Andriasang: Hideo Kojima has repeatedly said that he's not taking a direct development role on Metal Gear Solid Rising. But he doesn't seem to mind talking up the game every now and then.
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Edgar writes: "To celebrate the game's 10th anniversary, let's take a look at the gothic world of Castlevania: Lords of Shadow."
Although being linear, which I wish it wasn't, the first game was absolutely incredible. A mix of old school God of War meets Date's Inferno; I was highly impressed by this title. I heard the sequel was trash so I ever played it but I think LoS was a good example of how a 3D CV game could be.
I was very happy the game was Linear as I hate exploring. The first game was one of my all time favorites and the 2nd game was a total letdown with the lame hub system and stealth sections. Playing in current times sucked too. I wish they would make a remaster of part 1.
It is a great game, but just like DMC is not a Devil May Cry..this one was not a Castlevania :-)
Give Castlevania to Igarashi team, and they will nail it as they did with Lament of Innocence and Curse of Darkness.
If you decide to play a Castlevania game, make sure it's in 2D. Unfortunately, the series has never been able to make the jump from 2D to 3D successfully. Publisher Konami has tried. Six times in fact, but whether trying to build it in-house or with a third party developer, they never captured the essence of the series or make a good game for that matter. So just to be sure you know what to look out for, here are the six 3D Castlevania games that have been made.
I loved the hell out of lords of shadow, lords if shadow 2 had its moments but just didnt leave as much of an impact on me as the first did, still loved it though. They are both great games IMO, maybe not the best "Castlevania" games but great games in their own right.
Yeah that first game was legit good. Really wish they hadn't taken a step back for the second, this series really looked great in 3D.
According to one of the former devs of Mercury Steam the higher ups kept interfering with the sequel to the point where the game was nothing like what the dev team had envisioned for the sequel so we got the mess that was Lords of Shadows 2.
I enjoyed Lament of Innocence and Lords of Shadow. They were entertaining titles and I wouldn’t mind trying Lords of Shadow 2 on PS Now.
Just because a game isn’t GOTY worthy does not mean it’s not worth playing. You could do a lot worse than those exceptional titles.
I really liked lament of innocence and Lords of shadow! Havent tried the other 3d games. But ive played most of the 2d games!
I don't know why Castlevania: Lament of Innocence gets a bad rap. It was one of the best in the series at that time and really was a compliment to the Devil May Cry 3rd person style of action that was getting popular at that time.
I rented it on a fluke and was seriously surprised on how good it was. So much so I went out and bought a used copy of Curse of Darkness and instantly returned that trash.
The problem with Nintendo 64 games is they all tried to mimic the Mario/Zelda 64 style of gameplay and how could they not with that whacky ass N64 controller. Almost every game outside of Nintendo's own felt horrible and incomplete.
Hamamura first asked Kojima to clarify his role on Rising. "I'm not making it," said Kojima. "As executive producer, I'm leaving it up to the youngsters. Although, even though I call them youngsters, they're of good age."
Hamamura pointed out to Kojima that Rising will be telling the story of how Raiden became the cyborg of Metal Gear Solid 4. "That's what they're saying," said Kojima, "but I'm of the stance, 'do as you please.'"
There you go folks, for those that still say Kojima is directly involve with the game, he isn't. If he isn't working on either MGS Rising or Castlevannia: Lords of Shadow, then he must be working on something. Maybe those rumors that he's announcing a major PS3 Exclusive at TGS might have some truth to it.
Interesting.A creative mind is never idle.....
Just need a little more rumors with hidden truths....
Or truths masquerading as rumor...
C'mon Kojima... o_O
Lol at kids running up for watermelon. So the young'ns weren't too happy to end their serious trailer with a bit of Kojima humor.
I thought Kojima made it pretty clear who was driving the ship at E3 anyway. He basically said "what's up?" and bounced. I suppose MS wanted him there to sort of vindicate the game in the eyes of fans.
On another note, anyone have any idea why MS has Kojima (attempt to) speak English at their press conferences while Sony lets him use a translator? I get that obviously that MS is an American company and Sony is a Japanese company, but jeez, I love the guy but its painful to listen to him use his broken English (it also led to some "engrish" jokes being made at his expense by morons on the internet). You'd think MS would just let him speak Japanese and let the translator do his job.
On that same note,I found it rather obvious as to why.Obvious yet lacking of etiquette or any kind of understanding save this;
We have him speaking(though awkward) english as well.Yes,it is that tight. :( Lame.
I am still going to get rising since it looks fun, but it is clearly not a proper mgs game, but rather a spin off.