[geinou]

You are my hero, thank you!

[BotageL]

fyi you can also buy the soundtrack from us itunes for cheap, in great quality and no drm, if you're that way inclined

(i was)
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[Rud31]

EDITED.
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[geinou]

Oh, kinda surprised that it is on iTunes. Should check it more often!

[Moogs]

Jesus christ why cant you guys just give the link to this thing? Or at the very least stop talking about it!!!

[Sketch]

[glossolalia]

do the enemies have less health on the easier settings? there are quite a few neat ideas so far but it's mostly testing my patience.

[Rud31]

If you're refering to the giant shade going towards the sea village, don't fight it yet.
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[geinou]

I killed him after 5 attempts. You really have to be patient and have to avoid getting hit at all costs.

[stotelheim]

there's no real reason to kill it that early though, he doesn't drop anything you really want or need
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[LandRoverAttack]

I thought Nier was constantly making my PS3 beep for quite some time. Until I realized that the noise it made when your energy restores to full is nearly identical to the beep the PS3 makes...

Also, I, like others before me, failed to notice the quest marker for the fishing quest and failed at fishing for quite some time before turning off the game and going to sleep. Now that I've looked it up, I'll get back on track soon enough.
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[Rud31]

Yeah it's interesting how the fishing is structured much like old RPGs. It doesn't tell you it's too difficult/impossible it just assumes that you'll understand it's too difficult/impossible. Video Game Logic tells us we were doing something wrong though, so you keep trying.
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[Gironika]

13 bucks was too good an offer to not buy it, so … I guess I have it now. Not that I'll immediately start playing it, since I still have to finish the current game (IU) first, but I kinda am looking forward to this.
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[remote]

Where did you get it for $13? I was about to order it from Amazon for $20, but then I decided to read this thread.
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[Dark Age Iron Savior]

Gironika, I like you and I like really dumb games, but please tell me "IU" isn't Infinite Undiscovery.

[Rud31]

Invisible Unicorns
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[remote]

I, Uh...
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[smartblue]

I don't know where he found it for 13, but it is 18 used over at gamefly. That includes shipping I think. I got it for 20 new at k mart, which in the end I feel was a steal.
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[BotageL]

guys i played through and enjoyed infinite undiscovery

*ducks*
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[smartblue]

I've personally yet to find a tri ace game that does anything for me. I think I liked tales of phantasia? I also am sort of ambivalent on Motoi Sakaraba's music.

This probably needs a new thread. I can do this later when I'm not on my phone.
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[Gironika]

[smartblue]

I can disect my problems with Motoi Sakaraba tonight, for Gironika and other soundtrack fans, when I get off work. Look for the thread tomorrow I guess since I work really late shifts.
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[Dark Age Iron Savior]

for when the thread is inevitably split off: I think Sakuraba can be extremely repetitive and he composes for way too many games, but "Highbrow" (especially the band/live versions) makes me forgive it all.

[Rud31]

Looks like a Nier Arrange soundtrack is coming out and there's an interview with the creator!

I'll look at the interview when I'm not trying to sleep. Someone send me a pm reminding me!
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[Gironika]

Big surprise, game arrived today and is, still surprising, actually a sealed, new copy. Coincidentally (not really), I continued playing IU and reached the second disc in a record-time as far as Squenix, let alone tri-Ace games are concerned: 10 hours and some minutes.
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[geinou]

Play Nier. It is beautiful and you will constatnly laugh about stuff. It will be one of your favorite games this year!

[Rud31]

I was giving PSN status messages to manmachine and asked him if he wanted me to stop, but I think he interpretted as asking him to stop so he told me I couldn't stop him.
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[Gironika]

brother (currently playing new Castlevania) played an hour on Sunday and already didn't want to go back to Castlevania anymore. This made me wonder, whether a.) Nier is so good, b.) Castlevania so bad, c.) both apply. In any case, I'm looking forward to playing Nier, have only seen the opening movie and already had a great time, which is a good sign in my book.
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[remote]

I've still only played for a couple of hours (Demon's Souls still has me by the throat (and I like it)), but Nier mostly struck me as, within those two hours, aesthetically pleasing yet implausible and melodramatic, narrative-wise. The way the events progress -- Nier decides to randomly tell Yonah some bedtime story about a flower that will cure her of her illness forever, and then he acts confused and angry when he finds out she went to the place where she might find this flower (cue GIVE ME BACK MY DAUGHTER YOU MONSTERS) -- is just really silly and kind of anime, but I guess I'm just as silly for being slightly annoyed at poor writing in a jRPG. Even one as unique as this. It just goes to show even further that at this point I can generally only appreciate really minimal or weird/surreal storytelling in videogames (e.g. Shadow of the Colossus, Demon's Souls, Killer7, etc. -- though there are exceptions, such as Half-Life 2). Maybe Nier gets better eventually, after its weak beginning, but for now I'm only drawn in by its combat and atmosphere.

Oh, and then there's the old guy with Alzheimer's muttering about vegetables on sale "today" (every day) whenever you walk past him, as he wanders aimlessly outside the library. What is this, Oblivion?

[Rud31]

keep playing antitype.
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[remote]

I'm a little sad to hear this about the new Castlevania. I was looking at the Gamefan review in Barnes & Noble last night, and it looks kind of gorgeous... but I could see (based on the demo) how it's not a very good game. I've never liked God of War very much, either, so...
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[JoeX111]

For those asking about prices, it's now $15 new at GameStop and like $12 used or so. I'll probably pick it up on my way home from work today. Any notable differences between the PS3 and 360 versions?

[BotageL]

[costel]

[BotageL]

The DLC is kinda cool if you're a big fan of the gameplay. It's all constructed of existing content -- hell, it's called "The World of the Recycled Vessel" -- but some of the fights are tough and/or interesting if you're properly leveled for them. There are a couple of gimmick areas which will require you to use Word abilities you might otherwise never touch, plus the remixed soundtrack and funky visual filters give the whole thing this really weird ambiance. Plus, the alternate costumes are pretty neat.
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[remote]

That's what I'm wondering. Does it unlock alternate costumes in the game proper?
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[smartblue]

It is a selectable campaign from your house, and I think the costumes are for the whole game, but only selectable when you start.
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[BotageL]

The costumes, like the difficulty level, are selected from the Options menu on the title screen. You can save your game, quit to title, change the difficulty or outfit, then load your save again and the changes will stick.
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