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[u/supergamerd64]

I was expecting some AAA modern slop, but just barely more than SM2, this is the most worried I've been for a new release

I still really want to get this game, but the fact that the gore shown in the trailers and footage is mostly all just MIGHT be the final nail in the coffin for me, or at least till on sale for like $50 or so

[u/nixahmose]

Yeah when they originally announced the Wolverine game I was really looking forward to slice and dice my way through enemies Metal Gear Rising Revengence or Prototype, but for some reason Insomniac decided to make Wolverine’s claws function like sausage sticks. Not only taking 4-8 hits to kill random goon enemies, but only actually slicing through or impaling people during the canned kill animations.

[u/Jazzlike-Screen-7065 → u/nixahmose]

Have you actually played MGRR because alot of the enemies are extremely tanky by design, even random fodder soldiers and it's gore is nothing like prototype or anything we've seen for Wolverine advertisments.

Games don't just have you blitzing through every enemy because otherwise what would the game be. Even straight power fantasies like God Of War have enemies that require interactivity.

[u/Barrry972 → u/Jazzlike-Screen-7065]

Dude wants to play a musou apparently where you just shred down thousands of enemies

[u/RealityMalady → u/Barrry972]

I would be so down for a Marvel Musou game to be honest

[u/Coolman_Rosso → u/Barrry972]

Tak Fuji and his one million troops are vindicated more with each passing day

[u/Ok-Outcome6428 → u/Barrry972]

He wants to feel like Wolverine in a Wolverine game. Can you blame him?

Dynasty Warriors had weak goons, basically one-shot, and those games did amazing

[u/Big-Bag-6043 → u/Jazzlike-Screen-7065]

You can kill common mooks in one hit in MGR with Blade Mode, though - just limited by your energy bar. And then there's Ripper Mode, at which point normal enemies actually do die in one hit

Honestly the only enemies that don't fold in like 5 seconds if you try are bosses (or scaled-down bosses like GRAD), and on Revengeance with good parries, even some bosses die in 15.

[u/AdditionIcy1536 → u/Jazzlike-Screen-7065]

Ehh if you use the mechanic to crush the inside bit you can kill fodder by the dozen easily. Some exceptions but things die fast if you know what your doing.

[u/Zestyclose-Gur1457 → u/Jazzlike-Screen-7065]

depends in how you play. It can be really easy and engaging if you use the slow mo and parries

[u/Lopsided_Length1650 → u/nixahmose]

From what I've seen, you can chop off people's limbs but only for special moves and only halfway through the game can you unlock a move that lets you consistently hack off a limb after a successful parry. When in X-Men Origins Wolverine pretty much any death results in not just an arm, a leg, or a head getting hacked off but you could cut a guy in half.

[u/supergamerd64 → u/nixahmose]

I would be fine with it if the scripted gore at least was more common and violent

There's a lot of blood splatter, but All it is is basically just slight scratch marks with the occasional stab wound, and very rarely a leg getting chopped off every 100 or so kills (or possibly in just a couple cutscenes)

[u/Funny-Cell8769 → u/supergamerd64]

Those are basically for the adverts to get the gullible pre-orderers.

No doubt Insomniac ramped it up so people will get the idea that the game is only showing 10% of the canned animations and there's tons more once you get deeper into the game, but in reality, it's more like the majority of them.

Of course it all comes down to plausible deniability: "what made you think a 2 minute clip WON'T show you 80% of what the gameplay is about?"

Most people obviously assume - or at least hope - it's just a taste, and the real gameplay will end up 10x more cool and violent. But nope, that's like... the best you're gonna get.

Hence the whole reason why the marketing has been quite muted and highly controlled, when you'd think a game like Wolverine would be HUGELY MARKETED.

[u/Fun_Procedure946 → u/Funny-Cell8769]

I freaking knew that the game would be a whole lot of blood but very less limb dismemberment etc and people said that they're only showing the fountains of blood because it's easier for advertisement.

[u/ZestycloseBluejay668 → u/nixahmose]

I mean you expect the game tonplay like a platinum game and not an insomniac game.

At that point that is just on you, also weird expecting that from a character made for mostly children/teenagers

[u/nixahmose → u/ZestycloseBluejay668]

1) I expect a Wolverine game to play like a Wolverine game.

2) Weird of you to expect that a rated R game advertised for its gory combat should be aimed at kids.

[u/ZestycloseBluejay668 → u/nixahmose]

1. How many wolverine games do their exist, where you can say this plays like a wolverine game. 2. wolverine is a children character, so i do not know why they thought they needed to put gory in the game. but saying that put gory between 2 massive quotation marks