Ninja Gaiden has always been harder. I still have trouble with Mentor and Master Ninja even after finishing the game 50+ times on those difficulty
I personally think they're way way way WAY harder than Dark Souls.
Still is. DS you can farm or break the Ia or summon somebody, Ninja Gaiden is simply brutal from start to finish with no shortcuts.
I'd say the environment in Dark Souls is the real obstacle where NG the enemies are.
Very true, I don't think any single regular enemy in Dark Souls would be a real challenge alone in an empty room. Ninja Gaiden can still kill you.
You might be right on that, though I personally know a lot of DMC players who've never touched a Ninja Gaiden (no Xbox, etc.) whereas the opposite has been rarer from my experience (even if a lot of those voices tend to miss the point with DMC like I discussed).
I disagree with this line of reasoning. DMC rewards you constantly for getting better at it (not just through the scoring system but because mastering things like jump canceling actively makes the fights more manageable), and you'll basically never STOP getting better with how high the skill ceiling is. By comparison, Ninja Gaiden gives me fewer reasons to experiment and step out of my comfort zone. It's all preference in the end anyway.
Interesting, I've only had the chance to play Chapter 1 thus far and can't say I noticed but I will be certain to test next time I play. Are there any other known BC games with this issue and have they ever been patched?
Maybe it's an issue with the elite controller? I am currently on chapter 6 on X and never ever had this issue, using a normal controller. Later I will play with my elite to see if this issue comes up.
So? What does that even mean? It's not like you can quantify something like a skill ceiling with hard numbers.
Because of a fancy animation off a single input?
Really can't agree with that. The higher difficulties force you to really learn how to play the game by using the move set to navigate around the environment while using iframes to mitigate the massive damage enemies can deal. You gain a much higher level of understanding of the combat mechanics after playing on the higher difficulties.
I didn't say people who prefer Ninja Gaiden are ignorant about DMC's mechanics. What I said is that specifically comments like "DAMN, sorry DMC, time to pack up for the KING Ninja Gaiden" over a fucking gif of Ryu playing a canned animation suggest some level of ignorance to me toward what the other series is actually going for. Like I said in my initial post, it feels like those kinds of comments are slagging off DMC as clearly inferior to Ninja Gaiden for not matching that series in certain aspects when in reality playing DMC at its level highest is just as or potentially even more intense than what Ryu goes through. Basically, I don't think you'd be getting on a high horse over your action game of choice if you actually understood how high DMC's ceiling really goes. You don't have to be a fan, but it deserves respect IMO.
Oh! I didn't even know about that. I'm pretty sure it did still freeze every now and then even pre-patch though, just like... it was very, very less likely and didn't happen but maybe once or twice in all the time I played the game last year. My favorite thing about this becoming BC so far? Not that it looks and runs fantastically (although I love those bits), but it's that It hasn't crashed on me once (I've always thought this was what they had to work on before getting it tmade BC, and I still think it's why it took so long).
The worm boss fight is trivial. Just stand at a cave entrance and charge the scythe UT, release it when the worm is near. Repeat.
That was exactly what I thought the first time I saw the game running.
I actually love the armadillos fight lol. I like the sheer absurdity about them and the need for constant movement. But only with explosive shurikens, without them the fight is a chore.
I was thinking it looked quite clean when I stared a fresh playthrough but it really hit me upon reaching Venice in Chapter 5.
Iirc he didn't know to block after they died to survive the explosion, then again most of us didn't lol. I love how the armadillos are glorified hamsters in wheels powering the airship.
That's exactly what I hated about it though. What made NGB great was honing your tactics against each and every enemy type. It was the anti-spam anti-cheese game at high level. No more FS spam or anything like that, fight stuff toe to toe or you die.
I guess there kinda is, with the big robot enemies you fight in the airship in the level before. They explode when they die and if you don't block you take damage. That is kind of a stretch though, since they're completely different types of enemies (robots vs... nuclear animals?) and I didn't make that connection either.
