Yea it looks real good and not just a "follow the line" style skill board. You can choose different directions to go and unlock nodes around special ones to open up the spots in the center... hells yes.
Especially in a game like DQ that tend towards to the longer side with lots of encounters... having a fun system like this to play with in between those encounters should make it much more rewarding.
I liked the sphere grid and the idea of the license board, but I didn't like the whole "you can't use this weapon/armor/accessory" unless you unlock the license aspect of it.
I dunno, previous Dragon Quests can be pretty restrictive on what items characters can use as well so starting out restrictive and letting you unlock specialties for your characters wouldn't honestly bother me that much. I totally get where you're coming from though and don't blame you at all.
Clemps does the best Taroverse summary videos, but if you don't mind a screenshot LP, TheDarkID's stuff is a lot more comprehensive and better presented
Gonna need to sit me down for this one, get comfortable
Edit: Also Drakengard may have weird child-eating cannibal horror people, but on the other hand I haven't seen it make MRA jokes about how easy it is to offend tumblr or how guys are stereotyped in games too, so, I mean....
Just a heads up; the dark id's LP of the game goes into decent depth about the amazingly horrific story and weird characters in Drakengard and about how and why the gameplay fails, and there are really funny bits in it, but he does go in for some crude (and, considering the time the LP was made, kind of outdated by now) humor on occasion. Mostly when it comes to the character Inuart. Nothing, if I remember correctly, that I'd, like, denounce him for, but there's a heads-up, depending on your sensibilities.
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Yeah, it's a good LP.
But it was also made by a dude on a kinda rough internet forum in like 2009. So there's some not great language in there.
I liked the sphere grid and the idea of the license board, but I didn't like the whole "you can't use this weapon/armor/accessory" unless you unlock the license aspect of it.
I dunno, previous Dragon Quests can be pretty restrictive on what items characters can use as well so starting out restrictive and letting you unlock specialties for your characters wouldn't honestly bother me that much. I totally get where you're coming from though and don't blame you at all.
Oh I don't mind unlocking specialties in general, like unlocking the ability to use Swords on a character with only Axes prior. I just disliked how it made the licenses so specific that you might be able to use Swords but you can't use This Sword until you find and unlock the specific location on the license board. I get that it was an attempt to curb cheesing the game with high power weapons at low levels, but in practice it meant I'd find this neat piece of gear then realize I can't actually use it because no one has the license unlocked. Takes away some of the magic from opening chests, though to be fair the game did this already with randomized chest contents. Zodiac changed that bit at least.
Well can't be any worse than watching DarkeSydePhil.
Though in terms of clearing bars that one is partially in the ground.
I remember seeing a compilation video of his run of MGS3. And despite the more humorous moments of failure (sniper duel begins. "Where's my shotgun?"), the man himself is just so toxic and awful to listen to that I couldn't sit through it.
OK. These games are silly, but partway through the Drakengard 2 LP they do have a very real charm going for them.
My favorite ending to the first Drakengard is either B or C.
I have a question about the lore, though.
Are the flying baby abominations actually the Watchers or just a force that shows up as a result of the seals being broken when the avatar of the Watchers is dead? Are they the cleanup crew for the gods. Do the gods deploy babies and giant time-pregnant golems as bombs? Do we have any idea what the Watchers are?
I know it's just linguistic happenstance but I really like that gacha sounds like the english word "gotcha" ie. "haha I tricked you". It's the perfect onomatopoeia. Being tricked into endlessly turning a crank.
Always makes me think of Goseiger. Where the transformation device says 'Gotcha' when you insert the gacha cards for the totally real card-based video game.
I would have said exactly the same thing about our boy Caim but you would know better than me
When I first saw the intro for Drakengard 3 I was like "wow this is so unpleasant I'm not sure how to process it" but after dipping my toe in with Nier and then being half-drowned by the first Drakengard I'm pretty acclimated, Zero's an asshole but at least she actually wants something I guess
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Hey, Caim wanted something!
He really, really wanted to stab people.
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I would have said exactly the same thing about our boy Caim but you would know better than me
When I first saw the intro for Drakengard 3 I was like "wow this is so unpleasant I'm not sure how to process it" but after dipping my toe in with Nier and then being half-drowned by the first Drakengard I'm pretty acclimated, Zero's an asshole but at least she actually wants something I guess
most of the intoners are worse than her, or at least the shit they are doing is worse
I was going to ask if the thing where Five is an evil mind-controlling serial rapist and her disciple was a super-misogynist barely restrained serial killer was a one-off but based on the above I'm guessing not
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I was going to ask if the thing where Five is an evil mind-controlling serial rapist and her disciple was a super-misogynist barely restrained serial killer was a one-off but based on the above I'm guessing not
most of the disciples are completely emasculated sex slaves and five is the biggest piece of shit of all the intoners and the entire dynamic is a reversal of the male power fantasy
I was going to ask if the thing where Five is an evil mind-controlling serial rapist and her disciple was a super-misogynist barely restrained serial killer was a one-off but based on the above I'm guessing not
Also as Pip said, Five is really the worst of them. Three's a piece of shit a little less then five, but still pretty bad. The rest, Two One and Four all fall more on the classically good side.
Zero is literally the most heroic and straight up good aligned character in the Taroverse.
nah, nier is
he is entirely justified in his actions with his level of understanding of the situation
Zero literally(Drakenguard 3 spoilers)
Realizes she's possesed by a world destroying parasite, and, even though she's the one person that should say, "Yeah, fuck it, I was dealt a bad hand anyway" commits suicide in an effort to stop it. And when that fails and in fact, spawns 5 goddamn more, she goes on a one sided quest to save the world by killing her "sisters", with the end goal, again, to have a Dragon kill her so that she can save the world.
Her quest is damn near messianic.
Neir just wants to kill everyone to get his daughter back. Still technically good, but even not considering the consequences the stakes are hilariously small in comparison.
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Yea it looks real good and not just a "follow the line" style skill board. You can choose different directions to go and unlock nodes around special ones to open up the spots in the center... hells yes.
Especially in a game like DQ that tend towards to the longer side with lots of encounters... having a fun system like this to play with in between those encounters should make it much more rewarding.
I dunno, previous Dragon Quests can be pretty restrictive on what items characters can use as well so starting out restrictive and letting you unlock specialties for your characters wouldn't honestly bother me that much. I totally get where you're coming from though and don't blame you at all.
Long yes. Difficult, no.
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Has anyone got good recommendations for summary vids?
And he's not really any grosser than the drakengard games so at least it fits
Gonna need to sit me down for this one, get comfortable
Edit: Also Drakengard may have weird child-eating cannibal horror people, but on the other hand I haven't seen it make MRA jokes about how easy it is to offend tumblr or how guys are stereotyped in games too, so, I mean....
But it was also made by a dude on a kinda rough internet forum in like 2009. So there's some not great language in there.
He gets better about that as time goes on.
Oh I don't mind unlocking specialties in general, like unlocking the ability to use Swords on a character with only Axes prior. I just disliked how it made the licenses so specific that you might be able to use Swords but you can't use This Sword until you find and unlock the specific location on the license board. I get that it was an attempt to curb cheesing the game with high power weapons at low levels, but in practice it meant I'd find this neat piece of gear then realize I can't actually use it because no one has the license unlocked. Takes away some of the magic from opening chests, though to be fair the game did this already with randomized chest contents. Zodiac changed that bit at least.
Boy howdy though that language Dark Id uses, Christ alive
Though in terms of clearing bars that one is partially in the ground.
I remember seeing a compilation video of his run of MGS3. And despite the more humorous moments of failure (sniper duel begins. "Where's my shotgun?"), the man himself is just so toxic and awful to listen to that I couldn't sit through it.
My favorite ending to the first Drakengard is either B or C.
I have a question about the lore, though.
Hm those are definitely some phrases I just used
I am literally salivating here
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Either answer says some frightening things about the cosmology of that world.
Don't live in a universe with a magic system, kids. Its hazardous to your health
Yeah, the Nier universe completely branches off where Drakengard 2 never happens in it.
While Drakengard 3 is a prequel and is part of the universe.
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Whether they are the Watchers in person or not, I'd say they are the most Watcher things around.
It sure does seem to be real different compared to Nier or Drakengard!
Always makes me think of Goseiger. Where the transformation device says 'Gotcha' when you insert the gacha cards for the totally real card-based video game.
I doubt that Zero is capable of romantic love
When I first saw the intro for Drakengard 3 I was like "wow this is so unpleasant I'm not sure how to process it" but after dipping my toe in with Nier and then being half-drowned by the first Drakengard I'm pretty acclimated, Zero's an asshole but at least she actually wants something I guess
He really, really wanted to stab people.
most of the intoners are worse than her, or at least the shit they are doing is worse
nah, nier is
he is entirely justified in his actions with his level of understanding of the situation
so yeah
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most of the disciples are completely emasculated sex slaves and five is the biggest piece of shit of all the intoners and the entire dynamic is a reversal of the male power fantasy
Also as Pip said, Five is really the worst of them. Three's a piece of shit a little less then five, but still pretty bad. The rest, Two One and Four all fall more on the classically good side.
Zero literally(Drakenguard 3 spoilers)
Her quest is damn near messianic.
Neir just wants to kill everyone to get his daughter back. Still technically good, but even not considering the consequences the stakes are hilariously small in comparison.
Nier would not have done much different if he had known more.