Ninja Gai---, er...Ninja Blade. (360)

[Goufunaki]

Very short trailer showing no gameplay.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRFpihVMG94


And yet I'm interested.

[Translucid]

Re: Ninja Gai---, er...Ninja Blade. (360)

if you didn't show me the title, I would just say that that is ninja gaiden.

[Tintenfisch]

Re: Ninja Gai---, er...Ninja Blade. (360)

Gameplay, or it didn't happen.

I think I'm done for now with ninja games after playing Ninjagaymanz II for the 360.

[DarkwingChuck]

Re: Ninja Gai---, er...Ninja Blade. (360)

Has anyone tried the demo for this yet? Man, it's stupid. Nothing but button mashing and QTEs. Lots and LOTS of QTEs. I hate them so much. Why does every game use them now? Who was the genius who thought button prompted cutscenes were a great gameplay element?

[DK]

Re: Ninja Gai---, er...Ninja Blade. (360)

What about those old Don Bluth laserdisc games?

[marcus]

Re: Ninja Gai---, er...Ninja Blade. (360)

Who was the genius who thought button prompted cutscenes were a great gameplay element?

Yu Suzuki.

They've been used in plenty of games since Dragon's Lair in '84 but Die Hard Arcade was the first to combine them in games that weren't interactive movies and Yu Suzuki coined the term QTE.

Perhaps the death of Shenmue is a fitting punishment for unleashing a cancer among modern devs.

[DK]

Re: Ninja Gai---, er...Ninja Blade. (360)

Funny, I never had a problem with QTE events. It's not like failing them ever set you back more than 30 seconds.

[DarkwingChuck]

Re: Ninja Gai---, er...Ninja Blade. (360)

I just find them dumb. Especially a game that throws them at you every other minute. It's just a lazy way to create cool moments without actually making a control scheme dynamic enough to incorporate them.

[Tintenfisch]

Re: Ninja Gai---, er...Ninja Blade. (360)

I'll call this game God of ninja.

[marcus]

Re: Ninja Gai---, er...Ninja Blade. (360)

Funny, I never had a problem with QTE events. It's not like failing them ever set you back more than 30 seconds.

Throws me out of the atmosphere of the game. Some games use them for no reason other than to add to the laundry list of features.

Uncharted? Had like three QTE scenes and they were completely unnecessary. Something like God of War I can stand because it's part of the combat but UGH the knife fight in Resident Evil 4 was really cool but terrible because you had to devote your attention to mashing a button in .5 seconds.

[Goufunaki]

Re: Ninja Gai---, er...Ninja Blade. (360)

Has anyone tried the demo for this yet? Man, it's stupid. Nothing but button mashing and QTEs. Lots and LOTS of QTEs. I hate them so much. Why does every game use them now? Who was the genius who thought button prompted cutscenes were a great gameplay element?

I played the demo. It was pretty bad. It tries to be ninja gaiden, but throws in QTE for no real reason. Graphics look nice at least.

[Eso Teric]

Re: Ninja Gai---, er...Ninja Blade. (360)

I'll call this game God of ninja.

I played the demo for leSs than 2 minutes on my friend's red ringing Xbobx, and pretty much made that comment to him. :/