Incline Team Ninja's Rise of the Ronin

[Spike]

Been watching gameplay of this over the past couple days. Looks like it's definitely less focused than Ninja Gaiden Black, Nioh and Wo Long but there's only so many times you can play Ninja Gaiden Black, Nioh and Wo Long. A mediocre Team Ninja game is still comparatively better than 99.9% of all other games and I'm not a fan of making perfection the enemy of good.
(on PC)

Completely agree. "Making the perfect the enemy of the good" is this place's modus operandi.

 

[notpl]

Been watching gameplay of this over the past couple days. Looks like it's definitely less focused than Ninja Gaiden Black, Nioh and Wo Long but there's only so many times you can play Ninja Gaiden Black, Nioh and Wo Long. A mediocre Team Ninja game is still comparatively better than 99.9% of all other games and I'm not a fan of making perfection the enemy of good.
(on PC)

I'm sure there is a limit to the number if times I can play Nioh, but the two games so far certainly have not hit it for me yet. Stop fucking around with inferior corruptions of the formula and give me Nioh 3 you morons.

 

[Great Deceiver]

Been watching gameplay of this over the past couple days. Looks like it's definitely less focused than Ninja Gaiden Black, Nioh and Wo Long but there's only so many times you can play Ninja Gaiden Black, Nioh and Wo Long. A mediocre Team Ninja game is still comparatively better than 99.9% of all other games and I'm not a fan of making perfection the enemy of good.
(on PC)

Wo Long doesn't belong on that list at all.

 

[911 Jumper]

Can't do this in Dragon's Dogma 2.

 

[toro]

Can't do this in Dragon's Dogma 2.

True.

Also the game cannot sustain the same interest like DD2.

Spoiler

 

[cruel]

https://gamerant.com/princess-peach-showtime-sales-so-far-comparison-rise-of-the-ronin/

Ah, Princess Peach, losing to worthy competition I see:

1. Princess Peach: Showtime - 77,562
2. Dragon's Dogma 2 - 68,592
3. Rise of the Ronin - 64,646

Quite close in sales to DD2, at least in Japan - I wasn't expecting that to be honest. In overall, people seem to be pretty happy with the game, wondering if Team Ninja just didn't pay reviewers enough?

 

[REhorror]

Japanese seems to prefer it to DD2.

I can't honestly wait for the PC port.

 

[Klysandral]

Famitsu sales 3/25/24 - 3/31/24:

1. [NSW] Princess Peach: Showtime! (Nintendo, 03/22/24) – 27,258 (104,820)
2. [PS5] Rise of the Ronin (SIE, 03/22/24) – 20,139 (84,785)
3. [NSW] Winning Post 10 2024 (Koei Tecmo, 03/28/24) – 12,845 (New)
4. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 10,432 (5,768,608)
5. [PS5] Dragon’s Dogma II (Capcom, 03/22/24) – 9,172 (77,764)

 

[Great Deceiver]

4. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 10,432 (5,768,608)

rofl

 

[Klysandral]

Famitsu sales 4/1/24 - 4/7/24:

1. [NSW] Princess Peach: Showtime – 19,612 / 124,432
2. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – 13,055 / 5,781,663
3. [PS5] Rise of the Ronin – 12,080 / 96,865
4. [NSW] Super Mario Bros. Wonder – 9,898 / 1,83,645
5. [NSW] Minecraft – 7,464 / 3,491,021
6. [NSW] Splatoon 3 – 6,569 / 4,270,889
7. [NSW] Nintendo Switch Sports – 6,497 / 1,306,180
8. [NSW] Momotaro Dentetsu World: Chikyuu wa Kibou de Mawatteru – 6,189 / 1,029,313
9. [NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons – 6,110 / 7,735,293
10. [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – 5,507 / 5,481,777

Great hold for Rise of the Ronin.

 

[Jinn]

Looking into the game more and more since it released, I have not doubt I'm going to enjoy it when I can finally get my hands on it, checklist open-world stuff aside. Really wish a PC release wasn't likely a year out, but I'm glad we'll be getting the ultimate edition when it does get here.

 

[H. P. Lovecraft's Cat]

So does the game suck or what?

 

[Skinwalker]

Is it shit?

ftfy

 

[cruel]

Surprisingly, most of the people seem to enjoy this game - mostly positive reviews whenever I see, still selling well, 8.6 user score on metacritic. It's definitely not shit from what I see, but hard to judge how much of this is just normies experiencing a good combat system for the first time in their life.

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[Skinwalker]

8.6 user score on metacritic

That's supposed to be good?!

 

[H. P. Lovecraft's Cat]

Positive user score!? So it sucks then. Thank you for saving me money.

 

[Klysandral]

8.6 user score on metacritic

That's supposed to be good?!

Compared to other 2024 releases:

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth - 8.9
Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth - 8.6
Rise of the Ronin - 8.6
Persona 3 Reload - 8.5
Granblue Fantasy: Relink - 8.4
Unicorn Overlord - 8.3
The Last of Us Part II Remastered - 8.3
Tekken 8 - 7.7
Horizon Forbidden West: Complete Edition - 6.9
Dragon's Dogma 2 - 6.3

 

[Skinwalker]

Dragon's Dogma 2 - 6.3

 

[Klysandral]

The game has sold close to 1 million copies according to this:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/am...aus-and-stellar-blade-demo-0-69m-daus.841887/

"The console and PC games markets are currently awash with ARPGs, with a number of these emerging from Asian studios. Dragon's Dogma 2 and Rise of the Ronin were just two new additions to the genre in March, garnering upwards of 2m monthly active users (MAUs) and just shy of 1m MAUs respectively according to Ampere's Games Analytics data; plus the hotly-anticipated new Elden Ring DLC is set for release in June. Clearly there is increasing competition in this space, but at the moment, the consumer appetite for APRGs seems to continue to match, or even outpace, relevant content releases."

P.S. Stellar Blade could be huge. Daily active user numbers for the Stellar Blade demo have more than doubled those seen for the FFVII Rebirth demo.

 

[Suicidal]

Dragon's Dogma 2 - 6.3

I'm sure a lot of that is due to the bad performance, which is fixable, and the (in my opinion, really overblown) microtransaction fiasco.