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The only reason I even buy these niche games is because of NISA.
1/2 of the games I bought from NISA just sat there on my shelves.
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Neptune VII confirmed for PS4
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
The only reason I even buy these niche games is because of NISA.
1/2 of the games I bought from NISA just sat there on my shelves.
Amen to that. I've got high hopes though, since Re;Birth1 is getting a physical copy.
Again...why are people forgetting about Omega Quintet?
Why is this such a huge surprise? For a niche title, Neptunia is popular enough for CH and IF to use the franchise as it's flagship IP internationally. Produce a trilogy, retcon continuity so that it all fits, produce an anime, and 3 spin-off titles at this point. Not many other CH developed games were this popular...outside of Fairy Fencer and Mugen Souls(in Japan).
Fairy Fencer F was the first in the series of Galaplagos RPG's (JRPG's for Japanese gamers), and Omega Quintet is the 2nd. I hope at least one of them becomes a franchise like Neptunia, there is a chance since a FFF character is a guest in the Noire game...but we'll see how that goes.
http://www.compileheart.com/galapagos_rpg/
Mauricio_Magus
Banned
aspiegamer
Member
More JRPGs on the new platform! Gust, the hell is up with you guys? Get your shit together!
Crap. I'm a little ashamed as a human being to admit I find this series hilarious (and that by V it finally had the production quality of an actual PS3 game), so, sigh. I doubt I'll be able to resist no matter how horrible it is or isn't. This could be a seriously long wait being localized, too, so early in the generation.
Crap. I'm a little ashamed as a human being to admit I find this series hilarious (and that by V it finally had the production quality of an actual PS3 game), so, sigh. I doubt I'll be able to resist no matter how horrible it is or isn't. This could be a seriously long wait being localized, too, so early in the generation.
The script, at the very least- NISA's dubbing/translations can get pretty radical.
Infernal Monkey
Member
Well, Neptunia Re;birth will be the first one published by Idea Factory, and already
- Been delayed twice in the space of a few weeks
- No limited edition planned
- No physical release at all for Europe
They're already completely awful compared to NISA. Probably has a good chance of keeping the Japanese voice track though, I can't see Idea Factory spending the money on the dub.
You honestly shouldn't be ashamed...there are other things worth being ashamed over, Liking a game with Cute little Moe Personifications of gaming consoles...shouldn't be one.
We normally get localized ports of Nep games within alittle under a year. When Japan releases on in the fall, we should get it in early early-late spring. This time Nep PP and Rebirth were a little later than the last 3 games for one reason or another and missed the spring launch time frame.
Basically you wont need to wait long to play a neptune game...and it's a safe bet that it will get localized...since even NISA knew that it was a popular niche franchise...god damn the irony in that quote.
The game is confirmed to have dual voice tracks so please don't spread untrue information...
The script is based of the first game...since you know...it's a remake. If that is considered lazy then idk what to really say. You can honestly spend 5 mins to research the game on YT and see if it's to your liking.
Rebirth 1 is Victory battle mechanics + plot of original Neptune game(with new scenes and endings) + Victory DLC maker characters. Not much else has changed.
Mauricio_Magus
Banned
I understand how all of that is worse, but I care more about the quality of the game, if the script was more lazy or the localization sucks then I'll be pissed.
aspiegamer
Member
Perhaps I'm more ashamed because as a grown adult I should have-- you know what? Screw it. In the grand scheme of things in life (and especially the internet) "niche JRPG" is extremely mild as anything to be truly ashamed of for caring about.
I can laugh at myself over and over again and I'll still buy every damn one of these, Gust titles and various NISA releases until the day I die. The Neptunia games I have an odd relationship with because they're simultaneously a heap of fan service but also an uncommon display of some feminism in gaming.
Mauricio_Magus
Banned
never be shamed about what you like, I didn't like the series because the first game was crap, but I got Victory and it was a fun enough game to get me into the series.
More or less, The Nep games fan service is actually pretty tame in comparison to most anime these days. I still find it interesting that Mk.2 is the only one rated M. Still one of my favorite new IP's of 7th gen.
HawthorneKitty
Sgt. 2nd Class in the Creep Battalion, Waifu Wars
I'm going to kill someone if future NepNeps don't have Melissa Fahn.
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
Me too. They all have PS4 games in dev. I think NIS even said they would reveal theirs at TGS iirc.
I dont think IFI is stupid enough not to have the ENG voice cast not to return for future dubbing's.
zeopower6
Member
Re;Birth having dual audio is a good sign... I think?
The "いくぜ、4~5万本。" (Let's go, 40K~50K copies.) at the top is also a nod to the catchphrase "いくぜ！100万台。" (Let's go 1 million units.) used in old PlayStation ads. They're probably aiming for 40K~50K copies in sales.
Lol ^^ I've yet to play Victory, but Mk2 was one of the 2012 titles that genuinely surprised me. Will buy whenever this comes over.
Kresnik258
Member
Their core customers are like ~ 40k people though. Even PS4 can manage that.
I think it's the smaller publishers like this that benefit from going next gen first the most. Their audience is most likely already there and there's not much competition from the bigger series yet. It's also the perfect way to get some new people into the whatever series they are releasing.
A Huge Battleship
Member
Well, this accelerates my PS4 purchase by 6 months or so.
Skyfireblaze
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SolidSnakex
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Tizoc
Member
Which in turn are just PS2 games with smoothing and filtering :V
n00bsauce87
Member
Not even porn could save console gaming in Japan.
This is to assume there is a strong PC gaming market in Japan. So would you say gaming in general is just bad in Japan? lolz no
itzknickknac
Member
This is pretty awesome.. However, I'm still on mk2. I'm finding it hard to play through the game.
Awesome, happy to hear this. I'm a big Neptunia fan (though I despised the first game. Never even got into the story much since the first bits of gameplay sucked so much). Awesome games with good stories & characters imo.
I really don't care about the graphics as long as they are at least as good as Mk2 onwards honestly. A more stable framerate (30, 60, whatever as long as it's STABLE) and I'm happy.
I really don't care about the graphics as long as they are at least as good as Mk2 onwards honestly. A more stable framerate (30, 60, whatever as long as it's STABLE) and I'm happy.
I disagree with this statement, Mk.2 was far from balanced. It effectively made HDD useless, high Avoid rate made even the DLC bosses easy, coupling skills broke game balance. With high AP(which can overlap), characters can have multiple actions per turn.
Victory fixed most of that, in doing that though...the TEC stat is the new broken Stat. Noire is the only CPU with Armor Breaker outside of Neptune's V slash SP skill *that is relevant*. Bosses are still too easy with the numerous buffs they received like single turn Break status, HP regain, increased TEC, decreased debuff duration, etc.
In short, Victory does game balance leagues better than Mk2. unfortunately it's plagued by the Scout system that brings item collecting to a crawl...as it's the only way to obtain items needed for ultimate weapons/processors. The Gamedisk system was cool though, the Final Fantasy Disk was hella OP.
Hm, balanced maybe wasn't the most appropriate word.
But yes, HDD was pretty worthless in Mk2, but I didn't have that many problems with the progression in it, I could take down the bosses without outleveling them.
I get completely crushed against bosses in Victory if I don't level up a bit and EXE Drive them to death. When I get new party members 13 levels below my general level, I don't know if I'm doing something wrong or not. I guess I'm overlooking something.
Go for mk2 and Victory. The first one is garbage.
Victory is good. It's the game that set the standard for both remakes on Vita and is the base engine for Fairy Fencer F(Fairy Fencer has a more evolved version of the Victory battle system).
Victory-2 would be the ninth installment in the series...not the 7th.
Victory had a bad case of giving underleveled party members, to make matters worse...the DLC cast will start at Level 1. So unless you started the game with them (even then the tutorial will give you levels) they will always trail behind Neptune or whoever is your highest level.
MAGES is really the only worth wild DLC character in terms of usefulness and stats(Very high TEC, Has AOE SP skills, Healing Skill, far attack range). Skit-wise they are all funny as hell, especially if you know the company they represent.
ekka4shiki
Member
So, apparently Neptune VII introduces goddess' next form, which is another step after standard goddess form.
I got to say, I really like it. Purple Heart Next Form looks mighty awesome.
I got to say, I really like it. Purple Heart Next Form looks mighty awesome.
Just saw that, looks hot.
R_thanatos
Member
"Ah ah this isn't even my final form yet !"
You know this line is coming in the game.
Technoweirdo
Member
Screw Purple Heart, where the hell's my Iris Heart Next Form?
Seriously now, Purple Heart Next Form looks great, which reminds me that I should finish Victory...
ekka4shiki
Member
lol, I can totally see that happening.
We don't even know if Plutia is in this game or not. Such a waste if so.
Do you mean like action RPGs? Or is turn-based okay and you just want explorable towns and such and an overworld map? The Atelier games have map points you select, but you can explore every town and area, it's much less VN style than Neptunia. It is a turn based game though. I'd give Atelier Ayesha a shot.
A Huge Battleship
Member
Goddamn at Purple Heart's Next Form. I am totally onboard with this development.
From the rough sketches of the other Next Forms, Green Heart's looks pretty bad / lewd, Noire's looks decent and Blanc's would be good if it wasn't for the freakin' cat ears aaaarrrghhhh
Also the model for Uzume (new character), taken from Dengeki:
From the rough sketches of the other Next Forms, Green Heart's looks pretty bad / lewd, Noire's looks decent and Blanc's would be good if it wasn't for the freakin' cat ears aaaarrrghhhh
Also the model for Uzume (new character), taken from Dengeki:
I'm an old school rpg guy so turn base is cool with me. I was talking about map travel and exploration, which you answered. So I'm guessing the map points and explore is similar to the Shining series
dakkumauji
Member
Interesting cause it looks like we're getting new characters.
Capcom?
Bandai Namco?
Konami or Koei Tecmo?
Square Enix?