>the latest transformers: 4 to 5 hours
>star fox zero: 4 to 5 hours
>new ninja turtles game : 4 to 5 hours
I'm worried bros
>bunch of mission based licensed under-budgeted games
Nier Automata is an ARPG backed by SE. That would at least guarantee 10+ hours or if anything you can look at MGS Rising's length.
>>339165353
Except Taro is directing it so they will make the game as long as he wants, same with gameplay
>>339165823
i expect them to create mundane crap to prolong wasting life with this piece of shit game
>what are teams within a company
>>339165353
All those games have been made in the development frame of the new Nier. Its obvious Nier is their focus while those others are games they have to make, even if they dont really want to. Not every company gets to create their dreams every single time, sometimes they have to make compromises.
>>339165353
they confirmed it will be a full length RPG
Star Fox shouldn't really be grouped in with those. The point of the game is to be short to encourage replays and better scores to take alternate routes.
Also this has been happening for years, how old are you?
>>339166516
>full length
As if that says much. Either way, NieR was short as shit compared to many other JRPGs. It's what, 20 hours for ending A?
>>339166690
20 hours is a lot more than 4-5
>>339165353
That's because their focus was on Nier over the other games
>>339165823
MGR was 6 hours at most.
>>339166396
This. And this is why you should never ever trust a company as a whole. Learn what team makes the games you like and you won't be dissapointed when a company makes a shit game.
Okami (technically not platinum but whatever) was a kind of rpg and was long as fuck.
>>339166763
Yes, but I'm assuming that no one is stupid enough to think that NieRA can be 4-5 hours, just that it can be relatively short.
Oh wow games worked on by other teams than the one working on Nier and teams full of mostly freelancers instead of actual plat workers at that
So worried bros
>>339166480
>Its obvious Nier is their focus while those others are games they have to make
Except Scalebound a much bigger game with MS backing.
Nier is niche as fuck, I doubt is the main event for them.
>>339165823
Nier was under-budgeted and they padded the fuck out of that. Expect 20+ hours one way or another.
>>339165823
>he still believe that Nier is anything but a shitty cash cow
Platinum only did mundane shit like Asset creation for Star fox right?
and the licensed game being short is a no brainer.
>>339167765
They've always had at least two big projects going on simultaneously.
>>339167765
>Nier is niche as fuck
See thats what I thought, which is why that extravagant Orchestra live music special they did recently threw me for a loop. Maybe theyre trying to push it as a flagship franchise or something?
>>339168001
>cash cow
>on a series that consistently sell poorly
FF is the cash cow, not Nier you fucking pillock
>>339168728
That's a relatively small event though. It's not what I'd call extravagant.
Also, events like that really aren't unusual in japan. Especially if the property involved has a composer with a following working on it.
>>339165823
They are also making a multiplayer big budget open world action rpg game for microsoft, so you really have to wonder how they are handling their resources.
I wish Platinum wasn't involved, or at least if they were making Drakengard 4. Their formula doesn't mesh with Nier at all
>>339169019
Relatively small compared to others but for what Nier was i thought it was kind of grand. I dunno, you oculd be right
>>339165353
Platinum is only developing/in charge of the actual gameplay portion of Automata since Taro finally realized him and his team can't make gameplay to save their lives, and should just stick to music.
Since the first Nier took around 20 hours for a go around it's safe to give or take a few hours for Automata.
So no need to worry.
>>339168728
Squenix are trying to gain new IPs, that's what they said in their financial report and the reason why they support NieR and SO as middlewares.
I hope there will be news on the next E3 and a playable build on Gamescom.
4-5 hours is pretty generous for any of Platinums latest releases, all of their Activision licensed games were 3 hours, at most, on the first playthrough. Korra was literally a 90 minute game on the first go.
Hopefully they don't ruin Nier with tons of shitty fucking non-combat sections like they did for Wonderful 101.
>>339165353
Does replay value just not exist to you people?
>>339171364
I heard they're turning it into a VN.
>>339171364
>tons of shitty fucking non-combat sections
well it's an RPG
>>339171442
Not in the titles listed, they're extremely repetitive without any combat depth to allow for extended gameplay
>>339171531
By that I meant dozens of unnecessary mini-games as a substitute for combat
>>339171364
Hey, what about my text adventures.Taro did say he doesn't like doing the same thing twice though, so I don't think there will be any.
>>339171442
Honestly no.
>>339171534
The only one with little replay value is Starfox
Transformers Devastation is fucking great and has tons of shit to do and mess with after beating the story.
TMNT is more of that too.
>>339171648
pig riding in nier was pretty fun
>>339171858
Transformers has 50 odd shit missions you can blast through in an hour and never touch again unless you enjoy grinding the last mission for weapons, not sure where you're getting "tons of shit to do" from outside of that, the main story is linear and piss easy on Prime difficulty once you get a single good weapon.
>>339171994
Guess I wasn't very clear, yeah the forest story and pig riding were fine, I was more talking about dedicating huge chunks of potential gameplay time to shit sections like Platinum have done in all of their releases as far back as Bayonetta 1. On rails sections, gimmicky vehicle sections etc.
We know there's at least two endings, so don't worry
>>339172583
Also according to Taro a "Happy Ending"
>>339172817
>Taro
>"Happy Ending"
Nope. Not falling for it.
All platinum games since MGR onwards are glorified tie ins. hopefully that was change with the new nier since they are co-developing.
>>339171774
He also said in Squenix' q&a type of thing in last year's E3 that Western players don't like to read, so he was thinking about ditching that idea.
>>339173691
Co-developing? With who? As far as I know, Squenix is just the publisher.
>>339165353
I expect it to be the usual Taro game length which about 25-30 hours. Maybe more if he decides to be an ass again with the final boss.
>>339165353
What's to worry about?
ALL of Plat's games are short. They're meant to be played multiple times.
>>339174187
Yoko Taro. He's actually living in Osaka right now and acting as director for the project.
>>339172158
You're either a world-class action game player or 100% full of shit. I'd LOVE to see a video of you doing Clone Autobots or Prime + Shockwave challenges on Prime difficulty. The idea of you "blasting through in an hour" is pretty ridiculous.
