Zero Punctuation: Nier

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lockgar

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iblis666 said:
Yahtzee Croshaw said:
hmm was expecting a 3 min rant about the hermaphrodite character and instead i get the closest thing to a love fest for a jrpg from Yahtzee that ive ever heard im shocked and confused.

as for the problems with not enough content and what not i can just hope that there is going to be down loadable content.
Probably because Nier isn't really much of a Jrpg as it is a Hack and slash ala Devil may cry.
 

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I normally don't comment in those threads, but the portret of Shigeru Miyamoto was too awesome to miss. Thank you!
 

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Erana said:
Seriously, Yahtzee. I posted that just yesterday. Yesterday. About a game that almost no one has heard of, and before this video has only been mentioned twice in the entire Escapist. Are you trying to screw around with my head‽
He lurks in the SA Let's Play subforum. There's a better chance he saw it there.
 

Erana

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SirMax said:
Erana said:
Seriously, Yahtzee. I posted that just yesterday. Yesterday. About a game that almost no one has heard of, and before this video has only been mentioned twice in the entire Escapist. Are you trying to screw around with my head‽
He lurks in the SA Let's Play subforum. There's a better chance he saw it there.
Considering that I just posted a link to the Let's Play, don't you think I'd be aware of that? I was trying to use this advantage to be funny. You must have missed the joke.
 

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If I remember correctly, the woman with the pajamas for a costume is supposed to be a hermaphrodite, and this is proudly the majority of her bio. As if Square-Enix was trying to say, "look at all this sexy, you confused teenage boys... now look under the hood! Congrats! You are now confused! :D"

I was wondering how long the androgynous thing was going to kick around before they stepped over to the other end of the line.

Doesn't bother me none. I was just reminded of it when Yahtzee described her outfit.
 

Ian Caronia

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Wait, no jokes on how easy it is to die when the combat gets too hectic?
No puns on how ugly the MC is in comparison to his Japanese-only/DLC cousin?
You didn't even mention that there's four endings, but that all the endings ultimately round up to one big ending when put them together (except for the last two, which has a choice thing to them).

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So, you wasted 5 minutes and change on how Nier is apparently a life sim...when it isn't even close to being such?
...Are you fucking kidding me? I've beat the game, and I've only ONCE fished, and only ONCE did something with the daughter, and you know what? Both times was one the SAME QUEST! What's this bullshit about life sims?! I've never even fucking gardened! EVER! And the game does repeat itself in terms of dungeons, true, but it doesn't make you go back to the village every HALF HOUR. Also, the five year skip in the story is when the tone of the game changes, so yeah, the characters did more than just sit on their asses. Surprised you didn't say the same for the characters in Mass Effect 2 if that's the case.

Fuck, mate, you wasted our time with bullshit info when there was so much more to ***** about-
Oh, wait a minute. You didn't play through the game, did you? You didn't beat the game even once, did you? What ever happened to the thought out comedy with real reviews? I used to love how intricate the insults were, but now every other word out of your mouth has to do with cocks or dicks. The others are right, mate. You've gotten fuck lazy...
 

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Firia said:
If I remember correctly, the woman with the pajamas for a costume is supposed to be a hermaphrodite, and this is proudly the majority of her bio. As if Square-Enix was trying to say, "look at all this sexy, you confused teenage boys... now look under the hood! Congrats! You are now confused! :D"

I was wondering how long the androgynous thing was going to kick around before they stepped over to the other end of the line.

Doesn't bother me none. I was just reminded of it when Yahtzee described her outfit.
Actually I went into the game waiting to hate the hermaphrodite character (who looks NOTHING like a real hermaphrodite, but whatever). She was promoted as such an utter *****, and yet in the game, she's really a well written character. Her back-story is deep (and a tad boring in how its presented), and she doesn't curse nearly as much as they lead you to beleive. She does curse, though, and when she finally does it's more like "Shithog!" *immature giggle fits from gamers* rather than "I'll rip your dick off and kill you!" O_0

So, yeah, she's not, as many have said (including me at first) Futanari fan-service.
 

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Fellshadow5 said:
Just FYI everyone, this game is NOT made by Square Enix, only produced by them.
Something Yahtzee would know if he payed a-fucking-ttention. Damn it, Yahtzee!
 

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Maybe i'm a complete moron, but the 'Boosh!' at the end after the lame pun made me crack up. It kinda makes me wonder if Yahtzee ever saw the TV seres 'Mighty Boosh'.
 

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Neir has been shown on the PS3 store for the past year with various trailers/gameplay... hardly "new" just looked 'meh', a more PS2 game than PS3 [which you could tell just looking at the trailers and gameplay vids] research before buying... maybe you'd review a half decent game for a change. what? seriously... he was about to buy dead to rights 2 instead of nier.. i mean that's about as clever as sticking holes in the condom.

But yahtzee with a straight face buying a square enix game, i call BS on... the man hates that company; he despises JRPG's at all. Of courses he despise anything especially if they have too much "grey" [like a wall isn't supposed to look like a wall, it's supposed to be pink or something] or anything with too much "bloom". So basically he doesn't like much...

His voice has really slowed down, like his tired analogy's and his bitterness about the fact he's british but lives in australia. Move already. -yawn- it's getting old, i'll send over the queen if you wanna do her that much...
 

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I'm not sure if it's been mentioned yet, but Nier did at one point have a skinny gender-neutral protagonist. I guess Square Enix just figured out that the US "men who live with their mothers" market wasn't so hot with that and had the good sense to switch it out for a grizzled middle age guy and leave the whiny kid to teenage girls with extra money for expansion packs.
 

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ForgottenPr0digy said:
wow didn't see this coming

a action JRPG and Yahtzee actually kinda liked it.

I really wanna check this game out it looks fun to me at least.
Um... did we watch the same video? His first comment about the game is that its name is similar to the sound he makes when trying to describe it. From there the biggest compliment he gives the game is that it at least doesn't use angsty teenagers as the main characters, from there it's the usual fare of him going through probably every gameplay aspect and talking about how poorly they were implemented. Compare that to games he actually likes where he has to get really nit-picky to find something to bag on in order to keep his review humorous.