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MonsieurChoc posted:The music is not dissonant and insanity-inducing enough. They should have gotten Philip Glass. You listened to that remix of Growing Wings, right?
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alcharagia posted:You listened to that remix of Growing Wings, right? Yes, and it's great. I wasn't being serious.
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TurnipFritter posted:Here are some more gameplay videos in decent quality: Polsy can also be used to view Nico links. Thanks!
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Pharohman777 posted:Wait, they sent DarkId merchandise becase of his LP? If he's reading this thread, he can chime in, but in some LP thread or another he mentioned getting stuff from them, including a poster(?) But, we all know that Drakengard 3 itself is their real gift to these forums. Mr. Maltose posted:I wonder if it's actually supposed to be Zero singing while berserking. I certainly hope that's the case. Considering the way Devola's song would play in NieR, it wouldn't be without precedent. I wonder, will the Intoners (or whatever they're calling them) also get music for their boss fights? Maybe a Metal Gear Rising kind of affair where it kicks in as action escalates? As lurid and depressing as the plot is shaping up, this game could end up being genuinely stylish and fun to watch if they really amp up the artistic touches.
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Has there been anything about the jp version coming out on psn?
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tooooooo bad posted:Has there been anything about the jp version coming out on psn? Yeah it should end up on PSN.
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Mr. Maltose posted:I wonder if it's actually supposed to be Zero singing while berserking. I certainly hope that's the case. It is! When Zero enters berserk mode she gets excited and starts singing, hence the name Songstress/Intoner. Presumably the enemy Intoners can do the same thing, so boss fights could end up as duets. That said, I remember reading an interview with the composer where he said this game's soundtrack was going to be a lot different than Nier's and to not expect as many vocal tracks in spite of the setting, so there's that.
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Pharohman777 posted:Wait, they sent DarkId merchandise becase of his LP? I got shitfaced and did some digging to contact Cavia before it was dissolved and specifically Sith Lord Taro Yoko during the NIER LP and linked to all the sales I had gotten the game... granted mostly used but whatever. I did more advertising than Square-Enix at that point. I got a response back from Taro Yoko a few months later thanking me for being an "ambassador to the West" and was asked for an address. Which was a PO BOX so whatever. If he was sending a letter bomb some poor mail lady would blow up. Drakengard! But in fact I got a signed poster from a bunch of members from the team and a voucher for the NieR piano soundtrack. Which required I make a fake Japanese iTunes account listing me in 25000 Fake Street, Osaka Japan. But hey. That was nifty. 
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I still think that's the neatest loving thing  What an awesome guy! Almost makes up for all the soul-crushing despair he's about to put you through.
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I thought Drakengard was a complely unknown game I picked up in a discount bin when I was a kid, kinda neat that apparently it's not. 
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If the music is even a fraction as good as Nier's and the characterization even a tenth as good as Nier's, I'll be satisfied with this game. Also, I swear to God, those deserty screenshots look like they straight up re-used textures from Nier.
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Well, the question is if this will be closer in quality to Drakengard 2 or NIER. Considering the main character is an anime girl...Drakengard 2.
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LordHippoman posted:Well, the question is if this will be closer in quality to Drakengard 2 or NIER. Looking at Zero, I don't see that being a problem. If they gently caress it up, it'll be in an interesting new way.
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Anatharon posted:I thought Drakengard was a complely unknown game I picked up in a discount bin when I was a kid, kinda neat that apparently it's not. Oddly enough, I'm much the same. Everything I'd heard about it suggested it was Dynasty Warriors with overt RPG mechanics, which is right up my alley. I played it for a bit, thought 'huh, this is alright', then shoved it into the Big Pile Of Games I'll Play Once In A Blue Moon. Then, a couple of years later, I hear what the game's really about and plow through it with a fervour Caim himself would be proud of. I never picked up the second game (I keep feeling I should, just for the sake of completeness if nothing else), but Nier swiftly became one of my favourite games. I actually have a canvas of some of the promo art I had printed up, and a copy of Grimoire Neir on the way.
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The Dark Id posted:...But in fact I got a signed poster from a bunch of members from the team and a voucher for the NieR piano soundtrack. That's pretty cool of them.  As for the quality of this upcoming game, if it's an utter trainwreck, it's going to be a glorious utter trainwreck, and if it's decent, then we get a decent game out of it; either way it's win-win for us. Characterwise, as long as it's not Drakgengard 2 it's gonna be okay, and gameplaywise, it just has to be on the same level as Nier - nothing groundbreaking, with none of the monotony of the orignal Drakengard.
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LordHippoman posted:Well, the question is if this will be closer in quality to Drakengard 2 or NIER. From what we know of her already, Zero is: gruff, violent, has a flower growing out of her eye, can kill enemies by singing at them, is a former serial killer who is now dead-set on murdering her little sisters before stealing their lovers/manservants and rides a dragon with the voice of a five year old. Every single supporting character that has been introduced has made her seem relatively sane in comparison. How could you compare that to Nowe and his band of bland? I can't speak for the games general quality yet, but Yoko Taro is at the helm so I think the story being boring is the last thing we have to worry about.
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And when he says the companions seems saner, one is an anime pretty boy that looks like a normal j-rpg hero, yet is a sadist, another one seems to have a masochistic streak large enough to look like he has sewed a zipper on his stomach. And an old man that's apparently the horniest of them all.
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Iceclaw posted:And when he says the companions seems saner, one is an anime pretty boy that looks like a normal j-rpg hero, yet is a sadist, another one seems to have a masochistic streak large enough to look like he has sewed a zipper on his stomach. And an old man that's apparently the horniest of them all. Pretty standard flair these days.
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I plan on playing Nier because apparently it's a good game and one of those "Games as art games" (Which I like, Killer7 and Deus Ex are some of my favorite games ever) but should I make sure to play it before Drakengard 3? And should I play Drakengard 2 for that matter? I don't want to look at any of the pre-release stuff incase there's spoilers for Nier/DG2.
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Anatharon posted:I plan on playing Nier because apparently it's a good game and one of those "Games as art games" (Which I like, Killer7 and Deus Ex are some of my favorite games ever) but should I make sure to play it before Drakengard 3? And should I play Drakengard 2 for that matter? They're really only spiritually related at most. Nier technically takes place in the same universe as one of Drakengard's endings, but that's never even brought up at all in any meaningful way.
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Nier and Drakengard 3 probably have nothing in common, it barely had anything to do with Drakengard to begin with. Never play Drakengard 2. EDIT: vvv welp nevermind then. Still don't play Drakengard 2.
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Yoko Taro said that Nier is connected to some degree with Drakengard 3, but you should play it regardless because it was Cavia's best game.
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Anatharon posted:I plan on playing Nier because apparently it's a good game and one of those "Games as art games" (Which I like, Killer7 and Deus Ex are some of my favorite games ever) but should I make sure to play it before Drakengard 3? And should I play Drakengard 2 for that matter? Play Neir, then if you want to find out the connections/backstory, read Dark Id's LP of it. There's a surprising amount of supplementary material, none of it vital, exactly, but all of it absolutely fascinating. But whatever you do, don't read up on Nier at all. It's a game you'll want to go into blind as possible.
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Anatharon posted:I plan on playing Nier because apparently it's a good game and one of those "Games as art games" (Which I like, Killer7 and Deus Ex are some of my favorite games ever) but should I make sure to play it before Drakengard 3? And should I play Drakengard 2 for that matter? Play Nier, and play it blind. Drakengard 2 isn't bad mechanically. Storywise...it rather sucks. I'd say play it if you want fairly decent Dynasty Warriors-lite gameplay.
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Play Nier, read Drakengard LP, skim Grimoire Nier, forget about Drakengard 2.
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sleeptalker posted:Play Nier, read Drakengard LP, skim Grimoire Nier, forget about Drakengard 2. Hey now, let's be fair, there's one great way to experience the story of Drakengard 2. It's typing "drakengard 2 caim cutscene" on Youtube search bar.
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Pesky Splinter posted:Play Nier, and play it blind. I have never played Dynasty Warriors, but Drakengard 2 is among the worst games I've ever played. I found nothing fun about mashing the same X combo over and over against hundreds upon hundreds of enemies, just to be rewarded with having to mash X against hundreds more enemies. Stay far, far away from Drakengard 2.
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Momomo posted:I found nothing fun about mashing the same X combo over and over against hundreds upon hundreds of enemies, just to be rewarded with having to mash X against hundreds more enemies. As I said, Dynasty Warriors. I'm not really sure what the genre term is. It plays better than Drakengard 1 at least. It tried to have more varied combos to weapons, gave the other player characters slightly more utility than just "win button", by giving them strengths and weakness against certain enemy types. And the camera and movement controls were better too. Alright, it's shallow and mindless as gently caress, but compared to Drakengard 1's "X,X,X,X,X, triangle, X,X,X,X,X [ad infinitum]" it's fun enough in it's own way. Depends on your tolerance, I guess. 
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Pesky Splinter posted:It plays better than Drakengard 1 at least. I know comparing a sequel to its predecessor is usually how you'd go about this, but...
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sleeptalker posted:Play Nier, read Drakengard LP, skim Grimoire Nier, forget about Drakengard 2.
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Just want to restate that in Drakengard 2, Caim kills a man so hard that Death itself dies.
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Dengeki's special Drakengard page posted an article rounding up what we know about the characters so far, which I thought you guys might find interesting:quote:ZERO Octa's story should also be up sometime soon.
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Pesky Splinter posted:Play Nier, and play it blind. No, there's two things anyone who hasn't played Nier yet deserves to know: The first is that the beach where you're supposed to catch the mandatory fish is NOT where you got your rod, it's the beach beyond the small tunnel, the one you'd use to get to the lighthouse anyway. The second is don't play on Hard mode or else your fun will be short-lived. With those tips, you've got no reason to not finish the game beyond incompetence, and with Nier, you really need to suck to not finish it.
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Oxxidation posted:Just want to restate that in Drakengard 2, Caim kills a man so hard that Death itself dies. Also. when given the choice between trying to kill Caim and trying to kill a fearsome fire-breathing dragon, they decide the dragon would be an easier target. A Bystander posted:No, there's two things anyone who hasn't played Nier yet deserves to know: The first is that the beach where you're supposed to catch the mandatory fish is NOT where you got your rod, it's the beach beyond the small tunnel, the one you'd use to get to the lighthouse anyway. The second is don't play on Hard mode or else your fun will be short-lived. One other thing worth noting: when it comes to sidequests, follow this handy dandy flowchart to the letter 
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Completing all of the sidequests allows the game to display a level of hatred most video games these days don't have. It builds character, completing tasks such as gardening in real time to create ten of a rare type of flower that takes literal hours to show up (go read a book or get a job, you hippy), or waiting for a certain fish to finally loving pop up as you struggle with not losing it after 30 minutes of waiting and/or catching other poo poo under the false belief that doing so will empty out the area and let you catch the one you want before you realize that this is a video game and it doesn't work like that.
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After getting Platinum in Nier I was able to chew through steel, flip cars, and fly as far as I wanted. It also made me a sad, miserable lump of life that begged for the ride to end. So, if you can handle the latter, have fun with the former! If not, just play the game in whatever way causes the least amount of stress.
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I did all the sidequests required to get Platinum. Then I did the rest of them. Nier broke me, and it was worth it.
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A Bystander posted:No, there's two things anyone who hasn't played Nier yet deserves to know Oh, yeah. Forgot about that fishing thing. It always seems to give some people trouble. As a third thing to know about Nier, related to that, always follow the mini-map.
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