Yeah I'm thinking I'll play some Life is Strange after Pillars of Eternity and Witcher 3, before I start with MGSV or Fallout 4. I'll have to try and get some Wolfenstein Old Blood in there somewhere also.XD
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Yeah I'm thinking I'll play some Life is Strange after Pillars of Eternity and Witcher 3, before I start with MGSV or Fallout 4. I'll have to try and get some Wolfenstein Old Blood in there somewhere also.XD
PetriP-TNT
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Planning to play LoS EP5 before Fallout 4 too (and completing rest of MGSV)
Old Blood is sitting at 1 hour played too
PandaPedinte
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What does one need to focus on in order to get S+ ranking on Assault Android Cactus?
I usually get Bs
Don't die, keep the combo going and on boss battles the time you take to kill the boss also counts
Jawmuncher
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I just want to see them do something tonally different at this point. I hope that the Nier game they're working on is a bit more reserved. I would like at least one game that isn't "Look how over the top all of this is" from them. I'm not gonna knock them for making those games since if it's good it's good. But still that is something I want to see.
nier is most likely will be just nier with fun action
it feels like to me they're just making whatever they're told to make at this point outside of kamiya's games
Jawmuncher
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Which if it is just that it should be fine. Since nier wasn't really over the top. At least not on the scale of PG fare.
yeah since Taro Yoko is the director it should be less over the top, I really hope it's not like another case of MGR, we'll see!
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Weird, I beat the game twice rendering at 4K internal and only dropped below 30 at bonfires. Must be an issue on your end.
Did you played the Drakengard games? They're pretty much what you describe over the top. Maybe not on P* level, but still.
First boss from DOD3: https://youtu.be/nNU1Jrh-iKg?t=108
Second Boss: https://youtu.be/ykLG0mj3lk8?t=89
I've only played nier
yeah it's over the top but not nearly the same, PG omit everything else just to be edgy
nah they're just not the same, one is narrative focused and the other is just gameplay/action focused
Jawmuncher
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Unless some rules of nature starts playing I think it should be fine
nier is so much about the world building and the small little poignant moments. there's so much of that game in the vignette sidequests and in the details of how the music and the weird sections work, i think there's a subtlety to nier that's probably out of platinum's reach. to be fair, there was a lot of that in bayonetta too, but you know, in a very much different and more outlandish direction
like, platinum is super talented for sure, but they're not such a great fit, and it'll depend mostly on how much creative direction there is from the original nier devs vs platinum
we'll see
the cursing is dumb too
like, platinum is super talented for sure, but they're not such a great fit, and it'll depend mostly on how much creative direction there is from the original nier devs vs platinum
we'll see
kaine's visual design is probably the worst thing in that game
the cursing is dumb too
uncredited male
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Doing SP /p8 Diablo 2. Up to Act 2 Hell now.
Anime ppm is reaching dangerous levels.
Anime ppm is reaching dangerous levels.
I actually love Kaine's visual design, it works well with her backstory regarding her gender issue and personality
I felt her design was pretty cool, if you consider her backstory and how the characters react to that.
Yes, he is. But he can do stuff Rules of Nature style as well.
Drakengard 3 spoilers maybe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8YW7INN7Z4
Jawmuncher
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I did not say this
? I'm saying it for myself!
well maybe the design could be better, it's still silly "fan service" I agree although I don't really pay much attention to that sort of stuff, I feel like her costume is just a "in your face" sorta costume
CheesecakeRecipe
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nah it's that everyone in the village don't view her as a woman and more of a creep, and kaine's relationship with her grandma (her grandma viewed her as a girl) has more to do with her decision about her own gender than her own
that's all i'm saying, it could be better
that's just not a great comparison cos kill la kill actually makes fun of/celebrates fan service as a core theme of the show. the entire series revolves around it, and characters actually acknowledge how dumb they look which is used for humor and just overall fun.
kaine's character could've been fully explored without resorting to fan service, while kill la kill couldn't, that's the main difference for me. kill la kill isn't doing like deep srs character drama introspection stuff, kill la kill is just having fun and being playful. it's not the same thing at all
also i duno, i think the designs in kill la kill are pretty badass, i'm not a fan of the kamui mode outfits for ryuko and satsuki but outside of that i think the show just looks fucking cool
while kaine.... ehh... i think she looks dumb
it's less of a reason and more of an excuse for the fan service. it's like quiet or whatever, sure, there's a "reason", but it's such a weak excuse. her character is great, i believe she deserves better. i may not remember the story 100% so maybe i'm not correct about this, but i feel like
the whole gender thing is barely mentioned in the game. so it also feels like the reason is just an excuse because the game doesn't really gets really deep into gender issues for it to matter. i feel like her being uncomfortable with herself is the general feeling the game really achieves, which is great, but i don't think the gender stuff gets enough screentime or development for it to even be in it. like, it could've just been anything else. so i feel like it's a really bad excuse.
also imo it just looks bad, i just think it's ugly. i don't mind sexy outfits, i just think hers is lame
also want to mention that despite that criticism i absolutely love that game and it's one of my favorite games of recent years, and in particular because of its story and characters. i just think kaine got robbed of a better visual design
Chance Hale
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The gender discussion shows up in the second playthrough if I remember right, and it makes you read an entire short story as you play the game but it's never made clear exactly although if you have any reading comprehension you'll know what they're trying to convey.
Like every other game though the reason for the fan service is nonsense, although I don't remember it being as hilarious as MGS V trying to excuse Quiet's outfit with magic pseudoscience.
Like every other game though the reason for the fan service is nonsense, although I don't remember it being as hilarious as MGS V trying to excuse Quiet's outfit with magic pseudoscience.
it's been a while but second playthrough tells you more about kaine's view on her gender and relationship with her grandma and how her grandma viewed kaine as a girl, the whole "oh you have to wear less clothes" was just an excuse, but kaine being an outcast wearing that stuff really works well for me because like fuck those dudes that were bullying her.
Se7enSword
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At least I managed to get A rank this time. I still die too much by cornering myself. Need to fix that.
Like already mentioned, its a rather big part of NG+.
Its also an important part of Grimoire Niers "Witch's Sabbath".
I agree with you regarding Nier not needing fanservice, its just that i dont saw it as a fanservice. Considering how open Yoko Taro likes to mock cliches of videogames in his game and how the characters react to that.
Switching weapons gives you some invincibility frames to get out of sticky situations.
Also, I am glad Nier is coming to steam.
yeah it's been an eternity since i played nier and all the playthroughs just get mixed up in my head
i personally don't think it works great, i think they could've done the same thing without the fan service and it'd actually make her character better
like i may not remember the fine details about the story, but i do remember being very much not convinced by the reasoning behind the skimpiness
i mean, like always, fan service is never really justified, you just look past it because you really like the thing, and move on
i personally don't think it works great, i think they could've done the same thing without the fan service and it'd actually make her character better
like i may not remember the fine details about the story, but i do remember being very much not convinced by the reasoning behind the skimpiness
i mean, like always, fan service is never really justified, you just look past it because you really like the thing, and move on
The same thing happened to me. Twice. After the second time, I decided not to play again until it officially released, but now that it has, hopefully the save issue is gone.
Was your save from before the game left early access?
Se7enSword
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Yeah, I know. I'm just not sure what my best character is so far. Battery screws me up :/
And it is? Link?
freshVeggie
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Was personally bugged and changed the grid view. Thought I'd share this bookmark I had of Jase explaining how to get zero-space between game covers in grid view. Since it has been some time I've last seen this topic.
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Will give both a try. A goldmine of good recommendations here today, besides Skeptics Guide to the Universe who were obnoxiously self-righteous asshats in the one podcast I tried.
Wait what???
I love her design because of how exaggerated it was, it gets the point across
but for the west I think it would've been cool if it's tweaked because I think the story could be interesting, I love both Emil and Kaine's backstory and their personality
AHA-Lambda
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Nope, I've started playing it tonight =/
pretty sure it's a joke about jerks talking about nier in this thread
fucking jerks
freshVeggie
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for the west?
Yikes. I guess I'll hold off on playing it a bit longer then. They really need to sort that out.
for everyone else outside of japan that aren't used to the whole exaggerated and "Japan is weird" approach
Talk about what you want, I just wanted to ruin someone's day by giving them false hope.
You are a bad person.
freshVeggie
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Only on sunday evenings.
Hah, joke's on you, I already search if there was a port announced because of the conversation, so I knew you were lying!
that's actually worse Joestar
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