I’m playing through Ninja Gaiden 2 (X360) at the moment partly in preparation for this release. NG4 looks so fucking different but still - I think - promising. I’m not sure what I think about the full cyberpunk aesthetic but who plays these games for the story anyway? Combat looks vicious, fast and brutal and even though it looks very different from the old games it still looks good I think.
It’s more about the aesthetic, I really enjoyed when it was the weird modern/ancient mix they were going with before rather than this actual cyberpunk.
I am sure that many people use games to make statements, but not all devs think like that. Many of them just think “it would be cool to play/develop a game like this” without thinking about any kind of statement they will be making.
And thats great if you’re making Hello Kitty Island Adventure. These guys based their game off the movie Starship Troopers, not even the book that kinda idealized the military. But the one that made a statement about fascism. Seems to me the publisher had a slight disconnect with the actual developers there.
20 years on (yes, 20), that opening theme still gets me hyped up. I was really expecting the Battlestar to jump away from the missile in the last shot.
It was a surprisingly decent game which kept up its quality until the end. Devs could able to capture Indiana Jones feeling all around. I’m sure DLC would be fine again.
Serious question: am I the only one who couldn’t figure out what this game was called because of the poor font decision (Specifically the first letters)? I now know only because of this Lemmy post lol. Seems more obvious now but my god I couldn’t figure it out earlier
People said good shit about cyberpunk 2077 at release.
Take games journalism with a grain of salt. Even the largely honest ones generally only get the first "X minutes" to demo, which designers pack impressive moments into for the press, but then the rest of the game is half baked or a slog.
Take fallout 4 as an example. They throw you into a laser battle, in full power armour, with a death claw in the first hour. Do you keep the armor? No. Do you keep going toe to toe with deathclaws? No. You get made into a minuteman bitch seconds after and then have to set up 638 settlements. Guess which part the press got to see before release?
The true silken song will be the unabashed wailing of gamers who have been edging so hard for 6 years that this game couldn’t possible have lived up to the hype anyway
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