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We Get It, Ninja Gaiden II Is Very Messy

spartansrock — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:18:32 MDT

ive just bought ninja gaiden 2, and i think its gr8, i dont find the camera as messy as it was supposed to be, there is a cpl of small glitches but compared to the frantic all out gameplay im prepared to overlook these little probs. the difficulty i think is good too although path of the acolyte is a bit easy and any gamer worth his salt shouldnt touch it, be a warrior and see what u made of. i have dmc4 too and i think that game is gr8 aswell, stop moaning about little probs and focus on the gameplay cos when it really gets down to it, both of those games are fantastic and built to test any true gamer, grow some cahoneys, stop moaning and see if u got what it takes to complete those games on every difficulty. if i can do it, so can.... well i dont know, CAN U?

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fuchikoma — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:49:43 MST

See? No More Heroes was right - you can't sell a game that bloody in Japan...
wait...
This is the country that spawned Fist of the North Star on TV!

Looks action-packed and visceral! Better yet, the blood doesn't look like a cheap particle effect like so many other games! :D

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Mrmoo2002 — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:55:24 MST

Im a pretty tolerant gamer but even that seems a bit excessive to me. Exactly what effect are they trying to get by having that much carnage on screen at once?? Totally excessive. It's like a person who drops F-bombs every second word; after a while you just want them to get to the point.

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yashichi8bit — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:38:41 MST

Extremely looking forward to this one!

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Zero_Beat — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:23:51 MST

@GinoKing: There couldn't possibly be a more appropriate topic for you to get Ninja'd in. I imagine that what's happening in the screen cap up there will now happen to your profile, only more painful.

On topic now, this game is gonna rock, and you know it. I can't wait to perform several amputations on my enemies.

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MetaKz — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 13:21:40 MST

@GinoKing: Haha, that made my day man. Hilarious!

I was surprised when I saw how much blood was flying around in this game. I don't remember the first one being this bloody. It's kind of weird seeing limbs go flying everywhere. It feels a lot more gory than No More Heroes.

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BookbagNinja — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 13:20:47 MST

This game looks like to have more blood than Stranglehold, all the Mortal Kombat games AND God of War combined. Gushing blood makes this game feel cheesy and it reminds me of those of Horror flick in the B-movie category. I could be mistaken, but isn't this the same guy who said his games were violent for a "reason"?

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sanjiyan — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:01:36 MST

Blood is cheap. Back in the days where the minds of art directors in video games had the "Screw reality, just make it look cool!" mentality.

What happened to having pumping hearts beating in the walls? Or lightning that only illuminated the area you were around in long enough to travel in short breaths?

"The walls over at the 56th prescient were bleeding. How do you explain that?"

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Andrew831 — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:43:22 MST

@frygar:

'Most important works of our time'...?

Dude, Saving Private Ryan had a great opening sequence yes, but it was no where near one of the most important works of our time. Except in influencing WW2 FPS games.

I mean if you're going for a classic D-Day movie try the Longest Day, or at least something that hints at nations OTHER than the US being involved in the freakin' campaign.

When did Kotaku become littered by mini-Jack Thompsons?

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Witzbold — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:38:30 MST

@DELICIOUS_BUNNY: Im sure its going to be gimped somehow. Hell I mean they gimped dead rising and that was killing the undead.

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Witzbold — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:37:56 MST

! stupid comments

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DELICIOUS BUNNY — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:21:15 MST

@Witzbold:

CERO rated Z damn you! That's one of the "best" things about Sigma, as stated earlier in my post. It's one of the first few games that I've witnessed so many decapitated heads (did God of War have this? Can't remember) from the flying swallow that made it actually more appealing than disgusting. Watch how the Japanese version has green blood or something, lol. (Kidding)

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DELICIOUS BUNNY — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:17:58 MST

@GinoKing:

Why even bother, seriously.

As for the topic itself, NG Sigma was my first time playing any NG game in the series, and also my first PS triple game, and while it was fun and such, I'll pick up II for 360 when it becomes a platinum hits title, or whatever Xbox calls their "Greatest Hits" line. My apologies for ignorance, as I'm a new Xbox owner, and haven't been in the know since, well, ya know.

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nijikon5 — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 09:47:10 MST

Entry

After watching The Human Weapon episode on ninjitsu, i'm more excited about the ninja action goodness.

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konchy — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 09:02:44 MST

i like how all the pieces get lopped off conveniently at the joints. hehe. =D reminds me of jedi academy fps on the pc

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SwedishChef — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 08:56:07 MST

I'm going to play this game so much they'll have to issue a restraining order against my Xbox 360.

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Candlejack — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 08:42:43 MST

@Mlata: Oh it will, it will. You'd be surprised of what the censorship department can pull off in Germany (namely USK) to cripple a game.

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Witzbold — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 08:34:17 MST

And this will all have nothing like the SSes above in the J version, which will make me a very sad panda.

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chos3n — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 08:10:44 MST

FIRST BLOOD!

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KM91 — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 07:56:47 MST

Dayum.

KM91

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jx1 — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 07:33:25 MST

@Flakor:

lmao
nice one.
gotta love HL2 quotes.

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fulgore66 — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 07:25:35 MST

@frygar: Are you trying to say that it is ok for "Art" to have blood, but not video games? Odd...

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Mlata — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 07:23:16 MST

There is no way this game is going to be released in Germany.

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Madeira — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 07:11:54 MST

@frygar: Yep, this game is perfect for the typical Xbot '35-going-on-13 crowd' isn't it? Not only that but how long would you even be able to play NG2 before the piece of crap 360 RROD'd anyways? Now if NG2 were a PS3 title...

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DaiMacculate — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 07:00:55 MST

Ok, now I'm not gonna rag on DMC or NG vs each other, both are good games in their own way. That said, while I'm tentatively still anticipating DMC4 I still remember the letdown that was DMC2. Fingers crossed its more like 3.

NG2 is going to rock, how about the twirling ninja magic that just evaporates the enemies into a swirl of limbs and blood? If you don't get that, I submit you probably were never that big a NG fan, going back to the original arcade/NES games...same goes for the cutscenes.

@frygar: Saving Private Ryan is a work of art? I dunno, its was a bit sappy to earn that distinction, IMO. Not a bad movie, I just don't know about Art.

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inajeep — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 06:54:36 MST

Blood effects, if done well can add to the realism but over done ruins it for me.

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Nexus6 — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 06:41:28 MST

Ninja Gaiden > DMC

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frygar — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 06:01:52 MST

@Andrew831: Did you seriously just make a comparison between one of the most important films of our time to a glorified 3D ninja hack 'em up, drawing the conclusion that since both have blood, they both must be important works of art that we take very, very seriously?

OH LAWD

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RuneX — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 05:41:54 MST

@Achaemenid:

If im not mistaken, MS bought the rights to NG2 itself. Meaning the IP for NG2 is Microsofts. The odds of it every coming to the PS3 in any form other than NG3, are about as good as sonic coming to a nintendo console.....wait...that happened didnt it....meh, this world is crazy. Noone can predict the future.

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Candlejack — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 05:23:47 MST

@SnakeCL: Even if, I still want it (on my PS3). Personally, I think it looks way better than Sigma. But that's just me...

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Andrew831 — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 05:20:01 MST

@frygar:

Yeah because blood instantly makes a game immature and tasteless like say Saving Private Ryan's opening scene.

SO adolescent.

REAL adults only play E for Everyone games.

Andrew831

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frygar — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 05:10:11 MST

Gratuitous amounts of blood like this in a game make it perfect for the 35-going-on-13 crowd.

I'll pass, thank you.

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-Sigil- — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 04:52:48 MST

@ photoboy: Yeah I noticed that too, since NG 1 it's had quite a few changes but remains quite grounded in the series roots which means it'll be a great sequel. My number 1 anticipated game, especially since the first was so good.

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photoboy — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 04:50:29 MST

@-sigil-: I agree, the game has made a lot of changes. Just looking at the movies and screenshots so far doesn't immediately reveal this but it's clear they're changing quite a lot. IIRC they've also dumped the weapons sub-screen so there's no stopping and jumping into a menu to use items etc.

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kryo — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 04:37:45 MST

A bit more blood perhaps? :)

Looks sweet, NG2 is steadily rising in my list of anticipated titles.

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-Sigil- — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 04:21:18 MST

@ Kyle81 (and anyone else who things it's not got much new): It's got a redesigned health system (which regens partly but not fully), ninpo is now much more effective and you can use more ninpo (making that a large part of the game), the new beheading and stuff will surely mean there are power/kill moves now and you'll have to learn if they work on bosses and whatnot which will be interesting to find out (obviously they won't kill them but might damage them alot) and the combat has become alot faster. Plus the new weapons and redesign of them (all are being reworked to be as usable in all situations as the dragon blade was in the first).

Anyone who complains at 4 changes on that scale is just dumb. health (change way you play, heal, monitore the battles etc.), weapons (obviously changes the fighting), combat speed (fighting again) and kill moves (combat).

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ca$h — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 04:03:25 MST

Give me a good camera (first one's sucked) and I'm in. That's all I needed to see thankyouverymuch.

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Psychotext — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 03:41:49 MST

Hmmm... needs more blood. Far too subtle.

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argh — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 03:34:07 MST

Lol, is the ESRB rating still "pending?"

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User-name — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 02:06:07 MST

@Bando

/sarcasm
Brawny :D

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Bando — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 01:55:13 MST

OH YEAAA!

@Kaemon:

"but this is completely unrealistic."

No shit? I mean, there's just demons and shit everywhere, I mean, yea, those demon don't look anything like the ones on my front lawn, fucking unrealistic. the last time I tried to fling the blood of my foes off my blade/blades, it didn't just slide off all nice like that, I had to use some mother fucking Brawny to wipe that shit off, I didn't even regain any lost health neither, unrealistic as hell.

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S4RGE — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 01:46:11 MST

Hmm, like it is now, Ninja Gaiden 2 will probably go on the index in Germany ... -_-. Too much gore.

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Sabre_Justice: Okay, no more long name. — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 01:44:15 MST

@GinoKing: GAHAHAHAHA!

Ooh, splatty.

@Maldron: But he's still real!

Sabre_Justice: Okay, no more long name.

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Maldron — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 01:02:18 MST

@Andrew831: Yeah, and so is Skynet.

Little known fact - Santa was sent from the future to kill an unborn baby to keep him from saving humanity. The toy thing? Just a front.

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zombiefrank — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:49:08 MST

I Like ninjas. I like gratuitous violence and gore. The closest thing I will get for now to a Shaw Brothers film. Sweet Ninja Gaiden I await thee.

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Crux117 — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:41:16 MST

@Kaemon: Its completely unrealistic for a Ninja's sword to dismember ligaments and for blood to be involved??? I think its completely realistic. Im glad someone is finally taking realistic steps towards the result of a sharp blade making contact with a humans soft exterior. Swordfighting is a messy process. I cant wait!

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Andrew831 — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:35:21 MST

@Maldron:

My world is shattered.

At least Santa Claus is still real.

Andrew831

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Trowble (XBL/PSN) — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:28:35 MST

Redrum. Redrum. Redrum.

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Maldron — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:23:05 MST

@Andrew831: Pfft, you wish - he's just Irish.

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Andrew831 — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:19:16 MST

@Kaemon:

What? Martial Arts media is unrealistic?

HOLY FUCKING SHIT SOMEONE ALERT THE PRESS, THE KARATE KID IS A SHAM!

BRUCE LEE DIDN'T REALLY HIT THAT GUY IN THE BALLS!

DOCTOR MCNINJA IS JUST A DOCTOR!

Andrew831

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NessD12 — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:14:53 MST

To be honest the game isn't hard just technical. Anyways I'm diggin the gratitious (however you spell it) amounts of blood. The hud is to busy though they really should clean it up.

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Draconis — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:02:45 MST

@Kai_: lawl, you're funny

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Passa — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 23:58:34 MST

Too much gore. That much blood would just make it unpleasant to play for me to be honest.

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K-Squad! (Badass Edition) — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 23:58:10 MST

YES, BLOOD AND GORE, I HOPE THEY THROW IN A MODEL OF JACK THOMPSON THAT I CAN DISMEMBER!!!!

sorry, was that too much??

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Mr.SithNinja — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 23:55:55 MST

I heart Sigma on thee PS3, but this looks like it could be just as good if not better. Any word on frame rate or 1080p?

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LittleBigPlaneteer — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 23:52:27 MST

@Kai_:

Your opinion is awful :(

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Swift_ — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 23:45:29 MST

People like this series cause they're told to by various review publications. It's awful. Opinion only!

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Snukadaman_ — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 23:44:28 MST

lol cant believe people are actually complaining about blood and gore...what are you people hippies? would you rather have it colored green?

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Deus Ex Machina — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 23:41:05 MST

All that blood looks glorious and totally fits in a game where you are flipping out and killing dudes.

I can't really understand the complaints about blood when were talking about Ninja Gaiden.

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theprof00 — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 23:32:46 MST

@darthvinder: lolz that's pretty funny.
seriously though itagaki isn't there soem other innovative concept in your bag besides blood, ninja's and jubblies? ....hmm sounds pretty concrete to me actually.
America eats this stuff up anyways. It's easy to sell shit when you know your audience. Just look at Hollywood, nuthin good ever comes outta there but they are still in business.

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Darthvinder — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 23:25:38 MST

@darthvinder:

That was not meant as GinoKing said it, it was a reference to Ashcraft's comment a while ago right before he banned the commenter. Heh.

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Darthvinder — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 23:24:31 MST

@GinoKing:

Last?

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Nightshift_Nurse — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 23:23:34 MST

I just wish Team Ninja would make a stab at a plot as epic as the NES original. Screw bulgy, toothy, chesty demons. I want Light and Dark statues, Bloody Malth, Jaquio, Aztec temples, Foster...the whole nine.

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Baconcake — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 23:18:50 MST

@Kaemon: What exactly is unrealistic about it? What do you think happens when people get limbs gut off? Flowers aren't going to pour out, your arteries are going to spurt blood ALL over the place.

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LittleBigPlaneteer — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 23:16:23 MST

@Kaemon:

I take it you don't like Samurai flicks?

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busboy33 — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 23:15:45 MST

@kusarigama:

What is DMC "mixing up" about the series? the last three games you had a sword and guns, but now you have guns and a sword?

busboy33

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Kaemon — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 23:13:44 MST

Frankly all the blood is unappealing to me. I'd rather have a good game thats perfectly clean, hello Mario, then a good game thats completely blood soaked, Hello Ninja Gaiden.

I mean, seriously, do some people get a kick out of watching someone be beheaded. I'm fine for games like COD4 and what not, but this is completely unrealistic.

Kaemon

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Draconis — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 23:13:05 MST

An appropriate header image caption:
"This is what (almost) always happens to 'First' posters."

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SnakeCL — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 23:09:42 MST

@beem:

Only until it gets released on PS3 as Ninja Gaiden 2 Omega or whatever it'll be called a year later. Team Ninja didn't go through all that trouble of getting a PS3 devkit, and having some of their guys learn PS3 architecture just for fun.

I still stand-by my comment. NG2 looks marginally better than sigma. Still looks plastic and doll-like. The only area vastly improved seems to be anti-aliasing, but that's just as likely to be doctored in the screencaps as an actual engine improvement.

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TheCleaningGuy — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 23:06:14 MST

Blood. Quite a bit of it. Yes.
Makes No More Heroes look like Ratchet and Clank.
Still looking forward to DMC 4 more though.

TheCleaningGuy

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LittleBigPlaneteer — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:59:45 MST

Anyone else think they're intentionally trying to depict the game as gruesome as possible in order to get a rise out of the Jack Thompsons of the world? They know as well as we do that Controversy = Sales. What better way?

LittleBigPlaneteer

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Gantz: Your Trusted Friend in Science. — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:55:13 MST

@beem: "Its clear you're only saying that because I'm afraid of the truth!"

fix'd

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kusarigama — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:45:06 MST

Meh. There's a lot of blood, is that all they're going to show for this game? I'm with snakecl and maldron on this one, DMC4 looks a hell of a lot better. I don't mean visuals or anything, but DMC4 seems to be mixing the series up a bit, and the story appears to be fairly interesting, whereas NGII's story will probably follow in the original's footsteps; that is, be about as interesting as watching paint peel. And it looks as though the gameplay will be basically the same, but adding the God of War/simon sez button pressing thing for some godawful reason, as if we didn't get enough of it nowadays.
But at least we know that Itagaki will step it up! Expect 100% more dismemberment, blood, and tits!

kusarigama

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dead_red_eyes — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:45:06 MST

@brello:

Well you know, when you use a sword to slice up a guy ... limbs are bound to go flying, and blood is bound to be everywhere.

That said, this isn't even that gory really.

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ShaggE — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:43:44 MST

@okenny :): Someone nominate that comment for COTW. I'm too lazy. :P

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Andrew831 — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:43:35 MST

@brello:
More like, not ENOUGH of a gore fest.

Where's the entrails?

Andrew831

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Gouki4u's avatar has a severe case of Jekyll and Hyde — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:43:10 MST

Apparently the enemies in Ninja Gaiden II are sacks of blood. Easily punctured sacks of blood. I hope the game has realistic splat sounds to go with all of this.

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Doomstalk — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:42:54 MST

@CaptRonJ: He's still got "Crimson and Clover"...

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Ultrasinc — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:42:43 MST

Man, why does DMC4 have to come up... I just look at that Nero Training trailer and gotta say, the execution of that game... cutscene, loadingscreen, gameplay, loadingscreen, cutscene, loadingscreen... is no good.

Of course, i'll still get DMC4 for the cutscenes, but to even bothering to compare these games... sigh...

Soon people are gonna compare Ryu vs Scorpion, then Akuma vs Chamelion...

Ultrasinc

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brello — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:36:36 MST

Bleh, too much of a gorefest.

brello

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Kirbytheslayer: In-Kirby XMB — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:36:33 MST

Bah. I enjoyed Sigma, blood and all, but seriously, this is getting excessive. To the point where it's actually unappealing. There's such thing as too much blood. There's just so much that it stops looking cool.

@okenny :): Dammit. Stop being funny. I'm going to have to start following you if you keep this up much longer. Your posts for the past few days have just been solid, and now this? bah!

@Plunkett: Wow. That makes you about 100x as forgiving as Ashcraft would have been.

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Maldron — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:28:51 MST

@beem: Even though DMC4 is also on the 360? Seriously - I admit that NGII looks better than sigma, but I'm also looking forward to DMC4 a hell of a lot more. Itagaki and his ilk didn't fix some of the horrible problems with the first game in any of its iterations, and I doubt they'll even bother with it in the sequel.

The "cinematic moments" advertised are also something that pisses me off. Any time that games as intense as these take control away from the player, be it in the camera or their actions, and presume to know better, I have a problem. And Ninja Gaiden seems to enjoy doing that all the gorram time.

Maldron

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Heyyou27 — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:27:51 MST

Looks just like Sigma to me.

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Sollus — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:27:42 MST

@okenny :):

O shit, that cracked me up hardcore. Congrats on that one man.

Sollus

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okenny :) — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:24:36 MST

So flowers are going to pour out in the Japanese versions right? The German version will have Ryu sit down and talk his problems out with the enemy ninjas. The British version make sure no religious architectural structures are on screen during the fighting. The Canadian version will translate the Ninpo symbols to French. Finally the US version will make sure all the female ninjas have their breasts covered.

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beem — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:22:25 MST

@SnakeCL:
It's clear you're only saying that because it's a 360 exclusive.

beem

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captronj — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:19:08 MST

So I'm thinking that Yahtzee is kicking himself about the fact that he has already used "Blood" by My Chemical Romance as an end credits song for a video. It would've been quite useful here, if the last few screen releases have told us anything.

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We Get It, Ninja Gaiden II Is Very Messy

weasl — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:18:33 MST

Meh... Deep down I love this game but I just can't get past the difficulty. I'd much rather play one of my other equally good games then bang my head up against the wall that is learning curve in Ninja Gaiden.

weasl

We Get It, Ninja Gaiden II Is Very Messy

pikachumariachi — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:17:53 MST

I'm really liking the blood there, it's giving it a more Anime feel

pikachumariachi

We Get It, Ninja Gaiden II Is Very Messy

blackadvent — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:17:18 MST

"HOLY SHIT!"

/Unreal Tournament announcer

blackadvent

We Get It, Ninja Gaiden II Is Very Messy

Flakor — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:17:16 MST

Major Lacerations Detected

Flakor

We Get It, Ninja Gaiden II Is Very Messy

Rohstafari — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:15:11 MST

The game looks great. One of the most anticipated sequals of all-time. And rightfully so.

Rohstafari

We Get It, Ninja Gaiden II Is Very Messy

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:14:21 MST

@GinoKing: Don't ever do that again. Ever.

Luke Plunkett

We Get It, Ninja Gaiden II Is Very Messy

Kyle81 — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:13:16 MST

@Moonshadow101: That would be cool. Ninja magic!

So you like Madden like updates to game where nothing really changes?

Kyle81

We Get It, Ninja Gaiden II Is Very Messy

B33 — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:12:02 MST

I'm digging the look of the blood in NG2. Though was never really a fan of this series. Not knocking it, just saying the series really never caught my interest.

B33

We Get It, Ninja Gaiden II Is Very Messy

Sollus — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:10:29 MST

I think the game plays great and I like it a lot but why must all of the characters look like plastic dolls?

Sollus

We Get It, Ninja Gaiden II Is Very Messy

Moonshadow101 — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:07:59 MST

@Kyle81: What the hell are you expecting? A section where you turn into a dragon and fly around?

Moonshadow101

We Get It, Ninja Gaiden II Is Very Messy

Gaia99 — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:07:23 MST

WTB...wish I had a 360 so I can look foward to it...maybe next year /sigh

Gaia99

We Get It, Ninja Gaiden II Is Very Messy

edb87 — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:06:04 MST

@GinoKing: blahblah Banned yaddayadda knock it off, turd stuffstuffstuff maturity blah.

edb87

We Get It, Ninja Gaiden II Is Very Messy

Kyle81 — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:06:02 MST

Meh..... seriously is tons of gore only new thing in NG2? Pretty much all we are seeing about this game is that lolz gore. I enjoyed the first one, but are we going to actually get some new material this time around or just same game with blood?

Kyle81

We Get It, Ninja Gaiden II Is Very Messy

edb87 — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:05:00 MST

Sweet nectar of the gods! More! I crave MORE!

edb87

We Get It, Ninja Gaiden II Is Very Messy

goldwings — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:04:30 MST

Icky, but strangely satisfying (I NEED HELP)
@GinoKing: Oh no you didn't

goldwings

We Get It, Ninja Gaiden II Is Very Messy

Green-clad Gamer Dude — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:04:28 MST

@GinoKing: "Don't ever do that again."

Green-clad Gamer Dude

We Get It, Ninja Gaiden II Is Very Messy

Torusan — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:04:10 MST

@GinoKing: :(

Torusan

We Get It, Ninja Gaiden II Is Very Messy

GinoKing — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:03:32 MST

Damnit.

GinoKing

We Get It, Ninja Gaiden II Is Very Messy

GinoKing — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:03:12 MST

First.

GinoKing

We Get It, Ninja Gaiden II Is Very Messy

dpena81 — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:03:06 MST

don't know what to say but it looks awesome.

dpena81

We Get It, Ninja Gaiden II Is Very Messy

SnakeCL — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:02:54 MST

And it still only looks marginally better than Sigma...

I never thought I'd say this, but I'm more excited for DMC4.

SnakeCL