Video Game General 6.4: New Halo? What else?

If that were the case, Capcom fighting games would have FLOURISHED this gen.

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I think he meant fun bullshit. Like everyone in XvSF (even fucking Zangief) having infinite’s. Or psylocke assist hero in mvc1. Everyone being silly broken in UMK3.

Etc.

So on and so forth.

A glitch that doesn’t let you block low seems like a huge oversight on their part. The again, Jwong did help design the game. :upside_down_face:

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If anyone had planned to get the physical version of Wolfenstein Young Blood on the Switch. Maybe reconsider? The “physical” edition is literally just a game case with a voucher

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Also target is currently having a buy 1 get 1 50% off sale going on right now. Also if you preorder borderlands 3 through them you get a free $10 gift card.

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Imo DMC4 is the low point of the series because it was quickly designed and shit out to capitalize on 3’s hype. Even 2 had ok level design, but 4 was like a lazy version of SotN where you have the inverted castle, but at least there the castle was well designed from the jump. 4’s design was lazy and boring. The only good thing about 4 is Dante, but you have to play thru the game with boring-ass Nero to be able to use him. If you can get it cheap, go for it, but it’s probably the beginning of the Crapcom era.

This is such a weird way to spell “Nero”

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Capcom had a lot of gall making you play the game thru with a character that had no weapons and a brloring gimmick like devil bringer after the beasts that dmc3 Dante and Vergil were.

Now DMC5 Nero is a blast to play because he feels a little more fleshed out with the Devil Breakers and all. But man was my ass chapped playing thru 4 with him. :face_vomiting:

I don’t like Dante as a character. Like…not even remotely. But I enjoy hack n slash games (though admittedly I have shit taste in them. see: Onechanbara, DmC, and Senran Kagura lol) when I heard Dante was barely in 4 I jumped on it immediately.

As soon as I took over as Dante and realized I had to play the game literally backwards I stopped playing and gifted it to a friend.

:woman_shrugging:t3:

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Quite possibly because Epic is a shit company with terrible business practices. The more I have conversations with other gamers, the more I believe that BL3 will be garbage compared to #2. Some of us remember the bullshit epic pulled with Gears of war on the PC. They were exclusive to the Xbox, and it was a console game. 8 months later, it came out on PC and its poor sales and rampant piracy was blamed on PC gamers, and none of the blame was placed on the business choices of Epic. By the time the game came out for the PC, many who wanted to play it already were bored with it. Cliffy B blamed the PC audience fully for the terrible sales. Was GoW a good game? It is debatable. Would their sales on the PC have been larger had they avoided exclusivity? I think that is irrefutable. I know that the spineless brainlet Cliffy B no longer works for Epic, but Epic never disavowed his sentiments.

This is the setup I can really see happening.
Borderlands 3 has mediocre sales on Epic Games Store. Less than Borderlands 2 sales in a similar time frame. BL3 will release on steam to lackluster sales. Gearbox & 2k will directly or indirectly blame the “Toxic nature of gamers” on steam for their lack of sales. They treat consumers as a guaranteed profit, and IF they don’t achieve their profit goals, it is obviously the consumer’s fault.

My other concern, and is also reasonable is that this creates a trend with PC platforms…What if this becomes an acceptable industry trend? Could Valve/Steam offer exclusivity to future games? This would make me just as upset. Obviously 1st party titles will stay with their respective platform (Blizzard/Valve/Epic), but competition is great for gamers. Not just in cost, but in quality.

However, this is all just speculation on my part. Borderlands Pre-Sequel was a hot mess of garbage. It goes to show that you can’t take a proven formula and keep selling it. If BL3 follows this trend, it is going to be a big letdown.

I planned on buying at least 3 copies of the game and the season passes day one via steam. Now that I know I will be waiting, I will simply wait for a sale or even “find” the game some other way. I will have time to read reviews and hear from others who own it to advise me on their opinions. I may not buy it at all, and the way it is looking this is a very real possibility.

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This video brings up some great points about Sekiro not needing a easy mode.

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I get that. I just mean his style of play, honestly, the characters are hilariously cheesy in all DMC games, and I get why Dante can be the worst offender at times.

I like DmC too, game was fun af, miles better than 4 in terms of level design, and had some great boss fights. Plus, Dante in that game seemed designed as a “best of” in terms of his move list. Kitchen sink Dante is definitely the best Dante, but DmC Dante was a lean mean machine.

Virtual ON ports coming. Just in time for the Tanita twin stick controller as well.

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I remember at the arcade I basically grew up in whenever we didn’t have enough marvel players we’d always do round robin virtual on tournaments. Shit would get SUPER intense.

Obviously I was always the girl robot.

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I’ve only ever fought a good opponent in person in Virtual-On literally only on one occasion in my entire life, but that shit was some of the sickest gaming ever.

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I strongly disagree with DMC4 < DMC2 argument. Despite the repetition in DMC4, the level design is passable with much greater visual variety and does not actively keep you from advancing at every step. The gameplay of DMC2 is also incredibly limited/boring and the recurring flip the switch and platform to the gate shtick wears out its welcome. The Bloody Palace in Devil May Cry 4 alone is more entertaining than the entirety of Devil May Cry 2. After the additional playable characters added by 4’s Special Edition, the gap between the entertainment value of each title grows even wider. Still hate Nero and Kyrie though.

I think that it is also worth mentioning that DMC2 is like Super Mario Bros. 2 in the sense that it is a different game with popular brand slapped on after the fact.

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I don’t disagree with anything you said, except that DMC2 feels like a game, boring though it may be at times, they actually bothered to make something. But it’s a lot like 4 in that it was made quickly to capitalize and it’s then worse for it. 4 feels like a demo.

If they’d put 4 out as only Bloody Palace and called it DMC 3.5 that would have been fine, but as it is, it’s a chore to play through. I downloaded DMC4SE but I haven’t bothered to play it because the stages are such a snooze.

EDIT: This is post 1337 :sunglasses:

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Wasn’t DMC2 so ill recieved they keep pushing it back in the timeline of dmc? Or is that 3 I’m thinking of?

It was 2. Even numbered DMC games are not good. Maybe they’ll skip 6 and go straight to 7 to avoid the even number curse

If I can’t play Borderlands 3 using that Twin stick then BL3 is dead to me.

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