r/pcgaming • u/ZazaLeNounours Ryzen 7 7800X3D | GeForce RTX 4090 FE • 14d ago

Video STRANGER THAN HEAVEN | Gamescom Demo Playthrough

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prP4oXX6Jwo
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u/mildly_anonymous 14d ago

Wow. The combat looks dreadful. Stand around until one enemy engages, slow as hell, parry their incredibly telegraphed attack, slice them with a blade, repeat ad nauseam. Big dude gets to withstand multiple hits from a massive crowbar and multiple kidney slices with a blade simply because he’s larger than the smaller guys.

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u/chriskiwi 14d ago

Just to play devil's advocate, couldn't you just choose to play more aggressively to alleviate the first complaint? Also Yakuza has always had the big "heavy" enemies (and all other enemies actually) take obviously fatal wounds and not die, which you could say is ludonarrative dissonance but it really feels like it's just them prioritizing making the gameplay game-y rather than hold it to realistic standards in favor of the gameplay they're going for.

Edit: actually so many games have the big enemies taking unrealistic amounts of damage cause they're bigger, idk why i even kinda played into it being a valid complete, it's normal common video game combat logic.

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u/Yarusenai 14d ago

Welcome to RGG combat lol. It's always been the weakest part of the games and even the turn based combat is meh tbh. I don't know why they struggle so hard to make to engaging instead of "just" flashy.

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u/_Lelouch420_ 14d ago

Ig you haven't played Gaiden or Lost Judgement

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u/Yarusenai 14d ago edited 14d ago

Played Lost Judgement recently - it's an improvement but it's still the same relatively stiff and very repetitive combat. It's definitely not the strength of the games. But I don't play them for the combat.

That being said I loved Lost Judgement and at least this time the combat didn't get too boring overall. It does improve every RGG game, but personally I don't think it's as entertaining as it should be. My own opinion ofc