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

[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]

Originally Posted by Loyal

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]

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]

Originally Posted by Kyanbu The Legend

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]

Originally Posted by greed

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.