sucks shit. day never
In team mode, you can choose the same two characters, and can revive your partner when they die by getting close and tapping O. It only happened to my partner once; no idea if this can be done multiple/infinite times. Sucks that you can't PAUSE in team mode; what's up with that? Better not be like this in the full game.
Ayane's charge-up triangle attack looks so cool!sucks shit. day never
No way. I knew I was going to get this game, but this demo is just awesome. The frame rate/slow down issues in team mission aside, there's nothing to complain about. They did a great job effectively "finishing" Ninja Gaiden 2.
Oh, and the much-touted breast bounce :-[ thing is nothing. That commercial is a lie!
is it out on the US psn store?
Life of Thousand Gods no longer refills your life? :o That was one of the best things about NG2 because I had to use that shit in a emergency.
:rock
Life of Thousand Gods no longer refilling life sounds awesome and also bad at the same time. Awesome because it'll make the game harder, bad because that was one of my strategies in OG NG2. :P
Yeah it sounds to me like they've rebalanced the difficulty all around.more like they made it easier for pussies :smug
what a bad demo this is. never played NG2 because the first one sucked. not surprised the sequel is garbage as well.
what a bad demo this is. never played NG2 because the first one sucked. not surprised the sequel is garbage as well.
Not a fan of boob shake? Oh right, not a fan of anything over an A cup
Yeah it sounds to me like they've rebalanced the difficulty all around.more like they made it easier for pussies :smug
in any case game is at least 720p with 2xaa.
Life of Thousand Gods no longer refilling life sounds awesome and also bad at the same time. Awesome because it'll make the game harder, bad because that was one of my strategies in OG NG2. :P
i had to beat alma with no items
thats what probably made me slow down and actually look at what the enemy was doing
try it youll get better really quick
more like tecmo.
btw, if anyone wants to add me for co-op missions, I'm mames on PSN. I don't have a head set and don't play enough to get one, so apologies in advance. It'll be like playing with the CPU, but the CPU is better than you :-*
btw, if anyone wants to add me for co-op missions, I'm mames on PSN. I don't have a head set and don't play enough to get one, so apologies in advance. It'll be like playing with the CPU, but the CPU is better than you :-*
im tempted to get a slim just so i can prove this statement wrong :-*
Eh, I guess this game is pretty decent...Welcome.
He signed up to just post a non-confrontal passive statement in the middle of the night. :wtf
so that's how people have still been getting distinguished mentally-challenged scores on the leaderboards.
:piss NG2 :piss2
you can't grab demons but it will make you invincible so you can avoid damage.
just beat the skeleton mission on MN and tried the next one, climbing up while fighting demons + like 5 waves of demons that you can't run away from and dagra dai? really?
what a joke.
so that's how people have still been getting distinguished mentally-challenged scores on the leaderboards.
:piss NG2 :piss2
Not really, they just delete the patches and go shoot infinite respawning jellyfish for hours with the spear gun.
I've never used the invincibility glitch so I don't know entirely how it works, but from the looks of things you'd get an absolutely terrible score if you played through the game that way.you can't grab demons but it will make you invincible so you can avoid damage.
just beat the skeleton mission on MN and tried the next one, climbing up while fighting demons + like 5 waves of demons that you can't run away from and dagra dai? really?
what a joke.
:lol Welcome to hell.
Does the glitch work for the last fight?I don't remember the last fight being harder than previous fights...
I just wanna finish the game.
@kranz, they brought back ng1 purple fiends, you might see cat chicks again though with ng2 obliteration + more powerful ut doubt you would be having the same experience.
Seems like it's a toss up...some things are better, other things that were good were removed completely. I guess I'll see if team missions + the rebalance outweigh the missing stuff.Yup, that's it in a nutshell. Which you can tell is driving some people apeshit, because they were really amped to have the "definitive" NG2.
I wonder if the karma multiplier orbs are gone too, since they weren't in the demo missions.
What's gone? is there a list of all the changes? like, are pretty much all the bosses except Genshin gone now?
--No incendiary shurikens for ryu
--No windmill shuriken
--No tests of valor
What's gone? is there a list of all the changes? like, are pretty much all the bosses except Genshin gone now?--No incendiary shurikens for ryu
--No windmill shuriken
--No tests of valor
and no green multiplier orbs, though with the way iconoclast puts it, that doesn't seem like an entirely bad thing.
the missing weapons and ToVs suck though.
The lack of blood and gore is really homo. Seriously.agreed
What's gone? is there a list of all the changes? like, are pretty much all the bosses except Genshin gone now?--No incendiary shurikens for ryu
--No windmill shuriken
--No tests of valor
and no green multiplier orbs, though with the way iconoclast puts it, that doesn't seem like an entirely bad thing.
the missing weapons and ToVs suck though.
No incendiary shurikens? What the fuck? That was one of my biggest strategies in NG2 in chapter 5. Use some incendiaries, blow off some body parts, one hit kills. That shit helped you SURVIVE.
ps3 version is pussy mode.
some impressions from the final version:
-ninja dogs in level 2 are much easier but still a pain in the ass
-you can only upgrade your weapons in some muramasa shops and only 1 weapon upgrade per visit/store
-the game feels much easier (dont worry, its still hard enough)
-loading times when you pick up an item are very long
one question: in which way is the japanese version censored? i can see no difference between the jpn demo and the european version.
just finished chapter 3, more impressions:
-only one muramasa shop per level, where you can upgrade 1 weapon (and 1 weapon only). the weapon upgrades are free.
-the big pink demons are a piece of cake (i hated them in ng2) and almost never use their fireball attack
-the boss in the third chapter is now the easiest boss ever (hated him so much in ng2). i never got hit once and every attack from him is easy to dodge
-bow is pretty powerful
-remember the annoying sections with the flying creatures, that shot projectiles at you in level 3? gone
the game is much more fun, i love it. but i really miss the blood.
Picking it up right now, will post impressions later, if people want
Picking it up after work today.
I went with the regular version, all that extra stuff didn't interest me. Did you get the DLC code? The store didn't have any (sure they didn't)...
Kranz, I'm really eager to jump into this game, but should I force myself to finish Sigma 1 first? I'm on stage 6...
I'd skip Sigma 1 for now. I mean, you've played the game before, right?
Time to get with the new hotness.
I'd skip Sigma 1 for now. I mean, you've played the game before, right?
Time to get with the new hotness.
Nope! Never played any of the Ninja Gaidens before. Sigma and DS are sitting in my backlog.
I realize they didn't have a lot of time to make thisWhy? What reason was there to rush this?
I realize they didn't have a lot of time to make thisWhy? What reason was there to rush this?
I'd skip Sigma 1 for now. I mean, you've played the game before, right?
Time to get with the new hotness.
Nope! Never played any of the Ninja Gaidens before. Sigma and DS are sitting in my backlog.
You never played Ninja Gaiden on the Xbox?
:o
I'd skip Sigma 1 for now. I mean, you've played the game before, right?
Time to get with the new hotness.
Nope! Never played any of the Ninja Gaidens before. Sigma and DS are sitting in my backlog.
You never played Ninja Gaiden on the Xbox?
:o
The only Ninja Gaiden I played was the original arcade version. :lol I never played the NES games either! I decided to start this and go back to Sigma 1 afterwards. Sigma 2 definitely plays better and the controls are bit smoother, but they definitely made it easier compared to the original.
The gore is weird. It's like they said "let's keep the limb and head dismemberment, but that blood's gotta go!" Makes no sense.
I tried one of the missions online, and it was a little laggy at the start. The frame rate is definitely lower as well. Kind of disappointing.
What really bummed me out, is at the start of the Venice chapter Ryu no longer cuts the werewolf in half. He just slashes him and he gently falls backwards. :'( :'(
What really bummed me out, is at the start of the Venice chapter Ryu no longer cuts the werewolf in half. He just slashes him and he gently falls backwards. :'( :'(:lol :lol :lol
The only Ninja Gaiden I played was the original arcade version. :lol I never played the NES games either! I decided to start this and go back to Sigma 1 afterwards. Sigma 2 definitely plays better and the controls are bit smoother, but they definitely made it easier compared to the original.
The gore is weird. It's like they said "let's keep the limb and head dismemberment, but that blood's gotta go!" Makes no sense.
I tried one of the missions online, and it was a little laggy at the start. The frame rate is definitely lower as well. Kind of disappointing.
Chapter 8 (Submit or Die) in NG2 was the snow/clocktower/Zedonius level. Chapter 9 was the swamp/tunnel worm level. Chapter 9 was god awful. You actually liked that endless spam of rockets?
I just got done with Submit or Die (Chapter 10 in NGS2) and it's basically the same thing with a lot less enemies (as usual). Zedonius seemed a lot easier, but I'm used to fighting him on Mentor/Master Ninja so I'm not entirely sure.
And yeah, there's no more spear gun (so far anyway), no water fights (in Venice at least) and no jellyfish (in Venice at least). All good changes, IMO.
Yeah, the NA version has decaps.
Just got to the first checkpoint in Chapter 14 (Ch.11 in NG2), gonna call it quits for tonight. They did a decent job improving Chapter 9 I think, but the new dragon boss is absolutely terrible. Still no jellyfish, so I think it's safe to say that they got cut along with the spear gun.
I can't wait to read your chapter 9 impressions. I don't remember the specifics but wasn't chapter 9 the level with the clock tower? After chapter 5 that's my favorite chapter. I thought that was fantastic level design.
Have they removed many of the bosses? was the worm still there? the giant silver thing from one of the earlier sections?
appears that genshin can be izuna dropped.
poor genshin.
Do you have to 1st person aim or does the auto aim bow do everything? If you don't have to stand still and aim anymore than I guess that's an improvement, though bow bosses still suck and should have been removed.
At least the worm tunnel is gone. That part was awful.
Just tried the demo this morning. Is it just me or does NG2 Sigma have less enemies than the original? Also, Sigma seems to have a more stable framerate but is also more prone to slowdown when multiple enemies show up on screen.
Graphics are little bit crisper but overall not much different from the original NG2. The difficulty does seem to have been reduced but that could just be due to my prior experience with NG2. The speed has also been toned down a little but it can be adjusted to quickly. Overall, Sigma seems like a solid port but it's not worth the time or $60 for those who've already played NG2.
This game is so god damn hard.
I've never played a NG before, so I went on the easiest mode and just barely beat the first chapter, I even burned my fucking life saving thing.
How do I win :(?
the combo's seem hard to do and require lots of coordination. I shouldn't have went in expecting to slam on square to win should I :'(
Way to spoil it, dickhags.spoiler (click to show/hide)It's okay, i'll probably never get to it :'([close]
Way to spoil it, dickhags.spoiler (click to show/hide)It's okay, i'll probably never get to it :'([close]
Get with the times, you don't play NG for it's plot.
So far what i've taken from it, is there's a girl in the village with a nice set of tits, a CIA agent with a nice set of tits, some tits hiding in the tree's, some girl with metal tits, a bunch of weird ass ninjas, and a ninja whose likely a racist dressed in all black who doesn't even cop a feel.There's also lobster-women.
Momiji against the Tengus was brutal.
Lots more tits.
LOTS.
Momiji against the Tengus was brutal.
It felt that way at first, until I found that simply blocking and dodging around them made them easy to strike from behind.
Once you get good at this game it's omg so awesome.
I just beat Momiji's chapter on Mentor and I used her Square x 4, Triangle attack. Seems safe on block and if all of it hits it does a fuckload of damage.
upgrade system is GARBAGE. i wanna max out my claws asap but for some reason the douchebags denied me this pleasure! and this game did not need more giant bosses like the buddha statue.
Unstoppable with the claws? The only hax weapon in NG2 was the muthafuckin Deathscythe. :rockupgrade system is GARBAGE. i wanna max out my claws asap but for some reason the douchebags denied me this pleasure! and this game did not need more giant bosses like the buddha statue.
Because you wanted to be even more unstoppable at an early point in the game?
How do you get boob axis to work and at what parts
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It doesn't really seem to work well, considering that they made a whole commercial around it. :lol
i hope that bitch dies
How hard is Master Ninja in NGS2? Are the hard difficulties balanced, unlike in OG NG2?
OMG seeing the xbox version of that cutscene makes me want to stop playing this and experience that one, I can't believe the wolf splits in half in that version, in this one he just falls wtf.
And yeah boob axis is so hard to get working. I wanted to see Momoji's bust shaking so badspoiler (click to show/hide)she's 18 right[close]
When do you guys use UT's? I can never find the time to charge it up completely and don't understand the essence thing
Whats essence though? Like the Ki shit?
Also what do you mean pressing y after jumping? That's the same thing as holding down y till you glow blue?
That's awesome, I always wondered were the instant UT's came from.
Also is the difficulty in Sigma 1 also toned down from Black?
You think they'll do a NG3 without Itagaki?
Do you really want a NG3 without Itagaki?
I mean sure Hayashi and his Sigma team is fine and all. But that's just because they have the majority of the gameplay, weapons, & levels already made for them. I'm not sure if they could do one from scratch. I'd rather the team just made an original action game and not call it NG.
So uh, with all this talk about how improved and fun Rachel is in Sigma 2. How bad are her levels you are forced to do in Sigma 1? Also is the difficulty in Sigma 1 also toned down from Black? I just got my copy of Sigma 1 the other day and after I finish up ODST I'm going to play through it and wondering about what to expect. Are there any actual GAMEPLAY improvements in Sigma 1 over Black? For that matter is the game even based on Black or vanilla NG?
ALso what weapons do you guys use?
ALso what weapons do you guys use?
i hate power weapons since im one of those free form combo guys that hate slow weaponsI was like that when I played NGB, but NG2's scythe made you feel like such a badass. Vigoorian Flails were my fav in NGB. I tried them and the Kusari Gama in NG2. I was able to do some crazy combos with them, but they were both way too weak.
Didn't know the tonfas were that good. I only used them on mechanical enemies in NG2.
how the hell do you guys remember to hit x like 6 times in a row before moving to triangle or w/e
icono, did they optimize the last levels in sigma 2?
while doing flail weapon run last night i remembered how "acolyte" doesn't change shit in chapter 12+, regular enemies are the same as master ninja. :lol
icono, did they optimize the last levels in sigma 2?
while doing flail weapon run last night i remembered how "acolyte" doesn't change shit in chapter 12+, regular enemies are the same as master ninja. :lol
icono, did they optimize the last levels in sigma 2?
while doing flail weapon run last night i remembered how "acolyte" doesn't change shit in chapter 12+, regular enemies are the same as master ninja. :lol
really? I'm going to be fucked then.
I just got Sigma 1 today, how many chapters in Sigma 2 cause I kinda wanna play Sigma 1 more now lols
Oh yeah, I missed a muramasa weapon upgrade, am I fucked? Seriously it was in the dumbest place ever.
Also thanks for all the help icono, really appreciate it. I just hope I don't have to face those god damn robot dinosaurs again. Although jumping off a crashing plane with a fucking motorcycle was pretty awesome.
I like the heavier feel of NG1. NG2 kinda feels like dynasty warriors to me, since you just get mobbed and slash the shit out of everything :lol I beat warrior and I just don't feel like playing NGS2 anymore...going back to NGS1 was a lot more fun. Part of that is because I love the karma score system in NG1 too. Beating a battle under time is still gratifying.Yeah, the scoring system in the first one's amazing. It's so crazy how Itagaki fucked it up in 2. What's so hard about putting a damn time limit on the fight?
That's because you are a bad gamer.
You guys are talking about all these moves and to me it's still a mash [] Fest :(
You can play a lot of her stage Resident Evil 4/5 style if you want. :)
Yeah I have the izuna drop down 100% but I don't think the Scythe does it?
Except you can move while you shoot!
Itagaki creates his game characters by immersing himself in their roles and the games. This is a reason why he objects to the suggestion of Kasumi in the Ninja Gaiden universe, saying her 'soft' nature is conflicting with the 'hard-edged' nature of the game whereas Ayane perfectly fits in.
nice title change by EDGE™ 8)
nice title change by EDGE™ 8)
the stages are so boring though. you just run on a track most of the time, aside from a couple platforming moments. it's just so flat. the backgrounds may look different, but I think Tairon had more variety.
Yeah its time for the Bayonetta over hype now.
Even though the demo makes it feel like action game for dummies.
Uh, he was referring to NG1.
Lets face it, the actual combat in NG2 destroys Bayonetta. It isn't as flashy, but it sure as hell feels like a real fight on your hands. Even on Normal mode you can slump through bayonetta spamming the evade button for easy bullet time style attacks.
I really don't know how you can equate the AI between the two games. It boggles my mind The enemies in NG2 come at you aggressively.
The AI in Bayonetta slowly moves around, and their attacks make it seem like they are swinging their weapons through water. It is so slow. You have to be on your toes in NG2.
Maybe the final version of Bayonetta will be awesome. I dunno. I love action games so I'll probably get it. I just think its crazy to say the ai in both games are fodder, as it isn't even close. Maybe in the final version of bayonetta the ai will be better. I'm definitely playing it on a higher difficulty than normal.
the little puzzle in chapter 2 with the plates/shooting balls was kinda awkward for me.
I was like "WHY CAN'T I TAKE IT DUDE" suddenly distinguished mentally-challenged archers attacking me for the other side, beat them and the door thingy descended.
this is sigma 1 all over again, just straight beat them up, no items to open doors or shit to shoot at and I can't say shooting arrows with the R2 button is pleasant, fucking homo ps triggers.
Get Bayonetta on 360, forget about this.
Better than playing a pussified port of a game that you already beat a little over a year ago.Get Bayonetta on 360, forget about this.
Yeah. Let's only play 1 action game over and over for the next 5 years until Bayonetta 2!
Get Bayonetta on 360, forget about this.
Yeah. Let's only play 1 action game over and over for the next 5 years until Bayonetta 2!
Get Bayonetta on 360, forget about this.
Yeah. Let's only play 1 action game over and over for the next 5 years until Bayonetta 2!
Get Bayonetta on 360, forget about this.
Yeah. Let's only play 1 action game over and over for the next 5 years until Bayonetta 2!
Or if you're Bebpo - don't play Bayonneta since the sequel will be better anyway!
OKAY I WILL DL IT.
I don't even care about combo systems in these games anymore. I'll see if the defense game is better than NGB/NG2 after playing this demo, but that's the main draw. Overly offensive and frantic games like DMC bore me now.
What about the ai? Is the ai at least marginally blood thirsty and ruthless? Or is it like DMC where the enemies just stand around?
Where is the demo on psn? I'm on Japanese psn and it's not there.
Where is the demo on psn? I'm on Japanese psn and it's not there.
Where is the demo on psn? I'm on Japanese psn and it's not there.
There's a PS3 version of bayonetta?
Tried out Ayane in the demo. Finally. Kunoichi Gaiden!
Pretty awesome. I'll check it out more after Infamous.
I don't think playing the demo of Bayonetta will help convince Himuro Bayonetta is better than NG or DMC. I'm sure the full game is 40/40 of pure awesome, but the demo is nothing special. The enemies just sit there and there is no great action.
:lol I like the angrier and more assertive Lyte Edge.
:bow Bayonetta :bow2
I don't think playing the demo of Bayonetta will help convince Himuro Bayonetta is better than NG or DMC. I'm sure the full game is 40/40 of pure awesome, but the demo is nothing special. The enemies just sit there and there is no great action.
Himuro's entire PS3 experience has thus far been demos and more demos :lol
The difficulty mainly. In short, Sigma 2 is just a much easier game, which kills a lot of the fun for me. But like I said, if you're only interested in playing through it once or twice just go with the PS3 version since it has a bunch of additional content, and it fixes a lot of problems with the original (a couple really terrible stages got nice updates in Sigma 2).
Yeah, lowered difficulty is not a con in my book.Maybe you should just play God of War.