I'd consider it, if I didn't have to play in a comp TF2 match later today.
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I'd consider it, if I didn't have to play in a comp TF2 match later today.
mah new house.
Roaches aren't that big of a deal up here.
I've got beetles.
Big, ugly fucking beetles.
No roaches though.
Is this before or after five of us run over you with our cars?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ivolt
Repeatedly.
No one would mind.
You're black, see...
:xosmi:
No, see, I planned it all out.
First, we meet in a forest.
Then, I tell Strongbad to go and never leave my house myself.
I figure it will all work out itself out.
You really think he'd make it past the first line of trees?
Shit, you're right.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dr Mario
So we all meet at the edge of a forest...
So.
Enslaved.
Lots of fun.
And the voice actor who does the voice for Monkey?
Andy Serkis.
:awesome:
New Game+ commenced. ^^;;;
This is where things go from good to great.Quote:
Originally Posted by Milady
Enjoy that.
Or not, depending on how you feel about a setting where there are no winners, only people who lose less.
MVC3 is so horrible and broken it's laughable.
I saw that you were signed into the PSN and was going to send you a message thanking you for convincing me to pick up Nier in the first place. But I didn't feel like typing it all out character by character using the on screen keyboard and my controller. :wacko:Quote:
Originally Posted by Raype
So, thanks~ ^^;;; I kind of rushed through it the first time around, but I had a lot of fun with it. And from what I've seen of the story so far, it's lovely, if a little depressing. Happy stories are overrated, anyway.
I just started up the new game and read through the text for Kaine's dreams, then saved outside of Nier's house and called it a day. Now I've got that file, and another file that I apparently saved from back at Emil's manor, just before part II. So if I ever want/need to go back to part I, at least I can do that without having to start entirely from scratch.
What.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fer!
So, Neir.
What's that one about now?
Well it's good to see you're enjoying it. Shame the developer went belly up, but at least more people now realize they went out with quite a bang.Quote:
Originally Posted by Milady
A distaste for happy endings is a good thing in this case. Because it gets more depressing. Ending A is arguably the happiest point. I personally consider it the happier ending, since you can stop at that point and feel, at least somewhat, that things ended well. B and C (especially with the perspective shift that happens after clearing A from Nier to "sorta omnipotent, but also sorta from Kaine's perspective" in BCD) are just "let's make things WORSE". D is, at best, horrendously bittersweet and extensively depressing once you start to think about it more. Which, sadly, a lot of the endings suffer from. The more you think about how it ended, the more depressing it gets.
The sidequests provide a pretty good distraction and some decent plot stuff. One of them from part I was also quite hilarious because of how horribly Nier just fucked up. Also, consider getting started on growing Lunar Tears. That sidequest takes a while. Lots of moonflower cross pollination occurs.
The only happy ending of Nier is in the artbook, and even that is a maybe. :wacko:
Wait, how was ending B more depressing than ending A?Spoiler warning:
I think I just saw something really epic at EVO.
Jesus Christ, what happened.
If I'm remembering correctly, the only thing that prevented me from picking it up sooner (the last time I was thinking about getting it) was that I wasn't too sure about picking up more than one or two games that were more action oriented at the same time. I'm pretty sure I picked up Castlevania instead, which I had to force myself through and which I haven't touched since. I obviously made a slight error in my judgement at the time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Raype
From the way the endings turned out in Drakengard, I'm not terribly surprised that they get progressively worse. Although those endings went more from "worse" to "WTF?!" rather than "better" to "worse."
Although my character's name sort of ruined a tiny bit of the poignancy of Ending A.
Who do I love more than anyone else?
"Milady~" :wacko:
Oh god, I want to click the spoiler, but I don't want to.
:ahhh:
The year is 2049. A man (Nier) is protecting his daughter (Yonah) and has ducked into what appears to be an abandoned shop in a post apocalyptic city. Despite it being summer, snow is falling (well, not really, but it looks like snow). He angrily kicks a book away and forbids his daughter from touching it. The place quickly gets overrun by shades (they look like glowing mounds of weird letters) and Nier touches the book, and is suddenly granted magical powers to fight the shades. He succeeds, but upon returning to Yonah notices that she touched the book and is now covered in weird black text.Quote:
Originally Posted by Drageuth
Fast forward ~1300 years. The world now looks like a fantasy setting with bits of what appears to be 21st century architecture dotting the landscape. Nothing "sci-fi", but closer to the sort of thing you'd see today.
Another guy with the same name/appearance is working as an adventurer in a small town to support his sick daughter Yonah. Stuff happens and it turns out she's suffering from what appears to be the same condition as the previous Yonah, a disease known as the Black Scrawl. This disease is extremely widespread and is killing a lot of people. He comes into possession of a smartmouthed book with a bad case of amnesia named Weiss (although it prefers to be called a "Grimoire"). They end up finding out that the world ended up in it's current state due to a "black disease" and there were two Grimoires involved, a white one and a black one. They figure Weiss is this grimoire and is able to stop the Black Scrawl and eventually destroy Grimoire Noir, the root of the disease.
So they set off on a series of adventures to find and destroy this book. Along the way fighting a bunch of bosses to "power up" and recruiting a rather...interesting party.
Yeah, it sounds like a pretty typical plot. But it gets more complicated and shifts into some pretty dark territory along the way. And then it just keeps getting worse.
It's also a sequel of sorts to Drakengard's "joke ending". No, really.
Goddamned defenders.
Please jump so we don't get scored with halfassed headers.
Signed, the fucking manager.
I would have been so, so angry if I actually did get around to collecting all those weapons just to see that ending. :disagree:Quote:
Originally Posted by Raype
And I got a tie goal at 90'.
Fuck you guys.
Now I feel like checking it Nier out. But then again a friend of me who has almost the same tastes in game like me (except FIFA and my delight of shootanz) completely loathed it, so I'm in the fence about it.
Because B route is when you start seeing things from another POV. All I have to say is BEEPY ;_;Quote:
Originally Posted by Ivolt
Also:
the ending makes it completely explicit that the Shadowlord is Nier, and he's quite depressed over failing his Yonah. Those last shots we get of the two of them, with a visibly distraught Shadowlord was kind of a downer. Especially after hearing him talk for the first time moments before. As for the Emil bit he never meets the others again. He ends up wandering the lifeless husk of a world forever. And since he's practically immortal, he's kind of boned. It seems like a bit of a shitty fate to meet. Alone. Watching the last remnants of your society crumble to dust. FOREVER.
*big burly barbarian dude named Milady*Quote:
Originally Posted by Milady
This should not amuse me half as much as it does.
He's just pointing out what happens after the credits of ending B. Once you see that, you'll know what he's referring to. It's not hard to miss.Quote:
Originally Posted by Milady
With the tilde and everything. :sweat:Quote:
Originally Posted by Raype
Still, that boss fight is pretty cool and kind of makes up for it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Milady
I guess an easy way to put it is "incredibly dark Zelda with more plot".Quote:
Originally Posted by Fer!
If that sounds enjoyable, you could do worse than picking this up.
Weiss is the greatest Navi of all time. Fuck your Midna.
It'd be fun to have a name with a tilde in it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Milady
It'd always fuck with people.
Some wouldn't know how to pronounce it.
And no one could every yell at you, because saying a name with a tilde makes it impossible to stay mad.
You'd be a real hit with employers. :wacko:
The last 10-20 seconds of that must have been horribly frustrating to memorize. :lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Raype
I forgot Angelus flies like she's trying to keep from falling asleep.
Hidden needs a hotkey or something.Quote:
Originally Posted by Raype
I knew the first part clearly because I'M SO AMAZING. And to be fair, it's not stated anywhere that he never sees them again. The explosion probably just blew him into a desert. Granted, he's probably not seeing them anytime soon considering he has to roll his way home. Hell, he MIGHT make it back before they all die and then the world becomes a dead lifeless husk because Replicant Nier killed Gestalt Nier, the dude who kept the world from falling apart and is technically responsible for people with souls being bor-no wait, Cavia, he's boned.
...
So, lets all hope they pull off the saving the world thing they can do in ending D, shall we? :wacko:
And then I gave the coolest version of the fight ever:Quote:
Originally Posted by Raype
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TycMDbNG1U
Well, I should probably go to sleep before I succumb to the temptation to read all those spoilers. ^^;;;
Have a lovely night, gentlemen.
Except it is. There's an epilogue set a couple centuries later whereQuote:
Originally Posted by Ivolt
Emil is wandering the world and is thinking about how badly he wishes he could have seen Nier and Kaine one last time. Also, he doesn't have to roll forever, he started to make new bodies for himself a few hours after ending B. Most of them didn't work/last long. He eventually made a body out of discarded scraps of metal and swords from the Junk Heap. That one worked. :wacko: Also, he fights off an alien invasion using his FUCKING LASERS. Fucking Cavia, man. Fucking Cavia.
And it was the desert outside Facade. They used a part of that map for the cutscene, and in that epilogue it's briefly mentioned as being not far from there. When you examine the world map, the Shadowlord's castle is just on the other side of some mountains from Facade.
Sounds... :doink:Quote:
Originally Posted by Raype
And I've yet to play Drakengard. I picked up Drakengard 2 for cheap the other day, but I don't plan on touching it until a friend of mine lends me the first one. Which she says will cause me to rage pretty badly.
Not really looking forward to that. :sad-no:
Hmm. Interest is building.Quote:
Originally Posted by Raype
I'll have to look up some non-spoiler gameplay footage. I'm always afraid to click on the links that you guys post when talking about games, especially ones that sound semi intriguing.
Also, Enslaved is a lot of fun. But it's looking like it's going to be pretty short. :ugh: I've only been playing for six hours, with a lot of pause breaks to chat on here and make dinner and whatnot, and I'm just starting Chapter 7 out of 14.
http://lparchive.org/NIER/
Just sayin'.
Also, this totally means I never have to LP this.
Desire to do so, gone!
Huzzah!
And yes, expect to rage quite hard at Drakengard. So, so rage worthy.
But much to my surprise, Nier not only avoided it, it actually managed to be extremely fun.
Alright, simple as hell, hacky and slashy, and not exactly amazing, but fun just the same.
I guess I have a soft spot for games that get two handed weaponry right.
IT'S SUPPOSED TO FEEL HEAVY AS FUCK, PEOPLE.
You know, you probably never had to do battletoads either.Quote:
Originally Posted by Raype
Also, I'd like to point out that said LP project has some hilarious side effects.
like this
That's some dedication right there. I'd never put that kind of effort into this shit. :wacko:
That was purely so to one-up Hypnos for doing Ninja Gaiden. We were trying to see who was more sadistic. It's also why Cola did Chakan.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ivolt
So, is Drakengard LPs are amazing. Mostly because he clearly hates most of the cast short of like, 2 people. Or maybe he's just playing it up.
Still, shit's amazing.
They were an interesting read.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ivolt
And I have a feeling he does hate most of them. But then, it's not like most of them don't deserve it. Bunch of bastards and monsters playing at heroism. Or whatever passes for it nowadays. All the while acting like dicks. Some of whom might be a little likeable, but still, dicks. :wacko: