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Jan 1, 2013 1:26:26 GMT -5
Post by Tifa Lockhart on Jan 1, 2013 1:26:26 GMT -5
Hope everyone made it... Reno, you didn't slip anything into anyone's drinks again did you? And I really hope Sephiroth restrained himself from stabbing the waiters in their backs and stashing them in the dried foods closet Kidding Seriously though, I left Travis a message he'll see once he logs into his yahoo account and it donged on me I haven't said anything here. Well, officially speaking that is. So happy...? new...year? Basically, I just hope it doesn't quite suck as bad as 2012. Now that I will drink to cheers
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Jan 2, 2013 15:06:46 GMT -5
Post by Reno on Jan 2, 2013 15:06:46 GMT -5
The year in terms of gaming will probably suck just like 2012. I can't say about the overall year in general.
Wait.....2013...........2+0+1+3 = 6. Add two more 6s and HOLY SHIT! 666! Also 6....that's 4 more nipples than Hitler had. HOLY SHIT! 2013 is also the year of the saiyan so that means Vegeta and Nappa will come to blow us all up! HOLY SHIT!
Actually, I think somebody slipped something in my drink.
No seriously 2012 made 2011 look like 2007. That's how bad the gaming year was.
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Jan 4, 2013 19:25:59 GMT -5
Post by Reno on Jan 4, 2013 19:25:59 GMT -5
I HAVE FOUND THE 2013 GAME OF THE YEAR!
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Jan 6, 2013 17:56:18 GMT -5
Post by Cloud Strife on Jan 6, 2013 17:56:18 GMT -5
I would have to whole-heartedly agree with you. Anyone who can play this demo should. And then preorder the game while you still can. Not playing as Vergil is inexcusable.
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Jan 6, 2013 20:28:09 GMT -5
Post by Reno on Jan 6, 2013 20:28:09 GMT -5
Oh shit the video is blocked now. To anyone curious, the first thing you see in the new DMC intro is a stripper wearing an angel costume.(Classy) Then it shows flashes of Donte being an unlikable prick (yet we're supposed to think he's "cool".) and he goes on to get drunk and have sex with two strippers in his disgusting trailer. If that sounds stupid, that's because it is.
I played the demo and it was a major downgrade in every way. The combat is slow, clunky, sloppy, and incredibly easy. The character models all look like apes. The frame rate is horrible. The soundtrack is headache inducing. And the writing is abysmal. The story is about on par with the other DMC games (which is to say it sucks) but the thing is is that Ninja Theory was handed the game to give it a better story because of their ablitiy to supposedly write amazing stories. I never played Heavenly Sword but I did play Enslaved and the story was pretty average in that.
The one aspect of the story that I like is that the world is already taken over by demons instead of Lucifer, a businessman, Vergil, or The Pope trying to take it over or fuck it up. However, it's riddled with painfully obvious social commentary. Dante is now the rebellious youth who teams up with anonymous to take on Donald Trump (Mundus) and his Fox News machine. You fight a giant Bill O' Reilly face and go through a "Demon's Got Talent" gauntlet. It's like somebody wrote a really bad Deus Ex fanfiction and then remade it into a DMC story. The only way I could dig the story is if it wasn't taking itself seriously like if it was the hack n' slash equivalent of Conker's Bad Fur Day.
No way would I ever pay full price.....hell probably any price to play this game.
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Jan 7, 2013 21:17:41 GMT -5
Post by Tifa Lockhart on Jan 7, 2013 21:17:41 GMT -5
It's sad to say but I don't see myself ever getting interested in DMC again.... they really screwed things up this time around (from my personal opinion only) Idk, but anyways...
Games....
What a laugh. I don't have a 360 anymore and my gold sub runs out in sometime this month anyway. So I'll be good if I can afford the new Sim City for the pc and Uni when it comes out whenever later on this year. Other than that? I really don't think there is anything I'd buy (unless SE finally decided to stop being so damn stingy and release FFVIII verses already!)
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Jan 8, 2013 8:48:03 GMT -5
Post by Reno on Jan 8, 2013 8:48:03 GMT -5
I'd like to amend what I said about the music. I like this song but it's the only one. (So far)
I can see this game being better than DMC2 but that's only because there's actually different melee weapons. DMC2 had three swords that all had the same moveset.
I don't really care for the switching stances thing. It's not bad but it just throws me off(Still got SSS rank on the highest difficulty). Also, there are several moves that you can't dodge out of which is just dumb and there's also no lock on which is even dumber. So yeah, like you said they really screwed up, however, I can see people enjoying it.
Well at least there's Bayonetta. I still have to play through the rest of that. Metal Gear Rising also looks stupidly cool. Pretty much like the rest of the Metal Gear games. Stupid as hell but there's just something about it that I love (even though I shouldn't)
As for what else is coming out this year......Metal Gear Rising and the Hitman HD collection are really the only things that I'm interested in.
Also I just laugh when people still talk about FF. Pokemon too. Those are honestly two franchises I wish would just die already. The one good thing to come out of FFXIII was Lightning. Yeah I said it, I like her. Maybe it's because of her voice actress (The same one as Liara from Mass Effect) or maybe it's because she's not a dumb useless cuntbag with large tits like every girl in modern anime. Also, she punches that cockgobbler Snow alot. Fuck and Yes.
The only FF I can still stand to play is FFIX. Fucking love that game. If anybody wants a truly amazing modern JRPG then they need to play Lost Odyssey. Best 10 bucks I ever spent.
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Jan 13, 2013 3:43:36 GMT -5
Post by Reno on Jan 13, 2013 3:43:36 GMT -5
I had to delete what I previously said. Although nobody saw it. Now that I've cooled off and what not here's what I have to say........ 8.9/10?! FUCKING REALLY?! You know it's not just that the gameplay is a slow, sloppy mess but it actually restricts your freedom to experiment with moves the more you go into the game. The more upgrades you make and weapons you gain the more you have to defeat enemies in a certain way. Later on in the game they throw more of the "can only be damaged by angel and demon weapons guys" and the "guy who can only be hit in the back or front". The only way you can experiment with combos and weapon switching is by playing the earliest missions. Fucking stupid. I liked the previous Devil may Crys because they played alot like fighting games. You string together a bunch of combos using a pretty nice collection of weapons that you can switch on the fly. It seemed like Capcom really thought about which moves could stringed together by different weapons. There was also the whole animation cancelling done by weapon switching or using the royal guard block and also jump cancelling which allowed you to stay in the air much longer and pull off more combos. Those things were only able to be done by people who were good. Those things in addition to the amazing amounts of combos and crazy things you could do provided a great amount of depth and a high skill ceiling that encouraged you to get better. Now we have the whole angel weapon yanking that allows you to stay in the air that's so easy anybody can do it. Also switching weapons isn't nearly as fluid. There's a bit of a delay when you change stances and combos don't really flow well into one another when changing weapons. There's a bit of problem with cancelling moves. There's too many moves where Donte has to finish what he's doing before being able to jump or doge. A good beat'em up wouldn't do something like that. See God Hand (Which in my opinion blows even the best DMC games out of the water.) Oh yeah how about that shakespearean writing huh? Remember when Vergil was that classy, regal looking guy who thought guns were distastful and for the weak minded? Yeah? Well, apparently Ninja Theory doesn't. He uses a fucking assault rifle in it. Also he says the line, "I've got a bigger dick." I'm not kidding. Oh yeah and if you ever wanted a Mundus sex scene.....well there's one in it. More of dry humping scene but whatever it's so retarded. SPOILERS You shouldn't care about spoilers for this game. Anyways Vergil is the final boss which should be no surprise and just like every single fucking boss in this game it's gimmicky and filled with cutscenes. See the thing is you can't harm Vergil unless you parry one his phantom swords back at him. Then you can wail on him until CUTSCENE and every cutscene is like this: Donte: vergil. stop. Vergil: no u That happens about 4 or 5 times until you have to use devil trigger for the final blow. Then Donte's hair turns completely white and he says, "I don't know who I am anymore." Then that chick kat (who btw has that whole stupid "oh I was beaten and raped when I was younger by my father.....that makes me a tough and compelling female character right?" bullshit that writers do when they can't think of a reason to make their female characters interesting.) says "You're you. You're Donte." Like that's supposed to be deep or something! Donte btw goes through NO CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT. That's true in previous DMC games but that's when it was being made by Capcom. Now it's being made by a company that has it's head so far up it's ass that they believe themselves to be an "arthouse" company of sorts. A quote on their website is something like, "a chance to elevate the gaming experience into one that can rival film and literature" If by rival film and literature you must mean Michael Bay movies and Fifty Shades of Gray right? OH! I almost forgot to remention the stupidest part in the entire game. Okay, so it's already obvious that the game is a total rip-off of They Live right? Well, it even ends the same fucking way. Vergil destroy's Mundus's Hell Gate which exposes all the demons in the world and everyone goes on FUCKING TWITTER and tweets "WTF? #DEMONS" and "@sumasshole dud r u seein dis rite nao? #DEMONS!" "hey demons we kno who u r now #DEMONS #WEHAVEAWOKEN" One of the twitter feeds is that guy Taeem whatever the fuck his name is. The writer of the game who looks like Donte. Then all the twitter feeds fuse together to create the words WE HAVE AWOKEN. My brain almost exploded when I saw that. I couldn't believe how incredibly stupid that was. On the superficial front, well....I'll just say this. MGS3 honestly looks better than this game. Graphics are the least important thing to me in games but these graphics are pretty shitty imo. Also every location is just a really a trashy city or factory industrial like setting(There's few execptions. The News Media tower where you fight Bill O'Reilly and the whole dance club where you fight Mundus's baby thing). If that sounds familar it's because that's what DMC2's locations were like.....only minus the "edgy gritty-ness".
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Jan 18, 2013 14:46:07 GMT -5
Post by Tifa Lockhart on Jan 18, 2013 14:46:07 GMT -5
I love your reviews regardless if I played the game or not. Thanks for the input
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Jan 21, 2013 19:37:58 GMT -5
Post by Reno on Jan 21, 2013 19:37:58 GMT -5
It's more of an overview based on watching somebody else play the entire game. Poorly too. However, I did see some Dante Must Die gameplay and it looks like it presents a decent challenge but there's lots of fire and ice guys and the flying witch guys with the shields. Most of what I said about the gameplay could possibly change slightly when I finally get a cheap copy. However, everything I said about the story stands. It is awful and not in the funny, cheesey way like the originals. (Except DMC2. That game really is terrible. Even worse than this one.)
Metal Gear Rising Demo tomorrow. I might post something here about it.
EDIT: I don't want to post three times in a row so here's my thoughts on MGR...........it's pretty enjoyable. Most people complain about there being no dodge button but there is. Press jump and the light attack button at the same time. This demo doesn't do a great job telling you what you can do. The DMC reboot demo did that too. The parry/blocking system is really hard to get used to. You block by holding the left stick in the direction of the enemy and holding the light attack button. I really wish there was just a block button. The B button (or O on ps3) doesn't seem to do anything so why not just make it that? I dunno. Other than that the demo is pretty good for the most part. Probably gonna get this game when it comes out.
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Jan 21, 2013 21:42:11 GMT -5
Post by Reno on Jan 21, 2013 21:42:11 GMT -5
Here's the Vergil fight on Dante Must Die mode. I like the song and that's about it. The fight is more interesting when being played by somebody who doesn't suck but Vergil's agression is about the same as the lower difficulty. He also doesn't seem to get different moves like he did in DMC3. You know the phantom sword things and I think that one thing he did where he disappeared and did a shit load of judgement cuts....He said something like "This is the end!" before he did it.
By the way, I'd just like to point out how funny it is that the so called gaming "journalists" said so much shit about Duke Nukem Forever and all the tasteless jokes in it. One part was where the two Olsen twin girls were pregnant with aliens and Duke just goes, "Well, looks like you're....FUCKED!" before they exploded and died. They said it was creepy and in poor taste and that Duke is no longer cool; He is now a vile, callous, psychopath. Yeah sure ok 3/10 game. WORST GAME EVER. HOWEVER. In the DMC Reboot, Vergil shoots a pregnant woman(or demon whatever) in the stomach and then in the head. A mission or two later Dante makes jokes about it to Mundus referring to his unborn child as "wet chunks" and how he enjoyed watching the kid explode. 9/10! GAME OF THE YEAR 2013! Both Duke Nukem Forever and the DMC reboot are just "decent" games and they both kind of shit on the legacy of their respective franchises but the difference is that Duke doesn't have a pretentious story being shoved down your throat and the gaming company isn't paying shitloads of ad revenue to gaming websites to keep the "reviewers" quiet about how stupid it is. Adam Sessler was the only person who was like, "The gameplay is okay and can be quite enjoyable.....that is if you can ever get the story and Dante to shut the fuck up." I think that was the most honest review of the game that I saw.
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Jan 23, 2013 17:11:37 GMT -5
Post by Tifa Lockhart on Jan 23, 2013 17:11:37 GMT -5
The only one i'm really curious to play now is DOA. I had no clue the next one had already came out I'm pretty sure Joe has already played and beat this by now but anyways I still enjoyed watching all the combos go down between the tag-team system
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