|
Badingading posted:If not then unless it's a date of some in-universe significance it's likely the date that the demo build was compiled, given that it would take at least 1-2 weeks to get the build tested and certified for public release.
|
#
?
Jan 4, 2017 04:36
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 10, 2024 02:25 |
|
|
DACK FAYDEN posted:If you felt bad about Beepy, don't, he turns back on and becomes the space robot pope messiah. At least someone got a happy ending  How important is it to play/watch an LP of Drakengard 3 in catching up for Automata? I've already gone through The Dark Id's LP of Drakengard 1 and it's my understanding from earlier in this thread that 2 is fairly irrelevant to the Nier timeline.
|
|
#
?
Jan 4, 2017 05:30
|
|
|
Badingading posted:At least someone got a happy ending It couldn't hurt to give Id's LP a look. D3's an interesting game, and there's no telling how/if it'll be connected to Nier 2. It does some weird stuff with alternate timelines that leaves its connections a little vague.
|
|
#
?
Jan 4, 2017 05:35
|
|
|
Badingading posted:At least someone got a happy ending Hard to really say. I mean, it takes place 10 thousand years ago in an alternate universe version of a parallel world. Any connections would be pretty tenuous at best. That said, there will probably be some references. We know the Watchers are coming back in some form, and their origins were explored in DOD3. And at least one character is immortal enough and relevant enough to the plot of this game that they will probably be popping up.
|
|
#
?
Jan 4, 2017 05:38
|
|
|
DACK FAYDEN posted:If you felt bad about Beepy, don't, he turns back on and becomes the space robot pope messiah. Until you kill him in Automata of course. I jest but I do hope he appears. He does meet the androids at the end of the novella
|
|
#
?
Jan 4, 2017 05:41
|
|
|
I had a dream that there was a jungle island level and you got Donkey Kong as a party member and when you finished the level the camera zoomed out to show it was DK Island all along. Also all the DK:64 music had Nier's vocals in it. How can the actual game even compete now
|
|
#
?
Jan 4, 2017 05:42
|
|
|
Visually this game is pretty uninspired and dull, but it's still going to be great fun to play.
|
|
#
?
Jan 4, 2017 06:14
|
|
|
ThisIsACoolGuy posted:I had a dream that there was a jungle island level and you got Donkey Kong as a party member and when you finished the level the camera zoomed out to show it was DK Island all along. Also all the DK:64 music had Nier's vocals in it. drat I'm legitimately sad I'll never play that. How about a Switch version and some exclusive content huh Nintendo
|
|
#
?
Jan 4, 2017 06:24
|
|
|
clone on the phone posted:Visually this game is pretty uninspired and dull no
|
|
#
?
Jan 4, 2017 06:34
|
|
|
I really like the muted colour palette actually. It's quite elegant combined with all the monochrome HUD and menu design.
|
|
#
?
Jan 4, 2017 06:48
|
|
|
Oxxidation posted:It couldn't hurt to give Id's LP a look. D3's an interesting game, and there's no telling how/if it'll be connected to Nier 2. It does some weird stuff with alternate timelines that leaves its connections a little vague.
|
|
#
?
Jan 4, 2017 10:55
|
|
|
As much as I like the bizarre continuum of the games I always prefer New Interesting Thing to throwbacks and overt connections Any idea how I can claim the pre-order theme? I didn't seem to get it
|
|
#
?
Jan 4, 2017 11:15
|
|
|
This was a fun demo
|
|
#
?
Jan 4, 2017 20:09
|
|
|
https://twitter.com/yokotaro/status/818064875456843780 lol Jack Trades fucked around with this message at 21:56 on Jan 8, 2017 |
|
#
?
Jan 8, 2017 21:51
|
|
|
Nina posted:That's the interesting part. It's supposed to be humans and aliens fighting a proxy war but we haven't seen confirmed humans or aliens. Could be the Watchers are the aliens. After all, what would humanity think if suddenly space angels and giant flying babies attack? Clearly humans would call those things aliens or bio-weapons made by aliens.
|
|
#
?
Jan 8, 2017 22:07
|
|
|
 double lol
|
|
#
?
Jan 9, 2017 00:20
|
|
|
Libluini posted:Could be the Watchers are the aliens. After all, what would humanity think if suddenly space angels and giant flying babies attack? Clearly humans would call those things aliens or bio-weapons made by aliens. I think Fire of Prometheus had a physical description of them but for some reason the full translation disappeared from the internet
|
|
#
?
Jan 9, 2017 11:32
|
|
|
Amazon in Europe has an exclusive version of the game available for preorder. However, it just comes with a plain black t-shirt featuring an image of Emil's face (the kind of thing you could probably get ten of off Etsy or Redbubble) and costs about £15 more. Kinda disappointing, but maybe someone out there will want one?
|
|
#
?
Jan 9, 2017 12:13
|
|
|
Kaboom Dragoon posted:Amazon in Europe has an exclusive version of the game available for preorder. However, it just comes with a plain black t-shirt featuring an image of Emil's face (the kind of thing you could probably get ten of off Etsy or Redbubble) and costs about £15 more. Kinda disappointing, but maybe someone out there will want one? I actually already preordered it, Amazon is usually my best source for game preorders especially if I want them to arive on time. Free t-shirt, nice.
|
|
#
?
Jan 9, 2017 13:08
|
|
|
Oxygen Deficiency posted:I actually already preordered it, Amazon is usually my best source for game preorders especially if I want them to arive on time. How is the t-shirt free if it costs you 15 bucks?
|
|
#
?
Jan 9, 2017 14:16
|
|
|
Libluini posted:How is the t-shirt free if it costs you 15 bucks? Don't ruin it for him.
|
|
#
?
Jan 9, 2017 14:17
|
|
|
Well I was trying to be funny. Also it wasn't mentioned above but it's actually the day-1 release version with a t-shirt.
|
|
#
?
Jan 9, 2017 14:32
|
|
|
pc version when
|
|
#
?
Jan 9, 2017 14:35
|
|
|
Already pre-ordered digitally I'm afraid. I learned my lesson after I got FFXV like four days late.
|
|
#
?
Jan 9, 2017 14:50
|
|
|
Nina posted:Already pre-ordered digitally I'm afraid. I learned my lesson after I got FFXV like four days late. At least you got your copy in the end. My copy evaporated in the post as far as SE were concerned. They did at least give me my money back but it's the last time I order physical from them.
|
|
#
?
Jan 9, 2017 14:59
|
|
|
I work down the road from one Game and live down the road from another. Looks like they're offering a Steelbook edition (probably the same one in the Black Box pack) for an extra £5, so that's that choice made.
|
|
#
?
Jan 9, 2017 15:08
|
|
|
Libluini posted:Could be the Watchers are the aliens. After all, what would humanity think if suddenly space angels and giant flying babies attack? Clearly humans would call those things aliens or bio-weapons made by aliens. I mean, I kind of wish Yoko Taro would make a game set between Drakengard and Nier in the vein of magical apocalypse X-Com. The backstory between the two games is such that you see direct escalations between the humans and the watchers in stages. At first with people turning into pillars of salt and becoming red eyed zombies fighting a traditional military. Then as the WCS spreads and you see bigger, more terrifying monsters, the humans counter with research into Maso and the dragon to introduce vaccines to slow the rate of people getting salty and preliminary experiments with magic. Then as poo poo hits the fan you start seeing replicants immune to the Watcher's corruption being led by androids and actual biological magical weapons being developed like Emil. The final stages is holding back the unending horde of the legion while you work to gestalt the remnants of humanity to prevent the legion's influence from spreading further. I'm going to go ahead and take a guess now that ol' Red Eyes is going to make an appearance at some point in this game. If humans are back in some limited degree it stands to reason that The Watchers are going to try and exert influence to try and bring them under control again. The ultimate Yoko Taro twist would be that the protagonists in this game wear those blindfolds because there's a glowing pair of watcher eyes underneath it and/or even if you had noble intentions you still wind being a force of destruction kind of like Nier. Edit: vvvvv Lalalalala, The Watchers, they dance! Lalalalala DeathSandwich fucked around with this message at 18:17 on Jan 9, 2017 |
|
#
?
Jan 9, 2017 17:50
|
|
|
DeathSandwich posted:I'm going to go ahead and take a guess now that ol' Red Eyes is going to make an appearance at some point in this game. If humans are back in some limited degree it stands to reason that The Watchers are going to try and exert influence to try and bring them under control again. The ultimate Yoko Taro twist would be that the protagonists in this game wear those blindfolds because there's a glowing pair of watcher eyes underneath it and/or even if you had noble intentions you still wind being a force of destruction kind of like Nier. Well I mean 
|
|
#
?
Jan 9, 2017 18:13
|
|
|
DeathSandwich posted:I mean, I kind of wish Yoko Taro would make a game set between Drakengard and Nier in the vein of magical apocalypse X-Com. The backstory between the two games is such that you see direct escalations between the humans and the watchers in stages. At first with people turning into pillars of salt and becoming red eyed zombies fighting a traditional military. Then as the WCS spreads and you see bigger, more terrifying monsters, the humans counter with research into Maso and the dragon to introduce vaccines to slow the rate of people getting salty and preliminary experiments with magic. Then as poo poo hits the fan you start seeing replicants immune to the Watcher's corruption being led by androids and actual biological magical weapons being developed like Emil. The final stages is holding back the unending horde of the legion while you work to gestalt the remnants of humanity to prevent the legion's influence from spreading further. I've always said, I want to see a CoD-like game that starts off all gung-ho, then about halfway through, your character dies horribly, the team back at base is slowly going mad, some committing suicide, others joining this new cult that's sprung up, secretly subverting the project. Then the rest of the game has you playing a bunch of terrified teenage soldiers barely able to hold back the Legion. I have an idea of a game that begins triumphant, and by the end, you feel utterly crushed and hopeless. Fun!
|
|
#
?
Jan 9, 2017 18:32
|
|
|
chiasaur11 posted:Except Wyverns. DACK FAYDEN posted:I honestly didn't know that came from D2, I just figured D3 established that! Shows how much I missed not playing that awful game. Aumanor posted:Wait, wasn't it how they got rid of Maso from Nier's world? Sent it away to another dimension which happened to be Drakengard's past? Nina posted:I think Fire of Prometheus had a physical description of them but for some reason the full translation disappeared from the internet
|
|
#
?
Jan 9, 2017 19:31
|
|
|
Turn A posted:I haven't read it yet, but you can read The Fire of Prometheus here. That translation is missing chapters unfortunately Nina fucked around with this message at 19:54 on Jan 9, 2017 |
|
#
?
Jan 9, 2017 19:51
|
|
|
Turn A posted:
To be fair, in the Nier timeline replicants are gathering all the Maso so that the androids/grimoirs can enact rituals to send it Somewhere Else. Where that somewhere else could be is anyone's best guess. I would reckon if Nier Automata goes more into depth on the Cult of the Watchers we could find out where all the extra rampant magical energy is being sent off to. I personally love the theory that it's being sent to Drakenguard's past and that Maso/The Watcher is theoretically doing a Figure 8 through time and space between Drakengard's world and Nier's
|
|
#
?
Jan 9, 2017 21:39
|
|
|
So I know it's only tangentially related at best, but I guess Scalebound is now officially dead in the water? Was anyone actually looking forward to that?
|
|
#
?
Jan 9, 2017 21:45
|
|
|
ACES CURE PLANES posted:So I know it's only tangentially related at best, but I guess Scalebound is now officially dead in the water? The people desperately clinging to any justification for buying an xbone.
|
|
#
?
Jan 9, 2017 21:46
|
|
|
ACES CURE PLANES posted:So I know it's only tangentially related at best, but I guess Scalebound is now officially dead in the water? I was in the way that I was excited to see Platinum entirely in control of an open world RPG. I wasn't much of a fan of the protagonist.... But what do I know? I didn't like Bayonetta at first either?
|
|
#
?
Jan 9, 2017 21:49
|
|
|
ACES CURE PLANES posted:So I know it's only tangentially related at best, but I guess Scalebound is now officially dead in the water? I saw that one E3 trailer that looked neat. Were later trailers/reviews about it bad or something?
|
|
#
?
Jan 9, 2017 21:51
|
|
|
Brainamp posted:I saw that one E3 trailer that looked neat. Were later trailers/reviews about it bad or something? the gameplay trailers looked really jaggy, apparently the development has been very rough. If anything I'd guess it was some screw up on Micrsoft's end, this isn't the first time they've ruined a partnership like this
|
|
#
?
Jan 9, 2017 22:03
|
|
|
ACES CURE PLANES posted:So I know it's only tangentially related at best, but I guess Scalebound is now officially dead in the water? Nah. Looked really subpar during gameplay showings. Watch the assets get reused for Drakengard 4. 
|
|
#
?
Jan 9, 2017 22:14
|
|
|
chumbler posted:The people desperately clinging to any justification for buying an xbone. You rang? At least I have a nice controller .
|
|
#
?
Jan 9, 2017 22:35
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 10, 2024 02:25 |
|
|
Scalebound gameplay they showed looked like total garbage.
|
|
#
?
Jan 9, 2017 22:38
|
|