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Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance demo is up on Xbox Live and PSN US. PSN EU whenever.
- Thread starter Sn4ke_911
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Playing on PS3? Lock onto enemies with R2. When they light up orange, push the stick in their direction and hit light attack (Square). Even if you do it well before they hit you, you'll block the incoming blow. If you do it the exact moment they hit you, you'll even knock them back in a stagger. :O
...I get it!
The game suddenly clicked for me now. Wow, what a difference between my first and second run through the demo. First run was dying everywhere. Second run was Jack the Ripper leaving pieces of his foes everywhere. Stealth killing a Gekko is just plain awesome. Sneaky, sneaky, sneaky SLASH, Blade Mode, CUT, Zandatsu, finish! Aww yeah.
And I can see the soldiers in this game uphold the traditional Metal Gear values of being very selective in their hearing and vision. You know the two guys with the hostage? I stealth killed one from above, cut him into 30 pieces and Zandatsu'd his power module. The other guy, who was standing right next to him, didn't even turn to see what that noise was. Two stealth kills for the price of one. For some reason the hostage was terrified.
What changed, pretty much, was me learning to Zandatsu and learning that there are a parry and a riposte move in the game. Parrying is nice, but you want to perfect parry so you counterattack. Poor dog, going from being the terror to meeting the terror.
Also, it is still a Metal Gear game. Stealth, while not as important as before, still works. You can kill the entire two Gekkos and five rocket launcher guys wave unseen. Which is almost as fun as hitting a guy in the face with a Gekko. That has to hurt.
The game suddenly clicked for me now. Wow, what a difference between my first and second run through the demo. First run was dying everywhere. Second run was Jack the Ripper leaving pieces of his foes everywhere. Stealth killing a Gekko is just plain awesome. Sneaky, sneaky, sneaky SLASH, Blade Mode, CUT, Zandatsu, finish! Aww yeah.
And I can see the soldiers in this game uphold the traditional Metal Gear values of being very selective in their hearing and vision. You know the two guys with the hostage? I stealth killed one from above, cut him into 30 pieces and Zandatsu'd his power module. The other guy, who was standing right next to him, didn't even turn to see what that noise was. Two stealth kills for the price of one. For some reason the hostage was terrified.
What changed, pretty much, was me learning to Zandatsu and learning that there are a parry and a riposte move in the game. Parrying is nice, but you want to perfect parry so you counterattack. Poor dog, going from being the terror to meeting the terror.
Also, it is still a Metal Gear game. Stealth, while not as important as before, still works. You can kill the entire two Gekkos and five rocket launcher guys wave unseen. Which is almost as fun as hitting a guy in the face with a Gekko. That has to hurt.
I've never played anything from the Metal Gear franchise, I just downloaded this because of all the fuss about it.
It was really fun! I spent way too much time cutting up trees. Blew my mind when I tried to cut up the stairs I thought I needed to progress, I thought I broke the game for a minute.
I still couldn't beat that boss after 3 tries though, the cat thingie. Maybe I'm missing something or I just suck.
Anyway, game is suddenly on my radar.
It was really fun! I spent way too much time cutting up trees. Blew my mind when I tried to cut up the stairs I thought I needed to progress, I thought I broke the game for a minute.
I still couldn't beat that boss after 3 tries though, the cat thingie. Maybe I'm missing something or I just suck.
Anyway, game is suddenly on my radar.
Framerate is virtually the same.
Heavy tearing on the 360, no tearing on the PS3.
One missing special effect from the boss on the PS3.
Much higher bitrate and therefore video quality on the cut-scenes on the Ps3.
Thanks dude.
The sad thing about this movie is that it doesn't affect anyone in the battlefield when you do it.
The sad thing about this movie is that it doesn't affect anyone in the battlefield when you do it.
I played through the demo again last night and it knocked a soldier over. Didn't do much damage though.
What's the [+] for below the FC and Health and everything else on the upper left portion of the HUD?Yeah, he definitely goes from his blade to Mistral's linked arms
No clue. It stays at 0 in the gif someone posted, so it's probably not a style points BP bonus or anything.
Maybe it has something to do with the rage mode even though that doesn't seem active in the trailer.
edit: Watching the trailer again, the clip immediately following that one shows it with a "2", and the one after shows it with a "4". Maybe it's continues?
Keep practicing. I almost gave up but eventually got the timing down. The hardest one to block is the boss' zig-zag move. If you don't block it absolutely perfectly, you're going to lose health.
That's just part of the windmill. If you want to do the full thing, do a 360 motion in any direction.
The back forward one is more useful tho, lol
The back forward one is more useful tho, lol
I like how pretty he is in MGS4. I want that skinnn
Naked Lunch
Member
On the 3rd playthru I finally "got" the game - wow is this fun. Im usually into crazy, hard to play japanese games - and this was a struggle for me - frustrating even. Once you get it though - you GET it and the demo becomes easy as pie. I do find the parrying a bit too easy - potentially game breaking. The parry window is way too long - I felt like I shouldnt have been able to do it sometimes cause I was parrying hella early, yet it still worked. Plus it seems you can parry everything. Im sure this wont be the case in the full game.
I popped in MGS4 afterwards - I still think Raiden looks cooler, and darker in 4. Still, cannot wait for MGR and especially cant wait to see more bosses. The post MGS4 story will be very interesting to learn about too.
I popped in MGS4 afterwards - I still think Raiden looks cooler, and darker in 4. Still, cannot wait for MGR and especially cant wait to see more bosses. The post MGS4 story will be very interesting to learn about too.
That's just part of the windmill. If you want to do the full thing, do a 360 motion in any direction.
The back forward one is more useful tho, lol
Which is why I said it
That's just part of the windmill. If you want to do the full thing, do a 360 motion in any direction.
The back forward one is more useful, lol
only cuz it's been downgraded.
I can't replicate all this carnage in the demo. I like how the guy on the far left tries to avoid it. :lol
only cuz it's been downgraded.
I can't replicate all this carnage in the demo.
I wonder if you can upgrade it to do that in the full game.
Spring-Loaded
Member
The sad thing about this movie is that it doesn't affect anyone in the battlefield when you do it.
I knocked over three soldiers when I did it the first time.
Oh yeah. I think what I saw was that it didn't affect the other gekko.
The Xtortionist
Member
call_kotaku
Member
It's extremely lenient, it'll block as long as you do it when you see something turn orange or a red eye flash. Are you sure you're doing it right?
You can do it just with b,f triangle from neutral. It's nice because it sweeps a wide arc with knockdown and you can cancel it into blade mode very easily for zandatsu or just to skip the long recovery. It's very vulnerable during startup, and you can't do much about that.
Oh, and the user on SRK who did the blade mode cancel combo did post the notations for it:
Video
I've been trying to imitate it but I'm having some difficulty canceling the launcher.
It says Mistral in the video title, but I believe from five minutes onwards I'm listening to the music in the video you linked, sans lyrics:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=fb8DfFimUJs#t=300s
In any case, that piece of music is badass as all fuck.
The Xtortionist
Member
Yep. Song is boss as fuck regardless but the lyrics put it into god tier.
Rising pretty much proves that lyrical songs in games can be extremely effective as long as everything is used carefully. In the
RAY battle
direct_quote
Member
No clue. It stays at 0 in the gif someone posted, so it's probably not a style points BP bonus or anything.
Maybe it has something to do with the rage mode even though that doesn't seem active in the trailer.
edit: Watching the trailer again, the clip immediately following that one shows it with a "2", and the one after shows it with a "4". Maybe it's continues?
It's probably the number of health rations Raiden has...
bobs...onGaf
Member
I hope the cutting mechanic gets more use in the product, would be cool to literally cut the floor from under the enemy if they are on a balcony or something to screw with them. The cut everything technology is pretty great
Ohhh, yeah that would make sense considering that the demo automatically uses them without really telling you.
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
Man, rewatching that Ray fight trailer has me all hyped again! I wish the public demo was of that.
call_kotaku
Member
You get rations in the demo and they don't use automatically. Just slash up the boxes next to the door and the APC during the boss fight, they drop nanomachine paste that you can use as recovery items.
I don't think the [+] is for healing items
In fact, it does. Even the description of nanomachine paste talks about authomatic recovery when your health goes to 0. You can also use them manually in menu
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
They get used automatically if they're equipped.
ScraftyDevil
Banned
Am I the only one who's more excited about the soundtrack than the lamp in the LE? The music for this game is absolutely god tier.
correct, they must be equipped to be authomatically used
Seems like a demo thing, or maybe just gameplay on normal thing, the codecs explained that you aobsorb electrolytes from enemies, maybe the more cuts you make give you health? I'm not certain
Also I'm pretty sure there is a limited meter for blade mode use, but it seem to disabled or something
V
Vilix
Unconfirmed Member
That's it. Can't see anymore. Going on an MGRR blackout.
call_kotaku
Member
Yeah they do activate to prevent death, I thought you meant it activates immediately like when you walk over zandatsu cores. Even so, if they were recovery items you'd get the [+] sign in the demo.
Since he's calling it Blade Mode Jump Cancel, maybe you just jump and enter blade mode as soon as you get off the ground?
Spring-Loaded
Member
I'm sure it's been mentioned a bunch, but I absolutely love that almost everything n that beginning area is slice-able. Except the cat.
Slicing up a pillar without it falling to pieces, then doing a palm strike on it causing it to explode apart is beautiful.
Slicing up a pillar without it falling to pieces, then doing a palm strike on it causing it to explode apart is beautiful.
Infinite Justice
Member
did that bit in the city (red hot kick, stealth kill, blade mode) and it was so fun LOL.
Gonna fuck around more in the section with the Geckos since i will get my ass handed to me at times, and then the dog to get the parry timing during his special move down.
Gonna fuck around more in the section with the Geckos since i will get my ass handed to me at times, and then the dog to get the parry timing during his special move down.
Haha I thought I screwed myself over by cutting up the big staircase to get up to the first fight. Then I realized I could just ninja run up the sides of stuff.
direct_quote
Member
But they have added changes to the hud since the demo. I mean what else could it be?