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>>15858264

shovelware garbage sadly

Shovelware garbage.

Sometimes games studios have to make trash that sells to survive while they develop their main, actual games

This was one of the former sadly

>>15858264

Cheaply made shovelware game about a whore, the combat is literally all it has, and it's imperfect because the game had a lot of cuts and pruning and they only had 4-6 months, so no quality assurance.

Well, no one talks about it, and I forgot about its existence until now, so make of that what you will.

All licensed Platinum games are bargain bin rubbish

>this mess

>that transformers letdown

>the TMNT abortion

The only exception seems to be MGR

>>15858264

Transformers: Devastation is better but you're going to have to pirate the game or buy a used copy since they stopped manufacturing it and removed it from all digital retailers because Activision lost their Transformers games licence.

>>15858486

Transformers was solid though

>>15858505

It was consistent but extremely mediocre.

It's fun but nothing spectacular.

It's the kind of game you'd feel alright renting, I mean if people actually rented games anymore.

>>15858510

It was just average and short, but it was just Activision trying to make a quick buck before their license expired.

http://archive.is/fq0EA#selection-2927.0-2927.102

http://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/442607159/

I just found out that a cuckchanner crossposted about an Avatar game.

Was it any good or was the thread garbage?

>>15858615

Crossposters really need to get the rope.

>>15858486

Transformers was fucking tubular eat a dick faggot.

>>15858615

You both should go back.

>>15858264

Completely unremarkable.

>>15862839

More.

>>15862839

>This

>>15858264

It was okay. Combat was the best part of it, but that was pretty basic and air bending makes it trivial.

>>15862903

Who are you quoting anon?

>>15858264

it was in fact garbo, I played it and it was unoriginal in both gameplay and story. only fun parts were where you ride naga.

also only good thing this game gave was the Koraa model for SFM porn.

It's shovelware. It has two enemy types, one singular boss, about six levels two of which are on rails bear riding and once you get airbending the game pretty much becomes god of war with how little thought you can put in your combos with that style. It also has the Bayo 2 problem of having an item shop that completely breaks the game.

>>15862964

More brown Erin please.

The only thing Korra will ever be good for is the slave porn.

>>15858486

>MGR

What do you mean exception?

This game works as baby's first platinum game since it has their identity and mechanics but on a surface level. If you're someone who wants to get into platinum games but have zero experience it can be a good start. That being said the game is repetitive as fuck and it stretches itself too thin.

And like other anons have pointed out, Korra is only good for smut.

top tier shovelware garbage, just like the show

an entretaining time waster in between better things to watch/play

the good thing about Platinmu Games is that mediocrity is their absolute worst.

it's not a good game but it sure is better than almost everything else put out by gAAAyming companies now a days

kinda like the show when compared to it's contemporary western cartoons

I liked it, but it pretty much was my first action game.

Good:

- movements, animations and great attack variety

Bad:

- enemy variety

- locations

- story

- korra sucks in general, so the source material was ass already

If they just took the same game and made the last airbender in video game form it would have been great. The hard work of animating the main character was done flawlessly, but everything else sucked.

>>15858486

By that note Near Tomato would be shit too tbh,

I wish they'd make a game for the original Avatar series with multiple playable characters.

>>15863919

Spoil the ending for me. I never watched more than 2-3 episodes.

It's lesbians, isn't it?

>>15863921

it's implyed lesbianism, both the MC and the femme fatale from the first season go on a vacation to the spirit world, holding hands as they enter the portal and the last sceene is them looking each other in the ey as if they were gonna kiss before they disapear in the light

what surprised me more than anything is the amount of people who did not see this ending coming, i saw it coming from pretty much the begining of season 4

or maybe i saw it cos i have a yuri fetish

I've been playing Vanquish and I'm curious why Platinum don't do more TPS games, or why no one tried at the very least emulating that game. It's pretty god damn good and it for once uses cover in a pretty good way.

I've played an hour of it and I love it, but of course my toaster tanks in framerate every now and then and then my heat gauge gets stuck halfway through because japs can't into PC. In spite of that I think this game has a pretty good chance of jumping to the top of my TPS list, not that that's an accomplishment but the game is excellent so far.

>>15863933

Eh, I feel like they play the whole romantic storyline too hard. That shit was minimal in the first one, until maybe the last part.

You think it's still worth a watch or are they going "muh love interest" in your face throughout the thing?

>>15863947

>Featuring Gene from Devil May Hand.

>>15863935

I heard it didn't sell very well. Everyone was too busy playing CoD or some other shit.

>>15863960

The first season has a retarded love triangle.

I can't remember much of what came after.

>>15858486

Transformers is good though, it's basic but nothing in the game is bad like in Korra or TMNT along with great set pieces.

>>15863960

it's worth a watch, there are a couple of god tier episodes in like the one where the earth/magma bender (can't remeber the name) fights off the 3 other benders in the sports arena to save the president while his movie played in the background and the other when Bummy destroys an entire military camp with sheer incompetence and good luck were among the funniest shit i've seen in a while on western TV if the lore rape doesn't hurt your soul

the romance stuff is not so prevalent, the series is more focused on fights wich is what most people watched it for

>>15863974

I have to admit I don't remember a whole lot either. It's been years man.

>>15863981

I see. Might look around for a torrent somewhere and give it another shot.

>>15863980

I'd say Transformer's only mark against it is the item/weapon shop. I wish Platinum would stop including those.

>>15863935

>I've been playing Vanquish and I'm curious why Platinum don't do more TPS games,

Probably not something they have so much experience in.

>>15864000

>nipple piercings

fuck yes, that shit is 10/10

Does Korra have any reason to exist besides tomboy femdom

>>15866159

The only reason for korra to exist is to make my dick hard.

It's not like the source material and the little money they were given could have made it good.

>>15863935

Mikami was the only guy at Platinum that liked third person shooters and he left to make his own company and ended up getting zenicucked and now he's stuck making horror games instead of cuhrazy games.

>>15858278

Did it even sell?

>>15866352

I'm pretty sure all of their Activision-published titles were successful. They don't have to "sell" when the budget is so low.

basement dweller hasn't left his room in so long he forgot what a tan is

>>15866448

artistic license sperg

>>15866430

>just a tan bro

Anon, she's from a western show. It's never just a tan.

>>15866430

>>15866488

Both of you are fucking retarded, kys.

>>15866448

ok but when do they show her fully nude in the show

>>15866564

The Water Tribe is an eskimo analog, dumb fuck. They're inherently darker skinned.

>>15866430

She's a fantasy inuit, moron. The only whites in the show are the Buddhist air benders and they got genocided by the Fire nation.

>>15864000

>Dicking a crazy

No thanks

>>15866292

Laser is absurdly powerful but requires you sacrifice fun. All the heavy weapons including sniper are shit, bolt pistol is game breakingly OP (hits harder than sniper). Disc's purpose isn't to shoot. Disc lets you melee without depleting your boost gauge, and severs big robot limbs.

>>15866292

Played an hour of vanquish and quit. It's gears of war unless you're autistic and want to spend time learning every enemy location to slide. Other wise it's optimal to jump into cover with the slide and thats it.

Bayo 2 is an awful game. Bayo 1 is bad too. Bayo 1's mini games all suck and are hard to control (motor bike). Witch time is too built into the game where it's an all or nothing. None of your attacks do any damage until the final hit. Only way to final hit is to witch time. It turns the entire game into a QTE to activate witch time and get your combos off. DMC's spread damage is much better. Bayo 2 does it even worse as many enemies can't be comboed without witch time. Both games have bad enemy designs and it's either mook or annoying. There's no interesting enemies like Sin scythes which require you to change tactics.

tl;dr Platinum isn't a very good company, they get praised for being hardcore titles but they're not hardcore titles. Their games are high impact sexual showieness. Your first play through will be a blast and you will be excited to see the next big set piece. Replaying them has none of the flash and the game mechanics fall flat. They're the exact thing people bitch about CoD for but because the difficulties higher they get paraded around as THE BEST GAMES.

The reason the cash in games get shit on is because they lack the over the top FMVs and characters. When you take Platinum's games at gameplay you end up with shovelware no one wants. Throw in a mexican hat and a metal hulk hogan senator and you get a 10/10 best game ever OMG I like MGS2 now.

POST MORE BROWN ERIN OR BUST

It's forgettable.

Reminder anyone who watches korra is a sjw and should be mocked

>>15868538

Nier is good

Automata is only good cuz of taro tho

>>15868538

>Played an hour of vanquish and quit. It's gears of war unless you're autistic and want to spend time learning every enemy location to slide. Other wise it's optimal to jump into cover with the slide and thats it.

>played an hour

>thinks he knows what's optimal

If despite everything the game the offers you you still opt to play the game like a passive Stone Award-tier basic bitch, then that's on you

>Bayo 1 is bad too. Bayo 1's mini games all suck and are hard to control (motor bike).

When I try to give people my impressions of a game, I don't start with the segments barely related to the core game. They're shit, but are hardly detrimental unless you're going for Pure Platinum.

>Witch time is too built into the game where it's an all or nothing. None of your attacks do any damage until the final hit. Only way to final hit is to witch time.

Every beat 'em up does this. This is not an exaggeration, every beat 'em up with combos from Final Fight to DMC will have you deal more damage on the final hit. It only makes sense that in a game where you can continue a combo through dodge offset that there's a greater emphasis on combo finishers and trying to pull off longer combo strings, than it is in games where having to react to enemy attacks also means canceling your current combo.

>It turns the entire game into a QTE to activate witch time and get your combos off.

Then what about Infinite Climax? Witch Time is nothing but a crutch for casuals who wouldn't be able to get any hits in without WT's free slowdown because of how passively they react to enemy attacks, only ever counter attacking after dodging. If you believe Witch Time is necessary to build up any combos, then that only speaks bounds about your own skill in the game.

>DMC's spread damage is much better.

What the fuck does spread damage even mean

>There's no interesting enemies like Sin scythes which require you to change tactics.

I don't know man, those burning angels dealing contact damage when you try to melee them or fucking Grace & Glory sure beg to differ.

>>15868641

You can play an hour of shit and realize the designer didn't know how to use a mechanic. Or do you like walking down hallways with people talking to you like Gears?

You can't ignore segments you don't like because you don't like them. They're part of the game.

Every beat 'em up does more damage on the final hit but bayos combos are like 80% on the last hit instead of 40%. Witch time is a heavy handed solution to poor enemy balancing.

>What does spread damage mean

Are you retarded?

>Grace and Glory are interesting

Enemies with smaller windows to witch time but 1 easy to trigger move you just bait isn't interesting. You're still doing the same shit.

If you want we can discuss Bayos weapons and how much of them are awful where they're just sub optiomal to use.

>>15868630

Automata is shit and great depending on the segment. You could tear the whole thing apart with minimal effort or praise it equally. My biggest pet peeve without spoiling anything is the invisible walls. If there's a hole in a building let me run into it, don't cock block me.

>>15868538

>None of your attacks do any damage until the final hit. Only way to final hit is to witch time. It turns the entire game into a QTE to activate witch time and get your combos off

>what are long press on an attack button

>what is dodge offset

>what is not sucking at the game

Pretty sure you never actually played most of the game either, limited presses alfheim make sure you know about long presses and the enemies that have either very small / annoying / nonexistent witch time windows is enough to actually force you to learn how to combo or do heavy damage without combos.

>Both games have bad enemy designs and it's either mook or annoying. There's no interesting enemies like Sin scythes which require you to change tactics.

That statement is pretty interesting, the only way Bayo enemies are annoying is because they prevent you from using certain part of your arsenal or mechanics without it being ineffective or punishing you for it, but somehow that's not requiring you to change tactics.

>If you want we can discuss Bayos weapons and how much of them are awful where they're just sub optiomal to use.

Looks suspiciously like the game wants you to change weapons and tactics when they're not actually good against your opponent

Granted the game does have the problem of having a couple weapons that will handle 99% of the game just fine provided you're decent with them but then this genre always had boring practical strategies like grenade rolling in DMC.

Reminder that Kuvira did nothing wrong. Also reminder that Korra is an awful astroturfed show.

>>15866292

>How does it compare to other TPSs

Basically it's the only one that realizes cover should just be a way to plan out your next move instead of spending every single firefight in cover. What I love about Vanquish is that you can go into fights(at least that ones I've played) sliding and not really die the instant you do so, and you can do it while planning out an attack because of the small enemy radar that lets you know where shit is, and compared to any other cover based TPS enemies stand out. I mean yeah you can play Vanquish like a cover TPS with zero style or flair, but what's the point? The thing is, with other cover based TPS games you don't get that option, it's either stick in cover or die because your movement is garbage.

Compared to other good TPSs? The ones I can speak of are the Ratchet and Clank games, which focus more on cuhrayzee weaponry and sweet tunes. I love R&C but the more shooter heavy titles like Deadlocked don't compare to Vanquish. There's Payne, which forever holds a place in my heart and again from what little I played Vanquish seems to be on that level. I can't say for sure because my toaster isn't letting me play the game consistently. Then you have Gungrave, which is excellent but is kind of lacking in difficulty and the movement is kind of stiff. I hear PN03 is similar but I haven't played it.

I hear Gunvalkerie is good but I don't have an Xbox. Then you have EDF which is fantastic for co-op, but cuhrayzee TPS is a genre I never thought I'd want and now I'm really aching to play more.

>Elena's pointless

Elena exists to make your heart go doki doki.

Both the one in your chest and in your pants

>>15869027

I've completed it three times.

Tell me how the boats aren't annoying as shit or how having to use just ranged attacks is interesting. Neither of those are interesting. Boats are especially bad when you have to fight the camera to deal with them and then you witch time on top of them and it's a free kill.

Grenade rolling was a glitch in DMC. Same with the shotgun twitch firing which will destroy the game in no time. But Bayo is closer to DMC where almost every weapon is a viable option. There's good and bad parts to each but none of them are unusable.

The whole genre is a cluster fuck if we're honest. DMCs are all half finished and Bayo's mechanics are poorly used. It's one of my favourites but I've come to terms with how flawed these games are. DMC3 is the closest to a finished game and everything else is between half finished and plain bad.

>>15869405

>Tell me how the boats aren't annoying as shit

That's 2 regular encounters in the whole game being annoying, and even then the worst part are the missiles (especially the first one which requires you to start playing while the screen is still fading-in) which you can dodge through the highly skilled technique of just mashing the dodge button like a retard (that's if you're bad there are actual good ways to dodge them or even turn them into an opportunity) once you can deal with the missiles they don't restrict you that much outside of requiring some 3D platforming, the whole trick is getting the missile dodge right, after that you have a window of opportunity large enough for a solid attack like a PKP or whatever you prefer.

If you're feeling good enough you can dodge offset a PPPKKK with the missiles using kilgore (so that once the missiles are gone you only have the last three inputs left which deal a whole lot of damage and are very quick to execute) or use the portal kick dodge and bash their face in after that first attack

That's not even getting into jump cancel based stuff, perfect counters (which are really easy to time with missiles) or using the other accessories to trivialize the fight (butterfly obviously but the rosary is pretty insane here too)

>>15869157

Yeah.

At least it had Varrick. Eska. Desna. Bolin. Tenzin. Lin. Liu Ten. Red Lotus crew. In fact just about every character who was used as a punchingbag of any sort was pretty good.

Hell, without Korra in it it would have been a pretty good show.

>>15869867

I liked season 3, shame it ended with a DBZ fight.

>>15869896

I didn't fix it, there was a version with no piercings.

>>15871435

Now that I reverse image searched theres like 5 different versions of that image without all that shit removed and different clothes. Whatever, adds to the experience.

>>15868803

>>15868752

You do realize that the reason half of South America is so shit is that the conquistadors and Portuguese couldn't stop dicking qt latinas until their genes diluted into a mutt like race?

pardon, qt aboriginals

>>15879446

>qt latinas

They weren't qts. They were Indians and with so little women around at that time, it was Indian woman or nothing. It also didn't help that Spain had Muslims muh dicking them for 700 years before 1492. Spain was fucked from the get-go.

>>15879643

>SA

>Not Indians

They are. Take those jungle beaners and throw them into a group of NA Indians and they become hard to tell apart. The only times it won't work is when you get to Brazil and that's because there's a large community of Germans that refused to race mix following ww2.

>>15879607

>you might never get another chance at fucking qt latinas

Schlomo please. That would only create more beaners and further decrease the number of whites in the world.

>>15863960

>still worth a watch

No, it's a fundamentally flawed mess. The decision to use a different main villain with a different faction each time is an awful mistake that also resulted in the neglect of the main characters, something that becomes obvious by the second season. From there, it gets "better" in the sense that it isn't in the rock bottom anymore, but is instead just average

>>15879758

>turn all of south america white

Because that worked so well for Argentina

Two questions regarding Vanquish since I've been experimenting and I can't really tell

>what do the cigs do?

>does the dash attack remain a constant for all weapons or does it change per weapon? It seems that it's always the drop kick attack but I always seem to have the shotgun equipped during melee.

>>15879446

That's not why. If it weren't for race mixing south America would be even worse. They are only half niggers, before they would have been 100% niggers.

>>15879973

Then why is south America better than Africa? It's not about the race mixing but percentage of whiteness in the population.

>>15881112

Season 3 of Wakfu was actually pretty good

>>15879821

Cigs temporarily distract all enemies in range and let you move about freely for a short while without getting shot at. I believe your dash attack does change depending on your equipped weapon.

>>15883360

The lack of effort is what makes it shovelware.