>developer known for divining game plots in patterns on used toilet paper
>"Preasu maka Niel game"
AHAHAHA dropped. You kids don't really expect it will good, do you?
Yeah you showed them anon
It's not like they have no part in the story or anything
>>343200165
Shouldn't you be in school, kid?
>>343200165
damn, summer is hitting hard this year. anyway, here have a (you).
>>343200165
I read this 3 times and I'm no completely sure what you're trying to say.
But to answer your question, yes I'm expecting it to be good
>>343200165
Based Taro is still writing the script, Platinum are just doing the gameplay.
You can stay salty over it inevitably being the best ARPG in years though.
>>343201297
I really.hope this game is good. Last couple platinum games have been pretty weak, but hopefully they have a proper production budget/schedule this time.
>take franchise of sorts that is known for killing it with the story and music, but is quite lackluster in the gameplay department
>have a developer that people love for having pretty damn tight gameplay, do that shit for them
>?????
>profit?
>>343201493
You're looking at it from the wrong perspective. Even if it's just Revengeance-lite like what it looks like so far, it's already leagues ahead of any of the DoD/Nier games in terms of combat.
I'm not hoping for a revived Platinum game, I'm looking for a Taro game with decent combat for once. Which really isn't much of a hurdle.
But Taro, the man behind NieR, is making the story again?
He is even the overall Director again?
Are you just shitposting to get the Thread going?
Is that what /v/ has become? Having to start with a shitpost to get a discussion going?
>>343200165
>Develop a rich a open world, crafted with the closest attention to detail, and populated a diverse set of npc's and enemy types
>Game is only 5 hours long
T-thanks, Platinum
Getting the game NIER on saturday, what am I in for?
>>343202298
Sadness
>>343202298
The most mediocre action rpg combat you've ever played.
>>343202298
Passable combat, with interesting ideas bogged down by weak implementation.
Awesome OST. Music is by far the highlight in NieR.
Taro Story. Hope you enjoy the ride.
>>343202298
Extremely meh combat, a ton of fetch quests, but good story and voice acting.
Be sure to get all them endings.
>>343202298
GOAT OST
GOAT Dad
GOAT Slut
GOAT Sadness
>>343202372
>>343202429
>>343202532
>>343202553
fucking hope its worth the 20 euros
Do we know if the main girl has a dick yet. I mean if not I'm still looking forward to it but it'll be a nice bonus.
>>343202756
People have theorised that she could have been modeled on Kaine in-universe. So maybe.
Wouldn't get your hopes up though.
Im LITERALLY buying a ps4 for this
>>343200165
Well, I don't expect anything from Platinum since they pretty much only make steaming shit, but I believe in Taro.
>>343201493
I was disappointed with the story of Drakengard 3, I'm not sure what to expect. At least the gameplay looks great.
>>343202661
Prepare tocry
>>343202871
Well I suppose even if she doesn't, the doujins will fix it.
Probably give her, like, a robo dick or something. You can just add dicks to robots, right /v/?
>>343200165
nier was borderline good.
I didn't like the gameplay, the story, or the characters but the world had heart.
this one seems like a straightforward action game.
>>343202661
I got it for 15 burgerdollars, pretty satisfied. If you're a fan of Zelda Ocarina of Time it has a similar vibe. Combat isn't deep, but fun especially in boss fights.
>>343203041
Same. I thought P5 being on PS3 would make me skip the gen entirely, but Automata looks too good.
>>343203743
>i can decide if the game has "heart" and a good story based on a handful of gameplay trailers
How's brain damage treating you?
>>343202661
You can basically dodge any sidequest that doesn't give you a weapon or boar drifting as a reward
>>343200165
Never played the first game and I think modern square and platinum are shit, but from the footage I saw it was easily my most anticipated game after e3.
The only thing that I don't understand is, where is NieR actually playing !? Is it still playing in Japan or somewhere else ?
>>343201734
Revengeance was awful. Diet Revengeance might be the worst game I ever hypothetically experience.
Platinum is a meme,Jack
>>343203041
Same here.
>>343203997
how's the shilling job treating you, fuckface?
go die, this game will be crap, it won't be even as good as nier, and even nier was meh at best.
>>343203041
>he is literally buying a PS4 game for this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppk94cpSFng
>>343204527
>Diet Revengeance might be the worst game I ever hypothetically experience.
Then you clearly haven't played any of the DoD games. Revengeance plays like a dream compared to Drakengard.
>>343201493
>Last couple platinum games have been pretty weak
The last 3 were:
TMNT (piss-awful)
SF0 (good but Nintendo gimmicked it to death)
Transformers Devastation (fucking amazing)
The real issue is Takahisa Taura is an unknown here; this is his first directorial project with Plat. Like if Kenji Saito did it, we would know what to expect; I don't know what to expect of Taura
>>343205691
Fucking hype. Pretty much the only thing worth noting at E3, but it was totally worth it.
>>343207670
>use TMNT/transformers as examples
Glad you didn't use Korra too, those games were low budget licensed titles.
>>343201961
>this
>Taura writes the game so it has 46 endings
>every time you play through the game to improve your mission ranks, the story gets a little more bizarre
>by the end it's a clusterfuck but you keep going because you're wondering how many fucking NG+++++ iterations they accounted for
>by NG+63 the game has devolved into a black and white NES-sprite sidescroller shmup game and it turns out the robots aren't really robots, except they ARE really robots, except actually they AREN'T really robots, and they're dead, only they're alive, only really they are dead, only they're robots
What's not to look forward to? I think a short, highly replayable game by Taro would be fascinating. Hand the man Bayonetta and a pen and he'll write you The Stanley Parable with punching and pedophiles
>>343207416
And Nier doesn't play shit like Revengeance.
It LOOKS like Revengeance but all the gameplay footage screams Bayonetta / Transformers.
>>343208298
It looks like NieR with platinum flair on the animations.
>>343208298
Either way, it doesn't change the fact that it'll play better than anything in the series to date, which is a huge plus regardless.
>>343207829
Transformers was a fucking masterpiece. Platinum's best core gameplay system to date, and the world was clearly a labor of fanwank-love by die hard TF fans (and that's coming from someone who was never into Transformers).
The game's only flaws were
>too short
>no playable Decepticons (I guess if you care)
>one or two pretty serious Kilgore-exploit-tier glitches that enabled you to cheese through Prime difficulty if you were a scrub
>Is NieR's, Drakengard's, Drakengard 3, and Automata's director
>Knows fuck all about programming
>Knows fuck all about scriptwriting
>Drinks while he's working
>Keeps making games
This mans existence is a mystery to me
>>343208471
So long as they keep the best spells, it's all good.
Best of both worlds
>>343202661
Trust me, the story alone carries the experience. Just be sure to buy the Phoenix Spear as soon as you can
>>343208471
Actually, Nier and Bayonetta were far closer, gameplay-wise, than most people seem to realize, which is part of the reason the Taro + Plat matchup made so much sense
>multiple weapon types
>a solid, mashable combat system with an emphasis on special tech
>high focus on speed, evasion, reaction time
>frequent genre-bending
>some light shooter elements
TMNT was just "Bayo, but also some TPS stuff" which is exactly what Nier looks like as well.
>>343208767
Hell if Nier had a heavy attack that could be mixed into combos it would pretty much have been a Platnum game in its entirety.
>>343208767
>TMNT was just "Bayo, but also some TPS stuff"
Sorry, meant to say TFD
TMNT was an irredeemable abortion
>>343209141
Well, the combos were far simpler; no branches, no launchers/air game, and no dial-focus (the damage and knockback/utility gets larger as you near the end of the combo/hit the finisher, and the challenge is executing a combo string fully without interruption, and there are tools like dodge offset to make that a game of skill)
The core combat concept of a Platinum game is "react to enemy attacks with good defensive timing until you see an opening, then blow that opening apart and keep the enemy stunned as long as possible". Nier got the first part but it never had the turn, where you squeezed your hit in and got a stunlock, and the game became about manipulating the combat system to keep the enemy stunned as long as possible.
>>343208545
>makes the final boss unbeatable
>>343201734
Fuck off, Nier and DoD had some great fucking combat. I don't understand where this meme that they don't have good combat comes from. God damn shitposters.
>>343209549
They had God of War tier combat.
If you think God of War had great combat, well, that's your own personal hang-up.
The combat wasn't SHIT, which seems to be the meme about town these days, but Nier's combat was an entry-level Musou game, nothing "good". Just a passable interface between mashing attack and enemies dying.
Is this Wrong Information: The Thread?
>>343209549
Don't fucking lie. The combat in DoD isn't irredeemably terrible, but don't act like Platinum taking over won't be a huge improvement.
Drakengard 3 was the least offensive and even then it still felt like they tried to make a half-way decent proper action game out of the shitty musou-clone engine they'd used before. It's clunky as all shit.
>>343209712
>They had God of War tier combat.
No. I'm not one to defend GoW combat, but fucking come on man. GoW from II onwards actually had something going for it.
>>343202298
make sure you do new game+ or you'll miss out on a lot. You only have to repeat the 2nd half and it adds in new story details.
>>343209712
>>343209549
>Just a passable interface between mashing attack and enemies dying.
That sure sounds like shit to me. There's a reason why no one cares about the gameplay of Nier or DoD and instead hypes up the story. And every thread, someone always brings up how bad the gameplay is. It's an issue with the game and people deceiving other to think that it's acceptable are also lying to themselves.
>>343208767
>>343209141
The magic finisher cutscenes when you killed bosses were basically Bayonetta's summons without the button mashing for points, and there was only about six months between their releases. Fun little coincidence.
>>343210119
>GoW from II onwards actually had something going for it.
So did Nier.
The dodge focus was well-executed (air rolls ftw), the spell system was diverse and well-executed (recharging "stamina" MP was better than refillable "ammo" MP), the bullet hell elements were fresh as fuck and integrated well with the speed.
The game was fast, the game was responsive.
It was just mashy.
>>343210306
>ftw
>>343210306
>ftw
Come on man. Not here
>>343210306
Alright, Nier had some stuff. But it wasn't in the same ballpark as GoW II or III. Those aren't amazing games, but they did have combat that Nier doesn't touch. That's all I'm saying.
>>343210306
>the spell system was diverse and well-executed
Because being limited to two spells was great
>the bullet hell elements were fresh as fuck and integrated well with the speed.
It was barely a bullet hell, all you had to do was run away . There was barely any dodge aspect to it since you can flee in midair.
>>343208136
For a newcomer to the series, you're selling Taro as the M. Night Shyamalan of vidya.
>>343211393
>limited to 2 spells
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You don't need to defend
>>343211393
>Because being limited to two spells was great
Fairy Bloom Freesia only gave you 3 special attacks and it was extremely highly regarded for its combat system. It's an RPG, how you build for fights is important.
>It was barely a bullet hell, all you had to do was run away . There was barely any dodge aspect to it since you can flee in midair.
Exactly. That felt "easy" because the game was responsive. The game shouldn't be challenging solely because getting your character to do what you want was difficult.
The bullet hell stuff was very well-put-together, IMO, especially for a game with 3-dimensional movement. Doing something like that with the Z-Axis included is not easy to execute, and I thought Cavia managed to capture the essence of "deadly spirograph art" in a way that didn't obscure visibility too much but still forced you to make your movements very calculated.
At least Automata gives me a good reason to borrow someone's PS4.
>>343208545
>This mans existence is a mystery to me
I think he gets by just being a likable weirdo.
Like some kind of office doggie that barks out bizarre plot/gameplay ideas but instead of doggie treats sometimes they'll let him make a game.
>>343212775
He's somewhat infamous for having a story that changes on each subsequent playthrough.
Most games with multiple endings have choices that lead to different outcomes; his stories just drift from NG+ to NG+ through multiple iterations, slowly revealing more of the world in a way that makes you reevaluate what you've seen before.
Remember how in THUG, the second time you beat it, instead of the final boss showdown against Eric Sparrow, you punched him in the fucking face?
It's like that, except after punching him in the face you learn he stole your trick footage because he needed it to prevent the apocalypse.
And then on the third playthrough you redeem yourself and prevent the apocalypse by missing the trick and landing on the helicopter blades when you jump it.
He is a little Shyamalan-y, I guess. A true fan of stories that change completely when you view them with one additional piece of omitted information.
>>343213275
I hated the wolves. They were fucking dicks the entire time with a persecution complex.
But this fucking scene hit me right in the gut
>>343200165
I know it will be utter shit thanks to you op. I'm glad you informed us of your glorious opinion.
>>343214560
Yeah, I had no sympathy for the wolves myselfand they lost any chance of if when they killed Fyra.
Who's ready for boar drifting?
Who's ready for 3d shmup cuhrayzee?
Who's ready for making flashy combos?
Who's ready for some tight leotard robot assu?Who's ready to find out that 2b doesn't have a vag and her asshole is a waste disposal unit that cuts up everything before ejecting it from her colon?
Fuck you, Taro.
Just started playing Nier.
Was the first boar SUPPOSED to be that hard to kill? Jesus fucking christ.
>>343215325
Ready for all that and more.
>>343215427
Beepy making those scrap wings while https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiDI4GZMVF0 starts up is 10/10 presentation.
>>343215656
Yes. I waited until I was level 30 and pretty much one shotted it.
>>343215961
Oh. Well, it was fun standing on top of a rock, throwing spears for 10 minutes at level 3. Do I need to do all the sidequests to get all the weapons or all the endings? What the fuck's the deal with the boss Shade outside of that seaside town? Why are there so many fucking fetch-quests?
>>343215656
Got reminded of this when playing Bravely Default. The common enemy in the first dungeon, incidentally pig men, were perhaps harder than the last boss.
>>343216156
You'll have to get all the weapons, you don't have to do all the quests. I suggest getting the ruined map quest as early as you can during part 2 of the game. Lots of running around the map for that quest and it gets you one of the weapons.
>>343210306
>ftw
