/jp/ - Otaku Culture

[Dogi !gxm5fvgBZ6 No.]

Would Nier be considered /jp/ material?

One point in the game has text adventures for you to go through, and most of kaine's backstory in path B is told in novel format

Game itself has some stories that could rival most visual novels.

[/v/ Nomad No.]

/jp/ won't like it because there's only one little girl instead of an army of them.

[Arcueid Brunestud !ARCIkc4cG6 No.]

There's also a dickgirl in it, I think, which makes it more /jp/ related than ever.

[Anonymous No.]

Never heard of it before I saw Yahtzee's review on it.
Looked pretty "meh".

[Anonymous No.]

/jp/ doesn't like otaku culture the same way /v/ doesn't like games

[Anonymous No.]

>>5201196
It's not a dickgirl. Retard reviewers are retarded.

[Anonymous No.]

holy shit dogi you still post?

[Anonymous No.]

I don't even know what hell Nier might be.

[ZUN !barYV1VtIA No.]

Is it Japanese?

If yes, then it's /jp/ material.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5201230
Iji is /jp/ even though it's not Japanese ok

[Arcueid Brunestud !ARCIkc4cG6 No.]

>>5201224

So what is it?

[ZUN !barYV1VtIA No.]

>>5201233
Iji is doujin so she is fine.

Plus she is 2D; we love 2D girls.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5201234
It's a futa.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5201237
ZUN!bar having mighty fine taste in games.jpg

[Anonymous No.]

http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2010/05/nier-review/

[Arcueid Brunestud !ARCIkc4cG6 No.]

>>5201248

Yeah, I just said that.

[Dogi !gxm5fvgBZ6 No.]

>>5201198
>Yahtzee's review

The man didn't even touch the side stories or so much as beat the game once. This is like Drakengard where you beat it multiple times for the complete story.

Hell didn't he say the music was bad?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNQww1Sme0o

>>5201224
She's a hermaphrodite, its just downplayed in the English version
>>5201226
Yeah, just not as much

[Anonymous No.]

>>5201234
they called her futanari because she was possessed by a male Shade. Does not change anything on her body other than him residing in her heart talking to her. Nothing more, nothing less. She's a woman.

[Dogi !gxm5fvgBZ6 No.]

>>5201260
She is shunned in her village as a child long before she was ever possessed by a shade as being a "freak". The boys would gang up and beat on her for claiming to be a girl

[Arcueid Brunestud !ARCIkc4cG6 No.]

>>5201281

Ha ha!

FORCED DRAMA!

[Anonymous No.]

>>5201193

There there, just move your hands a little higher girl and you'll touch Daddy's sweet spot.

[Dogi !gxm5fvgBZ6 No.]

>>5201255
>Nigga didn't mention story at all

Anyone but me on B ending? Fucking goddamn

[Anonymous No.]

>>5201198

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/extra-punctuation/7564-Extra-Punctuation-Chara
cter-Names.2

They bullshitted up the main character and plot for the Western audience, btw. Link above for more info.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5201259
Wow, that's a pretty nice song. What language is it?

[Anonymous No.]

>>5201318

"The worst part is it's the same game except the dialogue was changed so you are a teenage boy trying to save his sister, rather than an older man saving his daughter. So yes, an hilariously cliche, more horrible version of this game exists."

Oh god.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5201237
Yeah, but her character sprite was modeled in 3D like in 90s games.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5201318
I don't get that article. What does he want to convey anyway?

[Arcueid Brunestud !ARCIkc4cG6 No.]

>>5201332

This.

Hint: I am implying that he was trolling.

[Dogi !gxm5fvgBZ6 No.]

>>5201318
No, the "Brother" design was only the "original" in the sense that it was the look the character designer had in mind originally. Everyone else on the team wanted a Father design. Baby whined enough to get his original on the PS3 version of the game.

It's like if Nomura submits a new character and they send the design back saying "less zippers please"
>>5201323
Made up for the game. Each song draws from a different existing language though

[Anonymous No.]

>>5201332

There's two pages, the link takes you straight to page 2.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5201332

tl;dr:

Many RPGs these days put you in a straightforward role withacharacters, etc, etc. It's really more like a VN than an RPG. This is all, as it stands, just fine.

The stupid thing is when they let you customize the name of your character in such a game, because it makes no sense. You're not inserting yourself into the game: you're playing an existing character. And it just forces every single NPC to avoid saying your name in conversation.

Imagine Fate/Stay Night where you didn't play as Shirou, instead, you played as Twattycakes. This wouldn't work.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5201332

tl;dr:

Many RPGs these days put you in a straightforward role with no real decisions to make: you're playing an existing character, with existing relationships with other characters, etc. Something basically linear, i.e. more like Final Fantasy than, say, Mass Effect 2. It's really more like a VN than an RPG. This is all, as it stands, just fine.

The stupid thing is when they let you customize the name of your character in such a game, because it makes no sense. You're not inserting yourself into the game: you're playing an existing character. And it just forces every single NPC to avoid saying your name in conversation.

Imagine Fate/Stay Night where you didn't play as Shirou, instead, you played as Twattycakes. This wouldn't work.

[Arcueid Brunestud !ARCIkc4cG6 No.]

>>5201352

>Imagine Fate/Stay Night where you didn't play as Shirou, instead, you played as Twattycakes.

Don't mind me, man. You just totally blew my mind, is all.

[Anonymous No.]

Wait, I don't get it. What's the shittier version, the Japanese or Western one?

[Anonymous No.]

>>5201352
>Imagine Fate/Stay Night where you didn't play as Shirou, instead, you played as Twattycakes. This wouldn't work.

What? No that would've made it so much better, and it wasn't like fsn had any voice acting.

[ZUN !barYV1VtIA No.]

>>5201332
>>5201337

That's basically "game journalism" these days. The harder you troll, the more hits your article gets.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5201369
>What? No that would've made it so much better, and it wasn't like fsn had any voice acting.

[Arcueid Brunestud !ARCIkc4cG6 No.]

>>5201372

I'm really bothered by that.
I remember when I could read a gaming magazine without the Reviewer trolling me so hard that I could see his coolface through the pages.

[Dogi !gxm5fvgBZ6 No.]

>>5201354
Brother Nier is only on the japanese PS3. Every other release has Father Nier

Which is shittier depends on which design you like more and which approach appeals to you more. A Father trying to save his Daughter from a deadly disease or a brother trying to save his sister?

He was married in the canon too. Both versions

[Anonymous No.]

>>5201372
>The harder you troll, the more hits your article gets.
That's like that with everything. The more cynical and negative something is the more attention it gets. People like cynicism instead of praise. Like how a troll thread will hit 100+ posts in no time compared to someone starting a thread saying how much they enjoyed X which will die with 2 replies. Everyone wants to join in on the shitstorm and prove someone wrong.

[Anonymous No.]

It annoyed me as I was walking into the final encounter with the Shadowlord for ending D that he remains topless for the entire fucking game. You get some pretty sweet looking weapons and yet you still remain topless throughout. I think the designer of the western Nier is a fag rather than trying to make him 'macho'. The Japanese design looked so much better, in my opinion.

[Suika !IbukilEbpY No.]

Oh shit I love Nier. I managed to enjoy the text adventures more than most people would have.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA9gRdXHHxo

I vastly prefer adult father Nier to teen Nier. I hardly see enough "Protect the Daughter" and too much "Protect the sister who may or may not be blood related."

Also boar drifting.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5201448

>Boar drifting

It made me laugh when I seen an achievement popup when all I did was drift around on the Boar for like 10 minutes.

[Dogi !gxm5fvgBZ6 No.]

>>5201448
>boar drifting

[Suika !IbukilEbpY No.]

>>5201463
>>5201462
Man, when I found out I could DRIFT ON A BOAR, it was the best fucking thing ever. DRIFTING INTO SHADES, MULTI BOAR DRIFTING.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5201198
I'm surprised people still watch his bullshit.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5201488
If anything, it's a a bit of comedy now.

But anyone who takes his reviews seriously is an idiot. He'll sometimes bring up legitimate points, only to admit he didn't play the entire game.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5201506
You mean it wasn't always comedy?

[Anonymous No.]

>>5201448
His laugh at the end made me crack up so bad.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5201488

It's comedy, if you can't laugh at his comment in the latest video with the whole weight lifting until his chest was the size of blahblah then you have joy in your life.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5201318
protip, the father/daughter was what the creators originally created, the bishi/sister was created for eleven audiences

[Anonymous No.]

Is the game any good? I wish I could play as the penis girl.

[Anonymous No.]

Father Nier would be a good idea if he wasn't so generic looking.
He looks like he escaped from a bad western RPG.

[Suika !IbukilEbpY No.]

>>5201565
I enjoy it greatly. It has pseudo 3D danmaku. My only real qualm is FISHING QUESTS. Especially since I'm a completionist. Also shooting shadow lances at wolves is really satisfying.

[Dogi !gxm5fvgBZ6 No.]

>>5201575
He doesn't look as bad as some scenes make it seem. also I have the samurai outfit on him and it's pretty badass. Kaine's samurai outfit gives her underboob
>>5201579
I decided not to bother with the quests until C playthrough. Although I did a large number of them on A, ive skipped almost all of them on B so far. then again i completed all but two excluding fishing in the first part of the game.

Fishing wasn't bad once i learned where each fish i wanted shows up. The only point to it is the make catching larger fish easier though. and the fish monger selling them once you complete the quests

[Dogi !gxm5fvgBZ6 No.]

also On B path you see cutscenes about each boss before fighting them, and can understand what they say during the battles. Feels bad man.

[Anonymous No.]

dddddd

[Anonymous No.]

>>5201579

The fishing was stupidly easy. The plant stuff can easily be abused by changing your system clock. Grinding components to upgrade your weapons though.. jesus christ, never again. Have fun getting shit like Eagle Eggs is all I can say..

>>5201626

Don't leave me... Beepy...

;_;

[Anonymous No.]

>>5201506
It always was. Though people do take them seriously.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5201673
>I was going to buy this but I decided not to after you openly focused on the bad part of the game, blew it out of proportion, and stretched it out for 5 minutes while making obvious mistakes.

[Dogi !gxm5fvgBZ6 No.]

total bro

[Anonymous No.]

>>5201806

I laughed when Fyra died. I mean she was married for about 30 seconds before getting killed.

[Dogi !gxm5fvgBZ6 No.]

>>5201847
I was expecting something bad to happen, but not that. B path shows the wolves were after revenge themselves.


and I'm just watching popola dance while Kaine and Emil beat on devola. her dancing is as beautiful as their song

[Dogi !gxm5fvgBZ6 No.]

[Anonymous No.]

>>5201863

She dances? I honestly never noticed.

[Dogi !gxm5fvgBZ6 No.]

>>5202095
Yeah, it's pretty well done too. Go redo that part if you feel like getting through the boar again and watch her instead of fighting.