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[Ibuki]

So I should finish Yakuza 0 before jumping into nier and hoping some patches hit?

How far are you? Are you planning to do a lot of substories?

 

[bbd23]

does platinum even patch their games

 

[Jawmuncher]

How far are you? Are you planning to do a lot of substories?

I only do the side stories that I naturally run into. Like the kid with the video game.
Only on Chapter 5 atm.

 

[Ibuki]

I only do the side stories that I naturally run into. Like the kid with the video game.
Only on Chapter 5 atm.

Oh man, that sucks. I enjoyed the hell out of it by using a guide to get me to the substories in each chapter. You are going to miss so much, and the substories are the best part of the game imo.

 

[Jawmuncher]

Oh man, that sucks. I enjoyed the hell out of it by using a guide to get me to the substories in each chapter. You are going to miss so much, and the substories are the best part of the game imo.

It's ok.
My entire gaming career has been missing the best part of games.

 

[MUnited83]

Gotta buy banned game 2 then soon.

Banned game 1 is kinda boring. Played banned game 1 yesterday for a bit and it feels like a cheap rpg maker game with torture mechanics.

I played through Banned Game 1 The Sequel on the Vita. It's alright-ish. Short dungeon crawler with a bit too much grinding. Enjoyable enough if you're a dungeon crawler fan I guess.

It's also a big example of shoe-horned fanservice for no reason. It has those "scenes", but that's basically the only "raunchy" part of the game ( well, other than the outfits). The dialogue and plot is basically free of it for the most part (save for one character that throws some innuendos from time to time, but they are really tame innuendos). The dialogue is actually decently written and the plot actually gets to some serious/dark places towards the ending.
The "scenes" actually make the game worse because they are repetitive shitty minigames, and they really don't fit at all into the rest of the game.

Same thing for Banned Card Game. It's a decent card game, and the design of most main characters it's actually pretty cool and not really fanservicey. But then you get to the cards, and the cards have "those" designs...for literally no reason.

 

[Annubis]

So... I found THE thing I needed to do to progress in Atelier Sophie and I guess me trying for a while broke the sequence or something because I jumped 2 main story thing ahead.
I didn't even do the thing the game wanted me to do before hitting the next story event.

Oh well, nothing broken, just the order being a little weirder.

 

[Spring-Loaded]

I didn't think so either, but I'll make up for my mistake all the same

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[AHA-Lambda]

so what's the consensus on the quality of the PC version of Nier?

 

[Jawmuncher]

I played through Banned Game 1 The Sequel on the Vita. It's alright-ish. Short dungeon crawler with a bit too much grinding. Enjoyable enough if you're a dungeon crawler fan I guess.

It's also a big example of shoe-horned fanservice for no reason. It has those "scenes", but that's basically the only "raunchy" part of the game ( well, other than the outfits). The dialogue and plot is basically free of it for the most part (save for one character that throws some innuendos from time to time, but they are really tame innuendos). The dialogue is actually decently written and the plot actually gets to some serious/dark places towards the ending.
The "scenes" actually make the game worse because they are repetitive shitty minigames, and they really don't fit at all into the rest into the rest of the game.

Talking of the other, which I beat on vita.
The card gameplay was actually a lot of fun. Kinda reminded me of MG Acid. Even if the campaign did drag a bit. Much like you said the stuff that got it banned is easily the worst part of the game. Having to upgrade cards through the mini-games is busy work, and just sucks all around.
If you could just play the game paying to upgrade cards with no gimmicks, and no lewd art. It'd be something I recommend to everyone who wants a card style game.
Funny that both banned games have the issue of basically forcing the banned content to get more sales of a certain nature, while pretty much denying anyone else from wanting to play them.

 

[Atraveller]

???

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At least one person on NeoGAF thinks she's a waifu.

Yikes, that isn't even subtle with its wish fulfillment.

Olivia Wilde can be my waifu in any form.

 

[Se7enSword]

NieR is so much fun, and i'm still at the beginning.

Love the screen changes and the bullet hell style stuff

My only complaint is that it tanks performance in the cutscene department.

 

[Kurt Russell]

RTSS didn't fix my issue either

It's not regular microstuttering, the game runs at 60 for some time, then it drops to maybe 20, maybe 40, etc in a second and that breaks everything.

 

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[xelios]

NieR giveaway

Thanks for your

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sacrifice

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I know it says not to thank you, but I just had to say that...

 

[Kaleinc]

When I start Nier up the initial Square Enix and Platnium logos show, than the terminal style graphics for the initial load but straight after the screen goes black. You can hear the music, and navigate the menus blindly for about a minute and then steam itself crashes and the game soon after.

Other games are working with no issues. 980Ti, latest drivers. Have tried on 4k and 144hz monitor. Tried setting that to 60, turned gsync off, and nothing works.

Anyone had a similar problem and found a solution or have any suggestions? I don't have a corsair keyboard One other person in the forums has the same problem but no solutions or suggestions :/

Really just want to play!

Windows user name with special characters, regular user/admin, compatibility modes, disabling GFE, global AA, DSR?

 

[patapuf]

so what's the consensus on the quality of the PC version of Nier?

it seems mixed?

You need to play windowed/borderless fullscreen but otherwise it seems it runs well for some while others have trouble.

 

[shintoki]

Updated, getting closer to where I left off in FFXIII the first time. Only took 2 months to return

 

[SunDimension24]

so what's the consensus on the quality of the PC version of Nier?

It is very mixed. Has Arbitrary Resolutions but Full Screen option is busted right now so borderless window or windowed is the only way to get the game resolution past 900p. some people had the game run smoothly at multiple resolutions and max settings. Some people cant even start the game due to crashes and other bugs or have crashes at random points during the game.

Some people have had really bad pop-in, stuttering and bad framerates in pre-rendered cutscenes, others have not. Things have been going pretty smoothly on my end with a 980ti/6600k/8GB RAM and can do 1080P/60 with max settings and 1440P/60 with MSAA turned down. Had some cutscene problems with framerate but that magically fixed itself about 3 hours in.

 

[Nzyme32]

so what's the consensus on the quality of the PC version of Nier?

Good overall, but it certainly has its oddities and issues.

Performance is great for me, but AMD users are in a hit or miss position with an issue right now.

Pre-rendered cutscenes are rendering at 30fps but randomly shift into a 20fps or so stutter. Other times they work fine. In-game rendered cutscenes are great.

Mouse and keyboard controls are wonky dues to a few odd decisions such as extremely poor mouse implementation for shmup & side scrolling sections along with odd dodge configuration - but at the same time its more effort than I expected.

Current Fullscreen issue for some folks where the game renders in PS4 style 1600x900 then scales that to whatever resolution you choose - - solution is to play windowed with borderless, which will respect whatever arbitrary resolution you want.

Settings need to be for a specific save file, rather than global.

UI stretched on aspect ratios beyond 16:9, but the game is fine. Pre-rendered cutscene are bordered correctly for ultrawide it seems, but for 16:10 (narrower than 16:9) the cutscene will be squished (but thankfully the aspect ratio is similar enough to be bearable for me)

 

[JustinBB7]

I just wish the black bars during cutscenes would fuck off. Besides that Nier runs fine for me using the borderless window program from the start though. Haven't tried without.

 

[Parsnip]

Looks like original Bulletstorm store page was removed.

 

[texhnolyze]

does platinum even patch their games

This.

so what's the consensus on the quality of the PC version of Nier?

Brute force solves any port problem.

 

[r3n4ud]

Looks like original Bulletstorm store page was removed.

Lasted longer then I thought

 

[Vazra]

Im living even with my performance not hitting 60fps.

 

[MUnited83]

Looks like original Bulletstorm store page was removed.

finally. Had 4 copies stashed for the longest time. Now to become rich.

 

[Jawmuncher]

finally. Had 4 copies stashed for the longest time. Now to become rich.

I'll give you a whole $2 bucks

 

[Parsnip]

finally. Had 4 copies stashed for the longest time. Now to become rich.

I'll give you a whole $2 bucks

 

[EdmondD]

I'll give you a whole $2 bucks

Wow, that's even more than what the Dino Crisis franchise is worth.

 

[Rhaknar]

Finished Stories Untold. Good stuff. Even if mechanically its kinda busted (the parser on the text adventure parts is very limited for example). Still, im all for these different kind of experiences.

 

[Vazra]

Wow, that's even more than what the Dino Crisis franchise is worth.

 

[Nillansan]

RTSS didn't fix my issue either It's not regular microstuttering, the game runs at 60 for some time, then it drops to maybe 20, maybe 40, etc in a second and that breaks everything.

I see, sorry to hear that. I don't have any other suggestions.

so what's the consensus on the quality of the PC version of Nier?

It is perfectly fine on my end.

 

[FLD]

Finished Stories Untold. Good stuff. Even if mechanically its kinda busted (the parser on the text adventure parts is very limited for example). Still, im all for these different kind of experiences.

How did the last episode run for you? The recent patch notes mentioned improved performance, so I'm curious because at launch it was pretty rough (fps in the low 20s).

 

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[InfiniteNine]

does platinum even patch their games

They've fixed up and patched all their games, not published by Activision for a bit since I imagine other pubs had them on for support after still.

 

[Rhaknar]

How did the last episode run for you? The recent patch notes mentioned improved performance, so I'm curious because at launch it was pretty rough (fps in the low 20s).

I played it on the laptop and it ran pretty poorly, but im honestly not sure if thats not half intended to go with the asthetics really. I mean, I cant imagine it running super smoothly like a

Spoiler

normal first person game when you are walking around

, know what I mean?

 

[FLD]

I played it on the laptop and it ran pretty poorly, but im honestly not sure if thats not half intended to go with the asthetics really. I mean, I cant imagine it running super smoothly like a

Spoiler

normal first person game when you are walking around

, know what I mean?

Yeah, I can kinda see why you might say that. Just fired it up real quick and it seems to run much better now, not quite 60fps but close. Didn't feel like replaying the whole episode, so I didn't make it to the section in your spoiler tag but yeah, I don't think it was intentional. Don't know exactly how it was for you but it was pretty damn bad when I played it.

 

[SunDimension24]

Nier Automata is finally up on SteamSpy

https://steamspy.com/app/524220

Owners: 32,985 ± 8,957

wayyyy to early to speculate sales though.

 

[Rhaknar]

Nier Automata is finally up on SteamSpy

https://steamspy.com/app/524220

Owners: 32,985 ± 8,957

wayyyy to early to speculate sales though.

hows GOTY doing?

I of course mean Hollow Knight :3

 

[xezuru]

hows GOTY doing?

Yakuza 0 is still not on Steam

 

[Battlechili]

Nier Automata is finally up on SteamSpy

https://steamspy.com/app/524220

Owners: 32,985 ± 8,957

wayyyy to early to speculate sales though.

That's already a better start than I Am Setsuna's day one release

 

[FLD]

Nier Automata is finally up on SteamSpy

https://steamspy.com/app/524220

Owners: 32,985 ± 8,957

wayyyy to early to speculate sales though.

Too early to guess even at a general ballpark but that's not a bad first day number. You can't assume too much from it but it can be a good early indicator of whether a game is doing incredibly poorly or not. This actually looks decent and could likely climb quite a bit over the next few days. I think it could actually break 100K.

 

[MUnited83]

Too early to guess even at a general ballpark but that's not a bad first day number. You can't assume too much from it but it can be a good early indicator of whether a game is doing incredibly poorly or not. This actually looks decent and could likely climb quite a bit over the next few days. I think it could actually break 100K.

I'm pretty sure it already broke 100k.

 

[texhnolyze]

Nier Automata is finally up on SteamSpy

https://steamspy.com/app/524220

Owners: 32,985 ± 8,957

wayyyy to early to speculate sales though.

That's a good start. I'm guessing 60k in a week.

 

[The Dear Leader]

Nier seems like a stinker, glad I skipped and am getting Mass Effect instead, talk about dodging a bullet!

 

[A Fish Aficionado]

Wow, that's even more than what the Dino Crisis franchise is worth.

ouch
give the guy some dignity at least.

 

[Nabs]

I'm pretty sure it already broke 100k.

I'd even double that.

 

[fenners]

Lol, nope. I even tweeted at them and got nothing. I threw this months stub to Lobos since I never had before and watched a ton of his DS2 launch marathon.

Lobos is a great guy.

 

[FLD]

I'm pretty sure it already broke 100k.

If it climbs very quickly, then yeah probably.

 

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