Andrew Weymes of The Nightly Gamer writes: "Although From Software has been around for more than two decades, they've never really been a household name like other third party developers such as Capcom, SEGA or Square Enix. The reason for this is because they've stuck to niche' genres for the most part. From Software already has a couple of well known series such as Armored Core and Tenchu but the recent demo of Ninja Blade on Xbox LIVE suggests that their popularity is going to continue to rise."
Ninja Blade is From Software’s best ninja game of all time, including Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. At least it’s the best version of a specific type of ninja game.
Well aren't you cool? Taking a game that was pretty much universally acclaimed and then saying that one that received mediocre to bad reviews across the board is better... There's always one "hipster" out there with a contrarian opinion.
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I don’t remember much of it but wasn’t it a QTE heavy game like Asura’s Wrath and GOW3?
It was like the Xbox Ninja Gaiden with an insane amount of QTEs. Not bad but not innovative.
FromSoftware is a game developer that has found popularity in the gaming industry thanks to their widely popular and best-selling series, Dark Souls. They may have gained notoriety from this series, but they have been around since 1986 with their first video game published in 1994 and have produced many popular games. Here are 5 games they have made that are not Dark Souls.
The Adventures of Cookie and Cream (Or Kuri Kuri Mix as is known in PAL territories) is actually a pretty good game, and gets damn hard in the latter stages.
I'd love to see FromSoft make King's Field 5, or maybe another Armoured Core. I love the Souls games, but I don't want to see it milked for all its worth.
Didn't they also make the 3D Dot Game Heroes (or something like that).
I actually enjoyed that a lot on PS3
They actually only handled publishing in Japan. It was developed by Silicon Studio.
I wanted to keep the entries to their own respective genres. Chromehounds and Armored Core are both mecha. I almost included it though.
...I'm saying I knew FromSoft had a hand in all of these games. I would know, I own/ed most of them.
Armored Core series producer left From Software.
My guess is the company shifted all focus to Souls series... :(
RIP Armored Core....
I would love to see them come out with a new IP in the mecha genre. Armored Core was cool, but I think they have expanded their skills to make a more unique game.
"In Mortal Kombat X, Most of the cut scene fights are just there for you to watch, then every once in a while unannounced, the game goes to a quick time event." -Play Legit
Play Heavy Rain and the walking dead series then see if that question is even worth asking.
Remove the button prompts and release it as a movie, then see if the question is worth asking again.
Well I guess every game that is ever beeing watched on any videoplatform and peoplr enjoy it, should then not be a game. Very thoughtful
Lol, people complaint that all games are similar, and when a game comes out that's different, people complaint that it's different.
You mean remove the gameplay, take away all the player choices that make each playthrough unique, and release it as a movie....it would be a terrible movie. One of the best things about Heavy Rain was that all my friends had different playthroughs and endings making the game unique and fun to talk about and replay. Terrible argument, you can say that about any game.
For me it depends on the game. TWD, Beyond two Souls, they're fine and they work really well. And I don't mind QTEs in other types of games as long as they aren't heavy.
QTE's are an old tired design and Heavy Rain is definitely not a good example to use in defense of QTE's.
QTE's in a lot of games have become pointless and a cop out for boss battles (Dying Light, ugh) or unnecessary for mundane actions during a cut scene just to make sure the player is paying attention.
It's time for developer's to come up with something else or just drop this tactic all together.
Heavy Rain is THE most perfect example to use in defense of QTE's. That entire game was QTE's and these were the review scores of that game:
1UP.com A-
Edge 7/10
Eurogamer 9/10
Famitsu 37/40
G4 4/5
Game Informer 9.5/10
GamePro 5/5
GameSpot 8.5/10
GameSpy 4.5/5
GameTrailers 8.9/10
GameZone 9/10
IGN 9.0/10
That game was critically acclaimed by reviewers and users alike and made the entire world know the name Quantic Dream.
Also The Walking Dead series and The Wolf Among Us are 90% QTE's and they have also received critical acclaim from reviewers and gamers alike. There is no justification for getting rid of QTE's except for gamers whose brains are incapable of comprehending anything other than aiming down their sites and pulling a trigger.
Heavy Rain was a commercial and critical success. If I recall, TWD Season 1 was also a dominant GOTY winner. I have no problem with games designed around the concept. There is room for games of all kinds in my library. Now when QTE's are shoved in like RE6, Dying Lights' boss(you mentioned), and Shadow of Mordors' boss, it does get disappointing.
Most of what people are calling QTEs in Heavy Rain aren't even QTEs. They are simply dialog choices that seldom have a time limit, and even when they do the timeout is usually quite long, certainly not quick. If they had used a different UI for dialog choices then there wouldn't have been any discussion about them.
The real QTEs in Heavy Rain are primarily in the fight scenes and there their use is perfect. Because there are no do-overs in Heavy Rain using QTEs is a great way to build tension. Every time you miss one things get more desperate because you know if your character dies then they really are dead for good.
QTE's are insulting to peoples reactions times.
* Imagine if EVERY single jump in a Mario game was a QTE......
They had their 15 minutes.....lets move on.
Heavy Rain was critically acclaimed for that time, but the more recent Beyond Two Souls wasn't, The Order has just been ripped for having too many QTE's, a lot of people were disappointed with a certain handling of Dying Light. And I remember Heavy Rain was also criticized for its over use of QTE's also by a lot of reviewers and gamers.
More games recently have been criticized and reviewed harshly for having to rely too much on QTE's. Sure their are a few games that are the exceptions like the Walking Dead or Wolf Among Us where the story trumps all but that is a small percentage with other games that have you press X to pay your respect, or repeatedly press X to open a door, or press Y, A, B and the end boss is defeated.
"There is no justification for getting rid of QTE's except for gamers whose brains are incapable of comprehending anything other than aiming down their sites and pulling a trigger."
How is that anymore braindead like then hitting the shiny red button when the big TV says so? Just recently I was playing the MK X storyline and right off the bat Johnny Cage starts fighting Scorpion in a cinematic, all of a sudden...press X...why? The real gameplay didn't even start and there was no reason or warning that a QTE was going to happen in the very beginning of the game.
I have Heavy Rain and it's only fun playing through it once even though the game has multiple endings. The game is a novelty, but that's about it.
Personally I want more control over the action rather than press X O X ◻ ◻ O △ X X △ or die, fail, branch out, etc. Now, I forgot quite a bit about Heavy Rain since that was many years ago, but I do remember the entire game being QTE laden.
Yes, yes they should. They've always been an excuse to escalate drama through lazy button prompts than any game design.
i love the demo the game look awesome
well the best game from From Software this gen is Demon's soul.
King's field reborn FTW
Please!
I can't believe anyone having troble with the controls, I'm 58 years old and didn't have any problems adjusting to the controls in a few minutes! I guess some people just can't play video games!
Its ninja gaiden but with those annoying push this button now or die sequences
I cant stand games that have too much of "push button A now! (i dodge an axe blow)....game continues... push button B now! oops didn't get it in time now Im dead" Poor lazy game design in my opinion
I want to decide how to kill the enemies or how to dodge a guy coming at me on a motorbike and experiment in different ways, not the game telling me what button to hit and when. I also prefer to sit back and enjoy the cut scene not have to look at one part of the screen waiting for a button prompt to come up or Im dead. God of War on PSP especially annoyed me. I actually stopped playing it after 3-4 levels because these sequences were in the boss fights! For me it ruined what seemed to be a fun game and looks like Ninja Blade is also plagued with this rubbish ...what a shame.