Board 8 > I'm afraid Rise of the Ronin is going to go ignored this year.

(+) Yeah! (+)

It deserves better. It appears B-tier in its genres and doesn't have much draw other than to fans of prior Team Ninja games, primarily Nioh. But it's interesting. While not exactly a realistic portrayal of history, it lacks any of the monsters and sorcery ubiquitous in similar games, and while very janky (usually to its benefit), it's pretty clean and effective in design. And it's just plain fun.

It's so funny to me. Everything Dragon's Dogma 2 does wrong, this game does right. And people will never now. Of course ps5 exclusive vs big pc game, it was doomed.

I was interested until I heard that it still had the same awful loot design as the Nioh games. I don't really want to spend 30 minutes cleaning out my inventory or doing loot management after every encounter.

I'm not against loot in these games but the Nioh system was so bad it turned me off all of these games.

Yeah, Team Ninja needs to drop that loot shit once and for all.

Also ignored it because of loot.

Seems like a common thread!

The loot is not as bad as in some of their games. There is a lot of it but you can look at it only occasionally without falling behind in power or running out of space. By comparison, Wo Long and Stranger of Paradise are like, "You cleared a mission, time to cull your inventory again because it's entirely full!"

i have minimal input here but i will also say it honestly caught me off guard how small its impact on launch was compared to the other big releases that day too

of course it's hardly the only one i've felt that about, i assumed the thaumaturge would also be a hit (well, initially anyway, then i tempered my expectations and now it's actually done better than i thought, but still)

not to mention that games like botany manor https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/0/09b70a17.png, pepper grinder https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/b/bba53033.png, ufouria 2 https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/b/bb21a573.png, promenade https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/e/ef661dd7.png, recolit https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/7/727e0cc1.png and penny's big breakaway https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/3/32da10df.png were all going to be quite successful in the indie scene (at least peaking over 1k players) given their solid coverage before release and uh, oops

i also assumed games like dead man's hand (online competitive russian roulette-themed game with uno-like rules) and drop mahjong tiles (suika game but mahjong) would at least see some coverage through streamers but clearly that didn't happen either
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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/a/ad663f5f.png

(the only games i've been right about in that regard so far this year are that game that's a kpop equivalent to needy streamer overload, the 100% orange juice f2p clone, and that unofficial fangame of getting over it that took all its assets besides the pot. honestly that last one exceeded my expectations, i'm pretty sure it has more players than getting over it itself)