Good Soldier Svejk posted:

I 100% buy Sonya was the original POV character and the exposition happened via her to Kano
The script flows so much better that way, she already has an underdog arc written in, and all the Cole poo poo happens in a bloated 20-30 intro that if you chop gets you down to a svelte 90 minute movie.

The Voice of Labor posted:

hyperspace outlaw seems pretty dang cool so far. if you're gonna make a game about being an internet cop, busting a bunch of drawings made by first graders for copyright violation is a pretty strong start

uber_stoat posted:

gtrmp posted:

Originally, the young Nier was the only main character. “I made the youthful version (the protagonist of Nier Replicant) first, during development Saito-san (producer) talked about considering overseas markets,” Taro Yokoo, Director at Cavia, explained in an interview with Inside Games. “At Square Enix’s Los Angeles studio we had a discussion, it was said having a fragile young character was not possible. So, I started preparing a macho protagonist for North America.”

also, the game mechanics are built around Nier being a kid who matures over the course of the game: bro nier can use heavier weapons in the back half of the game because he's physically grown during the timeskip, but there's no reason why burly-rear end dad nier can suddenly use those weapons now where he couldn't before. and all of the supplementary story material that was written during the game's development exclusively uses bro nier; some of that material plays directly on nier's youth and couldn't work with dad nier.

Jazerus posted:

you're right that nier being young does add something different to the story, but "forced to take the role of an adult, believes in miracles" is so painfully generic JRPG in a game that is everything but generic JRPG that i can't accept it. fortunately given the absolutely free money that a dad nier DLC would be, i think it's inevitable

bedpan posted:

my EDC is a vape pen, cargo jorts, vibram five finger shoes, a trackball, and a gun

Zurtilik posted:

Sometimes I wish there was a game that was basically the part of Yakuza 0 where you just gently caress around in a city and that was the game.

smarxist posted:

have you ever considered going outside

smarxist posted:

have you ever considered going outside

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

I 100% buy Sonya was the original POV character and the exposition happened via her to Kano
The script flows so much better that way, she already has an underdog arc written in, and all the Cole poo poo happens in a bloated 20-30 intro that if you chop gets you down to a svelte 90 minute movie.

Zurtilik posted:

Sometimes I wish there was a game that was basically the part of Yakuza 0 where you just gently caress around in a city and that was the game.

No fighting, no drama. Just shopping and mini games. Maybe a dating element if they really want to.

smarxist posted:

have you ever considered going outside

Wrex Ruckus posted:

why hasn't Square Enix made a Quintet collection (Actraiser, Soulblazer, Illusion of Gaia, Terranigma)

Lib and let die posted:

I presume the missing fifth is Robotrek?

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

I 100% buy Sonya was the original POV character and the exposition happened via her to Kano
The script flows so much better that way, she already has an underdog arc written in, and all the Cole poo poo happens in a bloated 20-30 intro that if you chop gets you down to a svelte 90 minute movie.

Lib and let die posted:

I presume the missing fifth is Robotrek?

Pulcinella posted:

It’s weird because the Cole character is suppose to be some sort of washed of MMA fighter who only sucks because he doesn’t believe in himself like his daughter does...except he sucks the whole move and either loses every fight because he is by himself or wins because it’s 2 v 1 or better and gets magical help. Edit: There is even a part where there is a ton of setup to turn him into Scorpion and protect his family the way he couldn’t 400 years ago, but then that doesn’t happen.

Also Super Mario 3D World is simultaneously an amazing game and also insanely frustrating. The camera is terrible for the levels that require precision platforming because you can barely move it and so you barely get any depth perception (Mario’s drop shadow isn’t enough to help position yourself in the world) or you are playing multiplayer and can’t move the camera at all. I have fun playing with my family, except that the game still has lives and there is just one pool of them. So we go into a stage with 20 lives and then run out because my kid keeps falling off the stage or accidentally throws me off (it’s too easy to accidentally pick someone up and then throw them without realizing it). In some ways it feels like Odyssey 0.25. There are a few stages with cool gimmicks (like the goomba hat) that they hardly ever use. It’s like they have some great ideas they aren’t confident in so they fall back to having a lot of stages with narrow rotating platforms over bottomless pits.

Fuligin posted:

3d world is the only 3d mario i really like apart from 64

Fuligin posted:

3d world is the only 3d mario i really like apart from 64

Pobrecito posted:

i started playing ghost of tsushima finally. this is real dope