Not enough Ayane

Gamepass/xbox devalues games

mid gameplay with execution animations every 5 seconds and glowing enemy attacks and the game has no charm or memorable characters

the costumes in ninja gaiden games are incredibly cringe and look like cheap halloween costumes, I could never take them seriously

>>741342481
Even if that was true (it's not) it would have no impact on sales
Or are you implying stellar blade is the opposite of that?

>>741343125
You seem like a man of culture
Between Stellar Blade and NG4, which is the better game?
I want to like Stellar Blade but it has horrible framerate drops.

>>741341532
go woke go broke

>>741341532
I respect master Yakumo but most people would not want to play him over Ryu

>>741343195
It's no contest ng4 is one of the greatest of all time while stellar blade is schlock for the masses

The price.
Wasn't memeable enough to gain marketing traction.

>>741343339
memeability didn't save Jack's game

>>741341532
Its a very good game. Definitely one of the best Platinum ever made.
The problems were that
>Its Ninja Gaiden. It was never a super popular franchise and that's ignoring that its last good entry came out in 2009
>Action games like this are no longer novel. 15 years ago you got maybe one of them a year if that. Now every fucking AAA game has some mediocre action combat system.
>Because of the above, its very difficult for the layman to actually distinguish between a game with good combat and a game with mediocre slop combat. So unless its a name people really know (Devil May Cry) or has a marketing gimmick (Stellar Blade's big slapable ass) it'll fall through the cracks.

>>741341532
Yakumo is not an appealing design
Ryu only has 1 weapon and is only playable for 3 chapters
Pverpriced for the amount of content
Visually feels kind of generic-y

Ryu is iconic and unique, he really stands out against the typical action game protags. If it was a true return to form, I think there would've been serious hype around it and it would've sold well but nope. They did everything they can to try and tell us "no trust us bro we know NG don't worry it's gonna be just like NG yeah see Ryu is in the game, please buy it and play our 2edgy4u protag drawn by the directors 12 year old son!!"

>>741343436
People are sick of actionized Final Fantasy. XVI and Rebirth also flopped. We'll see if the multiplat release for Revelations can save it.

>>741343517
Literally everything you said is just wrong

>>741341532
It looked like crap and not like Ninja Gaiden. Also at this point no one cares about action games that aren't roll slop.

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>>741343327
I like Stellar Blade because everything about it is top notch, so that plus sex appeal and GUD gameplay and creative enemy design makes it a really fun game.
But I am not crazy about the gore, the sex appeal

>>741343564
nah

>>741341532
Zoomers and Gen A just got filtered

>>741343125
we all know why, but people couldn't stop talking about Eve until the game's release and still did longer after.
meanwhile yakumo? more like whothefuck-o

the only thing NG fans cared about was seeing their childhood's favorite action ninja ryu but to everyone else he's just another ninja guy

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>>741341532
Because NG fags kept shitting on games like stellar blade for being lesser action games but when it actually comes to backing shit up, the supposed NG crowd never appeared for their game and the vast majority of them were actually just posers.

>>741343635
there is nothing creative about the enemy design and the gameplay is just "ok". It's competent but nothing stands out nor does it ever get that challenge or really advance itself.

>>741343742
NGfags aren't even real. There's people who have fond memories of NG Black (the only good game in the franchise) and people who jerk off endlessly over the 360 version of 2.

>>741343742
>the supposed NG crowd never appeared for their game
Why would any self respecting person who likes NG buy this garbage?

It's like telling someone who likes steak that if they really liked it they would've eaten the steak with shit smeared all over it

>>741343869
nigga you like a 6/10 xbox 360 game shut the fuck up

>>741343907
kys zoomer

>ng
>never popular
>meanwhile the original sold 5 million copies
ng4 faggots are really something else

>>741343929
wont change the fact that black is better than dogshit 2

>>741341532
It's NG for zoomers... except zoomers don't play this shit. It also ended up alienating and getting boycotted by NG veterans. They shouldn't have outsourced the game to Platinum.

>>741343939
>>meanwhile the original sold 5 million copies
The entire FRANCHISE has only sold 7.5M copies
NG 2004 sold 1.3 million, Black sold 250k, and 2 sold 1.1 million.

>What if we made every stage and fight area DARK BLUE and then accented everything, even the menus with NEON RED. Oh em gee, our game is gonna look so kewl!!
It has the visual style of a shitty indie game

>>741343635
Absolutely nothing about it is top notch
Not even the sex appeal
The gameplay is bottom of the barrel, god of war is better and that's no compliment

>>741341532
Character action game in 2025.
It was doomed to fail. The audience is no longer there.

>>741341532
Tried to fool NG fans into buying a game that it takes one look at to tell that it's clearly not Ninja Gaiden. Shat on the series' protagonist, setting, and basically everything else because Platinum thought they could do better. They could not.

>>741345745
This is so ridiculous. This kind of logic is so retarded only normalfags can come up with it. You did explain correctly why it failed: because it's different

>>741341532
Real talk because it was shit. Ryu wasn’t the protagonist, Yakumo’s sucked, gameplay was jank parryslop, enemies are boring, and story portrayed Ryu as a fuck up. Bad story and bad gameplay no buy. They killed new best girl and censored Ayane.

>>741343517
Oh look it’s the paid shill answer. No the game was just shit. They shouldn’t have outsourced to Platinum and Xbox.

It didn't flop.
Source: I played it a ton.

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>>741342162

I'm curious if ng black 2 outsold this. That ended up getting a lot more attention

Ninja gaiden was dormant for 13 years and platinum games isn't the name they used to be

>ninja gaiden with parry instead of counter
Still better than bayo 3

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>>741341532
No marketing
Too expensive
Too different
Too cheap/AA looking
Yakumo

Good game though

>>741342196
Xbox living rent free in your head? nobody even owns an xbox.

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>>741349674
It didn't.
2 was shadow dropped. 4 had shit marketing but at least it had -some- marketing. It was also on goy pass.

>>741341532
They removed the girls and characters.
They removed Ryu.
They removed Ryu's weapons.
They even removed his weapons in the DLC.
The DLC added nothing.
The game was centered around a faggot.
The level design was mediocre and more like Amazon's warehouse art deco.
The gameplay felt more like a MG:R R mod than NG.
Lack of replay value, of good bosses, of good challenge, of REAL NG.
Ratchet and Clank rail riding...
Unmemorable music, just a bunch of edgy modern shitty metal for angry teens, very fitting for Yakumo yaoi fans.
And the list goes on.

It was extremely fucking boring. The entire game is enemy gauntlets.

>>741342481
>mid gameplay with execution animations every 5 seconds
That's NG2 with constant OTs and screen clearing UTs
>glowing enemy attacks and the game has no charm or memorable characters
Nothing wrong with visual cues. NG3 solved the surprise grab from enemies by just giving them a visual cue for that. And NG4 had way better characterization then any other NG game. You not liking them don't make them bad. Also Ryu worked very well as a mentor figure.

I got the game in March and did 3 levels, then dropped it. I picked it up again recently and got to stage 10. These stages are ass. Wind valley/ravine, sewer with disco. And there's like 3 of each

>>741350830
Yeah, right? Maybe working on memorable level design is also part of the process of making a memorable game?
Why the fuck would I want to play in a futuristic warehouse or a very lazy forest level at night with air blowing between parts like it's Jak and Daxter or something?
Where are the Ninja themed levels? Where is the elegance and class or NG1 and 2? EVEN 3 RE didn't fuck up that as much as 4 did. The level design is so video gamey, so devoid of ANY life, of any real feeling of a real location. It's like they made these things without thinking about "OK, this place is used for... This place was this place because X,Y,Z..." instead it's just a STRAIGHT line to the finish from A to B, with huge sections of rail riding that don't make any sense at all.
They are uninspired, boring, ugly looking and make no sense...

>>741343517
This anon is right. Can't shill ninja gaiden to a generation that didn't know it and those that did never played it either unless it was the only thing available.

>>741351201
This. They put fun combat is a boring game.