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[rockman zx]

I guess they are confident in the game. Reviewers have 6/7 days to beat the game and write their reviews I guess, I'm not sure if that is enough, specially when the game seems to be loaded with content, the director said it will take 70 hours to beat the game on average (could be BS of course).

 

[FelipeMGM]

Damn, almost 40gb. How big were the betas? I feel they were waaay smaller

 

[Newtype-001]

Naisu

 

[YoRHa No.2 Type B]

Bigger than Dark Souls 3 interesting.

 

[Korigama]

Damn, almost 40gb. How big were the betas? I feel they were waaay smaller

Last Chance demo was 7.4GB or so, IIRC.

 

[Chobel]

An early embargo? Koei Tecom must be very confident in NIOH.

 

[raven777]

I don't buy developer's average playtime so I don't expect 70 hour and I am fine with that as long as there is good amount of content. They must feel pretty confident with the game looking at the embargo date... hope the game turns out great.

 

[skynidas]

They are confident. The game is looking good and it is great that reviewers have it already so they get the chance of finishing it before the reviews go up. Although I expect some of them to not be able to finish it because of difficulty, there's some reviewers that play terribly.

 

[xuchu]

Wow, very confident of the game. Judging by the demos they should be.

Edit: oh man, those PSN download speeds huh.

 

[AmethystEnd]

Cool that the embargo lifts pretty early, but metacritic could average a 1/10 and I'd still buy it day one based on what I've played across the alpha, beta, and final demo.

 

[FelipeMGM]

An early embargo? Koei Tecom must be very confident in NIOH.

More about Sony beeing confident I guess, since they are the publisher in the West

Im sure both are very confident

 

[Jimrpg]

Reviews are going to be all over the place for this but I'm getting it anyway because the demo was quality.

Things holding this game back

- just like when Demons Souls came out, this game is a step up in difficulty some people aren't going to be able to get good in a limited amount of time

- the game isn't the most beautiful because the design team wanted to design a 60fps game. I think everyone will dock points for this.

- it borrows from Souls, therefore it's not as original.

However I'm sure there will be reviewers that love the game for its extremely flexible combat. The way Team Ninja combined Souls elements and Ninja Gaiden elements. And though I only played the demo, there's real potential here for Nioh to dethrone Bloodborne as the new king of action games.

 

[viHuGi]

That's sooner than anticipated.

 

[Caipirinha]

An early embargo? Koei Tecom must be very confident in NIOH.

It's an objective 9+, no need for a late embargo.

 

[StrongBlackVine]

Reviews are going to be all over the place for this but I'm getting it anyway because the demo was quality.

Things holding this game back

- just like when Demons Souls came out, this game is a step up in difficulty some people aren't going to be able to get good in a limited amount of time

- the game isn't the most beautiful because the design team wanted to design a 60fps game. I think everyone will dock points for this.

- it borrows from Souls, therefore it's not as original.

However I'm sure there will be reviewers that love the game for its extremely flexible combat. The way Team Ninja combined Souls elements and Ninja Gaiden elements. And though I only played the demo, there's real potential here for Nioh to dethrone Bloodborne as the new king of action games.

I wouldn't be so sure of this. I think influence of Souls games could carry over to Nioh as far as critucs are concerned. Seems like a mid 80s score based on everything we have seen so far. Maybe higher if the story is any good.

 

[Kanann]

My man William will get 85+ meta score.

 

[fantomena]

09:01 CET/08:01 GMT to be exact.

 

[Kudo]

My man William will get 85+ meta score.

90+, believe!

 

[Fat4all]

super hyped

I plan to spend a shit ton of time with Nioh.

 

[eizarus]

I'm predicting a metascore within the high 80's bogged down by complaints of being too hard. Git Gud reviewers.

 

[GwyndolinCinder]

The thing I would do to get my hands on that right now!

 

[Chaos2Frozen]

Reviewer Pros:

- Different from Dark Souls
- Similar with Dark Souls

Reviewer cons:

- Too much like Dark Souls
- Not enough like Dark Souls

 

[Inuhanyou]

Oh yeah..let's do this. I'm predicting mid-high 80s review wise. Based on my time with the last chance demo, i'd easily give it an 86-88

 

[KainXVIII]

It's an objective 9+, no need for a late embargo.

 

[Yoshichan]

delicious game

give it to me

 

[AmethystEnd]

The thing I would do to get my hands on that right now!

One "thing", singular?

Ohohoho, what is this "thing"?

 

[GwyndolinCinder]

Downside of this is that spoilers are gonna be much harder to avoid!

 

[Victarion]

Man, I really wish this game had character creation. The only thing that makes it inferior to Soulborne series.

Still day one though.

 

[Freeman76]

An early embargo? Koei Tecom must be very confident in NIOH.

Why wouldnt they be? Its very similar in a lot of ways to games that already exist and are very popular, so they have no reason to be worried.

 

[Inuhanyou]

Man, I really wish this game had character creation. The only thing that makes it inferior to Soulborne series.

Still day one though.

On the plus side, we can an actual story with William and these characters, if the involved elaborate cut-scenes are any indication

 

[BigEmil]

They released 3 alphas and betas with one of the beta being a huge chunk and also review embargo release way before games release they are definitely confident in their product. But if that is true they are only given 6, 7 days to review it they need to delay the review embargo reviewers gonna rush it and stuff that won't be good

 

[bombshell]

Wow, very confident of the game. Judging by the demos they should be.

Edit: oh man, those PSN download speeds huh.

What speed should he be getting on his completely unknown connection speed?

 

[DrunkShogun]

Only thing stopping me from buying this game is not knowing where the game goes. Have a fear it might feel repetitive so hopefully reviews will clear this concern.

 

[bigol]

Bigger than Dark Souls 3 interesting.

It has much more story movies i guess.

 

[Nightengale]

2017's first 90~MC game.

 

[Gbraga]

I really hope the devs are full of shit when they say it's a 70 hours game. I tend to take longer than average, so I'm fucked if it's actually true.

Though in this game I probably won't be farming for all the loot just so I can read descriptions, so that should help a lot.

 

[silva1991]

I know I'm gonna love it, but I don't trust reviewers to give it what it probably deserves.

"poor man's Dark Souls" even though it isn't

"it's sadistic and unfair"

75 metascore.

 

[bigol]

I loved alpha, beta and demo but there is no way this is going to have a 90+ Metacritic. It's a great game but it has self contained areas, it hasn't the open world approach and reviewers will not like that.

 

[StrongBlackVine]

I really hope the devs are full of shit when they say it's a 70 hours game. I tend to take longer than average, so I'm fucked if it's actually true.

Though in this game I probably won't be farming for all the loot just so I can read descriptions, so that should help a lot.

A lot of that is probably extra/side content. No way the main story takes 70 hours.

 

[Inuhanyou]

I loved alpha, beta and demo but there is no way this is going to have a 90+ Metacritic. It's a great game but it has self contained areas, it hasn't the open world approach and reviewers will not like that.

Like Demon's?

I actually think that works in its favor. It doesn't have to ape every Souls game in how they branched out to open areas.

I actually really like the level based system cause its easier to keep track of where you've been and where you need to go, that's why the Nexus still remains my favorite hub of the series

 

[mrmickfran]

It's 40 gigs?

Lmao, I just got a PS4 in November and now my hard drive is full.

Fuuuuuuck

 

[Out_Of_Ammo]

Hnnnng can't wait for this game.

 

[sphinx]

this is it I guess, so one question.

Ever since this game started being regarded as the hardest game of the generation, I stopped caring about it, some months ago.

has that been re-confirmed, that the game is indeed harder than everything else??

 

[Johannsson]

Bigger than Dark Souls 3 interesting.

 

[xuchu]

Reviewer Pros:

- Different from Dark Souls
- Similar with Dark Souls

Reviewer cons:

- Too much like Dark Souls
- Not enough like Dark Souls

Lol, pretty sure this is going to be exactly the case.

 

[bigol]

this is it I guess, so one question.

Ever since this game started being regarded as the hardest game of the generation, I stopped caring about it, some months ago.

has that been re-confirmed, that the game is indeed harder than everything else??

At first, with alfa it felt like unforgiving hard, much more than Dark Souls. The recent demo showed they made the game hard but it's not unfair anymore in my opinion.

It has good difficulty balance.

 

[Acquiescence]

2017's first 90~MC game.

Too optimistic. I predict 86.

 

[Ethelwulf]

Reviewer Pros:

- Different from Dark Souls
- Similar with Dark Souls

Reviewer cons:

- Too much like Dark Souls
- Not enough like Dark Souls

"Where Nioh excels in combat and item management system, like the souls series, lacks in innovative ways of managing items and in providing new engaging combat experiences".

 

[lowhighkang_LHK]

When does the game release?

 

[Triggerhappytel]

Bigger than Dark Souls 3 interesting.

Surely game file size tells us very little about the actual amount of content though?