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Golden Goat posted:Just read the Kotaku review here This is the same problem as Caim, who slaughtered his way into our hearts.  Speaking of which, the Caim costume looks pretty great. It's my favourite of the outfits so far..
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Well, she is strong and a female protagonist!  I just beat Chapter 2. Spears are good fun and oh yeah, Mikhail is the best. "It's okay, Zero. You can barf on me." 
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May 21, 2014 16:17
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I'm nearing the end of chapter 2 I assume, the gameplay seems serviceable so far I guess. Very glad they dropped the idea of fighting giant armies, I much prefer fighting dozens of enemies rather than hundreds or thousands. The framerate is pretty lovely though, and it feels like Zero's attack animations take forever to end. It makes those side missions with the bomb assholes harder than they really need to be.
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May 21, 2014 17:02
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Momomo posted:I'm nearing the end of chapter 2 I assume, the gameplay seems serviceable so far I guess. Very glad they dropped the idea of fighting giant armies, I much prefer fighting dozens of enemies rather than hundreds or thousands. So why not just dash out of the animation?
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May 21, 2014 17:03
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I guess I have terrible taste because I'm really enjoying this game. Dear God, that framerate though.
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May 21, 2014 17:20
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Despite the awful start of disk read errors the first two times I try to install, I'm really enjoying this so far. The framerate and texture pop-in and the enemies just kinda appearing is all a bit distracting, and reminds me a bit of The Last Remnant, but honestly I didn't expect much else from the DP dudes. Gameplay is fun enough, and the banter and music is great. Like, just as good as, if not better than, Nier, music wise. Not so much a fan of some of the delivery of the actors (such as Five,) and I've yet to warm up to the English Zero's voice, but it's honestly worth keeping it in English most of the time just for the generic soldier dialogue. Switching between languages for levels is making replaying them less tedious, though, so there's that. I think I'm quite enjoying myself.
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May 21, 2014 17:24
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Just finished Chapter 2, and while that was a sweet as hell Star Fox section, the actual boss fight (and subsequent killing of Four) was kind of lackluster. Except the music. Holy poo poo, Armoros's theme is loving amazing. I'm also very quickly finding myself with way less money than I'd like, these weapons aren't going to upgrade themselves! All in all though, game is way better than I was expecting it be based on what everyone said before release. Yeah, the framerate sucks, and yeah, aerial combat's pretty blah, but I'm still having a lot of fun with it.
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May 21, 2014 17:34
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I kinda want to try the original Drakengard after this, depending. I have a close friend who quite enjoyed it, despite its tedium.
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May 21, 2014 17:39
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Oh my god the frame rate in chapter Four is just awful. This has to be some sort of sick joke, why would you put a game which has framerate issues against just two enemies sometimes in a huge loving desert? What made you do this? I mean, it's pretty funny you went that far to make the game bad, but it's really obnoxious to play in. This is not mentioning the stage gimmick for that section is really bad. Also Zero is still really bad, oh man.
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May 21, 2014 18:03
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This... is definitely a Cavia game alright. I kind of like its low budget charm even if I can admit that the gameplay itself leaves much to be desired. Seems like Wada could only let Taro have a budget that even MacGuyver wouldn't be able to work with, but eh. I play Cavia games more for the masochistic experience, as there is no team that actively detests its players more than the Cavia bunch.
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May 21, 2014 18:22
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It's got some amazingly bad framerate drops, all over the place. And screen tearing. And loading. And texture pop-ins. And loading. I know Access Games have never been that great, but this is so badly optimised. Kinda mixed on the voices at the moment. Zero's VA is growing on me though.
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May 21, 2014 18:27
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Oh okay, so the screen tearing wasn't just me then. God this game is loving trash, there's something compelling about it though. I want to go as deep into the rabbit hole as possible and see how bad it can get.
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May 21, 2014 18:29
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Orgia Carnaval posted:Oh okay, so the screen tearing wasn't just me then. God this game is loving trash, there's something compelling about it though. I want to go as deep into the rabbit hole as possible and see how bad it can get. Welcome to Cavia
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May 21, 2014 18:32
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Guys. Guys. Stop making me want to reinstall Nier. Stop it.
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May 21, 2014 19:08
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Nier's a great game, why wouldn't you want to replay it?
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May 21, 2014 19:10
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Accordion Man posted:Nier's a great game, why wouldn't you want to replay it? Mostly because I've hit this point where I'm finding that I'm replaying old games rather than actually playing the new games that I've already bought. Dark Souls 2 and Stick of Truth are both about an hour away from completion but I can't be bothered since I'm in the midst of an Alpha Protocol replay. And then all this Drakengard 3 talk gets me thinking about how great Nier was... I was sort of hoping the thread would talk me into D3 but... not yet.
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May 21, 2014 19:13
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It's funny because being able to understand all of the moment-to-moment dialog is making me like the game a lot more (surprising!). Won't be long though until I reach those later requests and all happiness disappears from my life.
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May 21, 2014 19:16
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Pesky Splinter posted:Zero's VA is growing on me though. I haven't listened to the Japanese audio but the American VA is killing it. She sounds perfectly "whatever, gently caress you too" all the time. It's kind of magic.
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May 21, 2014 19:36
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Pesky Splinter posted:It's got some amazingly bad framerate drops, all over the place. And screen tearing. And loading. And texture pop-ins. And loading. I'm honestly not getting any of that, aside from the slightly excessive load times. The game runs beautifully on my machine. It's an earlier generation PS3, so could that be the reason?
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May 21, 2014 19:38
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BattleCattle posted:I'm honestly not getting any of that, aside from the slightly excessive load times. The game runs beautifully on my machine. It's an earlier generation PS3, so could that be the reason? The digital version isn't giving me load time issues, but I cannot imagine you're not getting the framerate drops. I've never seen a game with actual "single digit" FPS before but the dragon section at the end of Chapter 1 did in fact go to single digits for a brief moment when something exploded. Screen jagging I'm not seeing much of though.
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May 21, 2014 19:49
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precision posted:The digital version isn't giving me load time issues, but I cannot imagine you're not getting the framerate drops. I've never seen a game with actual "single digit" FPS before but the dragon section at the end of Chapter 1 did in fact go to single digits for a brief moment when something exploded. The only framedrops I got were in the first dual-screen closeups on the characters, and it's since fixed itself. It handles explosions well, even when I fill the screen with 'em. Maybe I have the model PS3 that they were allowed to optimize for? Maybe it just plays well with it for reasons unknown? I dunno. EDIT: I'm using the disk. BattleCattle fucked around with this message at 19:57 on May 21, 2014 |
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May 21, 2014 19:54
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I wish my CE would arrive already. It's been sitting in shipping limbo since last Thursday saying it was being "transferred to USPS" and I'm just hoping it didn't get lost in some dusty corner of the post office.
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May 21, 2014 19:56
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BattleCattle posted:I'm honestly not getting any of that, aside from the slightly excessive load times. The game runs beautifully on my machine. It's an earlier generation PS3, so could that be the reason? Dunno. I've reset the console, and it seems to be working better now. The screen tear seems to occur mostly during the parts where you have Mikhail bombard the area, and in quite a few of the cutscenes.
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May 21, 2014 19:59
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I have had the screen tearing occur while I was standing still scrolling the camera, it is weird.
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May 21, 2014 20:00
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everythingWasBees posted:I kinda want to try the original Drakengard after this, depending. I have a close friend who quite enjoyed it, despite its tedium. Hahahahahahahahaha. Hahaha. Do it.
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May 21, 2014 23:03
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MonsieurChoc posted:Hahahahahahahahaha. It'll have to wait until July, friend, when I go back to my dad's house. I'll grab the PS2 and play the Drakengard. I guess this is a toxx?
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May 21, 2014 23:07
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everythingWasBees posted:It'll have to wait until July, friend, when I go back to my dad's house. I'll grab the PS2 and play the Drakengard. If you're dead set on it, I'm not gonna stop ya.
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May 21, 2014 23:16
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CE just arrived. The book is pretty. So, is this game preforming better on older systems or newer systems?
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May 21, 2014 23:20
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BattleCattle posted:If you're dead set on it, I'm not gonna stop ya. It'll be fun to try, and if I don't like it, I can always stop playing.
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May 21, 2014 23:23
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Kortel posted:is this game preforming better on older systems or newer systems? I have an older model from about 2011 and I have no technical complaints, though there is the possibility that my PS3 is haunted, and the benevolent specter is making the game run smoothly. Edit: I also don't have any digital games on it, so maybe that's helping. I'm mystified. BattleCattle fucked around with this message at 23:46 on May 21, 2014 |
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May 21, 2014 23:44
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everythingWasBees posted:It'll be fun to try, and if I don't like it, I can always stop playing. Both these things are wrong.
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May 22, 2014 00:34
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Just got to chapter 2. So far the framerate has been pretty decent, most of the time. Only times it's gotten real bad were the split-screen cutscene with Five and when Mikhail does a carpet bomb attack on the field. The gameplay's a tad simple, but pretty fun. Love how stupid the disciple AI is, with Dito constantly running straight into walls. e: Also archers are dickbags. Genocyber fucked around with this message at 02:02 on May 22, 2014 |
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May 22, 2014 01:58
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Welp I went and bought this since Taro Yoko insanity is something I'd like to experience first hand for a change. The Dark Id is a jerk. Mikhail is adorable. ...They're gonna horribly murder him in most of the endings, aren't they...?
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Nohman posted:Welp I went and bought this since Taro Yoko insanity is something I'd like to experience first hand for a change. The Dark Id is a jerk. Would it be Drakengard if they didn't?
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May 22, 2014 02:03
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Midway through Verse 2. I am enjoying the adventures of a murderous lunatic and her mentally disabled dragon friend. Does weapon size make any appreciable difference in this one or not? I am not good at comparison.
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Alopex posted:Midway through Verse 2. I am enjoying the adventures of a murderous lunatic and her mentally disabled dragon friend. Affects your reach and I've noticed that certain sizes tend to share move-sets and specials. Of course I can't be too sure of that last bit since I've been sticking to a few weapons that I like until I can find some really good grind missions.
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I am seriously enjoying the hell out of this. It's nowhere close to the slog of the first game with its giant fuckoff maps and oh god I'm getting flashbacks  Would have been better at a $30 price point but I'm fine with supporting insane developers. Like, this is certainly a better "game" than, say, Deadly Premonition (which I also enjoyed, of course).
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Alopex posted:Midway through Verse 2. I am enjoying the adventures of a murderous lunatic and her mentally disabled dragon friend. From the weapons I have, large swords tend to have short 2 hit combos and smaller swords have longer combos. Most hits will stun an enemy so I go for bigger combos.
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Aaaaaargh where is the last chest in 3-4 oh and also Octa's rad and punchyfists are rad.
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I just realized that weapon stories are back.  They're just as wonderful as in the first game.
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