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[guek]

that launch trailer looks so friggin good. if the entire game locks at 60fps without frequent drops...

I'm not a huge graphics whore in general but i've always been one to appreciate a silky smooth framerate. iirc, the PS360 build had frequent dips below 60 so hopefully RE improves on that

 

[Noi]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtqJd40yQMU

The scene at 1:04 where Ryu blends in with the rain/fog. Is that part of the original NG3 or possibly one of the new abilities said to be added to the game? That was one of the scenes that me go "Oh yeah. I need to play this".

He didn't fully "blend in" like he does there in the vanilla version, but that section isn't new. I assume it plays out just as terribly.

 

[codhand]

Do we know if it has full-campaign co-op or not yet?

 

[zroid]

...what


note: he reviewed the original and it was awarded 5/10

 

[guek]

VADERNOOOOO.jpg

 

[Deleted member 81567]

...what


note: he reviewed the original and it was awarded 5/10

note: Arthur Gies

 

[Skilletor]

...what


note: he reviewed the original and it was awarded 5/10

How is it worse. I cannot conceive how it could be worse. My mind is full of fuck trying to think of how it could be worse.

What is this guy's opinion on the previous NG games? Maybe it's more like NG and less like other action games, and that's why he dislikes it more. Maybe?

 

[Pachinko]

I can't even fathom it being worse but perhaps if you'd had the misfortune of playing the game through a few months back and now had to play it again you'd still recall every single thing you hated about it.

There's also the fact that they've changed it to be more like NG2 which many people out there found to be unfairly difficult. So combine a crappy experience you haven't forgotten with possibly the gameplay in a different sequel you weren't fond of and I guess you could find it worse.

I'm expecting it to better based purely on my limited play time of it at PAX but then I never played the original version beyond the demo on 360 ...

 

[Squire]

How is it worse. I cannot conceive how it could be worse. My mind is full of fuck trying to think of how it could be worse.

What is this guy's opinion on the previous NG games? Maybe it's more like NG and less like other action games, and that's why he dislikes it more. Maybe?

Nope. Arthur's a fan of the series same as you guys. I came to post that myself. I LOL'd.

 

[CaLe]

At what time will IGN post the review ? 12 AM PST ?

 

[zroid]

What is this guy's opinion on the previous NG games? Maybe it's more like NG and less like other action games, and that's why he dislikes it more. Maybe?

Well here's the review of NG3, for reference: http://www.theverge.com/gaming/2012/3/21/2892336/ninja-gaiden-3-review

 

[Retro_]

Call me a skeptic but I've never really been one to put much faith in enthusiast press reviews when it comes to these kind of games

 

[Reiko]

This should be a joke OT... But sadly Team Ninja deserves it.

...what


note: he reviewed the original and it was awarded 5/10

Oh well...

 

[CronoShot]

...what


note: he reviewed the original and it was awarded 5/10

How on earth could it possibly be worse than the original? Technical issues from porting?

 

[Reiko]

How on earth could it possibly be worse than the original? Technical issues from porting?

The core game was broken to hell.

 

[guek]

Maybe it's just so so good...it loops around the spectrum and is now bad! Yeah??

 

[ViewtifulJC]

...what


note: he reviewed the original and it was awarded 5/10

His original review is really good IMO, gets to the main problem in that it took away so many elements that were good about NGB(and to a much lesser extent NG2), and replaced it with garbage.

So for it be worse somehow...


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[CaLe]

The launch trailer is really awesome though.

I doubt Nintendo would publish it if it were so bad, maybe he didn't play much of it and is extrapolating the final score based on his early impressions.

Or Nintendo was just really desperate to have an M rated game alongside ZombiU.

 

[Skilletor]

Call me a skeptic but I've never really been one to put much faith in enthusiast press reviews when it comes to these kind of games

Me either. But NG3 is horrible. Reviews for it reflected as such. I would be surprised if the game reviewed worse than what was already a terrible game.

 

[CronoShot]

The core game was broken to hell.

That wouldn't make it worse. Nearly all changes they've made to Razor's Edge have been seen as an improvement by almost everyone.

I could understand that the changes aren't enough to save the game, but worse than the vanilla version?

 

[ohlawd]

guys, the banner in the OP was a metaphor. It all comes back full circle.

The guy crushes hope like he does business cards.

 

[Kai Dracon]

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If this is actually, seriously worse than vanilla NG3 then Hayashi is like a reverse vampire from the fucking mirror universe or some shit.

I literally cannot imagine how it could be made worse. My imagination is formidable.

 

[canadian crowe]

So if this sucks, should I get Darksiders instead.

 

[ViewtifulJC]

It would take some super amazing ANTI-video game developer skills to make a version of NG3 WORSE than Vanilla, when you even take sections wholesale from the better games.

I just don't believe this shit

 

[SteeloDMZ]

His original review is really good IMO, gets to the main problem in that it took away so many elements that were good about NGB(and to a much lesser extent NG2), and replaced it with garbage.

So for it be worse somehow...


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Completely off-topic but, is that the only .gif you have? I've seen it a million times, and even times where it doesn't make any sense.
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As for that tweet, I doubt this version could be "worse". Reviews embargo for this, IIRC, ends tomorrow, so that will be interesting to see.

 

[CaLe]

What would the game being worse actually even mean ? Scoring 3-4 / 10 ?

I just refuse to believe it, no developer would be that dumb. Oh well, I'm getting the system for ZombiU.

 

[Reiko]

That wouldn't make it worse. Nearly all changes they've made to Razor's Edge have been seen as an improvement by almost everyone.

I could understand that the changes aren't enough to save the game, but worse than the vanilla version?

Bolting NG2 to NG3 isn't an easy remedy in fixing something broken.

 

[zroid]

Reviews embargo for this, IIRC, ends tomorrow, so that will be interesting to see.

It will. The only other impressions of the game I've heard are from Jim Sterling, and he basically said it's neither better nor worse.

 

[JDSN]

It "seems"? The core of the game is broken, no amount of flying limbs will fix that.

 

[CronoShot]

Bolting NG2 to NG3 isn't an easy remedy in fixing something broken.

But he's not saying it hasn't been fixed, nor is he saying that it's just as bad as before. He's saying it's worse. And I (and others apparently) don't understand how that's even possible.

 

[ViewtifulJC]

somebody please find Ja Rule so we can make sense of all this!

 

[Kevtones]

Are we expecting reviews tonight then? For sure?

 

[Currygan]

eagerly awaiting reviews/impressions. i completely suck at NG games but I rather crave good solid action on my WiiU

 

[KillerTravis]

Yeah I followed his comments on twitter and got the perception he was hating the game. Although after comments like "whichever third party makes a controller with offset analog sticks takes my money" or "fucking a and b buttons are not placed correctly, they should follow the standard set by microsoft 10 years ago" makes me a bit sceptical about his opinions.

I guess we will see soon enough.

 

[darkressurection]

Yeah I followed his comments on twitter and got the perception he was hating the game. Although after comments like "whichever third party makes a controller with offset analog sticks takes my money" or "fucking a and b buttons are not placed correctly, they should follow the standard set by microsoft 10 years ago" makes me a bit sceptical about his opinions.

I guess we will see soon enough.

Wow, Gies really said that shit? I think I will wait for more opinions before writing this one off then.

 

[zroid]

"whichever third party makes a controller with offset analog sticks takes my money"

"fucking a and b buttons are not placed correctly, they should follow the standard set by microsoft 10 years ago"

surely the second one at least was a joke...

 

[SteeloDMZ]

Who the hell is Gies anyway?

 

[darkressurection]

Who the hell is Gies anyway?

Arthur Gies, writes for Polygon, usually says disagreeable things.

 

[Dicer]

Yeah I followed his comments on twitter and got the perception he was hating the game. Although after comments like "whichever third party makes a controller with offset analog sticks takes my money" or "fucking a and b buttons are not placed correctly, they should follow the standard set by microsoft 10 years ago" makes me a bit sceptical about his opinions.

I guess we will see soon enough.

I'll never listen to a word this twat says...

 

[SteeloDMZ]

Arthur Gies, writes for Polygon, usually says disagreeable things.

Is that the dude who everyone hated from that rebel am podcast, or I'm imagining things?

 

[darkressurection]

Is that the dude who everyone hated from that rebel am podcast, or I'm imagining things?

Yep.

 

[TheSeks]

But he's not saying it hasn't been fixed, nor is he saying that it's just as bad as before. He's saying it's worse. And I (and others apparently) don't understand how that's even possible.

How is it not possible? The hit-detection/combat system probably hasn't been tweaked/improved. NGarbage 3 had the issue of having you flail at enemies that you DID NOT want to flail at in combat. Changing to NG2 systems doesn't fix that combat engine.

 

[Malvingt2]

Yeah I followed his comments on twitter and got the perception he was hating the game. Although after comments like "whichever third party makes a controller with offset analog sticks takes my money" or "fucking a and b buttons are not placed correctly, they should follow the standard set by microsoft 10 years ago" makes me a bit sceptical about his opinions.

I guess we will see soon enough.

lolol...he is a waste of time.

 

[Eusis]

Yeah I followed his comments on twitter and got the perception he was hating the game. Although after comments like "whichever third party makes a controller with offset analog sticks takes my money" or "fucking a and b buttons are not placed correctly, they should follow the standard set by microsoft 10 years ago" makes me a bit sceptical about his opinions.

I guess we will see soon enough.

Not commenting on the first until I play something like Ninja Gaiden on the Wii U (suspect that really DOES feel worse for that type of game... and may even be why he says the game's even worse now), but the latter? Fuck's sake, does everyone have to march in lock step with whoever manages to get popular? They didn't even take the crown this gen until the Wii waned, and even if Nintendo were screwy on the console front between the SNES and now they DID sort of follow the B/A thing on GC, and kept doing so on handheld. Just because someone tweaks what you do in a superficial way and gets popular doesn't mean you gotta start using that superficial tweak yourself.

He could well mean confirm/deny though, but 1. Sony deserves more credit for that, and 2. I've felt it was completely stupid to not keep such a standard the same across all regions from the offset. Adds problems to game localization that shouldn't have been there in the first place.

 

[Spieler Eins]

Time to lower expectations then, lol. Only WiiU port i'd be interested in, if they'd actually manage to make an okay-ish action game with Ninjas out of it. Never had an original Xbox, so I'm not finicky about this series.

 

[akidnamededdy]

fucking a and b buttons are not placed correctly, they should follow the standard set by microsoft 10 years ago

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Yeah...definitely not taking Polygon's word on this one.

 

[KillerTravis]

https://twitter.com/aegies/status/266766007257923585

https://twitter.com/aegies/status/267344780827164673

https://twitter.com/aegies/status/267346164842643456

I'm not trying to shit on the guy, it just seems he likes to make up his mind about things without giving them a chance. It wasn't even a week when he was complaining about the Pro Controller. They are also reviewing the console btw, as it is without the update, which probably means they are going to shit on it.

 

[CaLe]

Why is this guy angry all the time ?

 

[Takao]

Yeah I followed his comments on twitter and got the perception he was hating the game. Although after comments like "whichever third party makes a controller with offset analog sticks takes my money" or "fucking a and b buttons are not placed correctly, they should follow the standard set by microsoft 10 years ago" makes me a bit sceptical about his opinions.

I guess we will see soon enough.

Only standard set by Microsoft in the game industry is how to get consumers to pay for things others give for free.

 

[Reiko]

Okay... Okay... I'll wait for more reviews.