With Godzilla spikes like the giant soldiers in Snake Tales from MGS2.
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Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance |OT| A Blade Forged In Platinum [LAW OF THE WILD]
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With Godzilla spikes like the giant soldiers in Snake Tales from MGS2.
Leo's laser arm blades would be sweet too.
So would Big Bull's jet hammer.
Shit, just make all the Killer Weapons usable in MGR2.
Finally got around to playing the game, got it for free before I planned to buy it, and the game is fun until you try to do specific things and see how the game has little annoying problems here and there that you probably don't get anymore once you have all the upgrades, add-ons and so on.
Playing on Hard and trying to beat Mistral without taking damage and getting screwed by the camera on the pipe whenever I try to go for the perfect parries and the camera shifts on its own - same annoying thing whenever I was in a tight corner in the beginning of the second level when the camera jerks in another direction out of the blue, whether I have the lock on set on the enemy or not. Mind you, it's way easy, but it gets annoying when I want to do something specific like attacking, cancel my attack with the Defensive Offense and immediately parry, but because the camera shifted off somewhere else, the direction I'm pressing the analog in is off and I get hit. Only because of this I decided to skip the perfect playing until I beat the game.
Funny how I praised the parry system so much in the demo, but when you get into it with the various other enemies I realized that it has its downsides too. Especially when I'm locked down in blockstun by Mistral if I miss the perfect parry and will most-likely get zapped by the Dwarf Gekkos behind me. Only because I can't kill enemies that quick with my weak HF Blade with only one damage upgrade available.
And whoever came up with that Codec Achievement needs to be slapped - I hope I get it by the end of this playthrough because I won't feel like trying find whatever other codecs I would be missing on my Revengeance run.
Playing on Hard and trying to beat Mistral without taking damage and getting screwed by the camera on the pipe whenever I try to go for the perfect parries and the camera shifts on its own - same annoying thing whenever I was in a tight corner in the beginning of the second level when the camera jerks in another direction out of the blue, whether I have the lock on set on the enemy or not. Mind you, it's way easy, but it gets annoying when I want to do something specific like attacking, cancel my attack with the Defensive Offense and immediately parry, but because the camera shifted off somewhere else, the direction I'm pressing the analog in is off and I get hit. Only because of this I decided to skip the perfect playing until I beat the game.
Funny how I praised the parry system so much in the demo, but when you get into it with the various other enemies I realized that it has its downsides too. Especially when I'm locked down in blockstun by Mistral if I miss the perfect parry and will most-likely get zapped by the Dwarf Gekkos behind me. Only because I can't kill enemies that quick with my weak HF Blade with only one damage upgrade available.
And whoever came up with that Codec Achievement needs to be slapped - I hope I get it by the end of this playthrough because I won't feel like trying find whatever other codecs I would be missing on my Revengeance run.
Pretty much the same as I feel. The parrying system is fine in theory, but the camera has to be spot on 100% of time, which can't be said for this game.
Unpredictable camera + parry system which relies on directional inputs = recipe for disaster.
Overall I'm enjoying the game, though these occasional occurances of frustration leave a sour taste in my mouth from time to time.
It's probably been asked before but is it possible to parry mid combo?
The awesome reaches heights never thought possible. KEEP PLAYING.
It's only possible if the animation is quick enough to end before the parry can be executed like a light attack, or if you cancel out of it with Defensive Offense (the dodge attack you can buy) - anything long like a heavy attack will have you eating the enemy attack because you can't parry cancel things.
call_kotaku
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You can use blademode anywhere, and that instantly resets Raiden to neutral. So tap L1 to Blade Mode Cancel and then do a parry.
You can parry cancel out of most strings, pincer charging, and evades. You can also cancel those same strings, pincer charging, and parries with an evade. Dodge offset is also in the game, so you can resume a combo string after an evade. Parrying everything the game lets you parry isn't much of an issue unless the camera interferes or if multiple enemies initiate attacks at the same time. You will need to parry the first attack that would hit you, in which case the large block window sort of works against you if there are different attacks with different animations coming from multiple directions.
You can parry cancel out of most strings, pincer charging, and evades. You can also cancel those same strings, pincer charging, and parries with an evade. Dodge offset is also in the game, so you can resume a combo string after an evade. Parrying everything the game lets you parry isn't much of an issue unless the camera interferes or if multiple enemies initiate attacks at the same time. You will need to parry the first attack that would hit you, in which case the large block window sort of works against you if there are different attacks with different animations coming from multiple directions.
Just when you think that the game couldn't get better...it does.
That is Metal Gear Rising in a nut-shell. Enjoy the ride.
It reminds me of Kid Icarus: Uprising because of that.
Noisepurge
Member
would be so cool!Rickenslacker
Banned
MGR2 with an AI/cyborg Solidus boss fight that grants you his dual blades. Make it so.
Just like in Bayonetta where you beat Rodin in a secret fight and you get Pillow Talk (IIRC).
MAKE IT HAPPEN P*!
In MGR2, start with the HF blade, pole-arm, sai, and pincer blades.
Then:
- Nunchuks (with beam blades, like Ai Rin in Anarchy Reigns)
- Jet Hammer (like Big Bull in Anarchy Reigns)
- Pile Bunkers (like Douglas in Anarchy Reigns, worn like the gauntlets in GoW3)
- Dual Katanas (like Zero in Anarchy Reigns)
Damn, that's a lot of Anarchy Reigns!
Then:
- Nunchuks (with beam blades, like Ai Rin in Anarchy Reigns)
- Jet Hammer (like Big Bull in Anarchy Reigns)
- Pile Bunkers (like Douglas in Anarchy Reigns, worn like the gauntlets in GoW3)
- Dual Katanas (like Zero in Anarchy Reigns)
Damn, that's a lot of Anarchy Reigns!
Wish people still played online.
I don't think I'd be able to take the awesome.
Pie and Beans
Look for me on the local news, I'll be the guy arrested for trying to burn down a Nintendo exec's house.
You're talking about following up a polearm made of arms that doubles as a whip, a pair of blades that become scissors, and some weird ass magnetic lassoo sai with just standard ass weapons? NOPE.
We talking gunchucks that shoot nanomachine shuriken bullets, rotating ninja hand-claws that become fucking diamond cutting drills. Thats where we're going, laddies.
We talking gunchucks that shoot nanomachine shuriken bullets, rotating ninja hand-claws that become fucking diamond cutting drills. Thats where we're going, laddies.
Lightning God get!
Overall, it wasn't too bad. I chose to not use wigs, but I did use the Fox Blade throughout and Red Armor toward the end. Most of my deaths were more in the normal battles than the boss battles. Bosses were mostly all right to get S rank, but Sam gave me a lot of trouble trying to get that S rank. Now all I need are those damn VR missions.
Overall, it wasn't too bad. I chose to not use wigs, but I did use the Fox Blade throughout and Red Armor toward the end. Most of my deaths were more in the normal battles than the boss battles. Bosses were mostly all right to get S rank, but Sam gave me a lot of trouble trying to get that S rank. Now all I need are those damn VR missions.
mickcenary
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Started it last night... Loving it. Made it up to the first "black crocodile" encounter in the sewers.
I wasn't a fan of the prologue, largely due to the fact that I'd played the demo quite a bit up until then and playing as 'gimped Raiden' was no fun (he is gimped, right? No Zandatsu or fully-realised Blade Mode?) and the fight against Ray just isn't that interesting.
Parrying is magnificent. I feel the game shines when the fights are parry-heavy.
A few questions:
- Cutting the left hand off... Does that go for everyone? I've seen the hand highlighted in Augment Mode (or whatever it's called) on a few enemies; is it just them? It's seemed a tad inconsistent thus far.
- Zandatsu also seems to be unsuccessful for inapparent reasons sometimes; as in, I swear I've hit the sweet spot, but no electrolytes spew forth. Is there more to this?
And before I forget: Platinum. Can cutscene.
I wasn't a fan of the prologue, largely due to the fact that I'd played the demo quite a bit up until then and playing as 'gimped Raiden' was no fun (he is gimped, right? No Zandatsu or fully-realised Blade Mode?) and the fight against Ray just isn't that interesting.
Parrying is magnificent. I feel the game shines when the fights are parry-heavy.
A few questions:
- Cutting the left hand off... Does that go for everyone? I've seen the hand highlighted in Augment Mode (or whatever it's called) on a few enemies; is it just them? It's seemed a tad inconsistent thus far.
- Zandatsu also seems to be unsuccessful for inapparent reasons sometimes; as in, I swear I've hit the sweet spot, but no electrolytes spew forth. Is there more to this?
And before I forget: Platinum. Can cutscene.
Some key enemies (commanders, I think) will have a glowing left hand and you collect those like dog tags in MGS2. For normal enemies, you get a little extra BP for cutting off their left hand but it's nothing too significant.
Let's strap guns to our feet.
Bayonetta did that already.
Rickenslacker
Banned
Officially implemented rocket launcher feet then.
Pie and Beans
Look for me on the local news, I'll be the guy arrested for trying to burn down a Nintendo exec's house.
Feet are for holding the dual swords, duh.
Yes, that was the joke
ShockingAlberto
Member
Here's an idea: Nunchucks that leave a 2-3 second phantom trail that still hits enemies but doesn't stun them.
toastyToast
Member
Bayonetta has those too
It is time.
The final mission.
Revengeance.
All that's standing between me and the Platinum trophy.
HEEEEEEEEEYAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH COME AT ME BROS.
I've never no-damage'd Metal Gear before so it will be interesting to say the least. I'll be able to handle Armstrong fine though.
The final mission.
Revengeance.
All that's standing between me and the Platinum trophy.
HEEEEEEEEEYAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH COME AT ME BROS.
I've never no-damage'd Metal Gear before so it will be interesting to say the least. I'll be able to handle Armstrong fine though.
I don't think that works with the P. Blades in mid-attack, does it? Besides, even if I reset the attack was coming and I couldn't switch to the Sai's quick enough. So I'm ticked at myself for forgetting as I nearly had it after 1,000+ attempts to reach that point. The stupid Sai parry is what screws me up in general now if I don't mistime the Wheel of Misfortune attack.
Metal Gear's a cakewalk, so looks like smooth sailing for you. Remember that you get a checkpoint halfway through, and dodge instead of parrying... you actually take block damage during that fight.
No-damage'd Metal Gear so easily. Didn't know there was a checkpoint after you cut off its first leg though. That helped immensely.
All that's left is to fuck up the final boss. I ended up beating him twice, no damage, got fucking A rank. So pissed.
My last attempt I got 9900 points, ONE FUCKING HUNDRED OFF S. Such bullshit.
The only way I can think of to boost my score by even 100 to get it over the line would be to actually bother cutting the blocks...even for one phase (and then run away from the rest) just so I get enough BP from the drops...
I'll return tomorrow. It's nearly 2am and I have work at 8. :lol
All that's left is to fuck up the final boss. I ended up beating him twice, no damage, got fucking A rank. So pissed.
My last attempt I got 9900 points, ONE FUCKING HUNDRED OFF S. Such bullshit.
The only way I can think of to boost my score by even 100 to get it over the line would be to actually bother cutting the blocks...even for one phase (and then run away from the rest) just so I get enough BP from the drops...
I'll return tomorrow. It's nearly 2am and I have work at 8. :lol
If you need more combo points, you can stay in Blade Mode after striking him out of the healing phase for a huge combo. That was recommended to me by Xtortionist on here.
I'm pretty sure you do. It helps, anyway. It's a separate Ranked battle.
You gotta no-damage Excelsus too.
Oh shit that sounds great. I did get a 52 hit regular combo in my last attempt for a cool 1500 points but I guess if I tried the blade mode tactic, I could push that even higher for the extra 100 I would need.
Yes, you can simply run during the second phase, but getting hit with some attacks will automatically knock you into the third phase and initiate a checkpoint.... screwing up the run. Eventually, he will do an AoE attack that will knock Raiden into the third phase, but won't do damage.
Just did it. You can. After a while your HUD goes away and he'll blast you into the QTE.
Nope. I literally just got the trophy for no damaging Armstrong and I took a fuckton against Excelsus. You do need to avoid damage in all the encounters with Armstrong, not just the real fight.
I thought he was referring to S-ranking the entire stage. Yeah, that part doesn't count for the no-damage boss run.
Ah, OK. I misunderstood.
Yeah, cut at least one set of debris. That's all I did and I got the S rank. It's crazy how much the Red Armor boosts your damage in the QTE sections of that fight. Getting the QTE where Raiden counter attacks does like 70%.
Also, make sure you're in Jack the Ripper mode for the Blade Mode combo. It'll slow the meter drain a lot. Might want to make sure the Fuel Cell rations are equipped and just use them as your meter gets low with the shortcut (down on d-pad). You'll easily get the 100 hit requirement. If he gets too far away when you do it, drop Blade Mode, get closer and go back into it.
No. At no point do you need to actually take damage. Eventually, he will do an AoE attack that is literally unavoidable and will knock Raiden away, but will do 0% damage to your actual bar. It's a non-physical attack.