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I remember reading once that one of his primary motivations when writing a story was to deliver something that's never been seen before. And it works. He offers highly audience-alienating premises (incest, pedophilia, heroes who are anything but, magnificent robot asses, etc.) but does it in a way that almost never feels gratuitous. Until recently, he was known as the guy who wears the creepy mask, but now people are starting to sit up and take notice of the writing. In an industry where yearly franchises, remakes and reboots are a fact of life, that's becoming a big deal, as well it should. It helps that the translation and voice acting has been top-notch all the way. Augus posted:It's weird how Yoko Taro's role is being emphasized more now, it used to be a behind-the-scenes thing that only nerds like us picked up on but then E3 happened and here he is just walking out onstage wearing a crazy mask. Crazy works sometimes. Nina posted:You just kinda sign into a wordless agreement that Taro can materialize in your house and drink all the beer in the fridge when you buy his games. That's just what life is like as a DOD fan You're lucky, last time he emerged from the screen, he wanted to watch Requiem For a Dream, but with the subtitles from Wreck-It Ralph.
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Kaboom Dragoon posted:I remember reading once that one of his primary motivations when writing a story was to deliver something that's never been seen before. And it works. He offers highly audience-alienating premises (incest, pedophilia, heroes who are anything but, magnificent robot asses, etc.) but does it in a way that almost never feels gratuitous. Until recently, he was known as the guy who wears the creepy mask, but now people are starting to sit up and take notice of the writing. In an industry where yearly franchises, remakes and reboots are a fact of life, that's becoming a big deal, as well it should. It helps that the translation and voice acting has been top-notch all the way. The thing is those alienating premises always serve a purpose within the story. With Drakengard it was to specifically alienate you from the cast to fit the theme that a person to enjoy the kind of killing usually portrayed in a videogame would have to be deranged. With Nier it's more sympathetic and the off the norm qualities of the characters are explored from the angle of how it affects their lives as social outliers be it through a bodily abnormality or a permanent injury. I really hope Automata can live up to the rest of his best work.
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Motto posted:https://waypoint.vice.com/en_us/article/hardcore-girls-and-bullet-hell-a-conversation-with-the-makers-of-nier-automata All of these interviews are really good and make me want to be friends with all three of the main PR people. This one is good too, especially the end bit about Dragon Quest and the discount sword. http://www.rpgsite.net/interview/5299-nier-automata-interview-square-s-niche-kings-on-their-trip-into-a-robotic-future I have decided actually that Yoko Taro is my best friend even if he doesn't know I exist. My BFF. I'll fall off a building and die for his amusement anytime.
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Josuke Higashikata posted:I have decided actually that Yoko Taro is my best friend even if he doesn't know I exist. My BFF. I'll fall off a building and die for his amusement anytime. 
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Gibbering posted:https://68.media.tumblr.com/d79ba54a41d987b9ae6d4b67e87ab1d1/tumblr_olm6aj7FTN1ql1k21o1_1280.jpg Why do I get such heavy vibes that 9S is gonna turn out to be an antagonist in the end.
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Nina posted:Why do I get such heavy vibes that 9S is gonna turn out to be an antagonist in the end. I don't think we've had to stab the adorable boy character (and, by extension, ourselves) in the heart yet, so I could see it happening.
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dazat posted:I had a translation up on my Tumblr, but took it down when I realized I had accidentally omitted two paragraphs describing the androids of all things. I just re-upped the new, completed version: https://medium.com/@khodazat/nier-novella-the-flame-of-prometheus-bdb8738933cf#.fwfswtiqr Oh hey thanks! It was nice to re-read this, and I can't help but wonder if the story will be referenced in game at all.
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Augus posted:If you own FFXV, apparently the newest patch added Nier music to the ingame radio Appropriate, as I've listened to Nier's music the most while driving in my car.
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Apparently the Japanese release will also contain English subs and the dub.
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Augus posted:If you own FFXV, apparently the newest patch added Nier music to the ingame radio drat, they really hate everyone who bought that game on launch.
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Please just confirm the PC date already. If it's months off I don't think I have a choice but to live the story through someone else. I just know some comment somewhere will spoiler a really important plot point near/from the end game if it'll take long enough.
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Augus posted:If you own FFXV, apparently the newest patch added Nier music to the ingame radio Motherfuck, I may boot it up for an hour or two just for that.
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Gameplay Corpse bodies of other players will show up in the world like dark souls or nioh and can be repaired to help you. http://gamestalk.net/post-75231/ I don't know if it was mentioned before but one of the reasons to recover your body will be that some of your plug-in chips are left on it. Post doesn't say whether or not online bodies will let you take their chips. lets hang out fucked around with this message at 15:06 on Feb 20, 2017 |
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Illiterate Clitoris posted:Please just confirm the PC date already. If it's months off I don't think I have a choice but to live the story through someone else. I just know some comment somewhere will spoiler a really important plot point near/from the end game if it'll take long enough. Apparently, today's Dengeki stream confirmed that the PC version is still being worked on, but due to a recent game being cracked unexpectedly (Almost certainly referring to Resi 7's Denuvo) they need to re-evaluate the piracy situation and go from there but that it won't be long. Not the answer I'd have wanted, but I think it's not an especially unreasonable one from the view point of a publisher. I believe the music in FFXIV is just Song of the Ancients Fate and the studio version of The Weight of the World (J'Nique Nicole version), which is the Automata theme. CrashScreen posted:Apparently the Japanese release will also contain English subs and the dub. must not cancel existing EU physical pre-order to play a couple of weeks early for a lot more money on yen cards i can't spare must not cancel existing EU physical pre-order to play a couple of weeks early for a lot more money on yen cards i can't spare Finally, there was that 15 second trailer a couple of days ago. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOD_M_KGAzo) That one was a "Censored" version. This is the uncensored version. The ending of this trailer is way more "spoilery" than anything up to this point https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTa7M2qyLN4 Full Taro 
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lets hang out posted:Gameplay Corpse bodies of other players will show up in the world like dark souls or nioh and can be repaired to help you. http://gamestalk.net/post-75231/ Haha this is cool and good.
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Nina posted:Real talk it makes me feel warm and fuzzy that Taro is popular now and gets to make a game that'll probably sell a ton because he's deserved it and hasn't gotten the recognition he should have during his career in gaming. They did a really good job addressing the first Nier's issues. They got an action game developer to work on the sequel. Akihiko Yoshida and other popular artists were hired to make more marketable characters. The game is shown off at various events and live streams leading up to its release. It's not too unusual for publishers to hire the right talent to make a great sequel. However, it's unusual for a niche bomb to get that much support for its sequel.
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Josuke Higashikata posted:
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Nina posted:gently caress. I hate that I called it Probably more to it than meets the eye, with it being in a real barren area and him fading in and out like a hologram, but god-drat if I'm not desperate to see where he's taking us this time
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Josuke Higashikata posted:
I'm sure there's a perfectly reasonable explanation for this and 9S will stay best boy.
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Nina posted:gently caress. I hate that I called it You may be right. But we still know gently caress all and got 0 context for that shot so you could still easily be wrong.
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I only heard about NieR because someone mentioned it in the ME:A thread and now I'm fascinated by this incredibly weird setting. It hearkens back to the best of early Japanese RPGs that combined sci-fi and fantasy with a cosmology that's like, by the way, souls definitely exist. Is there a thing that succinctly sums up the whole story, which endings carry forward into sequels, etc?
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Halloween Jack posted:I only heard about NieR because someone mentioned it in the ME:A thread and now I'm fascinated by this incredibly weird setting. It hearkens back to the best of early Japanese RPGs that combined sci-fi and fantasy with a cosmology that's like, by the way, souls definitely exist. Is there a thing that succinctly sums up the whole story, which endings carry forward into sequels, etc? http://nier2.com/timeline.html Take note that there's a ridiculous amount of out of game material and there's crazy poo poo like entirety of Drakengard 3 the game not leading into any other games. If you actually want the full stories there are some pretty nifty LPs of them here http://lparchive.org/author/The%20Dark%20Id Nina fucked around with this message at 17:51 on Feb 20, 2017 |
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I still wish that they could have gone with the idea that the third Drakengard game would be Drakengard 4 and the story was them looking for Drakengard 3.
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CrashScreen posted:Apparently the Japanese release will also contain English subs and the dub. Got a source for this?
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Josuke Higashikata posted:The JP pre-load is live. TO THE BUNKER!!
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CrashScreen posted:Apparently the Japanese release will also contain English subs and the dub. Really? Why would the NA version come out two weeks later then? I need proof before I crack and make a JP PSN account to buy it.
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There's some twitter pic of a support page listing 6 languages going around. But confirmed or not I just bought $100 of jp psn cards 
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Well, it's been fun, friendos, but now''s about the point where I bow out. See you on Robuttpocalypse Day.
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Genocyber posted:Got a source for this? HellCopter posted:Really? Why would the NA version come out two weeks later then? This is about as close of a source as I can get. I'm waiting to buy JP PSN cards for a proper confirmation.
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Gibbering posted:TO THE BUNKER!! Kaboom Dragoon posted:Well, it's been fun, friendos, but now''s about the point where I bow out. See you on Robuttpocalypse Day. Ditto. See you one day when I have the game 100%'d
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