Still looks cool but those executions look slow. Granted it appears you get a weapon from them but you kinda want them to happen faster since they will just remind people of Doom.More footage of Wang!
Hopefully they will speed up the animation when the game is near completion.Still looks cool but those executions look slow. Granted it appears you get a weapon from them but you kinda want them to happen faster since they will just remind people of Doom.
If you had to compare the SW series, I guess specifically SW 2 to another game, for similarity in gameplay, what would it be?
I keep seeing this game and being semi interested, but then it seems like it's just a slasher/shooter with no story, so I get hesitant to drop money on it.
I'm of a similar mindset. I tried to like Shadow Warrior 2, and I just can't get back into it. I'm glad they're going back to the style of the first game more. I really don't know why they tried to hop on board the looter shooter aspect. It just causes pointless grinding and tedious weapon switching. Funny enough, I couldn't enjoy the first game much either. I didn't know what it was. The pacing or I just wasn't into it. I'll just pick up 3 when it comes out.I wanted to really like Shadow Warrior 2 after Totalbiscuit praised it in a WTF is video. But after playing it, i kept getting frustrated with conbat and could never get into it.
I really hope fans enjoy this new one though. It still looks really cool.
I might give it a shot if people say its good. But not at full price. Ill wait for a sale or maybe a free game on the epic store.I'm of a similar mindset. I tried to like Shadow warrior 2, and I just can't get back into it. I'm glad they're going back to the style of the first game more. I really don't know why they tried to hop on board the looter shooter aspect. It just causes pointless grinding and tedious weapon switching. Funny enough, I couldn't enjoy the first game much either. I didn't know what it was. The pacing or I just wasn't into it. I'll just pick up 3 when it comes out.
I wanted to really like Shadow Warrior 2 after Totalbiscuit praised it in a WTF is video. But after playing it, i kept getting frustrated with conbat and could never get into it.
I really hope fans enjoy this new one though. It still looks really cool.
I had a tough time getting into SW2 as well. Gave up eventually, even though I had friends to play with. Enemies just felt way too bullet spongey and there was a bit too much of the same going through a procedural map with random enemies scattered about the place. I enjoyed the first game a lot more. SW2 just very much like a worse Borderlands.I wanted to really like Shadow Warrior 2 after Totalbiscuit praised it in a WTF is video. But after playing it, i kept getting frustrated with conbat and could never get into it.
I really hope fans enjoy this new one though. It still looks really cool.
A lot of us weren't thinking that, because we wish it was that. Except that the gameplay and the loot drops are boring. Plus, we're not psychic. We don't know what goes in your head 24/7. My main point being that Shadow Warriors 2 is a worst version of Borderlands with an Asian theme.I'm disappointed in all of you. I asked a VERY simple question about what kind of game Shadow Warriors 2 was like, and you all failed, FAILED I say!
Not a single one of you said "It's like Blood Dragon had sex with Borderlands 2, and then brought in the main character from Viscera Cleanup Detail to narrate the main character.
I mean WHY?!?!
I went ahead and picked it up 'cause it was on sale, and was like "Oh, ok so that's what this game is."
A lot of us weren't thinking that, because we wish it was that. Except that the gameplay and the loot drops are boring. Plus, we're not psychic. We don't know what goes in your head 24/7. My main point being that Shadow Warriors 2 is a worst version of Borderlands with an Asian theme.
I was saying that in jest mostly, because that was my first thought upon loading it up and going to the first map.A lot of us weren't thinking that, because we wish it was that. Except that the gameplay and the loot drops are boring. Plus, we're not psychic. We don't know what goes in your head 24/7. My main point being that Shadow Warriors 2 is a worst version of Borderlands with an Asian theme.
The issues with the drops will start really showing themselves later on. The game itself has a good base and the guns are fun, but the mod drops are dull and elemental resistant/immune enemies start making already bullet spongy enemies that much more annoying.I was saying that in jest mostly, because that was my first thought upon loading it up and going to the first map.
Interestingly, the controls for movement, felt a LOT like Ghostrunner. The very quick dash you can do every other second, how if you time it right with a jump you can basically hurl yourself across the map. The total lack of wallrunning was different, but, yeah otherwise it was pretty similar. Ghostrunner's controls are way more on point and tight I'd say.
Yeah the drops are fairly dull, but I'm still enjoying it so far. Lo Wang is...a strange thing. On one hand, I cringe at his 90s inspired stereotype of an asian guy voice, but on the other hand, the voice actor seems to be fully embracing the over the top campiness of it, and having fun with it.
I looked up the actor out of curiosity and he doesn't appear to be asian and ...he's like award winning famous for anime voice acting...like hes got a massive credit list of animes he's voices acted on, like a hundred of them. hell on top of that he's done like 50 games too. Very popular dude. I imagine shadow warrior isn't popular enough for someone to go after him like they Hank Azaria. I can't remember if I found Lo wang particularly offensive, probably because the whole game kinda leaned into it.Lo Wang is...a strange thing. On one hand, I cringe at his 90s inspired stereotype of an asian guy voice, but on the other hand, the voice actor seems to be fully embracing the over the top campiness of it, and having fun with it.
The original Low Wang crosses into offensive territory. Even by 90 standards, he stuck out like an Asian Minstrel show. You're not going to find many defenders of the original version. The newer version tones it down by a lot. Especially with the stereotyping. Wang ends up becoming a better modern Duke Nukem, then the actual Duke Nukem.I can't remember if I found Lo wang particularly offensive, probably because the whole game kinda leaned into it.
when you say "original", are you saying they replaced the dialog in the original game or you mean shadow warrior 2 is less offensive?The original Low Wang crosses into offensive territory. Even by 90 standards, he stuck out like an Asian Menstrual show. You're not going to find many defenders of the original version. The newer version tones it down by a lot. Especially with the stereotyping. Wang ends up becoming a better modern Duke Nukem, then the actual Duke Nukem.
I haven't used any guns, as I find the swords more fun. Plus I got a sword that literally uses ammo to shoot out energy waves as a ranged attack so, that's just fun.The issues with the drops will start really showing themselves later on. The game itself has a good base and the guns are fun, but the mod drops are dull and elemental resistant/immune enemies start making already bullet spongy enemies that much more annoying.
I don't personally find him offensive, but I have zero doubt that many people will, and for valid reasons I feel. I think the part that is most jarring, is that he's very anachronistic to all the other asian people in the cast. The rest of them, clearly coded as asian, speak normally, but then Lo Wang is....well I won't say he's as bad as Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany's, but he's pretty close. Also his humor is incredibly juvenile. He seriously says at one point, to a person praising another person's actions "If you like him so much, why don't you marry him?" Which I find strange, given this character apparently KILLED A GOD in the previous game? And yet he's running around with dialogue and the emotional maturity of a 12 year old dudebro in training? *shrugs* It's strange because, sometimes a more normal persona peeks it's head out, but then goes back down into the bowels of his brain. I'm hoping he'll have some growth by the end, given the story, it seems likely. But for all I know that will all be reset by the end, because video game protagonist. I dunno.I looked up the actor out of curiosity and he doesn't appear to be asian and ...he's like award winning famous for anime voice acting...like hes got a massive credit list of animes he's voices acted on, like a hundred of them. hell on top of that he's done like 50 games too. Very popular dude. I imagine shadow warrior isn't popular enough for someone to go after him like they Hank Azaria. I can't remember if I found Lo wang particularly offensive, probably because the whole game kinda leaned into it.
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You have the most amazing typos man I love them.The original Low Wang crosses into offensive territory. Even by 90 standards, he stuck out like an Asian Menstrual show.