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Author: Felix_Arabia
Posted: October 29, 2008 (09:51 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Nice review, Zig.
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Author: bloomer
Posted: October 30, 2008 (01:38 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
If my moratorium on Xboxes ever ends, and with Golden Axe being my favourite coin op, I would make a beeline for this.
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Author: overdrive (Mod)
Posted: October 30, 2008 (11:05 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Seems to be a pretty cool throwback to the old-school sort of game. Not constantly powering up your character, but having to master how to control it to get past tougher and tougher challenges. Seems intriguing.
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Author: BladedEarth
Posted: April 05, 2009 (07:58 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
When I rented this, I never suspected what could happen to the enemies could happen to Tyris (just due to many previous games where even a gargantuan spinning blade wouldn't rip your character in half).
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Author: honestgamer
Posted: April 05, 2009 (08:15 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
That's an interesting comment! I never really thought about something like that with games, just movies. I remember seeing "Event Horizon" and I was pretty turned off by the excessive gore (rooms full of blood, just because?), even though it fit what the movie was trying to accomplish. Yet with games, I played something like the Super Nintendo port of Prince of Persia and it had the character sliced in half by guillotines or skewered by spikes and it was just kind of cool, even though it was pretty grisly. I wonder how many gamers actually look at something like what happens in Golden Axe: Beast Rider as a turn-off. Certainly, the games industry is quite happy to include excessive violence, but that doesn't mean every gamer loves it or even plays violent games for that aspect.
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Author: zigfried
Posted: April 05, 2009 (08:36 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
That kind of violence against women has been pretty rare in games -- aside from perhaps a Mortal Kombat character or two, it's usually the men who get sliced to bits (and gory male death has typically been considered a good thing by the gaming public). Golden Axe is notable for also having dismembered, nude female bodies. It's pretty grisly.
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Author: bloomer
Posted: April 05, 2009 (08:56 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
In terms of 'will this turn people off', the gaming world is still pretty skewed to people who play a lot of games and see a lot of this kind of thing. So at this point in time, I don't think it's going to hurt a game like this version of Golden Axe.
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Author: randxian
Posted: April 06, 2009 (05:24 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
The game even goes so far as to hint that it will take a man to truly set things right in this world. I don't know if Sega is thumbing their nose at "hot female heroine" games like Heavenly Sword, or if Sega really just hates women.
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Author: zigfried
Posted: April 06, 2009 (06:42 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Thanks for the compliment.
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Author: randxian
Posted: April 06, 2009 (08:08 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
So basically you go through what sounds like a difficult and grueling game only to find out it was all for nothing?
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