You're right in that they are the same universe, but you have to take into account the team that's making the game. When Tetsuya Nomura has been the main director of a game, he has yet to let me down. ( minus a few portable Kingdom Hearts games that were obviously souless cash-ins...and even those weren't terrible. Just not great.)
@TimberWolf_CLT If the US court systems worked the way they should work, a monkey in a suit would be able to win the case for Stoic. Too bad that isn't always the case.
*cue joke about monkey being cheaper and more useful than a traditional lawyer*
Honestly I'm not surprised someone is trying to copywrite a single word. But if it was me I'd go for higher frequency vocab, like "The". That's where the real money's at.
Okay. I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you are not a fan of hack and slash games.
So I'll start you off with the basics. A hack and slash game by definition is repetative button pushing. That is NOT what the problem is with Ryse. There's nothing wrong with repetative button pushing. In fact repetative button pushing is quite fun, so long as various other conditions are met.
1) You fight new enemies who require new strategies to beat. (exh: Instead of just pushing A, now you have to push B to destroy his shields... Then push A! Brilliant!)
2) You have new interesting weapons to use. (Before when I pushed A I stabbed a dude with a sword. Now with my shiny hew sycle, pushing A sweeps around and stabs a bunch of enemies grim reaper style) Cool!
3) The new weapons and new enemies are combined with old enemies forcing you to switch between tactics on the fly. This often requires a test of reflexes as well as fast thinking and stragey. This is where 99% of the "depth" of any hack and slash game comes from.
4) The game never, STOPS giving you knew weapons/techniques and new enemies. This way the player is always learning and adapting their play style to fit the new challenges that are thrown at them.
If these four conditions are met, a fan of hack and slash games, will love the experience. If these four conditions are not met, then... not so much.
I have yet to play Ryse but from what the reviews are saying the game failed to fulfill numbers 4 and possibly number 3. That is why this game gets lower scores than a game like God of War. Because by genre standards it fails to succeed (according to the reviewer or this site and many others... again I haven't played the game).
TLDR: All games with similar gameplay do not have similar quality. Just as most people would agree that a game like Halo 3 is better than Duke Nukem Forever despite the fact that they both have "Mindless shooting", people can say that one Hack and Slash game is better than another hack and slash game based on the content of said games.
It doesn't make very much sense to base your opinion on what appeals to the general public or not. If you don't like the movies, it should be because of their content. And if you did like the original series it should also be because of its content.
Do you also hate movies like Inception and the Matrix because they're popular with the general public?
Basing your opinion solely off of what's popular is kind of silly. Don't be a hipster nerd.
@dbene @tomservo51 @Horndawgie @GalvatronType_R See that's a fair argument. These exclusive indie games probably won't be exclusive for long, so you'll be able to play them on x-box one sooner or later, most likely.
For me both main consoles would be a viable option. I have a few paranoia issues with the whole "camera always watching you" aspect of the x-box one and a slightly irational fear that they'll suddenly change their mind about the whole always online thing. I don't think they will though.
And honestly the games that I wanted to buy that I thought would be PS4 exclusive are Final fantasy XV and Kingdom Hearts 3. but since they're coming to both systems that point is moot as a console seller.
Really the main reason I'm going to go PS4 in the end is because the price is cheaper. But if you're a fan of the x-box exclusives and aren't as cheap (or paranoid) as I am, then x-box is probably the way to go.
I agree, they should stop the hate too. Brand loyalty is rather silly. But even if you are loyal to a brand it doesn't mean you have to consider all other brands stupid.
If I saw one of the sony guys hating pointlessly in the comments of some article I was reading, I'd annoyingly nag at them as well. But well... I saw your comment first, so you get the nag my friend.
@dmastor I think what you're missing here is that the PS4 can also play all the tripple A games as well. So yes, it can play low requirement indie games. It can also play games like The Division, and Infamous Second Son... and... you get the point.
On a similar note, I wouldn't make fun of a PC because it's a powerful system that can play minesweeper and solitaire. Nor would I make fun of an Xbox because it can play braid and splunky. Let's stop the hate.
@ahmed74 Thanks for this completely relevant and on topic comment. You've greatly added to this discussion. I look forward to hearing more of your input.
@genjuroT I think as a point of observation you're probably correct about this. That is to say, there are certainly more men in the world who are capable and willing to kill violently for whatever reason. I'm sure there are some women like Tess, who would shoot someone without a second thought, if it meant her survival or theirs. However this is the exception, not the rule.
The real question is why this occurs. I suspect that it has nothing to do with the hormones in your body, or what's between your legs. I think most likely it's a result of cultural gender roles. Women are not expected to be stone cold killers without emotion. In most movies and media they see, the woman is the eye candy who maybe isn't a afraid to get her hands a little dirty, but is almost always the moral compass when it comes to violence. That's in part why I found it refreshing the Tess was the one who was really running their two man operation.
In contrast, it's practically every little boy's dream to be the lone action hero standing up against the evil in the world. Or baring that, just to be a badass who could take down anyone if need be. We're conditioned to be strong protectors. So when a real life violent situation comes, we're already a lot more comfortable with the idea, because we've spent our whole lives fantasizing about filling that role.
I personally don't think there's anything innately violent, or non-violent about men or women. I think we've all just trained ourselves to think that way.
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