It's time to boycott Grasshopper Manufacture

[Himu]

10 minutes wank fest, 10 seconds of gameplay. What little gameplay there is just more stupid vapid action crap in the vein of No More Heroes.

Killer is Dead? More like Grasshopper is Dead. Let's remember Grasshopper and hopefully this will be the final nail in the coffin and they will sink afterwards. The more and more I see and play of Grasshopper the more I realize I never was a Grasshopper fan; I was and always will be a Killer 7 fan.



Who has played through Killer 8 mode?

[brob]

I liked the Samurai Champloo game they did. neat mechanic with the music switching for combos and the tate mode or whatever where you are busting through those japanese doors and one shotting dudes was hella cool.

Pretty B tier action, but good wholesome popcorn fun.

[Great Rumbler]

[Don Flamenco]

I didn't play Killer 8.  The first time I finished it, I didn't feel like replaying it.   The second time, my save got eaten by PCSX2 and now I'm discouraged cause I'll have to put a lot of time into getting back to where I was.

No More Heroes was great.  Lollipop Chainsaw seemed good from what I played of it.  They've still got it.  They're still weird, just in a different way...Killer 7 took forever to make and sold 3 copies. 

[StealthFan]

I didn't play Killer 8.  The first time I finished it, I didn't feel like replaying it.   The second time, my save got eaten by PCSX2 and now I'm discouraged cause I'll have to put a lot of time into getting back to where I was.

[Don Flamenco]

it's not like the gameplay keeps you coming back for more.  it doesn't always feel worth playing some of those long ass levels just to get to the cool cut scenes. 

[StealthFan]

You said you didn't play it, but then state that after finishing it you didn't want to replay it. You also called it both Killer 7 and 8 in the same post.

[Momo]

nope.

[Don Flamenco]

You said you didn't play it, but then state that after finishing it you didn't want to replay it. You also called it both Killer 7 and 8 in the same post.

ah, i see, yeah that could be confusing    Killer 8 is the game's hard mode that you unlock after beating it once.  I played the normal mode once on launch, didn't feel like taking on hard mode right after.  Then tried another play through a few years later, save got eaten.

[StealthFan]

lol alright. That shit was confusing.

[Himu]

I even mentioned killer 8 mode in the op.

[Steve Contra]

I've been boycotting them since I made the mistake of picking up NMH

[Mr. Gundam]

I liked the Samurai Champloo game they did. neat mechanic with the music switching for combos and the tate mode or whatever where you are busting through those japanese doors and one shotting dudes was hella cool.

The Evangelion 3nd Impact rhythm game on the PSP was pretty cool, too.

[Trent Dole]

The video is just stupid promo shit, they did that last time around too 

[Bebpo]

i don't see how grasshopper making the same kind of shit grasshopper always makes is them being dead

you said it yourself, killer 7 was not their usual

No more Heroes 1 had creative parts mixed in with the pandering.  The one stage where you get on a bus to go fight a boss, fall asleep, and the stage becomes a top down dream shmup, and then you beat it and wake up and have a good boss fight was genius. 

But yeah, K7 & maybe 50-70% of NMH1 are Suda's high points.  Everything since then has been average at best.  Will probably play this one at $20, but expectations are generally low.

[Rahxephon91]

Buying Killer is Dead day 1.

[Mr. Gundam]

I thought Shadows of the Damned was pretty awesome.

Buying Killer is Dead day 1.

Same here.

[Rufus]

I liked the style, even the inane humour (the Mexican, not Mexican't line was great), but it wasn't all that interesting to play.

[Great Rumbler]

(the Mexican, not Mexican't line was great)

Stolen from Futurama, assuming Futurama did it first.

[Rahxephon91]

Yeah, I thought Shadows was pretty good. Just kind of an arcadey RE4. 

[Positive Touch]

i love mikami but lets not act like hes flawless. dino crisis, anyone?

[Steve Contra]

I need to play God Hand again.  How good was that fucking game?  So good.

[Positive Touch]

The worst thing he's made is Resident Evil 2 with dinosaurs, is what you're saying.

please dont compare re2 with dino crisis

[Himu]

I remember Dino Crisis not being particularly bad?

[Positive Touch]

re3 gets extra points because of the brand. dino crisis was ok just forgettable.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

I just realized that I have yet to buy or play a Grasshopper game.

[Huff]

your being a dumb gamer

just don't buy games you don't want. no hysterics needed

[Rahxephon91]

i love mikami but lets not act like hes flawless. dino crisis, anyone?

PN 03.

[Himu]

your being a dumb gamer

just don't buy games you don't want. no hysterics needed

That's exactly what I'm doing. I'm not actually boycotting. This isn't that serious.

[HyperZoneWasAwesome]

isn't Dino Crisis 2 a much improved sequel.  I was bored stiff by DC1 but I never tried part 2, was I wrong to do so?

[Rufus]

Dino Crisis 2 was pretty fun from what I've played of it at my cousin's house.

[Positive Touch]

I own it but have never played it. guess I should get on that

[Don Flamenco]

i love mikami but lets not act like hes flawless. dino crisis, anyone?

PN 03.

PN03 is pretty frustrating.  They just needed to change a few things and it would've been a much smoother and more fun score attack game.   The lack of any invincible frames on her dodge, along with the rate of fire that makes you fucking destroy your thumb to kill an enemy both bring it down a lot.

[Trent Dole]

I just realized that I have yet to buy or play a Grasshopper game.

No More Heroes is fun for the week or so of your free time it'll eat up. Worth $20ish or less I'd say, like all of Grasshopper's shit. They make short cool weird things that should never be full price ever.

[brob]

Didn't a lot of people complain about having to do lame-ass retro styled minigames in order to progress in No More Heroes? Did they amend this in the sequel? If so the sequel is probably better to play, no? Assuming they are similar enough in other regards.

[Don Flamenco]

Didn't a lot of people complain about having to do lame-ass retro styled minigames in order to progress in No More Heroes? Did they amend this in the sequel? If so the sequel is probably better to play, no? Assuming they are similar enough in other regards.

NMH 1 has you do them IRL  and NMH 2 has the 8-bit ones.   

I think there might be some streamlining of that in Hero's Paradise.