Glad you guys don't mind the bumps, I'll keep posting what I find!
MattyH said:
how well do the LoK Games hold up today well with windows 7
Over at thelostworlds.net, Ben Lincoln has all the patches you'll need to run Soul Reaver 1,2, Defiance and Blood Omen 2. There's also a patch for BO1 which I've had mixed success with - the game really struggles with modern machines.
I'd recommend either - playing Blood Omen 1 using a Playstation emulator (extra benefit of this is that the PS1 version is not as rare as the PC version).
Alternatively, wait for
Blood Omen 3D to be complete:
Yeah, as with most projects of this nature they rarely get finished, but their demo is bloody impressive and fully recreates the first portion of the game.
maniac-kun said:
How about a reboot of the Legancy of Kain series? Start again at Blood Omen 1!
I'd oppose a reboot, because I know they'd change too much. A remake like the one above, would be nice, but I'd oppose any deviation to the story. The events of Blood Omen are all significant to the future games and are referred to continuously.
My ideal would be a distant continuation. When Soul Reaver came out, it was a thousand years distant to the events of Blood Omen, and could be jumped into by players new and old. It was a new world in the remains of an old one. As we progressed, more and more links to the world of Blood Omen were shown. It was a game world and story that didn't depend on its predecessor, but did build on it.
The next LOK could be set another thousand years into the future. With Kain gone, his Empire abandoned, someone else could fill the power vacuum. Be they human, Hylden, or something else entirely. Either way, Kain overshoots his time-travel back to Nosgoth's future and emerges in a world different to his own, but built on its ruins. Said would could be a return to the medieval themes of Blood Omen, or some sort of demonic hiveworld, there are numerous possibilities.
I like to think such an idea would be more inclusive and appealing to a new audience, than a direct continuation of Defiance.