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Neddy Seagoon posted:If you really want to experience Drakengard 3, just watch The Dark Id's screenshot Let's Play of it. Probably the best way to experience Drakengard 1-3 and Nier. one should always click the songs,tho.
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I watched a recap of nier. How essential is understanding Drakengard?
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Mar 10, 2017 16:37
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Norns posted:I watched a recap of nier. How essential is understanding Drakengard? Nier is the sequel to the last ending of the original Drakengard (Drakengard 2 is the sequel to the first ending and it's also the dullest story wise). It gets referenced a few times but it's not important. Drakengard 3 is a prequel to the whole series and is only related in the most tangential of ways.
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Mar 10, 2017 16:45
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glam rock hamhock posted:Nier is the sequel to the last ending of the original Drakengard (Drakengard 2 is the sequel to the first ending and it's also the dullest story wise). It gets referenced a few times but it's not important. Drakengard 3 is a prequel to the whole series and is only related in the most tangential of ways. Not so much the last ending as the weirdest ending. The protagonist and his dragon get sucked through a dimensional vortex along with the final boss into present-day Tokyo, slaying the boss in a hideous rhythm music fight before getting shot down by F-16's. No I am not joking. Nier is based on what results from these events.
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Mar 10, 2017 17:11
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The less you know about Drakengard the more sense it makes.
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Mar 10, 2017 17:20
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Not so much the last ending as the weirdest ending. The protagonist and his dragon get sucked through a dimensional vortex along with the final boss into present-day Tokyo, slaying the boss in a hideous rhythm music fight before getting shot down by F-16's. No I am not joking. Nier is based on what results from these events. Yoko taro talks alot about how 9-11 really impacted him and inspired his work and the message behind it
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glam rock hamhock posted:The song being good probably helped. drakengard.txt Norns posted:I watched a recap of nier. How essential is understanding Drakengard? you don't need to know anything about drakengard to play nier (tho it helps), and you don't need to know anything about nier or drakengard to play nier automata (tho it helps). the stories have nothing to do with one another outside of existing in the same world. there are references but you don't need to know anything about the other games to play the new one Manatee Cannon fucked around with this message at 17:45 on Mar 10, 2017 |
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Mar 10, 2017 17:43
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Over halfway through and I would like to update my opinion on the first Uncharted from "awesome" to "awesome mixed with a constant barrage of boring rear end shooting sequences" Do the sequels improve on that aspect any? Everything else is peaches.
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outside of uncharted 3, naughty dog was very good about making the shooting better every time they put out a new game uncharted 4 also has more downtime between the shooting sequences and you can actually for real stealth through a lot of them, so if you just don't like the concept of shooting then it'll probably be up your alley 
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Mar 10, 2017 17:48
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It was better in 4 because there was a lot less of it
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what was the last good demo, anyway? Nier's seems middling, and god knows the FFXV one turned people off of it despite the main game being much better. I used to play the hell out of those jampack demo discs back in the day (Tekken 2 where you only got to choose between Lei and Jun!), but I dunno what the last demo was that actually sold me on a game.Loutre posted:Over halfway through and I would like to update my opinion on the first Uncharted from "awesome" to "awesome mixed with a constant barrage of boring rear end shooting sequences" it's been said before and it'll be said again, but make sure you aren't playing them as cover shooters--they weren't meant to be played like that, and especially in the first one, the enemies can take a lot of bullet punishment before going down. you're meant to be running around, firing a couple shots from the hip, and punching enemies out before rolling into cover for a breather. if you still don't like it after playing it that way, then it's fine--the first one is generally thought of as the worst one by most people. the later games give you a lot more options for dealing with enemies, but overall the design philosophy is the same: keep on the move, run and gun is your friend.
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Uncharted is the game I've felt the most benefit from dropping the difficulty way down.
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morallyobjected posted:what was the last good demo, anyway? Nier's seems middling, and god knows the FFXV one turned people off of it despite the main game being much better. I used to play the hell out of those jampack demo discs back in the day (Tekken 2 where you only got to choose between Lei and Jun!), but I dunno what the last demo was that actually sold me on a game. Nioh got a whole three demos, which got incrementally better as they took on player feedback. Who knows what would've happened without those demos? Maybe the final game would've still had that god-awful durability system.
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I just started Nier Automata and it's super-interesting going from Horizon Zero Dawn directly to it to see two different visions of how a robo-apocalyse aftermath would look. HZD's world is incredibly vibrant, with the remnants of humanity being totally reclaimed by beautiful nature and the main active reminders of the old world being obviously destroyed by violence and conflict. Just from the first zone Nier:A feels way more melancholic and solemn about it and if I wasn't explicitly told about the war I'd feel that humanity just died out rather than was killed off. I'm trading back in my PS4 Slim and getting a Pro because this console feels like a real keeper, and I may even see if a cheap-ish 4K TV is a possibility. Kinda kicking myself for not going Pro in the first place but I never thought I'd like the console this much. Bloodborne > Nioh > HZD > Nier:A, and then Persona 5 real drat soon and after that a big list of exclusives games I actually give a poo poo about are amazing. Edit: HAhahaha okay no, there's no such thing as a budget 4K TV yet. Pierson fucked around with this message at 18:20 on Mar 10, 2017 |
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Atomic Robo-Kid posted:I'm not an expert on Platinum but what I've played of them has been quite good. (Bayonetta, Anarchy Reigns, God Hand counts right?) Cool. I'm definitely intrigued by how much people like the story. To be clear I thought the gameplay in the demo was fun, I love the art direction and the music is great. The thing that puts me on the fence is that, stuff like the environmental design seems really sparse. The videos I have watched kind of seem like a lot of bland environments with a lot of really sparsely populated and samey enemy groups. I guess the thing that worries me is that it looks like it might (or might not be) be a mix of not particularly engaging gameplay mixed with big, long info dumps. The reason the demo left me luke warm, was less that I didn't like the demo and more that I felt like the demo didn't give me a very good idea of if I'd like the whole game or not.
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Mar 10, 2017 18:24
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I played the DOOM demo and bought the game the next day.
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Quantum of Phallus posted:I played the DOOM demo and bought the game the next day. Good man.
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Mar 10, 2017 18:40
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Pierson posted:Edit: HAhahaha okay no, there's no such thing as a budget 4K TV yet. Yeah, right now the cheapest set with decent quality is around $1300 on a good day.
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morallyobjected posted:what was the last good demo, anyway? Nier's seems middling, and god knows the FFXV one turned people off of it despite the main game being much better. I used to play the hell out of those jampack demo discs back in the day (Tekken 2 where you only got to choose between Lei and Jun!), but I dunno what the last demo was that actually sold me on a game. If betas count, Overwatch's public beta sold me on the game.
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Mar 10, 2017 19:45
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Gravy Jones posted:I'm a little concerned based on... They patched it a day later and it IS much better. But now I get some screent-tearing, just in certain spots. I wonder if their solution was to turn off V-Sync.
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Mar 10, 2017 19:47
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Why the gently caress won't patch 4.50 download?
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It takes ages to initialise I found. I thought it had it crashed
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Quantum of Phallus posted:It takes ages to initialise I found. I thought it had it crashed I'm not getting initialise issues - it just immediately fails as soon as I try to start it up.
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Mar 10, 2017 19:54
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Sony's servers have been having issues the past day or two, I believe. Lots of people reporting slow downloads and random disconnects. Happened to me a time or two yesterday.
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Mar 10, 2017 20:18
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Even the official PSBlog is posting Nier/Drakengard summaries now http://blog.us.playstation.com/2017/03/10/heres-what-happened-before-nier-automatas-story-began/
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HGH posted:Even the official PSBlog is posting Nier/Drakengard summaries now "Everything is terrible and hosed"
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veni veni veni posted:Cool. I'm definitely intrigued by how much people like the story. I have beaten route A and am some way into route B. So far there has not been any info dumps of any particular length but the enemies absolutely are samey. Ignoring bosses there's about 10 variants on monster type and then just reskins of those monsters combined with them sometimes having different weapons which will change how they act a small degree.
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Failboattootoot posted:I have beaten route A and am some way into route B. So far there has not been any info dumps of any particular length but the enemies absolutely are samey. Ignoring bosses there's about 10 variants on monster type and then just reskins of those monsters combined with them sometimes having different weapons which will change how they act a small degree. Almost everything in orginal nier is a yellow squigle monster or a brown robo square so this is a huge upgrade
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Mar 10, 2017 22:12
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1.5% of Horizon owners have plat'd it. That seems like a decent share for a trophy that takes at least 10-20 hours more to get.
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ufarn posted:1.5% of Horizon owners have plat'd it. That seems like a decent share for a trophy that takes at least 10-20 hours more to get. I got every achievement on the first run with the exception of the grazer dummies, which were kind of a pain to find without consulting a walkthrough. It seems like a pretty easy game to plat if you do everything.
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Mar 10, 2017 22:27
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I'm still waiting for my Bloodborne Plat theme
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Real hurthling! posted:Almost everything in orginal nier is a yellow squigle monster or a brown robo square so this is a huge upgrade I imagine that about 10 seperate enemy types is nearly 200% more monster variety than original Nier, true.
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Just Offscreen posted:I'm still waiting for my Bloodborne Plat theme It's really bad though.
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exquisite tea posted:I got every achievement on the first run with the exception of the grazer dummies, which were kind of a pain to find without consulting a walkthrough. It seems like a pretty easy game to plat if you do everything.
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exquisite tea posted:I got every achievement on the first run with the exception of the grazer dummies, which were kind of a pain to find without consulting a walkthrough. It seems like a pretty easy game to plat if you do everything. Same. The grazer dummies are the only things you have to go out of your way to do to plat it. Otherwise it's just "do the mainquest, do all the sidequests, collect the easy collectibles (don't worry about the little lore clippings all over the place), and the plat is yours." I beat the game in 50 hours and got the plat and it never felt like some chore, except the dummies which took all of 5-10 minutes.
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Horizon's platinum is not so bad. I thought getting all blazing sun marks would have been a pain but they were surprisingly easy. Even getting to level 50 was no problem, but I did luck out and hit 50 during the final mission.
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Mar 10, 2017 22:34
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slev posted:It's really bad though. Don't care- I need it to live.
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Just Offscreen posted:Don't care- I need it to live. Email customer support and bug them about it.
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Mar 10, 2017 22:50
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There's a thing somewhere about letting Sony send you promotional e-mail you need to have that checked.
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I got Inside at this week's sale and enjoyed it the whole way through. But like Limbo it feels kind of distant and unemotional, even though the overall atmosphere is pretty great. I enjoy team Ico's similar efforts more since I feel more emotionally connected to what is happening. The last few chapters feature some awesome animation, but the ending itself was (intentionally) underwhelming. I would have preferred if it ended in total carnage. I wanted some release dammit! Tldr; Inside is pretty enjoyable but way overrated and barely worth the discounted price, considering how short it is, and its non-existant replayability. To those who have seen it, is the secret ending worth unlocking or should I just YouTube it? Renoistic fucked around with this message at 23:02 on Mar 10, 2017 |
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