Quick Look: Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance

@subjugation said:

I remember when action games were like 30 minutes long and no one cared because they were focused, exciting, challenging thrill-rides that had no reason to be longer. Now we need 20 hours of bloat and filler? I don't think so.

Fuck I'm excited for this. I would be fine if Platinum made all my action games.

I can't goddamn wait to get this game.

Late night Quick Look! :D

Glad to see the game appears to be fun. Perhaps I'll pick it up one day once it's at a more reasonable price. I hope everyone else enjoys it in the meantime.

If I live to be some sort of immortal cybernetic freak, I want those legs and ass.

@icemael: yup, and to be precise, DMC 1 can be comfortably finished in around 2 hours on your first playthrough ( and skipping all the scenes), and that was the meatiest action game of its time content wise.

and this genre, character action if you will, is all about the replays. you shouldn't really bother with any game in this genre if you're just playing a game once and never touch it again. that's just not how they're made.

Looks really good, I'm glad this game is short as it sounds like I could get through the game in a weekend.

This game looks rad. I will buy it.

Chop till ya drop son!

Granted, it's been a while since I've finished DMC1 but it definitely took me a lot longer than 2 hours (even without cutscenes). The numerous boss fights alone are longer than that.

This type of game is meant to be played multiple times through on higher difficulty and trying to get the highest score possibles. That time it tells you at the end also doesn't include the amount of times you retry as you died. the game also has a load of VR missions to do and more coming (which might already be out and be free but don't quote me on those).

A lot of people in these comments seem to be missing these points

I don't know about 1 but 3 can be cleared in 3-4 hours

I haven't yet had a chance to watch this but I already consider it a great piece of content simply because it finally knocked Angelica Weaver's creepy uncanny valley face off the front page.

Cutting edge graphics. Solid gameplay. Razor sharp wit.

that's nonsense. i love me some character action games but rarely ever replay games.

If it's OK to cut up a human-looking cyborg into pieces then is it OK to have sex with a 20 year old girl that has a body of a 10 year old? #crackinwise

is it me or is the html5 player jacked up. plays for 3 seconds then freezes. have to refresh and switch to streaming.

@theht: Then it doesn't sound like this is the game for you.

I agree with the sentiment that these games are meant to be played with replay value in mind and learning it, getting better and all that.

damn this makes me bummed platinum didnt buy the darksiders ip...they could of made the last 2 games so crazy

I don't care if it's a short game the combat is so great, Jeff didn't even show the sliding on the ground while cutting dudes with the blade mode that's so good!

This looks awesome.

This man has his speakers on mute.

Remember when we used to accept 4 hour games? It's all about reply ability and this game is meant to be played multiple times.

Watching this makes me wanna play DmC.

Does this make Raiden a Revenger of Vengeance?

Still though, compared to DmC and probably the upcoming GoW (or a genre favorite like Bayonetta) 4 hours not including cutscenes on a first playthrough is quite short. Compared to other action-adventure games it's really short.

Sure, speedruns of those games might be around 3-4 hours, but that's not exactly what we're talking about here.

@hanskisaragi: I'll take a short, fun game over a long, bad game any day.

So Jeff thinks that an understanding of the Metal Gear history might be helpful for this, after reading the storyline on a few sites, it still doesn't make sense to me & thinking that it probably intentional on that.

Actually, that's EXACTLY what we're talking about here. Didn't you listen? The game's clock (or the one they showed) takes your best time for each chapter and CONSTANTLY reduces your overall time. It is specifically designed for speedruns, leaderboards, bragging, etc.

Sit down with this game for a one-sitting, single playthrough, and then tell me it takes you less than six hours. And doesn't it also have VR missions? Plenty of game here.

What are they going to call the sequel.

Metal Gear Rising : ReRevengance.

It's time to Revengence... All over again!

you can tap the button to quickly throw grenades and such rather than having to take time to aim with it

You guys quit loving Mondays?

Yes this game turned out as awesome as I imagined!

@icantbestopped: Monday was a holiday in the US, so I believe they had a long weekend?

Some of the boss fights in this game look incredibly awesome. The general gameplay looks great. It even throws a bone to MGS fans with some "philosophical" wankery. End result? "It's too short, where is the stealth?"

I will be buying the hell out of this game. Another fine addition to the Platinum collection.

@duffyside: No, it's not, because Jeff didn't plan out a route to play every level the fastest he could. It's his best times, when he played through the game, once (or maybe twice?). Those times aren't anywhere close to what a speedrun will have.

I'm not saying the game needs to be longer or anything, but we should acknowledge that a $60 game that only has about 4 hours of gameplay on your first playthrough is a short game, not "standard".

In the 80's one kid threw his copy of Contra out after finishing it once.

That kid grew up (physically at least) and posted on this QL to complain about the length of this game.

Forever making the rest of us smile and feel that maybe our lives aren't that dull after all.

But other games like DMC and Bayonetta are close to that when you take out cut-scenes and take out the time when you played a bit died and restarted.

And still the game is made to be replayed to get better at the combat, get better scores and better times plus there a load of VR missions to play on top of that. The game has the normal amount of content for this type of game

Wow... This does not look anywhere near 4 stars...

Looks ... boring.

Anyone else finding this very hard to actually watch? The video is getting MAD pixel-y and very low resolution

And his role as Axel in KH is basically the exact same as this, but it fits better in KH than it does here.

I dismissed this game a long time ago but i changed my mind after watching this.

All from the precise swordcontroll and slicing madness to the crazy secret arms hunt i love it!

eidt: Also Ninjarun!!!!!

You say the game gets weird because it gets cursy? Imagine how weird it would get if instead it got... Swery.

I don't really have any more clever answer to this than, no. But no real point in arguing about it. Been sorta watching a stream of it being played on hard for a few hours, and it seems like the challenge more than makes up for the lack of content.

@giantadenoid: It is, or was rather. It's been obsolete for a hundred years now, but it was once in Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary.

They did appear to be dangling from that man's buttocks when he asked, so yes.

That's one of the things that people have been saying. That final screen doesn't record total play time, if you die the timer resets up to the last check point

When were you playing action games that were 16 hours long? Most people can probably get through God of War and Devil May Cry in 5 hours. Character action games are never that long if they are designing the game right. They are meant to be extremely skill based, exciting, short, and have some amount of replay ability.

Also with cutscenes this game is probably much longer than 5 hours. Think about any Metal Gear game, you are absorbing story info as much or more than you are sneaking around.