Hostile Faceoff: Bloodborne vs Ninja Gaiden

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Which is the better game?

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Each Weekday here on D-Pad we pit two highly rated games against each other, to ultimately find out the best game of all time. Voting is open for 24 hours, with different time zones it's best to just look at the time the first post was made. For a full list of the top 95 qualifying games, along with the results so far, see this thread here.

What is your favourite game and why? Perhaps you can convince others in the comments below.

Today we have;

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Ouch what a Face/Off.

Going Bloodborne because of the incredible world and atmosphere. But NG is great as well, very fluid with no bad stutter like BB. Still, BB consumed me and is one of my favorites of all time.
 
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I haven't played Bloodborne, and I've played the Sigma edition of NG. I can't really vote here, because although I've only played one my instincts tell me I'd prefer the other if I had. PC peasant race stays losing.

Ninja Gaiden is good fun, there's no denying that. But I think its flaw is that the high level play is reduced to chaining charged specials, which is quite one-note. Requires skill and timing, but games have to be about more than one attack.
 
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Reppin for Bloodborne.

I played a fair amount of Ninja Gaiden Black on the Xbox. Got okay at it just like I got "ok" at the other character-action games from this era (God of War, SEGA's Shinobi reboot, Devil May Cry, etc). The game and the genre were both "ok" to me but I preferred stuff like Otogi 1 and 2 on the Xbox.

Little did I know that FROM software had already won me over with Otogi's pagoda-smashing gameplay, because when Bloodborne arrived I got to smash all the tables, barrels, and armor-heaps to my heart's content.

Really though, I have always been "ok" at action games. I know Souls gets the reputation of being super hard but it was actually a way to ease me into the genre (later I got into P*'s action games like Vanquish and W101). The games are not nearly as demanding as Ninja Gaiden and Devil May Cry (at least to me), so I gravitated toward FROM's games instead.

I could write up quite a rant about all the things I love about BB. I've replayed it so many times over the years, I've lost count and I've literally lost some of those old saves after switching to a new PS4. At least 8 different characters and 20 different completed runs, if I had to estimate. The chalice dungeons, the overall visual design/theme, the immersive sound effects, the combat... I love all of it.

Similar to how Resident Evil 4 and Dead Space were "normie horror games" to me (not personally a big fan of the parent genre of those games) Bloodborne was my "babby's first character-action game with a strong dose of horror". Ninja Gaiden was never my bag not even the old NES games / SNES compilation. I was more into Ghosts n Goblins, Mega Man, and Castlevanina during that era of "Nintendo-hard platformers".
 
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Bloodborne has amazing art direction. Some of the best I've ever seen. But after my experience with other FromSoft games I think I will just admire it at a distance.
 
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For better or worse, Bloodborne really kicked off the indie scene's renewed obsession with black/gothic/victorian/Beak-Nosed Doctor meme themes. Tons of games followed after Bloodborne's art style and you could say it played a big part in reviving interest in Lovecraftian and Victorian steampunk videogames.

That has nothing to do with the inherent quality of the game but since MUH CULTURAL IMPACT is considered important I thought that was worth mentioning.
 
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Mirabilis said:
Played Neither so I'll be sitting this one out

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You should definitely play Bloodborne.... once it's on PC and the stutter is gone. As much as I love the game, the developers who are responsible for the performance should get kicked in the bawllz. A fast paced, high risk, timing based combat system.... with 30fps and constant frame pacing stutter. I couldn't go back to it even if I wanted tbh.
 
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This is actually tough. I did play the original NG on my Xbox and got a little further than the skeleton dinosaur area, but it wasn't until Sigma that I beat it and played it much more competently. It was such a cool and unique game.

But Bloodborne is just better to me overall.
 
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Like, yeah Ninja Gaiden is good, but Bloodborne is gooder.

Bloodborne takes it for me because its world building, aesthetic and creature designs are all fantastic. I do wish we would get a PC version at 60fps with no frame time issues.
 
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Grinchy said:
This is actually tough. I did play the original NG on my Xbox and got a little further than the skeleton dinosaur area, but it wasn't until Sigma that I beat it and played it much more competently. It was such a cool and unique game.

But Bloodborne is just better to me overall.
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You didn't play it much more competently. Sigma was a dumbed down version. I guess it makes sense since it had to cater to the PlayStation audience.
 
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I'm sure Bloodborne is good, but I'd probably suck at it since its a From Software game. Still haven't finished Sekiro.

The original Ninja Gaiden on the Xbox is fucking fantastic. It's upgraded version Ninja Gaiden Black even more so. I pray that we get a remaster of the game sometime in future.
 
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Love Bloodborne, but Ninja Gaiden is perhaps the best action game ever made, with exception of the camera.
 
Oooooooo only real ones dominated Ninja Gaiden Black. These games are both the shit. Im torn.
 
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Same for me. I'm going with Ninja Gaiden, because I dislike FROM Soft games and cult-like reverence accorded them. I don't have any opinion of NG, so it gets my vote.
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I don't know its kinda weeby apparantly its connected to the doa series for some retarded reason 🤷‍♀️.
 
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Snes nes said:
I don't know its kinda weeby apparantly its connected to the doa series for some retarded reason 🤷‍♀️.
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Ninja Gaiden protagonist Ryu Hayabusa has been a playable character in the Dead or Alive games since the very first one.



Of course, the Ninja Gaiden games were there way before DOA was even a glimmer in Tomonobu Itagaki's eye.

 
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Never could get on with Ninja Gaiden, although I recognize how impressive it was at launch.

Bloodborne all the way. It's quite possibly my favorite FROM game.
 
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