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A quality LP of a contemporary game I can actually play along with? Nice. One thing I'm hoping you'll touch on is the sheer breadth of the supplementary material the series produces. Where does it all come from? Why does it even exist? 'Sleeper hit' is too generous a description for most of these games, yet the first Nier seemed to get more of it than most mainline JRPG entries. There's even a stage play for God's sake.
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No, no, of course I didn't get ending W 3 times while playing on Normal. What an awful thing to say, how dare you (I may have had issues unlearning Bloodborne's control scheme which was pure muscle memory at this point)
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And so it begins, the war against the murderous Android phone logos.
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ultrafilter posted:I still don't completely believe that this game actually exists. There's just no reason why it should.
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White Coke posted:In what corporate system is advance based on merit? 
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I mean, just because it's a tremendous waste of resources doesn't mean it's not *also* a highly mobile gun emplacement that can just Goomba-stomp you.
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Just as well, really. No good end will come of things when your office uses a song called 'Fortress of Lies' as its incidental music.
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Apr 4, 2017 21:53
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GeneX posted:Ah, humanity created another sapient humanoid species. Yay.
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MiddleOne posted:More games need joke endings. Also, curious design decision to line the walls of the last bastion of humanity with nitroglycerine.
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MiddleOne posted:That's right, massive amounts of gunpowder left for 2 years right next door to the most important power plant in the country. ...What I'm getting at, is that if SA still exists in the year 11,000 the OSHA.jpg thread is filled with pictures of the YoRHa base.
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Hypothesis: "The slow antler penetrates the--" *gets gored by a moose* (Moose are p. big, man.)
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Apr 8, 2017 20:58
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I assumed the androids just built a city during one of the lulls, and it got razed when the war started up again. Remember, this war's gone on longer than recorded human history and both sides have tech that can probably speed up construction an awful lot.
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Can't really argue with that. I've got a weakness for exploring ruined cityscapes in games, but this isn't one of the more expansive or detailed ones.
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Apr 9, 2017 14:31
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They deal a ton of damage if they hit, but aren't actually all that difficult to fight. It's meant as a nasty surprise for people who assume they're just furry, walking harvest points.
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Upgrading the pods is doubly pointless in fact, because as near as I can tell their damage still scales with your level. Upgrading makes them more efficient, but they're never going to be stronger than just whacking things with your sword, and they fulfill their main use (holding down the fire button to boost your DPS) just as well at level one. Ending T isn't my favorite of the joke endings, but it's pretty drat close.
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Apr 10, 2017 03:29
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Actually, I'm pretty sure there aren't any missable sidequests between now and when fast travel unlocks. This is the evolution of Yoko Taro's game design philosophy--now he convinced players to troll themselves.
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Apr 10, 2017 16:47
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If nothing else, I'd expect that might be difficult in Drakengard 1's case.
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Apr 10, 2017 19:56
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And occasionally hinting at ominous portents in seemingly benign areas. It's actually quite good at that! Not so much as a gameplay system, alas.
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I have had that experience, yes. The why and how of it will have to wait for some time, however. (It was not moose-related.) Personally, I'm still trying to figure out what was behind the 3 bodies clipping through each other on the edge of a platform.
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Bholder posted:I was thinking the same thing, so this was the very first picture I took when I started playing 
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Nier:Automata's fishing isn't deep by any means, but in an odd sort of way I think it captures the ideal fishing experience: you chill out, admire the scenery, listen to some tunes and top if off by hauling out a robotic flounder. Looking forward to the DLC that lets 2B drink a beer while she waits for the signal.
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NHO posted:Hm. Where do bodies come to the terminals?
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The Dark Id posted:Video: Episode 13 Highlight Reel (If you cannot hear an ear-piercing high pitched sound at the end of this video, congrats! You’re old and your hearing is starting to get hosed!)
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Kickstarter to Give Yoko Taro a Million Dollars. Not to make a game or anything, we're just going to give it to him and see what he does with it. Maybe he'll remake the original Nier! Maybe he'll just roll around in it while holding himself and weeping. We've got no idea! Stretch Goals: if we reach $2,000,000 we will convert the entire sum to cash and deliver it to his house on a pallet carried by a helicopter. If we reach $4,000,000 we will commission a line of Emil body pillows (skeleton version only). If we reach $8,000,000 we will erect a 1/8th scale replica of the Grotesquerie Queen in downtown Tokyo that continuously plays the rhythm section from the first Drakengard at maximum volume. All backers at the $100+ level receive a 3x5 index card listing the amount of their pledge (comes with a certificate of authenticity).
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grancheater posted:Yoko Taro's Platinum Games' Okami 2
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The Iron Pipe isn't complete garbage but it's very much a niche weapon. The gap between its damage when equipped in the light or heavy slot is considerable. In fact out of all the small swords, I'm pretty sure it ends up with the highest damage in the heavy slot. Game's not hard to enough to require that level of min-maxing but if you want to rock a small sword in the heavy attack slot for the moveset, it's a good pick. Critical+ in particular is a top-tier skill. I also appreciate your restraint in not making the obvious joke so that I could make it instead NieR: Automata - "Now where could my pipe be?"
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Feral pigs are scary, man. That's honestly the most realistic part of Nier & N:Automata
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dis astranagant posted:Anyone remember that one guy in GBS who had a bunch of drones he used to track the feral pigs attacking his farm, which he would then hunt with spears?
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I stood in place just to see if Party Tank would run me down like the callous machine it is. Instead its hit detection gently shuffled me aside like the caress of an angel's wing. poo poo, you can even jump on top of it and ride the thing around. It's great.
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'Course it does, what kind of lame-rear end parties have you been going to?
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The Dark Id posted:After enduring a couple minutes of the enslaved androids’ attacks boy a lot of these boss fights are secretly on scripted timers, By the time I fought Robs the game of some of the menace you know? Shame Hard mode was so poorly implemented.
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The twist is that the machines plan to build a giant dynamo called Lunatic Pandora in order to trigger the 'Lunar Cry' phenomenon which causes humans to rain down from the moon. ...nah, that's too wildly implausible to possibly be a good twist.
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I love the notion that the war against the machines is this life & death struggle for the androids on the surface, but for the Operator class it's basically The Office with more black leather.chiasaur11 posted:Now, if she could rope Jackass into helping, then we might have something.
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Trying to finish every level of their other games with the highest rating is *kind* of like being trolled by Platinum.
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A million sales in a month can be either astonishing, or a crushing disappointment. If you're used to Call of Duty numbers, it doesn't seem like much. The fact that a game can sell several million copies and still be considered a failure is a pretty big indictment of games industry thinking, but that topic is pretty far removed from the likes of Yoko Taro, who's never had an honest-to-God smash hit in his life before now. By his standards, it's a roaring success.
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'Fickle' is a real good description of that sidequest. When it stalled out for me, I just camped near one possible spawn point and reloaded my game until they showed up. edit: seems like an appropriate time to post this 
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You mean to tell me you've already forgotten beloved DJ & martyr 42S of WYRH FM? With all his classic character voices like The Mongoose & The Mongoose (but slightly deeper) & The Mongoose (with a bad French accent)?.jpg)
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Fuckin' beatuiful, Id.
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