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Man, hearing that Song of the Ancients beat again is just a straight up injection of nostalgia to my main vain
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Mar 31, 2017 05:39
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I absolutely adore the designs of the machine enemies. Especially the adorable wind-up-toy-like enemies. Those tiny guys aren't at all threatening, but bless them, they try.
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Mar 31, 2017 05:40
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The Dark Id posted:
So the weird thing is that X = /ks/ is an unusual construction that English and some other languages purloined from Latin and Etruscan, which in turn swiped a simplification from some regional Greek dialects that just wrote X = /ks/ instead of the more formal XΣ (or Ξ, known as "Xi") for that. Hebrew was in a completely different language family, so as a result its script doesn't really have a singular character to represent that digraph. Writing out "Marx" with the proper phonetics would likely be Mem-Aleph-Resh-Kaph-Shin, but that's one more character than intended for what seems at the moment to just be a substitution cipher with the Latin script. Instead the designers probably went with some results that were close enough for the task, so in this case "MARX" is written out as Mem-Aleph-Resh-Shin. This would then be read either* as "Mars" with a soft s or "Marsh". *That distinction on the pronunciation of Shin is where we get the term "shibboleth".
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Mar 31, 2017 05:44
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It's Angelic, it's a thing, he uses it throughout the whole series.
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Mar 31, 2017 06:12
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It's some 16th century dude named Agrippa's Celestial Alphabet. It's basically hebrew with circles on the ends of the lines and a bit of Greek to pad it out to 22 characters.
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Mar 31, 2017 06:24
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And so it begins, the war against the murderous Android phone logos.
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Mar 31, 2017 06:43
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AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. I cant believe this is happening, I was so bummed over you not doing this, and you even started it on my god drat birthday, THIS IS THE BEST PRESENT! I'm so glad I didnt actually get into the game and finish it first, this will be even better now.
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Mar 31, 2017 06:44
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dis astranagant posted:It's some 16th century dude named Agrippa's Celestial Alphabet. It's basically hebrew with circles on the ends of the lines and a bit of Greek to pad it out to 22 characters. 
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Mar 31, 2017 06:49
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IIRC, angelic showed up as the black scrawl letters in the original nier.
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Mar 31, 2017 06:58
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Yeah, I seem to remember that either the cosmic eggs from Drakengard or the characters in Nier's magic had the letters for GTCA, aka the human genome types. Also obligatory 
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Mar 31, 2017 07:07
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ManlyGrunting posted:Yeah, I seem to remember that either the cosmic eggs from Drakengard or the characters in Nier's magic had the letters for GTCA, aka the human genome types. It was the stuff rotating around the Shades IIRC.
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Mar 31, 2017 07:10
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Will you show one of best things in the game - petting the pod?
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Mar 31, 2017 07:23
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From update 1-Bquote:The final challenge of this segment is a new enemy... kinda. I mean, they just sort of tapped five of the flying saucers together.
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Mar 31, 2017 07:23
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Also if you're playing on hard mode, all of these guys 2 shot you. The mini-boss can 1 shot you with the horizontal sweep, as well.
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Mar 31, 2017 07:37
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I'd collect toys of those little robots. They're really simply designed but that just makes them all the cuter.
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Mar 31, 2017 07:43
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The Dark Id posted:
Fun fact about the pods is they don't tell you that there ARE combination attacks with them. If I remember correctly, hitting jump and the pod primary fire button at the same time in the air has the pod twirl you around and toss you at an enemy for some damage, while hitting light attack and the pod button at the same time in the air has the pod boost you for a small spinning upward kick. In fact, I'm sure I don't KNOW all the special attacks you might be able to do!
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Mar 31, 2017 09:00
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Sweet, ground floor for the LP! I'm actually playing the game myself right now, so I can rest easy knowing I don't have to bother with completing all sidequests or nothing. Also the game is pretty loving awesome and everybody here should play it themselves, beg borrow or steal if you have to.
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Mar 31, 2017 10:07
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NHO posted:Will you show one of best things in the game - petting the pod? What? gently caress off, I'm probably nier the end of the game and I didn't know you could do that. I also didn't realize Pod 042 was Albert Wesker/Grimoire Noire. He really toned down the haminess while still remaining an engaging character. I was also a fool who tried to play on Hard until I died 3 times right before the last bullet hell segment. I toned down to Normal, but I still got my rear end kicked for 40% of my playthrough. My little brother and I both bought the soundtrack separately today on iTunes as soon as I found out it was available. I'm lucky I had about 20 dollars leftover from a giftcard I redeemed years ago.
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Mar 31, 2017 10:49
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Just finished all main endings this past week. It was a real ride and I'm happy to share it - at least in spirit - by hanging out ITT.  OmegaCake posted:Fun fact about the pods is they don't tell you that there ARE combination attacks with them. If I remember correctly, hitting jump and the pod primary fire button at the same time in the air has the pod twirl you around and toss you at an enemy for some damage, while hitting light attack and the pod button at the same time in the air has the pod boost you for a small spinning upward kick. In fact, I'm sure I don't KNOW all the special attacks you might be able to do! Jump + pod attack also covers some huge distance so you can use it as a third (fourth?) in addition to air weapon combo.
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Mar 31, 2017 11:07
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OmegaCake posted:Fun fact about the pods is they don't tell you that there ARE combination attacks with them. If I remember correctly, hitting jump and the pod primary fire button at the same time in the air has the pod twirl you around and toss you at an enemy for some damage, while hitting light attack and the pod button at the same time in the air has the pod boost you for a small spinning upward kick. In fact, I'm sure I don't KNOW all the special attacks you might be able to do! Yeah, this is a pretty common quirk with Platinum's games; they tend to explain only the most surface level aspects of their combat systems and leave the players to figure out the rest. I didn't find out about the long jump until the very end of my run, trying to get to a chest that I couldn't reach no matter what I tried. Had to look it up online, then felt like an idiot for never trying that.
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Mar 31, 2017 15:09
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dis astranagant posted:It's some 16th century dude named Agrippa's Celestial Alphabet. It's basically hebrew with circles on the ends of the lines and a bit of Greek to pad it out to 22 characters. Is that a different thing than the Enochian language they use throughout Bayonetta?
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Mar 31, 2017 15:15
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Maxwell Adams posted:Is that a different thing than the Enochian language they use throughout Bayonetta? Enochian is an actual (kinda) language that uses unique words and also its own alphabet. For example, one of Bayonetta's summons has her say AFAA TADAAG NEPTA, which translates to Sword of Dust. The Celestial Alphabet is pretty much a codex, I guess? They're created separately and don't have much to do with one another. I don't think the Celestial Alphabet has any real dictionary translations, whereas Enochian does.
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Mar 31, 2017 15:26
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I've been practicing some of the more crazy combo stuff recently and the amount if weapon switching and other crazyness required to pull them off or skip areas of the game for speedrun purposes is kinda amazing. Every time I come back to this game I find something new that I've missed.
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Mar 31, 2017 15:52
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They didn't waste time remixing Song of the Ancients. I expected it to show up for major boss fights, not in the first half hour of the game. Not that I'm complaining. It's Nier's most iconic and probably best track, if not Drakengard's as well.
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Mar 31, 2017 16:04
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GimmickMan posted:They didn't waste time remixing Song of the Ancients. I expected it to show up for major boss fights, not in the first half hour of the game. Drakengard's best and most iconic track was "Bell Tower Being Thrown Down a Flight of Stairs, in D-Minor."
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Mar 31, 2017 16:37
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It's gotta compete against that shattered fragment of a classical music compilation record that someone dug out of a dumpster and played backwards.
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Mar 31, 2017 16:54
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HenryEx posted:Oh by the way, if anyone's ever wondered why 2B sounds kinda familiar to them, you might have been a retsupurae fan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbNREEEx6ZQ ... holy crap, you're blowing my mind. I thought it was cool when The Dark Id posted:Any posts of Yoko Taro being an amazing weirdo is approved for this thread. In that case, here's YT discussing his concerns of Atlus doing a new fantasy RPG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LT62mVaIpA AndwhatIseeisme posted:Yeah, this is a pretty common quirk with Platinum's games; they tend to explain only the most surface level aspects of their combat systems and leave the players to figure out the rest. It took me like sixty hours of play to realize that briefly pausing after the first press of the attack button would change the combo you were about to begin. I'd been confusing it with neutral/moving stances. (I've also never played a Platinum game before this one, so that might be a well-known mechanic by now...)
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Mar 31, 2017 17:13
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Obnoxipus posted:I love those little hoppy robots. Forget 2B, I'd like one or two of them on my desk. XavierGenisi posted:I absolutely adore the designs of the machine enemies. Especially the adorable wind-up-toy-like enemies. Those tiny guys aren't at all threatening, but bless them, they try. It's early in the game for me to be gushing, but I adore those little dipshits' design. They made some Amiibo like figures of those little dudes, I'd go bankrupt buying them all. wiegieman posted:You can always count on Platinum animations to be completely impractical and completely cool. After we get a few more weapons, I'm doing an entire video that is showing off the animation flourish when 2B stops attacking cuz HOLY poo poo they're good.  Dabir posted:It's Angelic, it's a thing, he uses it throughout the whole series. Ya it's the same cipher that's been all of Yoko Taro's games. It was the Watcher language in the first game, Intoner magic in Drakengard 3 and magic's text in Nier 1.  NHO posted:Will you show one of best things in the game - petting the pod? Analysis: We're mid-mission. It wouldn't be appropriate. Proposal: gently caress yeah I will. OmegaCake posted:Fun fact about the pods is they don't tell you that there ARE combination attacks with them. If I remember correctly, hitting jump and the pod primary fire button at the same time in the air has the pod twirl you around and toss you at an enemy for some damage, while hitting light attack and the pod button at the same time in the air has the pod boost you for a small spinning upward kick. In fact, I'm sure I don't KNOW all the special attacks you might be able to do! This game likes to vomit tutorials into the menu with the only prompt being text in the corner popping up for 2 seconds while you're in the middle of fighting a dozen dudes. Pod Counter is definitely in there. All the movement techs with Pods, on the other hand, are not at all documented. It's like some weird clause in Platinum Games' contracts that at least 20% of gameplay features must go without any documention. I'll show those off when we get to it being a relevant factor. GimmickMan posted:They didn't waste time remixing Song of the Ancients. I expected it to show up for major boss fights, not in the first half hour of the game. One of my major worries about this game was they'd lean hard into the first game's soundtrack. And they do... entirely solely for rad loving boss battle remixes. Wait until Song of the Ancients comes back with vocals kicking in... And it ends up not even being in the top ten tracks in the game. This game's OST is REALLY loving good. Also hey... the thread is already Gold after like a day and change. That's nice. Another update later tonight.
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Mar 31, 2017 18:16
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Not exactly ground floor, but I just noticed this thread and it is my duty to see this one through when I wasn't quite able to do so with the last one. 
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Mar 31, 2017 18:34
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When I try to think of my favorite song on the ost I always end up going "Oh but what about that one". There are so many great songs, even for just small little things.
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Mar 31, 2017 19:14
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Outside of what is essentially the theme song of the game which we'll get to when we get to it, I have a clear favourite which isn't especially far into the game but yeah, the OST managed to live up to the hype of NieR 1's, though I personally give the first game the nod overall at least in songs, but not in how the soundtrack is used.
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Mar 31, 2017 19:28
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Having just gone through the first updates... I really, really want this loving game now.
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Mar 31, 2017 19:30
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Serifina posted:Having just gone through the first updates... I really, really want this loving game now. Then buy it
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Mar 31, 2017 19:33
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If on PC, gmg has it for 25% off if you have an account with a extra 5% off voucher code.
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Mar 31, 2017 19:34
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GeneX posted:Then buy it Nice glib answer. I have no money. It'll have to wait. Unfortunately.
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Mar 31, 2017 19:48
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Serifina posted:Nice glib answer. I have no money. It'll have to wait. Unfortunately. Or consider alternative sources of income. Like kidneys, or pickpocketing.
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Mar 31, 2017 19:58
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If you defeat Yoko Taro in a game of skill you get a copy for free. But beware - he is cunning beneath his eccentric demeanor, and his Dragon Punch is formidable.
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Mar 31, 2017 20:28
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The Sandman posted:Pirate it, then buy a copy when you have money. Don't do this.
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Mar 31, 2017 20:54
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Mega64 posted:Don't do this.
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