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Nier is the best motherfucking game
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Hey you might know me as 'that guy you confuse with Rust' or 'that guy who's obssessed with Valkyria Chronicles' or 'total asshole'
Anyways none of that shit matters because I'm here to talk about the greatest fucking game you've never played and that's Nier
What the fuck is Nier Rent
Nier is like a third person action-rpg that combines literally every genre of game that you can think of into one game
Seriously
God of War? Yep. Final Fantasy? Uh-huh. Demon's Souls? Of course. Monster Hunter? Yeah. Fucking Harvest Moon? Lost Odyssey? Resident Evil? Sin and Punishment? Yes
Seriously, I'm not joking if you've played a game in the last ten years, when you play Nier something in it will remind you of that game
Anyways this game is developed by Cavia
You might not know who Cavia is/was- they were a small development studio on the Enix side of S-E pre merger and they developed a bunch of weird as fuck games like:
Oh and Resident Evil Umbrella/Darkside Chronicles too
They got dissolved recently but pretty much everyone who worked in Cavia is still employed at S-E in some way so it's not a big deal
anyways if you've ever played any of the above games I've listed you'll notice that they're all horrible fucking games, mostly due to having horrible gameplay and incredibly disturbing/depressing storylines
But Nier is different! Nier has okay gameplay
That doesn't sound like a ringing endorsement of the gameplay, because it's not, but Nier totally makes up for it in other areas
(In case you're wondering Nier's gameplay is, it's roughly equivalent to God of War's- combo based with plenty of powerful magic attacks at your disposal)
Gameplay ain't too hot though. I mean it's servicable but whatev's
But here's why you play it:
The Music
Seriously this music is some of the best you'll ever hear in a video game, it is so fucking good
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTLqLsf1n54
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUsS0qnbhtc&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKjDUlpAspI
Now imagine that but everything in the game. Seriously every track in this game is so, so good, and there's a shitload of them
The Bosses
Yeah this game has some excellent fucking bosses, they're really well designed and fun as hell to fight against, and they're all fairly unique encounters
Also there is a fucking ton of boss fights. They just pile on the boss fights in this game, and it's great because they're all great
The Plot and Characters
This game's plot is, seriously, one of the best I've ever played of all time. It is so. fucking. good. If you came into this and saw that the publisher was Square Enix expecting some gay JRPG storyline you will be fucking blown away by how excellent the game is
It is seriously so excellent. I can't stop talking about how great the storyline of this game is. It's the only game that I've played that's gotten me to laugh intentionally
It's also the only game that made me feel sadness, and soul-crushing despair after some of the events of the game
This game runs the gamut of emotions, from extreme highs to extreme lows and everywhere in between, and if you've until now never been invested in a game's storyline before well then buckle up because Nier will rock your fucking world.
Anyways to be more specific the game is about Nier(you),, a middle aged man with a young daughter, Yonah, who has been infected with a disease called The Black Scrawl
Even though I used the name "Nier" for the main character, the main character is actually you. This is an important plot point throughout the game, so if you play this game make sure to input your name when you name the main character
Anyways Nier (I'm using the name "Nier" for ease in naming conventions) is trying to heal his daughter so goes out into the world to try and find a cure for his daughter's strange illness.
He then meets Grimoire Weiss, a talking book, who might know a bit about healing his daughter's illness.
Weiss is like a combination of Alan Rickman and Stephen Fry, and totally awesome. His sarcastic comments on the world around him and his acid-laced "conversations" with Kainé are some of the game's best
Oh yeah
Kainé's a swordswoman with a mysterious past and a filthy mouth. She joins Nier's team after a certain plot sensitive event and honestly, in my opinion, is one of the better examples of females potrayed in video games
Instead of being a useless plot device or a spineless lovestruck moron she's incredibly self-assertive and tough
Unfortunately she dresses like an idiot so everyone ignores how well Cavia actually potrayed a female in a video game that wasn't offensive or misogynistic and focuses on her clothes
Still though Kainé's awesome, disregard her clothing issue
Oh also there's another guy but his very existence is a spoiler so I'm not gonna talk about him
The Dialogue
The dialogue in this game is fucking amazing, seriously one of the best localizations I've ever seen in a video game
It is so good
For instance this is the intro for the game
It is able to convey real emotion to the scenes, and helps the plot (which is fucking excellent) move forward at a rapid clip
Oh man this game is balls awesome Rent where do I get it
You can get it for either the 360 or PS3, and K-Mart is having a sale on Nier starting next week for twenty fucking dollars.
There is no excuse not to get this game, it is so cheap but seriously one of the best plots I've ever experienced in a video game.
Now normally this is the part where I'd link all the reviews that agreed with me, but actually this game reviewed really really poorly
However I'd say this is a situation where the reviewers really didn't get it, and focused on the gameplay (which isn't too great) or the graphics (which are shitty, but strangely appropriate for the game) instead of on what the game was trying to do- tell a really great, well realized story
Anyways seriously get Nier
It is so good
So good
Some warnings before you play the game though:
Anyways yeah
Nier
best fucking game you've never played
Anyways none of that shit matters because I'm here to talk about the greatest fucking game you've never played and that's Nier
What the fuck is Nier Rent
Nier is like a third person action-rpg that combines literally every genre of game that you can think of into one game
Seriously
God of War? Yep. Final Fantasy? Uh-huh. Demon's Souls? Of course. Monster Hunter? Yeah. Fucking Harvest Moon? Lost Odyssey? Resident Evil? Sin and Punishment? Yes
Seriously, I'm not joking if you've played a game in the last ten years, when you play Nier something in it will remind you of that game
Anyways this game is developed by Cavia
You might not know who Cavia is/was- they were a small development studio on the Enix side of S-E pre merger and they developed a bunch of weird as fuck games like:
Oh and Resident Evil Umbrella/Darkside Chronicles too
They got dissolved recently but pretty much everyone who worked in Cavia is still employed at S-E in some way so it's not a big deal
anyways if you've ever played any of the above games I've listed you'll notice that they're all horrible fucking games, mostly due to having horrible gameplay and incredibly disturbing/depressing storylines
But Nier is different! Nier has okay gameplay
That doesn't sound like a ringing endorsement of the gameplay, because it's not, but Nier totally makes up for it in other areas
(In case you're wondering Nier's gameplay is, it's roughly equivalent to God of War's- combo based with plenty of powerful magic attacks at your disposal)
Gameplay ain't too hot though. I mean it's servicable but whatev's
But here's why you play it:
The Music
Seriously this music is some of the best you'll ever hear in a video game, it is so fucking good
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTLqLsf1n54
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUsS0qnbhtc&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKjDUlpAspI
Now imagine that but everything in the game. Seriously every track in this game is so, so good, and there's a shitload of them
The Bosses
Yeah this game has some excellent fucking bosses, they're really well designed and fun as hell to fight against, and they're all fairly unique encounters
Also there is a fucking ton of boss fights. They just pile on the boss fights in this game, and it's great because they're all great
The Plot and Characters
This game's plot is, seriously, one of the best I've ever played of all time. It is so. fucking. good. If you came into this and saw that the publisher was Square Enix expecting some gay JRPG storyline you will be fucking blown away by how excellent the game is
It is seriously so excellent. I can't stop talking about how great the storyline of this game is. It's the only game that I've played that's gotten me to laugh intentionally
It's also the only game that made me feel sadness, and soul-crushing despair after some of the events of the game
This game runs the gamut of emotions, from extreme highs to extreme lows and everywhere in between, and if you've until now never been invested in a game's storyline before well then buckle up because Nier will rock your fucking world.
Anyways to be more specific the game is about Nier(you),, a middle aged man with a young daughter, Yonah, who has been infected with a disease called The Black Scrawl
Even though I used the name "Nier" for the main character, the main character is actually you. This is an important plot point throughout the game, so if you play this game make sure to input your name when you name the main character
Anyways Nier (I'm using the name "Nier" for ease in naming conventions) is trying to heal his daughter so goes out into the world to try and find a cure for his daughter's strange illness.
He then meets Grimoire Weiss, a talking book, who might know a bit about healing his daughter's illness.
Weiss is like a combination of Alan Rickman and Stephen Fry, and totally awesome. His sarcastic comments on the world around him and his acid-laced "conversations" with Kainé are some of the game's best
Oh yeah
Kainé's a swordswoman with a mysterious past and a filthy mouth. She joins Nier's team after a certain plot sensitive event and honestly, in my opinion, is one of the better examples of females potrayed in video games
Instead of being a useless plot device or a spineless lovestruck moron she's incredibly self-assertive and tough
Unfortunately she dresses like an idiot so everyone ignores how well Cavia actually potrayed a female in a video game that wasn't offensive or misogynistic and focuses on her clothes
Still though Kainé's awesome, disregard her clothing issue
Oh also there's another guy but his very existence is a spoiler so I'm not gonna talk about him
The Dialogue
The dialogue in this game is fucking amazing, seriously one of the best localizations I've ever seen in a video game
It is so good
For instance this is the intro for the game
It is able to convey real emotion to the scenes, and helps the plot (which is fucking excellent) move forward at a rapid clip
Oh man this game is balls awesome Rent where do I get it
You can get it for either the 360 or PS3, and K-Mart is having a sale on Nier starting next week for twenty fucking dollars.
There is no excuse not to get this game, it is so cheap but seriously one of the best plots I've ever experienced in a video game.
Now normally this is the part where I'd link all the reviews that agreed with me, but actually this game reviewed really really poorly
However I'd say this is a situation where the reviewers really didn't get it, and focused on the gameplay (which isn't too great) or the graphics (which are shitty, but strangely appropriate for the game) instead of on what the game was trying to do- tell a really great, well realized story
Anyways seriously get Nier
It is so good
So good
Some warnings before you play the game though:
- The gameplay is not good. Don't come in expecting awesome gameplay.
- The game has some really low-res textures and has a SHITLOAD of bloom. Seriously, so much fucking bloom
- You'll probably want to have played or at least know the story of Drakengard 1 for this game (Nier is actually a direct sequel to Drakengard). "But there was a Drakengard 2?" you ask. Yeah, don't worry about it, it'll get explained. But yeah, you'll probably want to read The Dark Id's LP of Drakengard so that parts of Nier make more sense. It's not necessary to do so in order to understand the plot of Nier but it helps the backstory make more sense
- The fishing lies to you. You want to pull the analog stick away but TO THE SAME SIDE as wherever the rod is pointing, not to the opposite side.
- If you beat the game and are confused as hell by the ending, don't worry the game has three more! You just experienced ending A. Ending B is after beating the game a second time, and Endings C and D are after beating it a third whilst having all the weapons and making a certain choice at the end of the game. Make sure to get Ending C FIRST.
Anyways yeah
Nier
best fucking game you've never played
Rent on
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a game with awful gameplay has four different endings and you have to slog through this shitty game multiple times to get to them all?
gee sign me up
also it is ugly as shit
it's just...not very good
Yeah any game where you say the "gameplay is bad"... and its the best game?
Clearly the OP just has terrible taste.
Pass.
but it came out in 2010 on 360/PS3 and it's poop
edit: missed your bit on her clothing there, still makes her portrayal highly suspect
Fuck you Rent
It's in a world very similar to The Road, visually, and you are beating the shit out of monsters with a huge pipe to try and save your daughter, and there's some cool stuff about magic and a book and you use some rad powers
Then you go back in time and the game gets fucking retarded
All of the animations look so stupid. Nobody runs or jumps or swings something like that
Ugh this fucking game
hahaha that sounds hilarious
holy shit
fucking forgot all about it
It would have been more hilarious if the game was actually any good but instead it was a halfassed Dynasty Warriors ripoff.
And Dynasty Warriors was already pretty halfassed
like, it makes me wonder what makes a good game to a dude like this, where gameplay and art are entirely unnecessary to his enjoyment, when they make up two of the most critical components of the entire artform itself
and then along comes this dude that finds a game that he admits is ugly and has terrible gameplay and he raves about it like it is the second coming or something
how the fuck
I might pick this up, even if the gameplay is mediocre, we'll see.
you actually go 1,000 years into the future
i totally missed where it said that (I saw "1,000 years in") and then it switched and i couldn't tell if it was the past or future and i didn't care
Okay so you go so far forward that it is like the past
Whatever this game fucking sucks
nerds on the internet like to like things that nobody else does as a feeling of exclusivity
if I remember correctly I made an angry remark about how real words just aren't good enough for people anymore
seriously what kind of a name is nier
They haven't made a Legacy of Kain Game for like 6 years.
I'm...
I'm fadinnnnnng awaaaaaay.
no because he knows no one will like it (as he stated that the reviews were shit) so he gets an even better sense of exclusivity
because you don't get it
actually this is the least japanese game
the thing is that he knows that the thread is going to be mostly dudes taking the game apart
so he can sit back on his pyrite throne and smirk. "i knew these chodes wouldn't 'get it'"
edit: goddamnit keith
what is wrong with you rent
I think this game is really good
Other people should play it
I mean if you don't like it okay whatev's no skin off my nose