redpill me on this game. I love Nioh and thought this was going to be just like it but gameplay looks mid as fuck and I've heard it's like AC but in japan

>>713356159 (OP)
Worse than Nioh 2 and Nioh 2 is already pretty shit, so take a guess.

>>713356254
I fucking loved Nioh 2, this comparison is not helpful

>>713356159 (OP)
It's Ghost of Tsushima if it had good combat and encounter design. It does a bit worse in every other field however. But if you're a gameplay chad it's the better choice.

>>713356331
NTA but if you did like Nioh 2 I'd say you'll probably enjoy that one as well, gameplay feels like an upgrade. Well, maybe more of a sidegrade, but in a good way. Just be warned enemy variety is a bit lackluster since it's grounded in reality this time, so no yokais. Only human enemies but they have better variety than the ones in Nioh.

It's parry slop with a mid 2013 open world, it's only redeeming quality is that there's alot of styles but it doesn't save it since the gameplay is so prescriptive

>>713356159 (OP)
Playing it right now, pretty good. Tons of personality. Though I love nioh 2 with some 500 hours in that and another 200 in sop. I'm on a 5070 ti and it runs really well for me but it seems to be very poorly optimized from other people's experiences. The combat system is pretty interesting but very closely built around their parrying system. The stance system is kinda still here from nioh but there's 45 or so different stances divided into 3 distinct types across 9 weapons with their own movesets for each weapon. Lots to experiment with though I still think nioh 2's is best.

This game seems to pull inspiration from just about every open world game in terms of mechanics. I personally hate anything open world but it's tolerable

I liked it but partly because I find the specific time period it's set in interesting, you get a million samurai games every year but hardly any when this is set in (Yakuza Ishin's the only other big one I'm aware of, I'm not a big fan of those games though)
It's fun but feels like it didn't need to be open world, combat feels a bit tamer than Nioh but you can have fun with it still

>>713358293
>it's only redeeming quality

Learn English before you try to criticize games made by people way more talented than you'll ever be, kid. At least they can write their own language properly (like anybody out of 3rd grade which you obviously failed).

>>713358557
The setting is pretty strong. I kinda wish it wasn't open world because it feels like encounter density is too low. I hope they don't make the same mistake with nioh 3

>>713358637
Must have struck a nerve, sorry if i offended the honour of your favourite game. Hopefully they make a sequel and more than 30 people buy it

>>713358819
If TN make a game that sells 30 copies I'm definitely among them

>>713356159 (OP)
Of the three not-Niohs it's the best one, but it's not Niohish. The Final Fantasy one is closer to Nioh but dumbed down to a very casual level.

>>713359087
>The Final Fantasy one is closer to Nioh but dumbed down to a very casual level
If you play on normal with party members maybe. It's the hardest one on Hard solo, not to mention the DLC difficultiees

>>713359087
It's good enough that theres some moves from ronin I'd like to see in nioh 3. I wouldn't say sop was casual. It was streamlined because they were going for a different combat system and job builds were more of an emphasis

>>713359087
SOP is literally the least casualized of the three nioh likes what are you talking about? Ronin doesn't even have builds

>>713359201
It only really gets "hard" rifts onwards and that's because of how much it relies on you maxing job levels and using high level equipment. Swapping jobs mid rift to jobs you haven't levelled to level 100 minimum is a death sentence with you getting one shotted by goblins not because you're bad but because of level disparity. It's an annoying part of sop that has it feeling either too hard or too easy through no fault of your own. Still great though

>>713356159 (OP)
>gameplay looks mid as fuck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVlRRpGUnuQ

>>713359443
Posting lastoload for any TN title is cheating

>>713356159 (OP)
I don't care if this is bait or not im tired of repeating the same things over and over again and having people make retarded arguments or use gay slang like "mid as fuck". so tired of this board

>>713359551
>>713359443
I just wish ronin had more encounters
https://youtu.be/FaBRwymPw04?si=P9bWpiLce0eCM_2z

>>713359443
>>713359671
These are great but I think getting to this point in ronin is easier than similar looking gameplay in nioh 2.

>>713356159 (OP)
>redpill me on this game.
it depends. do you care about the story at all or do you just want to play some fine ass parryslop?

>>713356159 (OP)
I like it more than nioh,but I don't like RPGs so take that as you will. i would really recommend looking up how to cancel violent gale since that really opens up the combat

>>713358819
why do the niggers with the worst taste in vidya and the most idiotic of opinions like this faggot here, love sales numbers so much?

>>713360327
Because it bothers you so much

i wasn't having fun playing the game on hard because every mob has the ability to nuke you before you learn their retarded patterns
i swapped to normal and still wasn't having fun
then i unequipped my weapon
the game is fun now
wish there was a good way to manage ki with unarmed and wo long has a way better stamina system but still it's good and i wish i lived in the bakumatsu so a cute girl would jump off a kite and snap my neck with her thighs

>>713360327
In any other places he will be asked to show a gameplay footage which he can't do.

>>713359940
Isn't violent gale just a stance change with an attack? Kinda how flash attack is just a weapon change? You can cancel violent gale mid animation while still dealing the damage?

>>713359671
>wish the game had more encounters
wtf are you talking? the game is nothing but action.
you can absolutely skip the finding the cats portion of the game and just fly from
mission point to mission point.
on top of that theres the dojos battles where you have a shit ton of battles to master.
you are just spewing some dumb shit you read some other dumb faggot wrote.

>>713360535
>every mob has the ability to nuke you before you learn their retarded patterns
That's why you block or dodge you silly sod

>wo long
I still need to try this one

>>713360678
>you are just spewing some dumb shit you read some other dumb faggot wrote.
No, I'm playing right now. I'm fairly early on so maybe that's it but so far it's just permanently clearing small camps and main missions don't have that many enemies

There's a demo on ps5, the game doesn't really change from hour one to hour 100 so it'll give you a good idea of what to expect

>>713356159 (OP)
Imagine Nioh 2, but do the following:
-Add combofagging fast paced combat like in Devil May Cry
-Make it a mostly open world game
-Add the ability to swim, jump, climb, ride a horse, and use a glider
-Remove demons and onmyo magic (you can still imbue your weapons and projectiles with some elements)
-Remove every melee weapon except for katanas, dual swords, and odachis
-Remove Handcannons too
-Add Great Swords, Bayonets, Sabers, Oxtail Blades, Polearms, Proper Unarmed Melee, Revolvers, and a Flame Thrower
-Add the ability to bond with NPCs, including being able to romance some

>>713360874
This game is objectively slower than Nioh though, and the panic system limits your combos?

>>713360716
i'm bad at action games, so i can't react so good. usually what happens is i get off tempo and eat half a string then a dog kills me by biting my ass
wo long isn't great but it's pretty decent imo

>>713360874
>Add combofagging fast paced combat like in Devil May Cry
Nioh 2 already has this. Nioh 3 even has air combos https://youtu.be/KxDJARSFpiU?si=VINjaQjkCsJ1k5Z9

>>713360496
It doesn't bother anyone. The endless sales and numbers threads are for the bizarre horde of mentally ill people like you to congregate in
People who actually play the videogame just browse the catalog until they find the thread for the game that looks somewhat gameplay related

>>713361045
>air combos
Squeenix really needs to let me play as a custom character in a proper Kingdom Hearts game someday

>>713359671
My biggest issue with the combat is that you can only do cool shit like this with 1kat cause it has the most styles and the most varied moves (clones, throwing shit, grappling hook moves, stuff like izuna drop, etc.)

>>713361045
I hope they clean up jump and air attack animations a bit. This looks so fucking stupid but I love it. The player looks like they're drowning mid air

>>713361170
Lucky I'm a 1kat chad. Though the weapons were a bit boring compared to nioh. I'd love to see kusa with more styles than nioh

>>713356159 (OP)
As someone that liked Nioh 2 a lot, I'd say it's a downgrade but still alright.
The combat gameplay felt dumbed-down and overly parry-focused, but there are people who can make it work better from what I've seen. I feel like the focus on the parry took away a lot of positioning and attack timing aspects you could have done in Nioh.
The open world feels pretty empty at times, but some locations are nice. The collectibles feel a bit too forced. It doesn't have the aesthetic factor that Ghost of Tsushima had, but I like some locations, especially in Kyoto.
With the way I play open-world games, I also ended up overleveling pretty hard and the game felt pretty easy due to that. The only parts that felt challenging were on NG+ and trying to get good scores on some Dojo challenges. I'm not a particularly skilled gamer, and the only thing I failed to do was Eternal Night.
The story sucks. It pretends to give you choice, but then bluntly forces you into pseudo-neutrality that doesn't make sense.

>>713361045
I'm glad they finally added shit like this but i have no idea why we have to leave the stance system behind for it.


>>713361141
Since you keep replying, i'd say it does bother you

>>713361984
You can still jump in samurai style. Not sure if air combos are possible though

so is this another souls inspired game or what?

>>713362325
not in the slightest

>>713362325
No lol

>>713362389
>>713362469
Ok, now you have my interest... sell me the game

>>713362537
It's just open world slop but combat is fun

>>713356159 (OP)
gameplay is arguably better than nioh in that you have multiple weapon styles to switch between with 3 attacks each, and sub weapons to weave in like the pistol/shuriken. But build crafting is much less involved and theres actually not that many loot drops oddly. I really like the setting, but the open world fatigue does set in. Or rather just general game bloat, but I felt nioh 2 was also bloated and havent finished either. I do wanna get back to it though

>>713356159 (OP)
Another great game team ninja dropped the ball with and killed through shitty optimization, playstation exclusive hell and 0 marketing for pc release

>>713361984
That was my first post in the thread, you're not a detective

>>713360805
Main game is unironically the worst part of Ronin.
After you finish the game and unlock midnight difficulty, you actually start having fun.

>>713356159 (OP)
I love it but it's definitely not for everyone.

>>713364102
Fair enough. It's not a make or break criticism, I'm having fun as is

>>713364102
The opposite for me.
Running around with no goal and having to go through a menu to play missions was no fun to me.

>>713362537
if ubisoft made a parryslop game but it's good. seriously the game is fucking massive. easily 100 hour playthrough.

I got over 100 hours out of it and feel like I got my money's worth. It would be very positive on steam if the port wasn't absolute dogshit. It is really, really bad

>>713356331
play it on hard ---- Assasins Creed and Ghost of tsushima with nioh combat
play it on easy ----- Assassins creed and Ghost of tsushima

>>713365057
>if the port wasn't absolute dogshit
i think the port is pretty good, it's just the lighting that is absolutely fucked. just look at pic related. top is baked lighting and shading, bottom is ingame. both of course max settings.
>damage numbers
you disgust me.

>>713365349
>i think the port is pretty good
LOL

>>713365349
>i think the port is pretty good
I don't know what to say to you

>>713365057
this
>>713365349
I have a 5070 ti but it runs like dogshit

Parrying in this game feels like shit.

Apart from that it's good.

>>713365443
>>713365510
>>713365525

why the fuck do you think i built this rig for 1440p? so i can play the most unoptimized shit if it's a game i really want and get good performance. stalker 2, ronin and ng2 were already worth it.

I had no issue with the port and also had a lot of fun.

It's a mediocre game. Quantity over quality. Boring story, boring characters, shallow relationships and of course the usual open world slop.

It pisses me off, though it does not surprise me, that it's existence poisoned Nioh 3 as well.

>>713365664
They were too strict with the timings, and lots of animations were just bullshit.

>>713365740
This.
Yakuza Ishin did the same story much better.

>>713365665
>i think the port is pretty good
>people disagree
>2 seconds later
>*posts picture of pc specs* WHY THE FUCK DO U THINK I BUILT THIS PC? SO IT CAN HANDLE UNOPTIMIZED SHIT
thanks for backpedalling I guess

>>713365057
are you playing on low settings? that looks like ass...
I'm on an RTX 3060... how cooked I am?

>>713356159 (OP)
it's not nioh (literally) and it's pretty ok, parries are satisfying and take skill to land, and blade flash is super cool
I mainly like it bc it's a TN game without demons and magic

>>713365665
>the port is good!
>that's why i bought a high end GPU and play at 1440p
>because the dogshit unoptimized port is good!
word?

>>713365525
I have a 5070ti but it runs at stable 60 with fg to 120 on top. What options do you use? Theres a good guide for optimization on steam

>>713365894
>>713365740
>story
Who gives a shit

>>713365923
>>713366017
i was gonna post a pic of my specs with a works on my machine sticker but decided to provide more context.

>>713365923
>>713366017
cope poorfags

>>713365925
That's the same card as mine anon... I'm so sorry. I don't give a fuck about graphics if it compromies gameplay feel so I just put everything on lowest but the game just looks bad also. The difference between max settings and lowest settings is very minimal. As I said it's so bad, there's 0 optimization. They haven't fixed it at all since I was playing. You should check out the patch notes they're a joke

Combat is better than Nioh 2. Works fine on my machine since I'm not a poor turd worlder. I wish it had NG+ on the same level as Nioh, but there's only two new sets and that's about it.

>>713365853
that's the good part, made you use other options and spend more time on learning enemies if you wanted to be a parry god unlike retard games like sekiro or mgrr

The true sneak attack...

>>713365853
>>713366740
Different styles having different parry timings and animations was an interesting choice. I dig it

After 50% of the game everything is the same
quests are the same
items are the same they just have a different stats
enemies are the same --- if you are a completitionist you need to kill the same giant wolverines for like 100000x times

The story doesnt make sense
First there is a choice to be pro or anti shogunate, and yet you are forced to be anti shogunate. Total bullshit.

The ending is horrendous. You kill your twin and watch the sunset. lmao

>>713366841
N-nani?!?

>>713366740
The issue is that there are a gozillion enemies, it takes a lot of time to master one, some animations are also shit, sometimes you can't tell if you're being too early or late, there's a lot of trial and error involved. Most styles have 9/60 parry frames, it's kind of bullshit, should've been at least 15.
But maybe I'm just a shitter.

>>713366991
>You kill your twin and watch the sunset.
Kino

>>713367240
Throw a counterspark and immediately go into photo mode. Go frame by frame until you see the vaseline effect. That's what connects with the enemy attack for a successful parry

>>713366991
>OOH NOOO MUUUUH STORY
kys

>>713366991
>You kill your twin and watch the sunset
The other ending is even worse

>>713365057
Lol have can a game that looks like this have issues

I havent even considered the possibility of this running at anything below 200 fps

>>713367867
I'm sorry your 1060 can't run it, ESL turdie.

>>713356159 (OP)
Parying : the game, now with Ubislop open world (certified more dead than a cemetry)

you're better off waiting for something else

>>713368071
>now with Ubislop open world
Just call it open sloppa. There's literally no good open world model

>>713356159 (OP)
It's better than Nioh, it's modern TN's best game.

>>713368324
>It's better than Nioh,
Be serious

>>713360678
>doing missions
>going into specified areas
>encounters
bruh, why even bothering with open world at this point ? just make it linear or open levels like all other soul slop games and call it a night

I really want this but the PC optimization scares me

>>713368170
hmmm Stalker is a good open world game, the first one is very linear but the other two really put the accent on being able to freely move around levels doing things, there's also Yakuza series

>>713368853
optimization is litterally fine, despite disliking the game i can run it on my 10yo rig with a 1080. just stop trying to run at 4K UHD like a retard and fiddle around with the video settings

>>713368853
Just pirate or buy and refund

Story is terrible. I couldn't give less of a shit about Japanese Les Miserables. But the kino with your Twin was fantastic. I loved the traversal. Grappling, Gliding, Horse-back riding. Good gameplay.

>>713356159 (OP)
>but gameplay looks mid as fuck
Stop watching gameplay videos made by gaming journalists.

A pretty fun game, that is maybe a little bloated. Combat is solid, quests are sorta dull, open world is meh, but it has a lot of charm throughout. Plus to way the costumes work is actually really nice being able to mix and match.

My only complaint is the enemy hyper armor. You can be absolutely styling on a nigga and the game will step in and say "uh uh uhh, now they get a turn." It's clearly just a lazy way to prevent stun locking, which ultimately doesn't make for fun combat especially when parry windows are inconsistent.

>>713356159 (OP)
You want Assassin's Creed in Japan? Let me ask again, do you WANT Assassin's Creed but in Japan? Play this. Happy grinding.

>>713370103
>Story is terrible.
It's not just terrible. It's legit awful. You are playing fucking ping pong with faction allegiances literally working for the guy that you had a big epic boss battle with 2 missions earlier and then you work with the other side, betray them too, then betray the others and it's only ever brought up once by one character but quickly hand waived.

I'm sure the combat is fine. However I played on the hardest difficulty and I was unarmed. So it fucking sucks if you play like that

>>713356159 (OP)
I really want to buy this but will the combat filter me? I hate parrying

>>713372192
Yes. Mistiming parries are deliberately pretty punishing but also blocking/dodging isn't the worse thing in this game either but it will take you longer to kill enemies

>>713372192
What part appeals to you? If you want fun combat not centered around partying just go for nioh 2

>>713372534
how is the RPG part?

>>713372534
love ghost of t, souls etc. I actually want an open world game I can just fuck around in too

>>713356159 (OP)
It's a simplified open world nioh 2 with a parry mechanic.
The mechanic itself is pretty well executed all in all, but it doesn't make up for all the semplification going on in the combat, secondary skills (magic, ninjutsu, items), gear, loot, builds, etc.
Everything not combat related is mid to ass. It also manages to be really easy in spite of cheating bosses, which feels cheap and unsatisfying.
All in all it's worth a playthrough but don't expect to like it enough to run it five times in a row like Nioh, you'll get bored an hour into ng+.

>>713372738
More in depth compared to ronin.

>>713372780
That's definitely more ronin than nioh