The issue lies more with editors who would rather have a story for 'muh immersion' opposed to awesome gameplay.
You realize you're in a thread dedicated to a sequel to the game Nier, yes??
The issue lies more with editors who would rather have a story for 'muh immersion' opposed to awesome gameplay.
S-E president said Yoko Taro will be confined to mobile gaming hell unless this game ends up with a 90 MC score.
I'm assuming that people are joking. I know a lot of gamers get emotionally invested in metacritic for some reason, but Yoko has been releasing critical failures for almost two decades. Metacritic really doesn't matter for NieR
I'd like to think of this thread as a door. You open the door, and you're in the review thread, and while you're here, sure, you care about the game getting as high a score as possible. When you leave the thread and it's out of your mind, you don't really give that much of a shit. That's how I operate anyways. Even more so now that I have the game and don't have to sit around idly.
This thread (and i need something tight to offset Breath of the Wild) has me replaying Devastation. Just finished Chapter 5, and while chapter 3/4 are a bit of slog going through, damn if going from the Menasor boss, to Starscream, Blitzwing and then finishing with Soundwave back to back is not some cool-ass Shit.Unpopular opinion but Transformers is my favorite Platinum title
Seems like Nier is easily dethroning it though. Devastation was cool for its aggressive AI, boss fights, music, and aesthetic. It also had a really bad RPG/loot system that brings down the game
Nier doesn't have the AI/duels (yet) but the art direction/story/music/variety in environments and gameplay are incredible
Based off history, I'm taking you are saying this tongue-in-cheek just to generate discussion....or stir the pot.
Is this a meme or do people actually care if the game is 90 vs 89?
Any idea why the Easy Allies review is taking so long? Did they not get a review copy?
This is a perfect analogy.I'd like to think of this thread as a door. You open the door, and you're in the review thread, and while you're here, sure, you care about the game getting as high a score as possible. When you leave the thread and it's out of your mind, you don't really give that much of a shit. That's how I tend to operate anyways. Caring for awhile... until I don't. Even more so now that I have the game and don't have to sit around idly.
We can all agree Nier doesn't play as nice as it feels. We were also at the peak of dudebro gaming back then. The PS4 really saved japan from sinking and with it, it brought back what I'd call "sensible gaming". Of course indies are just as responsible for that.I also think people are more impassioned because Automata easily could have gotten a 70.
This time around reviewers actually "got" the multiple playthroughs and nihilistic story, but NieR got a lot of flack for those very same things in 2010.
Any idea why the Easy Allies review is taking so long? Did they not get a review copy?
USGamer gave it a 5/5
God is real.USGamer gave it a 5/5
Any idea why the Easy Allies review is taking so long? Did they not get a review copy?
Better than Lightning returns? 🤔Well, one game has the slickest ladder climbing/descending animation I have ever seen.
i wanted to troll this thread but it was locked before i could finish my post so i posted it here instead
We don't get games like Nier: Automata too often. And by that I mean games that simultaneously weave a deeply harrowing existentialist narrative, in addition to playing with our expectations on how we play games. There's nothing else around like Nier: Automata (except for maybe its predecessor). And in an industry that sometimes leans too heavily on sameness, it's wholly refreshing.
5 /5
Glad you enjoyed it! Drakengard 3 is a very rough game, to put it nicely, but I think it's still a worthwhile experience, and that finale is one of the best things Taro's ever done.I tried for a couple hours last night. Invited my friend over today,He just beat it, I guess I'm buying him pizza.he plays drums irl and is also pretty into rhythm games.
In addition to being incredibly hard, it is a really awesome finale.
That'll do it - once USGamer is added, the score will be back to 90.3542, and we should see that big ol' 90 once more!
And then Edge and Sixth Axis with their dimes will make it a 91 :-DAnd Benzilla will cement it with his EZA-review, where he gives it 5/5! It is known.
GameRevolution's 8 hasn't been added yet though, so they might cancel each other.
I think Jimquisition will be a 10, along with EZA. TSA probably a 9 based on the pre-score text, and Edge is a wildcard, but they love quirky, self-aware games with heart.Shoot, I forgot about that.... (I was kinda hoping they were another Gamekult, where their scores were so much harsher compared to the average that they were discontinued from Metacritic. They're 7.8 Points lower on average, so not as bad as Gamerkult it seems.)
After both are added, we'll still have 89 (90.1429 Rounding down due to weighting)...
... at that point, it's up to Edge, EZA, and TSA to save the day with a 93.667 average among them.
Inb4 89 too.
A Yoko Taro game where we are setting the bar at 90+.
What a time to be alive.
As someone who's played about ~40 hours of the game, I'm pretty shocked by the critical reaction to it--not because I don't think it's one of the most interesting games of the year, but because it's interesting for reasons critics so often miss (and don't have the patience to uncover). A lot of the game's best moments are hidden behind an overabundance of repeated content, which even I struggled to get through. In general, this game has a pretty long list of unequivocal "issues" that usually affect final scores, making me think the original Nier would be much more well-received if it were to come out today.
platinum's polish helps alleviate a lot of the issues, its so fun to play there isn't much problem with getting through stuff for many who otherwise would have found it a slog
The US Gamer review is a great read because you get to see how her opinions shift and form across playing the A route and then coming back after beating the game.
Wish I could play it but amazon fucked up my order >:O
He still seems knee deep in Zelda, so probably not for a while.Anyone have an idea on when Jim's review might go out?
As someone who's played about ~40 hours of the game, I'm pretty shocked by the critical reaction to it--not because I don't think it's one of the most interesting games of the year, but because it's interesting for reasons critics so often miss (and don't have the patience to uncover). A lot of the game's best moments are hidden behind an overabundance of repeated content, which even I struggled to get through. In general, this game has a pretty long list of unequivocal "issues" that usually affect final scores, making me think the original Nier would be much more well-received if it were to come out today.