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A Sinister Rap posted:The game was called Cry On and was also being co-developed by Mistwalker, Hironobu Sakaguchi's company that he made after leaving Square. And though I remember hearing that it was supposed to be connected to Drakengard, I can't find an official source at all. Sakaguchi did put the trailer on his YouTube account in 2014. Cavia was working on it as co-developer, and it shared the same character designer as Drakengard, but that's where the connections end. And it would involve golems, but was otherwise unrelated. JordanKai posted:
 It's a great summary, and especially great to hear your co-commentator's increasingly confused and amused reaction to Drakengard's bonkers plot.
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Aug 23, 2016 15:10
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:*snip* Mind the rules!  JordanKai posted:
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Aug 23, 2016 15:43
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Also, please don't speculate about where the plot is going! I've seen enough spoilers being posted under the guise of "speculation" on this subforum that I'd rather just nip that in the bud as a whole. Thank you!
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JordanKai posted:Mind the rules! Ack, sorry about that. It's a shame Ickwalyx didn't see the footage during the Drakengard videos as you were explaining things to him, because words alone can't convey the sheer  factor of that game.
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Aug 23, 2016 15:47
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To bad the game crashed before the best part of the credits.
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Aug 23, 2016 16:47
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I really want to see the reactions of random people in Tokyo when a giant skeleton dragon and a stone lady fall from the sky and the dragon gets impaled on a tower.
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Aug 27, 2016 08:56
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8-bit DrakengardNyagato posted:To bad the game crashed before the best part of the credits. This really just makes the entire game. It's a perfect ending.
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Aug 27, 2016 17:32
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 Update Time! After last week's rather intense update I think we have to cool off a little bit. It's time for another double update, because we have a lot of sidequests to take care of. Even though we pick up a grab bag of different sidequests, we still managed to make a themed episode out of it, sort of. Once that's done, we're heading back to the Forest of Myth to take care of the Deathdream once and for all (presumably, at least).         Quest Logs:     
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Aug 27, 2016 22:34
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"Melon" without any qualifiers generally refers to honeydew melon or rockmelon (cantaloupe) in Japanese, so Yonah's request isn't terribly redundant. 
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Aug 28, 2016 01:24
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...the greatest of feasts, indeed?
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Aug 29, 2016 00:50
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JordanKai posted:
You talked about the base looking like the twin towers and how it was probably unintentional. Well, maybe not. http://www.siliconera.com/2014/03/20/nier-drakengard-creator-says-nier-inspired-9-11/ (spoilers) quote:Later in the panel, Yoko moved on to discussing Nier and some of the ways in which that game attempts to move the player. For Nier’s design, he revealed, he was deeply influenced by the events of 9/11 and the world thereafter. The way it's inspired by 9/11 might be a little spoiler-y so I'm not including it (it's in the article, as are some other significant spoilers, so read at your own risk), but there is a pretty good reason.
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Aug 29, 2016 02:04
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bhlaab posted:You talked about the base looking like the twin towers and how it was probably unintentional. I specifically didn't mention this because it has to do with NieR and not Drakengard. It'll come up eventually though, I promise.
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Aug 29, 2016 07:45
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Update Time!   Whew, we finally made it out of the forest! But before we get a chance to sit down and drink a cup of hot cocoa we already get embroiled in another adventure. It seems like Yonah has gotten in contact with the owner of the creepy mansion near Seafront, and they desperately need our help! So we're gonna head over there to meet--among others--my favourite character in the whole game! Heads up: the sound isn't super great in this episode. Ikwaylx had the washing machine going in the background and it ended up doing a number on his commentary track. I did my best to salvage it and while I ended up with something listenable, it's not perfect. Documents:  Weapons & Weapon Stories:  quote:Blade of Treachery JordanKai fucked around with this message at 10:05 on Sep 11, 2016 |
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Sep 10, 2016 22:04
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Wow a cute fluffy spider comes up to check you out, doesn't attack, and goes off to do it's own thing, and you kill it? So rude.
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Sep 11, 2016 00:10
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Watching the update, I'm not sure whether you're being intentionally coy with something or if you are unintentionally making an error identifying something.
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Sep 11, 2016 01:43
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AndwhatIseeisme posted:Watching the update, I'm not sure whether you're being intentionally coy with something or if you are unintentionally making an error identifying something. I can promise you that it's the former 99% of the time. 
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Sep 11, 2016 10:16
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Tasteful Dickpic posted:*snip* Nooo, that's a secret!!  For now. e: vvv Apology accepted.
JordanKai fucked around with this message at 14:04 on Sep 11, 2016 |
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Sep 11, 2016 10:54
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I'm sorry.
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Sep 11, 2016 13:22
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I caught up on the Nier episodes and figured I'd try playing Drakengard instead of watching the videos. Two levels in I realized it's one of the worst games I've played, so thanks for the plot videos, don't think I could suffer trough that game.
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Sep 11, 2016 17:47
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The terrible gameplay is a vital part of the Drakengard experience. Think of it as a work of art rather than a game.
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ultrafilter posted:The terrible gameplay is a vital part of the Drakengard experience. Think of it as a work of art rather than a game. Which is an excuse I would call bullshit on anyone else than Yoko Taro but..... it''s Yoko Taro.....
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Your drakengard talks got linked in the dark id's setsuna thread. what a great walk down memory lane I hope you do video summaries of the other games, you and Ickwalyx are really entertainingA Sinister Rap posted:Also I wonder if Ending B was ever intended to be the default/canon ending, though my only real basis for that is that the credits theme for B, Exhausted (Japanese) / Growing Wings (English) is the only song with vocals and basically turned into Drakengard's main theme, showing up in 2 and 3. fairly certain Exhaustion only became the series leitmotif because it is amazing. here are the other versions, since they're all worth a listen: Drakengard 2: Growing Wings On the Holy Land The Broken Past Drakengard 3: Exhausted Growing Wings (DLC) ? ? ? ? ? the music in drakengard 3 isn't as consistently amazing as NieR's, but the soundtrack's still worth a listen to anyone enjoying the music in this lp (you should all be enjoying the music in this lp  ) drakengard 2 has some really solid tracks as well, some of my favorites in the whole series
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Demicol posted:I caught up on the Nier episodes and figured I'd try playing Drakengard instead of watching the videos. Two levels in I realized it's one of the worst games I've played, so thanks for the plot videos, don't think I could suffer trough that game. You'll occasionally hear people (not here obviously, but in general) say that there's nothing more boring than watching somebody else play games. Drakengard proves this to be bullshit, because it's boring as hell to actually play but loving hilarious to watch someone else go through.
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Sep 12, 2016 00:48
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For a second there when the color left the screen, I thought it was going to be a Saboteur segment and fight some National Socialists through explosions.
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Sep 12, 2016 16:26
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Not only is the story for this sword depressing, it has absolutely nothing to do with the sword, or even treachery in general!
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No, Weiss, the pedo was in the first game.
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PhysicsFrenzy posted:Your drakengard talks got linked in the dark id's setsuna thread. what a great walk down memory lane That is part of the plan, yes. Stay tuned!  SpookBus posted:Not only is the story for this sword depressing, it has absolutely nothing to do with the sword, or even treachery in general! Their hearts were betrayed. 
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Update Time!   Today we've got a bit of a rare case on our hands: just a sidequest video without a main update to accompany it. That's because this video is already quite long on its own and the next main update is going to be really long as well, so putting them together would be overkill. That said, I recommend watching this video even if you haven't been keeping up with the sidequest videos so far. It features the introduction of a new gameplay mechanic, the conclusion of a plot thread introduced in the main story, and one of the most quest triggers I've ever seen in a video game. It's all good stuff, really.Oh, and I went to check: fluorite sells for a mere 6000 gold on the market. I think that guy was full of it when he was talking about how valuable it is! Quest Logs:        Documents: 
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JordanKai posted:Their hearts were betrayed. I concede.
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At first I was  because the girl from Desert Land was okay, then we went to Seafront and it was  all the way down.
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That Lighthouse Lady mission makes me so angry. They never told her the truth so she never had a chance to move on and maybe have a life otherwise.
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Jordan, I just wanna say great work so far on this sad as hell game.
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Update Time!   On today's episode, all the really bad poo poo goes down. The red book from last episode is called Grimoire Rubrum, by-the-way. This never really gets mentioned in the story itself. Yonah's Diary Entries:  Research Reports: 
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Petition to change thread title to "Great! I love basements!" - Let's Play NieR. That's right up there with "I should've been the one to fill you dark soul with light".
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:That's right up there with "I should've been the one to fill you dark soul with light". Speaking of which, Nier's just a few impalements away from being Dante himself.
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So I guess Grimoire Noir's plan is to completely saturate the globe with shades? Can we just take a moment to talk about how amazing all of the music in this update is? Nier in general has a pretty amazing soundtrack, but this section here is just a non-stop cavalcade of sonic bliss. AndwhatIseeisme fucked around with this message at 03:07 on Oct 2, 2016 |
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AndwhatIseeisme posted:So I guess Grimoire Noir's plan is to completely saturate the globe with shades?  If I had better art skills I'd plaster sunglasses over a screencap from the game, or at least give some to the Shadowlord.
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Back near the start of the game, Devola explained the meaning of the Song of the Ancients as telling the story of the White Book fighting the Black Book to save the world or some such. Fitting that it becomes the battle theme for this showdown.
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I just love how desperate all this feels. When you're first playing, you obviously don't realise that, as long as you reduce its health to 1, everything will be fine. All you know is, this juggernaut Shade is headed to the library, you're little more than an inconvenience to it, but you're gonna make drat sure it will go no further. And then everything gets worse and worse with no sign of it stopping. You go from small moments of triumph as you keep hacking away at this titan, pummelling Grimoire Noire to get your spells back (which is so satisfying) to being utterly crushed as you realise it was all for nothing.
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