipulator? Or how Gabula seems to decent motivation for doing what he does aside from "because he's Dracula"? The presence of the Belmont family and their feud with Dracula being inherently pointless as it stops being relevant after 60 years in a 1000+ year timeline? And of course gems like "Castlevania City".

It tries to emulate of the same story beats of the IGA timeline but without any thought given to if it makes sense or not. It's a complete and utter mess. Certainly Castlevania can do much better?       

[X]

Castlevania can certainly do better however like Mercurysteam IGA was also not the greatest story-teller either. What Castlevania needs is a really good writer; someone who can keep a coherent stance on the way the story unfolds, and also a editor; someone who can spot elements that clash with the story and iron them out. Neither Mercurysteam nor IGA had an editor for their works so lots of elements just got in the way, didn't make any sense, and/or were just plain useless and ambiguous.

[Chernabogue]

Castlevania can certainly do better however like Mercurysteam IGA was also not the greatest story-teller either. What Castlevania needs is a really good writer; someone who can keep a coherent stance on the way the story unfolds, and also a editor; someone who can spot elements that clash with the story and iron them out. Neither Mercurysteam nor IGA had an editor for their works so lots of elements just got in the way, didn't make any sense, and/or were just plain useless and ambiguous.

My thoughts exactly. Which is a shame, since Castlevania has (had?) so much potential for great stories.

[Kingshango]

My thoughts exactly. Which is a shame, since Castlevania has (had?) so much potential for great stories.

This.

However, I and many others, would mind if the story was the same old "Dracula has awoken after 100 years, Belmont seeks out to defeat him" storyline and nothing more else.

I just want a Castlevania game, period at this point 

Instead we're probably getting a remaster collection and a million bucks says it's gonna be the Lords of Shadow remaster collection.

[Rugal]

No. They need to stop fucking making LoS games. They are BAD GAMES. NO. STOP. BAD.

I can just imagine how they will fuck up Galamoth. He will be a little goblin that throws watches at you or some shit.

Fucking quit it.

[Flame]

If anything, the LoS games look FANTASTIC in screenshots. I'd argue that the pre-release screenshots for both LoS and LoS2 could be considered trolling. Or fraud.

If LoS3 is ever gonna be a thing I'd recommend Mercurysteam to release it in the form of, y'know - a BOOK. With screenshots. That is all.

LoS games do look fantastic, not just in promotional screenshots.

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LoS2 of course, was a case of selective screenshotting, as we got mostly castle shots and a few pre-apocalypse city shots. the city post-apocalypse looks pretty bad. everything else does look good though. But I played PC so I dunno.

No. They need to stop fucking making LoS games. They are BAD GAMES. NO. STOP. BAD.

I can just imagine how they will fuck up Galamoth. He will be a little goblin that throws watches at you or some shit.

Fucking quit it.

That's just like, your opinion, man. I liked LoS because it felt like a more action evolution of LoI's gameplay. And I liked the character and most of the monster designs. Gabriel especially. MoF had plenty of good designs as well, though the gameplay wasn't quite that good, either as a 2D CV, OR as a LoS game. Story was fine though. LoS2 is the one that shits the bed in regards to level design and story, though even still, the gameplay was just fine, and much refined over LoS1's.

They can't please everyone, and looks like in this case, that's you.

Though- Im not too certain I want another LoS game either after Alvarez fucked up not just the game, inserting himself as head writer and ignoring everyone else, but ruined the studio itself.

LoS either way though, unless japan wants to take a crack at fixing it's mess, (Kojima could SURELY fix LoS2) has run it's course. It was fresh at the time, but its time for something fresh again. IMO, something that embraces some of the earlier camp, and not just the super srs plot side, would be great.

[KaZudra]

In actuality, the polarity of opinion of gameplay in the LoS games are still there, I personally love a good hack n slash. The main issue withe the LoS games is how bad the story dropped off at LoS2, which is a pretty easy fix which just involves with a "definitive edition" marketing, not saying much has to be changed, just fill in the plotholes, add a few new stages, and extend parts such as the final battle, and make a playable Dragon mode sequence.

As for the future of Castlevania, the franchise, surely another recreation of the Belmont clan vs. Dracula will come, but I'd rather see some new stories from the non-canon universes, part-vampire Trevor, Cornell in another game, things such as that

[Dremn]

However, I and many others, would mind if the story was the same old "Dracula has awoken after 100 years, Belmont seeks out to defeat him" storyline and nothing more else.

In my opinion that's all you need for a story, Castlevania's shouldn't be anymore complicated than that. I find that the moment you try to do something different with the character of Dracula, that's when whatever you're making becomes awkward and hard to take seriously.

The game design is what will really matter.