Legacy of Kain Returns in Multiplayer Form With Nosgoth

I was so excited to just see Legacy of Kain in text again...and then I watched the video. It was like running up to Mickey Mouse at Disney World, only to have him stab my parents and take my shoes. I didn't want it like this...this isn't how it was supposed to happen. What kind of ass-backward-twisted-alternate-reality shit is this? Who asked for this? Did I win Twisted Metal or something? I guess I should stand by for the free-to-play tower defense game that will be Condemned 3. Or the next big kart racer: Half Life 3: Gordon's Run.

what the hell did I just see...

This looks terrible.

You raised my hopes and clashed them QUITE expertly. Well DONE, sir.

Lost all the interest the second I herd free to play

@paraptorkeet: They said this was between Blood Omen and Soul Reaver, so Raziel hadn't be put down yet.

" And yet....I lived "

Guys, let's calm down and just compare this little preview to Soul Reaver.

Look that that! Tons of visceral action, we can see the winged and brute vampires at work. And the graphics have obviously improved! I'm sure Nosgoth™ will deliver on all the pulse pounding excitement and fun of the original game!

someone need to figure out close combat for multiplayer so we can stop seeing all these generic 3rd person shooter/L4D with whatever skin slap on it.

These people need to make more hand gestures while they're talking.

Holy shit, this is amazing. Just absolutely amazing.

This is just a god damn slap in the face! I played the entire series, I could pretty much speed run soul reaver 2 and I was pretty much a LoK timeline theorist. This is the worst possible way to bring back this IP....I mean was an HD collection too much like work Square Enix?

Meh

I waited for this? I'm sorry but no , just NOOOOOOOOOOO.

The LOK series focused single player game , this is NOT what I want :P

I'm haggard veteran of this series and I'm feeling some apathy toward this new game.

on one hand I'm disappointed we're not getting a single player game that continues the story of Kain as he tries to restore the ruined world he may or may not have created. I'm also surprised to see Razielim vampires in the trailer considering they were wiped out when Raziel was cast into the pit. I'm sure they'll explain it away with one line of dialog and expect us to accept it.

On the other hand this game looks kind of fun and the Nosgoth of the Soul Reaver 1 era hasn't been explored as deeply as other eras. The humans in SR1 were an odd edition to the game. They were allies or enemies depending on how you treated them. They made Nosgoth feel like a real place. It might be fun to take the role of a human in this world.

I'll play this but only if it will show Square there is still interest in the Legacy of Kain franchise.

This just confuses me. I just don't see why they'd bother.

Like normally I would just think "Because money" but not even that works as an excuse here. They're taking a kinda niche franchise and carving away the part of it that said niche would want to return to.

Who is this for?

I had read about the single player but didn't realise this was a component of that game....that's just sad, i hope they at least price it accordingly.

@humanity - wait it is? <runs off to buy it>...wonder if they will ever get around to releasing the original Blood Omen so i can play through from start to finish on PC. I have them all split up in a weird order, Blood Omen on PC, Soul Reaver on Dreamcast, Soul Reaver 2 on PS2, Blood Omen 2 on Gamecube and then Defiance back on PS2.

No wonder Blood Omen 2 was listed as a "New Release" on Steam yesterday.

@oni said:

And, lo, a single tear was shed.

It's more than a single tear.

Two things:

1. It's a little difficult to take the developers' praise of the game seriously when they don't even bother to put any emotion into it.
2. I'm gonna have to replay Soul Reaver, aren't I?

Seeing as LoK is a huge favorite of mine, I hope this at least leads to Blood Omen HD somehow.

Wait, wait... I take everything back! They have some Legacy of Kain ASCII-art in the source code of their blog. These guys must be for real! :O

@kagato: From what I understand, this originally was a multiplayer mode added to a to a singleplayer game. There's an in-depth thread on GAF about cancelled LoK games that includes some information about this title as well.

I missed it when they said that but that is funny!

The girl looks hot though.

Doesn't seem like my thing so far.

I'll play it but I also played LoK 2, so that tells you when it comes to the series I'll play anything new...

Hey guys, remember when we took Shadowrun, a much loved and respected pen and paper RPG and beloved cult classic games and got rid of all that gay-ass shit like story, setting, RPG elements and fun! That was such a fucking smash hit that everyone loved so goddamn much, let's do it again with this Legacy of Kain thing I found in the attic!

What's it's history? Oh, I think it's some intricate 5 games series of detail plots and characters arcs that garnered a cult following from it's fantastic script and voice performance. Don't worry, we'll add great voice work too, like when you die, your go "AHHHHHHH" and when you kill someone, we'll put in the MP3 file of the laughing from Unreal Tournament!

Next up for unbelievable stupid idea for a multiplayer shooter: BALDUR'S GATE!!!!

poor legacy of kain... this is shit

Where is the fantastic story telling and wonderfully fleshed out characters the Legacy of Kain series is known for? I'm sorry but this whole game looks like something that should have been a multiplayer mode tacked onto the side of a real Legacy of Kain game. I'm not only disappointed to see Crystal Dynamics let their franchise be muddied by this, but to presume that fans of a single player/story heavy adventure game would be into a team based shooter is pretty gross. Its certainly not going to appeal to new players so who is this even for?

Ill give it a go despite my misgivings but only because it has the vaguest hint of LOK about it, don't see it lasting more than a few days for me, has Gotham City Imposters written all over it.

I hope this is what they meant when they said they were bringing the series back. I thought they said they were rebooting Soul Reaver, perhaps I heard wrong.

what the fuck? fuck that shit!

My thoughts when I saw this video:

"Omigodomigodomigod! Wait, multiplayer? Please don't tell me this is a MOBA... Hmm, this looks nothing like Legacy of Kain. :/ OH WELL."

My only hope is that this could be at least a little bit interesting as an asymmetrical multiplayer game, like AvP. But again, like so often, doesn't look like it needs the franchise name at all. On the other hand, I would pay zero attention to this otherwise. So, it's obvious why they did it.

Fuck you, this looks awful. I couldnt even make it through the vid.....Fuck you.....

This is actually makes me kind of sad. I loved that whole series. Why even use the licence? People who loved LOK will hate them for it, and other people just won't care. God damnit.

As someone who adores LOK...fuck off with this shit. Give me a proper, single player game.

This could have been any game. They just slapped on the LOK name. It's Breath of Fire "Online" all over again (not calling it six).

Visually it looks like every other eastern developed game, dirty, gritty, with character textures and world textures bleeding into each other. Nothing really stands out to the eye. The game will probably be fun, but without a unique, eye-catching visual style no one will play it. I'd play this game if they gave it the Borderlands treatment and simplified and stylized the texture work.

@riptide0: I didn't know that. Interesting! I did enjoy both Onslaught and ME3's multiplayer quite a bit. Not sure if that's enough to get me in the door here though.

I liked the legacy of kain games, I wouldn't mind another squeal or reboot but not this..

A free to play Legacy of Kane game? That's really why I love the LoK franchise, for the PvP? Not for the story?

Is this a joke?
Give us a single player game like the original Legacy of Kane: Blood Omen, that would be fun ^_^

I abhor this like history does a paradox.

I'll probably check it out , futily hoping that supporting it will be enough to one day revive the franchise as a single player game.

Nope. not sure why this exists

My lord this looks bad and a horrible use of the LoK license.

Am I the only one who kinda enjoyed the Dark Messiah of Might and Magic multiplayer? This looks to be along those lines...

This is exactly my reaction when I heard this. Where's that damned time streaming device? We need to flip the coin again!

I think i'll play blood omen again

Maybe would be interesting, but they could have just made this game without touching the LoK lore. The archer made me want to play Amalur Reckoning again for some reason.

This kind of shit worked really well for Shadowrun.

It's a shame that the LoK series wouldn't be able to hit some exorbitant sales target for a single player experience. I wonder how far into development Dead Sun got before being canned.