Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 Hype thread!

voted 7.0 but im so hyped for C: LOS after listening to this again:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh1qqLbuBww

too bad Castlevania soundtrack wont be able to reach this level of epicness again when 90s music ruled the world.

AAA for me.

So if you had played the other castlevania games you'd know that the saga was already at a dead end...

Here's a quick synopsis on the latest games of the saga so that you realize how dumb they were getting:

Dracula was finally destroyed in 1999, permanently, but a prophecy comes up that when its like 2026 dracula will be reincarnated in another person, so some dude in japan gets asked out to a temple by his girl and he goes there and the temple suddenly becomes dracula's castle, the guy travels around the castle and finds the guy who is supposed to be the reincarnated dracula because he was born the same day on which dracula was destroyed (So his soul was transferred to him). Then at the end we find out that: surprise! the guy wasn't dracula, it was you all the time, though you manage to repel the impulse to become dracula with the power of love, then you go to destroy the living entity that controls the castle.

then some years later, some sect kidnaps your girl to force you into becoming the new lord dracula.

yeah, thats how it went.

yup, couldn't put it better myself.

The gods of war man sucks. He is just a fantasy version of a angry xboxlive gamers on call of duty kid given muscles and power to appeal them. Gabriel has a beautiful Scottish voice and is pure of hart. He is dammed for his goodness. Kratos is just a big prick.

He is no longer gabriel though.

Thus "he is dammed".

PC GAMERS TO GET SURPRISE

Oh boy.

Hope its MoF HD

A team fortress 2 goth hat. With extra sadness.

"Completely dead"

I lol'd. Because Dawn of Sorrow and Order of Ecclesia weren't huge successes on the DS.

Konami wanted the "Call of Duty" audience for Castlevania to make it more relevant in the mainstream, so they got MercSteam to make a God of War clone with the CV namesake on it.

I played Lament of Innocence. I loved Lament of Innocence (not as much as Curse of Darkness). I tried about 5 times to get into Lords of Shadow but got stopped dead in my tracks by the excessively boring gameplay and "safe" design choices (in addition to the very generic art design and musical arrangements). God of War popularized the gameplay type that LoS takes full advantage of. Kill.Switch "invented" the cover gameplay that made Gears of War a smashing success... but we rarely see people talk about Kill.Switch.

There was nothing in LoS that screamed "CASTLEVANIA!" at me. It was just another hack-n-slash action game that didn't do anything badly, but didn't do anything greatly either. I wanted to love the game, and still try to get into it every once in a while, but I just can't seem to find the patience to put up with the generic nature and the lack of anything Castlevania about it.

Even Ninja Theory's DmC: Devil May Cry reboot had a ton of stuff in it that paid homage to the originals with their own unique spin on them. It was different (and much easier), but it wasn't generic and incredibly run of the mill.

The franchise was completely dead, are you going to deny that?.

DoS (I'd preffer PoR btw) is a game from 2006, OoE is from 2008. There were no mainstreams castlevanias created after that, OoE sold poorly, there was even a Castlevania title in the making before LoS that got cancelled. Konami was ready to scrap the franchise.

Also I could never get into OoE, now that didn't felt like a Castlevania game to me.

My friends, I don't agree. Lords Of Shadow has many, many puzzles. Almost as many puzzles as large battles. For this day and age, it is a fairly intelligent game. Especially for the action genre. The voice acting and tone is Shakespearean much like the Legacy Of Kain titles. It's aiming for a more mature and patient audience than Call of And Duty and God Of war. This is most likely why many of the young people on system wars show apathy. They aren't use to this level of sophistication from the genre.

Can't say that I'm excited about this game. I thought that the first Lords of Shadow was a piece of shit so I don't plan on playing the sequel.

Hopefully after this game comes out Konami will return to the real Castlevania timeline and we can forget this lords of shit timeline.

Yeah well thats like, your opinion.

The first lords wasn't very good at all. Even from an objective viewpoint the pacing was all over the place.

How do you even make an objective point of view about how a game is?

So what are you saying? That those who liked LoS are crazy fools or something like that?

First one was ok but this one seem improved, more like darksider without loot. I just wish was ps4.

I loved the first LOS but robots and guns being in the second one killed any hype I had for the game.

Demo out now in Steam!

I loved the first one, can't wait to get my hands on this game!

Game looks fun and no more fixed camera!

Pre-orders are out on Steam right now alongwith demo http://store.steampowered.com/app/239250/

I am going to download demo and see how it is

@foxhound_fox:

Good for you. I really liked Lament of Innocence, but Lords of Shadow is so much better. The story it tells is awesome, the combat is strategic and rewarding, the soundtrack is one of the best I've ever heard in a game, the graphics and art direction are some of the best around (how you can call these things "generic" is beyond me), the game is long and varied, and the final boss battles result in one of the most epic endings in any game.

@Sandulf29

Played the demo several times yesterday on my PC and it looks and pays amazingly well. It doesn't seem to be much more demanding than the first CLoS, except in cutscenes. I think it has some of the best graphics, if not the best graphics, of the generation.

Demo was great and looked great with VERY fluid combat.

@Sandulf29:

You can also pre-order at greenmangaming, along with an extra 20% off if you use the following voucher:

3MCRLE-CG7AF1-G7T08U

Making the game very cheap to pre-order. Wish I could do it myself, but unfortunately the pre-order is only for the NA :(

I'll give it "AA". I still haven't played the first game. I've had several chances to buy it, but just didn't.

Yeah I saw that on Enhanced Steam it was $40.49 after applying yogscast promo code but doesn't have pre-order button yet. Soon I guess. Even Amazon hasn't listed yet

Don't get worked over Fanboys. Fanboys never have a concrete thought process.

You mean it doesn't have a pre-order button on greenmangaming ?

That's because you're viewing it outside North America, same here... Wished I could apply the yougscast voucher too :P

I asked them on Twitter what was up and they had this to say:

'Unfortunately we only have it available for North America, mate'

'Unfortunately we won't be getting it for anywhere other than North America for the foreseeable future, sorry bud'

And you played Lament of Innocence? The Castlevania game that has arguably Michiru Yamane's best work hands down from the entire series by a country mile? Excuse me, but what?

Sure, Lords of Shadow's soundtrack is good in the sense it's a very generic, well-produced orchestral soundtrack that's in pretty much every fantasy game these days... but to put it over other Castlevanias, especially that of LoI and SOTN?

I... I... don't even know what to say.

I never said the game wasn't good. In fact, it's pretty damn good and very well-made... but it isn't "Castlevania". Not in the slightest sense of the word. Even with Patrick Stewart's extremely sexually moving narrations that always stir something inside me... it still isn't Castlevania to me.

And while I haven't been a CV fan for long, I've invested probably a good 1000+ hours into Symphony of the Night and Curse of Darkness over the past few years.

Weird, I have been temp banned before by using the "R" word.

Loved the first one, my GOTY for 2010, yup above God Of War 3 and Im a huge fan for the GOW series, in fact GOW series is on my top 5 series of all time and I enjoyed LOS more than GOW3 that year.

Ofcourse Im more of a Castlevania fanboy so thats why I liked it more but honestly, it was awesome on it's own merits, the story, the voice acting, the epic adventure, the huge bosses ( which screams Castlevania since it had gigantic bosses before GOW was even born ) and dat fantastic ending.

For me at the least it's the best 3D Castlevania in the series, the biggest factor that was missing was Yamane, the OST was below average compared to what Michiru Yamane is capable of producing, she's the best composer in the gaming industry imho.

Can't wait for LOS2.

@foxhound_fox:

@foxhound_fox said:

@kalipekona said:

@foxhound_fox:

the soundtrack is one of the best I've ever heard in a game

And you played Lament of Innocence? The Castlevania game that has arguably Michiru Yamane's best work hands down from the entire series by a country mile? Excuse me, but what?

Sure, Lords of Shadow's soundtrack is good in the sense it's a very generic, well-produced orchestral soundtrack that's in pretty much every fantasy game these days... but to put it over other Castlevanias, especially that of LoI and SOTN?

I... I... don't even know what to say.

I never said the game wasn't good. In fact, it's pretty damn good and very well-made... but it isn't "Castlevania". Not in the slightest sense of the word. Even with Patrick Stewart's extremely sexually moving narrations that always stir something inside me... it still isn't Castlevania to me.

And while I haven't been a CV fan for long, I've invested probably a good 1000+ hours into Symphony of the Night and Curse of Darkness over the past few years.

Yes, I have. Great stuff. But I still think Oscar Araujo's score is superior.

I'll forgive your blasphemy, though, since you have that cool Nathan Fillion/Malcolm Reynolds avatar. I'm a die-hard Browncoat.

I just played the demo. The camera pans out way too far, the graphics are shitty, the sound and combat are great; but it doesn't give me near the feeling of epicness I've experienced when I played LOS1.

Seems meh.

On another note, COD will save gaming this year.