Just pull the trigger now.
Just remember the story & music are great, the rest....ehhh.
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Square Enix: Nier way above expectations, will be significant franchise going forward
- Thread starter Nirolak
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Just pull the trigger now.
Just remember the story & music are great, the rest....ehhh.
Holy Order Sol
Member
do it, I'm all about increasingly feeling like shit while hearing amazing music as the game progresses
Flying noodle cups eating everyone.
NESpowerhouse
Perhaps he's wondering why someone would shoot a man before throwing him out of a plane.
At this point, I would say wait for a few months to a year to see if they announce a remaster (which is looking more and more likely).
SE screwed a lot of franchises, if they leave PG and YT with the franchise i'm ok, but if the next Nier game will be developed by some BD studio of SE meh
The Taroverse games (Nier and Drakengard) has been about making games that feel different and are mostly on their own thing. Personally what I don't want is that they start to make Automata sequels because it's what popular right now. I want fresh stuff from Taro.
It's more effort to re-dub the whole game in english for Replicant than just have 2 models IMO.
I guess you're right.
It is very different, but it's still way more closely related to the original than something like a new Final Fantasy. That being said, they could just change it moving forward and completely ignore the previous games, I suppose.
GhostTrick
Banned
All that research and demographic targeting paid off!
Funny how Nier ended up being bigger than Persona/Yakuza/Danganronpa
Multiplat release also paid off.
Son Of Sparda
Member
I'm sure Taro isn't gonna bail on finally having a financially stable career
clarknova156
Member
Square will find a way to fuck it up. Count on it.
on one hand i understand the fear that they could fuck it up by turning the franchise over to someone else. but on the other hand i think Square Enix realizes how instrumental Yoko Taro was to the game's success. not even necessarily the writing or game direction, but outside of the game he's really great at advertising
but it is shit square enix so who knows?
but it is shit square enix so who knows?
DriftingSpirit
Member
Damn, good for them.
Especially for Plat. This gives them a title they can indefinitely work on.
Especially for Plat. This gives them a title they can indefinitely work on.
Yea, like, how about we let Nier actually fuck up first, before getting all worried that it becoming much more popular is somehow a bad thing lol
Didn't Taro even like cry or something at how successful this game was? He of all people must feel ecstatic.
NESpowerhouse
Perhaps he's wondering why someone would shoot a man before throwing him out of a plane.
Funny how Nier ended up being bigger than Persona/Yakuza/Danganronpa
Multiplat release also paid off.
Wait, HAS Automata sold more than Persona? My friend literally just told me that Automata broke 2 million while the most recent reports show P5 at about 1.8 million.
GhostTrick
Banned
"Shit Square Enix" is the reason Yoko Taro has a job.
"Shit Square Enix" is the reason why THEY MADE ANOTHER NIER GAME
Yeah that's true though Persona 5 may be higher now.
*Slow rolls out part 2 of this news*: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1436472
I look forward to seeing Yoko Taro popping up in fashion magazines and ads for Nissan/Toyota. He's already proven he's a master salesman of T-Shirts, so why not?
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IIRC, didn't Squeenix say something along the lines that (despite the series' niche appeal) the 1.5 million units sld through in May was UNDER their expectations. Perhaps we're talking about commercial and critical expectations here, but it sounds like they've changed their tune given it's now passed two million in sales.
MosquitoSmasher
Member
So could it perhaps be worth it to port it to Xbox now? Pretty please?
There used to be plans for it at one time.
There used to be plans for it at one time.
Thats the thing though. Nier games can be pretty much be anything he wants.
Nier 1 and 2 feel almost worlds apart from each other. He could do that again with the next one.
The game selling so well is excellent news. Really demonstrates there's still an appetite for genuinely good games with artistic merit. I'll keep the champagne in the cellar for now though. Square's shown they'll milk the very marrow from an IPs bones, and I'm not gonna take it for granted that Taro would work on everything they do. He probably won't.
Also lol @ people using a corporate quote to defend XV. How pitiful. It's still garbage lmao
Also lol @ people using a corporate quote to defend XV. How pitiful. It's still garbage lmao
Breh that'd be crazy if true
Dragon1893
Member
Persona would be way higher if it was on steam like Nier.
Who knows, maybe SE will return the franchise in house to make big-scale RPG.
But in the immediate future, I hope they will crank out another action game with Platinum.
Suzushiiro
Banned
Considering that they continued to let Yoko Taro do whatever weird bullshit he wanted both in his games and in public despite his games having mediocre to shitty sales/critical reception I don't see why they'd suddenly decide to hold a tighter leash on him now that he's finally made a smash hit. If anything Automata's success will probably result in him having the freedom to do even weirder shit.
God damnit.
ArkhamFantasy
Member
Its really sad seeing people try and twist this into negative news.
Yearsoflurking
Member
So can we get a xbox one port now?
NESpowerhouse
Perhaps he's wondering why someone would shoot a man before throwing him out of a plane.
Wow...
Regardless, this is some crazy shit.
I'm on a full-on Nier hype train right now. I listened to the full soundtrack, I just bought the game as a result of the sale, I'm even going to incorporate Nier Automata into a project for my web class. If any game has the potential to top P5 for personal GOTY for me, it's this one.
Salty Rice
Member
We did it!
Praise 2B´s butt.
Praise 2B´s butt.
That and it didn't help that Atlus Japan threatened and blocked everyone who wanted to give it free exposure/good word of mouth through streams and lets play.
I'm actually not convinced a AAA Nier game will be the best. I'm scared it will succumb to the majority of "features" glued to current high-budget games: season pass, microtransactions, streamlining of the content, forced multiplayer.
Of course I hope the next game will just stay the course, and that would mean a great game.
Of course I hope the next game will just stay the course, and that would mean a great game.
