And here it is; I can get past bad campaigns in a game that touts itself to be a fighting game. But the sheer amount of stupid infinites on day one was kinda worrying (and not even in a Hotuko no Ken kind of way where everyone is broken but the core mechanics of the game are still fun in a silly way). But it's been awhile since I've seen a fighting game where characters can hitconfirm into a super and still be absolutely unsafe. And this is in combination with the massive amount of health that characters have that make matches really long? Man, this is straight a hot-mess.
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JoJo PS3's campaign is basically a Japanese f2p phone game at full retail price
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And here it is; I can get past bad campaigns in a game that touts itself to be a fighting game. But the sheer amount of stupid infinites on day one was kinda worrying (and not even in a Hotuko no Ken kind of way where everyone is broken but the core mechanics of the game are still fun in a silly way). But it's been awhile since I've seen a fighting game where characters can hitconfirm into a super and still be absolutely unsafe. And this is in combination with the massive amount of health that characters have that make matches really long? Man, this is straight a hot-mess.
The game was never designed to be a competitive fighting game, it was designed to be a JoJo game. As with every other CC2 based manga title, expecting 60FPS from it is silly as fuck.
FreedomFighter
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So I've seen people say Scamco before and this definitely qualifies, but what have they done previously to earn such a portmonteau? l know about charging for level ups in Vesperia, but what else have they done?
Massive Duck. C.M.
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Campaign mode searches for player ghosts each time, so you need to be online for it.
Snacks the sober sea lion
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The single player story can't be played offline, and has a microtransaction/ cooldown system? Is that what this is?
Campaign mode =/= Story Mode.
Snacks the sober sea lion
Member
Alright. I would have thought that was pointless until I heard it was required to unlock costumes.
It's an additional mode where you can unlock stuff with 'battery' which restores over a period of time. No worse than the lottery thing in SSB or whatever.
I don't think Nirolak knew that when he made the thread, but there is no real outrage.
10 tries in your battery bar, one mach takes one bar, and it takes five minutes to recharge your bar. Each fight has a shot in unlocking cosmetics. You have the option to pay to refill your bar. There are random shots at getting it refilled completely
Master Thespian
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Remember when Namco fighting games were godlike, from gameplay to casual content and overall bang for your buck? TTT2's underperformance might be the last straw.
Quadraphonic
Member
Well, if anyone would beat EA to the punch, it's Scamco.
The hype was incredible so the disappointed reactions are even worse. This is similar to the first One Piece game, they make all these awesome trailers, then the game comes out and you find out it lacks a lot of expected content.
The worst thing is that since CC2 is the developer people expected a story mode as good as the Naruto games, yet we got nothing.
Namco seems to be really good at doing this, Soul Calibur V was another game lacking content.
I'm very disappointed with what has happened to this game and thought it could be huge in terms of bringing Jojos to the west
So far
The game just screams exploitation this is my interpretation of the character select. I got a feeling at least 5 characters where cut from the base game to be sold off as DLC.
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This hurts me because i love Jojos and the franchise deserves so much better.
So far
- 30 FPS
- Characters cut from base game and sold off as pre-order bonuses and DLC (eg. Kira and Shigekiyo)
- Barebones story mode (no cutscenes, comic panels, still images or something like Skullgirls/KOF13). Its literally text on a black background.
- Infinites
- Bad balancing
- This F2P like Facebook/Phone game campaign mode with recharge times
The game just screams exploitation this is my interpretation of the character select. I got a feeling at least 5 characters where cut from the base game to be sold off as DLC.
This hurts me because i love Jojos and the franchise deserves so much better.
Slamtastic
Member
Sometimes I get renewed faith in gaming consumers. I'm swelling with pride here.
Famitsu gives scores based on hats full of money.
When I was in a game shop earlier this week, they were selling Jojo's All Star Battle for about 4000 yen. I've never seen the price for a game collapse this quickly.
No, the game is selling comparably to the second week of all modern JP FGs released this gen. It sold about 400K right below brawl in opening week (which was 600-800 something idk), and dropped to 19K after a week, which is actually par the course for every JP release. SF4 only sold 80K at release and dropped to around 18K second week I believe.
Tizoc
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Remember when Namco fighting games were godlike, from gameplay to casual content and overall bang for your buck? TTT2's underperformance might be the last straw.
I was under the impression that CC2 made this game not Namco.
Massive Duck. C.M.
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CC2 developed (with Bandai Namco bad idea interference), Namco Bandai published.
Well with the whole Campaign mode and silly phone game comparison out of the way..
I don't know why people were even expecting more from CC2 to be honest. Naruto-like story mode? No way that could happen in a game that contains characters from all 8 parts. A decently balanced fighting game? Again, think of who's developing this.
I don't know why people were even expecting more from CC2 to be honest. Naruto-like story mode? No way that could happen in a game that contains characters from all 8 parts. A decently balanced fighting game? Again, think of who's developing this.
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Retro_
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I don't know. I think with the rate copies are dropping in price they probably overshipped the game.
They didn't expect that kind of dropoff at all. This is definitely seems really bad for them.
I just think it's funny that people are acting like 30 FPS was a sign of this or related to it in any way. lol
With the amount of detail in this game, I think 30fps is fine with some occasional dips. If you think about the source material, this game does a really, really good job at replicating the artistic style from the manga. Animations are the usual CC2 high quality work. Might be the best looking/most polished looking game I've seen on a console in recent years.
The reading comprehension in this topic is.. hilarious. And what about Naruto?
The way you're wording it sounds like consumers shouldn't be reacting against Scamco about this. This is a very consumer unfriendly practice, and letting it go and saying "Oh, well I have a job and have no time to play this so it's no big deal" or "it's not as bad as you think" is not a good way to approach this.
I can somewhat understand if this practice was in a F2P game (however scummy it is), but if I shelled out full price for the game, I should be expecting to be able to unlock content the way *I* want to do it. If I want to sit my ass down in the weekend and weekend warrior this thing, I should (not like I would) - Scamco attempting to monetize this for someone who's already paid for the game is a horrible practice and I'm glad word of mouth is keeping people from buying this game.
Pity too, from what a previous poster said, CC2 didn't want to do this - it was entirely on Scamco for pushing this on their developers.
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Retro_
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I guess I just don't feel as strongly about it as you do.
As someone who actually bought this game and is not reacting to a situation based on half knowledge, it hasn't really had an effect on my enjoyment of the game at all. Only opinion I really have on all this is that I'm sad this Jojo game I like got attached to something like this, since the F2P stuff really has nothing to do with the core game.
As someone who actually bought this game and is not reacting to a situation based on half knowledge, it hasn't really had an effect on my enjoyment of the game at all. Only opinion I really have on all this is that I'm sad this Jojo game I like got attached to something like this, since the F2P stuff really has nothing to do with the core game.