@TentPole said:
@terrancejwatts said:
...Oh and so everyone knows. one of the founding fathers of ninja gaiden quit the team because he couldn't convince the rest of the team to change the game. what does that tell YOU?
I am pretty sure you pulled that out of your ass and don't know what you are talking about.
He didnt quit because he couldnt convince the team to change the game, he quit because he wasnt given his bonus for working on Ninja Gaiden 2. This has since been settled out of court, but the experience resulted in him (Tomonobu Itagaki) leaving the company, along with all the core staff at Team Ninja.
As for the game, a few key techniques were stripped out, most notably the guillotine throw. I'm guessing this had something to do with the limited invunerability glitch that occured in 2 that would allow people to continously GT people without taking any damage, seems like a lazy fix to to me but I never used the move. It didnt seem useful in 2 anyway. (aside from the glitch)
And yeah as the OP has said the lack of additional weapons and shops sucks. Personally I miss healing items, choosing when to use them or save them added some extra depth to the game. The story was also complete trash, granted 1&2's were pretty terrible but they all felt like they were excuses to get you from one place to another. Here the cutscenes just take up time and make you feel like less of a badass in the process.
I beat the game on "Normal" initially I played on "Hard" because i'd beaten the first 2 that way but after realising that the only difference was: enemys do more damage, you do less damage. I said "fuck it, the game's already a grind, and all this is doing is making it more tedious" and for those of you who say "All games difficulty scaling works that way" you're wrong. NG1 not only had items and weapons placed in different locations but you'd fight completely different enemys, some of which werent even featured in the the default difficulty at all.
One of my friends who's admittedly better at the game than me went through it on Hard, and the saddest part is he got less achievements than I did. Now normally this wouldnt matter (especially if you dont give 2 shits about achievements/trophys) because if the game were any good you could easily just beat normal and get the other 2 achievements and call it a day, but the games so bad we just wanted to get rid of it. Another playthrough just seemed like torture.
And the multiplayer is laugably bad, I woud've much rathered more single player trials. The only reason I prefer single player to co-op is enemys dont seem to react well to multiple people hitting them, which for me ruined the experience (competitive and co-op) I guess all games need to have multiplayer though these days so this would've been easily forgiveable had the story not been stuffed with cringe worthy cutscenes, tons of bugs and QTE's.
Even somebody who isnt willing to commit to a challenge and would rather play games like God of War or Dante's Inferno etc. have better options available to them, at least those games had upgradable items and some variety. Not to mention NG3 never even comes close to the epicness of the set peices featured in those games. Honestly I think Conan is a better game than this, and i'm not joking.
(Sorry... I just had to get that off my chest, I really loved the first two games)
EDIT: As "TentPole" has pointed out it was DOA4 not NG2 that resulted in Itagaki leaving, still you can be sure none of this would've happend had he not.
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