Asura's Wrath: Don't worry, this is the real DMC 5

[mudah.swf]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lv1YHZJX_VE&feature=player_embedded

It's Capcom and CC2's collab, and it's looking to be a Godhand-ish action game with a cool art style and probably fun combat. If it turns out shit, at least it will look pretty. Observe as the main dude grows extra arms to beat the shit out of a god.

[Kim]

Huh. That's actually pretty rad looking. I really dig the art style and how over-the-top it seems.

[Regulus Tera]

Bayonetta was the real DMC5.

[mudah.swf]

It's getting deposed now.

[Donomni]

The ORBITAL BUDDHA FINGER POKE sold me on this.

I mean, that's like Gurren Lagaan levels of fuck-all awesome.

[Fifthfiend]

It's like God of War ate Devil May Cry.

EDIT: Or Devil May Cry cut open God of War, emptied out its insides, and is now wearing it as a suit.

[Krylo]

Dude gets really pissed: The Video Game.

[Loyal]

The ORBITAL BUDDHA FINGER POKE sold me on this.Seriously. I want a wallpaper of that.

[Doc ock rokc]

So its God hand meets Devil may cry meets God of war but not any of those at all.

[Squall Leonhart]

Holy shit, that was fucking awesome. I can totally forgive them for the shity DmC they got going if this is as awesome as it looks.

[Krylo]

I think I'd like it a lot more if there was any kind of context to, well, ANYTHING in that trailer.

Angry dude gets speared and screams angrily. Angry dude charges forward, still screaming angrily. Angry dude punches some dudes. Screams more. Angry dude punches the finger of Space Buddha (admittedly Space Buddha is neat), losses his arms, wakes up, SCREAMS MORE.

I was mostly just bored shitless through everything that wasn't Space Buddha. Character needs to have some... you know... character, or it may as well be X-Blade (Read DMCGOW: Ass edition).

I'd rather play DMC 2, as things stand now.

I'm sure there will be some context given eventually and it will probably be cool or whatever, but for now I am extremely uninterested in senselessness.

[Loyal]

Angry dude gets speared and screams angrily. Angry dude charges forward, still screaming angrily. Angry dude punches some dudes. Screams more. Angry dude punches the finger of Space Buddha (admittedly Space Buddha is neat), losses his arms, wakes up, SCREAMS MORE.I counted four unique screams/grunts/barfnoises throughout the video. Maybe a fifth.

I'm guessing Angry Man is supposed to be a golem of some sort, given life by what we shall tentatively call God Hand-B.

[bluestarultor]

I counted four unique screams/grunts/barfnoises throughout the video. Maybe a fifth.

Oh, good, then it wasn't just me. That kind of irked me.

At least the designs are pretty decent. Well, the villain honestly looked better. I don't really dig the cartoony look of the protagonist. He just came off as a bad Dragonball Z ripoff, which is to say DBZ's majority of grunting and screaming and generally sounding constipated with all the actual dialogue in between taken out and even more cartoony. So like the worst marriage of DBZ and Ultimate Muscle, minus the idiotic dialogue part of UM.

Basically I'm far from sold on this, but it definitely has potential to prove me wrong.

[Shin Amakiir]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v496/styson13/LookLikeGoku.jpg

Kinda excited for it. I really enjoy the .hack series, and it's done by CC2, who did .hack. The music has the same tone as G.U., it seems.

[Kyanbu The Legend]

He's a statue if I'm not mistaken. So he might not be able to talk.

[bluestarultor]

He's a statue if I'm not mistaken. So he might not be able to talk.

If all he has to work with are those four grunts, I am officially looking up the address of the company, flying there, and personally smacking every employee from the janitors up to the CEO for letting the game go out that way. The janitors would be just as guilty for not saving the world via the simple act of pulling the fire alarm and wrecking all the computers.

[greed]

Hey you know what it's a game about some random angry god dude(which is what Asura's are aren't they?) who beats the shit out of monsters and stuff. It is a beat 'em up. It doesn't need dialogue or plot. Did River City Ransom need dialogue? Did Bad Dudes need dialogue? Konami's Ninja Turtles Games? Final Fight? Nope. All they needed was small selection of random grunts. And that's all this needs. I'm psyched about this.


Also anyone else notice the look seems to be kinda like Street Fighter 4? I thought that was pretty awesome. Wonder if Asura dude will show up in the next SF, like the Final Fight characters did in the older SFs.

[Krylo]

Did River City Ransom need dialogue?It had a story and dialogue, though. Dude kidnapped your girlfriend, you had to get him back. Along the way you met all kinds of dudes what had personalities and shit. Did Bad Dudes need dialogue?I never played it, and I still know it had at least some talking. Konami's Ninja Turtles Games?Had dialogue all up ins between levels. Final Fight?Also had dialogue between levels.

He doesn't have to talk while he's fighting or whatever, but he really needs some kind of characterization to avoid being boring as piss.

Like, ok, Kratos is totally angry dude stabbing things, but I know why he's angry and stabbing things (1-Ares fucked him and also killing Ares is supposed to stop his nightmares, 2-Zeus betrayed him, 3-Zeus still betrayed him, and now the Titans as well), which allows me to engage with and sympathize with him as a character.

If I can't do that I don't really care how good the controls are going to be, I'm going to get bored within like five minutes and not want to be random statue dude beating up other dudes.

P.S.

Also anyone else notice the look seems to be kinda like Street Fighter 4? I thought that was pretty awesome.It was, fortunately, not nearly as ugly as SFIV.

[greed]

Ah, right. I forgot. Haven't played the NES games for way too long.

But Final Fight had dialogue? I mean I remember it talking about shit during the opening credits and after beating the game, but I don't remember anything between the levels and I only played that like 8 years ago or so.

[Krylo]

Might have only been at the beginning and end.

It's been a long while for me as well, but the point is that even brawlers don't live in some kind of motivation free gray zone.

[Kim]

I'm not going to hold this trailer not showing off any plot against this game, in part because not every trailer needs to be about plot, but also because it might not be a plot-necessary game. Some games aren't about plot. The plot is merely an excuse for the gameplay. Provided the gameplay is good, that's okay. An excellent recent example is Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light. The plot is almost non-existent, takes place in maybe fifteen minutes of cutscene at most, and is forgettable at best. I don't really hold that against the game since it was just there so they could do the gameplay, which was enjoyable. Keep in mind, this is different from games with terrible plot where cutscenes are plentiful and the plot won't leave you the fuck alone. It could go either way, but I really don't have enough to go off of right now.

[Krylo]

It could go either way, but I really don't have enough to go off of right now.

Exactly.

Right now I am extremely apathetic. The fighting looked like it could be good, but the scene was just blah. There was nothing to it to make me care one way or the other about anything going on.

It could end up catching me later, or it could end up not, but for now? Resounding meh.

[Amake]

Honestly any hero that starts out cosplaying as the Ten of Swords has already sold me.

[Specterbane]

I'm pretty skeptical from that trailer, especially to compare it to DmC games. It's definitely a spectacle game, which is fine since DmC works with that too. But what I'm not sold on is how many quick time events they put in the trailer. Now quick time events make a cut scene more like game play, but I'm still waiting several seconds to do another action.

It's way to early to tell if this will ruin the game or not. But I'm going to be wary first on this one. There a lot of potential for a great, fast-paced, action oriented game; but a series of quick time events can kill that if it's not done carefully. I hope it turns out well though, I'm always a fan of Capcom.

[mudah.swf]

It's CC2 so expect QTEs ahoy. I'm hoping that Capcom will make them tone it down, though. If it's packed full of QTEs then that would be disappointing.

I kind of like that all the protagonist does is growl, at least in the trailer. Reminds me of older games and those cartoons where they managed to put forward a story and give characters some kind of personality through noises and actions. Think the Lego XX games for an example of what I'm talking about.

[Toastburner B]

If all he has to work with are those four grunts, I am officially looking up the address of the company, flying there, and personally smacking every employee from the janitors up to the CEO for letting the game go out that way. The janitors would be just as guilty for not saving the world via the simple act of pulling the fire alarm and wrecking all the computers.

This. So very this. I really couldn't tell you what happened in most of that trailer, I was getting so annoyed from the same 3-4 grunts/screams/AARGH!s over and over and over. How the heck did it get released like that? Did the voice actor pass out in the middle of the session, and they had to make the 2 minute trailer with the 4 voice samples they had?

[Amake]

I got the impression they muted the dialogue in the trailer, maybe to draw the focus from the unimportant plot to the glorious violence.

[mudah.swf]

For fuck's sake it's an action game, will the lack of voice acting (which by the way I think is awesome) really put you all off if the game's fun enough? It's not like we're getting Shakespere here.

[Krylo]

I think it'd have put me off less if there had actually been no voice acting, instead of really bad angry grunting screaming voice acting that seems like it was pulled out of a particularly obnoxious episode of DBZ.

[Kim]

Actually, I think it'd be pretty cool if there was no talking from the protagonist, just grunts and yells, so long as there was a story reason for it. Story reasons for silent protagonists is something I'd like to see toyed with in games. I mean, it's pretty much guaranteed that he does talk in the game. I just think it'd be cool

[Kyanbu The Legend]

Wouldn't mind seeing it toyed with some more my self.

[Krylo]

just grunts and yells

Step 1) Insert Disc.

Step 2) Press mute button.

Step 3) Enjoy.

[Kim]

Obviously, what they want the player to do is come up with their own dialogue. Get a couple friends over to do the voices, and watch the magic happen.

[Krylo]

My point was that the angry grunts were the most obnoxious angry grunts I've ever heard.

I'm not opposed to what you said in THEORY, with the story reason for a silent protagonist, etc. I'm not even against having a protagonist who is silent for no good reason.

I'm just opposed to a protagonist who makes those, particular, noises.

Though you'd have to mute it to get a good voice over going, anyway, so the end result is, mostly, the same. Just with added hilarity.

[Fifthfiend]

I'm gonna be honest, this was way better the first time I watched it, with the sound off.

Basically I think the major takeaway here is that you should always, always, always dig up the scratch to get some decently competent voice actors for your videogame. Even if the VAs are literally doing nothing but grunting.

In fact, especially then!

[mudah.swf]

Instead of voice actors they should just get some actual animals in.