Ninja Gaiden 2 mission pack back today
Hopefully. Ryu care?
Microsoft expects the Ninja Gaiden 2 mission pack will return to Xbox Live sometime today.
The mission mode pack was released last Friday and then yanked down after it caused technical problems like systems freezing (surely not a problem usually associated with Xbox 360 oh wait now I get it).
Most of the niggles have been fixed, according to Gamerscoreblog, and those who already have the DLC can begin playing again.
The Ninja Gaiden 2 pack adds 12 karma and 12 survival missions; the former is based on totting up the highest score, while the latter offers you one weapon to fend off an endless stream of baddies.
The mission pack costs 800 Microsoft Points (GBP 6.80 / EUR 9.60) and also incorporates 10 extra Achievements.
Ninja Gaiden 2, released in June, is a gory spectacle of swishy swords, severed limbs, and taxing gameplay, although it's not as fiendishly difficult as the original game.
Head over to our Ninja Gaiden 2 review for our thoughts.
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Thankfully you made a joke on 360, because if you did on a PS3 (sixaxis joke, anyone ?), you'd be the biased (and shit).
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edit: i actually found NG2 harder than the first one, mostly because it was cheaper in many places, and because of the health system where it regenerates after each encounter they through more enemies at you at once knowing that they could. ninja gaiden 1 was tough in places but never unfair
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Having played the dire DMC2 twice and DMC 3 left me cold. I cant say that I'm keen to get DMC4 anytime soon
Plus NG has bigger boobies than DMC
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NG1 vs NG2, there's a battle, but DMC, that's just on another plane (a less good one)
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Agreed. Not that I should have been surprised as Team Ninja's current gen output has been pretty disappointing IMO after what they achieved on the original Xbox. Dead Or Alive 4, DOA Xtreme 2 and Ninja Gaiden Sigma have all been underwhelming IMO although to be fair Ninja Gaiden 2 was the best of an otherwise mediocre bunch. Team Ninja strike me as being a developer that's too comfortable resting on their laurels and are content to keep remaking the same three games over and over again so long as they raked in the money! LOL
Edit: spelling
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'Team Ninja stike me as being a developer that's too comfortable resting on their laurels and are content to keep remaking the same three games over and over again so long as they raked in the money!'
They seem to be taking a page out of nintendo's business stragey
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+1
DOA4 was a major step back from DOA3. That to me is the biggest disappointment in the Xbox armoury. DOA3 made the decision between the Xbox and the Gamecube. This is before it became crushingly obvious that the Gamecube was going to fail.
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I've come to the conclusion that all the people who hate on NG2 for silly reasons such as that - are just bad at playing the game. I personally have no problem with the camera - just whack the sensitivity up and its perfect.
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Sorry I didnt realise that 'Professional' reviewers owned my cash. I'll think twice about buying and enjoying something based on its own merits. I forgot that we were supposed to take reviewers' opinions as gospel.
From this moment onward I shall send out a proclomation across the land - REVIEWS ARE FACT! And all shall praise me for being such a RETARDED DICKFACE.
Get real. I spend my money on what I want - not what some jumped-up journalist tells me to. If you'd read my comment you would see that I said people who complain about the camera just arent good at the game. Which basically means - as some of them even admitted - that game reviewers ARE NOT GAMING PERFECTIONISTS.
Just because they can't handle the camera doesnt mean it's a bad camera. A lot of reviewers can't finish Ikaruga - does that make it a bad game?
I - along with millions of other people - have no problems with the camera. Yes sometimes it gets stuck, but it's hardly enough to break the game as some people keep spouting.
Edit: I'm also pretty sure that none of the reviews (the ones I read, at least) even mentioned the fact that you can change the camera options. It seems as though they were expecting it to be an automatic camera. If they don't understand how to move their right thumb, then theres no wonder they rate it down so badly.
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I've not applied it yet as I heard it causes the game to hang during cutscenes.
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I updated and it does hang (I was 20 minutes before the last boss when I downloaded the update - now everytime I get to the cutscene right before the boss is supposed to appear, the screen fades to black and just sits there while my controller vibrates constantly until I turn the 360 off) - I'm clearing my cache tonight to get rid of the patch, as I hear it works just fine after doing that, but I've heard nothing about them updating the patch... they will, of course, just not sure when.
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Guess I'll just keep declining the update then.
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No other action game will ever come close to what NG offers.
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but both Acolyte and Warrior are easier than NG1's lower levels....i'd say Warrior on NG2 is a really nice balance of a little bit of challenge but easily doable and fair...people moaning about Mentor and above, fair enough but it's not less fair than NG1, that was just as balls out hard on lower difficulties, you've either just forgotten that, or didn't do it on those difficulties as there was no incentive/acheives....i think there are a lot of people to be fair that beat NG1 on normal and think they beat it on Master Ninja.
Personally i like 2 a lot more than 1 beacuse of the gore and fluidity of countering, limb, obliteration....however i can see why many people still like 1 more as there's less going on therefore by it's nature it's a little purer...camera though is the same in 1 & 2 for me...if you block when enemies are off screen or move tis easy enough, the only hard thing is IS ninjas on Mentor+
DMC however, is just lower down the foodchain, purely due to the combat system, less speed, less precision, less of the feeling you are weilding sharp as blades, the weapons in NG cut, the ones in DMC bounce
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I agree with you about both games being of the same genre, however, I believe they are evolutions of the old Castlevania or Ninja Gaiden, platforming/action/twitch games from the NES era.
Both are the best examples of the genre, though.
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