Ok, I know there have been a lot of God of War-ish games recently, so this isn't OMGNEW.. But this game looks awesome. I hadn't heard of it until the other day somehow, but now I'm really looking forward to it. Being that Square is behind this game I even have a bit of confidence that it could end up being better at God of War than God of War.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1w-xDN71sk
Nier
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Re: Nier
I remember this from E3 last year. It failed to make an impression on me one way or the other. I guess I need to see more gameplay. I feel pretty tepid towards it atm.
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Man, I would've been all over that.
I did find Tomb Raider: Underworld buried in a cheapie bin for 4.99$ today. Of course, that single find prompted me to waste another 20 minutes combing through bins full of PS2 games and shovelware with nothing else to show for my effort!
I did find Tomb Raider: Underworld buried in a cheapie bin for 4.99$ today. Of course, that single find prompted me to waste another 20 minutes combing through bins full of PS2 games and shovelware with nothing else to show for my effort!
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Re: Nier
Damn, wish I had seen this earlier!
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Well, Nier does rhyme with the name of a certain poster who's known to have bad taste...
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Re: Nier
It got mediocre reviews but I got it for cheap... so I figured if it sucked, I was only out $15.
It's not a terrible game, it's just kinda mediocre. It tries to do a lot of different things, incorporate a lot of different/diverse gameplay elements and it really doesn't do any of them particularly well.
A quick tip... near the beginning of the game, you get a fishing quest.
Don't fish on the beach right near where you get the quest, go to the beach near the lighthouse.
It's not a terrible game, it's just kinda mediocre. It tries to do a lot of different things, incorporate a lot of different/diverse gameplay elements and it really doesn't do any of them particularly well.
A quick tip... near the beginning of the game, you get a fishing quest.
Don't fish on the beach right near where you get the quest, go to the beach near the lighthouse.
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Re: Nier
The gameplay elements were mediocre, but I really liked this game for a number of reasons.
1) Atmosphere-
I am a sucker for post-apoc dystopia settings and this game had a pretty good one. It also didn't try and PG things, with death and worse happening to even children in the game.
2) Story-
I really liked the story to a large degree. There wasn't a ton of "happy ending" cliche's like you normally see in this type of game and the voice acting was fairly descent, as well. I think this was what I liked most about the game.
3) Music-
This game had the best soundtrack for a game I have heard since FF8.
4) Gameplay-
While not exactly ground breaking or elaborate, the gameplay worked pretty well and the boss fights were all reasonably interesting. I would have liked to see more direct control over the companions and some of the spells be more useful, but at least it wasn't "God Of War: level up one move because all other suck" balanced.
The game certainly had flaws, but I was not disappointed by it at all.
1) Atmosphere-
I am a sucker for post-apoc dystopia settings and this game had a pretty good one. It also didn't try and PG things, with death and worse happening to even children in the game.
2) Story-
I really liked the story to a large degree. There wasn't a ton of "happy ending" cliche's like you normally see in this type of game and the voice acting was fairly descent, as well. I think this was what I liked most about the game.
3) Music-
This game had the best soundtrack for a game I have heard since FF8.
4) Gameplay-
While not exactly ground breaking or elaborate, the gameplay worked pretty well and the boss fights were all reasonably interesting. I would have liked to see more direct control over the companions and some of the spells be more useful, but at least it wasn't "God Of War: level up one move because all other suck" balanced.
The game certainly had flaws, but I was not disappointed by it at all.
War is an option whose time has passed. Peace is the only option for the future. At present we occupy a treacherous no-man's-land between peace and war, a time of growing fear that our military might has expanded beyond our capacity to control it and our political differences widened beyond our ability to bridge them. . . .
Short of changing human nature, therefore, the only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of war.
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Dwight Eisenhower
Short of changing human nature, therefore, the only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of war.
--RICHARD M. NIXON, "REAL PEACE" (1983)
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, represents, in the final analysis, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children."
Dwight Eisenhower
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Re: Nier
Started playing this tonight, like it so far!
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I noticed you were playing it last night, Funk. I was hoping you would post impressions here!
This made a lot of people's "must play RPGS" lists, so I'm not surprised to see that a lot of people enjoy it. I got it cheap, and really look forward to playing it.
This made a lot of people's "must play RPGS" lists, so I'm not surprised to see that a lot of people enjoy it. I got it cheap, and really look forward to playing it.
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Btw, last night when I was playing, I had 4 other people on my friend's list playing Nier (and Funk wasn't one of them). I guess lots of people jumped on it when it was on sale. Still, that's some kind of record for such an old game being played at the same time by so many people on my friend's list!
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Fairweather Pure wrote:I noticed you were playing it last night, Funk. I was hoping you would post impressions here!
This made a lot of people's "must play RPGS" lists, so I'm not surprised to see that a lot of people enjoy it. I got it cheap, and really look forward to playing it.
I'm just about to pop it in again now for a while. I got it for $15 new at Gamestop, so it would be hard to complain either way at that price, but I like it quite a bit so far. It isn't anything groundbreaking, but the combat is fun, graphics are pretty decent, and the story/dialogue is good so far! I'd definitely say there have been worse RPG's out the past few years that have been more popular, then again I've always kind of been a Square fanboy.
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P.S. The soundtrack so far reminds me of Japan quite a bit, I approve!
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All of the swearing at the menu screen sure makes you stand up and take notice, that's for sure!