Wow this game has great aesthetics and potential but god its such a mediocre game. Why were Capcom like this?
>>12677276Third person action games were solved early in the ps2's life but Capcom didn't hear about it so you got a lot of jank shit from them.
>>126772762003 was an impressively bad year for Capcom on PS2. It made them seriously reconsider their plans and cancel a bunch of games the following year.
>>12677305Not a PS2 game but don't forget Dino crisis 3
>>12677305Dead Aim is actually a good game though, just a decent B project.
>>12677302>Third person action games were solved early in the ps2's life but Capcom didn't hear about it so you got a lot of jank shit from them.DEVIL.MAY.CRY.
>>12677308That was their 1 (one) Xbox game that year too. That also was the year the undisputed worst Mega Man Battle Network game was released. Their output on Gamecube definitely fared better.
>>12677314>the undisputed worst Mega Man Battle Network gameNot saying much, BN sucks
>>12677276It's not Capcom's fault per se, it was the 00's fault. The soulless era.
>>12677348Except Chaos Legion is tons of soul and really awesome monster design and stuff. The game just feels like shit to play.
I thoroughly played both characters and max'd their stats for Chaos Legion. I rather enjoyed at least two of the soundtracks... and I don't even much like "metal."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCHuJUpRT9ghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D2yW-kO6uY
Loved the edgy story and soundtrack as a kid.The level design is horrible, literally large square rooms that spawn dozens of enemies, then the doors open and you go to the next one.Since the game spawns so many enemies, the environments are not only simple but also very ugly. Usually just brown walls and a grey sky texture.The MC's moveset + how it interacts with all the minions (I think there were 8 total, 7 deadly sins + Thanatos?) allows for a fair bit of customization, but it's probably clunky af by today's standards.There's an optional "Richter mode" where you play as the MC's gf with dual pistols and kicks and shit, it removes the minion mechanic making the game even more hollow, but she's cute I guess.All that said, I wish modern games were willing to experiment as much, everything is a souls-like these days because game dev is expensive and nothing else sells.
>>12677276>game has great aesthetics and potential but god its such a mediocre gameApplies to a lot of games from the late 90s and early 2000s. A lot of the gameplay quality standards hadn't been figured out yet and devs were working with piss poor tools so almost all 3d games from that era have a certain amount of jank.
>>12677313Thats one of the janks, ops post could easily be about that game
>>12677305DireAlmost as bad as Inafune's outsourcing reign.
>>12677276don't bully my nigga chaosLegion
>>12677319That's not Battle Chip Challenge.
>>12677507Capcom had a dark decade
>>12677450Yeah thats what I mean this game had mad potential. Imagine the minion gimmick but with combat as good as DMC1 and better level design? It would be an instant classic, instead its a ultra clunky super difficult game to get into with an insane difficulty curve in the US release.
>>12677451Nah, im actually a huge fan of a ton of cult classic slashers from the PS2 era. I went through Genji, the onimusha series, Rygar, Van Helsing, Blood Will Tell: DororoNext on my list is Bujingai, Samurai Western, Seven Samurai 20xx, and....I think thats it. Unless anybody has recommendations. So far I think Blood Will Tell was the best game because of how much soul it had. Its clunky much like this game except something about it kept me coming back. Probably just better level design and more moves to play with, as well as sick bosses.
>>12677579You can be a fan of them. They're still jank by modern standards. And I don't mean it in a way that there aren't games worth playing despite the jank. Of course some of them are. It's just that a lot of them look more fun than they actually are because of the jank.
>>12677564>an insane difficulty curve in the US releaseIs the English version tuned differently compared to the original?
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Capcom's PS2 output wasn't all bad, this is still one of my favorites on the system
They butchered the game for the western release. Some retarded weeb needs to translate the jap version already
>>12677579>.I think thats it.That well is bottomless. You could try Crimson Tears, Mark of Kri and/or Nanobreaker too. I got kinda tired of Nanobreaker but I'm not really a Metroidvania guy. The action was decent. If you don't mind not being able to understand the language, you could try Chain Dive too.
>>12677579Try Rygar
>>12677305Dragon Quarter is one of the greatest games of all time. Inb4 that one autist shows up complaining about being "punished".
>>12680997To an increasing number of retards, ever bit of friction in a game is jank or punishment because paying attention and adjusting are impossible
>>12681037But anon, how can you say that? I just want some "QOL" adjustments that simply turn this old "janky" game into an entirely different game that sucks.
>>12680596Is this playable without knowing moon roons?
