stubbleman

@demoskinos said:

I was just implying that I doubt the gameplay is going to blow people away. I've never actually played a Ninja Gaiden game myself. But I think despite the gameplay looking maybe not the best, the style and variety would make it a worthy time investment somewhere later on down the line.

I really don't see me spending sixty dollars on it. Otherwise I'm totally interested. I somehow doubt this is going to be the return to form from Ninja Gaiden 3. But it looks fun and dumb and I'll be excited to see it hit like, twenty dollars or something and play it then.

I really love having alternate costumes in games. It makes it more fun for me having different outfits to choose from for, say, a jrpg or something. But sadly, costumes are one of the first things that developers want to throw up behind a pay wall. It makes me sick to my stomach to see a great looking game with cool looking costumes that you have to pay for separately. Because that makes sense for most people buying the game but me. I'm basically the one weird guy who gets fucked on that deal. And it doesn't really work very well for me with free to play games most of the time either, since I just don't get into multiplayer games much these days. But man, 3d fighting games can seriously fuck off with their four to ten dollar a piece costumes.

Seriously. The gameplay is brilliant if you have half an eye for what they're actually trying to do with it. Sure, the controls and feel aren't the best thing ever; this isn't a Platinum game or something. But people act like it plays like Pryzm or something. And that's just not the case. Hell, the gameplay is at least orders of magnitude better than Deadly Premonition's. And everyone here loves that game. And if people can be bothered to think something as dull as Assassin's Creed has decent combat, then there's nothing wrong with Nier's.

Let me start by saying that this doesn't sound like the series for you. But for what it's worth, Drakengard at least did grotesquely horrible awful with enough charisma and originality that it justifies it's shittiness. Nier, on the other hand, isn't just about horrible shitty people. It's about people who have horribly fucked up lives, and who sometimes do fucked up things, but there isn't the same sense of senselessness and hatefulness in Nier as there was in Drakengard. Hell, I would even call Nier a really awesome twist on the whole JRPG 'gang of weird unlikely heroes become friends and save the world through love and friendship' trope.

When Yakuza 4 had just come out, I was playing it pretty much for days at a time, and when I would get out of the apartment to go get food or whatever, I would freak out every time I saw like, a tiny bit a broken glass glimmer in the light, because it looked like a fucking storage locker key lying on the ground. That was the point at which I realized I had been playing too much Yakuza and was starting to lose grip on reality. Fun times though.

See, I didn't really notice that myself. It seemed like he mostly just scowled at people and told them to shut up when they spoke to him. Though I would love to see a random aside, where Yasha or someone sits him down to give a powerpoint presentation on materials unaccounted for or something.

Man does Knytt Underground look rad. I played the demo on the vita, and I keep watching for it to go on sale. Last time it did, I had exactly four cents less than I needed in my psn wallet and no way to rectify the situation. But what I've played of it is awesome, the music and mood especially. And I like that they lean more on good puzzles to carry the pace of the game, as opposed to something else. It gives the game personality and makes it suited to satisfying a different kind of mood for when you're sick of your action games.

Also maybe look into Iji? It really veers off from the formula, but it still retains a lot of those basic concepts.

It's also worth noting that the changes in golden make the difficulty level much lower over all. By new game plus it will be pretty trivial to blast through a max all s-link run and see whatever you might have missed the first time. So, no pressure really.

Couldn't you just get the soundtrack and save yourself the trouble of playing the game though?

You know, I used to see those people who would talk about Oblivion like it was the worst piece of garbage ever to be pressed to disc. Or remember when Fallout 3 was announced, and all those Fallout fans immediately started gnashing their teeth, and then gnashed them even harder once the game was out? I never really understood that; what would compel a person to be some singularly determined to despise what was otherwise, and for all intents and purposes a fairly compelling game experience.

But then I played Dark Souls. I can scarcely think of any other games I despise as much as I do Dark Souls. It's not just that I don't like it. It's that it wears the same skin as Demon's Souls. like It killed one of my favorite games of all time and then skinned it and then dressed up in a suit made out of the skin, Buffalo Bill style, and then showed up to my birthday party wearing it. It's got the same spell system and the same hud, the same weapons and controls and it's even got sparkly. But it's not the same. It's some deranged interloper pretending like it's the game that I love. I can't even enjoy Kuon or Eternal Ring like I used to now because they remind me of Dark Souls. When I play Demon's Souls, in the back of my mind I'm thinking about how much I hate Dark Souls.

I'm not sure if there was an option for that on the poll though.