Be Excellent To Each Other

A. Fighting. Game.

Touché. Only, it ain't, it's got stealth in it.

Then I'm sold! I love hiding - it's the abject coward in me.

Some of the best moments of revengeance come from stealthing an entire area whilst unseen.

The silent takedown's are amazing.

I picked this up for cheaps. I feel very guilty I picked it up for cheaps having played it.

I'm only about 1/3 of the way through by the look of it but it's utterly fucking incredible. The sheer mental nature of the combat that also requires some finesse to actually get spot on but is forgiving enough to just let you be a killing machine that can lop limbs off at will is something that only Bayonetta comes close to (unsurprisingly).

And I keep discovering things about it that make me squee. Like last night I only just realised you can enter blade mode mid finishing move to execute a Zandatsu in the middle of an already fucking cool finishing move.

I am buying Bayonetta 2 at full price on Friday to make up for buying MGR:R cheap.

Yeah it really is the best video game.

Got this on the steam Christmas sale and it's brilliant. Probably the best fighting system i've ever seen. Parrying and counter attacking just gives me a rush that not many games can.

The boss fights are beyond amazing. The one in the desert with the bearded samurai is a classic for the ages.

I'm now at the 7th level which i suppose is the last one.

Much as I love Bayonetta 2 the constant attack and parry in MGR:R probably wins in terms of sheer energy and flat out fun.

Yeah it really is the best video game.

Sequel


YES.

Kind of looks like the sequel was cancelled, what with Platinum taking on so many other projects at the minute. They just shipped Transformers Devastation, they have Nier 2, Scalebound, Starfox Zero and a third unannounced Activision game in the pipeline.

With Konami jetisoning all their console games studios except for the PES team, I wonder if they simply decided to cancel it. The teased 2 suggests it was happening at one point, but who know's what Konami management is planning.

It seems to me that if you are going to continue to make Metal Gear games without Kojima, doing more Metal Gear Rising games seems like the most credible way to do it, but I'm not sure how profitable the first game was.

Anyway, they probably would have got you all excited with an amazing Raiden intro, only to pull a switcheroo and have you play as that wuss Solid Snake for the rest of the game.

Re-reading this thread, I've decided to take the plunge for a whole £2.90 new from amazon.

If it's shit, Sat and LewieP owe me half a pint in London town.

Nier 2? Interesting, I never imagined a sequel to that would ever see the light of day. I heard really good things about it but just couldn't for the life of me get into it and I gave up pretty close to the start during some sort of boss fight where I had no fucking idea what I was supposed to be doing. This seems to be a running theme for me; if your game can't be bothered to explain it's self enough to get me into the swing of things then it can probably get to fuck.

ETA: Although, having just YouTubed the bit I got to out of curiosity it looks like a piece of piss and I can't remember what it was about that encounter that put me off now.

The story goes that a producer at Platinum had an idea for a game that was somewhat inspired by Nier, but didn't know how to get it funded/made.

Then Square Enix approached Platinum and asked if there was anything they could partner on. The producer suggested making his idea into a straight up Nier sequel, and SE obliged.

I finished it last night. Apparently the run took 5 hours. But it felt like longer.

I played it on Easy because I spent most of my time only half knowing what my combos were doing. Got the hang of Blade Mode and tearing out people's spines fairly early on, but never managed to get to grips with parrying.

There were times when I was conscious the challenge was lacking, so I'm contemplating a Newgame+ on Normal.

But it's a fantastically ludicrous game, even if it's last quarter wasn't quite as ludicrous as I was expecting (Bayonetta may have spoilt me in that regard).