It should be stated that in the original Ps3 Us release in 15 Nightmares DLC you did play as Young Protag. Sort of switcheroo bonus.
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I got ending A and something that caught my eye was how the entire credits are listed alphabetically rather than by profession.
I haven’t seen many (if any) games that do this, making it seem more collaborative in the process so I checked the original to see what that did.
And as you see, they’ve changed it from being sorted by SURNAME to FIRST NAME in root 1.5. As historical revisionism goes, this is by far the most egregious example.
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Façade might be my favourite videogame city
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Pretty bizarre thing to change but there are quite a lot of games that organised by name alphabetically and it’s been a growing trend lately. I think to make game developers seem like they have more of a flat hierarchical structure.
I think it was popularised by Valve and can be seen in recent Nintendo games
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Remember this being a discussion point even in the ancient Half-life 2 episode of the Selectbutton.net podcast.
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I downloaded the Automata costumes and Kaine’s redesign makes a lot more sense now.
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still waiting for my copy from the SquEnix store to arrive and having a bit of fomo :\
it’s fine; i’ll get to it when i get to it, though that said, i’m not like…as pumped to play this as i was Automata. mostly because i’ve already played NieR, i’d imagine.
i’m sure the feeling will change once i begin, though
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I’m actually trying to do all the sidequests in the first half and dang there are a lot.
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Yeah, I’m playing this for the first time and I’m kind of astonished at how the sidequests just keep coming. They’re boring and pleasant, decent podcast listening fodder. But a question for Nier experts: is it actually worth doing them all?
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Not particularly. They are excuses to hang out in the world, if you like doing that. I’m a completionist at heart and fell deeply in love with Nier so I did them all, even the stupid “Yoko Taro is fucking with you” ones. I’d say keep doing them until you find them more annoying than charming.
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do the one at the start that unlocks boar travel and then look up which ones give you a weapon (none in the first half of the game) if you want to get the other endings
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The fishing chain is nice for getting money easily if you are broke. Though the ones in Facade also give you a ton of money as well.
I just got access to two-handers and spears, and I did every quest available prior to this point.
So far, the highlight has definitely been the Barren Shrine for main quest stuff (I love rules) and fishing for sidequests (fish must suffer).
Deepest sighs have been Junkheap for main quest (kid’s obnoxious) and anything that involves collecting ingredients for sidequests (drop rates suck).
I really liked combat in the first half of the game, but the brief taste I got of the new enemies after The Change makes me think it might be time to try out those auto-battle settings.
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Completely forgot I switched the soundtrack to Automata towards the end to spice things up and wondered how on earth Taro got away with playing Weight Of The World after the credits of Ending D.
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The mesages show up on the PS4 version as well in the community tab thing.
Uggghh, this is such a bummer. I need to play this on away mode because this dude from my old neighborhood insists on sending me plot details every time I play while trying to get me to check out his stream.
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Can you just unfriend him? Because that seems like unfriend time.
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Yeah, I need to get up the nerve to do that.
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