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Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance |OT| A Blade Forged In Platinum [LAW OF THE WILD]
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Nestunt
Member
Knux-Future
Banned
I'll probably only play through once initially, coming back to it later but honestly short games don't bug me too much as I no longer have a ton of time to actually play games anymore thanks to a pretty shitty work schedule (I get wednesdays and thursdays off..and I get rest those days soooo)...hell if it takes me 8 hours, then that's fine.
as long as I enjoy my time playing it. Nothing else matters
as long as I enjoy my time playing it. Nothing else matters
Posts asking if this game is only 5 hours long ensue.
DarkLordMalik
Member
2.1 GB Mandatory Install required.
And cue everyone getting pissed at having to explain again that it's just the quickest run throughs!
Yup, and a 65MB patch
According to the sheet I got, I'm "not allowed to post reviews, scored or not"... No date on there when I actually can though, so I'm not really sure what I'm allowed to post
I think it might have been yesterday, but can't be sure. I'm not a blogger or anything, just someone who won a competition to get their copy early as part of a promotion.The game is nuts though.
I am not under embargo. What do you want to know? I beat the game on normal
Nemesis_
Member
February 19th is when embargo ends.
Ok, ok, burning questions first :
1) Does this feel like a PG game through and through? Or does it feel like a haphazard collaboration of a game that went through development hell?
2) Does changing difficulty change more than a health/damage modifier variable?
3) Speaking of difficulty, how does the game stack up against other games like it, NG, Bayo, DMC?
Thank you.
How would you rate it from 1-10?
MMaRsu
Member
9 because of camera issues.
Yeah ive been playing this at my flatmate, we completed it yesterday, game is nuts.
LOL those are bad questions to ask me because I think the only PG game I played was Mad World on Wii (It's PG right?) I played the other games but as demo's/friends house. So my exposure to them was limited.
I just want to say I am not a huge fan of these types of games but I do play the occasional DMC/GoW games.
1. It honestly feels like a VERY solid game. It doesn't feel like it was under development hell or anything like that. Although there are times where the cutscenes feel like a PG cutscene rather than something done by Kojima. Basically it get's REALLY cheesy towards the end, but at that point I didn't care and was just enjoying the game way too much!
2. Sorry I didn't try the other difficulties yet. I am now going through VR mode
3. Hmm it is maybe slightly less easier than the games you mentioned, but I don't want to imagine certain scenarios in the game played on Revengence.
Overall it was way better than I expected. I got this game more because it was MGS related than the type of game it is. I don't usually buy games like DMC or Bayo, but MGR is a game that I know I will go back and try to complete as much as I can and even replay it on Revengence.
I am already having fun in the VR missions trying to outdo my times and get 1st place.
This game has a lot of replay value and to me is an excellent game.
I hope I was helpful! >< I can answer other questions if you want, especially if they are specifically about the game rather than comparing it to other games of it's genre
It wasn't bad in 2005. It's only the /b/ rejects from the habbo raids coming that started to downward slide it.
*rocking chair*
ScraftyDevil
Banned
I don't want to give a number because I would give it a 10. That doesn't mean it's perfect.
Just that I enjoyed it a LOT and think it's an EXCELLENT game, even with some of it's flaws
Really if you like Metal Gear or these types of games you will enjoy it.
The one thing I didn't like is how easily you can get stun locked:
1. You get stunned
2. You wiggle stick to get out of stun
3. As soon as you get out of stun you get hit again and stunned again
I went from full health to almost 0 a few times because of this in seconds
DarkLordMalik
Member
9/10 for me. Like someone mentioned, the camera is not perfect and i kinda hoped to see more variety in term of weapons.
Even many german shops already started selling the US version of the game 2-3 days ago. I could have driven 15 minutes to Mainz yesterday to buy the game, but I'd rather wait until thursday for my copy from amazon.de with the nice preorder-steelbook.
So I wouldn't jump to conclusions. The game obviously shipped pretty early to retailers.
After re-reading stuff, I'm taking it to mean "You can't talk about this game til after the 16th", as that's when people came round and played it at my place!
1) This feels like a proper Platinum game. Haven't played a lot of Bayonetta, but it's got some real parallels with Vanquish. Certainly doesn't feel like the game that KojiPro were trying to make and struggled to get past the concept. Giving the game to PG was absolutely the best choice for Raiden and his story. Wouldn't work with Snake/MGS mechanics.
2) I can't say on that, haven't touched anything other than normal.
3) I can only speak to the DMC series if you're comparing to those and those alone, but on Normal it's not massively difficult (save for a couple of bosses, and the last boss is INSANE). For the most recent comparison, I'd say that normal on Rising is much more challenging than Normal on the new DmC. I can imagine things getting really tough further along the difficulty levels.
If someone doesn't complain about the camera in an action game then it means it has a good camera. I liked DmCs camera it was fully controllable and even then I didn't feel like I had to move it around much. God of War has a great camera as well and of course can't ever forget Godhand.
KungFucius
King Snowflake
I have had a couple of instances where I am getting my ass kicked by an offscreen boss, others where it changes nearly 180 when I am perfectly fine with where it is. The camera is pretty bad sometimes.
Muchi Muchi Pink
Member
Hard and above is usually what Platinum intended how the game is to be played. If it's Vanquish, Bayo, Madworld or Anarchy Reigns.
ThoughtsOfSpeaking
Banned
I think purely because of Blade mode more people will have troubles with the camera than in any other action title.
Whether its simply a bad camera is another story entirely as I just cant see how blade mode in its current incarnation would work without those controls
Yea that's what I am thinking as well. In todays age you can't make Normal mode as hard as the DMC1/DMC3/NGB days, casuals and reviewers get turned off by it. Since they don't play at Hard or higher you can afford to make your game balls hard on higher difficulties.
Man that S rank on Revengeance, looks to be among the hardest achievements yet.
No. We intend people to play on whatever difficulty they have fun at.
AHA-Lambda
Member
Is this game worth it as a Metal Gear fan rather than a fan of Action Hack n Slash?
Riposte
Member
Codec calls reveal all kinds of weird shit.
If you don't care at all for DMC/Ninja Gaiden-like games, then probably not.
Collection option in the title screen. Only the red-marked hands count for that, remember.
Otacon is a ladies man now...wat.
If you don't care at all for DMC/Ninja Gaiden-like games, then probably not.
And no way to find out how many left hands we've collected?!
Collection option in the title screen. Only the red-marked hands count for that, remember.
Nestunt
Member
The definition of interactive entertainment
glad to see such paradigm in of the best development companies out there
Now I can play on Normal for my first playthrough and not feel like an outcast!
if only
I am a huge Metal Gear fan and not into the hack and slash games and enjoyed this a lot.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Now you can play on Normal and not stumble through the game's tougher encounters, screwing up whatever intended cool effect it was intented to have on your first playthrough
Yeah you can destroy them by accident; I've restarted a few times to make sure I get them.
Lolol, thanks! Didn't really explore the collections menu.
hey_it's_that_dog
benevolent sexism
When you say restart do you just mean from the most recent checkpoint?
Isn't every fight in the game preceded by a checkpoint?