GH is one of those games were a creator did what he wanted to do, how he wanted without caring about the industry, this is Mikami's most passionate work and if you can't appreciate that then you hate videogames.
>I like the game because.. someone else likes it!
God Hand has always been The Emperors New Clothes of Ganker. Everyone just nods along and pretends that it's an underrated masterpiece because it's "Ganker core" or some shit. The illusion falls apart the moment someone actually plays the game and notices that it's a pile of shit.
Most probably a (you) problem. God Hand is unique like TWEWY and amazingly designed once you start knowing what you're doing especially on DIE difficulty.
I've beaten the game multiple times including on hard and a KMS run
it's easily one of the best action games of all time, the fact that you have to time your counters instead of just pressing block at the right moment means you can master every enemy's patterns and never get hit
you can also just unga bunga your way through the game and still have fun
It was never good. It was terrible even back in 2006; we already had better action games like Ninja Gaiden at that point.
The controls are terrible, and the camera is stiff and awkward. The game tries to be funny, but ends up failing miserably.
It's just an extremely terrible game, and IGN was totally right.
how many fights against wrestling gorillas are there in NGB
>play the game well >game turns into cheap bullshit as punishment >play the game poorly >game becomes piss easy
Dogshit design. Don't even say play on the broken difficulty at all times (hard mode)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJGUe4_ENEw
This is lame as frick. Also this guy savestates out the ass.
>mike kobe
right the poser and casual shitter who got exposed during his livestream, he's only good for reading shitty visual novels. He died a frickton when playing god hand normally, and got rekt trying sekiro KEK
nah god hand is better because you can't just frick off and charge your gay cutscene attacks. Not mention GH has way better boss fights. ngcucks are delusional
>god hand is better because you can't just frick off and charge your gay cutscene attacks
At this point it's blatantly obvious you haven't actually played either game.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Yes, you utter moron. It's bait, and you keep falling for it like the moron you are. Maybe you're just baiting as well, I don't fricking know at this point.
2 years ago
Anonymous
I have played them. Winds path stuns humanoid enemies only for them to get izuna dropped, whereas they drop a soul for that UT to be chained. Have you played these games NGbitch? last (You), fricko
2 years ago
Anonymous
GH's entire strategy on level die is cutscene attacks, which includes a lot of shitty QTE button mashing.
2 years ago
Anonymous
right and chaining UTs on Master Ninja is so much better? homosexual
2 years ago
Anonymous
Hell yeah. Takes more skill too.
2 years ago
Anonymous
based, NGchads stay winning
gonna boot up some NGB right now
Ninja Gaiden Black is so much better than God Hand in every single category it's not even funny.
[...]
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homosexuals who eat up fake hype and bandwagon homosexualry, everyone is calling these homosexuals out but are still in denial
I dunno anons. Very few games manage to make it satisfying to stay aggressive despite odds being clearly against you. Dodging with the right stick feels so natural and amazing once it clicks. Shame you didn't like it because it's my second favorite video game.
>slavshit gay can't comprehend a fact that stalker is a below average fps
2 years ago
Anonymous
Master meme?
Playing on the other difficulties is bullet sponge bullshit
2 years ago
Anonymous
>other difficulties is bullet sponge bullshit
Just stop. You already confirmed that you are poser
Difficulty affects only loot, artifact scarcity and how much damage enemies deal you moronic mongoloid
Master meme?
Playing on the other difficulties is bullet sponge bullshit
Master difficulty doesn't make enemies die faster, that's a myth from like 2010 that's been disproven.
>other difficulties is bullet sponge bullshit
Just stop. You already confirmed that you are poser
Difficulty affects only loot, artifact scarcity and how much damage enemies deal you moronic mongoloid
BTW, that guy isn't me.
2 years ago
Anonymous
So I've been playing on Memester difficulty for nothing except actual increased challenge?!!
hm
I'm ok with this
You're the poser
2 years ago
Anonymous
I just said I'm not the guy calling you a poser. But yes Master is more challenging.
>who the frick likes apples? >there's perfectly good oranges! Right fricking there!
Blackbronies need their ass filled with white wiener, they can't stop comparing everything to their surrogate parent from when they were 12, huddled in the garage, and their actual parents were nursing a bottle of booze
>play the game well >game turns into cheap bullshit as punishment >play the game poorly >game becomes piss easy
Dogshit design. Don't even say play on the broken difficulty at all times (hard mode)
>Enemies attacking while asking you to counter hit with a button press or dodge using your two thumbs more often is now cheap bullshit
Reduce your caloric intake fatso
literally all you have to do is launch one enemy with a well-timed uppercut and jumping-heel-kick, then everyone gets launched
90% of attacks in the game can be avoided by bobbing/weaving
Actually the game is somewhat easier on level die once you've gotten good because you can predict certain things where as at lvl1/2/3 sometimes they may or may not do certain things, it's more random.
You're just genuinely moronic. Hell watch a part of any long play by anyone half decent and your statement is blown the frick out of the water.
This is lame as frick. Also this guy savestates out the ass.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Half decent >save states
At this point between the tard raging and the lack of reading comprehension I'm gonna assume you're brown
2 years ago
Anonymous
I know PCSX2 is a shit emulator but come on, those stutters are clearly savestates. I've played GH on a i5-3570k and it didn't stutter like that.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Black person he is not a half decent player if he's using save states. Fricking a Tyrone lay off xanax and start reading. Any fricking book at this point.
Nobody is saying the game is without faults. It's still enjoyable and satisfies a very specific niche despite its balancing and pacing issues. People who care about the fighting gameplay alone (positioning, timing counters, crowd control with and especially without roulette moves/God Hand) are more likely autistic enough to enjoy the game for what it offers because they will be rewarded for experimenting and eventually finding out skillful way to get past difficult situations. Even getting past the later levels using the God Hand or being lucky with item drops/roulette moves doesn't feel cheap given how utterly unfair they are, and the best part is that it's humanely possible to complete them without "cheesing" anyway.
I'm ESL so I can't really explain it better. But even if it's repetitive it is immensely satisfying to correctly time a fully charged Fist of Justice against Elvis doing his rocket attack or using a juggle move just at the exact right moment to launch an enemy into the air, updoding to avoid an attack coming from your flank, then doing that up+triangle kick to expel everyone and get a clear view to prepare attacking others
Post webm of you playing right fricking now so we know it's just a matter of your body being so shit you can't handle pressing a few buttons and are getting mercilessly whooped
>You didn't enjoy this game because I didn't enjoy it! You're only pretending to like it!
This kind of mentality is part of what lead devs to stop making great games for niche audiences and start making products that everyone can enjoy but nobody loves.
>You didn't enjoy this game because I didn't enjoy it!
>I like the game because.. someone else likes it!
God Hand has always been The Emperors New Clothes of Ganker. Everyone just nods along and pretends that it's an underrated masterpiece because it's "Ganker core" or some shit. The illusion falls apart the moment someone actually plays the game and notices that it's a pile of shit.
>I like the game because.. someone else likes it!
Oh, the duality of Ganker
Got memed into buying digital God Hand on ps3 way back in 2011 or 2012 by Ganker, so it predates steamers by a lot. Can't believe they decided to sell it as a PS2 classic back then. Game is a 9/10 btw
>zoomer Ganker praises a fricking shitty generic empty open world game like Witcher 3 because it was their childhood game >also shits on games with actual good gameplay and combat
Do you also support pedo biden and MAPs as well?
itt: filtered zoomies screech and shriek about getting btfo by tank controls.
maybe go back to watching let's plays on youtube and donating your parents' money to your favorite twitch streamers.
>be shit at video games >NOOO IT'S THE GAME'S FAULT IT SHOULD PLAY ITSELF AND SUCK MY DICK AND AND AND
How about you watch a movie and calm down, anon? Can I interest you in a copy of TLOU?
>be shit at the game >blame the game >don't try to get good at the game because you have zoomer attention span >go back to donating to streamers so they'll read your name on stream
>shitty controls >not actually hard once you put together good combos >dumb jokes are reddit tier >stupid story >awful visuals especially for it's time reeks of a Simple 2000 series tier budget game >dumbest memes >Ganker circlejerks it's daily as further evidence of it's terminal bad taste in all things >bad music
>God Hand thread >Not a single webm posted
Have ANY of you played the game? You're not just forming an opinion on something you know nothing about, right?
I for one have beaten it quite a few times since I first played it back in 2010-ish. I'm not a master or anything, but I feel like I've played it enough to form an opinion.
The game has a bunch of strange design choices that filter people, the most obvious one being the tank controls. I hated them too, until I learned proper positioning and started paying attention to the minimap. It's there for a reason.
The second problem is the soft lock-on. This one is just a straight-up flaw, and is something you just have to live with.
The adaptive difficulty is a double-edged sword. It's designed in quite an intricate way: when you reach a higher level, EVERYTHING gets harder. Enemies hit harder, they move faster, they will attack you in groups, they get more moves, and in some instances there will be more of them. It ensures that you will never have an easy time with the game unless you are very, very good. At the end of each stage the game tallies up how many enemies you've killed on each difficulty, and rewards you for killing enemies on higher levels. Whether or not this is a flaw depends on your mindset. If you welcome a challenge and aren't afraid to lose, you'll love it. If you want to steamroll the game and never lose, you'll hate it. If you're of the latter type, the Easy difficulty and "Grovel" move are right there. Use them.
For 3D beat-em-ups there is nothing that compares to God Hand. The level of complexity, while not quite on DMC's level, is remarkable, especially considering the shitty dev cycle and shoestring budget. When mastered, it is insanely fun to play. People saying otherwise have never landed a counter-hit launcher move or fought Tiger Joe without using GH or Roulette, nor have they perfectly dodged Azel's punch combos and punished him with leg sweeps.
I never saw how dmc was deep. it has the systems in place, but the enemy variety doesn't really force you to use them to their fullest. it's mostly autists who are obsessed with racking up sick combos, bro! and having the game give them a high grade, just like back in school. frankly I'm tired of action games that do that. gh is also one of the few games where it gets harder the better you are, which is weirdly rare. games usually love to reward you for doing well, which never made sense to me.
Well, to specify, the player's toolset is deep in DMC. Dante's kit in 4 and 5 is insane, and there's no other video game character that comes close to having as many options at hand as he does at any given time.
But therein lies the problem. If you give your player this much stuff to play with, you need to make sure the enemies rise to the occasion. Which, sadly, they never quite do. It's less of a problem in the first two games (1 and 3) but in 4 you'll notice that most enemies are quite sluggish and simple compared ro Dante, and in 5 it just becomes egregious.
I guess the point I'm trying to make is that GH's complexity is very well-rounded: your moveset is limited to punches and kicks, and is never too complicated. But then the enemies follow the same rule: they're about as complex as Gene. It makes you feel like you're fighting on equal footing, a feeling that is enhanced by the fact that the game rises to meet your skill level.
Meanwhile in DMC the enemies never get anything to combat the player's insane level of maneuvrability and attack speed. On higher difficulties they get some new moves, but most of the difficulty comes from their busted attack power and defense. The aggression leaves a lot to be desired even on DMD. The term "punching bag" gets thrown around a lot, and while it is definitely hyperbole, there's quite a bit of truth in it when you compare with the hyper-aggression of GH and NG enemies. The countless combo webms from The Void certainly don't help that image.
I know most of this thread is bait, but I know some of you unironically post shit like this. Why the tribalism for a mostly dead genre? Never understood why people are always debating which series is better. You can play all of them. Nothing is stopping you.
Yeah it's the best there ever will be
homosexuals who eat up fake hype and bandwagon homosexualry, everyone is calling these homosexuals out but are still in denial
>can't actually respond but wants to defend his shitty game
Sad.
but it is, b***h
ya never had to retahd
It's fricking horrible, only liked by weebs and hipsters. The actual gameplay is trash
It's not good
it's great
filtered
GH is one of those games were a creator did what he wanted to do, how he wanted without caring about the industry, this is Mikami's most passionate work and if you can't appreciate that then you hate videogames.
Further proof the people who praise God Hand are posers.
>I like the game because.. someone else likes it!
God Hand has always been The Emperors New Clothes of Ganker. Everyone just nods along and pretends that it's an underrated masterpiece because it's "Ganker core" or some shit. The illusion falls apart the moment someone actually plays the game and notices that it's a pile of shit.
Most probably a (you) problem. God Hand is unique like TWEWY and amazingly designed once you start knowing what you're doing especially on DIE difficulty.
>TWEWY
You mean the other shitty poser game? You sure showed him.
>hating God Hand AND TWEWY
Why are you such a homosexual?
forgot your meds
Aaaye, thanks, doc! [belches scrumpy gas]
>Beat em up
>controls like shit
>you hate vidya
>he only likes games if they're made by his favorite guy
have a nice day
Don't act like you don't like the ball buster.
(ball buster!)
Fast jab, faster jab, mach speed punches
someone post the baby game review comparison already
This is one of the games everyone got meme'd to like, I bet most people that praise it barely played it.
I've beaten the game multiple times including on hard and a KMS run
it's easily one of the best action games of all time, the fact that you have to time your counters instead of just pressing block at the right moment means you can master every enemy's patterns and never get hit
you can also just unga bunga your way through the game and still have fun
Tank controls don't make it better. They make it substantially worse.
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW I FRICKING HIT HIM DUDE WHAT THE FRICK
current year Ganker tourists don't know who dsp is, anon...
>seemingly comic relief character is actually strong as frick
ENTER TIGER JOE
>seethes against you regardless if you used the god hand or beat him fair&square
That was a funny detail.
You're not alexander
this picture triggers my fight or flight instinct
>seemingly comic relief character
every character is a comic relief character in this game
It was never good. It was terrible even back in 2006; we already had better action games like Ninja Gaiden at that point.
The controls are terrible, and the camera is stiff and awkward. The game tries to be funny, but ends up failing miserably.
It's just an extremely terrible game, and IGN was totally right.
Ninja Gaiden Black is so much better than God Hand in every single category it's not even funny.
how many fights against wrestling gorillas are there in NGB
skill issue
>mike kobe
right the poser and casual shitter who got exposed during his livestream, he's only good for reading shitty visual novels. He died a frickton when playing god hand normally, and got rekt trying sekiro KEK
Your average God Hand "fan".
>XYXXXY: the game
>better than anything
lol
It's way better than God Hand, that's for sure. Although, I suppose GH is better because of le funny "YOU'RE NOT ALEXANDER XDDD", yeah?
nah god hand is better because you can't just frick off and charge your gay cutscene attacks. Not mention GH has way better boss fights. ngcucks are delusional
>god hand is better because you can't just frick off and charge your gay cutscene attacks
At this point it's blatantly obvious you haven't actually played either game.
Yes, you utter moron. It's bait, and you keep falling for it like the moron you are. Maybe you're just baiting as well, I don't fricking know at this point.
I have played them. Winds path stuns humanoid enemies only for them to get izuna dropped, whereas they drop a soul for that UT to be chained. Have you played these games NGbitch? last (You), fricko
GH's entire strategy on level die is cutscene attacks, which includes a lot of shitty QTE button mashing.
right and chaining UTs on Master Ninja is so much better? homosexual
Hell yeah. Takes more skill too.
based, NGchads stay winning
gonna boot up some NGB right now
I dunno anons. Very few games manage to make it satisfying to stay aggressive despite odds being clearly against you. Dodging with the right stick feels so natural and amazing once it clicks. Shame you didn't like it because it's my second favorite video game.
How is Stalker "posercore"? Unless you are specifically referring to people who only play Stalker mods and not the original games.
>How is Stalker "posercore"?
>dude i am not like the others i like slavshit 5/10 fps
Dunno anon
The hell are you even saying?
Nothing
Just mad they got filtered and forgot to play on Master difficulty
It's like I'm on Ganker
>le master meme
Poser confirmed
>slavshit gay can't comprehend a fact that stalker is a below average fps
Master meme?
Playing on the other difficulties is bullet sponge bullshit
>other difficulties is bullet sponge bullshit
Just stop. You already confirmed that you are poser
Difficulty affects only loot, artifact scarcity and how much damage enemies deal you moronic mongoloid
Thanks, fake news
Master difficulty doesn't make enemies die faster, that's a myth from like 2010 that's been disproven.
BTW, that guy isn't me.
So I've been playing on Memester difficulty for nothing except actual increased challenge?!!
hm
I'm ok with this
You're the poser
I just said I'm not the guy calling you a poser. But yes Master is more challenging.
WOOOOOOOOOOOW THESE GAMES ARE SUCH FRICKING BULLSHIT
>no ng2
>no dmc 1
Ngmi
>Black person gayden
>worst bosses in all of gaming
lol frick off
>worst bosses in all of gaming
Someone never played DMC2
And some of the best enemies in all of gaming, so I couldn't care less about the bosses.
>enemies
>cue braindead zombies, ogres, berserkers that turn the game into roll souls
frick off
Despair Embodied mogs any NG boss
Your bait is awful. But I guess you got this final (You). Drink bleach.
ha you know it's true you ninja homosexual. That shit deserved it's fate just all blacks: dead
>stands completely still while missiles fly directly at him
DSP level gameplay.
>Zombies
>roll
>instead of cutscene attack
I expected more from you, red
alright you got me
yeah filtered by shit design
So far every webm has been someone else's gameplay. Clearly you haven't actually played the game and are just shitposting.
>Clearly you haven't actually played the game and are just shitposting.
You just figured that out?
webm related and
are my gameplay
not my fault Black person Gayden sucks ass
Infinitely better gameplay than shit hand.
Actually filtered.
>who the frick likes apples?
>there's perfectly good oranges! Right fricking there!
Blackbronies need their ass filled with white wiener, they can't stop comparing everything to their surrogate parent from when they were 12, huddled in the garage, and their actual parents were nursing a bottle of booze
>IGN was totally right.
You had me till that part.
>posercore
stand back
this image says "I played ten minutes of these games and stopped"
at least you didn't say dmc3. that game is a piece of shit, along with every other dmc game.
>its okay the game is bad and poorly designed because..... well it just is okay! its le fun because I said so!!!!
>play the game well
>game turns into cheap bullshit as punishment
>play the game poorly
>game becomes piss easy
Dogshit design. Don't even say play on the broken difficulty at all times (hard mode)
>Enemies attacking while asking you to counter hit with a button press or dodge using your two thumbs more often is now cheap bullshit
Reduce your caloric intake fatso
The game is so broken and shit on level die that you have to kite enemies around and draw aggro. That should never happen in an action game.
literally all you have to do is launch one enemy with a well-timed uppercut and jumping-heel-kick, then everyone gets launched
90% of attacks in the game can be avoided by bobbing/weaving
Actually the game is somewhat easier on level die once you've gotten good because you can predict certain things where as at lvl1/2/3 sometimes they may or may not do certain things, it's more random.
You're just genuinely moronic. Hell watch a part of any long play by anyone half decent and your statement is blown the frick out of the water.
This is lame as frick. Also this guy savestates out the ass.
Half decent
>save states
At this point between the tard raging and the lack of reading comprehension I'm gonna assume you're brown
I know PCSX2 is a shit emulator but come on, those stutters are clearly savestates. I've played GH on a i5-3570k and it didn't stutter like that.
Black person he is not a half decent player if he's using save states. Fricking a Tyrone lay off xanax and start reading. Any fricking book at this point.
Nobody is saying the game is without faults. It's still enjoyable and satisfies a very specific niche despite its balancing and pacing issues. People who care about the fighting gameplay alone (positioning, timing counters, crowd control with and especially without roulette moves/God Hand) are more likely autistic enough to enjoy the game for what it offers because they will be rewarded for experimenting and eventually finding out skillful way to get past difficult situations. Even getting past the later levels using the God Hand or being lucky with item drops/roulette moves doesn't feel cheap given how utterly unfair they are, and the best part is that it's humanely possible to complete them without "cheesing" anyway.
I'm ESL so I can't really explain it better. But even if it's repetitive it is immensely satisfying to correctly time a fully charged Fist of Justice against Elvis doing his rocket attack or using a juggle move just at the exact right moment to launch an enemy into the air, updoding to avoid an attack coming from your flank, then doing that up+triangle kick to expel everyone and get a clear view to prepare attacking others
Post webm of you playing right fricking now so we know it's just a matter of your body being so shit you can't handle pressing a few buttons and are getting mercilessly whooped
>You didn't enjoy this game because I didn't enjoy it! You're only pretending to like it!
This kind of mentality is part of what lead devs to stop making great games for niche audiences and start making products that everyone can enjoy but nobody loves.
>You didn't enjoy this game because I didn't enjoy it!
>I like the game because.. someone else likes it!
Oh, the duality of Ganker
just like a russia-ukraine thread
You need less HRT and sugars
You need more broccoli, protein and Haloperidol/Welbutrin.
homosexual.
quick what's the most underrated song
for me, it's the second robot fight theme
homosexual of the day
>Popular normalgay streamer says game is good
>Ganker now praise the game like some hidden gem
every time
Normalgays have been blowing God Hand for the past decade.
>Normalgays
Walk into any gamestop and then hit up the first b***h you see about God Hand
The very first result for God Hand on youtube is a 3.3 million view video sucking it off. There's plenty more too.
lurk moar
Got memed into buying digital God Hand on ps3 way back in 2011 or 2012 by Ganker, so it predates steamers by a lot. Can't believe they decided to sell it as a PS2 classic back then. Game is a 9/10 btw
You're not Alexander!
Honestly the game isn't that bad, except for:
>pic related, the three stooges, KMS
>Great Sensei
>8-1
Legit made me drop videogames for a week
You're not Alexander.
Sucks to suck
>Dios mano
Dios mano.
>zoomer Ganker praises a fricking shitty generic empty open world game like Witcher 3 because it was their childhood game
>also shits on games with actual good gameplay and combat
Do you also support pedo biden and MAPs as well?
>god hand
>good gameplay and combat
lol
>ITT: samegay poorly baits morons
I'm not hurt
His style is impetuous
playing it on hard mode again rn
also; for me it's Big Man Kablaam.
itt: filtered zoomies screech and shriek about getting btfo by tank controls.
maybe go back to watching let's plays on youtube and donating your parents' money to your favorite twitch streamers.
>dude instead of fighting enemies you fight controls! So based zoomies filtered fr fr no cap
>bussin roulette wheel as substitute for lock-on baaaased
don't care, didn't ask, shut the frick up and never post again.
wat
>be shit at video games
>NOOO IT'S THE GAME'S FAULT IT SHOULD PLAY ITSELF AND SUCK MY DICK AND AND AND
How about you watch a movie and calm down, anon? Can I interest you in a copy of TLOU?
>be shit
>re4 controls but slapped on the beat em up
>not shit at all
Die
>be shit at the game
>blame the game
>don't try to get good at the game because you have zoomer attention span
>go back to donating to streamers so they'll read your name on stream
>zoomer larps as an oldgay
Yep, your average kamiyakami fan
RE4's controls are pretty good, whats the problem, bozo?
>RE4's controls are pretty good
Yes, for re4 and not for beat em up
It's a great game but the control is outdated
you're a gayget
Urban Reign is 10x times this game.
We need to bring back Urban Reign.
It makes for an enjoyable LP but I dont think I would ever play it myself.
I used to pretend it was good, because it was edgy and funny. I hate the movement and combat.
But what about Joe..
>shitty controls
>not actually hard once you put together good combos
>dumb jokes are reddit tier
>stupid story
>awful visuals especially for it's time reeks of a Simple 2000 series tier budget game
>dumbest memes
>Ganker circlejerks it's daily as further evidence of it's terminal bad taste in all things
>bad music
the IGN score was correct.
NG and DMC are games, Memehand isn't
Don't kid yourself; DMC is shit as well.
>NG is a game, DMReddit and Reddithand aren't
ftfy
>ng is a game
>cutscene attacks
ininjagays dot jp are delusional
Yeah, you're right; glorified fighting game practice rooms (i.e. DMC series) are much better.
>look at me make no progress by just running around
you can do the same thing in ng
>Memehand
>Reddithand
>troonyhand
memehandtrannies mad
>troonyhand is a game
>plays like shit
defend this
>God Hand thread
>Not a single webm posted
Have ANY of you played the game? You're not just forming an opinion on something you know nothing about, right?
I for one have beaten it quite a few times since I first played it back in 2010-ish. I'm not a master or anything, but I feel like I've played it enough to form an opinion.
The game has a bunch of strange design choices that filter people, the most obvious one being the tank controls. I hated them too, until I learned proper positioning and started paying attention to the minimap. It's there for a reason.
The second problem is the soft lock-on. This one is just a straight-up flaw, and is something you just have to live with.
The adaptive difficulty is a double-edged sword. It's designed in quite an intricate way: when you reach a higher level, EVERYTHING gets harder. Enemies hit harder, they move faster, they will attack you in groups, they get more moves, and in some instances there will be more of them. It ensures that you will never have an easy time with the game unless you are very, very good. At the end of each stage the game tallies up how many enemies you've killed on each difficulty, and rewards you for killing enemies on higher levels. Whether or not this is a flaw depends on your mindset. If you welcome a challenge and aren't afraid to lose, you'll love it. If you want to steamroll the game and never lose, you'll hate it. If you're of the latter type, the Easy difficulty and "Grovel" move are right there. Use them.
For 3D beat-em-ups there is nothing that compares to God Hand. The level of complexity, while not quite on DMC's level, is remarkable, especially considering the shitty dev cycle and shoestring budget. When mastered, it is insanely fun to play. People saying otherwise have never landed a counter-hit launcher move or fought Tiger Joe without using GH or Roulette, nor have they perfectly dodged Azel's punch combos and punished him with leg sweeps.
I never saw how dmc was deep. it has the systems in place, but the enemy variety doesn't really force you to use them to their fullest. it's mostly autists who are obsessed with racking up sick combos, bro! and having the game give them a high grade, just like back in school. frankly I'm tired of action games that do that. gh is also one of the few games where it gets harder the better you are, which is weirdly rare. games usually love to reward you for doing well, which never made sense to me.
Well, to specify, the player's toolset is deep in DMC. Dante's kit in 4 and 5 is insane, and there's no other video game character that comes close to having as many options at hand as he does at any given time.
But therein lies the problem. If you give your player this much stuff to play with, you need to make sure the enemies rise to the occasion. Which, sadly, they never quite do. It's less of a problem in the first two games (1 and 3) but in 4 you'll notice that most enemies are quite sluggish and simple compared ro Dante, and in 5 it just becomes egregious.
I guess the point I'm trying to make is that GH's complexity is very well-rounded: your moveset is limited to punches and kicks, and is never too complicated. But then the enemies follow the same rule: they're about as complex as Gene. It makes you feel like you're fighting on equal footing, a feeling that is enhanced by the fact that the game rises to meet your skill level.
Meanwhile in DMC the enemies never get anything to combat the player's insane level of maneuvrability and attack speed. On higher difficulties they get some new moves, but most of the difficulty comes from their busted attack power and defense. The aggression leaves a lot to be desired even on DMD. The term "punching bag" gets thrown around a lot, and while it is definitely hyperbole, there's quite a bit of truth in it when you compare with the hyper-aggression of GH and NG enemies. The countless combo webms from The Void certainly don't help that image.
>Have ANY of you played the game?
The people praising it haven't.
Try reading more than the first three lines. Then, if you feel you're ready, counter any of the statements made thefeafter.
Apply yourself, anon.
>shitting on a game that sold 10 copies and never got a remaster and has a niche cult fanbase
wow, big tough guy. what a hot take.
Sseth made a video on it, so a bunch of his zoomie fans tried it, got filtered, and are now b***hing about it on Ganker.
I know most of this thread is bait, but I know some of you unironically post shit like this. Why the tribalism for a mostly dead genre? Never understood why people are always debating which series is better. You can play all of them. Nothing is stopping you.