Microsoft: "This year the most anticipated games will be exclusive to xbox"

[Lord N]

Zim said:
I honestly can't believe how many people I have seen question NG2's quality. Have they played NG?

For me I felt it smoked Dmc and God of war easily. Even NG normal enemies are good, in Dmc and GoW you can easily make it through normal enemies button mashing (if I can complete Dmc3 on the PC with the worst controls ever I feel that is a pretty good testament to it.) I mean DMC and GoW are great games but NG is still pretty far above them to me. NG was one of the best looking games of last generation and had incredible gameplay. Looks like NG2 is doing the same, seems like a reason to get hyped.

Oh and I think a lot of people aren't giving the 360 lineup enough credit. We just had Lost Odyssey, then there is GoW2, NG2, Fable 2, Too human, Splinter cell, alan wake, banjo kazooie3, left 4 dead, possibly Halo wars. And then some smaller exclusives like supreme commander, universe at war, warhound etc.

In an extremely nice turn of events it seems the games should be spread out as well. LO just came out, then Too human in spring, then NG2 in June, then I imagine fable 2 will be a bit before or after GoW2.

The combat in Ninja Gaiden does indeed have a higher learning curve than GOW or DMC, I'll give you that; however, once you get the hang of it, you can pretty much go through the game on autopilot. Hell, you can beat most of the game using all of three moves. The only part of it that was "hard" was where Tecmo couldn't actually make it hard in a reasonable fashion and decided to remove save points and make you start levels all over again for nothing, which made the game seem more like a chore at times than an exciting challenge.. So yeah, NG does outshine GOW and DMC when it comes to tedious and unnecessary hassle.

 

As for the rest of those games , the only that has any merit for being called the most anticipated is GoW2. The rest are either unproven and/or will only draw interest from people who already have a 360. Brawl and Mario Kart will garner more interest than all of those titles including GoW2 because they appeal to a wider demographic.