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Yoko Taro wasn't really involved in Drakengard 2 at all which I think mostly explains no one really caring about it
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He wasn't directly involved outside of some work on the CGI, it was co-written by Sawako Natori, his co-writer on the other Drakengard games and one of the Nier 1 writers though.
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May 2, 2021 23:36
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Lol it just hit me that levelling to 30 and learning all those magic spells 5 minutes into the game isn't just an arbitrary gameplay tease but actually makes sense in-universe since that power came from Grimoire Noir, who was just waiting around to give all those powers up to Gestalt Neir right away whenever he chose to, versus Grimoire Weiss getting the complete poo poo beaten out of him first by Replicant Nier causing him to forget everything & having to get it all back very, very slowly. But at that point in the game you wouldn't piece together that they were even different books.
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May 2, 2021 23:37
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Doctor Nutt posted:Suffering chills and total body ache after moderna #2 yesterday and I gotta say lying on the couch wishing for death seems like a good time for some nier Feel better! I had moderna #2 on Friday and yesterday I felt awful all day. Body aches, slight fever and sore throat. But today I feel much better so hopefully you will tomorrow. I did finish all the part 1 quests though lol
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May 2, 2021 23:40
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lih posted:Yoko Taro wasn't really involved in Drakengard 2 at all which I think mostly explains no one really caring about it Yoko Taro was brought on to do Drakengard 1 by Natori, and from what I read was the one pushing for all the insane stuff, including the D rhythm ending that lead into Nier which he convinced a team to work on in secret and then presented it to the others. I think everything that makes the games great is almost entirely due to Yoko Taro's influence, and when they try to do it without him the whole concept falls apart.
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May 2, 2021 23:50
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Pablo Nergigante posted:Feel better! I had moderna #2 on Friday and yesterday I felt awful all day. Body aches, slight fever and sore throat. But today I feel much better so hopefully you will tomorrow. Lmao I did all the part 1 quests when I felt healthy and I'm working on part 2 now. Some stuff in this game is just cruel.
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May 2, 2021 23:57
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axeil posted:
Aw hell there's 15 of those bastards? I thought there was only three. I unlocked the extra outfit sets from there though, and drat I didn't think Kainé's could get any skimpier but I was wrong! I like them, but I'm sure I'm going to have my boyfriend side-eyeing me when he gets home later.
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May 3, 2021 00:04
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Gutcruncher posted:I’ve had Drakengard 3 on my shelf for years should I finally bother playing it Y/N? It's definitely worth playing, but you'd want to look up the 60FPS patch for it to make it run better. D3 was developed by the devs that made Deadly Premonition, so it runs like rear end normally.
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I used up all my flower luck on peach/indigo/pink because I got one every cycle and now I’m never going to see the Lunar Tear for my final trophySoysaucebeast posted:Aw hell there's 15 of those bastards? I thought there was only three. I unlocked the extra outfit sets from there though, and drat I didn't think Kainé's could get any skimpier but I was wrong! I like them, but I'm sure I'm going to have my boyfriend side-eyeing me when he gets home later. 15 nightmares is the name of the DLC. 3 is correct.
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May 3, 2021 00:05
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Something I noticed in my second play through of NieR the first shades that appear outside the village in the beginning of the game don’t attack you. They won’t fight unless you attack them, which you have to do because if you just try to enter the village NieR will say he can’t allow any shades close to the village
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May 3, 2021 00:58
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Soysaucebeast posted:Aw hell there's 15 of those bastards? I thought there was only three. I unlocked the extra outfit sets from there though, and drat I didn't think Kainé's could get any skimpier but I was wrong! I like them, but I'm sure I'm going to have my boyfriend side-eyeing me when he gets home later. If you want to let her put some clothes on, the Yorha DLC is free (or at least on steam it is, can't imagine it's different on console) and the 2B outfit is downright puritan in comparison But yeah I was surprised to learn that the 15 nightmares outfits are somehow more naked than the default one
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May 3, 2021 01:15
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There's something I really didn't like about the 2B outfit on Kaine. I rotated her through all of them regularly cause I liked them all except the 2B one. I think they got the skirt part really wrong iirc.theblackw0lf posted:Something I noticed in my second play through of NieR I believe most of the early game small shades behave like this too at least up to and throughout the first visit to the lost shrine How "lost" can that shrine even be if Yonah, an enfeebled 8 year old, just stumbles her away to it 5 minutes after embarking on an aimless search for a flower smdh
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May 3, 2021 01:28
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I like the conversation with Popola after that part Specifically because her response can be interpreted as "Oh no, Shades near the village? Scary" or "Oh, this teen just walked into my office and casually mentioned that he murdered the souls of some curious children, thats fine, thats great, the plan is going just peachy"
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May 3, 2021 01:41
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First the Nier Automata DLC has Nier Replicant costumes and now Nier Replicant has free DLC with Automata costumes. What a time to be alive
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May 3, 2021 01:41
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Kainé is an awesome character but her outfit is one of the more absurd outfits I’ve seen in a video game. It’s pretty funny that the game constantly mentions how she’s just wearing underwear
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May 3, 2021 01:43
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Pablo Nergigante posted:Kainé is an awesome character but her outfit is one of the more absurd outfits I’ve seen in a video game. It’s pretty funny that the game constantly mentions how she’s just wearing underwear i really like her concept art. it gets across the "wow, you wouldn't expect a person like this to be so violent and vulgar" and her wanting to dress femininely to assert her identity without, y'know, being in her underwear 
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May 3, 2021 01:48
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Pablo Nergigante posted:Kainé is an awesome character but her outfit is one of the more absurd outfits I’ve seen in a video game. It’s pretty funny that the game constantly mentions how she’s just wearing underwear I still cackle at the "Have we truly sunk to motivational speeches from a woman in her undergarments?" line every time i hear it
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May 3, 2021 01:58
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Blaziken386 posted:I wonder how much of her final character design was solely because someone thought it'd be really funny to have her and weiss constantly bicker over it The bickering is worth it, I've never heard such contempt put into the word "book" before.
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May 3, 2021 01:59
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Homora Gaykemi posted:i really like her concept art. it gets across the "wow, you wouldn't expect a person like this to be so violent and vulgar" I like those designs but Yoko Taro had kinda just done that already with Arioch so I can understand not wanting to repeat himself so soon
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May 3, 2021 02:02
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I mean Weiss and Kaine already do the bickering with the same structure way to much. Like especially early on it could use some variety other than hussy every interaction
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Homora Gaykemi posted:i really like her concept art. it gets across the "wow, you wouldn't expect a person like this to be so violent and vulgar" and her wanting to dress femininely to assert her identity without, y'know, being in her underwear On one hand I like that design more in a vaccum, on the other hand Kaine's entire thing is that she is insanely incredibly unfiltered and in your face so the hyper-sexualized outfit she wears fits her personality better than something conservative. It isn't a surprise to her how she acts, just to Weiss and Nier Her thing isn't "this demure lady is foulmouthed" but "Literally every moment Kaine is onscreen she is in your face and unwilling to bend"
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May 3, 2021 02:10
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Also on the subject of the banter, I really appreciate this line from (SPOILERS IN LINK) this interview with Yoko Taro: Somebody fucked around with this message at 13:25 on May 3, 2021 |
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May 3, 2021 02:16
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Pablo Nergigante posted:First the Nier Automata DLC has Nier Replicant costumes and now Nier Replicant has free DLC with Automata costumes. What a time to be alive And yet I can dress my pod up in Weiss cosplay but I cannot put Weiss in pod cosplay. This is an affront and must be corrected post haste.
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May 3, 2021 02:23
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Just started Drakengard 3 and see that there’s 6 dlc prologue chapters. Gotta say I’m glad that they decided to not close the PSN store quite yet while I play the game and decide if I want over 30 bucks more game.
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Gutcruncher posted:Just started Drakengard 3 and see that there’s 6 dlc prologue chapters. Gotta say I’m glad that they decided to not close the PSN store quite yet while I play the game and decide if I want over 30 bucks more game. You want the dlc because it's integral to the characters and otherwise feels half finished.
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Blaziken386 posted:Also on the subject of the banter, I really appreciate this line from (SPOILERS IN LINK) this interview with Yoko Taro: Honestly I really respect the whole staff for that. Kaine's outfit aside (and that makes sense in context but I get the whole "well the creator just wanted a sexy lady so they contrived the circumstances" argument) her sexuality and gender identity is never questioned or played for laughs. Sure Dimo's a little poo poo about it, but he's never portrayed as anything but a little poo poo. Everyone else respects her choices and never gets all up in her business about it. I think it's one of the best representations of an intersex character I've seen in a game, especially from one eleven years ago. Somebody fucked around with this message at 13:27 on May 3, 2021 |
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May 3, 2021 03:16
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The Aerie got what it deserved
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how often do you think people plummet to their death in the aerie. seems like a dangerous place to live
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Never, because they never leave their houses.
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Can't plummet to your death if you never leave your house edit: drat it Cephas fucked around with this message at 03:56 on May 3, 2021 |
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May 3, 2021 03:54
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they only left their houses to throw rocks at poor kaine
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May 3, 2021 04:01
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Man the music in this game is top notch but all the areas you go back to repeatedly really needed a few remixes or something.
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I hate trials almost as much as Kaine does. Also, yeah, at this point I'm okay with the Aerie plummeting into the abyss. Maybe that happens later? We can hope!
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Why does everyone hate the Barren Temple so much! I was actually bummed when it ended and there weren't more rooms to exploit
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beep by grandpa posted:Why does everyone hate the Barren Temple so much! I was actually bummed when it ended and there weren't more rooms to exploit The first time through was fun. The second less. The third less. The forth and fifth even less. Then I started route B.
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May 3, 2021 05:20
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Are we talking about different areas? The part I'm thinking of you only ever do once throughout the whole playthrough even when going for all the endings (not counting side quests) edit: FWIW even with the boat I hated every time I had to go to Facade cause it was annoying to get there lol
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I found four trials very easy and one nearly impossible because the game appeared to be very pernickety about what it considered "running" and I failed many times with what seemed to be the intended solution before thinking to try it with the strong attack instead and succeeding.
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I forget what game taught me this but I instinctively obviated the "running" restriction by holding down block which of course keeps you locked at slow speed 
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:I forget what game taught me this but I instinctively obviated the "running" restriction by holding down block which of course keeps you locked at slow speed Zelda maybe? Nier is largely cribbing Ocarina of Time, after all. Earliest one I can think of that I actually played would be No More Heroes, most recently Nioh does it. Zelda might have invented the idea though.
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I think my old habits as an rear end in a top hat little shitstain who would torture substitute teachers back in elementary school took over cause when they said you couldn't run my first thought was "okay, but can I dodge-roll everywhere? can I double jump? you didn't say I couldn't smash the loving orb shooters tho" 
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