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Escobarbarian posted:I noticed that too and it’s so weird He probably told Popola to write some because he is busy doing Important poo poo like slaughtering sheep and planting seeds. Anyway, what kind of person are you?  I'm a B myself.
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That seems weird, considering writing letters is literally what you're doing every time you save the game weird inconsistency because it's new content, maybe?
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Pollyanna posted:Replicant suffers from repeating itself. It asks the player to go through all of its massive areas at least twice, with no real difference between each visit. You have to offer something new if you revisit a place. Something has to meaningfully change.  Also, the game needing multiple playthroughs would be a lot better if they changed more stuff, just adding some scenes is lazy. Nier A was better about this (route B is still too samey) If it were a book/movie I’d say it needed a good editor to improve the pacing. Still, a game worth playing and I like it despite all its flaws. Hope that Taro keeps improving on the gameplay/design of his games.
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Iirc Taro’s openly admitted that Replicant being as repetitive as it is (as well as most of his stuff to some degree) is because he doesn’t wanna charge people $60 for a 10-15 hour game, so hopefully he’ll just lay off it if there’s no need for it.
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ZZZorcerer posted:
I have complicated feelings about Route B, since its flaws and its value are of a piece. The repetition is tedious, but it makes everything feel safe and comforting, like nothing too bad will happen, because of how long you've spent (and repetition makes everything feel longer) being "safe" there. Likewise, 9S's gameplay is less fun, but that makes the player get more attached to 2B, and feel her absence more when she's not around. It all gives Route C much more punch, and it's helpful to understand 9S better... but it's tedious in and of itself, to the point where I don't really blame people for quitting, even if going the whole way is worth it.
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Repetitive gameplays still needs to be good. If the junk heap were fun to traverse and had engaging combat then going through it multiple times wouldn’t feel like a chore.So I don’t buy that excuse. Combat mechanics seem a lot better (didn’t play the original) but the enemies/level design still suck. I really enjoy the change in perspective and 3rd person bullet hell ideias, but the execution is lacking a lot. chiasaur11 posted:I have complicated feelings about Route B, since its flaws and its value are of a piece. The repetition is tedious, but it makes everything feel safe and comforting, like nothing too bad will happen, because of how long you've spent (and repetition makes everything feel longer) being "safe" there. Likewise, 9S's gameplay is less fun, but that makes the player get more attached to 2B, and feel her absence more when she's not around. I liked playing as nines in B to see stuff with a different perspective but they needed to rethink how to do the A route and then expand it on B to make it better, the problem is in the execution not on the concept. From the first quote in this post: “You have to offer something new if you revisit a place. Something has to meaningfully change.” Miss Mowcher fucked around with this message at 04:27 on Apr 28, 2021 |
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Last Celebration posted:Iirc Taro’s openly admitted that Replicant being as repetitive as it is (as well as most of his stuff to some degree) is because he doesn’t wanna charge people $60 for a 10-15 hour game, so hopefully he’ll just lay off it if there’s no need for it. I’d rather pay 60 dollars for a really, really good and tightly developed 10-15 hour game than a good 10-15 hour game + a repetitive merely-okay 30-40 game.
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I just wish I could skip the dungeons themselves on repeat playthroughs. Even if it still makes me do the boss fights and the overworld stuff, just let me skip that much
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For ending C, do I have to start a clear file from after ending B, or can I reload from an earlier file on the B playthrough?
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quick question: does anyone know if you can change the date to make regular vegetables grow faster because the only part 1 sidequest I havent finished is the watermelon one, and I'd rather plant seeds than buy them for absurd prices
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Pollyanna posted:Also working my way through my second playthrough and I paid more attention to the cutscene for Junk Heap. Gideon really is a huge shithead, isn’t he? Whines his rear end off when his mom’s gone, causes the accident that kills his brother, then turns around and blames a bystander for it. I wish we could kick his rear end. Grimoire Nier shows that even Jakob was a bastard. His first thought when Nier walked in was to try and kill him, and he was planning on breaking Gideon's legs so he wouldn't try to go into the Junk Heap to look for their mom. Blaziken386 posted:quick question: does anyone know if you can change the date to make regular vegetables grow faster Changing the date works just fine. If you're on PC you don't even have to quit the game, just save, swap time, and reload.
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Blaziken386 posted:quick question: does anyone know if you can change the date to make regular vegetables grow faster On console people have been using timezone changes to cheat the farm. Like setting it to UTC-11, planting, UTC+13, or something of that nature.
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RubberLuffy posted:On console people have been using timezone changes to cheat the farm. Like setting it to UTC-11, planting, UTC+13, or something of that nature.  e: she'll accept it if you reload the map, thank god Blaziken386 fucked around with this message at 05:32 on Apr 28, 2021 |
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Blaziken386 posted:Blugh, that's annoying Emil's house isn't the cutoff point for part 1, the actual cutoff is getting vapor moss for Popola right after Emil's house. As long as you don't pick up that shiny object you'll be fine.
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Blaziken386 posted:That seems weird, considering writing letters is literally what you're doing every time you save the game Maybe. In one of the Grimoire NieR stories it has references to him writing letters to her.
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Pollyanna posted:For ending C, do I have to start a clear file from after ending B, or can I reload from an earlier file on the B playthrough? There are new story beats, you have to go again from clear.
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Oh my god gently caress Black Pearls. I just spent two hours farming them. Why in the hell do you need fifteen of the things when they're a super rare drop? Putrid Grin posted:Using and xbox controller and special K, and what bugs me is that it worked just fine until it didnt. I'd recommend just watching the Special K discord. If it helps I'm using SK_v21.04.24_NieR_Replicant_Radical_Replicant_v_0.2.3 and there are no problems for me. I think I'll stay on this version till they have a fully functional one that 100% fixes everything, adds >60 fps, PS button prompts, etc. axeil fucked around with this message at 08:27 on Apr 28, 2021 |
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axeil posted:I suppose Automata was kind of like that too, Route A is very normal except for the whole fake out on the aliens all being dead. For me one of the biggest surprises in Automata was that the Aliens actually existed. The minute it mentioned an alien invasion I thought "this has gotta be bullshit and there's probably some other reason humanity was wiped out, like maybe humanity built the machines or something" but nope, turns out there actually were aliens and they had literal flying saucers!
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Blaziken386 posted:very slight spoilers regarding The Lore of the series: there's a new loading screen!  Accord, you're popping up all over the place, aren't you? Ytlaya posted:For me one of the biggest surprises in Automata was that the Aliens actually existed. The minute it mentioned an alien invasion I thought "this has gotta be bullshit and there's probably some other reason humanity was wiped out, like maybe humanity built the machines or something" but nope, turns out there actually were aliens and they had literal flying saucers! Yoko Taro is always serious about his joke endings 
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Huh, I got to the Mansion expecting to be greeted by freaky moon head boy. I had no idea Emil was just a dude with stone vision to begin with.
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I knew the aliens were real because of the supplemental post-Gestalt stuff materials but it’s still pretty funny to know that they made robots stronger/smarter than them and got the poo poo kicked out of them for it.
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Ytlaya posted:For me one of the biggest surprises in Automata was that the Aliens actually existed. The minute it mentioned an alien invasion I thought "this has gotta be bullshit and there's probably some other reason humanity was wiped out, like maybe humanity built the machines or something" but nope, turns out there actually were aliens and they had literal flying saucers! I just find it hilarious how absolutely hosed the Earth is in Nier. First you got Magic Goddess Dust murdering people and creating giant monsters to kill everyone else, then the hail mary plan to deal with that goes completely off the rails, then right when the dust is settling from that loving aliens invade the world.
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BisbyWorl posted:I just find it hilarious how absolutely hosed the Earth is in Nier. Oh my god, one of the most  moments from the book was definitely the reveal of WCS being some sort of “contract” with an evil god where if you decline you die and if you accept you become Legion. Just completely loving nuts, and again something that literally never impacts the game in any way
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Escobarbarian posted:Oh my god, one of the most
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So I finished the Fisherman's Gambit quest line, and something got me curious. Some of the later fish go against the original tell of dragging the bobber underwater, and instead gives a harder vibration on the first wiggle, and you have to pull on that. Are there any other tells if you play on KB+M, or are you forced to pull on every first wiggle and lose your bait any time you get the wrong fish?
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BisbyWorl posted:So I finished the Fisherman's Gambit quest line, and something got me curious.
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I missed doing all these poo poo jobs to hear the cutest party banter in the medium feels good to be home
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Nina posted:I missed doing all these poo poo jobs to hear the cutest party banter in the medium feels good to be home Yeah that's the real reward.
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10 years of adoration for this game and I didn't realize Facade had like a dozen sidequests in the first act lol. The real spice of the experience for me is really just noticing stuff that was always there but I missed
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FFXIV got me really interested in the NieR story, where should i start?
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Start by watching a video of Drakengard Ending E, then play Replicant, read the fan-translated version of Grimoire NieR, play Automata, and get your hands on whatever ancillary stuff you can find. Then you’ll be ready for the true NieR - the Japan-only gacha game or whatever it is
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Frida Call Me posted:FFXIV got me really interested in the NieR story, where should i start? Replicant (a remake of Nier) just came out, and Automata is sort of a sequel but can be played first if you want.
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Seriously though this joke ending to a PS2 game from 2003 is the actual opening to NieR https://youtu.be/6OPW-RdzStA
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Frida Call Me posted:FFXIV got me really interested in the NieR story, where should i start? The raids are mostly based on Nier Automata, featuring mostly characters and concepts from that game. The final raid features two bosses taken from Replicant. The remake of Replicant just came out and while it's generally improved and overall the better version of that game, it's still a 10 year old low budget JRPG at it's heart. The original is however one of my favourite games of all time, but you need to know what you're getting into with it. Story wise, the games are fairly stand alone. Automata takes place something like ten thousand years after Replicant and while there are references to the first game it largely does it's own thing. You could play them in either order, they do spoil each other to some degree but not enough to ruin the other, mostly just raise questions about things you might not have thought were odd otherwise.
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stev posted:
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I don't think I'd recommend for anyone to play Automata first if they have a choice. It sets weird expectations for playing a low key and scrappy but dark and well-written Zelda-like that is Nier proper. I've arrived to the weird point in my love for this pseudoseries where I love Nier, don't much care to revisit Automata, yet I actually love the Yorha stage plays a whole lot.
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By all accounts Reincarnation is a bog standard gacha, which is unfortunate. I still wanna figure out what story it might have, though.
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Probably been mentioned but are the FF14 raids at all relevant or interesting to the actual Nier story/world, or is it just a fanservicey thing?
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axeil posted:Oh my god gently caress Black Pearls. I just spent two hours farming them. Did you collect the one in the back room of the post office that respawns for each playthrough, saves you farming 4 of them altogether  They aren’t even the worst material.
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