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Who Do You Think Konami Should Hire To Reboot Castlevania?
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Badlucktroll
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Watch Konami hire some chinese or korean unknown and then deliver a 10 out of 10 and best the entire soulsborne formula
bender
What time is it?
Icymanipulator
Member
Capcom wouldn’t be a bad choice.
Plague Doctor
Member
Honeslty: Crawl back to Iga and promise him whatever. They have a better chance to win him back over than Kojima for MGS.
Bloodstained is good and all that, but its a cover band. (Note: A cover band that still pisses on any post Iga Castlevania)
Bloodstained is good and all that, but its a cover band. (Note: A cover band that still pisses on any post Iga Castlevania)
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FalsettoVibe
Member
Castlevania + Fromsoft ?
How is it that I never thought of that!?
I need.
How is it that I never thought of that!?
I need.
Generic
Member
Castlevania Lords of Shadow 1, 2 and Mirrors of Fate were all better than Bloodstained. Igarashi is stuck in the 90's.
EDMIX
Writes a lot, says very little
Jinzo Prime
Member
From most wanted to least:
- Fromsoftware
- Retro Studios
- Capcom
- Nintendo EPD
- Team Asobi + Sony XDEV
- Sucker Punch + Konami
- Konami + Bluepoint + Sony XDEV
- Konami + Sony Santa Monica
- Konami + Nintendo + MercurySteam
nial
Gold Member
Western devs released the first good Silent Hill game in 24 years.
Pasta la Vista
Member
From already did it with Bloodborne.
Dirk Benedict
Gold Member
Give us Iga Era 2.
Heimdall_Xtreme
Hermen Hulst Fanclub's #1 Member
Bloodborne was the castlevania
Dr. Suchong
Member
Not Fromsoft.
We don't need yet another Soulslike.
Vanillaware, Capcom, or Moon Studios could do it justice.
I'd say Koji Igarashi too, but Bloodstained was pretty mid imho.
We don't need yet another Soulslike.
Vanillaware, Capcom, or Moon Studios could do it justice.
I'd say Koji Igarashi too, but Bloodstained was pretty mid imho.
NeoIkaruGAF
Gold Member
I’ll take pachinkos and collections forever rather than seeing From Software anywhere near Castlevania. Besides, Castlevania 2 was already basically a FS game - nonsensical NPC banter? Check. Having to do random stuff like dropping garlic in a graveyard to make a merchant appear, or holding a certain item and kneeling at a certain point to open up new areas? Check. Bullshit final boss that you have to cheese to even survive? Check.
Just imagine having to deal with Medusa heads with FS’s legendary lock-on. And I hope you like fall damage in your Castlevania.
Just imagine having to deal with Medusa heads with FS’s legendary lock-on. And I hope you like fall damage in your Castlevania.
Dr. Suchong
Member
Amen
The Fartist
Gold Member
Bluepoint
Pasta la Vista
Member
From has technically been doing "Castlevania" since Demon's Souls.
Castlevania Bloodlines:
Demon's Souls Tower of Latria:
Both with the Gargoyle enemies.
Bloodborne, Bloodlines... I think it's more than a coincidence.
Especially considering when Shuhei spoke with Miyazaki about creating Bloodborne, he talked about the Tower of Latria in particular as being an inspiration for the direction of Bloodborne.
Castlevania Bloodlines:
Demon's Souls Tower of Latria:
Both with the Gargoyle enemies.
Bloodborne, Bloodlines... I think it's more than a coincidence.
Especially considering when Shuhei spoke with Miyazaki about creating Bloodborne, he talked about the Tower of Latria in particular as being an inspiration for the direction of Bloodborne.
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DavidGzz
Gold Member
Bloober.
Really? I've always thought of Dark Souls as a 3d Castlevania. It even has the vania shortcut system and whips.
Really? I've always thought of Dark Souls as a 3d Castlevania. It even has the vania shortcut system and whips.
StueyDuck
Member
It's Konami so try think like Konami.
You want to pick someone d tier.
Like the lords of the fallen devs or one of those clone souls games that aren't very special
Pasta la Vista
Member
Both of the PS2 games were good.
Lord Panda
The Sea is Always Right
The developers behind Flight Simulator:
Asobo Studios.
Or if you want a more boring answer then:
Halo Studios.
Asobo Studios.
Or if you want a more boring answer then:
Halo Studios.
kurisu_1974
Banned
Was just going to suggest Platinum, surprised seemingly no one else did (or I looked over it).
Oberstein
Member
Lords of Shadow was the best Castlevania, 3D or otherwise.
The next entry needs to start here and iterate.
The last good Castlevania 3D (with Lament of Innocence, which is still pretty average).
The sequel was an absolute disaster. It put an end to all Mercury Steam ambitions.
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efyu_lemonardo
May I have a cookie?
Pandora's Tower was a promising title that had the potential to grow into a 3D Castlevania had it received sequels.
yurinka
Member
From Software. Or to sell the company (won't happen) to Sony and let SSM handle it.
Another more realistic option would be Mercury Steam (even considering that if Nintendo is smart should keep them busy or even acquire them to make more Metroid games): they did both the best selling Castlevania game ever and the best selling Metroid game ever. Lord of Shadows 2 had a few flaws but the studio highly improved since then.
Another more realistic option would be Mercury Steam (even considering that if Nintendo is smart should keep them busy or even acquire them to make more Metroid games): they did both the best selling Castlevania game ever and the best selling Metroid game ever. Lord of Shadows 2 had a few flaws but the studio highly improved since then.
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What is this obsession with "rebooting"? Do you even remember the times when this expression didn't even exist in this context?
Why does everyone only dream about reboots (and remakes).
Fucking hell we are a stagnant species for some time now, at least in entertainment. We're the worst Homo Ludens ever.
Imagination is dead and burried...why not reboot that?
Why does everyone only dream about reboots (and remakes).
Fucking hell we are a stagnant species for some time now, at least in entertainment. We're the worst Homo Ludens ever.
Imagination is dead and burried...why not reboot that?
Rudius
Member
How about Bluepoint, with the Demon Souls Remake?
Mister Wolf
Member
What is this obsession with "rebooting"? Do you even remember the times when this expression didn't even exist in this context?
Why does everyone only dream about reboots (and remakes).
Fucking hell we are a stagnant species for some time now, at least in entertainment. We're the worst Homo Ludens ever.
Imagination is dead and burried...why not reboot that?
Rebooting would require imagination. Remaking or regurgitating the same old Simon Belmont, Trevor Belmont, Richter Belmont, or Alucard story would be what lacks imagination.
I'm not sure how anyone should tackle this, if at all.
Better at being garbage, 100% agree.
So they can patent whipping arses? Let's not.
Bartski
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Toots
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Already answered long ago
https://www.neogaf.com/threads/hogwarts-x-castlevania.1666156/
Hear me out boys !
When playing Hogwarts, i cannot help myself thinking about how good a castlevania total conversion mod would be.
Everything and more is there.
First the character. Make a Belmont skin and reskin the spells to make them like whiplash. Exact same effects, just with a whip. Levioso could be a whiplash on the ground that make enemies fly, accio just a whip grab, etc..
Then the setting. Everything is there. I repeat EVERYTHING IS THERE. Little crooked town to start the journey (Hogsmead, check), countryside walk to the castle with a deep scary forest detour check, Huge magic castle that seems to change shape to accomodate whatever magic is at play there, super check.
Make a few hours long game where you start at a slightly reskinned Hogsmead, save a bunch of villagers from imps (reskinned gobelins) and skeletons (already there), and kill a few werewolves (reskinned poachers) on the way to the castle, with a detour to the forbidden forest to go get whichever macguffin is necessary to enter the castle.
Once at the castle, you can use all the mechanics already there (secret passages and whatnot) you only need to reskin stuff.
Go up the dark arts defense tower, fight Death. Fight your way from the great hall up to the dining hall, banish Dracula from this plane of existence, and watch as the sun rise on a land free from his immortal curse (or is it ?...)
You can use the flying mechanic by using the griffin and saying this particular Belmont is Doolittle Belmont and god gave him the power to talk to beast and heal them (can make a questline where you find the griffin somewhere in the forbidden woods and heal them).
There a lot of other stuff we could talk about but i am supposed to be working right now so i leave you with a few illustrations of what this dream game could look like
Disclaimer : Everything is a mix of in game footage and shitty ms paint, and does not represent the final quality of the product.
Imagine you're on your way to the castle and you see this bad boy in the distance
Evil is banished at last (don't forget to have dracula's bat form fly out in the distance!)
All of this to say, if i were the ceo of portkey games, i know what my next game would be !
https://www.neogaf.com/threads/hogwarts-x-castlevania.1666156/
Alan Silvestro
Member
Inti Creates for a 2D Castlevania; Santa Monica for a modern-cinematic Castlevania reboot.
Mister Wolf
Member
A Castlevania that looks and plays like their game No Rest For The Wicked would be amazing. Would you be okay with that kind of 3D?
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NeoIkaruGAF
Gold Member
Painfully true. Bloodstained was offensively mediocre, and horribly unbalanced.
I mean, they remade one of the most acclaimed Konami games ever. It would have been quite extraordinary to botch it. But apparently, now that the fears of it being bad have been assuaged, the narrative has completely reversed.
Dude, that’s a stretch that Mr. Fantastic and Elastigirl together couldn’t achieve.
Damn, now that’s a good idea. Pandora’s Tower is criminally underrated.
I don’t see Inti Creates nailing the Castlevania vibe. Plus, their level design is usually lacking, and they often make their gameplay more cumbersome than your average Castlevania requires.
Omnipunctual Godot
Gold Member
I'd only trust Joakim Mogren.
Schmendrick
Member
Whoever can turn this into gameplay:
Pejo
Gold Member
I'm not a big fan of isometric view action gameplay, but at that point they could just go proper 3rd person I guess. I honestly didn't know that they made that game until right now lol.
SCB3
Member
I mean Dark souls pretty much is a 3D Castlevania
SirTerry-T
Member
Rafael Cecco
ZX Spectrum Next version.
Do it Konami, money in the bank mate.
ZX Spectrum Next version.
Do it Konami, money in the bank mate.