Oxxidation posted:

doing the rayman legends daily challenges is an oddly soothing routine

Mandrel posted:

i think I’m going to get Detroit. other than the requisite weird bondage stuff it seems pretty good

VideoGames posted:

Finished Nier.

I will make an effort post once I have composed myself.

Penguin Patrol posted:

Ditto. I just got a PS4 a couple weeks ago, loving BB from this thread's recommendations, but super surprised to be getting so much enjoyment from free Rayman. That game is right up my alley.

I could use a friend for that "Beat friends' scores 30 times trophy" so if anyone wants to add Pengwolff I'd be grateful.

VideoGames posted:

Finished Nier.

I will make an effort post once I have composed myself.

VideoGames posted:

Finished Nier.

I will make an effort post once I have composed myself.

CharlieFoxtrot posted:

Wow yeah.

The tearblast arrow is one of the most satisfying weapons to use in years

haveblue posted:

The greatest thing is tearblasting off a scorcher's minelayer, stunning it, and planting every mine in a small cluster between it and you. Then it wakes up, charges forward, and you get a faceful of harmless flaming robot parts.

Escobarbarian posted:

lol so I got Yakuza 0 and 6 as a bundle because it was a super good price but I’ve never played a Yakuza game and from how people talk I feel like skipping anything would be a bad idea for someone who cares as much about story as me so guess I’m locked into buying five other games (depending on what happens with future Kiwamis)

Escobarbarian posted:

lol so I got Yakuza 0 and 6 as a bundle because it was a super good price but I’ve never played a Yakuza game and from how people talk I feel like skipping anything would be a bad idea for someone who cares as much about story as me so guess I’m locked into buying five other games (depending on what happens with future Kiwamis)

VideoGames posted:

Finished Nier.

I will make an effort post once I have composed myself.

Escobarbarian posted:

Ooh thanks for the info that’s very cool. Hopefully it means the remasters don’t take too long to come out either.

Quantum of Phallus posted:

Aren't they already localized?

VideoGames posted:

OK. I am going to put this behind spoilers because I want anyone thinking of playing this to be as unaware of things as possible like me.

For those not wanting to be spoiler: I utterly adored every last thing about this game and I am easily placing it at #3 in my top 20 games of all time. I just this second bought the soundtrack also.

Hopefully this will not be too rambling.

For everyone else



Videogames [You're surrounded by enemies][Because of that,][I'm in your corner] [United Kingdom]

When I originally said I never played a game like this, I did not know just how correct I was. This is my first Yoko Taro game. I have heard very good things about him before starting this. It is also the first Platinum game that I have completed (I do own Bayonetta and have played a bit of that, but not to the end.)

Before ending E I had thought the best way to sum up Nier was the word Heartache. Every main character is driven by a kind of heartache and it is how I felt also. They had their individual heartache and I experienced the collection of their own as one.

The biggest heartache for me was having built a slide for Pascals village and pointing to Lady Videogames about how awesome it was watching the bots slide down, teleporting to the resistance base to hear Pascal saying the village was in trouble. I had originally panicked during Route A/B about the village as I had grown to love the place. (Third favourite music track!)

I had been playing the whole game only retaliating to those who attacked me. Any machine that was just wandering about I left totally alone. It seemed fair that way.

Returning to that village and witnessing the full on destruction filled me with the most dread. That dread intensified after Pascal's battle with Engels. When he asked that we check on the children I went cold and the horror I had suspected was real. It crushed me and I took nearly twenty minutes to decide what to do for Pascal.

I had to pause playing there because I had been so enamoured with these little bots that I had lost myself entirely in the game. I did not know how to continue and could not. Lady VG was concerned because I was so quiet for nearly the rest of the day - I could not stop thinking about it. It did not matter that they were just pixels in a game because that was not the point the game had been making. The emotional resonance had just been a resoundingly downbeat one but for good reasons.

This neverending war where both sides were pawns, were the same (more than I knew until the end of C) and their struggles to grasp what it meant to be. They all had some manner of heartache. They all acted 'human' despite what their original purposes were and it made all the difference.


But ending E changed everything for me. Ending E made me realise that I had not gone far enough. The one thing that is able to defeat heartache resounded throughout that amazing sequence.

As Nines and A2 lay there I hoped that was not the end and it clicked.

Hope is what this game truly was about.

When I had to destroy the credits on the off chance I could save their data, I was filled with hope that I could rescue my heroes. I desperately hoped I would be able to do it.

I kept dying to the names and it kept asking me if I wanted to give up and goodness! There was NO way I was going to bow out. I had come this far and done so much not to give up now. I would do it for hours if I had to.

Then that chorus kicked in and I was joined by other players. I started blubbing and I became a wreck. All my hoping had paid off and I had to realise that I was not alone. The weight of the world was not mine to bear alone. It never was.

When Pod 042 asked if I wanted to help another at the expense of my save data it was not even a choice. How could I turn away from someone needing my support. They had been there for me, and I was going to be there for them.

What you saw at the top of this spoiler was the message I left for whoever needed me to be there for them. I will be in their corner, always. That is what being human is about. Hope and the strength of supporting each other.

It was a glorious message wonderfully delivered and I feel richer as a person for having been able to experience it. It has been difficult to write this because I am still all over the place about it. I cannot tell if these are happy tears or sad tears but I am not think that matters.

Thank you, Yoko Taro.


Whew.

Mandrel posted:

i think I’m going to get Detroit. other than the requisite weird bondage stuff it seems pretty good

VideoGames posted:

CharlieFoxtrot posted:

I'm tearing up just reading about someone else play through the game

And yeah the song is just perfect (don't listen if you don't know Ending E)

CharlieFoxtrot posted:

I'm tearing up just reading about someone else play through the game

Pablo Nergigante posted:

What makes it even better is that the developers, including Yoko Taro and composer Keiichi Okabe, are singing in the chorus. The developers themselves are supporting you even as you destroy their names, letting you know you don't have to bear the weight of the world on your own

Vikar Jerome posted:

i should get automata before i get spoiled, so many games to catch up on!

about done with uncharted 1, i caved in and got the remaster and im glad i did, aiming is so much better holy poo poo. also was not expecting demon monster things and nazi bases, they came outta left field but i guess the hints where there now i think about it

dunno if i should move on to 2 and 3 after this or go yakuza 0/bloodborne. good god my free time.

haveblue posted:

Uncharted 2 and 3 are quick one and done games and they're still night-and-day better than Uncharted 1 even with the fixed aiming.

Shark Sandwich posted:

Yeah I blasted through 1 on easy to get to 2 and 3.

4 is pretty great and I really need lost legacy

I’ve got at least 6 games in my backlog

Quantum of Phallus posted:

Yakuza 3-5 are very playable on PS3 IF you can handle long loading times.

VideoGames posted:

OK. I am going to put this behind spoilers because I want anyone thinking of playing this to be as unaware of things as possible like me.

For those not wanting to be spoiler: I utterly adored every last thing about this game and I am easily placing it at #3 in my top 20 games of all time. I just this second bought the soundtrack also.

Hopefully this will not be too rambling.

For everyone else



Videogames [You're surrounded by enemies][Because of that,][I'm in your corner] [United Kingdom]

When I originally said I never played a game like this, I did not know just how correct I was. This is my first Yoko Taro game. I have heard very good things about him before starting this. It is also the first Platinum game that I have completed (I do own Bayonetta and have played a bit of that, but not to the end.)

Before ending E I had thought the best way to sum up Nier was the word Heartache. Every main character is driven by a kind of heartache and it is how I felt also. They had their individual heartache and I experienced the collection of their own as one.

The biggest heartache for me was having built a slide for Pascals village and pointing to Lady Videogames about how awesome it was watching the bots slide down, teleporting to the resistance base to hear Pascal saying the village was in trouble. I had originally panicked during Route A/B about the village as I had grown to love the place. (Third favourite music track!)

I had been playing the whole game only retaliating to those who attacked me. Any machine that was just wandering about I left totally alone. It seemed fair that way.

Returning to that village and witnessing the full on destruction filled me with the most dread. That dread intensified after Pascal's battle with Engels. When he asked that we check on the children I went cold and the horror I had suspected was real. It crushed me and I took nearly twenty minutes to decide what to do for Pascal.

I had to pause playing there because I had been so enamoured with these little bots that I had lost myself entirely in the game. I did not know how to continue and could not. Lady VG was concerned because I was so quiet for nearly the rest of the day - I could not stop thinking about it. It did not matter that they were just pixels in a game because that was not the point the game had been making. The emotional resonance had just been a resoundingly downbeat one but for good reasons.

This neverending war where both sides were pawns, were the same (more than I knew until the end of C) and their struggles to grasp what it meant to be. They all had some manner of heartache. They all acted 'human' despite what their original purposes were and it made all the difference.


But ending E changed everything for me. Ending E made me realise that I had not gone far enough. The one thing that is able to defeat heartache resounded throughout that amazing sequence.

As Nines and A2 lay there I hoped that was not the end and it clicked.

Hope is what this game truly was about.

When I had to destroy the credits on the off chance I could save their data, I was filled with hope that I could rescue my heroes. I desperately hoped I would be able to do it.

I kept dying to the names and it kept asking me if I wanted to give up and goodness! There was NO way I was going to bow out. I had come this far and done so much not to give up now. I would do it for hours if I had to.

Then that chorus kicked in and I was joined by other players. I started blubbing and I became a wreck. All my hoping had paid off and I had to realise that I was not alone. The weight of the world was not mine to bear alone. It never was.

When Pod 042 asked if I wanted to help another at the expense of my save data it was not even a choice. How could I turn away from someone needing my support. They had been there for me, and I was going to be there for them.

What you saw at the top of this spoiler was the message I left for whoever needed me to be there for them. I will be in their corner, always. That is what being human is about. Hope and the strength of supporting each other.

It was a glorious message wonderfully delivered and I feel richer as a person for having been able to experience it. It has been difficult to write this because I am still all over the place about it. I cannot tell if these are happy tears or sad tears but I am not think that matters.

Thank you, Yoko Taro.


Whew.