Until Devil May Cry 5, Devil May Cry 2 had better hair physics than the non existent ones from 1, 3 and I believe 4! Sooooooooooo!?!?
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Every franchise has defenders of the "outlier" entry...except Devil May Cry 2. No one defends that
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Not a fan necessarily but I will take World 2 over World 3 any day.
No one needs to defend one of the best classic Resident Evils. It is already known to be excellent.
Surprised OP didn't use Skyward Sword as an example.
Anyways, I feel like Other M and Sticker Star are nearly in the same boat as DMC2. You'll only really at most have people say they had fun with it but not nearly the peak of the series or as good as they should've been.
Anyways, I feel like Other M and Sticker Star are nearly in the same boat as DMC2. You'll only really at most have people say they had fun with it but not nearly the peak of the series or as good as they should've been.
Me and my best friend still refer to this game as "paying taxes." It's so integral to the main RE storyline but it's so bad.
Right here! Zelda 2 is actually an awesome game. One of the best in the series.
There I said it. And I mean it.
Dragon Quest 2 was really good at the time. THREE party members instead of just one (and how you get the princess is pretty neat), enemy parties, and a drastically bigger world. I'll agree that it has long since been surpassed and there's a lot of cheapness near the end (which is pretty standard for the era), but I'd rather play DQ2 than DQ1.
I would argue Fallout:Brotherhood of Steel has no defenders. Ok... I guess I saw one once. But almost everyone else in Fallout at best ignores that that even exists and refuses to even consider it part of the series (even Tactics has its defenders and I'd say I see a decent amount of people enjoy 76 and call it a Fallout). It's been so disowned most people forget it even exists (even if they knew it did).
Huh? Zelda 2 is a fantastic game ahead of its time. Its a dragon quest JRPG complete with random encounters, overworld, safe roads, spells and levels but as an action RPG with actual dungeons. Really awesome for a nes game
I'd defend DMC2 before I'd defend Other M or something like Castlevania: Judgment. I will, however, fist fight anyone over Arkham Origins. That one has a better story than City or Knight, and the detective work/reconstructions are great.
Agreed about Origins. It's certainly rough in several places no doubt but I also really loved the story in that game. Boss fights as well were all round pretty great - way better than whatever the heck Arkham Knight was trying to do that's for sure.
I like it. I think it's misunderstood, they at least did something different and the game mechanics works.
Perhaps it's not as good as the other games but it's close.
Bubsy 3D is good for memes and the dark corners of the Internet, but I refuse to believe anyone in the right mind would actually want to play it.
I never said I'd want to play it but I'd chose it over DMC2
I don't think I've ever seen someone defend Ninja Gaiden 3 vanilla. I've seen Razor's Edge be defended (though it's still ass), but never vanilla.
Fuck yes it does.
Samus has never felt more speedy or powerful. Having her pick up monsters before crushing them with brute strength or shoving her Arm Canon down their throats before she blows them up from the inside? I fucking loved it.
Honestly very few games make me feel like a woman is a weapon of sheer devastation like Other M was able to.
Story was indeed woeful but given Sakamoto was trying to go for the Father/Daughter angle like that of Goku/Gohan, I was going to hate it no matter the quality.
There's not much to defend there. From a gameplay standpoint it's a downgrade from NGB and NG2 in every way and the story, which unlike the previous 3d games was a big part of the marketing, well...
Laughable is too mild a word to describe it.
I can say two good things about DMC2:
1) Playable Trish was a good idea (even though it's a pain to unlock her).
2) DMC2's supreme awfulness may have contributed to the supreme excellence of DMC3 by planting seeds that would later inspire the devs.
For the record, I don't think Dante's DMC2 design is that great. He looks much better in DMC1.
1) Playable Trish was a good idea (even though it's a pain to unlock her).
2) DMC2's supreme awfulness may have contributed to the supreme excellence of DMC3 by planting seeds that would later inspire the devs.
For the record, I don't think Dante's DMC2 design is that great. He looks much better in DMC1.
One of my best friends back in the day married a girl who loved DMC2 cause she could run around and kill everything and feel real strongk.
They are divorced now.
They are divorced now.
I liked it!
It was also my first ever "immersive sim" type game so having any choices and being able to take different routes was pretty awesome as a mostly console player at the time.
I also liked exploring the nooks and crannies for secrets, like a dart gun that lit people on fire.
Story wasn't great (especially the ending(s)), and the performance was horrendous on the original Xbox, but there really wasn't anything like it at the time.
the game being a black sheep (popularity/critical wise) has always been kind of a myth
even back in the day nobody really shat on it. it was actually an "improvement" that it played like a 'real game' in the west to most extents
It has a passionate and very vocal cult following within enthusiast spaces, but it's not at all hard to find lots of Zelda fans who find it to be an overly bizarre, obtuse, and rushed experience that doesn't quite match up to the likes of most mainline Zelda games.
I was a Dreamcast kid so I like Code Veronica.
I shouldn't laugh but that is pretty funny.
On topic, does Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness have any defenders? I was (and still am) a big Tomb Raider fan and I remember going to a friend's house to play it on his PS2. Think we played for about 15 minutes before giving up.
I think more people would say that about Triforce Heroes.
Just saying, there are other Zeldas that are more of an outlier.
The seller at the store told me that this was the best game of the trilogy. It was the first time I felt scammed in my life.
