SkylineRKR
Member
Yeah I have 25% word. And, Hard mode seems to increase drop rates so play on that. Its not much tougher anyway. Perhaps if your weapons are level 1 still.
-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
Yeah I have 25% word. And, Hard mode seems to increase drop rates so play on that. Its not much tougher anyway. Perhaps if your weapons are level 1 still.
nowhat
Gold Member
So... you have w?
apologies, it's way past the time I should have been asleep already, but instead I've been quite enjoying my evening/night whiskey
Last edited:
Unknown Soldier
Member
Adult brother Nier is pretty awesome, yeah.
For my next playthrough I'm going to sample the JP voice work. Mai Kadowaki is famously the voice of JP Emil.
shenmue mugen
Member
My GOODNESS...Grimoire Weiss is so sarcastic and funny...his lines are great.
I always prefer japanese voice acting in my japanese games, but in Nier Replicant I'd rather listen to the english voice acting.
The voice of the dubber fits like a glove for the Grimoire Weiss and his lines and personality! It's just perfect....I mean, PERFECT.
I always prefer japanese voice acting in my japanese games, but in Nier Replicant I'd rather listen to the english voice acting.
The voice of the dubber fits like a glove for the Grimoire Weiss and his lines and personality! It's just perfect....I mean, PERFECT.
Punished Miku
Human Rights Subscription Service
Im hardcore fishing. Been doing that almost all night lol. Probably one of the best fishing mini games ever. Simple but relaxing and fun.
xellos2099alpha
Member
Weiss SHINE when you are doign the fishing quest. He yell out i learn my lesson i will keep quiet then Nier tell him to be quiet lol
SkylineRKR
Member
I'd upgrade by then. It seems playthrough A endgame is tailored to level 2 weapons. Above that it becomes a cakewalk. I beat Hard with Level 2 weapons and a level 3 weapon and only the big armored guys were sponges but downed enemies can be finished anyway. Try to upgrade the Phoenix Spear or Dagger. Or the Iron Will. Those were my faves probably.
Last edited:
IbizaPocholo
NeoGAFs Kent Brockman
Komatsu
Member
Bridges
Member
Yeah I don't understand how so many people say this "finally looks like a 360/PS3 era title", the game looks fantastic and is one of the best visual upgrades I've seen for a game that wasn't a full-on remake
SkylineRKR
Member
NieR Replicant doesn't look like a PS3 game. But the old game actually looked PS2 ish.
Replicant looks like a base PS4/X1 game. Which it is. Not the most impressive game on these systems but it runs very solid and a lot happens on screen without the game tanking.
Replicant looks like a base PS4/X1 game. Which it is. Not the most impressive game on these systems but it runs very solid and a lot happens on screen without the game tanking.
nowhat
Gold Member
cireza
Member
Hum, so there isn't a New Game+ option that restarts from Route A after you have completed every route ? In Automata you can actually select any Chapter once the game is completed, to get whatever you missed.
Last edited:
Retro_Stew
Member
So you're telling us there are no way to 100% the game if we skipped some side quests in the first part of the story ? 
Werewolf Jones
Member
Name the tune for me that plays during this part. Please.
ValiantTraveler
Member
shenmue mugen
Member
Man what an experience. I just cannot decide which one is better...Replicant or Automata
Mister Wolf
Member
Young adult Nier has a really cool design. I'm glad they got rid of the barbarian geezer design for the west.
shenmue mugen
Member
I really enjoyed it too.
And Grimoire Weiss is the BEST character I came across in years. I haven't finished the game yet but I know I'll miss him.
shenmue mugen
Member
You ask if you should try Replicant? Well, I definately recommend it.
StateofMajora
Banned
I hate to say it, but the music has taken a huge hit. Hope so badly for a gestalt music patch.
Still going through the first playthrough, enjoying it a lot, graphics are way better than original.
Couldn't disagree more, but it's a change I can live with.
Still going through the first playthrough, enjoying it a lot, graphics are way better than original.
shenmue mugen
Member
Since I never played the original I cannot compare both soundtracks but even so the soundtrack in the Remake is fantastic.
Danjin44
The nicest person on this forum
No you don't need DLC weapons, just all the weapons in base game.
longdi
Banned
Imo automata has tighter progression and better controls, combat.
i think you will like this, but need to get used to the fetch quests design.
killatopak
Gold Member
Graphics, scale, less remixes(like no 8 bit version of songs), trophies, quests are a bit more fetch questy.
Subjective things where it‘s up to player to decide which ones are better.
Story, music, ending progression like route A to B to C, combat, art direction, party, battle customization, voice overs.
Komatsu
Member
There are loading screens between zones (it was originally a PS3/360 game) and the side quests can be a bit of a slog. That's all.
ValiantTraveler
Member
Roughly how many hours does each playthrough have?and you should at least play through twice. to get endings a and b.
there are 5 endings, the new endings d im not feeling it. a strange twist that im not expecting and didn't fit the theme. but i can see why they did it
killatopak
Gold Member
Maybe 20+ on ending A.
You restart halfway through the story after every ending so roughly 5-10 hours on subsequent playthrough.
longdi
Banned
i don't remember clearly it's been years sorry
its about 25hrs for first endings, and 2nd should take half the time? or you could watch youtube for subsequent playthrough (you should)
Last edited:
Punished Miku
Human Rights Subscription Service
Seems the part 1 quest completion is 50% now and not 51%. 36 side quests.
Going to start up the road to part 2!
Going to start up the road to part 2!
Danteyke223
Member
PC version is a mess in terms of performance, any news about patches or fixes for this ? First time where I wish I had a console and played it there.
IbizaPocholo
NeoGAFs Kent Brockman
NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139... released on PS4, Xbox One and PC on April 23rd, and introduced fans of NieR: Automata to the original masterpiece of despair. The remaster/“upgrade” improves the visuals and combat along with full voice work, rearranged music and new tracks. But perhaps most importantly, it adds new story content.
There's a brand new ending which is available after Ending D once your save data has been deleted.
Last edited:
cireza
Member
So I completed the game. I greatly enjoyed my time with this game (around 40 hours). Here are my thoughts...
First, the problems :
- overall game-design as us doing the same things again way too often, and it could have been better handled (run C should not even exist)
- we get too many fetch-quests too early : the game does not seduce instantly. As the beginning of the game consists in a lot of round trips, some uninteresting things to do, as well a the pretty simple design of the dungeons, having a ton of fetch-quests added over all of this is makes everything way too boring/tedious. To keep interested in the game, I had to skip most of the fetch-quests and advance with the story.
- then at some point (when you start being really into the world) you discover that you cannot do these quests anymore... This is poorly designed overall. It should have been better balanced.
Despite these obvious game-design flaws, I found that it was a great game :
- technically speaking, the game is pretty, the picture is clean, and lighting is great. Also a very smooth framerate at 60. This is everything I like in my games. Nothing beats a clean presentation like this, and the game is not riddled with all those shitty special effects like fog or particles.
- art direction is great. The places are superb and very different, although they are not that numerous.
- english dub was pretty great if you ask me.
- characters are excellent and their discussions are a huge part of the enjoyment you get out of the game.
- battle system is good and serviceable. It does what it has to do, and does it well. It is simple, but well executed.
- soundtrack is godlike.
- the story is another high point of course.
- animation is great as well, and a pleasure to look at.
As for NieR Automata, you need to see all five endings. Quite a lot of effort went into the last one.
- overall game-design as us doing the same things again way too often, and it could have been better handled (run C should not even exist)
- we get too many fetch-quests too early : the game does not seduce instantly. As the beginning of the game consists in a lot of round trips, some uninteresting things to do, as well a the pretty simple design of the dungeons, having a ton of fetch-quests added over all of this is makes everything way too boring/tedious. To keep interested in the game, I had to skip most of the fetch-quests and advance with the story.
- then at some point (when you start being really into the world) you discover that you cannot do these quests anymore... This is poorly designed overall. It should have been better balanced.
Despite these obvious game-design flaws, I found that it was a great game :
- technically speaking, the game is pretty, the picture is clean, and lighting is great. Also a very smooth framerate at 60. This is everything I like in my games. Nothing beats a clean presentation like this, and the game is not riddled with all those shitty special effects like fog or particles.
- art direction is great. The places are superb and very different, although they are not that numerous.
- english dub was pretty great if you ask me.
- characters are excellent and their discussions are a huge part of the enjoyment you get out of the game.
- battle system is good and serviceable. It does what it has to do, and does it well. It is simple, but well executed.
- soundtrack is godlike.
- the story is another high point of course.
- animation is great as well, and a pleasure to look at.
As for NieR Automata, you need to see all five endings. Quite a lot of effort went into the last one.
Last edited:
Ignore it. Wait for 15 nightmares in playthrough b, then play door three until you have what you need. You won't get one every time, but you'll get money, 10000xp and rare items every time you play through it, so it's a better investment of time than running back and forth the aerie a million times.
Cyborg
Member
You mean the diary stuff?