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Random Stranger posted:You do need to successfully fish once for the shaman fish. You don't actually. Mess up enough times and the game will give you one. I did this but then went and completed every fishing quest. You can make TONS of money that way.
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I did not purchase the Seafront map. No quest marker was visible to me. I built up the quality of the story far too much by listening to this game's praises here. Expected too much out of the second act which hurt my opinion of the game in general. I enjoy some of the implications Kaine holding in the fact that she can actually understand what the shades are all saying / their apparent sentience. The corny interactions between Weiss and Dadass remain the saving grace of the narrative. general chaos fucked around with this message at 02:52 on Nov 27, 2010 |
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Nov 27, 2010 02:48
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Started playing the game last night after picking it up for $15, and I just did the fishing part after reading all the reviewers bitching about it a few months back. That's it? Really? Walk to the red X, cast lure, press A, and pull away? How is that hard enough to make people completely give up the game?
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Nov 27, 2010 07:12
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general chaos posted:I did not purchase the Seafront map. No quest marker was visible to me. trust me, playthrough 2 adds a lot to the narrative of the second half (that is the only thing you play, really). It would be a disservice to only play it once.
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Nov 27, 2010 07:18
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Kaboobi posted:Started playing the game last night after picking it up for $15, and I just did the fishing part after reading all the reviewers bitching about it a few months back. Reviewers are whiny shits that suck at video games.
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Nov 27, 2010 08:31
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Kaboobi posted:Started playing the game last night after picking it up for $15, and I just did the fishing part after reading all the reviewers bitching about it a few months back. I can only assume everyone who complained about it did it in the wrong place, where it is extremely difficult at the initial fishing skill level. I understand because I made that mistake too, though I didn't made like a 10 minute video to rant about it.
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Nov 27, 2010 08:38
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I'm up to the manor, and so far this game has been an action RPG, platformer, text adventure, bullet hell shooter, and now Resident Evil. I've never seen so many genres mashed together at once. 
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Dec 3, 2010 06:36
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Cityinthesea posted:trust me, playthrough 2 adds a lot to the narrative of the second half (that is the only thing you play, really). It would be a disservice to only play it once. It really should be in the thread title, but you have not beaten NIER until you've played the New Game +.
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PunkBoy posted:I'm up to the manor, and so far this game has been an action RPG, platformer, text adventure, bullet hell shooter, and now Resident Evil. I've never seen so many genres mashed together at once. And if you get the DLC, there's also a rail shooter (don't get the DLC, seriously it's not worth it).
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Mr. Swoon posted:And if you get the DLC, there's also a rail shooter (don't get the DLC, seriously it's not worth it). Aw hell yeah it's worth it seriously don't listen to me i bought both versions of this game on ps3, got platinum in both, and bought the dlc on both
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Mr. Swoon posted:And if you get the DLC, there's also a rail shooter (don't get the DLC, seriously it's not worth it). I thought it was worthwhile but I also really like action games making you use your movesets in platformer-style mannerisms (see: the lava cavern and one other DLC stage I can't recall the name of).
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Mr. Swoon posted:(don't get the DLC, seriously it's not worth it). It's worth it for the music alone.
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Dec 3, 2010 08:11
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The music definitely is the best part of the DLC.
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Dec 3, 2010 16:13
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So good in fact that they're releasing it on a second OST this month. God, I hope that hits the UK iTunes.
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Dec 3, 2010 20:13
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That's this month? I'm definitely getting the second OST. The Nier DLC music was loving awesome.
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Dec 3, 2010 20:24
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Hells yes, dance mix tracks. Due out in 5 days
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Dec 3, 2010 20:35
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I've found the first 7 fishing quests to be reeeeeeally easy. The Tutorial Document about how to fish isn't wrong: it says to hold the stick opposite the fish. The key is to keep your eye on the splashing animation. Yeah, if you just hold back and only move the stick when the character moves, it's hard, but if you fine-tune the stick position the entire time, it's incredibly easy. But oh my God gently caress the quest to get Pink Moonflower seeds. Whoever said this game is mocking you for trying to 100% it is absolutely right. The game is amazing if you keep in mind "If a sidequest is annoying/hard, just skip it".
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Dec 3, 2010 20:45
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My friend who I recommended Nier to just finished everything. His response: (10:23:44 AM) Friend's AIM Name: You killed my soul!
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Dec 3, 2010 22:13
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just beat playthrough B. the moment i decided to stop doing all of the stupid sidequests the game instantly went from being mediocre (to the point that I almost quit) to being the best game I've played in a long while. So glad i made that decision, and it's such a shame the developers decided to include all that crap. Worst part of the game by far. I feel like this may be a game that people look back on 10 years from now and realize they missed out on something special.
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Dec 4, 2010 02:23
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mox posted:just beat playthrough B. the moment i decided to stop doing all of the stupid sidequests the game instantly went from being mediocre (to the point that I almost quit) to being the best game I've played in a long while. I've had people tell me the EXACT same thing except referring to achievements and trophies in general.
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Just finished the second playthrough. This is probably the most depressing game I have ever played. Beepy 
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mox posted:just beat playthrough B. the moment i decided to stop doing all of the stupid sidequests the game instantly went from being mediocre (to the point that I almost quit) to being the best game I've played in a long while. The worst part is that maybe 10% of the sidequests actually have an interesting bit of story/atmosphere but there's no way of knowing which ones. NIER is a game about games, and it hates you. If you remove all but the best sidequests, it's easily up there with Ico and Shadow of the Collosus.
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I think the most interesting sidequest was the one where you had to find the missing girl in Facade, and you find out her boyfriend accidentally killed her and dumped her body in the desert but she turns up unscathed at her home with no idea of what anyone was talking about or who her boyfriend is. I always wondered what the deal was with that. Was she claimed by her Shade while she was bleeding out in the desert or something?
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Yeah I always expected that would get resolved somehow but I guess it wasn't?
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Xythar posted:Yeah I always expected that would get resolved somehow but I guess it wasn't? There was a quest in Act 2 that touched on it. She's an undercover shade. You kill her after finding her a few times in the desert. I had beaten the game twice at the time of my last post, but I suppose I didn't make that clear. I enjoyed the throwbacks to other genres and a few of the tiny mindbenders, but the story as a whole was dissatisfying to me, personally. Music was still fantastic.
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It looks like there's a drama CD release planned in Japan: http://blog.esuteru.com/archives/1872748.html (affiliate links/images may be NWS and/or embarassing otaku poo poo) Due out in April. It appears Yokoo is involved in the story. For those unfamiliar with the term, a drama CD is basically like a radio play. After the spectacular work on Grimoire NieR, hopefully the fanbase will come together to translate this one as well.
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Famitsu.com came out with a few new details about the NieR Replicant drama CD, yeah it's Replicant. Sorry.
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Policenaut posted:Famitsu.com came out with a few new details about the NieR Replicant drama CD, yeah it's Replicant. Sorry. Too bad it'll never see an English release, and thus all of us non-Japanese speaking people will never get to enjoy any of it. 
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Is the combat in this like DMC where it takes like 5 minutes to kill your average scrub? Also how is the name pronounced? Near or Ny-er?
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Chunk posted:Is the combat in this like DMC where it takes like 5 minutes to kill your average scrub? They never say it (at least in the US version) but it's supposed to be "Near" The combat is more similar to God of War than DMC, you kill things pretty quickly most of the time.
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Policenaut posted:They never say it (at least in the US version) but it's supposed to be "Near" Oh good on both counts.
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I've been getting an urge to play this again, but I'm not sure if I can. Not many games make you feel bad about every single enemy in the game.
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Is the voice from Weiss the same voice as War in Darksiders? I was playing that yesterday and War starting talking and I was like holy poo poo, it's Weiss!
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Chunk posted:Oh good on both counts. Just don't put the game on Hard. It's the bad kind of Hard where every enemy has 3x health and does 3x damage.
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LorneReams posted:Is the voice from Weiss the same voice as War in Darksiders? I was playing that yesterday and War starting talking and I was like holy poo poo, it's Weiss! http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1240448/ You are correct
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The DLC remixes on the arranged tracks disc sound so much better than the game rips and in-game versions. It's really crazy. Two of the tracks are slightly disappointing though, since they're slightly arranged versions of specific layers of some of the most heavily-layered songs. Specifically, the music box part of the Shadowlord final fight and the vocal layer of the song in the steel mines. Both of them are definitely different from their in-game counterparts, and have backing and stuff added so they stand up much better as individual tracks. also there's an 8-bit medley of most of the major songs in the game, including the credits with 8-bit vocals. it's surprisingly good since i normally hate chiptune stuff. edit: the remix of kaine's theme is so good god drat. Fereydun fucked around with this message at 15:34 on Dec 9, 2010 |
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Oh poo poo yes. The new OST is on the UK iTunes. Any problems I may have with Square, I love them for putting their sound tracks up on iTunes. Even if a game like Nier wasn't exactly a success over here.
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Dec 9, 2010 15:28
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I think the Nier OST ended up being way more popular than Nier itself.
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I think it's very funny that everything I've read in this thread about sidequests is "don't bother", which also happens to be exactly what the game is constantly telling the player as well.
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Chunk posted:I think it's very funny that everything I've read in this thread about sidequests is "don't bother", which also happens to be exactly what the game is constantly telling the player as well. It's true, but the problem is that even though the game trolls the player with most of them, some of them still have amusing/interesting/depressing dialogue to go along with them and the trouble is that you don't know which ones.
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