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Kojima to Jaffe: "I want the God of War team to make Castlevania"
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The Take Out Bandit
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I remember first playing DMC and thinking, "So this is what happens when you use the RE engine in an action game." :/
I would hope a new, because the existing one already does, 3D Castlevania would not have a shit fixed camera like the DMC series.
Give the GoW team a crack at it. They can't do any worse than Konami has thus far.
Bluemercury
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Yeah i agree with the DMC comment, i actually thought that this is Castlevania in 3D, i havent played DMC3 though.........regarding GOW comment by kojima, as long as the art department isnt handled by the same team of GOW seems ok by me.....
blindrocket
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He said almost the same thing on his blog, minus the Catlevania part. I think he mentioned it as "something he can't mention yet" or something that effect. So I guess now he can mention it. 
Ninja Scooter
Member
IGA ain't gonna do shit but sulk and listen to the Cure. Fuck that hack.
krypt0nian
Banned
BirdySky said:
Took the "insider" bait. :lol
TheJollyCorner
Member
Goreomedy said:
just like Kojima saying he wanted to team up with Mikami and make a more expansive Resident Evil Online?
Next week Kojima will say he wants to do a Final Fantasy, then a Surfing H30-2... fucking drunkard!
Warm Machine
Member
Why would this guy want to slum with Castlevania after creating a new franchise?
Necroscope
Member
Kojima is the God. He knows his shit and it is very respectful that he tells Jaffee his game kick ass.
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The entire time I played God of War, the only thing I thought could have made the game even better was if Kratos's blades had been controlled with the right analog stick instead of the square and triangle buttons.
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Really? Only action game I've played with analogue attacks is Jedi Knight, and something like that would seem too slow and awkward for God of War. Wouldn't mind analogue related stuff though, like latching on to guys and rotating around them or swinging them around.
The entire time I played God of War, the only thing I thought could have made the game even better was if Kratos's blades had been controlled with the right analog stick instead of the square and triangle buttons.
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Really? Only action game I've played with analogue attacks is Jedi Knight, and something like that would seem too slow and awkward for God of War. Wouldn't mind analogue related stuff though, like latching on to guys and rotating around them or swinging them around.
-Cue Damage control \/I realised he was not an insider, considering how high up at Konami I am.(-Hideo-)
I was merely curious as to what madness MGS fans have been coming up with now.
Time travel, gay action stars, phoenix from the flames chicks called Mryall...
I'm off to play my private build of MGS4, have to write down some suggestions for Kojima-San. Guy depends on me. I'm his rock.
Tellaerin said:Yeah, better leave the 3D incarnations of the series in Iga's hands. Because, you know, Lament of Innocence and Nanobreaker looked and played so much better than God of War. Man, that Iga... he's a regular master of the 3D action genre.
Don't remind me. -_-
Doesn't mean I want Jaffe heading it up, however.
blindrocket
Member
I started playing God of War today for the first time, HOLY SHIT it's awesome. The graphics are absolutely wonderful too, and the Sound FX and music ROCKS.
I haven't played any 3-D Castlevania games, and the last two non-remake Castlevania games I played are Castlevania IV and Aria of Sorrow. Both when they came out, so I obviously missed a lot of Castlevania games.
That said, I really like Aria of Sorrow (and Castlevania III and IV) and am really looking forward to Dawn of Sorrow. I still think Super Metroid is the best Metroid and one of the best games of all time, so that may be why I liked Aria of Sorrow so much (*people keep referring to it as Metroidvania* ...). If IGA gets dishonored/insulted from this slap (deserved or not) at Konami, I really hopes he decides to join the Intelligent Systems team at Nintendo. I think they'd be a really good fit, based on the games I've played of both.
I'd be fine if he stayed at Konami and continued to make some great games, too. I just don't want his obvious talent (even if it is just in 2-D games) to not be appreciated at Konami due to a Kojima comment.
That said, I really like Aria of Sorrow (and Castlevania III and IV) and am really looking forward to Dawn of Sorrow. I still think Super Metroid is the best Metroid and one of the best games of all time, so that may be why I liked Aria of Sorrow so much (*people keep referring to it as Metroidvania* ...). If IGA gets dishonored/insulted from this slap (deserved or not) at Konami, I really hopes he decides to join the Intelligent Systems team at Nintendo. I think they'd be a really good fit, based on the games I've played of both.
I'd be fine if he stayed at Konami and continued to make some great games, too. I just don't want his obvious talent (even if it is just in 2-D games) to not be appreciated at Konami due to a Kojima comment.
disabledHeliocentric
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In 3d my favorite Castlevania titles are:
God of War, Devil May Cry 3, Ninja Gaiden, and Onimusha 3.
Lament of Innocense isn't much of a Castlevania, although technically among those listed it's the only true Castlevania; still, the others listed carry on the spirit of the 2d Castlevania's gameplay into 3d, and are much better.
God of War, Devil May Cry 3, Ninja Gaiden, and Onimusha 3.
Lament of Innocense isn't much of a Castlevania, although technically among those listed it's the only true Castlevania; still, the others listed carry on the spirit of the 2d Castlevania's gameplay into 3d, and are much better.
MidgarBlowedUp
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Grizzlyjin said:*claps*
We really don't need Iga's team to take the series into the next generation...they are still learning the basics of 3D gaming design. :lol
Never forget, never forget
Move Iga and his crew over to the handheld division. Let them work on PSP and DS games, but they missed the boat on learning how to make a solid 3D action title. People can deny it all they want, but Capcom made the definitive 3D Castlevania game about four years ago...
HAHA, I just bought that game from GameFly for $10.00
$10.00 and 10 minutes of my life wasted.
MidgarBlowedUp
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Why don't they just make a slide-scrolling castelvania with 3D graphics?
Wouldn't that solve everyone's problem?
Wouldn't that solve everyone's problem?
MidgarBlowedUp said:
I posted that idea years ago here...forgot what the response was like. But basically, if you see a hallway or doorway in the bg, you can push "up" to change the whole view to be perpendicular to what it was, and then go side scrolling down that hallway. So you'd have a huge 3D Castle (and of course you'd need a 3D map) to play in.
BirdySky said:
I realised he was not an insider, considering how high up at Konami I am.(-Hideo-)
I was merely curious as to what madness MGS fans have been coming up with now.
Time travel, gay action stars, phoenix from the flames chicks called Mryall...
I'm off to play my private build of MGS4, have to write down some suggestions for Kojima-San. Guy depends on me. I'm his rock.
Actually it was a staffing rumor as to who has replaced Scott Dolph. No one has been able to confirm or deny it so far, but the prevailing sentiment is that it was a fake.
Lemurnator
Banned
I was unaware Kojima was behind Castlevania.
SolidSnakex
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If they're going from IGA to Jaffe for a 3D CV that'd be an upgrade. So why downgrade by going from Yamane to Sakuraba?
Grizzlyjin
Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
Joeholley said:
True, Rygar did many many things right in that respect. Also some of the Jacque sections in Onimusha 3 would work well in a 3D Castlevania.
Jaffe, from all I've ever heard anyways, is a long time gamer, I'm sure Castlevania was a personal favorite series of his what with them being so awesome up until the N64 incarnations. I don't know, restoring glory to a former great franchise as well as getting a fat paycheck AND getting to work with Hideo Kojima, kinda sounds like a dream job wouldn't you say?
Do you just not even like action games? Seriously, Rygar and GoW are great action games (great may be a little strong for Rygar, but its a very good game at least). LoI is pretty good in its own right.
It'd solve the hardcore fans gripes, sure, but Konami probably wants the game to actually sell well, not just a few 100K that recoup costs.
I'd say that Kojima can probably do most anything he wants with a Konami IP right about now.
Mayor McCheese
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I broke out Castlevania: HoD for the GBA and played the shit out of it this weekend on my DS. After a couple of hours I realized that it was just Metroid with a whip. There are worse things to be, but it chipped away a couple of levels of awesomeness for me...
Mr_Furious
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This is surreal. I've voiced ever since GoW released that that game showed how Castlevania should've turned out when it transitioned to 3D.