Castlevania: Lords of Shadow thread

Vampyr · 08-15-2010, 11:44 AM

This is my most anticipated game this year, and has been since it was shown at E3 2009. Reboot of the series with a new storyline (still a Belmont character in the lead though), and Kojima has been involved in the development.

Release date is set for October 19th, 2010.

Angrist · 08-15-2010, 04:04 PM

Cheesy voice-over by Patrick Stewart.

Some parts look cool, but the hack&slashing looks boring.

Jason1 · 08-15-2010, 04:35 PM

Yea im pretty pumped about this one. I have very high hopes

Vampyr · 08-16-2010, 08:26 PM

Limited Edition shows up on Amazon for a brief time:

http://www.giantbomb.com/news/castlevania-lords-of-shadow-bundle-pops-up-on-amazon/2421/

TheSlyMoogle · 08-18-2010, 09:59 AM

Meh looks like Castlevania: Lord of Quicktime Events.

Vampyr · 09-14-2010, 03:18 PM

Amazon is offering the same pre-order deal on this that they did on Reach: pre-order and you get a $20 coupon towards a video game related purchase.

So I'm going to use my Reach coupon towards this, then my Lords of Shadow coupon towards the new 360 controller. win-win-win

Vampyr · 09-17-2010, 11:51 AM

Very long trailer, all in game footage.

This game is looking insanely good.

Angrist · 09-17-2010, 01:56 PM

So basically Hideo Kojima wanted to do medieval once and he decided to use the Castlevania name?
Don't get me wrong, it looks good. But more like MGS with monsters.

Vampyr · 09-17-2010, 02:52 PM

How is this remotely like Metal Gear Solid?

Also Kojima didn't make this game, he was an adviser.

Angrist · 09-17-2010, 03:28 PM

All blabla and not much gameplay. If the trailer is anything to judge by.

BreakABone · 09-28-2010, 12:42 PM

Here;s an extended look at the game.

Angrist · 09-28-2010, 05:25 PM

That actually looks pretty good.

Although they stole half of the puzzles from Zelda.

And the platforming from Prince of Persia. That should actually be a good combo!

Edit: Only 20 hours long?

Ginkasa · 09-29-2010, 03:20 AM

What's wrong with 20 hours of gameplay? Sounds like plenty to me.

Angrist · 09-29-2010, 04:09 AM

Yeah apparently it is. EuroGamer says it might even be too long (because they reuse a lot of concepts just to fill the time).
I'm just always comparing it to the Zelda standard of 40+ hours.

But when I think of it, I've played lots of good games that are shorter.

Vampyr · 09-29-2010, 09:53 AM

Well crap.

At some point the release date got changed from what I thought it was (October 19th) to October 5th.

I only pre-ordered it last night, and missed the $20 special offer from Amazon.

*bangs head on desk*

I'm not sure if I want to watch that game play video or not...I don't want to spoil much more than I already know about the game.