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Post by Sarge on May 4, 2020 13:10:18 GMT -5
Whoa. Yeah, it does seem like there are properties being revived that I'd never have guessed. I know Beneath is considered to be quite good.
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Post by toei on May 6, 2020 2:51:57 GMT -5
I don't know if anyone's posted about this yet. A turn-based RPG from the makers of The Messenger, set in the same universe, and heavily inspired by Chrono Trigger. It reprises the same enemies visible on the map+seamless battle transition thing. Oh, and Yasunori Mitsuda himself is composing some of the music (probably not that much, though - it calls him a "guest composer"). These guys amassed a million and a half already, for a 2D game. It's quite impressive. I don't expect it to be as good as Chrono, but The Messenger has a great reputation, so this just might be good.
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Post by Sarge on May 6, 2020 13:54:58 GMT -5
I might have mentioned it a while back, but don't know if it was here. It definitely looks great, although I certainly wouldn't expect it to match Chrono Trigger. But it still looks really great and has a ton of potential. And yeah, I'll totally vouch for The Messenger. I had a blast with it.
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Post by Sarge on May 14, 2020 16:04:42 GMT -5
Boy, they kept this one under wraps really well. Coming out in July!
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Post by Xeogred on May 14, 2020 17:37:47 GMT -5
Is that sarcasm? Haha, people were talking about it alongside the rumored Super Mario All Stars 2 stuff lately.
I'll be curious to see if this one turns out good. I'd like to check out another Paper Mario game someday.
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Post by Sarge on May 14, 2020 17:41:58 GMT -5
Heck no. I like Paper Mario a lot, even the lesser entries. The only one I haven't finished yet is the most recent one, Color Splash.
I'd not heard a thing about it until they dropped that trailer. So maybe others had an inkling, but I sure didn't.
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Post by Xeogred on May 14, 2020 18:07:54 GMT -5
That's good for you then since this was more exciting, heh.
The smaller Nintendo rumors I've heard lately is that Metroid Fusion might be getting some kind of 2D remake. Or another 2D Metroid in general is coming. I'm guessing it might be in the flavor of the new Samus Returns, which I'm not sure how I feel about. I liked that game a ton while playing it, but it was kind of forgettable in retrospect.
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Post by Xeogred on May 14, 2020 20:11:05 GMT -5
Finally some gameplay on Sucker Punch's upcoming Ghosts of Tsushima.
It's sounded a little Breath of the Wild influenced here and there (a plus for me), but also looks very Witcher 3 (negative for me). The combat looks a bit more Batman Arkham and Assassin's Creed (another negative)...
I generally love modern samurai/ninja games from the PS2 era and up. But I'm pretty bored with a lot of Western AAA 3rd person open world games. I still can't tell what to make of this one.
I want to be optimistic though. I did enjoy some of the Sly and Infamous games from Sucker Punch.
Just don't see this one touching Nioh 2 for me, when 90% of the world is going to ignore Nioh 2 in favor of this game. lol
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Post by Sarge on May 14, 2020 20:12:56 GMT -5
I actually like the Arkham combat overall. Maybe I'm just weird. Of course, it's mostly me just whipping from enemy to enemy, keeping that combo meter up.
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Post by Xeogred on May 14, 2020 20:22:23 GMT -5
I actually like the Arkham combat overall. Maybe I'm just weird. Of course, it's mostly me just whipping from enemy to enemy, keeping that combo meter up. It did feel like a nice take on a 3D beat em' up. I liked the first Asylum a lot myself but it's just hard for me to say I truly loved the combat, with how the game automatically strings you together into combos, the faux slow mo during hits, etc. To me this kind of combat philosophy is the complete opposite of something like Souls or character action games when you are 100% in control of every single input and tiny move with no slow mo, these are far more precision based and more player skilled in a way to me. Not to sound pompous though haha. I know it's all subjective... I'm just very peculiar about melee combat in third person games. Like back on the PS2, I thought God of War felt sluggish and lacked the depth that Onimusha and Devil May Cry had.
I don't know. I still don't want to give up on Assassin's Creed either, AC2 was seriously one of my favorite games last gen from top to bottom. Brotherhood was good too. But 5,000 sequels have come out since then... Syndicate and Odyssey are the two I'm kind of curious to check out now. But there's a lot of gameplay stuff in this series that I've gotten tired of over the years. Hmm...
Finished the Ghost of Tsushima video now and I don't know what else to say. It's got the ancient Japanese aesthetic but everything else looks like a game we've already seen a lot of this past decade.
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