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It doesn't matter if "TDI saved Taro Yoko's career" isn't technically correct.
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Anyone who can't empathize with robots clearly hasn't played Fall of Cybertron METROPLEX HEEDS THE CALL OF THE LAST PRIME R.I.P. Metroplex 
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May 3, 2017 08:58
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Sum Gai posted:When did you start drinking...? Drakengard
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May 3, 2017 09:00
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If you aren't following Yoko Taro on twitter, you [i]really[/i should be. https://twitter.com/yokotaro/status/859578804108263425 (Someone messaged Taro and said it was their friends birthday, and that their friend is a huge fan of NieR)
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May 3, 2017 21:54
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The nicest Dark Lord 
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May 3, 2017 23:15
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Malachite_Dragon posted:The nicest Dark Lord Makes it easier to get you to lower your guard. Thanks to the meme I've been hearing "STOP! ...Drakengard! *music*" to the tune of MC Hammer's Can't Touch This all day. Not sure that was the intention of the image but congratulations anyway.
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May 3, 2017 23:26
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I feel like the dark stuff in DrakeNier works all the better with the revelation that Taro himself appears to be an incredibly nice, if cynical, person.
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May 3, 2017 23:39
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Hasn't he been on record saying he doesn't necessarily agree with the morals about poo poo in his games?
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May 3, 2017 23:56
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I've finished all the main routes of this game. Started reading this. Oh. My. God. I completely missed the jukebox. Also there is ONE other NPC that does the chip fusing stuff besides the vendor in the camp and the bunker tech, but it's in a completely optional location and much later in the game.
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May 4, 2017 00:20
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Spiritus Nox posted:I feel like the dark stuff in DrakeNier works all the better with the revelation that Taro himself appears to be an incredibly nice, if cynical, person. The thing that really sets his games apart from standard edgelord schlock is the genuine attempt at humanizing the characters and exploring how this horrible poo poo could happen. I mean, the original Nier was just oozing with pathos all over, I don't think there was a single unsympathetic character in the game, barring maybe a few comic relief NPCs who bossed around Papa Nier.
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May 4, 2017 01:13
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Yoko Taro has a knack for writing characters who are terrible people yet still weirdly human.
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May 4, 2017 01:20
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CryingAthena posted:Makes it easier to get you to lower your guard. Speaking of music, this  made me want to hear this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRU6GnETSN4 but with added "THIS CANNOT CONTINUE"
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May 4, 2017 01:22
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On a side note, one of my favorite things about the original Drakengard was that the more morally dubious the missions got, the more the mission objectives started being written like war propaganda. It was just a brilliant way of making the player feel that much more uncomfortable.
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May 4, 2017 01:29
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Augus posted:On a side note, one of my favorite things about the original Drakengard was that the more morally dubious the missions got, the more the mission objectives started being written like war propaganda. It was just a brilliant way of making the player feel that much more uncomfortable. I'm not sure a game has ever shouted "DO NOT PLAY ME" as loudly as Drakengard did on all cylinders, for both good and bad reasons. The gameplay's a poor man's Dynasty Warriors, you run with a morally heinous crowd doing morally heinous things all the time, fighting an enemy that's barely more malicious than you, and even the last ending is an utter nightmare to play, and you get nothing but more death in return.
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May 4, 2017 01:35
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CesspoolofHatred posted:Speaking of music, this Ah, it's been a while since I listened to the Undertale soundtrack....
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May 4, 2017 01:54
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I finally caved and bought this game. I haven't played a game with a controller since the PS2 era, but I guess that's the best way to play this, so I borrowed my fiancee's X360 controller and settled in for some French maid craziness. I got as far as the first stage of the Engels fight, then died to the two buzzsaws because I am bad at games. Now I have to start from the beginning because gently caress save points! 10/10 would be trolled by Taro Yoko again
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EggsAisle posted:I finally caved and bought this game. I haven't played a game with a controller since the PS2 era, but I guess that's the best way to play this, so I borrowed my fiancee's X360 controller and settled in for some French maid craziness. The game warned you Also what mode did you play on
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CesspoolofHatred posted:The game warned you I know, I'd been reading the LP. There was just nothing I could do about it because it was still the prologue. Kinda annoying to go through the whole thing again, but eh, I'll live. I was playing on Normal, thinking of putting it to Easy until I get used to a controller again.
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EggsAisle posted:I finally caved and bought this game. I haven't played a game with a controller since the PS2 era, but I guess that's the best way to play this, so I borrowed my fiancee's X360 controller and settled in for some French maid craziness. If it makes you feel better I did the exact same thing. On Normal.
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May 4, 2017 04:45
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As opposed to NieR, where you play mostly-okay folks who plainly gently caress up despite pursuing right by their conscience, Drakengard is the series where you play indefensibly horrible people. In that respect, Drakengard 2 (which Yoko hosed off for) only fits because the characters, stock anime protagonists all, are insufferable no matter how you spin it. Yoko ironed out his edgelord tendencies in Drakengard 1. Drakengard 3 was the best possible development. Bring us the terrible people as long as they're also goddamn hilarious.
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May 4, 2017 05:19
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I still feel Kainé is Taro's most brilliant character because her development is like a zig zag of "oh she's a horrible person", "aww she's sympathetic after all", "oh wait she actually is kinda horrible" and so on but it's not erratic and just becomes layered and complex in an enjoyable way.
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May 4, 2017 05:26
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Actually making characters who aren't flatly good or bad people is like the rudimentary part of being a human being and the amount of writers who get that bit wrong is staggering. Even history's biggest tyrants and pieces of poo poo had aspects to them where if you only knew those specific things about them, you'd think they were decent folk.
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May 4, 2017 08:09
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Josuke Higashikata posted:Actually making characters who aren't flatly good or bad people is like the rudimentary part of being a human being and the amount of writers who get that bit wrong is staggering. Such as how Hitler was a vegetarian (at least, I think he was a vegetarian) who liked dogs. If that's all you knew about him, he'd sound like a reasonable guy. Unless you hate vegetarians or dogs I guess. I can have moments of... eccentricity and sometimes be quite curious about things. Please forgive me if I do something foolish or rude.
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May 4, 2017 08:46
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However Emil is an exception. He's all out a Good Boy™
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May 4, 2017 08:49
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Nina posted:However Emil is an exception. He's all out a Good Boy™ To be fair, the only ones who would disagree were the people of the Aerie, but no such place exists so it doesn't matter. If you kill everyone who doesn't like you, you become a good person! That's math.
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Screaming Idiot posted:To be fair, the only ones who would disagree were the people of the Aerie, but no such place exists so it doesn't matter. If you kill everyone who doesn't like you, you become a good person! That's math. You've just canonized Caim, you realize, by this logic.
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May 4, 2017 09:07
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"Loving your job means never having to work a day in your life." - Caim
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Alternative joke: "..." - Caim
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Bad Seafood posted:"..." - Caim
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Screaming Idiot posted:To be fair, the only ones who would disagree were the people of the Aerie, but no such place exists so it doesn't matter. If you kill everyone who doesn't like you, you become a good person! That's math. To be even fairer, they only disliked Emil very very briefly.
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Screaming Idiot posted:To be fair, the only ones who would disagree were the people of the Aerie, but no such place exists so it doesn't matter. If you kill everyone who doesn't like you, you become a good person! That's math. Hey Emil felt real bad about that one! I don't though
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Emil did nothing wrong.
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The Vosgian Beast posted:
It's not real until I see drifting.
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Apparently 9S and 2B's English voice actors did multiple streams where they played through the game. It might be a nice companion watch to the thread, as long as you don't go too far.
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Gologle posted:Apparently 9S and 2B's English voice actors did multiple streams where they played through the game. It might be a nice companion watch to the thread, as long as you don't go too far. Those streams are quite fun, actually. But I wouldn't advice you to watch them if you really really hate spoilers. Presumably they're doing some side quest in a different order than Id so I guess you'd see some stuff earlier. I could post a link to the twitch channel. But only if Id doesn't mind the slight derail.
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Qrr posted:It's not real until I see drifting. You know, I was saving this for later but... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IN9bjPcPZDA The Repo Man fucked around with this message at 21:41 on May 4, 2017 |
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May 4, 2017 21:38
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really queer Christmas posted:Emil did nothing wrong. Being Emil is suffering
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Just popping in to say I couldn't handle the suspense waiting for updates, so I bought a steam controller and the game. This is the first time I've played a game with a controller in 3 years, and I completed it in 3 days of straight playing. I regret absolutely nothing.
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Starship Arcadia posted:Just popping in to say I couldn't handle the suspense waiting for updates, so I bought a steam controller and the game. This is the first time I've played a game with a controller in 3 years, and I completed it in 3 days of straight playing. I regret absolutely nothing. Give it a few more days.
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