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Which is your favourite Ninja Gaiden game?

  • Ninja Gaiden

    Votes: 11 18.3%

  • Ninja Gaiden II: The Dark Sword of Chaos

    Votes: 12 20.0%

  • Ninja Gaiden III: The Ancient Ship of Doom

    Votes: 3 5.0%

  • Ninja Gaiden Shadow

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Ninja Gaiden Black

    Votes: 24 40.0%

  • Ninja Gaiden Sigma

    Votes: 5 8.3%

  • Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword

    Votes: 1 1.7%

  • Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2

    Votes: 8 13.3%

  • Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor's Edge

    Votes: 1 1.7%

  • Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z

    Votes: 2 3.3%
  • Total voters
    60
Sundae said:
The only game in the series I've played is Ninja Gaiden II on the 360, but I enjoyed it. Always wanted to pick up Gaiden on the original Xbox, but never got around to it. Might end up getting the PS3 versions at some point.

There's a rumor going around that the Gaiden trilogy might be getting ported to PS4 and Switch soon. Hopefully it's true, would love the chance to play these games on the go.
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And where the fuck is a Steam version? Stupid fucking Chink bastards.
 
Sundae said:
The only game in the series I've played is Ninja Gaiden II on the 360, but I enjoyed it. Always wanted to pick up Gaiden on the original Xbox, but never got around to it. Might end up getting the PS3 versions at some point.

There's a rumor going around that the Gaiden trilogy might be getting ported to PS4 and Switch soon. Hopefully it's true, would love the chance to play these games on the go.
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I hope they go all out and include the original and Sigma versions, I also wish it would get a Steam release.

Even though I just played the Xbox Ninja Gaiden 1 and II back in 2017, I've been in a mood to play them again, as well as checking out the Sigma versions, I'd be down for buying them again if they were all in one place.
 
Duncan Hills Coffee said:
It'll be hilarious trying to see II run on Switch. Never played it myself, but I've seen footage of it slowing to a crawl on the 360 due to the sheer amount of shit onscreen. Can't imagine it'd be any better on Switch, unless they optimize the hell out of it.
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The link mentions Sigma 2, the PS3 release, and that one severely cut back on the things that tanked 360 performance, like the billion ninjas on the stairs that made it chug down 20~ fps.

The Xbox emulates that fight at 4k 60fps without a hitch. Maybe I should buy an xbox.
 
Smaug's Smokey Hole said:
The link mentions Sigma 2, the PS3 release, and that one severely cut back on the things that tanked 360 performance, like the billion ninjas on the stairs that made it chug down 20~ fps.
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I'll be disappointed if this is only the Sigma releases, because in some ways those are inferior to Black and II*

But I did also want to play the Sigma versions and that would be a better way to do that.

*From what I understand the textures are a bit blurrier in Sigma 1 and Sigma 2 tones down the gore, though it at least ups the sex quotient, I'm not sure what the other differences are.
 
Dom Cruise said:
I'll be disappointed if this is only the Sigma releases, because in some ways those are inferior to Black and II*

But I did also want to play the Sigma versions and that would be a better way to do that.

*From what I understand the textures are a bit blurrier in Sigma 1 and Sigma 2 tones down the gore, though it at least ups the sex quotient, I'm not sure what the other differences are.
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They reduced the amount of enemies by A LOT because the RSX was bad at geometry.

Same level (and video with different timestamps), PS3 on top Xbox 360 on the bottom, Master Ninja difficulty on both. Play them both at once.



Sigma 2 looks like a walking simulator.
 
Smaug's Smokey Hole said:
They reduced the amount of enemies by A LOT because the RSX was bad at geometry.

Same level (and video with different timestamps), PS3 on top Xbox 360 on the bottom, Master Ninja difficulty on both. Play them both at once.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=VDAiYc_sy8A:113
https://youtube.com/watch?v=VDAiYc_sy8A:257
Sigma 2 looks like a walking simulator.
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Ok, wow, that's a lot worse than I was expecting.

Sigma 2 does at least have the playable female characters but I'm not sure even that can make up for it.

It's depressing to be reminded how at the end of the day shitty the PS3 was, gaming lost a certain momentum that it's never fully gained back when Sony dropped the ball on the PS3.

And why the flying fuck did Itagaki and Tecmo separate? It just breaks my heart.
 
Dom Cruise said:
Ok, wow, that's a lot worse than I was expecting.

Sigma 2 does at least have the playable female characters but I'm not sure even that can make up for it.

It's depressing to be reminded how at the end of the day shitty the PS3 was, gaming lost a certain momentum that it's never fully gained back when Sony dropped the ball on the PS3.

And why the flying fuck did Itagaki and Tecmo separate? It just breaks my heart.
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Yeah, Sigma 2 is a much worse version of NG2. It was bad enough that when I realized that these would be the people handling NG3, I decided to wait on reviews.
 
Wonderful Id said:
Yeah, Sigma 2 is a much worse version of NG2. It was bad enough that when I realized that these would be the people handling NG3, I decided to wait on reviews.
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Well, I sure hope this re-release includes both versions.

Tell me, can you play the bonus content in Sigma 2 without having to play the main game?
 
I played NG Sigma 1 and NG2 on the PS3 and 360 respectively when I was a kid.

I remember being stuck on the first one to the point where I gave up and went on easy mode. Having Kasumi chastise you over it was pretty humiliating. I really should revisit that game one day. Preferably the Black version as apparently that's the better version.

2 was frustrating to me because it had this game breaking glitch where the game would freeze during a very specific cutscene and I could not proceed past it. I dropped the game for months and came back to it when it was updated.
 
Overcast said:
2 was frustrating to me because it had this game breaking glitch where the game would freeze during a very specific cutscene and I could not proceed past it. I dropped the game for months and came back to it when it was updated.
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I hit a different glitch in 2 on the 360 where if you died at a certain point, the enemies wouldn't spawn where you restarted and the game was unbeatable. I spent about 8 hours to get to that point originally, and when I did it again, I got there in 90 min with a bunch more health and healing items.
 
NGB is probably my favorite game of all time, only trailed by PSOep1&2 and Dark Souls 1. It makes me sad we'll probably never get another game like NGB even if they make an NG4 I doubt it will be anything like NGB, hell they'll probably make it into a soulslike at this point. NGB felt like a Zelda game but with god tier combat, don't know why more people haven't attempted outside of maybe Darksiders 1&2 but their combat wasn't up to snuff.
 
Titos said:
NGB is probably my favorite game of all time, only trailed by PSOep1&2 and Dark Souls 1. It makes me sad we'll probably never get another game like NGB even if they make an NG4 I doubt it will be anything like NGB, hell they'll probably make it into a soulslike at this point. NGB felt like a Zelda game but with god tier combat, don't know why more people haven't attempted outside of maybe Darksiders 1&2 but their combat wasn't up to snuff.
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The combat was tight in a special way. To me the difference between Devil May Cry and Ninja Gaiden was that the enemies in Ninja Gaiden felt more like fighting game opponents.
Maybe I should buy an Xbox just to play 1 and 2 again.
 
Necroing to say that I played through Ninja Gaiden Black a while back and holy shit, what a game. It has its frustrating parts*, but wow. The crisp controls, the tight and rewarding combat, the way that the enemies challenge you and train you into getting better, it makes every single regular engagement fun.

It's a shame that the bosses somewhat fail to live upto that. (The military base boss fights and the bit where you stand there and block a helicopter's bullets are absolutely hilarious though, I will give them that much, even if they are shit.)

I'm also not really a story in videogames guy, but man, what a wasted opportunity there. The world design is cool, the music is great, but the story is, well, it exists. Let's not go any further than that. I will forgive it because the game does almost everything else well.

Definitely deserving of another playthrough on Hard, because I heard that it mixes up the enemies and items on every difficulty. I haven't checked out the mission mode either. There's a very generous amount of content left after a playthrough.

It plays fine on Xemu other than a few drops here and there, usually during ultimate attacks, atleast for a half decade old CPU. Sticks close to 60fps otherwise. It even manages to look absolutely gorgeous at some points. I'm sure it blew a lot of people away when it came out even on those old CRTs.

* I used save states for some platforming sections.

I want to play Ninja Gaiden II next, but getting the game here is almost impossible, and Xenia supposedly has a bug where the audio cuts off randomly. I'll wait a few years, I suppose. It's either that or dropping a lot of money on a console I won't really use otherwise. Maybe I should just bite the bullet and play Sigma 2.

If the rumours about Tecmo rebooting the series are true, I really hope that the new game is good and that more people can discover the franchise and enjoy the original too. Instead of a completely linear game like the later entries, hopefully they lean into that adventure game side of the original.

The setting makes absolutely no sense, but every time the game routed me back to an area I had been to before, or an inaccessible area I had only spotted before, I was really impressed. Maybe I'm just a sucker for all these old games that show so much ambition in a way that newer games don't even attempt to match.
 
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