New Legacy of Kain Project!!

[sheath]

Sounds like me and most of what I have bought off steam on extreme discount. If I want to play a good JRPG I know I ought to replay the really good original games that made the genre worthwhile. If I want to play a Zelda 64 clone with 'tude, well I just never really care unless it has Raziel or Kain as the main character. I'm not anti-3D, but when I am I figure the fricking game ought to be impossible in 2D.

[Devil N]

Those wanting to see a new Legacy of Kain game: well, good news and bad news.

Bad news is a sequel was in the works called Dead Sun, which would of been a "loose" sequel to Defiance which would resembled Soul Reaver in gameplay with the plane switching and focus on puzzles. More bad news? Square Enix canned it in 2012 cited it wouldn't sell. So what they do? The "Good" news? They took the multiplayer mode out of it (yes, you read that right) and are releasing it as standalone release called simply Nosgoth, for PCs only.

Also regarding Dark Sun; it wasn't a follow-up to the previous games, just set in the same universe, years after the events of Soul Reaver 1. You would of played as a human who somehow managed to get stuck in the body of an blue evolved vampire who ate souls and shifted planes. I shit you not.

Videos, screenshots and loads of info here: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=594576

I feel sick. My favourite series treated like this. Fuck I'm at a lost for words.

To be honest, the series was doomed as soon as Amy Hennig left to work for Naughty Dog. She was the backbone of the entire series and the one who made sure all the little story details fit together, even managing to make the non-sequitur nonsense of Blood Omen 2 to retroactively fit into the canon. It also didn't help that the person she entrusted the continuation of the series to died several years after she left.

The fact that these stupid spin-off ideas appeared and got axed before they went into full production, that was to be expected really.

[mrbigreddog]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosgoth

In late June 2013, Legacy of Kain fan Mama Robotnik posted evidence at NeoGAF, from sources at Climax Studios, that Nosgoth had originated as a primarily single-player, story-based game, named Legacy of Kain: Dead Sun. The project had allegedly been under development between 2009 and 2012 by Climax Studios with supervision from Crystal Dynamics, and was intended as a PlayStation 4 launch title. Its multiplayer mode, developed by Psyonix Games, reportedly became Nosgoth after the single-player component of the game was canceled by Square Enix in 2012, who projected that it would fail to meet sales expectations. Kelion responded by confirming that Dead Sun existed and that Nosgoth was intended to be its multiplayer companion game, but said Nosgoth is a separate project which has "grown in size and scope since its initial conception", featuring "different mechanics, characters, levels and gameplay". He rejected the idea that it is "the multiplayer component of Dead Sun pulled out and fleshed out".

According to Kelion, Nosgoth is not a reboot, a mobile game, an open world game, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), or a real-time strategy game, nor is it "best described as a MOBA game" (multiplayer online battle arena).] It derives influences from the second game in the series, Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver, and is played from a third-person viewpoint. It will be available on Microsoft Windows as a download-only title

Yeah that sucks... Could have been a great reason to buy a PS4... As I know my computer probably won't be able to handle it...

Never a big fan of the Blood Omen games. But I absolutely loved Soul Reaver! 1st rented it on PS1 and then owned it on PC. And years later finally playing it on Dreamcast. (Beautiful Game with VGA cable)

I'd love to see something console based in the Soul Reaver style...

If this is going to be digital only... why can't we get it on eShop or XBL or PSN?

[MissionFailed]

my brother put me on soul reaver on the ps1 way back. never got around to the dc version but i am looking for one now

[mrbigreddog]

my brother put me on soul reaver on the ps1 way back. never got around to the dc version but i am looking for one now

Oh man! It's so much nicer than the PS1 version! Smooth gameplay! Better textures! Amazing! PC version still more impressive because of even high resolution abilities. But as far as console versions go, DC is amazing!

[The Jackal]

To be honest, the series was doomed as soon as Amy Hennig left to work for Naughty Dog. She was the backbone of the entire series and the one who made sure all the little story details fit together, even managing to make the non-sequitur nonsense of Blood Omen 2 to retroactively fit into the canon. It also didn't help that the person she entrusted the continuation of the series to died several years after she left.

The fact that these stupid spin-off ideas appeared and got axed before they went into full production, that was to be expected really.

Yeah, I know. As complex as LoK's story is, Defiance killed of most of the cast except for the hero and the main villain. All they would need to do is confine the story to one time period and it should be possible to write a new chapter in the series. Dark Prophecy looked like it had the right idea.

PC version still more impressive because of even high resolution abilities. But as far as console versions go, DC is amazing!

Dreamcast is the best port. PC version is a pain in the tush to get running under Win7, and has controller issues. The DC version even looks better than it.

[sheath]

The PC version of Soul Reaver 1 and 2 are a pain to run on any PC after Windows 98 I think, serious tweaking is required for AMD users for SR2 anyway. The Dreamcast version of the first game was reworked from the PC version though. Higher polycount character models and longer draw distance can only be found on the Dreamcast for Soul Reaver.

[The Jackal]

Well, to no one's surprise, Square Enix threw in the towel, and shut down Nosgoth's servers. Game's dead.

This means the likelihood of a proper game in the series in the future is even less likely to happen, what with this turd finally being flushed. I don't even know what to feel, I love this series, and it hurts so much to see it treated this way. It's such a waste, just a tremendous waste...