yeah that's so fucked up. Sometimes companies have such stupid ways to test the audiance's interest

Honestly though. I can't believe they thought it would be a success. It was astounding how quickly they shut the servers down for that.

"And why didn't you guys line up to throw money at Dark Son, a game without any of the characters from the series but lots of swearing and tits?"

@@verdanthyborian2322 Gameplay was rock solid in closed beta, then it went on with unneeded content additions while not fixing bugs or stupid gamedesign implementations. Plus, just as any asym, it had such a steep learning curve that it was an absolute biased hell of "usables and unusables". Still, it was a better "game" than what could be of Dead Sun gameplay wise.

I still can't even begin to understand what the fuck they were thinking... Yeah

I support this. Matt please go all in on this! Retrospective, a Wha Happun, Flophouse Files...the works!

Lots of content for all of those too; Nosgoth (Flophouse,) Dead Sun, Dark Prophecy, the original version of SR (Wha Happun,) the releases themselves (Retrospective,) etc. This series has an incredibly complicated release history that would be a ton of fun to explore.

blood omen 1 e 2 are so dated but i like that you play as KAIN in those games YEAHH .. he's also cool, and also, in the 1 and 2 games kain have PALE SKIN , i guess he evolved with the time or something .

And the magnum opus in the middle of the story, deception

As I'd say to him - "Same as if we have too much oxygen; too much of a good thing!"

It's not that vampires are allergic to water. They aren't. Vampires are dissolved by naturally running water. They could take a swim in the ocean or a lake or a pool with no problem, but they can't cross a stream or a river without it killing them. The folklore behind this is because supposedly Jesus was baptized in a river, and since vampires are pure evil, now it hurts them, same as with crosses and holy water.

@@jesseperry9602 also running water is apparently linked with the underworld

Oh my comment got deleted. Sorry for pointing out what it says in the bible about water death?

For Nosgoth

Vae victus

For Raziel, RIP.

Truth.

same

The entire series does, except maybe blood omen 2.

But keep the voice actors. They were the heart and soul of the prose.

Amazing game. What a great cast of characters. I still get goosebumps watching LoK Defiance ending : The two become one... both Soul Reavers... together... and the Scion of Balance is healed... And I am not your enemy... not your destroyer... I am, as before, your right hand...! Your sword...!

yeah, blood omen is cool , i didn't played everything ,it looks dated , but the fact that you play as kain is great .he drinks blood from afar like using a straw lol, vampire telekinesis maybe, raziel have tk too

@@JohnDWJ Too bad Tony Jay and Rene Auberjonois are no longer with us to reprise their roles.

ONE CANNOT ADEQUATELY QUOTE TONY JAY WITHOUT TYPING IN ALL CAPS.

Oh and on the melee thing you forgot the spirit form of the soul reaver

They could hire these folks, oh man , a remake would be so good right now, its been quite awile that i already want this remake, the character raziel is so cool , this game is a gem and it must be revived . raziel could fit so perfectly in a game like marvel vs capcom or something like it .i know its not possible because of the diferent franchise, but i could imagine him bein on super smash bross ,as a playable character , even kain is also cool, he looks like conan the barbarian or something.

Give the fuckin series to Bethesda

I blame Assassins Creed and it’s ilk; Spider-Man, Arkham, even FromSoftware.

It's Templeman.

He also voiced Guts in Berserk Guts Rage. I was watching Mat and Liam playing it, I was like wait a minute that's Raziel. Cam Clarke (Liquid Snake) voiced Puck .

Not to mention Chucky's dad and Grandpa Boris in Rugrats!

@@Dilapsor Cool, I knew he voiced Drew Pickles (Angelica's dad), which is closer to his normal voice, but I didn't know he did the other two! I remember a funny behind-the-scenes bit from one of the LOK games where Bell remarks "This is an awful lot of talking for a video game!"

@@KaineSpawnX - I think that might have been in the bonus features on Soul Reaver 2. Some of those voice sessions were absolutely hilarious!

I love how all millinials loved this as a kid, and looking back it's such a game made for adults. It's themes are even stressing for an adult in Soul Reaver 1. I don't know how, but this game has such a crazy spirit about it.

@@sarahunderfield8094 definitely, but as a kid you only respond to cool stuff like haunted swords or all that talk about destiny. After you turn 25 everything hits you differently

@@rafaszewczyk833 you're right. I beat Blood Omen 2 twice as a kid and hardly even realized Kain was a vampire.

same

Don't say anymore, I feel my tears welling up. 😭

I hate that it was left on such a cliffhanger

Also, Razel Voice actor is o.g. Shaggy

I was even a pretty big fan of the multi-player game Nosgoth, im sure that one would make for a great wha happun

You look at Demon Souls Remake and just think what Soul Reaver would look like.

@@Relugus It would look incredible. I really hope Bluepoint is working on it like that rumor said way back in May.

Why so little love for Blood Omen, although it is the most complex game of the series, gameplay wise? Sure, it's basically top-down Legend of Zelda with a vampire protagonist, yet I find it one of the most rounded vampiric gameplay experience next to both Vampire: The Masquerade games.

@@Zeburaman2005 There's no lack of love for Blood Omen. That's the #1 LoK game that needs to be remade. It's just a game I prefer playing to seeing played. Blood Omen and Soul Reaver are the best in the series all around, I just prefer the story of Soul Reaver 2 due to the acting and character revelations.

And the fantastic voice acting. God Damn it Tony Jay, I fucking *_miss your marvelous evil sounding ass_* _The Edge Of The Coin_

Yeah but do you remember the commercial with the dude filling a BBQ grill with like 2 gallons of gasoline and then lighting a match and then *freeze frame!: Idiot. But at least he got to keep his soul..."

Because kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eLOXaZphydXMf40.html

@@jonq5380 oh wow. They straight up kill the guy.

@@jordana.9091 Yep.

As a long time LoK fan, I am torn on this. A remaster restoring the cut content would probably erase the rest of the series, which developed a fairly fascinating story, and one of the few time-travelling narratives where historical retcons were handled well and were actually part of the greater scheme. It should totally be _revamped_ in terms of controls and fighting mechanics, though. Remember how useless the last vampire boss ability was, aside from a couple mandatory puzzles? Or the over-reliance on matching cubes puzzles? I could definetly do with fewer of those.

@@Zeburaman2005 I went through the entire Soul Reaver without getting 1 single ability upgrade. It was still ridiculously easy. The platforming is horrible, especially when it comes to precise jumps the game just isn't capable of making. Hmm, I think most of the cut content could be added, but recontextualized - there could still be a boss fight with Turel, but Raziel wouldn't kill him. He would escape or be directly teleported into the past by the Hylden so the later games still make sense. You could do that with a lot of the cut locations and bosses, just slightly alter the context and outcome so they still fit.

Although Legacy of Kain is by far my favourite old platforming series, I somewhat agree. I can't say combat and platforming were so bad if we consider the era this game was from (90s arcades had bad controls and camera by today's standarts), but later games' combat was definitely very boring and repetitive. Last time I tried to replay them I dropped Defiance on 2/3 way through because it was this annoying. I won't lie, I probably would like to see a full scale remake, not a remaster, to see how they could approach things a bit more different with more creative freedom.

@@sergeantbanzai2462 To be fair, gameplay has never been the strongest suit of LoK series. It's never been outright terrible, but I wouldn't put it above "serviceable." Defiance was the only one that I actively enjoyed playing all the way through, despite the stupid camera and frustrating platforming. What I think would be ideal for the series as a whole is Defiance's combat with Soul Reaver 2's puzzles and Soul Reaver's open areas.

@@Zeburaman2005 Yeah, I've had the same thought over the... Well, decades. Given the story had to be cut due to setbacks, perhaps there's a novel solution - have the story branch at the time chamber. Ending A leads the series through the sequels, Ending B sees Raziel taking his revenge on Kain and restoring Nosgoth. It gives the players agency, closure and doesn't kill sequel potential if it sells well / doesn't end on a cliffhanger if it doesn't!

It sure had a very distinctive aesthetics and atmosphere that always screamed late 90s to me. I recently watched Lotus Prince's let's play of Omicron and I found a lot of parallels between the two, aesthetics-wise. Not to mention the incredible innovations despite the PS1's limitations. The real-time plane shift in which the level morphed in shape around you was incredible back in 1999.

yeah, i feel refreshed when i see raziel walking around with his big padded pizza feet and with his cool nightcrawler design or something, he's really cool i wish i had created a character as cool as him

Idk, description was beautiful.

Blood Omen was developed by now defunct studio Silicon Knights, so that might be the reason.

@@Zeburaman2005 yeah but I know CD and them went to court over the rights and obviously there was a blood omen 2. It is probably more likely Blood omen needs you to run it in older windows optimising to make it run. Remember last time I tried to play it on pc even doing that kain and time was moving to fast to play. Shame because ps1 version is so slow.

@@wannabkain4400 If I remember correctly, Blood Omen 2 started as a sequel to Chakan: The Forever Man for Genesis before being repurposed as a LoK game. I think that by that time, Silicon Knights had lost any claim to the rights for Blood Omen, since the original had been produced on behalf of either Eidos or Crystal Dynamics. Also, I think the dispute was over SK having plans to make their own sequel to Blood Omen. Their have been some rumors saying Denis Dyack was rather mad when he found out about Soul Reaver. Regarding playing Blood Omen on modern hardware, I think you will find the contents of this link very useful. verokster.blogspot.com/2018/05/legacy-of-kain-blood-omen-gl-wrapper.html?m=1

Yeah, soul reaver 2 had no loading times and with the PS5 / Xbox SX tech it would be awesome.