New Castlevania Lords of Turd 2 trailer (official thread of stink)

[Raban]

when auterism goes wrong

[SantaC]

apparently they dont teach scale and proportions in spain.

[Tasty]

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apparently they dont teach scale and proportions in spain.

I don't understand this. Was Dracula shrunk? was that a modern building built for giants?

[Trent Dole]

the idiot length of the first game and the dialogue reeked of an auteur-type personality driving things, and i don't think they really hid the fact that kojima didn't do much other than vouch for them and get iga japan-fired once the first game started to get some positive buzz. 

God, I really fucking hate Kojima. Even more now.

[FatalT]

1:30 - 2:02

I shit myself at this part of the game. I haven't played it since.

[Trent Dole]

1:30 - 2:02

I shit myself at this part of the game. I haven't played it since.

Ahahaha

Life is beautiful in Castlespania is it?

[StealthFan]

Sent this shit back to Gamefly within an hour of play. Fuck.

[Rahxephon91]

I'll probably pick this up when it's discounted. Already have too much to play. It just looks like it's more LoS which is fine.

[Steve Contra]

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apparently they dont teach scale and proportions in spain.

I don't understand this. Was Dracula shrunk? was that a modern building built for giants?

I worked a project where something like this happened.  One of the artists created a scale to base the props and some background off of without consulting the people making the playable models

[demi]

These pics make me want to play it more, actually. Still have it on GameFly.

[SantaC]

it was pretty easy to see a lot of the shit behind it all.  the idiot length of the first game and the dialogue reeked of an auteur-type personality driving things, and i don't think they really hid the fact that kojima didn't do much other than vouch for them and get iga japan-fired once the first game started to get some positive buzz. 

i just hope whoever handles castlevania next, whenever that may be, does a better job of it.  mercurysteam's legacy with the franchise is basically one game that is at least arguably in the top tier of 3d castlevanias, one game that is the actual worst 2d castlevania since legends on the game boy, and one game that is the worst 3d castlevania ever made.  like iga or not, he was at least more consistent than that.

It was Kojima who canned iga?

[Rahxephon91]

Was IGA's proposed game this?

[Howard Alan Treesong]

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apparently they dont teach scale and proportions in spain.

I don't understand this. Was Dracula shrunk? was that a modern building built for giants?

I worked a project where something like this happened.  One of the artists created a scale to base the props and some background off of without consulting the people making the playable models

50% of game development is establishing and enforcing a consistent naming scheme for game assets.
The other 50% is actually talking to people on your team.

[SantaC]

I would say there's no way he didn't know what the result would be when he pushed for MS's pitch in favor of IGA's proposed game.

fuck kojima

[Positive Touch]

kojima sure knows how to pick some winners when it comes to outsourcing, eh?

[Tasty]

kojima sure knows how to pick some winners when it comes to outsourcing, eh?

He got Rising right.

[Positive Touch]

i meant to imply foreign outsourcing lol

[Tasty]

kojima sure knows how to pick some winners when it comes to outsourcing, eh?

He got Rising right.

on the second attempt, anyway

What was the first attempt?

[StealthFan]

kojima sure knows how to pick some winners when it comes to outsourcing, eh?

He got Rising right.

[Tasty]

Still gotta give him credit for handing it to Platinum before it released.

[cool breeze]

Kojimsa didn't beat around the bush when talking shit about old rising.  Or anything not kojimsa.  His public reasoning for still making metal gears is something like: no one else is good enough.  And then he laments that he's still making metal gear.

[SantaC]

lol the head of mercurysteam gave the most horrible interview

says he was never a fan of castlevania before, the games weren't his cup of tea, any reviewer who gave his game a 4/10 must be blind or stupid, mirror of fate was unfairly mistreated by the media, and pretty much saying any bad reviews were because of a lack of ability.  oh, and if you didn't like the story of lords of shadow 2, that's just because it was so deep that you didn't understand it.

what a fucking clownshoe.

oh, and apparently los2 is the most expensive spanish-produced game ever.  better hope those sales come in better than the reviews did, konami!

link to this interview? Oh great a developer who handles a classic franchise actually dont give a shit about the series. Heads should roll at Konami.

[Takao]

Even Sony is getting tired of Kojima:

[magus]

kojima sure knows how to pick some winners when it comes to outsourcing, eh?

He got Rising right.

on the second attempt, anyway

What was the first attempt?

his own bumblefuck team of junior woodchucks.  not technically outsourcing, but i'm pretty sure anything that isn't handled by kojima at konami is considered outsourcing these days.

i haven't played rising so i guess it will sound like i'm talking out of my ass but honestly i would have prefered a kojima game made by KCET rather than platinum doing another action game that sort of look like their other action games

[Positive Touch]

and thats why you're the bore's comic relief

[demi]

This game is absolute GARBAGE. It actually make sthe first game look competent.

What the fuck did I just play. Fuck my life.

There are QTEs that can instant kill you - but theres actually an option to disable QTEs period. Why the fuck?

Alucard is in this game at most 20 minutes.

Satan goes from this cool young dude in Lords of Shadow, to apparently lifting dumbells and downing shakes to become this beefcake roided fuckup.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3Vs9uqMcyc

Also, this part of the ending was super fucking hilarious.

http://youtu.be/A3Vs9uqMcyc?t=8m40s

Speaking of, feel free to watch the ending. Yup, that's the ending. No special scene, nothing. The DLC takes place before the game starts, so that's largely useless, since you already know about it in the ending.

Fuck this game. Turd turd turd.

[SantaC]

It's that bad huh.

Castlevania is dead.

[Trent Dole]

IGA's not-vania Kickstarter will be happening soon though so whatever.

[demi]

They got this stupid open world thing - not particularly open world, though, but it gives the illusion. Of course they make you pass over a bunch of collectables (I think there's some odd 200+ collectables in this game), because you unlock abilities.

Only at the very end of the game do they explain why Dracula loses all his powers in the first place. Of course everyone's cool with it, almost like they're telling you why you just played this game.

Dracula is bitch made as well, crying over his bitch made son, and his bitch made wife.

Most of the game has you being transported between the past (which isnt really the past? it's apparently inside his head) and the present, but while you're in the past I mean his head, you get attacked by his blood which has taken a mind of its own and turns stuff evil. Then you fight his blood in a boss fight.

The ending doesnt even make sense either, since the whole time Dracula is like OH I JUST WANT TO DIE FUCK MY LIFE SHIT

Then when you beat Satan, he crushes the Mirror of Fate and says like any other 6th grader - we'll see what fate has in store for us. Then he walks into his church in Castlevania City YES ITS CALLED CASTLEVANIA CITY AND PEOPLE MADE A CITY USING DRACULAS CASTLE but anyway he doesnt even die like the whole game was about. Alucard is just like, ok, uh, whatever. And sits there.

I didnt even bother to play after I beat it. Threw that bitch olympian style into the mailbox. See ya. Turd.

[SantaC]

Castlevania city lol.

[BobFromPikeCreek]

http://youtu.be/A3Vs9uqMcyc?t=8m40s

I could watch this all day.

[Raban]

YOU
*shakes head*
DON'T
*shakes head*
KNOW ME

[Tasty]

YOU
*shakes head*
DON'T
*shakes head*
KNOW ME

*shakes head*

...SATAN!

[demi]

The entire sequence was hilarious.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO


OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

ooooooooooooooooooo

[Himu]

Ahahahaha

Sounds like a good game to get high and watch all cut scenes on YouTube while eating popcorn.

[Takao]

YOU
*shakes head*
DON'T
*shakes head*
KNOW ME

[Rahxephon91]

Well I've just pirated this game on pc at this point and.......

Yeah I don't know what happened. The combat feels even shitter then the 1st one. Like really un-responsive crap.

[SantaC]

Well I've just pirated this game on pc at this point and.......

Yeah I don't know what happened. The combat feels even shitter then the 1st one. Like really un-responsive crap.

my guess is that with the first one, they went in with the mindset that they had something to prove.  they were taking the series away from a very beloved creator, and from japan too, and they probably weren't given a huge budget, so they were super-careful and tried their best to make the best game they could.  and it is mercurysteam's best game by far.

then they got good reviews and the game sold really well and konami probably gave them a bigger budget along with the keys to the franchise, so they went into this thinking "we got this shit" and bit off way the fuck more than they could chew.  at some point it was probably clear that was happening, which is likely where this "los2 is the end of the los series" talk started coming from, but it was obviously too late to turn things around with any reasonable expenditure of time/resources.

let's just hope castlevania goes to a competent developer this time.