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Platinum Games

We salute you.

You might want to take a shower now though. Good luck washing the stains from your soul.
 
If it's line in books you need to find, you can pm me as well. I've read the worst from the worst.

I mean, I read "Mai Chan's Daily Life" just to past the time by so dinner would be done.
 
Agent York said:
I aint no coward, have your screencap.
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Decided to see what the fuss was all about... Pretty messed up to say the least, that crop was more necessary than anyone might think.
I also recognize that art style and that guy has some issues I'll tell you what.

Edit: It's kinda sad how desensitized I am to these kinds of things. I wanted to be more offended or outraged but honestly I've seen worse.
 
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Definitely reversing that box art.
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Nier demo is up in JP store, has full English text/subs. Should release on NA store in 12 hours or so.

Have ten minutes left on the download. A very long ten minutes.
 
Also has English voices it turns out. If the full game releases like this guess I'm just importing.

Notes.
Gameplay feels a decent amount like Revengeance. You have a perfect dodge > counter instead of a parry. Shades of Bayonetta and Nier as well.
Soundtrack is great.
You can pet your little robot. It also functions as a flashlight.
You have a double jump and very short (and very cute) glide.
Weapons have stories associated with them.
Weapons groups (in the demo) are Short Swords, Long Swords, Spears and Bracers. Bare fists are an option, do like no damage.
You can change between your weapon sets mid combo.
If you knock enemies down you can do a finisher, or launcher, hard to tell since it killed the enemies I did it on (grunts).
Your OS counts as an equipment slot, so you can remove it to kill yourself.
Everything outside of the combat feels very ARPG, where in combat feels like Platinum fare.
You can shoot the birds in the distance.
There are sidescrolling sections, top down sections (during which launchers activate, but don't launch, so you end up in the air comboing nothing) and uh, another kind of section I don't want to spoil.
That fucking boss fight though. That ending though.

If you wanted to live in a world where Nier had good gameplay, you're in it. Let's hope Taro delivers on his end.
 
Good to hear, I'll put in a preorder soon, I'll prob pick up that Let's play of NIer from the best friends again because I feel like the whiplash of going from Nier to Automata will be extraordinarily strong
 
Wonder if we'll ever know why it got the axe

Hopefully, Kamiya's next efforts will be more fruitful
 
Ruin said:
Wonder if we'll ever know why it got the axe

Hopefully, Kamiya's next efforts will be more fruitful
Just a hunch, but historically, Kamiya has never enjoyed having people tell him what to do or how to do things. And as a Third Party publication endorsed and funded by them, Microsoft must have been involved with the game on a deep level, and Kamiya hasn't had to deal with a Publisher as potentially inclusive in quite some time (He's mentioned before about annoyances with Sega's marketing division for Bayo 1, but nothing beyond that. And Nintendo seemed to be pretty hands-off for W101 and Bayo 2's production).

The only comment we have that indicates any issues is this vague tweet from over a year ago, and we can only draw speculation from. Unless if Kamiya suddenly goes on a Twitter rant, I doubt we're gonna get anymore info regarding it.
 
Hope Kamiya is alright, he's looked miserable since day one of this, you could tell they were shoving him out during events and he felt like a dancing monkey. I lost faith in this game a long time ago though, even if my Windows 10 PC could run it, they've been super sketchy about showing anything and what they have shown are blatantly mock ups, now we know why.

That said, it's funny, when Xbox One was starting up they announced Phantom Dust, Scalebound and D4 and I knew it was a trap to trick me and people with similar taste into thinking Xbox One would cater to us. All of those games are now dead and what we did get of D4 got released on Windows 7 even. What a joke.
 
From what I understand this was due to that strained relation. It totally stopped development late 2016. Microsoft probably lost a good partner in platinum through this
 
North888 said:
From what I understand this was due to that strained relation. It totally stopped development late 2016. Microsoft probably lost a good partner in platinum through this
From what I've read it wasn't so much that development stopped but that several senior designers had to take a break (due to stress) and when they returned the game was too far behind schedule and so it was cancelled (http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2...um-part-ways-on-scalebound-development-ceased).
 
Reminder these are Japanese workers, most of whom worked at Capcom. Having to stop due to stress means that project was fucked up.
 
hopefully they can give their completed work a new coat of paint and switch -cough- the project to a new publisher
 
I really wish they had an option other than mercenary console exclusives. Oh well, at least it means work and we got Wonderful 101 out of the last set.

If Nier is successful maybe they'll get more third party work. Shame about Konami.
 
He's pretty damn funny and he knows how to throw a great persona out there. I feel like some of his older philosophical ramblings on games can be a biiiit pretentious or silly at times (although, that may be an intentional part of that on-stage persona), but his ideas have definitely born some imaginative fruit.
 
My dream is a Berserk game made by Platinum games
 
FastLikeLightning said:
The full trophy list for NieR Automata is out. If you care about spoilers, then AVOID AT ALL COST. THERE ARE MAJOR SPOILERS IN THOSE TROPHIES. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
Thanks for the warning, any idea on how tough of a Platinum it is without too much spoilers?
 
Jutsei said:
Thanks for the warning, any idea on how tough of a Platinum it is without too much spoilers?

Most of them are just for completion; beat this area, collect these upgrades, do these sidequests, etc.
Really depends on how hard it is to do those things.
Also worth noting that there are no achievements that are tied to beating the game on higher difficulties as far as I can tell, so you won't need to play on one-hit-kill mode for the Platinum.
 
Compare Metal Gear Rising with Berserk Musou and tell me which one has a combat that feels more like the manga.
 
Yeah, but why would combo kings Platinum make a game where the main character usually settles fights within the first swing?
 
So excited for Nier and it comes out on my bday!!!
 
SanoBaron said:
Yeah, but why would combo kings Platinum make a game where the main character usually settles fights within the first swing?
Not really. Many fights with bigger enemies. Took a lot of cannonballs, arrows and daggers to finish. Also, Griffith, caska, serpico and the dumb kid with the fire knife could be combo oriented.

Revengeance had a big sword as a weapon too. It worked
 
DukeMagus said:
Not really. Many fights with bigger enemies. Took a lot of cannonballs, arrows and daggers to finish. Also, Griffith, caska, serpico and the dumb kid with the fire knife could be combo oriented.

Revengeance had a big sword as a weapon too. It worked
I'm not saying the other characters wouldn't work with the Platinum touch, fuck yes I wanna see Serpico combos.

but with Guts, he will always use the Dragonslayer (or a large sword in general). I mean, the main reason why the Platinum touch works in a lot of games is because you can mow through mooks while learning and getting timing on the mechanics of the game. with Guts, if they wanted it to stick to feeling like YOU are playing Guts, you'd have no chance to test out combos as you'll be busy tearing everything apart in one hit. yes, I know boss fights like Zodd and Mozgus could have chances to use combos, but there's not really any other place for him to do it.

hell, even Mozgus' minions with demonic powers were torn to shreds easily.
 
there's still a PC version coming out of automata, right? I've heard conflicting reports about a release date changing multiple times.
 
That release date was edited out of their press release IIRC, so there's a pretty good chance it got pushed back.

In other news, NieR Automata is out in Japan! And it has full english audio and text options. If you make or have a JP PSN alt account, you can actually play the game right now if you want to.
 
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