Last time I checked Arkham City/Asyum sold 10million copies combined and Darksiders 1 did 1.5M.games of this genre don't sell enough to warrant the investment. expect something linear and cinematic and heavy on action. i don't mean to be a cynic, but big budget non-linear adventure games are toast, unless i'm making some major mental omissions.
Last time I checked Arkham City/Asyum sold 10million copies combined and Darksiders 1 did 1.5M.
THQ spent 75 MILLIONS on Darksiders 2 which was too much. A reasonable 15-25million should get the job done with this game (For reference: Castlevania LoS=approx 14M, Gears of War 1=15M, Arkham Asylum=Relatively low budget as sales target was 700k if I'm not wrong)And Darksiders 2 was the death knell for THQ. There is no way Square-Enix is spending 20-25 million on a LOK game when Defiance pretty much flopped.
Hmm, I never really knew anything about this series. I just kinda new it existed, didn't know it was actually popular or considered to have an amazing story. Do the games still hold up? Still worth playing on PC? The world needs more Zelda-ish games (which I've heard these are, at least somewhat).
And Darksiders 2 was the death knell for THQ. There is no way Square-Enix is spending 20-25 million on a LOK game when Defiance pretty much flopped.
From a business perspective there is some money to be made, due largely to vampires being back in vogue and the fans of LOK who are waiting for a next installment, but it would have to be a 5-10 million dollar adventure game or a 15 million dollar linear action game that scraps the gameplay of the predecessors and just draws in action fans interested in the vampire angle.
Were I Square-enix, I would just remake Blood Omen 1 in 3D with the same top down perspective and some gameplay enhancements and then sell it as a downloadable title on PSN/XLA/Steam. That's a 1M project and a game that most LOK fans would buy.
You're welcome Square-Enix.
Hmmm Blood Omen 1 is really playable, it's a traditional RPG with gothic tones. Yet to be honest getting the original working is a haze so I recommend the PSX version (Emulated or on a Vita/PS3). I think this is not a good entry point to the series.
Soul Reaver combat has aged, but it's still playable. It's a good metroidvania/zelda esque game, especially for its time; you'll know if you like the story in the first 30 minutes. If you do so, then you'll keep playing. The game is also the best open world in the PSX and the PC version has good mods that makes it look pretty good. Vanilla version is still ok if you like old school graphics.
Soul Reaver 2 is playable too, but at this point you should be too engrossed in the story to let that bother you. Has the best dialogue in a videogame, probably. Not as metdoirvaniaish, but still ZeldaEsque.
Blood Omen 2 is unplayable. Don't get near to it. Read the wiki or something.
Defiance as aged a bit as it was too combat focused. Yet it's solid if you like playing retro games. This acts as closure so I'm sure f you got his far you'll like to know what happens. Powerful stuff.
So, what can I say... play this series NOW
Blood Omen 2 isn't even considered canon for the series. I don't think it is anyway.
Actually, it is canon. (Spoilers for Soul Reaver 2 and Defiance)When Kain saved Raziel from being absorbed into the Reaver, it changed the course of future events (the time after Blood Omen). Since Kain lived through that time already, he gained new memories of that new timeline retroactively. Blood Omen 2 is that new timeline, which was made possible by the latter part of Defiance when Raziel revives Janos using Kain's heart, allowing the Hylden Lord to possess him, and the events of Blood Omen 2 follow from there.
Bottom line, Amy Hennig and company are really really good at retcons.
Where's that storyboard from?
You will want to protect Kain, he is a poor vulnerable Vampire with boob physics.
Now you are free to reclaim your TRUE destiny Raziel! If you're willing to pay the price of 4.99$
Stop encouraging him for regurgitating that lame "protect her" meme. It unfunny enough in Tomb Raider threads.
My lore is a bit rusty, but isn't Hash'ak'gik really just a Hylden or was he some other entity? Because I recall the whole thing of demons just being Hylden who were deformed after being in that alternate dimension (Hell?) for so long. Either way, I wanted Hash'ak'gik to be something more than just a deformed humanoid or vampire. I really did not like the direction they went with Blood Omen 2 and Defiance.Turel? He wasn't Hash'ak'gik, but merely served as a host for Hash'ak'gik's possessing entity. But yeah, I didn't much care for that either, simply because they kind of retconned the whole thing: they handwaved the Unspoken/Dark Entity (last boss in BO1) being Hash'ak'gik (which is what Silicon Knights had originally written) and instead made that shit up with the Hylden.
My lore is a bit rusty, but isn't Hash'ak'gik really just a Hylden or was he some other entity? Because I recall the whole thing of demons just being Hylden who were deformed after being in that alternate dimension (Hell?) for so long. Either way, I wanted Hash'ak'gik to be something more than just a deformed humanoid or vampire. I really did not like the direction they went with Blood Omen 2 and Defiance.
we know Mortanius was possessed by the Unspoken, but it's never been quite clear to me how the Unspoken and his Pillar-ruining plan fits into the whole Hylden scheme. I might need to replay those games. I played the hell out of BO1 and the original Soul Reaver, but the other two games got quite convoluted and my mind tends to glaze over all that time-travelling prophetical Hylden/vampire race paradox shit. Haha.
So this article (a rumour thing, nothing confirmed) says it's gonna be a "Soul Reaver reboot":
http://www.vg247.com/2012/03/20/rumour-crystal-dynamics-working-on-soul-reaver-reboot/
Meh...
That's how I understood it. Hash'ak'gik is really just a Hylden Lord because demons are just deformed Hylden anyhow. I don't like it, but that's how I understood it.The unspoken is the hylden lord who wants to destroy the pillars for their return. Yep, the one Kain killed in BO2 and appeared later in defiance for setting up the events of.. Blood Omen 2.
Amy Henning was reaaaaaally good with retcons.
One word. Reboot.Why do you meh at possibly glorious news?
That's how I understood it. Hash'ak'gik is really just a Hylden Lord because demons are just deformed Hylden anyhow. I don't like it, but that's how I understood it.
I love this series to death. It was my favorite series during the PS1 era. I hope all the rumors are true and we get a sequel, not a remake or reboot.
One word. Reboot.
Right now, Mam Robotnik is experiencing extreme joy and fear.
I'd be somewhat okay with this if it's time travel involved.I hope they go the MK9/Star Trek route and make it a reboot that recognizes the previous material.
Oh fuck, I hope not. Don't place this game on mobile, especially if it's a new title. I doubt they would go that route anyways.I'm really calmer than you might imagine. Nine years does that. If they announce this as an exclusive iOS card game with the programmers doing all the voice acting, then so be it.
In reality Hashakgik is not "someone" but the name the humans called a possessed. turel. In the purest sense, hashakgik is the name given to the many hyldeh that possessed turel and spoke through him as their vessel. Hash and the hyldenlord-unspeakable are separate characters even if BloodbOmen intended it different back then.That's how I understood it. Hash'ak'gik is really just a Hylden Lord because demons are just deformed Hylden anyhow. I don't like it, but that's how I understood it.
See, it gets all confusing.In reality Hashakgik is not "someone" but the name the humans called a possessed. turel. In the purest sense, hashakgik is the name given to the many hyldeh that possessed turel and spoke through him as their vessel. Hash and the hyldenlord-unspeakable are separate characters even if BloodbOmen intended it different back then.
I love this story
See, it gets all confusing.
According to this, Hylden Lord, Hash'ak'gik and Unspeakable are all the same.
http://legacyofkain.wikia.com/wiki/Hylden_Lord
That's what I always thought but like I said, all the time travel and retconning....