Rofl, insanity difficulty is a joke

Well the walkthrough fixes that, right?

Lol, if you say so.

You just feel the need to argue every comment you can around here. I'm not bothered to feed into it.

If you run around like a chicken with it's head cut off, sure. If you actually use all the tools at your disposal, it's no harder than any other ARPG.

I remember not completing some shooter games like return to castle wolfenstein and jedi knight jedi outcast when I was a kid because I couldn't figure out where to go on some of the later levels and there were no youtube walkthroughs back then

One of my most favorite games ever. We played this so much, even the crappy PS3 Sigma2 version which was hard in many other cheap ways due to memory limitations (not as many enemies but each one was tougher and getting grabbed was insta-death and such bullshit). When I played NG2 for the first time on the easiest mode I was like "how the fuck am I supposed to beat this". Then the same feeling on the next difficulty and the next and the last one. And to this day I have never felt so much hate and love for a game at the same time than I did while fighting through Master Ninja mode. Climbing up in difficulties seemed impossible at first but then you get better in all regards... and you really need to. Know enemy trigger points, time your on-landing-charges perfectly, make clever use of the various techniques that grant you some iframes and get the timing right, know the most useful combos and possibilities of each weapon, know which item is in which box so you can plan ahead better and track back to old save statues to keep the health regen of the new one for after the upcoming battle and such. It still amazes me to see gameplay videos of some asian dudes doing no damage runs or not using UTs and Ninpo. You think Rocket Troopers in ME3MP spam too much... they are like sweet little kittens compared to the incendiary shuriken ninjas and the overall (offscreen) projectile spam in NG2...

I also played NG1 (Black) and NG1 (Sigma) and they were at times even much harder but in a different way that felt more frustrating and not as much fun at the same time. Still awesome game(s). NG2 was often very frustrating as well but also more fun at the same time. What I liked about the first game was that you sometimes even encountered completely new enemy types on higher difficulties that were not even part of the game on the lower ones. It wasn't just "we buff every enemy 50 or 100% to make the game harder" but actually introducing new enemies or variations with different attacks. Too bad they totally fucked up NG3 and even the improved version Razor's Edge was still crap. I wish we could get NG1 and NG2 in a remastered version on PC... I'd start throwing money at my monitor right away if that would help make it happen.

Here's a nice compilation of some fights in NG2. It looks easy at times... but it's really not.

Dark Souls is at least 'doable'.

Anyone tried Shadow of the Beast 2 back in the day? Even WITH asking for ten pints it's still pretty much impossible...

Oh yeah didn't grow up with 'Nintendo'

I know, they had some disagreements even before about bringing NG1 to PS3 as NG Sigma. And after he left they made NG Sigma 2 and totally butchered NG2 instead of just bringing the 360 version to PS3. Everything went totally downhill from that point on, resulting in that awful game that is NG3 and this other NG game with zombies that totally flopped. And unfortunately Itagaki's game also turned out to be total crap.



It's not my gameplay. Never bothered recording console games with a capture card. I actually hardly bother doing it with PC games which is even easier. I just like the fights so I added the video. But I liked to do some silly stuff as well... like overkilling enemies from time to time and messing with the last guy standing  

Done. On all 4 mass effects. Nextttttt 😀

The disappointment train keeps on rolling.