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daphaknee

look i looked for it and i cant find it, but i was posting in the portal combat thread about how i want more funny games

no more heroes is a funny game!

its also exciting and bloody and immature and violent and over the top and i can hardly contain myself from screaming each time i play it

are any of you playing no more heroes? please talk in your gamerly quarterly ways about the game

i mean, a game where god you can pet your kitty and feed your kitty and he goes "here sweetie" when he hands her the food and then you go and cut people in half? god its so good!

Patrick Alexander · . Joined: 26 Jul 2007 Posts: 123 Location: various

Hello everyone, I heard that the Japanese version has coins and the red-blooded American version has red blood -- IS THIS TRUE AND ACCURATE?? If so, I guess I now need to decide if I like coins or blood better. Normally it would be blood, no contest, but these are videogame coins, which are special.

What is a boy to do?

(The boy is me.)
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boojiboy7 · Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 12:51 pm Post subject:

America has blood and coins. So we all win.

Redeye · . Joined: 02 Oct 2006 Posts: 986 Location: filth

Coins for blood?

Why not combine the versions and have nipples for blood?
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

At first I thought the game was super brilliant and quite clever with a bit of irritating gameplay items. Now, I'm pretty much convinced that certain things were either altered for the US version and then not tested, or just not properly tested. I was playing just fine and hadn't died once, then I tried to rank 8th and it was like hitting a brick wall of difficulty. It was harder than anything I encountered in God Hand, and not really in a good way.
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Lasa · . Joined: 26 Nov 2006 Posts: 128

The shump section is pretty awesome.

Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

Europe wins because we gets pixels and coins. Blood is over-rated!
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Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

Well, we're getting the same version as Europe!

Personally, I wanted blood. I ALWAYS want blood.

Oh well...
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sarsamis · . Joined: 03 Jan 2008 Posts: 49

Lasa · . Joined: 26 Nov 2006 Posts: 128

There is a New Game + sarsamis! Everything will be all right.

Cossix · . Joined: 14 Nov 2007 Posts: 87

Yeah the 8th battle is kind of out of whack, really. Shinobu is way harder than the bosses that come after her (at least the ones I've played so far, I'm about to start the Rank 5 fight). Now that I've figured out how to fight bosses a bit more effectively, they're all getting a lot easier. I think the problem is maybe the rank 8 boss is the boss where you start having to learn how to dodge at the exact right moment and when to stun bosses and it just kind of dumps them both on you at the same time.

Intentionally Wrong · Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 1:53 am Post subject:

daphaknee · Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 3:03 am Post subject:

oh man i love how travis is a big douchebag womanizer hes the loneliest otaku

Intentionally Wrong · Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 5:37 am Post subject:

Seriously, the stance system is just a big bowl of stupid. It's rock-paper-scissors without the scissors, and rock beats paper if you play it first. (Which you can do, since you're button-mashing.)

daphaknee · Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 8:42 am Post subject:

also everyone is allowed to have the same voice, this does not detractfrom teh game, since they are all goons

AGHHHH MY SPLEEN!

HES OVER HERE

music, i wil make a techno remix

Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

daphaknee · Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 1:57 pm Post subject:

i thought sweet was easier?

daphaknee · Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 2:01 pm Post subject:

and god shinobu just sucks, shes a dumb cunt and her hair is dumb and they should have taken her out of the game

i want to take her out of the game with my fists this girl oh god i just hate everytrhing about her and her stupid lines and her stupid voice and god SHUT UP AND DIE ALREADY

sarsamis · . Joined: 03 Jan 2008 Posts: 49

Damn, I really despise the way the MK-II pushes enemies away after you first hit them. It just leaves you open to be attacked and it screws me over a lot in the free fight missions that I used to get through rather confidently with the first version of the tsuba-something (my television is old and the text is blurry in the menu)

Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

Well, then I'm playing on Mild. Either way.
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-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932

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sarsamis · . Joined: 03 Jan 2008 Posts: 49

Just beat it with the "view real ending" option selected, so I fought Henry in the end. It was a cool fight, but a bit too easy once you get how to counter him. Well really, it's kind of an easy game in general once you get how the countering works. Too bad I had been ignoring it until the 2nd rank fight :/ . I was always dodging attacks. It never really occurred to me that I was supposed to block them and move the control stick to the side to slide around them all slow-mo and do a bitching combo. Does anyone know what the ending's like if you don't select the "view real ending" option?

Lasa · . Joined: 26 Nov 2006 Posts: 128

Shinobu killed me once when I was playing (On mild).
I died about ten times fighting Elvis for the second time.

Are you some sort of God hand... god Shaper?

Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

Shinobu killed me about two dozen times or more. The most I ever had to redo a section in God Hand was half a dozen or less (excluding the one devil sequence on the last section which took me about a dozen tries). I only had to fight Elvis 4 times in his second form (perhaps less), the first one took about ten or so.

My wife was watching all two+ hours of the Shinobu fight. I think my game is malfunctional or something if you guys are doing it that much easier. I mean there were a lot of instances where it seemed like I should have been able to hit/damage her but was unable to because she was magically blocking.

Also, 85% of the overworld stuff is very needless and pointless in this game. It feels shoved in there without as much care as the rest of the elements of the game have. Killer 7 is a much better overall experience and this makes me want to replay it.
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-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932

"There is no place in this enterprise for a rogue physicist!"

boojiboy7 · Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 12:23 am Post subject:

sarsamis · . Joined: 03 Jan 2008 Posts: 49

Lame over world fluff aside, I think the God of Play had a lot more influence on NMH than Killer 7. I thought Killer 7 was a better experience overall, but it's one I'm not in a hurry to play through again. Maybe watch clips from it on youtube every now and then, sure, but it's not inherently fun. Killer 7 had far more videowatch than gameplay for me, whereas NMH was the exact opposite.

So... (spoilers in white beyond this point)

On a scale of 1-10, how bullshit was the whole family thing in the end? I'd say around a 9. A perfect 10 bullshit ending would have been if it were all a dream, or Travis randomly gets struck by lightning and dies, or something. I liked both of those battles, but it didn't really matter at all that they were your siblings.

boojiboy7 · Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 11:59 pm Post subject:

so...spoilery question and really spoilery other stuff

how the fuck do you beat the fucking fight with Henry? I can't do anywhere near enough damage to him?

Also, I thought the ending was perfect, actually, though I want a transcription of the whole speech from Sis, as what I caught of it was really funny, as was the speech before it. It was like the game which was entirely too self conscious the whole time said WHOA YEAH I AM REALLY SELF CONSCIOUS NOW FUCK YOU HAHAHAHA. I don't know, I had the same smile on my face the whole time, so it was all good with me.

boojiboy7 · Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 1:15 am Post subject:

Nevermind the question, and yay for the full end.

sarsamis · . Joined: 03 Jan 2008 Posts: 49

I just didn't feel as though there was enough of a lead up for the complete "lol, game" ending. I mean, there was always a little bit of that 4th wall breaking, or w/e you want to call it, in there, but the game felt too coherent most of the time to just end with a last minute, cop out, plot device like that. Perhaps if the disregard for everything preceding it and the utter "lol, game" of it all had been a bit more creative, funny, etc. I would have liked it more, but that whole sister thing was just "oh, ok." The real ending was pretty good though regardless, and that end bit with them running together whilst clashing and discussing how things would unfold from there was great too, but Henry being your brother and Sylvia being his wife was just completely irrelevant. The unexpected plot devices they were discussing could have been anything else, and would have still worked, and it would have probably been better.

boojiboy7 · Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 12:26 pm Post subject:

I think the whole thing works better taking all of Suda's games into account. He always has that surprise twist at the ending. In this game, he knew everyone would be expecting the big twist and reveal, and so he basically disarmed the whole thing, just throwing out garbage there because he didn't want to do that. I thought it was really hilarious, actually. It was a big "well you want the surprise, here it is, isn't it dumb? hahaha". I almost saw it as an attempt to avoid becoming a M. Night Shamalyanadingdong, and being known only for ridiculous ends that change everything. The last mission sets itself up to do that, and then intentionally changes jack shit. Sylvia is crazy? well no shit. There is no UAA? Yeah, of course not. It is like that phone conversation with her mom is saying that this is all just a stupid game and enjoy it as such and laugh.