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New Onimusha game coming
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Mr_Furious
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Love of this game needs to go international!!!!!!!!!!!!Jonnyram said:
edit: btw, thanks for the heads up on Onimusha 4. 3 kicked ass!
The_Sorrow
Banned
Can someone spoil Onimusha 3 for me. I've beaten 1 and 2 but never got around to part 3.
TekunoRobby
Tag of Excellence
Just play it, it's the best one in the series and you can find it for ~$15. Easily worth it.The_Sorrow said:
The_Sorrow
Banned
TekunoRobby said:
I plan to but just haven't gotten around to it.
Onimusha
Story set after previous game, in 1598
Main character is blue devil?
Enemy is Hideyoshi
Camera angle can be adjusted but background still looks beautiful
Different to previous games, it looks refreshing (not sure about this bit ->) to appeal to teens and people in early 20s.
Playstyle is not in the form of previous games (i.e. not "look for door to continue")
CVXFREAK - name is katakana, I believe.
Story set after previous game, in 1598
Main character is blue devil?
Enemy is Hideyoshi
Camera angle can be adjusted but background still looks beautiful
Different to previous games, it looks refreshing (not sure about this bit ->) to appeal to teens and people in early 20s.
Playstyle is not in the form of previous games (i.e. not "look for door to continue")
CVXFREAK - name is katakana, I believe.
RiZ III said:
it was too hokey for me though. Michelle.... Henri... :vomits still lots of fun. They should leave the french to their crossiants. All Japan. All sword+weapon play. I liked how the franchise is inherently japanese. Please no more cross pollution
paris - eiffel tower bit = crap
C- Warrior
Banned
The Onimusha games have been great!
Resident Evil 4 NEEDED a reinvention, Onimusha is still solid to go. They just need to expand on a lot of things.
Onimusha games have always been 'good' IMO, nothing great or amazing like some other Capcom games.
And they are considered 'good' not because they don't pull an RE4, but because they always lack that extra "umph" in terms of gameplay.
Resident Evil 4 NEEDED a reinvention, Onimusha is still solid to go. They just need to expand on a lot of things.
Onimusha games have always been 'good' IMO, nothing great or amazing like some other Capcom games.
And they are considered 'good' not because they don't pull an RE4, but because they always lack that extra "umph" in terms of gameplay.
Onimusha 1 was good as it was a new original franchise with new ideas. Onimusha 2 was a bit of a repeat but the rpg additions of the partner system + tons of replay value with branching story paths kept it interesting. Onimusha 3 IMHO was the point where the Onimusha gameplay had outworn its welcome and became stale and was still basically the same gameplay system from 3-4 years ago.
Onimusha 4 NEEDS to be a major RE4 style change to the series. Oni3 tanked in sales and a similar looking game with new characters is only going to sell worse. The main thing they need to tune up IMHO is the fighting engine, make it more robust with plenty of moves like NG or DMC3. One of Oni3's main problems was that it came out the same week as NG and besides the Issen you had like 5 attacks in Oni3 vs. 30-50 in NG so Oni3 just felt really shallow and boring while fighting. The RE style "find the keys" part is fine, just make a deep rewarding action engine and full 3d camera control.
Onimusha 4 NEEDS to be a major RE4 style change to the series. Oni3 tanked in sales and a similar looking game with new characters is only going to sell worse. The main thing they need to tune up IMHO is the fighting engine, make it more robust with plenty of moves like NG or DMC3. One of Oni3's main problems was that it came out the same week as NG and besides the Issen you had like 5 attacks in Oni3 vs. 30-50 in NG so Oni3 just felt really shallow and boring while fighting. The RE style "find the keys" part is fine, just make a deep rewarding action engine and full 3d camera control.
Ninja Scooter
Member
i actually picked up Oni3 a couple of weeks ago for $15. Not bad. Never played part 2, and haven't played 1 since it came out, so maybe the series is more fresh for me. The story/characters are just cheesy as fuck though. Samonuske riding in the backseat of a 4 door sedan has to be one of the most unintenionally hilarious scenes in videogame history. Like someone else mentioned, take the series back to ancient, feudal japan and keep in there.
C- Warrior
Banned
I don't think they are worried. It's quite obvious in terms of sales Onimusha [4] or whatever this is called will sell over 500,000 units in a month in Japan. Getting those numbers, I don't think they really care all that much on what the US figures are.
C- Warrior
Banned
Bebpo said:
I personally don't want Onimusha 4 to be a DMC3 copy cat. DMC3 is out, it kicks ass (that is if you're not scared of game over screens) and to have Onimusha 4 simply be made to one-up DMC3 in the action department would be a waste. Make a DMC4 in that case. Plus, having 90+combos or whatnot like there is in DMC3 wouldn't really fit in the Onimusha universe. It's more closer to its RE roots than DMC is.
Funky Papa
FUNK-Y-PPA-4
And people laughed at me @ the old GAF when I told them that Capcom was going to milk Onimusha like their other franchises...
Just a trilogy my arse.
Just a trilogy my arse.
SolidSnakex
Member
According to Inafune, Oni 3 was suppose to end that part of the trilogy so it could very well be drastically different from the previous 3.
I'm actually playing through Onimusha 3 right now, and it's really enjoyable just like Onimusha 2. Although at one point I was pretty frustrated with how the game is designed...I don't think this is really a spoiler (on the opposite, I think it would be beneficial for people to know)...
about two hours in, I try to enter a door with Samanosuke, but I couldn't get in and instead got a semi-cryptic message. So I checked with gamefaqs and realized you had to level up your weapon in order to get through. The crappy thing was, I had just recently levelled up my armor, so I had to run back and fight enemies for like 40 mins before I could get through that door. Maybe it's just me, but I think that's pretty awkward game design. Other than that, it's a fun action game with great presentation.
about two hours in, I try to enter a door with Samanosuke, but I couldn't get in and instead got a semi-cryptic message. So I checked with gamefaqs and realized you had to level up your weapon in order to get through. The crappy thing was, I had just recently levelled up my armor, so I had to run back and fight enemies for like 40 mins before I could get through that door. Maybe it's just me, but I think that's pretty awkward game design. Other than that, it's a fun action game with great presentation.
The_Sorrow said:
Samanosuke from the past is killed by Nobunaga in the final battle.
Jacques is sent back home thanks to future Samanosuke.
Samanosuke goes back to the past, kills Nobunaga, absorbs him in the gauntlet.
Back home, Nobunaga's nephew or whoever mortally wounds Jacques' son Henri.
Jacques whips his ass. Literally. Whip whip!
Sad pussy moment, but the gauntlet heals Henri. Yadda yadda.
Samanosuke hides the gauntlet, and goes off on more adventures with his new stupid fairy friend.
Jacques is sent back home thanks to future Samanosuke.
Samanosuke goes back to the past, kills Nobunaga, absorbs him in the gauntlet.
Back home, Nobunaga's nephew or whoever mortally wounds Jacques' son Henri.
Jacques whips his ass. Literally. Whip whip!
Sad pussy moment, but the gauntlet heals Henri. Yadda yadda.
Samanosuke hides the gauntlet, and goes off on more adventures with his new stupid fairy friend.
The end.
Die Squirrel Die
Member
Kiriku said:
Yeah I was not a big fan of that method of progression, especially as it meant that they then couldn't let you carry over any upgrades into a new game+, like in DMC3. It should be the law with action games that feature rpg-lite systems, that they can get carried over.
Overall, I say it's hard to pick my favourite Onimusha. They were all great but each one had distinct advantages over the other I felt. Onimusha1 sustained the Japanese feudal setting throughout the game, no slightly let-down industrial bits like Onimusha2. Onimusha3, I didn't mind all of the French bits, the Eiffel tower sucked, and I wish developers would get over this obsession with sewers, but Notre Dame and the monastery were cool. Onimusha 2's buddy/gift/branching path system was excellent, added a nice new level to the gain and really upped the replay value, I was sorry to see it go. However I thought the bits where you were free to switch characters in O3 were very well implemented, it's just a shame that the whole game couldn't have been like that.
So if Onimusha 4 does nothing else new, if it could just be the ultimate almagalmation of O1's sustained Japanese feudal setting, with O2's buddy/gift/branching plot system and on top of that have O3's character switching, dual puzzle solving going throughout it, I'll be extremely happy.
SolidSnakex
Member
ourumov said:
According to ManaByte its on the PS2.
Funky Papa
FUNK-Y-PPA-4
->scans with thumbnails below
Not that we can judge the graphical quality from these scans, but I think it looks cool (blonde guy aside)
Not that we can judge the graphical quality from these scans, but I think it looks cool (blonde guy aside)
Funky Papa
FUNK-Y-PPA-4
http://www.jeuxpo.comStephaneC said:
They are not in my webspace, it is pretty obvious they come from that site
thank youFunky Papa said:
This first screen looks really cool
Funky Papa said:http://www.jeuxpo.com
Not that we can judge the graphical quality from these scans, but I think it looks cool (blonde guy aside)
Can you PLEASE just post the thumbnails and link to the article instead? It's making the host site really slow and the entire thread slows down as a result. Not to mention the scans are huge.
