GB: "Ninja Gaiden was probably in my top 3 favorite titles for the original Nintendo gaming console. Ryu Hayabusa and Team Ninja are back once more for a confirmed Ninja Gaiden 3. The project was officially announced at TGS 2010 (Tokyo Game Show) in a closed door event. Ninja Gaiden 3 is said to take a deeper look into Ryu’s more human side, as the environment is set in a hellish realm. There has been no platform confirmations released."
Screen Rant Writes: Team Ninja knows fans want a new Ninja Gaiden game, but if Ryu Hayabusa is going to come back, there are some things that the series needs to fix.
- Better story, not that it has to be very deep though
- Better level design, on par or even exceed NG1
- Better enemies design, NG3's enemies design were boring and repetitive
Bring back the difficulty of the first game both 3 and Yaiba (yes I played that POS game) had laughably easy difficulty that it wasn't even funny.
In the conclusion to a three part series, CV takes a look at the most recent Ninja Gaiden games, for better and for worse.
They need to make a true sequel to Ninja Gaiden 2, that was the most satisfying combat I've experienced in a hack n slash game.
been playing 1&2 on and off since they were released. I usually will play until I get frustrated then take another year off lol. Nver tried 3 or the 4th one even though they are in my backlog.
I tried to go back to Sigma but good god those controls are just insufferable. Couldn't do it.
Phil writes, "Sometimes all it takes is one game to make a long-running or promising franchise become dead in the water, maligned to irrelevancy and just a memory in the annals of gaming history. It's a dog-eat-dog industry where it doesn't matter if the franchise has been around for ages or for milliseconds--just one or two failures and you're done. That's the case with these franchises, all of which I'm sad to see are currently nowhere to be found. Whether any of these will return for a kick-ass comeback or not is up in the air, but what is known is that for many, these franchises met truly unfortunate ends."
For Tony Hawk's Pro Skater really the first 3 were really the only good ones. After that they sort of went downhill.
Klonoa was great but released at a bad time on just 1 system with no marketing. Razors Edge fixed many issues with NG3 vanilla and is a guilty pleasure. Another one that killed a franchise is Lost Planet 3. The better game was Japan only in EX Troopers on PS3. I also would say Marvel vs Capcom Infinite killed the series. I know it's less than a year old but the writing is on the wall. Silent Hill series as soon as Konami gave it to western devs and also made mobile spinoffs.
I loved the dead space 1+2 hated 3. Played through them so many times but found number 3 such a bore to get through, really hope they pick this back up.
I am not a big fan of hack n slash games because they start to feel like I am just botton smashing. Metal Gear Solid Risen seems to be something that might change that.
@below - I think all the sliceing and diceing in the E3 preview confirms that this will be a hack n slash game, plus Kojima is not involved so dont expect to much from this game.
that's right R2D2, Kojima is not involved in Metal Gear Solid: Rising so I WON'T expect too much from that game.
As for Ninja Gaiden III Tomonobu Idagaki is not involved and is not needed. Team Ninja is still attatched and that's all that matters. HACK N SLASH FTW!
i hate when people call them hack and slash, and if ur button maashing its cuz u lack skill, their are legitamate combos and button mashig leads to death in ninja gaiden.
why call them hack and slash when they are action games? i dont see people calling shooters R1/Rightt trigger mashers?
or point and shooters so wtf?
lol @showtimefolks
Whats NJ? Ninja Jelly? lol i know wat u mean haha
Hack n Slash (action games)is doing ok.
Castlevania LOS
Darksiders
God of War 3
Dantes Inferno
Were all pretty good.
its gonna be good game since black there are always problems with NJ like small issues
i mean the camera issues has been in NJ for last 3-4 games there are minor yet frustrating things about NJ
i still like to play but it would be nice if some of the old nagging issues are dealt with