VideoGames posted:

DrNutt posted:

Man I thought this was going to be a Souls successor but then anime and there's so much talking. What is this?

DrNutt posted:

Man I thought this was going to be a Souls successor but then anime and there's so much talking. What is this?

Shadow225 posted:

Speaking of MHW, are Freedom Wars and Soul Sacrifice (Delta? I don't know which the definitive version is) worth playing solo on Vita? I tried to play God Eater 2 and Toukiden Kiwami 2 but the combat felt too floaty for me to care about playing more than a handful of missions.

Sakurazuka posted:

It's a Souls successor by the the people that added extra anime and a bunch of talking to Monster Hunter

VideoGames posted:

I have no issues with people not liking the game

Sakurazuka posted:

It's a Souls successor by the the people that added extra anime and a bunch of talking to Monster Hunter

DrNutt posted:

I'm gonna go ahead and suggest they might not know why people enjoy the Souls games so much.

Sakurazuka posted:

Not really, there's an actual God Eater 3 still coming out and all the combat and levels shown are just Bloodborne if it were a bargain basement LN.

NNick posted:

My dumb E3 prediction is that Sony is releasing a new SOCOM came with a battle royale mode. What's yours?

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.

Shadow225 posted:

e ^^^: I do thank you for sharing your thoughts and emotions, as I did enjoy reading them. I admit that I backlash a little too hard when it is brought up because the positive things that the game brought to the table were massively overshadowed by the negative things that were brought to the table. The thread collectively enjoys the former while shouting down any criticism of the latter, while I feel that there needs to be some balance in place when presenting the game to future potential players. I am glad that you enjoyed your time with it and that it left you with a positive experience in what sounded like a busy/rough season of your life

Kilometers Davis posted:

I’m excited! Get me hyped and I might reinstall and finish it

beep by grandpa posted:

I think even I get home I might try to make another aggressively stylin BB vid. I want to correct a lot of mistakes I made in that first run...

Samuringa posted:

...BloodSouls...

NNick posted:

My dumb E3 prediction is that Sony is releasing a new SOCOM came with a battle royale mode. What's yours?

James Woods Fan posted:

I don't understand people that say 3 is the worst Dark Souls.

Manatee Cannon posted:

did anyone try to play the surge that got it while it was bugged on the store earlier

James Woods Fan posted:

I don't understand people that say 3 is the worst Dark Souls.

Digirat posted:

Monster hunter world is awesome and a miracle for the series, but it's in a weird place where I put 150 hours into it (a very big number which I'm not complaining about) but if the multiplayer and endgame stuff was designed just slightly differently, I could probably put 450 hours into it instead. Once I finished the last optional quest, my motivation to keep finding stuff to do just stopped, and I did almost no multiplayer, unlike monster hunter tri where I was doing multiplayer every chance I got.

I hope the next monster hunter starts where world does and just tightens those few screws it needs to triple the longevity.

Escobarbarian posted:

I finally ran out of hard drive space on the Pro and now I’m confused and scared

BeanpolePeckerwood posted:

Delete all the lovely games.