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Nier and Nierer Still

Giant gross tendril monsters and flying books!

Feb. 17 2010

Posted by: Ryan

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Nier

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I kinda think it looks like a mess : /
Hope it plays well though.

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@NinjaHunter: What that character had on in this trailer wasn't even a nightgown, it was some uncomfortable lacey thing you might find at Victoria's Secret or an adult store. It's meant to be stared at for a minute and then removed, because it'll get ripped apart if she moves wrong and it's /really/ expensive.
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Man, what happened to that guy's awesome beard? That was the only thing this game had going for it.

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This looks awful. This is an early alpha version right? It's not going to be this shitty when it comes out, is it?

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What a tragedy of art design.

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pickle-monster?

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Only art design that wasn't terrible was the woman. Voice acting on par with a sub-par anime translation =( Not to mention the colors looked very washed out.

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you can really tell where they're putting all their time and effort... not here.. =p

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@dagas: I disagree, the woman looks like she was taken directly out of an Oblivion / Fallout 3 companion mod, and it's not just the outfit, the face is so generically anime-inspired. The fighting outfit that only makes sense to a man's second brain is just the frosting on top, and not in a good way, in my opinion.
 
I guess, and this isn't intended toward anyone in particular, no commentator here has suggested that that's their thing, but, it offers tentacles and a hermaphrodite protagonist, and there's a market for that.
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is that girl that said awesome is his daughter? she looks hot!

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Tentacle monsters coming back to life and exacting revenge on anime looking girl in a negligee you say?
SOLD!

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Looks like somebody forgot what RPG stands for. I can't wait to give this action-role-playing-game game a good shot.

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@AnnouncerGXZ said:
" is that girl that said awesome is his daughter? she looks hot! "
Boy are you in for a surprise, lol.
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WE PUT LAST GENERATION MODELS IN OUR GAME SO YOU KNOW IT'S GOOD

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@nanikore said:
" WE PUT LAST GENERATION MODELS IN OUR GAME SO YOU KNOW IT'S GOOD "
lmao - right?
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That was... awful...

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Awful another in the long line of awful Square Enix games

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Monster-dude looked alright.

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Monster looked cool.  Eh, who cares anyway, Victoria's Secret is clearly paying this games bills, we don't need to buy it.
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Edited By Tiwi

I am so confused about this game... so i if I can get this strait:
NIER is a 360 game which takes place 30 years later than the NIER that's for the ps3.
there's also a ps3 version of the 360 game called NIER replicant, but does not involve the same characters, just the same events. there's also some weird change in the art design for the ps3 version, of NIER, with a much younger protagonist...
*mind blown* 
Who the FUCK, thought this was a good idea??

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Giant gross monsters with tendril boobs??...ohh books, easy assumption though.
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Fighting in sexy underwear ... k 
 
Seriously, what happened to Square and Enix? Since the merger they are producing run-of-the-mill JPRGs left and right.

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you know what, square-enix just hasn't been putting out good games lately. (Except for the Dragon Quest, Dragon Quest monsters and etc.)
I liked the enix's style before it was merged and now it's just more square style.
And square style most of the time is crap. I mean I don't even like Final fantasy because I just find it too melo dramaish.
We need more different type of rpgs for current consoles from square-enix.
 
I don't know if Nier will have what we are looking for but I guess I'll just have to wait and see.
I am not really looking forward to it tho

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@tiwi said:
" I am so confused about this game... so i if I can get this strait: NIER is a 360 game which takes place 30 years later than the NIER that's for the ps3. there's also a ps3 version of the 360 game called NIER replicant, but does not involve the same characters, just the same events. there's also some weird change in the art design for the ps3 version, of NIER, with a much younger protagonist... *mind blown*  Who the FUCK, thought this was a good idea?? "
The other version is only coming out in Japan.
This version, with the older protagnist is being released for the PS3 and 360 in Western regions.
 
I kind of follow the logic..  Japan tends to like their younger heroes, while in the West people tend to react negatively to that sort of thing.  Personally, I much prefer the Conan-ish looking hero of our version, so yeah.
 
Not much else I have to say about the game though..  Graphics were unimpressive, style and universe are very unappealing and after games like Darksiders and Bayonetta..  this looks very tame, not in the least bit exciting or impressive.
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@AnnouncerGXZ said:
" is that girl that said awesome is his daughter? she looks hot! "
Dude, chicks with dicks.
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This looks like a 1st playable

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Meh.

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Edited By nierniews

Cavia told some delightfully fricked up stories in Drakengard 1 & 2, so I'm willing to gamble on their narrative chops again. Good video game stories are a little too rare these days. 
And what have the graphics got to do with anything? I'd happily see more money spent on halfway decent translation and localization than visual prettytude.

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I beg to differ, that was most defnitely not awesome.
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yikes

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What? Someone is gonna have to explain that to me later.

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That floating book looks pretty depressed.

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Which part of that boob is supposed to be nipple? Does she maybe just not have nipples?

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Makes you miss Squaresoft.

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good god no one is every happy FF13 was too pretty
now this is too ugly for you?
 
whatever, I'm interested, story makes a game for me.

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@yorro said:
" Makes you miss Squaresoft. "
Indeed. I saw the trailer for this first and it instantly made me think this could be a new Square RPG classic.. but the gameplay looks.. the same. So, I've lost interest.. and the story doesn't sound very good at all.
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Hell yeah this is gonna look so awesome on my PS2!

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aww, I was actually sort of interested until I saw this...what is it with Japanese storytelling and it's excessive melodrama? Not to mention the voice work sucks.