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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
Wonderful Id said:
It aint NGB, but Ninja Gaiden Sigma is fully playable via emulation, and I was able to do 4k60. Still a damn fine version of the game, and it has the most Rachel of any of them as well.
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yeah I heard about Sigma, I just also saw a looooooooooooot of comments that were just "if it ain't black it ain't worth playin'"
 
I've played the original three at some point when I was a teenager, but the Xbox one is one of the best action games ever made. I played the shit out of that back in the day. Never did play Black, though. Being a broke teenager at the time you only got so many games, and by the time I had my own money I was long on to other stuff. But, a lot of good memories of playing through the OG version over and over and over again.
 
Having never owned an Xbox, I had to play Sigma in order to experience Ninja Gaiden. I like it, though I never could get too far into it. Some of it is my inexperience with the controls. At first I thought they were too stiff until I realized it had more to do with Ryu finishing his previous animations than it did stiff controls (though jumping is actually stiff). It's a bit weird because I'm used to having characters immediately cancel their attacks via jumping but you can't do that in Ninja Gaiden. That means you have to commit to your actions instead of whittling at the enemy and quickly getting away like other action games I played.

I really should give it another shot.
 
I've only played the NES games, but Dark Sword of Chaos is my favorite of the three. The music was absolutely fantastic, it was still challenging but not balls to the wall difficult, so 7 year old me still felt like I had a chance to beat it. Have a lot of nostalgia for this game, it was one of the few NES titles my dad loved playing as well.
 
White Devil said:
The original Ninja Gaiden on NES will always be my favorite. That is the game that taught me that the NES controller is the indestructible material that they made Wolverine's skeleton out of because I threw it through a lot of shit as a kid.
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Now, current year controllers have drift if you so much as look at them for too long.
 
All three of the 3D Ninja Gaiden games are masterpieces in their own right and I feel like these days they've been vastly forgotten about. Unfortunately I don't believe Team Ninja has any reason to revisit the franchise now that Ni-Oh is so massively successful.
 
God this series is so cool

I'd have to say Sigma 2 is my favourite; the gore, the enemies, the sheer over the top action and constant fanservice; like an 80's OVA given the Xbox 360 exclusive treatment.

Shoutout to Shinobi for the ps2 as well, that shit was cash as well; both series need a remaster for all platforms STAT. With folks going nuts for super difficult and violent games now, it would be the perfect chance to bank on getting these two series back on track.
 
There's also a tg16 version of the nes game.
The ova is a fun enough watch, too
 
Guy-den.

The Messenger was pretty good, but I found it really began to drag near the end. Traveling between the areas wasn't as intuitive as it should have been considering how much you have to do it when the Metroidvania stuff starts. And the humour was absolute trash. Reddit-tier meme garbage. Unrelated, but their next game, Sea of Stars is looking quite nice.
 
White Devil said:
The original Ninja Gaiden on NES will always be my favorite. That is the game that taught me that the NES controller is the indestructible material that they made Wolverine's skeleton out of because I threw it through a lot of shit as a kid.
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Sailors in the 17th century never forgot the sound of the ship creaking and straining during rough seas. I will never forget the creaking sounds of a NES controller when trying to break it over your knee while at the same time trying to shear it in half by twisting it.

I don't know if it was common in other places or well known/utilized, but you could order individual official components to repair NES controllers. Cheap as well, postage cost more than the parts.
 
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