gabzjmm23 said:
Vodacixi said:
I'm having a lot of fun with this game. It's far from being a masterpice. But is not shit either.
Bad things:
- Technically is a mess. Framerate drops sharply whenever lots of explosions are shown on screen, loading times take too long in the multiplayer mode, some textures take some time to charge... Fortunatley, there are no bugs or glitches, at least in my playtime.
- Graphics are irregular. The game as a whole looks correct in general with good character model for the main characters of the story. But some textures look like crap, random character faces are lame and the effects of explosions could have come from a 6th generation system.
- The story, while interesting at some points of the campaing, is just the same shit we have seen in tons of films, books and games over and over.
- Enemy AI sometimes is nowhere to be found.
Good Things:
+ It's fun to play. Adding melee/hack n slash elements to the core FPS experience is a total success. Thanks to that...
+ ...the gameplay becomes more varied than 95% of any FPS out there. You don't just shoot, cover and throw grenades: you can slice your enemies with katanas and knifes or smash them with hammers and iron bars in a third person perspective. Your enemies will do that as well, and you can block their attacks or dodge them.
+ There are a very generous amount of different kind of enemies. Each one requires a different strategy: shoot from distance, defeat them in close combat, combine both ways...
+ Boss battles are epic and quite challenging...
+ ...as is the game. Despite some moments of dumb enemy AI, you can't just run and kill everything you see. You need to study the area, find the enemies positions and act acording to it.
+ Multiplayer is just awesome, deep and has an over the top amount of content on it.
+ Music is just great. This is the aspect that surprised me the most about the game. The soundtrack is just too good for this game.
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good analysis. So the cons are really mostly graphics and framerate drops which I believe most knew it months ago, which we thought that was fixed after the E3 2014 trailer. there some issues also on the camera? are you bothered with that or you feel it is like that like the Ninja Gaiden, I think some would really critize it but some who are used from Ninja Gaiden would know how to play around it for sure.
on the multiplayer, pay to win type of mode? meaning there are OP items when they use real money to upgrade their items against those who didnt buy any item from real money? can you expound on this?
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For most of the game the camera feels just fine. However, during boss battles, where the enemies tend to move super fast, the camera can be a problem at times. I haven't played Ninja Gaiden (I really have to in the future), so I don't know how the camera worked in that game.
But now that you mention NG, I want to make something clear: Devil's Third is not a Hack n Slash, neither wants to be that. It's a FPS, with some third person combat going on. Some complaints I've read from analysts is that there are no combo system and that for the most part, you can't just run in TP mode and slice the enemies like it was Ninja Gaiden because enemies will kill you from distance. The thing is that hack n slash and melee mechanics of the game are not the core gameplay mechanics. That's the FPS shooter part. HNS and melee are just there to support the main thing and make the game more entertaining, purpose that acomplishes perfectly well. So guys, do not expect a HNS. Expect a FPS. A varied one, but a shooter at the end of the day. There can't be a combo system, because if it was, the game would end up being something that Itagaki doesn't want to be. It's just silly from analysts to think that they can run with a katana in their hand on an open area filled with enemies with guns and expect to go victorious. No, you'll not xD
About the multiplayer, you win money and golden eggs by advancing in the campaing or leveling up on multiplayer. Some weapons are quite expensive, but you will eventually have acces to them and you can try them before purchasing, so you can have the ones you want whithout wasting money on gear that you may not like (that includes melee weapons. Obviously, people who pay with real money have acces to the best gear from the beginning. But that doesn't really matter: I've been playing for 3 hours,I faced lots of people with better equipment than me and that didn't prevent me to win half the times. Strategy, skill and knowledge of the battlefield is far more important than having the best weapons. Someone with the base gear can beat the shit out of a pro-gear if he is good enough.
