SO YEA THAT ASURA'S WRATH

My only concern with the plot is that it might go the God of War route in having Asura just be an unlikable prick by the end of it who kills everyone cause... well he's a fucking prick.

I at least hope that whatever's causing him to go out and murder these gods is at least explicitly said to be more or less them being douchebags or AT LEAST have Asura come to an understanding that (assuming he brought on the bad shit that apparently happened to him himself) that he's aware of this. If he was just doing this for say, his daughter they mention? I'd be ok with that.

Seriously one of the things that pissed me off and confused me about God of War was how they sorta just step around that whole part about Kratos DESTROYING RANDOM CITIES WITH HIS ARMIES. Ya know, the thing ARES IN THE FIRST GOD OF WAR WAS DOING. And rather than pointing that out and sort of acknowledging he's become the monster he hated, they just have him kill everything in Greek Mythology cause lol awsum.

Not that any of the Olympians were all that likeable or interesting (Athena was the closest and she became a HUGE BITCH in God of War 3) but it's hard to really get invested into a game emotionally when you realize you don't like ANY of these characters. Thankfully this game seems to at least be trying to pull off that generic animu style of "humour" that mostly involves staring at girls boobs and getting hit for it.

Which ain't EXCELLENT but it's at least showing they're not gonna be treating the game like some Greek tragedy when it really isn't.

>>130532
The impression I've gotten is that Asura doesn't like how the gods treat humans, probably because of the human girl we see in a few bits of footage.

>>130524

I... I'm sorry, Morbi, but I thought that you were implying implications. Can we be friends again?

>>130532

I'm pretty sure the reason Asura is going fucking insane on some people is because they took his daughter? I don't know, i remember that being brought up in one of the trailers.

I could be confusing it for something else though.

>>130532
The Deities "killed" him, took his daughter, and is using her power as a booster for their immortality and abilities.

So, yeah, I think he's pretty fair to be pissed off.

>>130551

See, I get that. I'm just hoping that if he did anything to bring that on (that is an *IF* btw) they at least acknowledge where he was wrong and that he was truly repentant for it.

I'm probably worrying over nothing and the games story won't even be anything like that. But dammnit God of War 3 did you do a good job of making me dislike practically every single FUCKING character in that entire setting.

Bumping this thread with a trailer that came out last month, showing off the other playable character, Asura's brother-in-law, Yasha.
Asura's Wrath TGS 2011 Yasha Trailer
Also, this game has been officially rated T for Teen. SOMEHOW.

Asura's Wrath Story Digest - Betrayed
Story trailer

http://www.capcom-unity.com/gregaman/blog/2011/11/11/the_characters_of_asuras_wrath_-_part_9

Character stuff

>>130532
He saves some chick and her kid so I doubt it'll get all stupid like GOW. Still love GOW though.

>>139195
He also didn't kill his own family in a blood rage like an idiot and has legitimate grievances with his fellow gods.

So, what we know of the story so far. Asura's a god, falls in love with a human, has a kid, the gods betray him and cast him down(i think) and take his daughter cause she has some crazy power. Now Asura fights against the gods, apparently he has done this multiple times in the past, but has been "killed" each time, returning to fight again for his daughter.

Something like that

I like the designs.

Deus looks swank as hell.

Link for gigantinc size
http://fast1.onesite.com/capcom-unity.com/user/gregaman/blog_photos/large/1bb70f28949a75c616cb39b9aaa52067.png?v=159300

>>139239
He just wants his family back man. Plus seeing how gratuitously Eastern this is, him coming back sounds about right to me. I'm not an expert on the topic, but this much I know somewhat.

>>139260
Yeah, the art style is fucking great.
I actually really like the paint brush texture rendered onto the models themselves.

This music

It's out of place, but at the same time fits perfectly.

So, Capcom released this footage last week.
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THIS IS THE VERY FIRST CHAPTER OF THE GAME.

>>142860
As much as I hate youtube comments its cute that they blocked them off.

>>142860
>MFW listening to this and watching that

The Boomtown Rats. I Don't Like Mondays.

So I recently played the demo.

From what I've played? The game's biggest "criticism" will probably be that it's more or less a combination of God of War and Heavy Rain. IE: a bunch of beat-em-up button mashing one second and minigames the next.

Note that this isn't necessarily a BAD thing. I quite like the craziness of these cinematic and I'm always one for some good overblown action sequences, and the game play is at least competent from what I've played. I suppose if there are any two things that could "ruin" this game it'd be the following:

1) Lack of creativity. Both of these boss fights have been pretty fun and imaginative, but they'll have to maintain that throughout the game to at least keep our attention going. This will mean they'll have to keep up the "WOW" factor for quite a bit, which could be hard to do. The biggest threat to this game right now, considering what it is and what it wishes to be, is that it'll have an underwhelming climax or end. That kind of happened in El-Shaddai, and I don't want to see that happen here either.

2) The plot will have to be competent. Thus far it's pretty straightforward "Betrayed God is super mad and wants to kill all of his treacherous brethren for murdering his wife and using his daughter for power". As long as it's willing to not make it more convoluted than that and just focus the plot and characters on individual terms of "I need to do this" while being able to elaborate on WHY? Then I think it should suffice. Another possible way they could kill this game is by making us stop caring about what happens, which could easily occur by simply having Asura go too far, or try to suddenly make a previously villainous character somehow sympathetic in their final moments because they give a flowery speech.

Either way, I'm still excited for this game and will probably buy it when it comes out.

>>144073
Well, I wasn't expecting them to be able to top Wyzen back when they first showed off that footage, but then Augus' trailer came out, so I'm fully convinced they must have something monumentally insane prepared for the climax.

>>144073
I don't know man. Even at the beginning of GOW the combat seemed deeper than what we can do in this game. Kinda disappointing really

>>144897

The only real flaw I've seen thus far is that you seem to have too much HP.

If you were forced to rely more on dodge/defence tactics I think it'd have worked a lot better/been more engaging.

I found a really neat article detailing the level of research that went into the game's presentation from a Buddhist's viewpoint.
http://art-eater.com/2012/01/a-buddhists-guide-to-asuras-wrath/
It's a lot like Bayonetta's extremely stylized, but surprisingly accurate representation of biblical angels.

>>145759
this is cool one, of my favorite things about Bayonetta was the enemy designs. I especially love the spaceships with the faces on them.

WHAT
http://www.joystiq.com/2012/02/17/asura-takes-his-wrath-out-on-ryu-in-upcoming-dlc/
I mean, I'm not usually all that crazy about DLC, but this might actually be cool as shit.

>>147348
At the risk of starting an argument, Asura really should have made it on the UMvC3 roster.

>>147353
Yeah? WELL HE AIN'T THE ONLY ONE!

>>147355
But Ammy's already on the roster.

BTW for those of you on the fence with this game (even though I'm p sure most of you have already decided) I preordered it and will get my copy on Tuesday.

Expect updates as they come, but personally? I'm... cautiously optimistic about this game. At best it really WILL be Asian God of War... at worst it'll be a mediocre hack'n'slash.

... inb4 WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?

According to IGN's review, the game is roughly six hours long. I'm... strangely relieved, for some reason.

Fuck it. I'm enjoying this game.

It's cutscene heavy and the story (thus far) is kind of animu garbage but I'm still liking it more than not overall.

Just an FYI: If you're an action game aficionado play on hard or medium. The game's been pretty lenient on me but my first Fight with Yasha was pretty good so hopefully we'll get more shit like that.

Either way biggest flaw with this game I see thus far is... we really need some fucking transitional gameplay moments. Thus far it's just cut-scene, move onto the next fight, cut-scene.

>animu garbage

fuck you

>>147668

I'm saying that because I KNOW it'll be brought up sooner or later. I figure I should clarify:

I LIKE anime garbage. And I like all of the nice mythological references in this game. I like the weird techno-mythology setting and I like the admittedly cheesy story and dialogue. I only call it anime garbage because I know at some point somebody's going to point out how they DON'T like all of those things and feel the overwhelming desire to point it out.

http://www.blisteredthumbs.net/2012/02/sage-reviews-aw/
It seems Sage didn't take the game well.

Well Sage is stupid so fuck him.

>>148223
"God damnit Freehaven" Sage?

>>148223

Now now, he does make some valid points.

This game really does need some transitory game-play sequences. Like... Asura climbing up the tower? That could've EASILY been programmed as YOU controlling him and moving him up the tower, wile the spider talks to you and the camera slowly flashes back to your past events with Durga and Mithra.

The game, quite honestly, really needed an element of exploration or at the very least puzzle-solving. As a game, it really should've been more like Devil May Cry in terms of structure. Not so much gameplay (as that's honestly fine on it's own) but just in that it should've been you, Asura, in one place and then you have to go SOMEWHERE ELSE and you see a whole bunch of shit while killing Gohma and Bhuddist statues on the way there.

Cutscenes can come before and after such. But as it is? I kind of have to agree that this might not be something you can justify spending 60 bucks on... now, if this were, say, something you could buy off PSN/360live?

Where you could, for example, spend 5-7 dollars on each episode or subscribe to each part individually for 15-20 bucks? And have it so each episode IS released weekly like an actual anime? That'd be something. It'd not only break up the action and make the serialized format actually work, but you could convince people of it's particular QTE/combat arena style.

I dunno, I guess I'm just saying that the game is fine on it's own, but it's really not taking advantage of how it chooses to structure itself. I could see this being much more enjoyable if it were more of a "WEEK 1: SHIT HAPPENS, WHAT'LL HAPPEN NEXT? WAIT TILL NEXT WEEK TO FIND OUT!" type deal.

>>148225
Nah, Bennett the Sage from Blistering Thumbs, the That guy with the glasses vydya subdivision or something.

>>148226
Yes it would've benefitted from some weekly DLC experimental episodic shit for like 5$ an episode vs. HURR A GAME BUT NOT REALLY for 60

>>148380

Uhm... I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not

>>148380
Considering the number of episodes in the game, wouldn't you actually end up paying MORE if it was in increments of $5 an episode?

>>148388

Considering how they'd be dispersed you could much more easily claim such a farce is perfectly permissible, after all if you really don't like the game (or think it's worth it) why would you pay for all these episodes?

THEN when the whole thing is released you could release the disk as a "box set" of sorts. That way you have two revenues. The actual game disk and the downloadable episodes people can buy in bundles or as a subscription.

>>148382
I'm not being sarcastic

>>148388
You're probably right. Price would have to be adjusted because in all honesty it shouldn't add up to 60$. No idea how many episodes they are no length but I heard the game is like 5-7 hours.

>>148391
Yes. Something like this especially since it's been lampooned by most for being a "game". It could've been the first interactive game film or something (inb4 Kojima).

Though I wonder why Heavy Rain didn't get this much backlash.

>>148536
>Though I wonder why Heavy Rain didn't get this much backlash.
I think it might have been that people were expecting this to be a straight-up action game. And a really good looking one at that.
Everyone kinda knew what Heavy Rain was at the get-go.

Having played through the game now, I can honestly say I enjoyed the hell out of it, mostly because I went into expecting it to be shorter than it was. Definitely not everyone's cup of tea, and it's not hard to see why, but I personally loved it.
That being said, THAT TRUE ENDING WAS FUCKING PANTY AND STOCKING "TO BE CONTINUED NEXT SEASON" LEVELS OF CLIFFHANGER HORSESHIT

Classic Game Room - ASURA'S WRATH review

I'm not sure how to feel about the "true ending" DLC.

On one hand, it's kind of a dick move to offer a "true" ending like that in order to pay for. But on the other hand 7 bucks for 4 episodes isn't all that bad.

>>152338
Capcom watched the latest bioware boondoggle and decided to give ending DLC a try.

So, I just finished the True Ending DLC.
I have absolutely no regrets.
Literally, the "Extend your arm" INTO GOD'S FACE prompt alone was worth the 7 dollars.

How about that 2 dollar Asura vs Ryu DLC?

Asura's Wrath - Lost Episodes …

Also the true final chapter was perfect.

>>154305
I completely lost my shit the first time I played it and realized you defeat Evil Ryu by BUTTON MASHING.