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Millennium on 25 July 2009

Not a chance. There's a reason the 3-D Castlevanias have always flopped even as the 2-D ones have continued to flourish, and it's not about the graphics. You'd think Konami would have learned its lesson by now.



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disolitude on 25 July 2009
Millennium said:
Not a chance. There's a reason the 3-D Castlevanias have always flopped even as the 2-D ones have continued to flourish, and it's not about the graphics. You'd think Konami would have learned its lesson by now.

Its pretty hillarious when you think of it...

3D castlevanias have sucked becuase they didn't capture that essential gameplay that 2D ones have no problem recreting. Yet what does Konami do for the next installment? Hire lots of brand name actors and Hideo Kojima + bad 3rd party dev studio...lol

For christs sake, if the game sucks they need to sell that franchise to another company cause they have no clue what they are doing. SOTN has some of the most cheesy and badly written voice acting ever...yet the game is always brought up as one of the best games ever made. Why do they think that gamers would care if Patrick Stewart is doing the voice in the cutscenes?



Riachu on 25 July 2009
disolitude said:
Millennium said:
Not a chance. There's a reason the 3-D Castlevanias have always flopped even as the 2-D ones have continued to flourish, and it's not about the graphics. You'd think Konami would have learned its lesson by now.

Its pretty hillarious when you think of it...

3D castlevanias have sucked becuase they didn't capture that essential gameplay that 2D ones have no problem recreting. Yet what does Konami do for the next installment? Hire lots of brand name actors and Hideo Kojima + bad 3rd party dev studio...lol

For christs sake, if the game sucks they need to sell that franchise to another company cause they have no clue what they are doing. SOTN has some of the most cheesy and badly written voice acting ever...yet the game is always brought up as one of the best games ever made. Why do they think that gamers would care if Patrick Stewart is doing the voice in the cutscenes?

Probably because he is not some kid they picked up on the streets.  SOTN's voice acting was the so bad its good variety.  But having genueinly good VA is even better.



 

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TheTruthHurts! on 25 July 2009

Patrick Stewart voice acting = awesomesauce, regardless.



samus aran rules on 25 July 2009

I just wish that Konami could do a really great 2d console "Metroidvania" game which is where we all know the franchise shines. Instead they insist on making 3d ones which flop. Sigh



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waron on 25 July 2009

it all depends on how their upcoming triple-A project Walk It Out work out - but again this triple-A stands for Anal so i dunno what kind of triple-A Castlevania will use.



sguy78 on 25 July 2009
disolitude said:
Millennium said:
Not a chance. There's a reason the 3-D Castlevanias have always flopped even as the 2-D ones have continued to flourish, and it's not about the graphics. You'd think Konami would have learned its lesson by now.

Its pretty hillarious when you think of it...

3D castlevanias have sucked becuase they didn't capture that essential gameplay that 2D ones have no problem recreting. Yet what does Konami do for the next installment? Hire lots of brand name actors and Hideo Kojima + bad 3rd party dev studio...lol

For christs sake, if the game sucks they need to sell that franchise to another company cause they have no clue what they are doing. SOTN has some of the most cheesy and badly written voice acting ever...yet the game is always brought up as one of the best games ever made. Why do they think that gamers would care if Patrick Stewart is doing the voice in the cutscenes?

I agree. I couldn't care less if a big name actor was voicing scenes in a game. The game needs to be good.



hunter_alien on 25 July 2009

I do hope that they will try a DMC/NG/GoW aproach to the genre... thats the only way they can ressurrect that IP to ecome mainstream again, especially seeing that 3D beate'em-ups became lately pretty popular :D



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PullusPardus on 25 July 2009

im excited about Kojima being with the game, it looks awesome.
and also i didn't play a 3D castlevania that i liked, but im sure this one is win.



Riachu on 25 July 2009
hunter_alien said:
I do hope that they will try a DMC/NG/GoW aproach to the genre... thats the only way they can ressurrect that IP to ecome mainstream again, especially seeing that 3D beate'em-ups became lately pretty popular :D

If Lord of Shadows comes out really good, I can see the game selling really well.



 

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