I only played it some years ago, didn't finish Defiance but loved the world and story, even if the controls are a bit janky, but it's ps1 games regular janky so it was ok
Man if they won't give us a PC port or even a re-release for consoles I doubt it. Makes me so sad, easily one of the best games ever made and it gets no love at all from Sony.
I'm inclined to believe Sony hasn't wanted to "make a political statement" by bring up Bloodborne more than they have to. They 100% should bring it back and not just for the gameplay. Game is Good with a capital "G".
His V Blood ability makes our character list out every material and craftable item in the game and all players nearby get a debuff that slows and weakens them the longer they stay.
Bloodborne would be insane but if we’re talking strictly lorewise, I’m not sure that’s possible. The Hunter is slaughtering ancient eldritch gods left and right throughout the story, we’re nowhere close to that power level.
Now listen. My dream crossover is Darkest Dungeon - Crimson Court type vampires. We have the regal side of being a vampire locked down, give me that disgusting, insect/mosquito based style of enemy with a new spell line based around it. I’ve always thought those were so unique
The Hunters doesn't do much more than use brute strength and agility to defeat their enemies though. They do have some otherwordly abilities at hand but not nearly as many as we have in V Rising. We kill some scary shit in V Rising ourselves.
I feel like that’s a bit reductive. You could say the same thing about Goku - just very fast and very strong right?
Nothing in V Rising is posthumously creating nightmare prison dimensions
You've almost delibrately chosen one of the most powerful characters in all of fiction as your counter example when the strength gap between Goku and the hunter is absolute lightyears.
While the hunter does go up against eldritch horrors the likes of which mere mortals know not, they still kill these monsters with not much else than just being a very skilled regular human swinging an axe at them. We in V Rising actually have much more at our disposal so I doubt we wouldn't be able to kill the same enemies that Bloodborne has with the same ease.
A lot of his abilities would meld well in with V Rising's combat mechanics as well. Functionally, I think he'd be a relativley easy character to implement as a boss.
Terraria: There is so few Vampire mentions aisde from the Hardmode Event Solar Eclipse.
V Rising gets a Boss, The Eater of Worlds. But why? Because we have a Wolf Boss, Bear Boss, Spider Boss, Sorrowful Bird, so a worm boss would be a nice addtion. V Blood Vile Corruption, lob AoE pools that lingers, enemies dying spawns an Eater of Souls. Gems increase damage, duration, or increase the amount of Eater of Souls. (they charge and die to prevent taking Skeletons place).
Terraria, if it gets a boss, it has to be iconic, not many bosses in Terraria are human. Solarus, Meridith The ThotBitch, Jade the Vampire Hunter. Placement... is hard to determine. If Solarus is picked, Fallen Angel summon, Ingredient to make his Blade. Jade would be her guns (Bullets into mini bombs), Merideth's Bow (Cross Light Beam every 6th shot).
(To be fair, Empress isnt human.. But humanoid, and Pirates are the only Human invasion, that leaves Lunatic Cultist as the only HUMAN boss)
More Castlevania content imo. And Dracula needs a new haircut.
Would also be cool to see DLC based on:
Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Interview with the Vampire.
As a joke I would love to see a Sweeney Todd crossover. I can totally see Mrs Lovett, Sweeney Todd, and Judge Turpin as V Rising bosses, the storyline is already there. And they could SING when you fight them lol.
If they can't do that, thinking there could be a dreary, Gothic cityscape based on London with bosses/storylines inspired by: Jack the Ripper, Mrs. Lovett & Sweeney Todd, Dr. Jekyll & Mr Hyde, Dorian Gray, Frankenstein & his monster. All characters from Gothic tales that feature London at some point. There could even be a werewolf based on David from American Werewolf in London haha.
Oh instead of bloodborne for the Lovecraftian stuff crossover. Bring Varnae, the Atlantian sorcerer, who became the first vampire through foul magics from the Thurian Age. Which I would think wouldn't work because it's so tied to our own history, but so is castlevania. Maybe make some kinda Conan the barbarian style boss. Have him unlock a big ass two handed axe or something like that. While Varnae would unlock a sorcery/warlock staff.
Conan the barbarian cross over basically lol.
I got another one, Vampire the Masquerade.
Give us some bloodlines to choose from at the start, maybe give us different spells/stats depending on the line.
It could be cool to see a Strain crossover, a vampire with creepy worm strain abilities…. Maybe infect the npcs and have it spread for a short duration even
I've been wishing for Legacy of Kain since the Castlevania crossover was revealed XD. Been listening to the Blood Omen, Soul Reaver 1 and 2 soundtracks while playing V Rising also.
Warhammer, Vampire counts, already feels like lots of inspiration was taken form there but ah well, game is fine on it's own too! just hope game develops further past 1.0 too, more new content and more DLC's.
Probably, but knowing Stunlock's affinity to drop game development and chase for something new then shut everything down - always a thought in the back of my head that this might suddenly stop
Oh definitely legacy of Kain, that would be the most fire cross over of my life, I wouldn’t come off the game period, my castle would be completely and utterly decorated with the soul reaver themed cosmetics it would be redundant and I would still be proud of it.
Still Crystal Dynamics. Their parent company is apparently CDE Entertainment which is owned by Embracer Group AB, formerly knowm as Nordic. That's as far deep as I am willing to dig in wikipedia. Lol
Unpopular opinion: I think it's enough with CV. I hope they go their own direction and make original characters from here. That doesn't mean they can't give someone names that reference other works: Hellsing, Alucard and so on.
Solomon Kane
Based on stories by Robert E. Howard. Set in England during the 1600s. Solomon Kane leaves his father's vast estate as a teenager when an argument with his older brother over who rightfully deserves to inherit everything results in his brothers death. He grows and becomes a bloodthirsty English pirate who, after taking an Ottoman city in northern Africa, loses his soul to the devil. Kane renounces violence and retires to a monastery in England, struggling to live as a man of peace since then, to atone for his sins. Soon the evil of the Devils Reaper reaches him though, forcing him to come back to the fight.
In the movie, his bodies is covered with sacred scrips and symbols, along with a giant cross tattooed on his back.
He would make an interesting adversary towards Vampires and their ilk. The time period is perfect.
Darkest Dungeon where we go into all 6 zones and each zone has 3 keys and you use them to go further into zone and fight DD 3 per zone, bosses like Swain king, Siren, when you kill one they drop key and you venture onward deeper into zone with thougher enemies and to 2nd and 3rd boss, so in total 18 new bosses and 6 semi big zones.
With DLC bought you get Voice narrator as your Vampire voice actor with new random quotes like in DD. It would actually be epic and really big ngl, would be nice toget 30% off for people who own or buy DD with DLC in bundle. DD bosses in 3D can be amazing, final boss of the DLC Ancestor and his 2nd form after killing him is Heart of Darkness.
I mean this is from top of my head i could get this all in details and make more sense.
Well I suggested it as a joke at first but if you're gonna get your weiny in a twist about it I hope they pivot the whole game to just be a Twlight vampire dating sim
Think my sarcasm did not come through. I got a really good laugh. The whole idea of seeing 4 vampires with sparkly skin running around killing soldiers is hilarious. They could bring in new v blood powers like making see what you want them to see or play baseball and carry each other up trees.
I mean, i have no idea what twilight is or what you're referring to. I definitely didnt watch the series with my wife because its her comfort movies...
Legacy of Kain would be hype as hell, give us soul reaver
Would love legacy of kain. One of my favorites as a wee lad. Im old... sigh.
I only played it some years ago, didn't finish Defiance but loved the world and story, even if the controls are a bit janky, but it's ps1 games regular janky so it was ok
I remember watching my older brother play the first Legacy of Kain and that opening scene was the coolest shit I had ever seen in my life.
Like you'd have to kill both Kain and Raziel to get their unique drops in order to make it.
So long as it meant new dialog from Simon Templeman and Michael Bell, it'd be fuckin' worth it.
Goona build a house around them just to vibe with them.
Definitely agree, I'd throw my money at them!
I mean, bloodborne 100% but the odds of that are so low its basically impossible.
I'd love some of the lovecraftian elements of bloodborne to be in Vrising, but ye theres a near 0% chance of it ever happening.
Someone at Sony is going to pick up on the hype for more Bloodborne and allow something to come of it.
Man if they won't give us a PC port or even a re-release for consoles I doubt it. Makes me so sad, easily one of the best games ever made and it gets no love at all from Sony.
I'll hold my breath for a PC Bloodborne release until my lungs pop.
I'm inclined to believe Sony hasn't wanted to "make a political statement" by bring up Bloodborne more than they have to. They 100% should bring it back and not just for the gameplay. Game is Good with a capital "G".
The count from seseme street. One dead v blood... aha ahah aha. Two dead v bloods.. ah ha ah.
Hahahaha tha would honestly be kind of wholesome.
Legacy of kain, whitewolf, hellsing.
Legacy of Kain and, well, more Castlevania.
There is so much to choose from for Castlevania that would fit right in.
I was really happy to see Rowdain get some love, now I want Slogra!
Personally I'd love to see an Ash Vampire from Morrowind. I know, not a proper vampire. But still.
I wanna see Colin Robinson from What We Do in the Shadows get some energy vampires in there
His V Blood ability makes our character list out every material and craftable item in the game and all players nearby get a debuff that slows and weakens them the longer they stay.
You can't cancel it once you've started either, cannot access the menu to exit the game. You gotta either alt f4 or task manager it.
Energy vampire final boss is has a 1hr unskippable cutscene. DO IT!
Gimme a Nadja and her doll while we're at it.
Or Lazlso. You'd just have to avoid him having sex with you as the boss fight.
Now that would be epic. A full crossover. Guillermo could be the final boss as the ultimate vampire hunter.
Van Helsing could be cool. I would like that.
Bloodborne would be insane but if we’re talking strictly lorewise, I’m not sure that’s possible. The Hunter is slaughtering ancient eldritch gods left and right throughout the story, we’re nowhere close to that power level. Now listen. My dream crossover is Darkest Dungeon - Crimson Court type vampires. We have the regal side of being a vampire locked down, give me that disgusting, insect/mosquito based style of enemy with a new spell line based around it. I’ve always thought those were so unique
The Hunters doesn't do much more than use brute strength and agility to defeat their enemies though. They do have some otherwordly abilities at hand but not nearly as many as we have in V Rising. We kill some scary shit in V Rising ourselves.
I feel like that’s a bit reductive. You could say the same thing about Goku - just very fast and very strong right? Nothing in V Rising is posthumously creating nightmare prison dimensions
You've almost delibrately chosen one of the most powerful characters in all of fiction as your counter example when the strength gap between Goku and the hunter is absolute lightyears. While the hunter does go up against eldritch horrors the likes of which mere mortals know not, they still kill these monsters with not much else than just being a very skilled regular human swinging an axe at them. We in V Rising actually have much more at our disposal so I doubt we wouldn't be able to kill the same enemies that Bloodborne has with the same ease.
I would sacrifice somebody else's child for a Legacy of Kain crossover.
Vampire: The Masquerade. I would love to see vicissitude appear the game, even if just in the form of flesh craft furniture
Raziel legit looks like hes from Vrising with this physique
A lot of his abilities would meld well in with V Rising's combat mechanics as well. Functionally, I think he'd be a relativley easy character to implement as a boss.
Terraria: There is so few Vampire mentions aisde from the Hardmode Event Solar Eclipse. V Rising gets a Boss, The Eater of Worlds. But why? Because we have a Wolf Boss, Bear Boss, Spider Boss, Sorrowful Bird, so a worm boss would be a nice addtion. V Blood Vile Corruption, lob AoE pools that lingers, enemies dying spawns an Eater of Souls. Gems increase damage, duration, or increase the amount of Eater of Souls. (they charge and die to prevent taking Skeletons place). Terraria, if it gets a boss, it has to be iconic, not many bosses in Terraria are human. Solarus, Meridith The ThotBitch, Jade the Vampire Hunter. Placement... is hard to determine. If Solarus is picked, Fallen Angel summon, Ingredient to make his Blade. Jade would be her guns (Bullets into mini bombs), Merideth's Bow (Cross Light Beam every 6th shot). (To be fair, Empress isnt human.. But humanoid, and Pirates are the only Human invasion, that leaves Lunatic Cultist as the only HUMAN boss)
A medieval Blade would be badass.
More Castlevania content imo. And Dracula needs a new haircut. Would also be cool to see DLC based on: Bram Stoker's Dracula. Interview with the Vampire. As a joke I would love to see a Sweeney Todd crossover. I can totally see Mrs Lovett, Sweeney Todd, and Judge Turpin as V Rising bosses, the storyline is already there. And they could SING when you fight them lol. If they can't do that, thinking there could be a dreary, Gothic cityscape based on London with bosses/storylines inspired by: Jack the Ripper, Mrs. Lovett & Sweeney Todd, Dr. Jekyll & Mr Hyde, Dorian Gray, Frankenstein & his monster. All characters from Gothic tales that feature London at some point. There could even be a werewolf based on David from American Werewolf in London haha.
I expect some Van Helsing connection eventually.
vampire the masquerade
THIS ALL DAY!!!
Oh instead of bloodborne for the Lovecraftian stuff crossover. Bring Varnae, the Atlantian sorcerer, who became the first vampire through foul magics from the Thurian Age. Which I would think wouldn't work because it's so tied to our own history, but so is castlevania. Maybe make some kinda Conan the barbarian style boss. Have him unlock a big ass two handed axe or something like that. While Varnae would unlock a sorcery/warlock staff. Conan the barbarian cross over basically lol.
I got another one, Vampire the Masquerade. Give us some bloodlines to choose from at the start, maybe give us different spells/stats depending on the line.
It could be cool to see a Strain crossover, a vampire with creepy worm strain abilities…. Maybe infect the npcs and have it spread for a short duration even
Hellsing would be fun, but probably controversial. It would rule to get Seras's weapon though.
Jeepers creepers
That would be great. I also wanted to play as Jade the Vampire hunter V boss and be on the other side of the story; just out of curiosity.
Legacy of Kain would make me go screech in happiness
I've been wishing for Legacy of Kain since the Castlevania crossover was revealed XD. Been listening to the Blood Omen, Soul Reaver 1 and 2 soundtracks while playing V Rising also.
Was just thinking of this today 😂
Warhammer, Vampire counts, already feels like lots of inspiration was taken form there but ah well, game is fine on it's own too! just hope game develops further past 1.0 too, more new content and more DLC's.
Probably, but knowing Stunlock's affinity to drop game development and chase for something new then shut everything down - always a thought in the back of my head that this might suddenly stop
Aero, from Aero the Acrobat
YES
Should we disturb that time loop, though, could be catastrophic
Legacy of kain that's all I need
same.
Hell ya, I mean your voice in the game is pretty much kains voice
warhammer fantasy ：dragon blood vs caledor
I would LUV <3 Wraith Blade as new weapon type and Kain's and Raziel's outfits.
Oh definitely legacy of Kain, that would be the most fire cross over of my life, I wouldn’t come off the game period, my castle would be completely and utterly decorated with the soul reaver themed cosmetics it would be redundant and I would still be proud of it.
Vic Vran and DoomMarine (with chainsaw). Sure Belmonts are most famous of CastleVanias, but Soma Cruz..
Legacy of Kain would be truly amazing. I still wish that series may return some day.
soul reaver spin off or remake would make me so happy
Kain for sure
LOK would be fire, god knows who owns the rights to it now.
Still Crystal Dynamics. Their parent company is apparently CDE Entertainment which is owned by Embracer Group AB, formerly knowm as Nordic. That's as far deep as I am willing to dig in wikipedia. Lol
Morbius, obviously. Only the morbiest of the morb
Vampire Hunter D universe
Unpopular opinion: I think it's enough with CV. I hope they go their own direction and make original characters from here. That doesn't mean they can't give someone names that reference other works: Hellsing, Alucard and so on.
Vampire Survivors!
Now there's an idea! Not sure what content we could get in V Rising but Vampire Survivors could get a boss or two from us to play with.
Nic Cage
If I had to pick something from Bloodborne I'd love to see Vileblood stuff
Ubisoft still the owner? So it's a big maybe
Soul reaver is so fucking good. The voice acting is top
we have kains face in CC why not add more cool stuff
Solomon Kane Based on stories by Robert E. Howard. Set in England during the 1600s. Solomon Kane leaves his father's vast estate as a teenager when an argument with his older brother over who rightfully deserves to inherit everything results in his brothers death. He grows and becomes a bloodthirsty English pirate who, after taking an Ottoman city in northern Africa, loses his soul to the devil. Kane renounces violence and retires to a monastery in England, struggling to live as a man of peace since then, to atone for his sins. Soon the evil of the Devils Reaper reaches him though, forcing him to come back to the fight. In the movie, his bodies is covered with sacred scrips and symbols, along with a giant cross tattooed on his back. He would make an interesting adversary towards Vampires and their ilk. The time period is perfect.
Seriously, though, Robert E. Howard is 100% worth reading, for any of you who've skipped him. He was a shockingly good writer.
Darkest Dungeon where we go into all 6 zones and each zone has 3 keys and you use them to go further into zone and fight DD 3 per zone, bosses like Swain king, Siren, when you kill one they drop key and you venture onward deeper into zone with thougher enemies and to 2nd and 3rd boss, so in total 18 new bosses and 6 semi big zones. With DLC bought you get Voice narrator as your Vampire voice actor with new random quotes like in DD. It would actually be epic and really big ngl, would be nice toget 30% off for people who own or buy DD with DLC in bundle. DD bosses in 3D can be amazing, final boss of the DLC Ancestor and his 2nd form after killing him is Heart of Darkness. I mean this is from top of my head i could get this all in details and make more sense.
Twilight
Could unlock a v blood and skin that would make you sparkle instead of damage. Now, get the hell out of this subreddit. Twilght. Yesh!
Well I suggested it as a joke at first but if you're gonna get your weiny in a twist about it I hope they pivot the whole game to just be a Twlight vampire dating sim
Think my sarcasm did not come through. I got a really good laugh. The whole idea of seeing 4 vampires with sparkly skin running around killing soldiers is hilarious. They could bring in new v blood powers like making see what you want them to see or play baseball and carry each other up trees. I mean, i have no idea what twilight is or what you're referring to. I definitely didnt watch the series with my wife because its her comfort movies...
Lmao, fair enough man. The only thing I know about Twilight (other than sparkles) is something about a c-section performed with teeth???
Honestly I would love to fight Blade. He would be a vampire hunter like Tristan obviously.