yeah I fished a bunch in the flooded city too. fuck you, game. then I gave the couple 50k g but beat the game before I ever finished their quest chain
Anyone who got the PC version - howās the port? Any issues?
Runs a little rougher than youād expect based on the graphical complexity. I settled on medium settings, no AA, and 1440p for 50-60 fps on a Haswell i5 and GTX 980.
In fullscreen thereās a bug where the frame buffer is 900p and the frame rate also takes a hit so Iāve been using windowed and a tray app called borderless gaming to fix it.
The intro sequence in particular runs poorly relative to the scene complexity, but once you get into the game proper itās OK.
I wouldnāt say thatās that much rougher than expected ā a 980 is a little more than twice as powerful as the PS4 GPU, but 1440p is also a little more than twice as many pixels as 900p. itās true the game never looks that graphically complex but the character models are all pretty nice, thereās a lot of stuff onscreen at certain times, and most of the games that run at 60fps on PS4 are up-ports from prior generations, so I donāt think theyāre that far wide of their mark here
Is the PS4 version no AA as well?
Iām now playing on a 1080p screen and itās at 60 fps the majority of the time.
It looks good to be sure! Itās just the first time Platinum PC ports have increased requirements and they mean it.
no idea, I only play PS4 stuff on a 720p display (my projector, or remote play) so everything looks supersampled
Hmm. I found something strange and Iām not sure if itās an easter egg or something Iām supposed to come across in the future.
Fun!
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finished loop 3, still feels like so many things left to do
Ending E: Major meta-sentiments. Nudged the whole experience into an A+.
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peeked at a guide: mother of god there are 26 endings
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Only 5 of those are actual endings, though. The rest are jokes.
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It took me a while to setup but after some tweaking itās running very smoothly.
I did find out that it wasnāt initially usually my graphics card for whatever dumb reason and had to mess with some options to get that fixed. It also doesnāt seem to be very optimized.
Game is gorgeous and wonderful. I can give my specs and how Iām running it if youāre interested (playing on a laptop).
Iām curious - is the āself-destructā function meaningful at all?
The sloppiness of the combat is just now starting to get to me. Iām getting way to many of those āI know I hit the button at the right time but missed the dodgeā moments. Up to now the boss fights really havenāt had that feeling of satisfaction of knowing an action to counter and then trying to get as big a reward as you can. Itās fine enough for the standard encounters in the field but I was hoping boss fights mightāve played it closer to Platinumās usual fare.
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I just started loop b and I wished a little I was playing in Japanese for the end, but this game throws too much information at me to parse it while fighting and doing stuff so English will have to do.
On the plus side one of the pods is voiced by this girl I knew in Japan, so that was cool to find out!
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The combat is designed a lot more like the original Nier than is initially made clear, but thereās just enough Platinum Trappings to cause problems, like your wonky showboat attack animations and The Fucking Bayonetta Dodge. These are two flavors that really donāt go great together, and a lot of the game is struggling to reconcile these somehow.
I really wish you could independently switch main pod attacks and cooldown pod attacks, rather than both as a set, without going into the menus. I mean, going into the pause menus is basically always safer, especially with the US versionās normal Circle/X Confirmation Confusion, but it makes the quick switch feel a lot less useful.
Hard Mode gets a lot more bearable once you upgrade weapons and start stacking Max HP Up, so you can get an extra 20% health and take two hits before dying against anything thatās not a boss. But the multiplier for fighting higher-level enemies is really brutal, and makes certain side-quests basically impossible without either leaving for a while (because grinding is not particularly easy) or finding a risky cheeseball strategy to fight dangerous enemies, like other YorHa units, who donāt telegraph attacks, or the robot with the unbreakable shield and the lightning AOE stomp.
edit edit: Iām glad there are still sidequests that just straight-up end badly for everyone involved.
It gives you at least one of the joke endings and later on it becomes something else
There is a sidequest where you bug test a video game
God I love this game
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itās improved if you play it right after gravity rush 2 and yakuza 0, so you can rememeber that the entire nation of japan still has not realized that itās difficult to use the right analog stick and face buttons simultaneously
Seriously, this one had me cracking up. I love the items you had to go get for it too.
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Wait, are you not using the lock on? I havenāt really had a problem with the right stick/face buttons, but I normally am not too bothered by that.