Ninja Gaiden 3 adds PlayStation Move support for 'casual' appeal
Team Ninja is adding PlayStation Move support to its upcoming Ninja Gaiden 3 in an effort to make the game "more accessible" to casual gamers.
The Ninja Gaiden series pretty much defines what makes a game hardcore. So, Team Ninja's decision to add PlayStation Move support to its upcoming Ninja Gaiden 3 seemed peculiar, to say the least.
"With PlayStation Move, you can make the motion of cutting an enemy down," Team Ninja's Yosuke Hayashi explained. "I feel it’s more the casual gamer that will use PS Move and it will make this kind of game more accessible to them."
While the franchise has been skewed towards the hardcore, it appears Hayashi and team are making concessions to attract a wider audience. "Ninja Gaiden 3 is still very difficult on the hardest setting for those fans who like that about the series," Hayashi told the PlayStation.Blog. "However, we have got the normal difficulty level in there for the players who simply want to follow the story or are not so skilled."
We haven't seen Team Ninja's implementation of Move yet, but perhaps it will give us an idea of what to expect from the Wii U version of the game? Ninja Gaiden 3 will be available on PS3 and Xbox 360 early next year.
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Team Ninja is adding PlayStation Move support to its upcoming Ninja Gaiden 3 in an effort to make the game "more accessible" to casual gamers.-
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It's hilarious how quickly this series fell. QTE's, now this.
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When Itagaki and the REAL Team Ninja left, I knew the series wouldn't be as good, but I didn't think they would try to go even lower.
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And when I heard a NG game with QTE's , I was really already dreading it. I was hoping that it would be done tastefully like Bayonetta, but now I'm really doubting it.
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In terms of QTEs, Bayonetta was rather tasteful. The mandatory QTEs were confined to an "action button" (which was always X / square), a "jump" move, or an "evade" / "counter" move (Y+B / triangle + circle). They were memorizable after one or two runs through, to the point where you knew what was coming up. Also, in the Very Easy mode, failing a mandatory storyline QTE does not end the game; it just continues on with no bonus.
The other QTEs were Torture Attacks, Infernal Demon summons, or special moves against bosses, and those are so fun to watch, even after the millionth time.
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Honestly, how true is that statement. I wouldn't mind it so much if they made casual games for casual gamers, but when they try to make the hardcore games for casual gamers....uughh.
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Spend more money- buy games at full retail, buy collector's editions. Did you buy Duke Nukem's collector edition for $100 bucks? If not, STFU - this is a business and you don't "deserve" anything - your money does more talking.
The Casual gamers are far more numerous than "teh hardcorze!"-
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Nope. But I didn't it would be this fucking lame.
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I for one pretty much agree with that statement. I just didn't think they would try to disappoint their fanbase that much just to appeal to the idiot casual gamer.
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That's hilarious. This game is going to be so bad.
