Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 Hype thread!

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Excited for Bayonetta 2?

Great thread. Definitely looking forward to it. Preorder on lockdown. Or something.
Make love to me.

It will proboyl get an 8. Though im annoyed theres no uber edition for NA.No day 1 money from me.

From what Ive seen, its no longer a God of War rip off. Infact Kraetos could learn a thing or two from the happy go lucky vampire

I quit pretty early on in the 1st game. I remember being lost at one point and then I kept running into these stupid spiders.

I'm still somewhat interested after I saw a video of the combat awhile ago , but I'm not sure yet.

This has the potential for AAA from what I've seen. It's just been a while since I've played an action game like this and I still have to finish the first one. But once I do I'll definitely be getting this one soon after it.

I'd have no issues with it if they manage to remove all the cheese and lame sexualization from the game.

Gonna preorder this badboy as soon as it gets on Steam.

You should go back to it, the game starts off very slow and it's actually kind of boring before chapter 3, but once you get there, or at least halfway through the chapter, it gets much better.

It's also very hard to get stuck...perhaps you missed something?.

I wish there were more elements from the side scrolling DS games in Lords of Shadow. Item drops and familiars being some of them.

Not that it was bad, it was an entertaining action game.... but I played Pandora's Tower right after LoS and I thought that felt more like a true Castlevania game.

Pre-ordered almost a year ago, can't wait for this shit!!!!!! Expecting 9/10 and the first quality title of 2014. They're pretty much taking all the good things from Darksiders 2 (huge world with great exploration), all the good things from GoW3 (visceral combat/nice graphics) and adding an amazing art style on top of all that. I don't even like or care about beat'em ups but this thing right here is hawt!

I think some people are underrating the game. It's gonna score pretty highly, I guessed a 9. It's more or less a Zelda-ish game now, but you are dracula. It's gonna be sweet. Already have the game paid off.

A zelda'ish game with an actual story and a good one at that.

I'm really interested this game. I wish it was on the current-gen consoles, but I might still buy it Day 1.

"Tell me, is this God's reward for the devoted and folly?" Carlyle delivers some of the best lines I have ever heard in a video game.

Yes and a great combat system and fluid gameplay.

Well, GS was one of the few places that gave the game a score smaller than 8, so I think people from this site suppose it won't be that good when compared to the previous one.

But, they are making #2 better than 1. Im very optimistic.

Great thread :)! Expect it to score 7-8 on GS, but be a 9 for me.

it won't score anywhere near 7 i can guarantee that. every con LoS1 had is gone, now all you're getting is a huge world to explore with a 30h+ campaign and no more fixed crappy camera either.

Sounds like this sequel will be more Metroidvania-esque this time around.

maybe I'll get lucky and find the Special Edition still selling a few weeks after launch.

One of my most hyped games, but if I'm going to stick to my plan of working through the heavy backlog I have I'm going to have to wait to purchase it.

Looks good! Will have play the first one soon before tho. I liked the demo but never bought. :/

Its really too bad there is no PS4 edition of this game as it's one of the last big last gen games to release. I would gladly wait a few months for a spruced up edition in 1080p60.

Im in the process of finishing Lords of Shadow now, in anticipation of Lords of Shadow 2. I have a feeling that 2 is going to be amazing - Im sure having fun with the first game!

This is a big concern to me because of sales.

Castlevania games were not selling a lot of units before LoS, Konami had almost killed the franchise, mercurysteam was given a minimal budget to make LoS, and it became the highest selling and highest grossing Castlevania in the franchise.

So Konami gave them more money for the sequel, and they really seem to be doing a great job.

But I'm afraid that it will become another Okami: A great game with low sales because it was only made for previous gen console in the beginning of a new gen.

Hope it sells really good, I mean I know the PC edition will sell a lot because of it being timeless, but I do hope that people are still buying PS3 and 360 games...

I had no idea it was structured like an open world. Now I'm even more excited than I was originally, which is saying something.

To be honest, this game looks awesome.

i cant wait for castlevania 2 AAA for me

Hopefully they haven't stripped out all the puzzles for the young people.

One of the games out there that I don't care what reviews it gets, already preordered and getting day 1 matter what....im thinking 8.5 easy.

Like I said I think it will be a game I'll enjoy a ton myself. My reasoning for a potential 7 is that GS has been pretty hipster lately (like that 6.0 Arkham review). I don't think LOS2 will be progressive exactly. It will be classic Hn'S, platforming, some puzzles, massive boss battles and so on (a style of game I personally love). Not like Gone Home, Papers Please, or other games that "elevates the storytelling of the medium" (or whatever is the thing to do).

Probably AA here. If it's not cute and charming and simple they hate it. Oh it also has to help with some life dilema too.

With how GS has been, in guessing it'll get a 7

yup probably less. God forbid the game doesn't tell them where to go and they get lost too. Even though is a straight forward game.

I really want this to be good. The 1st game was a massive disappointment on all levels.

What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets.

8.0 Very excite.

You couldn't be more right.

Crap like gone home gets a 9.5 while great, actual games get 7.0, damn yougs.

Gone Home wasn't great, good or even decent. Gone Home was an atrocious title and no, im not one of those who doesn't care about stories and skip everything. For $20 that game was such a ripoff that next time i'll think twice before buying an indie title.

Gone home was a terribly overrated game, I actually made a thread about it at GS, I find it disgusting that it got so high ratings by critics simply because of the pro-homosexuality stance the game has, lord forbids the game with social commentary be given a score less than 9.

The baffling thing is that if you check the metacritic page, you'll see that it has like 6.2 in user reviews.

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First game was bland as hell despite being incredibly pretty. It also never felt like a Castlevania game. Just God of War in Castlevania garb. Hopefully Gamespot recognizes that this time around. I'm quite glad this is MecurySteam's last entry in the franchise.

It's not my fault if you don't like the franchise.

How do you know its MS last entry? they could make more as far as we know. not LoS since its supposed to finish with this one, but maybe another reboot or spin off.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-02-20-castlevania-lords-of-shadow-mercury-steams-mission-to-be-the-next-naughty-dog

They are done with CV, and all actual Castlevania fans are very happy.

I'll get it once it drops in price, way too much on my plate right now.

Apparently you're not an actual Castlevania fan if you like Lords of Shadow...

So fucking retarded.

Sounds like it has potential, but I saw in a thread on another forum that Gameinformer gave it a 6, saying that any deviation from the combat falls straight flat on its face. First game was solid, so that's disappointing to hear.

I'm an "actual castlevania fan"; and I have enjoyed their work so far.

The franchise was completely dead, I'm very grateful they made LoS which I personally loved.

You shouldn't try to say that your opinion represents the 100% of the fandom.

Castlevania Lords of Shadow is so much better than GOW3 or Ascension. The narrative, gameplay, soundtrack, length and variety of CLoS are simply better than that found in the God of War games.

As far as the similarities between CLoS and GOW, well God of War didn't invent those things in the first place.

In any case, CLoS is very much like an updated Castlevania Lament of Innocence and that game came out like 2 years before God of War.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eex8ffJBzOE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN_h1tnnr8I

Well it does offer an alternate version of existing Castlevania lore, yet uses existing characters (Alucard)... I haven't played LoS 1 and the only Castlevania games I've played were the NES ones and SOTN, so I do think the parallel canon is unnecessary.