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Ninja Gaiden Hurricane Pack Debuts On Xbox Live
RobZ65 writes "The new upgrade to Ninja Gaiden, previously mentioned on Slashdot Games, has just debuted for download via Xbox Live. The pack features improved camera, more bosses, improved AI, a new weapon, and two new costumes. What do you fellow Slashdotters think about addressing customer complaints in downloads? GameSpy has hands-on impressions of the Hurricane Pack from a couple of weeks back, and IGN covers the new Intercept Technique for blocking and countering, if want more info."
Will it be available on a demo disc with a magazine? I believe they did that for the extra Splinter Cell level. Would downloading it off the net, then FTPing the content to your xbox be considered 'illegal'? Especially if this update is more of a patch, then a content download.
...the companies that usually have that mentality seem to assume everyone has access to affordable broadband. $100/mo for either high lag satallite or 144/144 IDSL isn't exactly appealing for me.
If you think education is expensive, you should try ignorance -- Derek Bok, president of Harvard
The most our phone system connects at is 28.8k, many houses don't connect at over 14.4k. So don't say that "it only takes x minutes". A 100MB service pack takes 10 hours, if the server lets you stay connected that long and resume. Quite a few don't like that, they treat a slow connection like a dead one.
I should move out of the third world country known as California and move into a place like South Korea...
If you think education is expensive, you should try ignorance -- Derek Bok, president of Harvard
It used to be that console games didn't need updates or didn't need add-ons. Now they seem to be getting into the same arena as a PC.
And personally, I would feel ripped off if I bought the game and didn't get these addons because I had to sign up for X-box Live.
The gap between console and PC thins out a little more.
Get paid to code OSS
Someday all X-box games will be very buggy right out of the box because Microsoft will rely on patching. Why bother testing your software when you can release earlier than the competition and just release a downloadable patch? I hope this doesn't upen the floodGates.
Come on now, it's the same thing again. Tecmo, COMPLETELY INDEPENDENT of Microsoft, releases a FREE add-on to an incredibly popular game and all you guys can do is cry foul? HOW? It's a FREE add-on with new content & a new reason to play the game! Do you want Tecmo to come and give everybody free money and openly declare there hatred for everything you don't like? What does it take to please you people?
And by the way, how many of you would be crying foul if this were a free add on for a PS2 or GC game, huh?
So when are the requirements for a game going to be "a broadband connection"?
Yeah, I'm really thrilled at the idea of buying a broken game for $50 and then having to pay $100+/mo to fix it.
If you think education is expensive, you should try ignorance -- Derek Bok, president of Harvard
Do any of them make the game any easier? Or perhaps tell you how to get past the first level?
Ninja Gaiden ist definitely not a hard or even unplayable hard game (not on normal difficulty, that is). It is not an easy game, so much is true. But I am sure that everyone can make it up to level 12 (this is where I am; I don't know if it gets harder but I am told that everyone who gets to level nine can beat the game). There are only two hard Bosses until where I am now (level 12 of 15, said that before): The first one (because you are not yet used to fighting) and the first encounter with Alma in the church. All other Bosses can easily be killed by EVERYONE if he equippes ten normal health drinks and a little Ninpo. Usually less. The game only forces you to really look what your enemies do and use more than one single move. Some timing and two or three different moves will help you through every single fight. People who wine about Ninja Gaiden being too hard (on normal) just didn't try it for longer than half an hour. after that, you get used to the outstanding and excellent pacing of the game.
whoa, can you walk and chew gum at the same time? The game is an achievement in playability. The controls are near perfect as well as the graphics. But then again, there's a lot in Nija Gaiden that is a throwback to old-school games and everyone can agree that old-school games were much harder than the majority of modern games. you should stick to Pokèmon.
It's funny how people argue such things as holding onto ledge in the new Metroids to not be of the original design when the reason the first one didn't have it was most likely due to memory contraints.
The original Ninja gaidens were NOT hard because all it required was a little memorization since the enemies appeared in the exact place, and did the exact same thing.
I personally think a lot of older games were far easier than new ones.
The entire game takes at least several hours to complete. So, by playing for 2 min, you played the game for less than 0.5% of the time it would take to beat it. Do you honestly think that this is enough time to make up your mind about a game?
/. about how you have a short attention span. :)
As an example of how rediculous this is, this is equivalent to picking up a 300 page novel, reading the first page, and then deciding that the whole novel sucks. Clearly, no sound decision can be made this quickly.
Perhaps if you gave the game just a bit more time, then you would have learned how to work the camera. And then you would have had a great time playing it instead of whining to everyone on
I can't believe how many people are upset about this. New content comes out and people bitch and complain. Quick, someone call the whaaabulance.
I was going to explain why this is a good thing, when it hit me. People aren't bitching about the new content, they are bitching because...
They don't have XBL and can't get the content
Don't have an XBOX, and therefore, this must be substandard because their PS2 or GC is better.
Hate MS, so anything that is connected to MS is bad
Come on people. Let's use a brain here. Do you bitch when blizzard offers an update to Diablo II to make it fun to play again? Add new items, balance the characters, change the enemies? No.
Do people bitch when your MMORG (or whatever the acronym is) gives you new stuff? No.
They don't have to, but they do it to keep the game fresh and playable. Blizzard does it for free. MMORG's do it as part of their agreement to you. You pay them X a month, they promise that their servers will work and your game experience will improve.
So why is it so wrong when NG does this? You bought the game for 50 dollars. They already fulfilled their agreement with you. They provided you with an enjoyable game. They owe you nothing now. But to keep you coming back they release new content the most effective way they know how: XBL. They didn't have to...but they did.
So now you complain because XBL costs money. Well if you don't like it, don't get it and stop bitching. XBL is a service to connect you to other people playing the same game. Just like the Internet connects you to content you want. You don't need it, but it is nice to have.
Personally, I think this is great and hope other game makers take the hint and do the same. There is nothing I hate more than playing a game a second or third time and finding out that it is exactly the same thing I've already done before.
Deal with it and move on.
-Mark
Dovie'andi se tovya sagain.
Seriously, Pokemon is a much better game than most give it credit for; just imagine that the only Pokemon-related things are the games and that there is no RPG mode, and you have a decent strategy game. Check out either www.netbattle.net or the irc.your-irc.net IRC channel #rsarena (preferably the first, it's easier to use even though it's unfortunately written in Visual Basic). Both offer free Pokemon battle simulation; it's a better strategy game than it looks.