@Waltz: For what it's worth, I agree with your point regarding reviews of the "Warriors" franchise. This is considering I don't like the games in the slightest myself. I have the sense, however, to realize that I'm simply not the target audience. It does tend to bug me when reviewers act as though that is impossible.
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@Waltz: For what it's worth, I agree with your point regarding reviews of the "Warriors" franchise. This is considering I don't like the games in the slightest myself. I have the sense, however, to realize that I'm simply not the target audience. It does tend to bug me when reviewers act as though that is impossible.
Yeah, that's all I'm saying. No one will ever say that a Warriors game is anything but a niche game, but a reviewer should at least recognize that for people that find history is fun, that these are really, really good games, and that giving a game a 2/10 suggests that a reviewers believes his sense of 'fun' is superior, and is therefore being quite offensive.
Occasionally I see a good review that criticizes the games on their technical merits. I don't necessarily agree, but those reviewers make a good argument. Of course, they are also the ones that recognize there is an audience for these games, and give them 6 or 7/10
So, in conclusion, Warriors of Troy! Ohyesohyesohyes!
@Starlight.... actually Ape Escape on PSN for this title is probably a great idea. Most PS3 owners have their systems connected to the internet, and buying the game for themselves and children will definitely happen. The game is really fun, and the on-rails gameplay is actually quite deep, and as always incredibly charming in perfect Ape Escape style.
Ape Escape 4 (PS3) is in the works as well!
I'm not denying it won't sell...but I wouldn't say everyone has their PS3 connected to the Internet (although it's increasing).
I liked the demos of those games but they never appealed to me (even when I was young myself), but I see the charm to it.
That's cool I guess....
I don't know why people care so much for reviews that slate a game for the right or wrong reasons, if you're going to buy it, just don't read the reviews, simple as.
I haven't played a full retail Dynasty Warriors since the PS3 era. I do get the fact that the games are great historically, but my main fault with what I played was the extreme repetition, and the lack of any apparent enemy AI. This was a PS2 era title, and I'm sure things have gotten significantly better, but even with what I considered to be a far better button-masher in Chaos Legion by Capcom, I still got bored with it's repetition as well just like I do with all of them.
Giving a game a 2/10 means a game is broken, and dang near unplayable. I've played demos of the Warriors titles, and have read many of the reviews as well, and I've never seen anything that should land in that scores range. Well except for that last demo that ran on the Warriors engine, some Japanese title that I'm not going to look up right now. It was horrible!
My two cents on the topic, but I will say this. I live in the West, and I've always been interested in Japanese/Feudal Chinese History, and I can't even follow the history of the Warriors games, and for most in our society the repetitive gameplay isn't enough to warrant a purchase for the differences in history lessons. You have to understand the history of the games to really understand how cool it is with what some of the games do in changing history, and the gameplay that is available isn't enough to draw interest in the West.
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I haven't played a full retail Dynasty Warriors since the PS3 era. I do get the fact that the games are great historically, but my main fault with what I played was the extreme repetition, and the lack of any apparent enemy AI. This was a PS2 era title, and I'm sure things have gotten significantly better...
^ Wow, only six bucks! SquareEnix must really not care about the series much. XD I look forward to playing it! How long is it anyway? I'm really not looking for a 30+ hour epic or anything...
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@Popyman... I think it's around 15+ hours if I remember correctly. The gameplay is very different than anything you've ever played before most likely. The cinematic are still good, and the story is top notch. It's a great buy for $6.
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Not really. Killzone 3's given me my fill of FPSers for the next couple of years.
Really not my genre.
On the other hand, how awesome does Shadows of the Damned look? I'm no a fan of Suda usually - that weird for the sake of being weird thing really irritates me (just like Tarantino, really). But this is so grindhouse and so explicit that I reckon it'd be pretty visceral to play.
Assuming, of course, it doesn't get banned in Australia and make me have to put in some effort to play it.
On the other hand, how awesome does Shadows of the Damned look? I'm no a fan of Suda usually - that weird for the sake of being weird thing really irritates me.
It isn't weird for the sake of weird, there's a point to it all. In the No More Heroes series at least, I've yet to finish Killer7 and haven't played any of his other stuff.
Anyway, yeah, Shadow of the Damned looks amazing now that the newest trailer actually showed more Suda-ish stuff. The first trailer had me worried.
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It isn't weird for the sake of weird, there's a point to it all.
In other words... weird for the sake of being weird (by definition; there's no other reason for the weirdness to be happening). Suda strikes me as a man so immensely full of himself that the only apt comparison is Quintin Tarantino.
In both cases, the men are reasonably talented from a technical perspective, but so in love with their own "art" that they leave no room for the audience to be involved. It's obnoxious, elitist and the kind of thing that gives university students kicks because it's "arrrrrrt, maaaaaan."
Shadow of the Damned has me interested because it's more like a Robert Rodriguez vision - Rodriguez is great because, while his work coloued by the Tarentino influence - a man Rodriquez is a big fan of, his own films are tempered by a more mature and less elitist sense of entertainment. In this case, Suda gets to have his say on the game, but the creative vision is thankfully more than just one man.
It isn't weird for the sake of weird, there's a point to it all.
In other words... weird for the sake of being weird (by definition; there's no other reason for the weirdness to be happening). Suda strikes me as a man so immensely full of himself that the only apt comparison is Quintin Tarantino.
In both cases, the men are reasonably talented from a technical perspective, but so in love with their own "art" that they leave no room for the audience to be involved. It's obnoxious, elitist and the kind of thing that gives university students kicks because it's "arrrrrrt, maaaaaan."
Shadow of the Damned has me interested because it's more like a Robert Rodriguez vision - Rodriguez is great because, while his work coloued by the Tarentino influence - a man Rodriquez is a big fan of, his own films are tempered by a more mature and less elitist sense of entertainment. In this case, Suda gets to have his say on the game, but the creative vision is thankfully more than just one man.
So you're hating on the man for creating his vision the way he sees it, correct? I don't see how that's obnoxious (It's his idea), or elitist.
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Heh, okay. Suda isn't for you then, since all his games are like a giant middlefinger to that way of thinking.
And you should just drop all hope for SotD, the Resident Evil dude already said in an interview that Suda has the last word in everything as it's his game, his "version of saving the princess".
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