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Nohman posted:I've been reading a bunch of Patrick's articles lately and have concluded that man... there needs to be some sort of concentrated effort to get that dude to go play Nier. That seems to be just the type of weird obscure but super interesting thing right up that guy's alley. As someone who's legitimate favorite game ever is Nier I am so behind this.
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I always wanted to check out Nier until I watched a reviewer break down on YouTube at the fishing segment.
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Jan 12, 2014 07:01
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Justin McElroy is a huge baby and one of the most stereotypical video game journalist around, do not let his idiocy prevent you from trying a cool game
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Jan 12, 2014 07:03
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Kasonic posted:I always wanted to check out Nier until I watched a reviewer break down on YouTube at the fishing segment. The trick to the fishing segment is "look at the X on your map and fish there you idiot."
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Jan 12, 2014 07:11
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Dred Cosmonaut posted:Justin McElroy is a huge baby and one of the most stereotypical video game journalist around, do not let his idiocy prevent you from trying a cool game Word.
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Jan 12, 2014 07:13
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flatluigi posted:The trick to the fishing segment is "look at the X on your map and fish there you idiot." The loving dude even says to go there as well. I'm really not surprised someone who now works at polygon couldn't figure it out.
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Jan 12, 2014 07:34
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randombattle posted:The loving dude even says to go there as well. I'm really not surprised someone who now works at polygon couldn't figure it out. Video Game Journalism. Edit: Literally 100% of that game you have a mini-map on screen and it tells you where to go for the active quest. The man whom gives you the fishing quest, if spoken to again goes "no dude I am the loving master fisherman, you are not catching poo poo here newbie. Go to the beach down the way I told you about and marked on your map." Justin McElroy is human garbage. You should know this by this point. The Dark Id fucked around with this message at 07:51 on Jan 12, 2014 |
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Jan 12, 2014 07:41
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NieR is definitively one of my favorites this generation. Wish more people would have given it a chance. Of course I think the only people that know about that game are goons who read The Dark Id's LP ( I know that's what got me to buy it)
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Jan 12, 2014 07:43
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It took me a couple of minutes to figure out the fishing thing as well. I guess the difference is when I looked at the mini-map and realised I was in the wrong spot I just said to myself "wow I'm an idiot", then I went on to really enjoy the game.
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Jan 12, 2014 07:54
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Finally getting around to listening to the podcast, and man, one giant sandwich that takes a 40-man raid to eat sounds like my kind of party. PUNCH ME IN THE STOMACH! I NEED TO VOMIT!
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Jan 12, 2014 09:10
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404notfound posted:Finally getting around to listening to the podcast, and man, one giant sandwich that takes a 40-man raid to eat sounds like my kind of party. Every loving time they cut to the Sony CES keynote is pure gold. Just like the best luck coming in on the stupidest sentences.
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Jan 12, 2014 09:24
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I kinda wish that they would stream in news or press audio from time to time, it gives it a sort of talk show radio feel.
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Jan 12, 2014 09:50
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The Dark Id posted:Justin McElroy is human garbage.
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Jan 12, 2014 09:59
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Justin's really loving funny on MBMAM but he's definitely not cut out for games journalism.
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Jan 12, 2014 10:15
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I mean that Nier thing isn't even being bad at games that's just being loving stupid.
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Jan 12, 2014 10:31
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I don't think Nier is a fantastic game (though parts of it sure are), but yeah, I never had problems with that quest. I'd be loving ashamed of myself if I turned in a review like that.
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Jan 12, 2014 11:20
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Nier was really boring and dumb you guys.
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:Nier was really boring and dumb you guys. Regardless of your dumb bad opinions giving a game a 0 exclusively due to your inability to follow instructions is pretty loving stupid
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:Nier was really boring and dumb you guys. Nier was cool, and had a busty chick with a cockandballs? Goty
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Jan 12, 2014 12:20
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I totally fished at the pier for a while before even thinking to check the minimap.  It only took a few minutes of that to realize what a dumbass I was being though, it's crazy to just throw your hands up on a game you're reviewing over something like that.
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Jan 12, 2014 12:22
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Nier is up there for some of the best videogame music ever composed and a lot of the inference-plot stuff that went on to make Dark Souls super cool. Sure its gameplay may be crushingly mediocre but you can't have everything.
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I didn't really enjoy Nier very much, the storyline was very predictable and the only character I really liked was Emil. Nier himself is a very stereotypical father character and I found Kaine's personality grating even in her storyline Tyrann was better when he was called Gig in Soul Nomad. The soundtrack is ostensibly pretty good, but it's kind of ruined by the loops, especially the dungeon music since you'll be hearing it for room after room of lovely combat. Cool bosses though, and I did like the desert dungeon a lot (block puzzles that were actually kind of fun, shock and awe). At least it was trying, which is more than you can say for most games.
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Jan 12, 2014 15:57
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Nier was super fun and I am legit excited for Drakengard 3.
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What's the thread title a reference to?
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LoboLoboLobo posted:What's the thread title a reference to? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nN6TfobhkY
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Jan 12, 2014 18:44
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Go to 34:30 if you want the relevant segment, but the whole video is great.
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Rodyle posted:I didn't really enjoy Nier very much, the storyline was very predictable and the only character I really liked was Emil. Nier himself is a very stereotypical father character and I found Kaine's personality grating even in her storyline Tyrann was better when he was called Gig in Soul Nomad. The soundtrack is ostensibly pretty good, but it's kind of ruined by the loops, especially the dungeon music since you'll be hearing it for room after room of lovely combat. Cool bosses though, and I did like the desert dungeon a lot (block puzzles that were actually kind of fun, shock and awe). How the hell is it predictable? I don't think Nier is a perfect game, but THAT'S not a complaint you can really levy against it. It's way too abstract and weird. It's like saying the ending of Dragon's Dogma is predictable. There's an entire section where it becomes a rudimentary text adventure for no reason.
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Jan 12, 2014 20:40
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Hakkesshu posted:There's an entire section where it becomes a rudimentary text adventure for no reason. Oh well if you're talking about some of the episodic stuff like that then yeah, but come one shades being people, the truth behind the Shadow Lord, all that poo poo was SUPER obvious, as was Tyrann's eventual arc. Ending D was pretty out there I'll admit.
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Jan 12, 2014 20:44
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If "story was predictable" was 100% of how you judge a game, all video games would score a 0.
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OLIVIAS WILDE RIDER posted:If "story was predictable" was 100% of how you judge a game, all video games would score a 0. It's like seeing "takes itself too seriously" as a complaint against something. Tiny Timbs fucked around with this message at 02:23 on Jan 13, 2014 |
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Jan 12, 2014 20:47
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The gameplay was mediocre and the other stuff didn't really impress me. I don't know what you guys want me to say.
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I don't think neir was any good either but i'm not gonna say "predictable plot" as a bad thing. "loving stupid go nowhere story written by a high schooler" is a good metric to use, though.
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Jan 12, 2014 20:58
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Post-apocalypse dad dooms humanity to get back his daughter with a rotating pack of assholes helping him out. Nier is really just anime The Last of Us. Except with better gameplay.
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Anyone have a link to the proto Flight Club video where Drew took Dave and Vinny through how to start up a World War 2 bomber for 45 minutes before they finally got it in the air? It's not archived on the site and only on twitch.
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OLIVIAS WILDE RIDER posted:If "story was predictable" was 100% of how you judge a game, all video games would score a 0. Really, you can reduce any story down to two key events. 1) There is a plot. 2) There is a conclusion to a plot. As such, I just cannot see why people can ever be surprised with stories, as they are just so predictable. I feel this work can only merit a 7/10 at best because of this.
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Jimbot posted:Anyone have a link to the proto Flight Club video where Drew took Dave and Vinny through how to start up a World War 2 bomber for 45 minutes before they finally got it in the air? It's not archived on the site and only on twitch. If you find it I'll put it on Youtube. gently caress twitch
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Jimbot posted:Anyone have a link to the proto Flight Club video where Drew took Dave and Vinny through how to start up a World War 2 bomber for 45 minutes before they finally got it in the air? It's not archived on the site and only on twitch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGCbNs6Qb60 In terms of random streams, this was the
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Is something wrong with jeff, has brad been giving his lesssons, every quickloook in 2014 has been pretty brad even though brad hasnt been playing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWOUxmh_YfY&feature=player_detailpage#t=555
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coolskillrex remix posted:Is something wrong with jeff, has brad been giving his lesssons, every quickloook in 2014 has been pretty brad even though brad hasnt been playing I liked Jeff's complete dismissal of Vinny's "I dunno maybe you play as Link in SMB later on" suggestion because they do exactly that but with Link in Donkey Kong just a stage or two after what they played. Not defending NES Remix's slow start just found that funny.
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OLIVIAS WILDE RIDER posted:If "story was predictable" was 100% of how you judge a game, all video games would score a 0. Nier's predictability is sort of a point in its favor, in any case. For the latter half of the game you get the feeling that what you're doing isn't totally on the up-and-up, and that feeling just grows and grows until the curtain finally pulls back and weelllp, everything is terrible.
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