Ninja Gaiden II Black

If someone wnats to let me know what kind of performance they're getting on it LMK. One of my all time favorites. Preferably on a card close to equivalent.
 
Decko87 said:
If someone wnats to let me know what kind of performance they're getting on it LMK. One of my all time favorites. Preferably on a card close to equivalent.
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If it's up on Game Pass by the time I get home I'll probably try it depending on how quickly it downloads.
 
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It's fucking gigantic. Almost 90GB.
I played around with it, and it looks and feels good. It's way more of a remake/remaster than the previous package of the 3 older titles. You can pan the camera around with the right stick and it generally feels like a modern game instead of an old game port. It even has a RT setting, although I couldn't tell if you if it did anything in the first area. Performance seemed okay with everything cranked, although I'm on a 4090 for what it's worth. If you turn on RT and TSR with render resolution to 100%, it bogged down even on my machine. Setting everything to the normal settings (even with RT) and it was good to go. There are tons of settings, so you can almost assuredly dial things in for older hardware.
Honestly, I'd rather have a port of the first game that looks like this. NG2 was good, but I'd still put the first one well above it.
 
Domingo said:
It's fucking gigantic. Almost 90GB.
I played around with it, and it looks and feels good. It's way more of a remake/remaster than the previous package of the 3 older titles. You can pan the camera around with the right stick and it generally feels like a modern game instead of an old game port. It even has a RT setting, although I couldn't tell if you if it did anything in the first area. Performance seemed okay with everything cranked, although I'm on a 4090 for what it's worth. If you turn on RT and TSR with render resolution to 100%, it bogged down even on my machine. Setting everything to the normal settings (even with RT) and it was good to go. There are tons of settings, so you can almost assuredly dial things in for older hardware.
Honestly, I'd rather have a port of the first game that looks like this. NG2 was good, but I'd still put the first one well above it.
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I'm with you 100 percent. I hope at some point they invest them money in creating a remake of 1 like this. I'll probably just dial down the settings and play this weekend.
 
Woah the black version? F**k, I want to get it now, but I'll hold off for now, till after I can get a 5090 :).
 
I played like night for about 45 minutes and finished level 1. My problem is it looks exactly what I remember it looking like as a kid. Still a complete blast if you like these games. The camera jank is still present which I personally like. Once I got to level 2 and looked around a bit it set in how good the game looks now. I had to shut it off and go to bed though. Looking forward to getting into it over the weekend.
 
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I remember getting Ninja Gaiden for NES on my 8th birthday, in 1992. Good times. :) I never played 2 but will have to check this out!
 
Decko87 said:
My problem is it looks exactly what I remember it looking like as a kid
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This is what I remember Ninja Gaiden 2 looking like as a kid...

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I started playing it and they added a nub difficulty so I guess I will continue trying to win this game.
 
This looks great. I hope they make a new Dead or Alive game in UE5 too. DOA used to contend for the best graphics in a video game but fell off after DOA4.
 
The first two 3D Ninja Gaiden games were killer. Especially the first one. I'd put it in my all-time top 10 for games in the 3D/modern era. I think the series has been forgotten a little bit (Dark Souls stole some of that thunder), but they were ground breaking. 2 lacked the interconnected level design and free-roaming world stuff, but it dialed-in the combat about as well as you can. I never played the launch version of 3, but I guess it was super easy and mashy. The WiiU version was NOT easy and wasn't half bad, though. It didn't bring anything new to the table, but it was more, more, more.
What's funny is that I still have the muscle memory for some of those longer combos. I was hitting the izuna drop and whatnot after playing for just a few minutes.
 
Is this more Devil May Cry combo like combat or Souls(ish)? From trailers I am assuming the former.
 
Soulish. It will punish you to death. However, I see a nub mode and in that mode I was making progress then forgot about me playing this game lol.
 
New patch fixes missing DLSS and XᵉSS options in the Xbox app version of the game. It also fixes some soft lock scenarios.

https://teamninja-studio.com/ng2black/us/update/

They also say they're preparing additional content and balance adjustments for mid-February. Hopefully that means they're going back to the original's difficulty instead of the Sigma version after they claimed this remake was based on the original.

https://x.com/TeamNINJAStudio/status/1884454807139934667
https://xcancel.com/TeamNINJAStudio/status/1884454807139934667

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Andym22 said:
Is this more Devil May Cry combo like combat or Souls(ish)? From trailers I am assuming the former.
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It's a character action game, so it's DMC-like.
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Soulish. It will punish you to death. However, I see a nub mode and in that mode I was making progress then forgot about me playing this game lol.
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The difficulty doesn't make the game "Soulish." The gameplay is far from being similar to a Soulslike.
 
I stayed up til 3 am last night and played through the whole thing. I was just on a roll and couldn't stop. I feel terrible today but it waw completely worth it. It makes me sad that games peaked somewhere on the 2003-2010 time. Most fun I've had playing a game since Uncharted 4 came out on PC.
 
Ninja Gaiden 2 Black 1.0.7.0 Update

https://teamninja-studio.com/ng2black/us/update/

Additional Content:
New Game+
Added the ability to begin a new game on a difficulty level you have previously cleared with the weapons and Ninpo you obtained in your previous playthrough already unlocked. When starting a new game this way, your weapons and Ninpo will be reverted to level 1

Photo Mode
Added Photo Mode to the in-game Options Menu. You can move the camera around within a set limit to take screenshots

Ability to Hide Projectile Weapon
Added a "Show Projectile Weapon" option under "Game Settings" in the Options Menu, which allows you to hide your projectile weapon while it is carried on your back

Adjustments:
-Lowered the HP of enemies in Ch. 8, "City of the Fallen Goddess"
-Lowered the HP of enemies in Ch. 11, "Night in the City of Water"
-Raised the number of enemies in Ch. 13, "The Temple of Sacrifice"
-Raised the number of enemies in Ch. 14, "A Tempered Gravestone"
-Raised the damage dealt by some of Ayane's attacks

Bug Fixes:
-Fixed control issues that occurred when playing at over 120 FPS or while under high computing load.
-Fixed an issue where controllers would not vibrate based on computing load or FPS settings.
-Fixed bugs that caused the player to go out of bounds during certain chapters.
-Fixed bugs that made it impossible to progress during certain chapters.
-Fixed a bug which caused the game to crash during long play sessions.

Other minor bug fixes
 
Glad to see them continuing to support this. I think the remasters of the collection only got a single update (or maybe 1 more later) before they were cut loose.
It's cool to revisit NG2 with a slightly more open mind than I did when it launched. At the time I was super disappointed in the linear level structure, but almost 2 decades later I get why they went that route. The colosseum level is stunning with the visual updates. It's super unlikely, but I hope NG4 is super successful and inspires a remake like this for all 3 of the original games.
 
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