What type of Castlevania game would you like?

So, I just want to post this to see what all of you Castlevania fans like about castlevania, certain aspects of castlevania games (music, gameplay, 3d or 2d, etc.), and what kinda of castlevania would you make or like to see.

Now, I personally don't like the newer 3D castlevania games too much (fully rotational camera and what-not), just because I don't like the direction they've been taken in.

So, with that being said, what I would do is, take the side scrolling CV for example SoTN, and make the graphics completely high quality 3d while still keeping the SideScroll aspect (60fps smooth, flowing clothing-hair/high quality lighting/trees moving from wind/debris-dust-rocks/castle degredation/and the list goes on), and add background depth and maybe camera shifting techniques to explore different aspects of the castle while keeping it a somewhat traditional platformer.

I like a dark story, something with a lot of emotion and something serious being that Dracula is a vampire trying to destroy/enslave humans, and it can't be lame, and I know SotN is the go to CV game, but I did like the father/son/mother struggle with Alucard, and how Richter worked for the dark side for a bit and how he could die depending on your playthrough, I would make it more serious and darker. Something genuinely sinister, no dracula's named walter, and no pretty boy main character. This is a dark time and a serious matter, I want evil intimidating enemies, and a serious battle hardened main character who's supposed to have been training to fight this evil specifically (if you're a Belmont that is) and if not, I still would want a strong serious main character who's ready to take care of business.

Music for me, the best 2 games, SotN and my favorite of all time...the 1st Castlevania. I'd keep it in the same vein as these 2 being that the game does have a theme about it, these 2 games I would let inspire a new soundtrack, as well as making, once again, an even darker and even more menacing soundtrack.

I've always love this idea in any game so i would implement an extensive equipment system, the CV games have been pretty good on how much stuff you can equip, I would add rings for all fingers or just 4 excluding the thumb, and up to 2 or three necklaces. Of course all the rings and necklace items would have to be balanced as so not to overpower someone wearing 8 rings and 3 necklaces, but seriously to make it a little more realistic i think that should be an option. I also think that your entire appearance should be directly affected by what you have equipped.

So in a nutshell, -Revamped 3D/2D sidescrolling graphics with innovative camera trickery, -A Serious Dark and Sinister Story w/good emotional content and a strong cast of characters, Good ol' CV Music with new compostions, and -An updated Asthetically/Involving equipment system, just to name a few.

These are just a few things, I could list a lot, and put a lot of detail, but this just a quick run down and a good little CV topic for everyone to talk about things they like or would like in a Castlevania game. Feel free to post as much or as little detail as you would like.

I`m pretty close to you... I want a 2D sidescrolling game with 3D enviroment looking type... the so call 2.5D, with a beautifull gothic story and a overwhelming story that hopefully would imvolve the battle of 1999.. and where that heck is alucard... and so on.

that aside, I really want CV to suceed completely with 3D... :) 

I agree with what everyone is saying and don't really have anything different to say. :)

I would probably side with what Gregg and chang said the most though, we need the unique/effect weapons to come back and a really in depth and emotional story line. I think we will get all of this with LoS, however, I would love to see something like this implemented into a 2/2.5D Castlevania. I have always and will always be partial to the 2D versions, they hold a special place in my heart and I have always loved them with a passion. We'll see what happens with LoS though..... :D

Well I'd like a 2d/2.5d side scrolling Castlevania game.

With....

All of your equipment gets shown on your character.....so if you put on a hat or shoes..it shows it......just like how the weapons change if you change weapons. Multiple castles/or one giant castle, have like a dawn of sorrow-like castle map, but make that just the first floor of the castle, have there be 3-5 floors that big. It would make the level up system more used, so you can beat the game at level 80-99, instead of 35-50(even though some grind that high for the hell of it)

Better platforming elements. like on portrait of ruin for example..the spinning wheels of fire, the swinging blades, the platforms that spin out from under you. Instead of having us just jump up some castle ledges, and beat up monsters......throw in a bunch of things like that, throw in an acid pit here and there.

And I think you should get three main characters to choose from at the beginning of the game, which would throw more replayability into the game(instead of unlocking a less-good extra mode)

besides what has been mentioned(2.5D), i would like an rpg kind of thing. think Demon's Soul but you can party with a small number of friends to go dungeon crawling...

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*sorry, i was drooling

Give me a 2D xbox CV fully rendered in 3D starring Julius Belmont and ending with the destruction of Dracula. Explain why Julius was able to destroy Dracula necessitating reincarnation instead of just sending him back to sleep for another century. Also use it to tie together AoS, DoS and another game starring Soma Cruz as a "Graham" style recurring character that, of course, ends up being the lord of Darkness.El_Zo1212o

yeap... as I said above.. 

I AGREE!!!

what happen in THE BATTLE!!!! :evil: I wonder if IGA is ever going to answer that question for us :( ... 

I want an RPG! all of your guys an gals ideas are cool...but i want an rpg/3d game.

imagine something like demons soul where you are a lone protagonist but you can actually make a 4-person party to go on adventures. so you will have creepy villages, brooding swamps, freakish forests, dark subterranean water caverns, and of course...the castle of dracula itself all in 3d to explore.

you make your character and the story starts with you in a village...where you get the low down on everything an then start going on your adventure. you see a few friends online you shoot them invites and form a small party(an doing this can make enemies more difficult to keep the challenge up). you can go recover relics, beat up zombies & skeletons, run away from giant suits of armor as you try to figure out how to destroy them.

 it would be awesome for me.(i dont want a mmorpg...too many people running around the realm of catlevania at once wouldnt be cool)

I want an RPG! all of your guys an gals ideas are cool...but i want an rpg/3d game.

imagine something like demons soul where you are a lone protagonist but you can actually make a 4-person party to go on adventures. so you will have creepy villages, brooding swamps, freakish forests, dark subterranean water caverns, and of course...the castle of dracula itself all in 3d to explore.

you make your character and the story starts with you in a village...where you get the low down on everything an then start going on your adventure. you see a few friends online you shoot them invites and form a small party(an doing this can make enemies more difficult to keep the challenge up). you can go recover relics, beat up zombies & skeletons, run away from giant suits of armor as you try to figure out how to destroy them.

 it would be awesome for me.(i dont want a mmorpg...too many people running around the realm of catlevania at once wouldnt be cool)

HushRong

I wonder what a strategy-RPG Castlevania would be like.-Katsuri-

kinda of awesome i think!

nothing like being Commander Belmont, putting tormented peasants against draculas hordes of zombies...and A LOT of monsters!

units could be

Belmont- Commander of Good            Dracula- Commander of Bad

Peasents                                          Skeletons

Soldiers                                            Zombies

Knights                                             Armor

Vampire Hunters                                Vampires

Old-school siege weapons                   Big-#SS Monster

Man, I really like all of the ideas here and think they would make really great games for the CV series. They could be utilized to better tie the canon story together, basically fill in some gaps and answer some questions we have all been having for a long time. :D

@Serbine: Don't get Hush started on strategy-rpg's.... :lol: Really, he would be the one that could actually design the idea behind it being an avid WH40K player. :)

With Michiru Yamane gone from Konami i don't expect anymore epic music but, i wish for another 2D scroller, maybe Julius story before the event of Aria of sorrow would be great.archvile_78

I still pray every night to the videogame gods so that game gets made :lol:

Maybe Konami will crawl our threads to see some of these ideas. I may try to get an e-mail in to them and link to this thread so they can see what the fans are wanting.

Also, Yamane said she would work with Konami again even though she went solo. It's up to Konami to take the offer and I really hope they do at some point.

Maybe Konami will crawl our threads to see some of these ideas. I may try to get an e-mail in to them and link to this thread so they can see what the fans are wanting.

Also, Yamane said she would work with Konami again even though she went solo. It's up to Konami to take the offer and I really hope they do at some point.

e1shw

They'd be silly to refuse.

e1shw: It wouldn't hurt to try these are definitely great ideas, that Konami could give to expand the series a bit to gain more fans.

Arch: Agree what they have to lose with these ideas, atleast noone say to make a Castlevania Kart Racing game :lol:.