11th August 2003, 10:10 PM
I've only played a few hours of VF4... and yes, it is quite deep. Certainly much deeper than Oni, or most fighting games... not sure about Soul Calibur though, I've only played the Soul Calibur 2 demo and that doesn't show off great depth. But that's a very limited look at the game.
I'm just saying that for the kind of game it is it is very deep. There are a bunch of guns, which are all quite different and you have to manage them since you can only hold one at a time... or there is the martial arts, which has a bunch of quite cool moves to get the enemies with. I don't see why you find it so simple for the kind of game it is, since its so much deeper than any other game in the genre I can think of...
As for comparing it to 1v1 fighters, sure, the best of them are far deeper as far as fighting system goes... but Oni can hold its own with the simple end of the genre (maybe like... DOA? :) ), and because of how different from a fighting game it is (you fight multiple enemies, go through environments, deal with item/jumping puzzles, etc, etc...), I really don't see why this is a 'the fighting system isn't as deep as Virtua Fighter so its a bad game" situation... VF of course is deeper but Oni plays so, so differently and focuses on different aspects of gameplay so saying that as a major negative thing like you are is wrong.
I'm just saying that for the kind of game it is it is very deep. There are a bunch of guns, which are all quite different and you have to manage them since you can only hold one at a time... or there is the martial arts, which has a bunch of quite cool moves to get the enemies with. I don't see why you find it so simple for the kind of game it is, since its so much deeper than any other game in the genre I can think of...
As for comparing it to 1v1 fighters, sure, the best of them are far deeper as far as fighting system goes... but Oni can hold its own with the simple end of the genre (maybe like... DOA? :) ), and because of how different from a fighting game it is (you fight multiple enemies, go through environments, deal with item/jumping puzzles, etc, etc...), I really don't see why this is a 'the fighting system isn't as deep as Virtua Fighter so its a bad game" situation... VF of course is deeper but Oni plays so, so differently and focuses on different aspects of gameplay so saying that as a major negative thing like you are is wrong.