"Konami Game IPs That Should Return"

[kane_magus]

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"Konami recently held a contest asking devs to revive old game IPs. We discuss what new games from their catalog we want to see return!"

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"I can picture them always making Castlevania games."

Can you, Pat? Can you really?

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[owsf2000]

Dem's some good eyes on Pat if he can see that... given I think their last Castlevania was Lords of Ruin 2 back in 2014? It's only been 8 years since the last game if that's the case.

And if there was a mobile game released since that, it won't count.

[kane_magus]

Yeah, if you don't count the pachinko shit or the mobile game shit or the compilation rehash shit, which I don't[1], Lords of Shadow 2 was the last actual CV game they ever made (and one I still haven't played). I'll believe the rumors that Konami is making new games again when I actually see the results, and even then I'm not sure I could bring myself to actually give a shit at all.

[1] - Well, to be fair, I do have the Anniversary Collection already (though I haven't touched it yet) and I would maybe consider getting the Advance Collection at some point if it ever goes on a good enough sale, but I still don't consider that to be Konami "making Castlevania games."

[kane_magus]

Oh, and that's only if you consider the Lords of Shadow series to be "actual Castlevania," which is debatable. As such, the last original series Castlevania game would probably be considered to be Harmony of Despair. But then, that one was the multiplayer arena thing, even if it could be played singleplayer, so... I guess the last true, actual, single-player, full-on Castlevania (that wasn't a remake of an earlier game) was Order of Ecclesia. (I don't count The Arcade since that was basically a fucking light gun game. And it wasn't released in North America, so there's that, too. And though I liked it well enough, I don't count Judgment, either, as that was a fighting game, not a traditional Castlevania game.)

But then, some people apparently don't like the Metroid/RPG-style games and would probably consider the last "true" Castlevania game (that, again, wasn't a port/remake of an earlier game) to be Bloodlines. But then, in that one, you weren't playing as a genuine, for real Belmont, so I guess truly the last "for really real this time" Castlevania game (that, once again, wasn't a maybe-kind-of-sort-of-if-you-tilt-your-head-and-squint remake of an earlier game) was Belmont's Revenge? (Legends doesn't count, obviously, because in that one you played as a girl and we hates it forever precious.) But then, that one was a portable game, not on a for real real console, so... Dracula's Curse, I guess? *shrug*

Yeah, I'm being mostly sarcastic with the second paragraph there, but anyway.