whoa, Nep Nep is on fire. Almost at the top of bestsellers list.
I think we need to have this talk, about Neptunia and Idea Factory in general, it's long overdue.
First let's talk Neptunia. The first one (not remaster released on steam) was awful, it truly was, but when I bought it, I didn't expect a great game, I bought it as silly and funny parody of gaming industry and it delivers as that. The gameplay was bad, tho, really bad. I still managed to finish it. Now this one, remaster has a good gameplay if we believe people that played both, so it's a win win situation, really. Unless you absolutely hate silly jokes, "gaming industry" and pretty girls there is no single reason to skip it. That's how I see it. Let's not forget that it's all girls party, what is huge plus in my book, as we don't get many games with only female characters unless of specific type I'm not talking here about.
Now let's get on Idea Factory topic. People hate their guts, or dismiss out of hand as moe shit makers. I sometimes wonder how many of them actually played a single Idea Factory game. The first game of Idea Factory I actively liked was Cross Edge. It's hard, unforgiving, it takes a lot of time to master that combat system, it looks like shit but I had so much fun with it, you not gonna believe. I spent 3 month straight playing it. I wouldn't go around recommending it to everybody to play, but I learned an important lesson of not dismissing dev outright because general public does so.
Agarest games aren't awful, or worst ever, I know that's how gamers talk, but it still irks me from time to time. These aren't great, true but in no way bad either, more like not very good, but have their moments
Idea Factory hit jackpot with Neptunia games tho, it's almost mainstream enough, unlike other their games that are usually too hard for most of gamers and perceived as niche, funny enough and memorable to stay. There are still a lot of people that won't give it a chance and I can understand that, but as I said, Idea Factory isn't that bad as urban legends state.
edited: just noticed that Nep Nep has 3 free dlcs and others are -50% discounted too.
Why?
Now Idea Factory will bring out all of its crappy titles to Steam.
Then people will buy them, try to play them and then figure out jRPGs are no fun.
And then they won't buy another one ever, even if Atlus, Gust or tri-Ace finally release something.
You take my word for it, Nep Nep just killed potential Resonance of Fate, Persona or Atelier Steam ports...
Arthea, is Nep Nep any good? Thinking about buying it. Honest opinion would be appreciated.
I think we need to have this talk, about Neptunia and Idea Factory in general, it's long overdue.
First let's talk Neptunia. The first one (not remaster released on steam) was awful, it truly was, but when I bought it, I didn't expect a great game, I bought it as silly and funny parody of gaming industry and it delivers as that. The gameplay was bad, tho, really bad. I still managed to finish it. Now this one, remaster has a good gameplay if we believe people that played both, so it's a win win situation, really. Unless you absolutely hate silly jokes, "gaming industry" and pretty girls there is no single reason to skip it. That's how I see it. Let's not forget that it's all girls party, what is huge plus in my book, as we don't get many games with only female characters unless of specific type I'm not talking here about.
Now let's get on Idea Factory topic. People hate their guts, or dismiss out of hand as moe shit makers. I sometimes wonder how many of them actually played a single Idea Factory game. The first game of Idea Factory I actively liked was Cross Edge. It's hard, unforgiving, it takes a lot of time to master that combat system, it looks like shit but I had so much fun with it, you not gonna believe. I spent 3 month straight playing it. I wouldn't go around recommending it to everybody to play, but I learned an important lesson of not dismissing dev outright because general public does so.
Agarest games aren't awful, or worst ever, I know that's how gamers talk, but it still irks me from time to time. These aren't great, true but in no way bad either, more like not very good, but have their moments
Idea Factory hit jackpot with Neptunia games tho, it's almost mainstream enough, unlike other their games that are usually too hard for most of gamers and perceived as niche, funny enough and memorable to stay. There are still a lot of people that won't give it a chance and I can understand that, but as I said, Idea Factory isn't that bad as urban legends state.
edited: just noticed that Nep Nep has 3 free dlcs and others are -50% discounted too.
