I would say same but Best Buy 36 dollar preorders undermine that.bought it for $60 and worth every penny
I would have paid 60 though.
I would say same but Best Buy 36 dollar preorders undermine that.bought it for $60 and worth every penny
I would say same but Best Buy 36 dollar preorders undermine that.
I would have paid 60 though.
Automata is the best game in the DrakeNier series, but I still like Nier more because I believe the story is better. Hell I would even recommend Drakengard 1 and 3. Just need to keep in mind that they have elements you put up with for the good stuff.
Automata is the best game in the DrakeNier series, but I still like Nier more because I believe the story is better. Hell I would even recommend Drakengard 1 and 3. Just need to keep in mind that they have elements you put up with for the good stuff.
Japan @ the 2017 GOTY Awards
I played both and personally I give it to P5, even though I love Nier Automata's soundtrack. Very close call and I am sure there will be many people who prefer Nier's ost more than P5's.
Automata is the best game in the DrakeNier series, but I still like Nier more because I believe the story is better. Hell I would even recommend Drakengard 1 and 3. Just need to keep in mind that they have elements you put up with for the good stuff.
Nah man play 3 with its single digit Frame rate and 30 dollars worth of DLC just for the story to make any sense and still doesn't even actually lead up to the game it's a prequel to, cause that's a good investment.Better to watch a movie of all the cutscenes to be honest.
shit I played breath of the wild on wii uNah man play 3 with its single digit Frame rate and 30 dollars worth of DLC just for the story to make any sense and still doesn't even actually lead up to the game it's a prequel to, cause that's a good investment.
huehuehueIf you watch D3 you'll miss the best final boss from last generation :/
Pretty amazing when you think about it- not even five years ago everyone's going on about how the Japanese game industry is dead, and now three out of the top four (soon to be four out of the top five, most likely) new releases of 2017 are developed by Japanese studios.
(EDIT: And the one American title up there is a big-budget SP-only original IP, another thing we thought was going to die out- and with a female protagonist, at that!)
Nah man play 3 with its single digit Frame rate and 30 dollars worth of DLC just for the story to make any sense and still doesn't even actually lead up to the game it's a prequel to, cause that's a good investment.
Sometimes I think of writing up an OT for Yoko Taro's crazy universe since there really is a plethora of info out there.
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Don't forget to include this copypasta. I find it to be the best summary for the first Drakengard.
"Drakengard is a weird thing to exist, man.
The gameplay is terrible. The music is terrible. The characters are terrible and terribly written, as is the plot. By all accounts the game should have nothing going for it whether youre a pure gamer or after some kind of story-telling experience.
But people dont remember Drakengard for what it wasnt, that being good; people remember Drakengard for what it was, that being COMPLETELY INSANE.
"Everyone in Drakengard is a dick. EVERYONE. You play as a mass murderer psychically linked with a misanthropic dragon. Your sisters a passive waif and your best friends a moron who trades away his singing voice for his own dragon from a 6-year-old little girl who is actually possessed by a god. You hang out with a cannibal, a pedophile, an immortal runt, and an alarmingly racist member of the clergy. By the end of it youve racked up about as many kills as the sum of the first world war SINGLE-HANDEDLY, so much so that the evil empire cant even one up you by inventing nuclear weapons (which they do) and drop them (which they do) from their flying continental fortress (which they have) before they summon pan-dimensional space babies (which exist) to kill everyone (which they accomplish).
The final battle has you hurling an alien deity through a rip in the fabric of space time to engage them in a rhythm battle over a monochromatic Tokyo, after which you get shot down by the Japanese air force and proceed to infect the entire world (our world) with magical aids that either kills you or turns you into a bloodthirsty salt giant. Yes, really.
Drakengard is a terrible game, but it is nonetheless a compellingly bizarre thing to exist.
"Drakengard is a weird thing to exist, man.
The gameplay is terrible. The music is terrible. The characters are terrible and terribly written, as is the plot. By all accounts the game should have nothing going for it whether youre a pure gamer or after some kind of story-telling experience.
But people dont remember Drakengard for what it wasnt, that being good; people remember Drakengard for what it was, that being COMPLETELY INSANE.
"Everyone in Drakengard is a dick. EVERYONE. You play as a mass murderer psychically linked with a misanthropic dragon. Your sisters a passive waif who is hilariously repressed and closets hardcore incestuous lust for you, and your best friends a moron who trades away his singing voice for his own dragon from a 6-year-old little girl who is actually possessed by a god. You hang out with a cannibal, a pedophile, an immortal runt, and an alarmingly racist member of the clergy. By the end of it youve racked up about as many kills as the sum of the first world war SINGLE-HANDEDLY, so much so that the evil empire cant even one up you by inventing nuclear weapons (which they do) and drop them (which they do) from their flying continental fortress (which they have) before they summon pan-dimensional space babies (which exist) to kill everyone (which they accomplish).
The final battle has you hurling an alien deity through a rip in the fabric of space time to engage them in a rhythm battle over a monochromatic Tokyo, after which you get shot down by the Japanese air force and proceed to infect the entire world (our world) with magical aids that either kills you or turns you into a bloodthirsty salt giant. Yes, really.
Drakengard is a terrible game, but it is nonetheless a compellingly bizarre thing to exist.
89 for Metacritic.
89 for user score.
89 for Opencritic.
89 for Contributor score.
89 turned upside down is 68 which is what the first Nier got.
Seems like it's very much an 89 consensus.
Amazing scores! This will definitely be on my (very long) to-play list.
I've heard the 1st game is sort of a hidden gem... do you think it's worth a playthrough beforehand?
I think it's better than Automata so yeah.
That poor metacritic. ;_;
this seems a woefully incomplete list
let me make an addendum
Automata is a remarkable game with an incredible amount of style, personality, and flair. Its tendency to repeat enemies, locations, and bosses can dampen your enjoyment, however, and the PC port isn't great. Cutscenes are locked to 30fps, which make them look distractingly jerky. The mouse cursor kept appearing in the centre of my screen. And on one test machine running an AMD card, the game crashed to a white screen every ten minutes for seemingly no reason. A game this interesting deserves a better port, frankly. But tech woes aside, this is one of the most unique and compelling action games on PC.
So tech issues put it at 79? But the game is clearly great? I don't get that.
Are they counted on Meta?
Ahh right It will be shuffled onto the PC score. Fair enough. I was just hoping that 90 dream wouldn't be shattered once and for all.PCGamer are, yes. However, since Meta normally separates reviews by platform when appropriate, it'll probably only weigh down the PC score.
Nier: Automata the best game from Platinum Games yet. It's an action packed game that also has an incredibly engaging story and tons of fantastic characters. This is the best action game I have played in years and one of the best games I have ever played in my life. It's gonna take a lot to take my personal Game of the Year award from Nier: Automata as its currently sitting in the top spot.
lol
This review is loaded to the gills with grammar, spelling, and organization issues. Does Metacritic even curate which publications it allows?
(Not that I'm complaining, 90+ or I microwave my disc)
8/10 from edge according to edge thread
pretty good score
8/10 from edge according to edge thread
pretty good score
I got about halfway through this second run and had no will to continue. Friends kept telling me I had only seen part of the story and that the third run was all-new (and make sure to come back for the fourth!) but I just didnt care anymore by this point I was more than 20 hours deep, and I wasnt interested or excited enough to put more time in. I went to YouTube to see the rest of the story, and it was indeed good just not good enough for me to sit through hours of its okay-ish, I guess?
It's at 88 again.
GameCritics - 65/100
Well, at least surely that reviewer played the game to the en-
lol.
Granted if he thought route A and B was boring, route C wasn't going to change his mind. Route C is indeed the best route but its fundamentally the same game he was playing for the past 20 hours.
If a reviewer can't be bothered to finish a game, then why should I be bothered to finish their review? Or give their opinion any credibility?
Look, its kinda simple. Its a reviewers JOB to be thorough. Getting part-way and then half-assing the rest of it with Youtube viewings is showing open contempt not just for the game and its makers, but for their readership and his peers in the reviewing community.
The bottom line is this is a "professional" who decided that he'd rather spare himself playing a game for a few more hours (poor lamb) than do a thorough job of the task he's been assigned.
Frankly I'd rather he gave the game a lower score but actually stuck with it. Because that would be a proper review at least, not just some sloppy amateur blog.