Spring-Loaded
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So when will FOX blade be available to everyone
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Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance |OT| A Blade Forged In Platinum [LAW OF THE WILD]
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DarknessTear
Banned
Probably never. Retailer exclusives usually go that way, right? From what I've heard, it's bad for ranking + BP anyway. If that eases anyone's pain.
Man I have got to be THE worst player to ever touch this game. I cannot get parrying down to save my life, at best, once in a blue moon, I can block. I can't even get past the second bit of those tall bi-ped enemies in the second stage R-01. And to see everyone in here has beaten the game like 14 times on hard and has already unlocked all this sweet shit is so discouraging. There has GOT to be something I'm missing. I feel like every battle I'm constantly running away to avoid some attacks or try to parry them and whenever I try to attack I get hit from behind....meh
Continuity
Member
What's the last wave for VR mission 18? Is it a single GRAD? Because if it is I'm going to kill myself because I managed to get to it in under 3 minutes only to get one-shotted by it.
You holding forward and hitting light attack or tapping it? My brother was having issues until I saw he was just holding forward and not tapping.
call_kotaku
Member
It's almost an entirely different game at Very Hard and Revengeance, you definitely start to see the Ninja Gaiden influences (shoutouts to offscreen projectiles).
Ffffuuuuuuck yes! Finally beat him. I had to change back to control type C to get the nanopaste from the debris, had to hold the controller funny so I could aim with the right stick and press triangle with my index finger. I don't get people saying using the stick is more accurate. Maybe I just suck at it, but it never goes exactly where I want it to. If I use the buttons, it always swings exactly where it's lined up. My chapter time for the last one was 2.5 hours haha.
My total play time (in game! Not save file) was actually 9:22. Wow! I did suck haha. I left the game in the codec menu a couple times while I was doing other stuff so maybe that's inflated? Or maybe it doesn't count that. Oh well.
EDIT : Save file time is 9:36. Weird. Doesnt seem like the timer works the way they said it did. Maybe the patch changed it when people were complaining?
My total play time (in game! Not save file) was actually 9:22. Wow! I did suck haha. I left the game in the codec menu a couple times while I was doing other stuff so maybe that's inflated? Or maybe it doesn't count that. Oh well.
EDIT : Save file time is 9:36. Weird. Doesnt seem like the timer works the way they said it did. Maybe the patch changed it when people were complaining?
Rarely. Typically, they become available to the general public in a matter of months (as was the case with Vanquish's weapons DLC, in addition to Deux Ex: Human Revolution's retailer DLC). One of the only exceptions that comes to mind was the bonus costumes in Tales of Graces f, IIRC.
Robot Pants
Member
I'm pissed that I missed one on chapter 4. S ranked everything except that missing one and it gave me an A overall. Great times.
it has to be in between the mistral/monsoon dopleganger fight and sundowner
StunandStab
Member
Well, for my entire playthrough on Hard I committed to never using recovery items...
until that final boss.
Damn, he was tough. I still have no idea what to do when
but allowing myself to use recovery items actually made it fairly easy in the end. Also the cutscenes leading up to the fight had me laughing out loud so hard, everything that guy said was so ridiculous
until that final boss.
Damn, he was tough. I still have no idea what to do when
he starts healing himself. I just enter blade mode and slash him and take damage because no target appears
but allowing myself to use recovery items actually made it fairly easy in the end. Also the cutscenes leading up to the fight had me laughing out loud so hard, everything that guy said was so ridiculous
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Retro_
Unconfirmed Member
it's on his back
Nemesis_
Member
The Cyborg Ninja and FOX Blade are available right now on the
Australian
Check his back when you do that.
hmmm, I think I'm always holding it. So, if I'm running around to avoid tons of shit I have to let go of the stick and stop and then tap it forward and tap square at the same time to parry?
nailbombxx
Member
IMO, the game is not as deep as Bayonetta. Bayonetta has more weapons, more enemy types, more combos, more accessories, more tricks, etc. I don't think Metal Gear Rising was meant to be an extremely deep action game in the first place, PlatinumGames surely didn't have enough time or maybe even freedom from Kojima to do that. Maybe next time.
As I see it, Metal Gear Rising was meant to be a tactical action game (it is Metal Gear, right?) over a combo-centric one. The nature of the combat system is proof of that. For example, on normal mode the common enemies don't have much health and can be one shotted with the Zandatsu. The tougher enemies are hard to stagger and often block your attacks, making them very difficult to combo on unless you mastered dodge offsetting, but even then you'll still probably get interrupted by another cyborg, or machine gun fire or RPG. Each custom weapon only has several combos and the advantages of those weapons are purely situational. As far as combos go, MGR just throws too much shit at you for you to do much more than simple combo-strings at once.
MGR is more about positioning, using tools and specific attacks, parrying and breaking armor to Zandatsu, not constant combo-ing like Bayo is.
That's not to say it isn't as fun, because it really is.
Continuity
Member
Yup, for VR mission 18 I got to the last wave in under 3 minutes (The gold rank time is 10 minutes) and then the GRAD one-shotted me.
I'm so mad right now
I'm so mad right now
I didnt realize that the bosses health bar was on the screen until the final boss when I was thinking "How much longer is this going to go on for?!?!" and then I saw it.
Beat it, though. Great game. Platinum did a fantastic job.
Camera issues aside, I loved nearly every minute of it.
Beat it, though. Great game. Platinum did a fantastic job.
Camera issues aside, I loved nearly every minute of it.
Yeah, you can even mash tapping forward with square and still parry, you just won't get the perfect counters.
Square Triangle
Member
Just bought! Am I in for a treat GAF?
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Purple Sai, bro. It stuns him long enough that by the time he gets out of it, you can stun him again. He's easy!
nailbombxx
Member
You will love it.
brandonh83
Banned
I think I need a break for a few days. Seriously. I just tried to pour myself some water but I dropped the jug because my hands are fucked up.
Rickenslacker
Banned
Alright, since I'm cursed and can't get a no damage bonus on the
fight to register so it looks like I'll have to just max out all the ranking requirements. Seems like the only one I don't get 1000 on is time, as at best I've gotten is 750 or so with 6 minutes and some seconds. So anyone got any tips to do it super quick on Revengeance? Mostly been rocking Muramasa and going to town, perfect parries aren't doing explosive damage it seems.
This kinda shit is one of the rare things to genuinely piss me off in games, where the game itself dicks you out of something at no fault of your own.
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This kinda shit is one of the rare things to genuinely piss me off in games, where the game itself dicks you out of something at no fault of your own.
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Retro_
Unconfirmed Member
what are people doing to themselves?
robotzombie
Member
Most missions yes, but 10 minutes is a lot for the mission I'm stuck in. I end the first two stages in one minute. I just can't get past the next one. That bladewolf with his plasma cannon or whatever is a pain in my ass, and my pincer blades are so weak they don't stop the armored cyborgs at all. I know the next one is just a grad and that's easily cheesed.
Monocle
Member
There's a lot more to this fight than I realized. Thanks for the tips.
You have no idea.
Got to the final boss,
, and this is it for me. I'm not even going to try anymore. This is a horrendous control mechanic for a fast paced action game. It boggles the mind how anyone can think such a mechanic can be even remotely fun.
saw the diagonal blade patterns, died a couple of times
CosmicGroinPull
Member
Wee just got my copy. The narrative definitely isn't as polished as Metal Gear Solid, but the abundance of codec convos goes a long way towards giving it a MGS feel. Raiden sounds bad sometimes in cutscenes but he's fine in codec.
Zandatsu is quite easy but getting left arms is sooo hard.
Also, first nitpick - having to dig through the menus to find the commands for the move I just bought. WTF.
Zandatsu is quite easy but getting left arms is sooo hard.
Also, first nitpick - having to dig through the menus to find the commands for the move I just bought. WTF.
SiteSeer
Member
um ... enjoy the fight.
Just run forward if you don't need the nanopastes it apparently drops.
InfiniDragon
Member
The truth.
You just feel like it got really real whenever the lyrics hit and Raiden does some unbelievable Gurren Lagann looking shit.
Love this game.
I was never able to get the diagonal cuts down, so ended up just skipping the sequence by running away from the debris and doing the fight without healing paste.
I'm assuming people who are struggling with that part of the final boss did this with Sundowner:
Got behind his shield to whittle him down without triggering his second form?
The precision cuts you make if you dismantle his shield are much harder than the armstrong debris slicing. Guess it meant to be a trainer.
The precision cuts you make if you dismantle his shield are much harder than the armstrong debris slicing. Guess it meant to be a trainer.
When you get the feel of precision blade mode...the game just clicks so hard!
Learn how to use both directional sticks in blade mode, the easiest way I can explain it is that you use the left stick to align the height and the right stick to align the angle and flicking the right stick back to cut, when you understand that you have full control of where you can cut, it feels so good.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Baraka in the White House
2-Terms of Kombat
I don't think there's been a higher difficulty spike in any game than the Armstrong fight. Fuck all the good those life packs did me when he can still deplete a maxed out life bar in two or three hits. And I can't for the life of me zandatsu both of those giant pieces of rock he throws. I can line up the first one with a bit of effort but never the second.
Ugh. Game was great up until this point.
Ugh. Game was great up until this point.
This was driving me nuts until I realized I didn't really have to be that precise with it.
You probably think it's harder than it actually is.
I might try this, though I don't have much life left, so it might be far too difficult.
Nah, I was able to get through Sundowner using the precision cuts, mainly because it didn't penalize with a huge chunk of life if you missed.
I suppose I'm mostly disappointed in the game. The combat system really hasn't clicked with me. I've had little trouble getting through the game with the exception of a few bosses - however, combat has consisted mainly of parrying, running/jumping around evading, and "button mashing" when an opening presented itself. But I don't have a good sense of combos, and the like. It's just strange, specially coming off playing DmC (oh shit, I'll be lambasted for saying this!) Needless to say, the frustrating bosses just sour the entire game for me. At this point, I feel I'm forcing myself to finish it just for the sake of it, but I think I'd rather do something better with my time, as I'm not really having fun.
Edit: Forgot to say, the game is absolutely terrible at explaining and providing combat tutorials.
No matter how many times you get hit by anything in that fight, as long as you get a couple Zandatsus...you'll automatically get an S rank
Baraka in the White House
2-Terms of Kombat
Apparently you do have to be precise because I can line up three of four boxes on that second piece of debris and still eat it.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Shit, even on Rev difficulty? Well that saves me some stressing. But those fuckin' rocket guys still nail me
Rickenslacker
Banned
Shit's ASS. I got past that by the skin of my teeth by learning the spawn patterns, once the rocketeer spawns on the right pillar two others spawn on ground level after, then lure the Mastiffs out to the elevator hall, then pray when the GRAD comes in. I shot the larger red missiles as fast as the slow aiming turret would let me and I hoped for the best.
Only thing that sucks more than turret sequences are turret sequences that get a massive jump in difficulty subverting the general playstyle and have nothing else to do with the rest of the game.
Never fully lined up all four, are you sure you're watching your energy gauge correctly? the HF blade eats up energy alot faster.