84eca7 No.15027615
Getting Serious edition
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NEWS
Tsunako and Mizuno coming back to Anime Expo, July 5-8
Re;Birth series receiving new patches on Steam
Chinese language patch for RB1, bugfixes for RB2
“Brave Neptune” news:
Working name is now “Super Neptunia RPG”
New screenshots (some included in OP) detailing battle system and character art
Battle begins by running into monsters as per normal Nep games; stance/formation changes in combat affect available skills that characters may use
Item/creatures can be used to access hidden/previously inaccessible areas as exploration mechanics
Switch release, in addition to PS4 and presumably Steam, confirmed
http://ideafintl.com/super-nep/
CH has released a joke Virtual Youtuber to promote their games
Inked by Tsunako
http://ileheart.com/
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>>>/nep/3335
CONTENT
>Re;Translation of Re;Birth 2
Actual version: 1.422
Download: https://mega.nz/#!XBdyxBiI!6X2zMpAT3rYIszGxhpCAdK6CzkMogFXrZlnVGqtcD8M
>Re;Translation of Re;Birth 3
Actual version: 1B
Download: https://mega.nz/#!aN1FTYJJ!aAokCq94E63OI9s2ovFX-PT9z3azVVU4sjqa6LOB11w
Re;Translation for Re;Birth 3 has been ported successfully over to the Vita >>>/nep/3563
VITA Version: http://modwork.shop/17542
>Producing Perfection audio has been uploaded to MEGA
Download: https://mega.nz/#F!YERwSbSA!K5DHhnr_wl8jqXwHnVFJFQ
Freshest quest: >>>/nep/4966
Re;Birth mods: >>>/nep/822
Translated Nep media: >>>/nep/1589
Hello New World manga: >>>/nep/3153
CM3D2 with Neps: >>>/nep/3278
/nep/ Steam Group: >>>/nep/3211
/nep/ Bunker: >>>/nep/2756
Stories from /nep/ and /v/ members: http://pastebin.com/nPukfP7A
Thread OP pastebin: http://pastebin.com/ksBnE5tM
QUESTIONS
>Which game to begin the series with?
Start with Re;Birth 1 to test the waters, then play Re;Birth 2 and/or Re;Birth 3 (with the Re;Translations), and then V-II.
>I've heard of bad translations in the Neptunia games, care to tell me more about it?
Translation Statuses are:
HDN, HDN Mk2 and Victory: NISA cancer.
Re;Birth 1 and V-II: Translation is alright, no worries from these ones.
Re;Birth 2: Not obviously bad at the start, but gets much worse as it goes along: in particular Neptune and Ram were screwed hard during localization. However, there is a Re;Translation made on our very own board (see above links).
Re;Birth 3: Better than the original NISA translation in Victory but still quite a lot of cancer. Main game has been retranslated, translators still required to translate DLC content.
All of the spin-offs: Varying translation quality. These range from cancer to mediocre. Recent releases have been somewhat better overall.
>I'm too poor to buy the games, where do I grab them?
Ask the Volafile or share threads.
>I want to help with the translation efforts
Ask in thread or go to >>>/nep/835
e7d4f7 No.15027700
In the name of Lady Vert.
784079 No.15027721
>>15027700
Yep, she's great.
775c31 No.15027735
re;birth 2 retranslation got ported to the Vita nerd
Unfortunately I can't get to my main computer so I can't grab the link easily
5c77f1 No.15027741
Is LoliHitler going to declare Noire a doujin heroine?
f66cf3 No.15027792
I should really post in these threads more.
What's up, /nep/?
784079 No.15027819
>>15027792
Another slow day/evening for /nep. Can't speak for others but Ive been playing Stellaris with mods to have Neps as a species. Been conquering the galaxy as Yellow Heart (because she lacked a premade empire, so I had to make one) as a determined exterminator, purging all non-neps from the galaxy.
9998e8 No.15028177
50821d No.15028258
>>15027792
I've been playing through Re;Birth 3, and just got to the part where Iris traumatizes Noire into trying to confront Blanc in Lowee. The gameplay is better than I thought it would be. I hope the story doesn't get as crushingly tedious as VII's got near the end, which I still haven't finished just because of how frustrating it is to sit through all the melodrama. When your plot runs on idiocy, I've got no tolerance for drama or seriousness because it draws attention to all the stupid decisions that led up to the problem being created.
e67160 No.15028277
>>15027792
Don't you go turning this into a pseudo-4am thread.
784079 No.15028291
>>15028258
Worry not, RB3 never gets as low as the end bits of VII. I feel RB3 had to be somewhat more light-hearted after the shitshow that was RB2. To this day RB2 is the only game I have yet to go back and true end for how much of a pain the whole game is.
>>15028277
A what?
50821d No.15028311
>>15028291
That's nice to hear. Now if only I could get Big Nep in the game as a party member…
d13eca No.15028592
>bought MK1 off gog years ago
>got a few hours in and ultimately dropped it but never bothered to refund
>decided to pick it up again this weekend
>I actually like the game now and having fun
After my playthrough is done I'm wondering can I skip to some of the spin offs? I mostly want to try MegaTagmention and 4 Goddesses Online as I'm more into action games.
4f1cac No.15028608
>>15028592
You can play the spinoffs at any point, really, they're almost entirely separate from the main series.
784079 No.15028617
>>15028592
The Spinoffs are of varying quality. I never could bring myself to finish Noire's game because as a veteran Disgaea player it pissed me off to no end. NepU is another action game, but just be ready for exploding clothes.
>>15028598
Vert has interests in other things too, like sisters.
dcac69 No.15028764
I've been seeing these threads for years now and I still don't know what the games are all about.
Could someone post some webms or screenshots?
45f1b9 No.15028996
>>15028764
There's like 4-5 different ways the games play depending on if they're spin-offs or if they're remakes, I'll just post some screenshots from the last main game.
92f4c2 No.15029024
>>15028764
>I've been seeing these threads for years now and I still don't know what the games are all about.
It's standard light-hearted JRPG series With exceptions in some story routes. with heroines being video games consoles or nip game companies personifications.
>>15027792
I finished V-II sometime ago and I continue playing Superdimension Neptune VS Sega Hard Girls.
I am around late mid-game right now.
775c31 No.15029517
>>15028764
WebMs and caps don't really do well for giving the Nep experience
You should play a game
61894e No.15029566
Anyone tried running Nep games on wine?
a77770 No.15029849
I just started re;birth 2 and I don't know who Nepgear is; do I have to get all the sisters in re;birth 1 (already got true ending; didnt have the autism to get the sisters) to understand and know these characters or will I be okay without it? I'd be willing to do the former if its worth it
>>15027700
>Alloy
You can't just not post the full thing now
1fedaa No.15029880
>>15029144
Rei dindu nuffin and deserves hugs and headpats.
56d3f0 No.15030130
>>15029880
I'd hug and fug her.
47a6ad No.15030154
>>15029849
Getting the sisters in RB1 is mostly just for gameplay, they have a short scene each when you unlock then and I think they get a few lines of bonus fluff in some endings on a NG+ if you have them and that's it.
e86efe No.15030396
>>15028996
>Dogoo Man.
I guess it was inspired by the video of pic related.
5def89 No.15030522
>see nep very often, more so than other JRPG girls
>not averse to weebshit, but never really interested in this
>looks like there's a cult following behind this game
>if that's true, that means there's something special about this game
Sell me on Neptunia, /v/. How does this franchise stand out from the other 1,487 JRPGs out there.
5451be No.15030537
>>>/v/15030522
>calling anything japanese "weebshit" or "weeb"
Kill yourself roastie, we don't need more of your kind here.
50821d No.15030553
So apparently you actually get the full height of the Ultradimension Basilicom mentioned in a Nepstation episode, and holy shit is it tall, nearly twice as large as the Burj Khalifa, larger if the spire isn't included in the measurement.
Also, props to Planeptune for finally inventing a system of measurement dumber than imperial.
47a6ad No.15030560
>>15030522
Unlike other JRPGs Nep doesn't take itself too seriously.
>>15030537
>neptunia is not weeb
>crosslinking a post in the same thread
>calling someone a roastie based on an image that turns up dozens of results from reverse image searching
5451be No.15030569
>>15030560
weeb and weebshit are normalfag words, please fuck off to cuckchan and discuss this franchise there
74cd05 No.15030582
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
>playing VIIIR
>unlocking vr events for Blanc
>she asks me if I have someone I like
>choose Yes thinking Player-san will continue with "it's you"
>all I see next is Blanc feeling sad and lonely
I think I fugged up
47a6ad No.15030597
>>15030569
Why don't you take your own advice instead of dropping into the thread just to tell people to kill themselves for using a word you don't like and contributing literally nothing else
>>15030582
If you replied "no" it probably would've turned out the same. After all, if you don't have anyone you like, you don't like her either.
5def89 No.15030598
>>15030537
>like all sort of japanese shit
>call it all weebshit a quick catch-all term for all their cultural exports
>this is somehow bad
>get called roastie
>when there are no girls on the internet
>even if I was, I'd stay off the cock carousel for a husbando like a typical fujoshit
stay triggered, weeaboo otaku
>>15030560
what else does it do right? what's the appeal?
775c31 No.15030639
>>15030522
play it yourself till finish and you'll either understand or it won't be your thing
47a6ad No.15030661
>>15030598
The appeal is that the girls are personifications of video game companies, the setting is based off the irl gaming industry hence Gamindustri and plotlines are frequently based around events in gaming history, everything from nudge wink "Remember [game]?" reference humor to a whole game with the failing of the Dreamcast as its central plot point.
47a6ad No.15030670
>>15030661
>>15030598
Aside from that, the characters just have nice chemistry with each other and their interactions are fun to watch.
5def89 No.15030708
>>15030661
>>15030639
>>Which game to begin the series with?
>Start with Re;Birth 1 to test the waters
Plunderan a full feature (DLC included) demo
if I hate it, I'll just scrub it from my HDD.
775c31 No.15030751
>>15030708
Make sure to play the whole way through, it takes a bit of patience if you come from a more serious gaming background like me
I usually like grimdark, edgy and serious stuff but Nep helped me find inner peace
still do like that stuff though
5def89 No.15030800
>>15030751
I liked both meme souls and Rune Factory 4. Joviality and comf sit just fine with me.
775c31 No.15030879
>>15030800
one more thing you should be made aware of is that Nep tends to (but not always) be low budget and it will show. In my opinion they used the money where it was best but tolerance for it varies from person to person
b8ead9 No.15031264
>>15029566
Yes? Re;Births at least should work.
dcac69 No.15031501
>>15028996
It looks like an absolute mess to play.
>>15029024
>>15029517
All right, I'll give the first one a shot.
74d9f3 No.15031520
>>15031501
>mess to play
Not really, the pics make it seem more rigid than it really is, V-II is probably the best one in the series so far with the options and gameplay changes it has over the earlier ones in the series.
76ab82 No.15032977
I want to get serious with Nepgear.
456308 No.15033053
>>15032977
As long as you're more serious than blanc anon it should be fine.
6a01dc No.15033670
>>15030661
If one thing really sold me on that it avoids a major JRPG bugbear: You're allowed to fast-forward dialogue scenes and outright skip battle animations. Also I'm really into those HDD forms.
>>15030879
I just want less recycling across games.
>>15031501
The Re;births suffer from mechanical bloat but for the most part you can ignore it.
784079 No.15033927
If I hook up one of these do I get access to Planeptune/Gameindustri Internet? I want to go shitpost on Neppit
50821d No.15033951
>>15033927
>neppit
>not nChan
784079 No.15033978
>>15033951
That's why I said shitpost. Ill provide decent posts to nChan.
784079 No.15034527
Anybody happen to know off the tops of their heads what the drop rates for the cards from CPU chips are in VII? I kinda would like to know the odds before grinding for them. I mean if I can do it for the Sword of kings back in Earthbound, with its 1 out of 128 drop chance I think I can do all the cards.
76ab82 No.15034533
>>15033053
Of course! I only have eyes on Nepgear! She is the only thing on my mind!
784079 No.15034562
>>15034533
Do this, you may require some aid in snatching her from Vert's grasp. I could aid you in this venture so that we all may be with our desired neps.
456308 No.15034597
>>15034527
I'm not sure about the particular percentages of each card, one site seems to say that the SR cards have a 0.1% chance of popping from the chips that seems pretty accurate given how long it took me to get them.
784079 No.15034606
>>15034597
How long did it take ya? Ive been at it for a couple hours and just got the SR Neptune one. There is one per CPU, right? Please tell me that's it for SR cards.
456308 No.15034626
>>15034606
It's one per CPU, yeah. So you've got 3 to go.
>How long did it take ya?
It took me 7-8 hours spread over a couple days, I took my time and paced myself since I knew it was going to be monotony and I didn't think to do a save & reload until I had gotten one SR.
784079 No.15034637
>>15034626
Neato. So how did you grind em? Im working that forest just south of Leanbox (forgot the name) with all the +drop rate scouts deployed and using Vert's Sylhet spear to hit the conveniently single file enemies with forward facing breakable parts.
That, and I feel that of all CPUs, Vert would be the one willing to grind for shit in a game.
374311 No.15034648
>>15034562
That is a cute Nepgear. She looks flustered for some reason. Almost like something is grabbing her inappropriately but I can't see what.
b0f15b No.15034675
>>15034637
That forest, millionep, and the Colosseum are the best ways to get the cards, I ended up doing it in the forest as well, but I think you can also do it as Blanc.
ac1e06 No.15034873
>>15030582
So is VIIR worth paying a full price again if I have VII already? I do have PSVR so I could take full advantage of VR features. Does VIIR include all additional DLC characters (Million Arthur etc.)? Is there any additional content excluding the VR room?
784079 No.15036227
>>15034873
I would answer your questions, but im a PC fag so beats me for the most part. I heard that the DLC characters are not coming back however. And the combat system is very different.
cd024e No.15037254
775c31 No.15037590
>>15037254
>Steam
How's about you use Humble if you have to be a fucking cuckold so less money goes to them and more goes to IFI
415395 No.15037746
Guess this is the best place to ask since /tech/ will just not care.
Just finally got around to experiencing SSD goodness, decided to transfer Rebirth 2 on it because that stutters like fuck on area loads, somehow the problem is even worse than my old crappy HDD, am I alone on that one? tried a ramdisk instead but discounting the fact that it's totally unpractical for a 10 GB game it performs like I would have expected the SSD would
cd024e No.15037776
>>15037590
Are you suggesting that humble is the lesser of the two Jews? Is it even on sale there?
775c31 No.15037895
>>15037776
What do you think?
More goes to devs, less goes to Steam, some goes to charity
If you have to use Steam go through humble
If its not on sale there then just wait for the next one; there's been a few IFI sales there
b8ead9 No.15038827
>>15037895
less goes to Steam, some goes for (((charity))), some goes for IGN, not sure about the devs one
it's not necessarily an upgrade.
ac9102 No.15038889
>>15037590
>>15037895
>>15038827
The Humblestore claims their breakdown like this:
(((Payment processors))) get a 5% cut off the top, the remaining money is split with 75% going to devs, 10% to "charity", and 15% to HB for overhead.
It appears that Steam's cut is, in general, 30-40% presumably based on expected shipping volume, size of company, etc but I can't find anything on if that is including payment processor costs or not.
This seems to mean that a dev will get anywhere from 5-15% more from a Humble store copy sold vs a Steam copy sold.
In general if you're a big publisher there is probably very little difference in a sale from HB vs a sale from Steam because you have volume and a better bargaining position.
Smaller companies would probably do better on the Humble Store if a 40% cut on smaller titles is to be believed.
So if we assume a game is sold for 40$ on both the Humble Store and Steam Store the difference is $28.50 vs $24.00-$28.00 calculating from both a 60% take to a 70% take
Not exactly a huge difference to the developers themselves on the most common cut, 30%.
There is a point to be made about giving Steam less money though as they are far too powerful as far as online distribution goes.
565735 No.15038926
>>15038889
At that point you should just pirate the games and mail your money to the devs directly. Though I suppose there is still the point of purposely buying from a non-Steam storefront in order to promote competitors and lessen Valve's influence.
a107c5 No.15039865
File: abc9d11b3d00def⋯.png (Spoiler Image, 914.09 KB, 1200x900, 4:3, Spread_It_Nepgear_No_D-Pad.png)
Nobody will stop me from committing this crime with Nepgear!
0d7331 No.15040070
So is there any way to fix or elevate the stuttering and severe GPU usage in 4 Goddess. Mostly during the first cut scene it stutters bad and GPU use goes through the roof.
ee4de5 No.15040344
>>15040070
Did you tried to lower screen resolution and run it in fullscreen?
>>15039865
It isn't crime, when she likes it. :^)
a107c5 No.15040660
>>15040344
But she's so young! She's in high school! Ignoring the fact she's actually over thirty in the canonverse, but who needs to know that?
ee4de5 No.15040726
>>15040660
>she's actually over thirty in the canonverse
The more you know.png
I sometimes forget that they are basically immortal and don't age at all. It must suck for Rom, Ram and Peachy though.
5483c3 No.15040756
4d311a No.15040968
>>15040726
>It must suck for Rom, Ram and Peachy though.
How could being an immortal loli suck?
a107c5 No.15041002
>>15040726
Well the Candidates do grow until they reach a certain size. So Rom and Ram hypothetically will grow. That said, I doubt that'll ever be in game. Just a hypothetical. Peashy on the other hand will forever be a loli.
bcaab7 No.15041715
>>15039865
Good thing that's not Nepgear.
76ab82 No.15041737
File: de8203423175ba3⋯.jpg (Spoiler Image, 487.96 KB, 999x714, 333:238, Doing Things with Nepgear ….jpg)
File: 993693ab10fd9ee⋯.jpg (Spoiler Image, 1.62 MB, 1122x1600, 561:800, Going to a Festival with N….jpg)
File: 3b9d2f7c00f9319⋯.jpg (Spoiler Image, 79.04 KB, 500x749, 500:749, Like a Bunny Gear (D-Pad).jpg)
>>15041715
Looks pretty Nepgear to me. Next you'll tell me these aren't her either!
ac9102 No.15041758
>>15041737
Looks like an edited picture taken from a Hyouka character.
76ab82 No.15041793
>>15041758
Definitely a Nepgear. This face doesn't lie.
ee4de5 No.15041843
>>15040968
>How could being an immortal loli suck?
Immortality sucks overall and almost nobody would be able to do very much as loli.
>>15041002
>Well, the Candidates do grow until they reach a certain size.
I see. It will take over 50 years probably.
>Peashy on the other hand will forever be a loli.
It only happened because nobody teached her to not eat weird stuff.
784079 No.15042269
76ab82 No.15042474
>>15041843
I want to see loligear and adult twins. When will get a game with them?
>>15042269
Her drills will pierce the heavens!
784079 No.15042721
>>15042474
>When well we get a game with them?
After Vert gets hers. And perhaps Compa.
c264a5 No.15043835
>>15042721
I wonder how Vert and Compa games would even look like.
>>15042474
>When will get a game with them?
I wouldn't count on these.
784079 No.15044064
>>15043835
>Vert's game
Running some sort of maid/butler cafe? Make sure to have some raising elements to it.
>Compa's game
Uh, one of those surgery ones? just make it super cute I guess with a focus on injections or something.
76ab82 No.15044206
>>15042721
>Vert game
>Compa game
The first is more likely than the second, but the first is most likely impossible. Neither are that popular. I'm pretty sure 4GO was their compromise for a Vert game. Since it was basically the closest thing she'd get to her own game. Compa is basically out of luck. The popularity polls aren't kind to her.
>>15043835
Well I guess I'll have to settle for the 4koma dimension.
784079 No.15044251
>>15044206
Im still at least 30% buttmad about Neptune having to be so possessive of 4GO. I mean the game world is LeanVerde for fucks sake. You can really see it in the naming conventions for the other CPU spin-offs.
Hyperdevotion Noire: No mention of Nep.
MegaTagmension Blanc + Neptune VS Zombies (Nep is second billing)
And Cyberdimension Neptunia. Vert not even mentioned.
c264a5 No.15044380
>>15044064
>Vert's game
Honestly, Princess maker-type of game would make most sense to me.
>Compa's game
I don't have any ideas for her beyond comfy VN.
6a01dc No.15044430
I yearn for a Vert game similar to Noire's, where you're helping out in some way. In the meantime PP will have to do.
>>15044380
>Compa
Dr. Nep.
2eac6b No.15044522
>>15044251
>>15044430
I thinj Vert barely made top 10 highest rank character in the most recent (Japan only) poll. So making a game for Vert would probably be too risky.
c264a5 No.15044597
>>15044522
I must admit that Vert is kind of bland compared to other CPUs to be honest.
76ab82 No.15045340
>>15044597
Pretty sure the other three, Nepgear, and Uni all outranked her in the most recent polls. I'm not positive. Pretty sure Plutia did as well. Not sure about Uzume.
adc2d4 No.15045837
>>15044430
>Dr. Nep
Trauma Nep: Under the Pudding
784079 No.15046915
>>15044597
Neptune: Series protagonist, loves pudding, hates eggplants, What 4th wall? Inverts the big/little sister deal.
Noire: Workaholic, Modern Tsundere, Has girly interests in fashion and the like. Tends to treat Uni like crap.
Blanc: Reads/Writes light novels, Littleist big sister, Bust insecurities, Prone to Hammertime.
Vert: Plays any game, Tea nerd, Yaoi nerd, Obsession with little sisters, Ego hinges on her bust size.
08d1dd No.15064660
>>15027615
Reminder Nepgear is a smelly child murderer.
a687b3 No.15065223
>>15064660
*Only in Conquest route.
b8ead9 No.15065639
>>15055034
>>15064660
With posts like this it's no surprise this thread is dying.
74a2cf No.15065967
>>15065639
Plutia is the chillest bro-est nep character. It's just too bad her transformation is shit
6a01dc No.15066522
>>15065967
>hating on the best and lewdest HDD form ever
Could you possibly have worse taste than this?
8919e9 No.15067454
>>15065639
You say that like there is still something to discuss
Good taste though
6a01dc No.15067733
>>15067454
Honestly I'd be fine with giving these threads a rest for a bit. I've been distracted with other games personally, and it's hardly life to be keeping threads up like this. Also that screengrab better be from the NISA "translation" and not the re;translation.
Also I like outfit swaps but my favourite alt costumes are the fancy dresses from the anime, and schoolgirl clothes from that spin-off or Blanc's game. They're somehow really fitting.
8919e9 No.15067854
>>15067733
>distracted with other games personally
Ditto, but I´ve been thinking about going back to Re;Birth2 and do the conquest ending since the last time I played I was pretty burned out from games in general so I just rushed through things
I just occasionally check in this thread to see if its page 13 or 14 and bump it if necessary
>screengrab
That screenshot is almost a year old and I honestly dont remember anymore if it was the NISA translation or the retranslation
>spin-off
Which one?
ebfd94 No.15067862
>>15028598
Would you man sex another man for your waifu
4d3429 No.15067917
ebfd94 No.15067945
>>15067917
Why are you a fag? Do you not love your waifu?
6a01dc No.15067954
>>15067854
There's a Neptunia print work, can't remember if it's an LN or a manga. But they're school girls in it.
>Gun Gun Pixies Neptune
Oh that had school girl costumes too but the best part about that was Noire pole dancing, wearing that one slutty outfit from one of the other girls, and Neptune periodically saying "nepu nepu neeepu~ nepu nepu nepu nepu nepu~" as you explore the room she's in.
52892b No.15068110
>>15066522
But he didn't say anything about Orange Heart
76ab82 No.15068165
>>15068110
>>15066522
Orange Heart is great. Iris a shit though. Still, nothing compares to the greatness of Purple Sister!
52892b No.15068210
>>15068165
Kinslayer apologists get out
596412 No.15068213
>>15068165
>tfw no mirror universe chaos nep main game
>oniichan will never save the world with the purifying power of headpats
ebfd94 No.15068214
>>15068165
Why is she such a slut
6a01dc No.15068222
>>15068165
>liking the most mediocre Nep
Yeah I can't take you seriously.
4299f9 No.15068948
>>15068222
I'm not talking about Vert.
>>15068214
Only for her onii-chan! The Drama CDs confirmed this!
>>15068213
You have the right idea. Even if Chaos Gear is actually not evil and just turns into a stalker.
Also wouldn't mind purification by use of my D drive.
>>15068210
Do not blame Nepgear for your actions! You knew what you were doing!
52892b No.15069139
>>15068948
The gearfag cries as it strikes out at you
6a01dc No.15071074
>>15068948
Nor am I. But keep projecting your terrible taste onto everyone else.
76ab82 No.15071618
Gear is cute. She has nice curves. Most neps do. But this one is best.
>>15071074
Hi Pot.
>>15069139
It's super effective.
6a01dc No.15073930
>>15071618
If curves are the category, Nepgear isn't in the running. Hell, none of the candidate girls. The most I'll concede is that Nepgear is sort of cute appearance-wise.
47443c No.15074990
08d1dd No.15076103
3f957d No.15082778
>>15067854
>do the conquest ending since the last time I played I was pretty burned out from games in general so I just rushed through things
That's how you would do the conquest ending, you just rush through and keep all your lily ranks as low, which causes Nepgear to go full DRM on Gameindustri
bbf910 No.15089844
>>15084608
Don't bully the nowa.
a98ae6 No.15089969
>>15067954
>Noire pole dancing, wearing that one slutty outfit from one of the other girls
Let me see it
6a01dc No.15090136
>>15089969
Sure there's a video of that boss online somewhere. But yeah what the hell even is this outfit besides turbo-lewd. Also she yelps "noire" when shot.
6a01dc No.15094672
Given the last few posts, if you have nothing worthwhile to say do not bump this thread. It's truly pathetic to see a thread kept up in this manner.
47a6ad No.15094762
>>15094672
>last few posts
Nep threads have been on life support for ages now. It's been over 3 years since the last mainline game release that isn't a port or a remaster and whatever spinoffs come out don't have enough substance to really spark discussion. I'm hoping Brave Neptune will breathe some new life into these threads but there's no word of a PC release so far, and there doesn't seem to be anything else in development.
3f957d No.15094896
>>15094762
>Brave Neptune
I still can't believe they ended up changing the name so that it was blatantly clear that it was an RPG and not a platformer.
b00092 No.15101131
So, uh, does anyone else name their things after Neps?
I've named my Thinkpad Noire, my Android phone Uni, my zero turn Peashy, and my old phone turned mp3 player/emulator 5pb.
ccb9e5 No.15101137
b00092 No.15101176
>>15101137
Who is Christine?
ccb9e5 No.15101193
>>15101176
>not keeping up with the cwc lore
2910c2 No.15101209
>>15094896
Its because of the fucking journos
b00092 No.15101216
>>15101193
I remember hearing that guy got into Neptunia for like a month. I forgot that he existed.
6a01dc No.15101845
>>15101131
My things are named after Touhous, but I use Iris Heart/Plutia for wallpapers, and as a custom Vita theme. Also hello fellow Chinkpad user.
a98ae6 No.15101862
>>15101216
Reddit fags such as yourself should leave.
50821d No.15102287
>>15101131
I named my new computer Blanc-PC, and tend to name other devices after neps too.
b00092 No.15103221
>>15101845
That's a pretty nice wallpaper. Is it larger than that?
>>15101862
>You will never have Noire looking down at you disgusted
>>15102287
>Blanc-PC
Is she small and white?
6a01dc No.15103247
>>15103221
It's heavily cropped. Laptop and phone while I'm at it.
4433b4 No.15105387
>Nobody posted this
I thought people were hungry for Brave Nep/Super Nep news?
http://operationrainfall.com/2018/07/03/e3-2018-impressions-super-neptunia-rpg/
Right now its looking like it has potential but is either slower in development than expected or its going to be worse than expected
>My initial impressions of Super Neptunia RPG were not great. While the game does work, it felt very rough. The town didn’t seem to have a lot of life in it, the battle system felt conceptual, and outside of her victory pose, Neptune was not smiling. I know that sounds like an odd detail but think about it. When does Neptune not have a smile or grin on her face? She’s a very expressive character, so a lack of expression is a bit jarring. For a game that’s going to be out in Japan in about three months, this was rather worrying. However, I may have an answer for all this. I suspect this was an early build of the game and not something recent.
>I can only speculate, but I think it’s safe to say that this build was the most stable. I’m certain that IFI has a much more complete build back at their offices, but if it’s crashing or not optimized then it doesn’t make sense to bring to a trade show. E3 is a place to show off working demos of games. It’s better to bring an older, more stable build than a recent one that’s prone to crashing. After all, nothing is more frustrating than a buggy game. With this in mind, I’m going to give two opinions about Super Neptunia RPG in this impressions piece. But first, let’s talk about the game a bit.
>Super Neptunia RPG is 2D platforming RPG. If you’ve played Paper Mario or Super Mario RPG then you have an idea as to what I mean. You’ll need to use your platforming skills to navigate through some of the areas. Thankfully to help you, you’ll have access to something that would only exist in a Neptunia title: the Pudding Dogoo. Yes, a Dogoo made of pudding. And it somehow increases your jump height.
>Actually, let’s talk about that for a second since it’s a good example of showing what I mean by the game being “rough”. On one hand, the Dogoo looks great and upon whacking it with Neptune’s sword it’ll make a rather amusing face. However, using it to jump higher is a bit… odd.
>You would think that being made of pudding and being a Dogoo, you’d bounce off it. Especially when you consider that it augments your jump height by quite a bit. Instead, you use it as a platform. You jump on it once, stand there, then jump again. I can kind of see this working, but bouncing off of it just makes more logical sense. As I said, it works, but it feels incomplete.
>Combat has a lot of potential. Your party consists of four characters (in the demo’s case, the main four goddesses) and each character is assigned to a face button on the controller. When pressed your character will perform one action which is dependent on your formation. The party formation is determined by who the “leader” is at the moment. So, if Nep is in the front it’ll be an attacking formation, conversely, if Blanc is in charge it’ll be a healing formation. As such, you’ll need to use the right formation for the right job. However, each action also has a cost.
>In the lower right-hand corner of the screen is a circle that will slowly fill up. Each section of the circle that fills up counts as an action point. Each action you take in battle has a cost associated with it. So, a careful balance between stocking these points, switching formation, and attacking/healing is needed. Really, I can see this being a lot of fun, especially since it gives you a lot of freedom and keeps you engaged. However, there the early nature of the build was again an issue.
>For one, the animations seemed a bit jarring at times. Occasionally the game would stutter, while some animations either weren’t implemented or were too quick for my eye. Vert’s magic attacks are a good example of this. While she certainly is canonically quick, I didn’t notice an animation associated with her magic attacks. They just kind of happened. I’m sure this will be smoothed out by the final retail release, but I think you can see what I mean. So where does this leave my impressions then
>It’s certainly not the worst Neptunia game by any means. Gameplay-wise, I still contend that the original Hyperdimension Neptunia is the worst in the franchise. Though, my least favorite games happen to be Action U and Producing Perfection. Conversely, it’s too early to tell if it’ll be the best game. Especially since I find the original Megadimension VII the best game in the franchise mechanics-wise; with Mk2 being my personal favorite for its story. In the end, I think Super Neptunia RPG is shaping up to be a competent game, though I’m hoping we’ll see an updated build of the game before it launches later this year.
889962 No.15114887
>>15027615
So I've been searching around and I'm at a loss. Neptunia Rebirth 1 has no sound other than in cutscenes. I tried the solutions I found which were:
>Navigating to the steam folder and running the directX install
>Uninstalling and reinstalling audio driver (Using Realtek HD Audio)
>Running the game as administrator
And no success. Still no sound. Help me /v/, I want to enjoy some JRPG and anime tiddies.
889962 No.15114949
>>15114887
Disregard, after setting the audio quality to CD level and verifying game cache, the audio works.
Praise be to anime tiddies
4433b4 No.15115453
>>15114887
You deserved worse for using (((Steam)))
Anyways have fun fag, tell us how it goes and how you feel
Remember to be patient with the game and you'll be rewarded for it
cd1c5f No.15115729
>>15114887
I had that issue once. I had installed the game on an external HDD. I reinstalled it on an internal one and it worked. Don't know if it's the same issue or not but if you installed it on an external one, try switching.
05805c No.15115766
>>15115475
Looks like some tweened shit for animations. Doesn't help that Nep looks completely weightless when she's jumping around. She just kind of floats up and then back down.
60597d No.15116638
Post very big or very small neps
ed8124 No.15116646
>>15115766
It's still very rough, I hope it gets fixed up by the time they show the game off again.
c8108f No.15120182
I had trouble getting into HDN Re;Birth 1, though maybe it was just because I couldn't gitgud. After picking up Nep U on the sale and having fun with it so far, I think I might go back to take another stab at it. I think I stopped playing at the first Noire fight in that canyon.
I really liked Yellow Heart though she was a bonus DLC in ReBirth 1 and was the most fun to use, does she show up in any other nep spin-offs?
>>15030553
>Also, props to Planeptune for finally inventing a system of measurement dumber than imperial.
that's just metric measurements anon
>>15068213
chaos neps? what's all this?
>>15115475
looking rough
26c82a No.15120325
>>15120182
Noire fight was hard but you do need to gitgud anon.
I admit when I first went into it thinking the game was going to be a casual stompfest and I'd have to increase the difficulty but once I started hitting those brutal bosses I had to swallow some pride
Remember to use life rings and keep your neps alive, more actions per turn including healing is important
Worst comes to worst you might have to grind if you're bad
1aacaa No.15120451
>>15120182
>chaos neps? what's all this?
Chaos Neps were in a Japan only vita mobile game with a gacha system. Lots of Compile Heart IPs were in it. The story was something about chaos energy corrupting people. Each of the main neps and candidates ends up in chaos form. Sadly the game is being shut down soon without the Chaos Planeptune arc. All the other nations have been done. We know what chaos Purple Heart looks like. Chaos Gear has one seen in it and for some reason all becoming chaos did for her was make her a bit stalkery as she seems interested in the main character. Haven't really watched the other chaos nep cutscenes so not sure what it did to them. Other things from the game were beach volleyball versions of vert and white heart. Also vampire Gear and some sort of Halloween Plutia, Santa Gear, and a Chaos Conquest Gear.
As far as the Conquest Gear goes, even though she's chaos, she's immune to its effects or something. As such she's capable of fighting using both share energy and chaos energy. Not positive on this, but it seems everything went well after defeating ASIC and she seems more cheery than you'd think. Also more mature and adult like. Particularly in the boob area.
fe4c09 No.15120490
>>15120325
That was my mindset as well. Everything up until Noire was so fucking easy. I do think i'll take another crack at it once I'm done with Neptunia U.
>>15120451
> mobile game
maybe they'll find a way to incorporate the chaos stuff into another game. Those are neat designs.
887875 No.15120590
>>15120451
>Chaos Conquest Gear
1aacaa No.15121053
>>15120490
I really want Chaos Neps in a canon game. Think it'd be awesome.
>>15120590
She became a beautiful and kind adult thanks to onii-chan's guidance.
b60aa2 No.15121098
>>15027615
Time to get your Nep on!
8408c4 No.15121262
>>15120182
Use this guide in >>15029024 for Re;Birth 1.
Game is easy with exception for final boss after that one fight.
>>15120451
>Chaos Conquest Gear
>Not positive on this, but it seems everything went well after defeating ASIC and she seems more cheery than you'd think.
Sounds like complete bullshit. I would think that she went batshit insane was more likely.
a98ae6 No.15121420
>>15121053
>womb tattoo
What a slut.
76ab82 No.15121556
>>15121420
Every Chaos Nep gets a tattoo where the Shares they drain from their citizens are deposited.
>>15121262
>Sounds like complete bullshit. I would think that she went batshit insane was more likely.
Maybe early on. But it seems according to Japanese posts I saw that she actually overcame everything herself and became a stronger and more mature person from the ordeal. Was most likely very difficult early on though.
74454a No.15121732
I've never played these games and I probably never will, but the occasional visit into these threads has made me really, really want to make sweet love to Vert. Can any other neps even compete?
38d946 No.15121758
>>15121262
>game is easy except for final boss
Are you kidding me? The first wolf boss is brutal and
optional bosses are too, and there's some other really rough areas
Maybe if you grind or turn on easy mode
I beat the game with low leveled neps (apparently, at least compared to most people on Steam who showed up in search results) and it was a pain
38d946 No.15121766
>>15121732
I really love Neptune, but all the neps I've interacted with so far each have their own unique charm
de92e7 No.15121791
>>15121758
>Maybe if you grind or turn on easy mode
Rush spam into EXE anon, once you have 3 CPUs this strategy removes a lot of the difficulty.
76ab82 No.15121811
>>15121732
>Vert
Wow that's a first. She's the least liked out of the four main CPUs and is even outclassed by one of the Candidates and a couple Makers.
ac9102 No.15121812
>>15121791
Are you suggesting that cheesing a game makes it easy?
Who the fuck would have thought?
de92e7 No.15121845
>>15121812
Even without using Rush the games are piss easy, nigger.
>debuffs
>buffs
>equips
There's three more ways to break the game. Anyone who thinks the games have a high degree of difficulty needs to play more fucking RPGs.
ac9102 No.15121921
>>15121845
>Using buffs makes the game too easy
>Using debuffs makes the game too easy
>Equipping your characters makes the game too easy
If the game is "too easy" stop using any any or all of the systems that are literally designed as "choose your difficulty".
The game lets you choose how difficult you want it to be because it isn't designed as an hard hitting, super serious JRPG, it's about an autistic anthropomorphic Sega console, her friends, and their shenanigans.
4433b4 No.15121947
>>15121791
I only learned about how good EXE drives were late into the game (and at that point its really the only viable strategy), and rushes do shit for damage for a lot of the midgame
>once you have 3 CPUs
Do you ever have 3 CPUs at the same time except during the endgame?
Moreover I feel like some of the CPU's exe drives were weaker than non-CPUs like Compa's for example, on top of this, you need to constantly be healing
>>15121845
Nigger I'm talking with even buffs and debuffs (which I would do my best to combine with guard break exe drives) the game was still hard
Are you forgetting that most bosses can do just those exact things too? Lower your accuracy and you're fucked half the time, lower your attack and you end up doing 1 damage per hit, and if they buff themselves while you're debuffed and reeling they can OHKO you with an AoE attack (which will often happen)
This doesn't include that bosses usually get some absurd shit like a huge amount of regen per turn or something to make them annoyingly difficult
>>15121812
>using EXE drive spam is cheesing
nigger it seems like its the only way to punch through mid to late game bosses, at least that's what it felt like for me
>>15121921
Nigger handicapping yourself is a gay way to create difficulty; there's plenty as it is. If the fag wants a difficult game he can just put on the hard mode; The slog through normal mode was brutal enough as it is, hilariously enough
>autistic
That's not true at all, She's an amnesiac with an extremely quirky personality but she doesn't lack in social skills whatsoever. Maybe in some levels of tact but that's more of her personality than autism
8408c4 No.15121976
>>15121758
>Are you kidding me?
No.
>The first wolf boss is brutal and optional bosses are too, and there's some other really rough areas
Wait until you see gundam optional bosses. These are rough.
>Maybe if you grind or turn on easy mode
I finished Re;Birth 1 with characters around lvl 85.
4433b4 No.15122003
>>15121976
I'm the anon you're replying to (My ID likes to change a lot) and I finished it around level 65 or so iirc, lemme double check
ac9102 No.15122011
>>15121947
>handicapping yourself is a gay way to create difficulty
But that's literally all a harder difficulty does anyway. It's the same game 95% of the time but with increased enemy stats or reduced effectiveness for your characters.
Doesn't that mean you're just handicapping yourself by playing on any difficulty over the baseline?
>That's not true at all, She's an amnesiac with an extremely quirky personality but she doesn't lack in social skills whatsoever. Maybe in some levels of tact but that's more of her personality than autism
Yeah but it's way easier to just say "autistic" than it is to say all that shit and it still describes most of her personality.
e86efe No.15122043
>>15115475
The battle animations are looking good and the motion blur in the character's sprites is nice, as long the developers don't overuse it.
Outside battle, it looks like the developer need to tone down the controller sensitivity. Neptune seems to go everywhere too easily.
Since the visuals are so simple, I hope it will run on mid-tier notebooks when its ported.
8408c4 No.15122063
I always thought that Nep is only pretending to be retarded.
>>15122003
>I finished it around level 65
I don't want to even know how much you were resetting or how many items you used.
0fd27e No.15122091
>>15122063
>pretending to be retarded.
She ispretty sure its canon that she made a strong healing item in the game.
4433b4 No.15122167
>>15122011
Reducing your freedom to use shit isn't the same as increasing the power of your enemies
>Yeah but it's way easier to just say "autistic" than it is to say all that shit and it still describes most of her personality.
I won't argue about it being easier to say autistic and it working only because autistic has become such a general term for anything dumb, retarded or weird about a person but she's really not even close to autistic
>>15122063
>resetting
Not too often once I got the hang of it, it usually spiked around certain bosses or areas though, namely in the endgame or midgame
>how many items you used
I used a lot obviously, but I still had very sizeable stashes of consumables by the end game
I still hoarded a lot though, but I used a very large amount of them for the final boss fight
7b4bed No.15122386
>>15122223
What's wrong with black panties?
4433b4 No.15122400
>>15122386
Nep has purple shimapan.
6a01dc No.15122842
>>15120182
Black Heart is definitely the first roadblock since it's a back-to-back fight but you really just need to >>15029024 to beat her in that game. Having life rings makes Compa actually heal worth a damn so you can negate her. Re;birth 2 has much more hair-pulling with its boss fights, and even the tutorial to viral monsters hits hard. Also I'm gonna point out that the DLC characters are basically cheating. Plutia in Re;birth 1 has Neptune strength, Compa healing, and IF AoE attacks, while in Re;birth 3, Cave is both fast, and has an insanely cheap SP skill regenerates as much SP as it uses, at least on groups, so she generally wipes out any regular encounter in a single turn.
>>15121420
Mobage knows what's hot.
>>15121811
It's probably a Westerner thing. I like her the most out of the main 4 too.
7b4bed No.15122877
>>15122400
I thought you were going to say something like, "Only temptresses wear black panties. White panties are the best because they symbolize purity and innocence."
I'm surprised that you're upset about how she's not wearing purple ones because I thought you would think that that color was only worn by lascivious sluts who have no class.
4433b4 No.15122942
>>15122877
And people say Nep has autism :^)
Anyways she doesn't look good with black
Also you do know what shimapan is right? In Nep's case its white with purple with white stripes, not pure purple
887875 No.15123567
>>15122877
>I thought you would think that that color was only worn by lascivious sluts who have no class
So, Nep.
7120a2 No.15123702
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>>15122842
I'm pretty sure the Nips prefer the CPUs in the order of Nowa and Nep as their top 2, then Blanc, then Vert. I've never heard their reasons for why they like her the least. Maybe she's a bit too hardcore when it comes to online games or her love of Yaoi.
>>15122942
A lot of the neps look good in other colors besides black.
7b4bed No.15123865
>>15122942
>you do know what shimapan is right?
…no.
887875 No.15123890
>>15123865
NORMALFAG GET OUT
e86efe No.15123892
>>15123865
shima = 縞 = stripes
pan = パン = abbreviation of pantsu パンツ
パン by itself means bread, don't make the same mistake as me and translate it as striped bread.
76ab82 No.15123942
>>15123702
There have been several polls that were Japan only. Neptune is firmly in number 1 position. Noire is number 2. Nepgear is just behind Noire. The last few polls had Nepgear only a few votes away from Noire. I forget who is after that but I believe it was Blanc and IF next. Vert was in the top 10 but not sure where.
48e313 No.15124318
>>15123702
I think its because nips prefer lolis and petite body types to the large-breasted characters
It also doesn't help that all the other CPUs represent Japanese companies while the xbox was a meme in japan
Noire is extra high on the list because she's a tsundere
Those are my theories and opinions
157a17 No.15124341
>>15124318
It's because the Nips have shit taste and don't recognize best girl when they see her.
6a465b No.15124397
>>15124318
All xbox consoles are a meme in this year. Lack of any workable emulation for any of xbox consoles, doesn't help it either.
>>15124341
I admit that she is my favorite CPU from 4 main ones at least.
bcaab7 No.15124422
>>15123865
a trash display in tastes that far too many people indulge in. Don't mind it. Find what you like.
850d7d No.15127084
So is this the look of the average Blancfag?
https://twitter.com/IdeaFactoryIntl/status/1016042342426374149
Please describe them
52892b No.15128247
>>15127084
>It's the main 4 again
>Idea Factory forget their own character again
3f957d No.15128686
>>15128247
>Compile Heart keeps on forgetting their own character
97c369 No.15130004
>>15115766
I think it's more of an engine-related situation, but it'll be interesting to see if they make it a bit smoother when its later in development. It sure looks like a late alpha or somewhere in beta.
>>15121811
I think "least liked" is a bit of an overstatement. I know a lot of people who like her, but unlike the other three mains she's more of a "second best" kind of character, rather like Nepgear in that regard.
>>15121791
That strat works alright at the end, but I wouldn't advocate for it early on.
>>15121947
>the only way to punch through mid to late game bosses
Really late game, post-game really, EXE is critical but earlier on the main thing is positioning. Having Blanc tank while you go to town on a big bitch with SP and combos is really the way to go if you ask me.
e081e8 No.15130106
>>15121420
womb tattoos are pretty kinky
>>15121556
> "shares"
> "drained" from Citizens
god I wish I was a leanbox or planeptune citizen
766598 No.15130322
>>15130106
Planeptune definitely all the way.
Lowee also. Chaos Ram was actually drawn by a hentai artist so she's super lewd. And I usually think the twins are off limits.
e081e8 No.15130656
>>15130322
> Chaos Ram drawn by an actual hentai artist
too bad she doesn't have tits though.
ac9102 No.15130686
>>15130656
Adding tits to Ram would make her not Ram, it would just be some other short girl.
e081e8 No.15130709
>>15130686
fair enough. I like short girls with Vert-tier tiddies and HDN has none that i've seen though.
d74cee No.15130744
>>15130709
>HDN has none that i've seen though
Yellow Heart is 156 cm (~5'1")
12aea5 No.15130760
>>15130709
>
Re;Birth 3 - Yellow Heart. Only in HDD form though.
>>15130744
Too bad, she is only in team from second last chapter though.
She and Iris Heart won't likely show up again, unless as DLC.
>>15127084
>From left
First two are awkward as hell.
Last one would look like otaku-like monster with checked shirt.
e081e8 No.15131003
>>15130744
>>15130760
> yellow heart is only 5'1"
bueno
4b6883 No.15131261
>>15130709
>people forget that RED has fat tiddie bitties
d8380a No.15131332
>>15131261
I kinda forgot about her existence.
52892b No.15133363
>>15131332
These should help you remember her
79c35f No.15137779
>>15131003
That's a tall toddler.
>>15130656
All that matters is lewd. They don't need tits to be lewd. All chaos neps are lewd by default.
97c369 No.15143532
Well this dropped yesterday on CH's side of the Pacific.
4433b4 No.15143575
>>15143532
Vert looks the best out of all of them.
Anyways it feels… strange watching this. I get a "puppets on strings" vibe from the movement style or something, maybe thats just me though
Still turned out looking better than I expected from the fucking leafs though.
61b10e No.15144207
>>15143575
>Vert looks the best out of all of them
I thought Blanc looked fine.
>I get a "puppets on strings" vibe from the movement style or something
They're trying to give it almost a pop-up book look but I got the same vibe when I saw Noire swinging her sword.
88456f No.15148308
>want to try out this series, start with re:birth just like the thread instructs me to
>unnecessary references to anime and larping (WE ALSO PARTAKE IN YOUR ACTIVITIES, FELLOW NERDS)
>uninstall after the MC makes her third fourth wall break in an hour
This is some borderlands quality writing. Is this translation seriously supposed to be one of the good ones and I'm getting what I'm supposed to be getting from this game?
910212 No.15148529
>>15148308
Its a satirical lighthearted JRPG and yes afaik you're getting what you're supposed to
Its probably not the series for you anon
88456f No.15148846
>>15148529
I guess I'm just sensitive to this kind of humor because it seems like some of the most cancerous games share it, minus the lack of political stuff. I think it's a dangerous road at the very least which is probably why there needed to be retranslations in the first place.
4433b4 No.15148982
>>15148846
There needed to be retranslations because of a bigshot NISA employee being the head of the translations for 2 and 3, because NISA were the first ones to localize the Nep series and they wanted their advice and consultation since NISA (And this guy, Nick Doerr specifically) were the ones to set a precedent and establish personalities for characters and whatnot
NISA being present anywhere in the process automatically taints everything touched.
In terms of Neptunia I don't get the kind of cancerous vibe I normally would from this kind of humor but either way I think having a bit more patience and giving it an honest try might end up being helpful or at least cement for sure whether it'll be worth it for you.
I find all the vidya references and whatnot to be charming and a gratifying sort of fanservice but that's me personally; I just love video games and this panders to people like me rather than soyboys, faggots or redditors. Most people won't know most of the references used for the zone names but I did and I take a little pride in knowing that I did. Makes me feel like I'm well-rounded and informed about games beyond surface-level as a gamer when I do, but that's one example.
You're not wrong about it being a dangerous road though. When something has memes (in Nep's case there were a lot of 2ch memes) and humor like this its easy for localization companies to fuck it up either by accident or willingly, and not only that but it could easily become cancer or dated quickly. I don't feel like this was the case in Re;birth 1 personally though.
88456f No.15149110
>>15148982
I've been trying to think about how to explain why I associate this kind of humor with westernshit but truth be told I can't quantify it myself. I might just feel that there's a certain lack of self confidence in constantly poking fun at oneself. I mean, it's an RPG and it has elements common to that genre. Is that seriously comedy gold? Also the references and stuff you described sound nice but at the same time it's nice for a game to be able to be fully appreciated in a vacuum. It probably gets a free pass on that though because apparently it's entire lore is built around one big reference so that would make it thematically appropriate. I might return to this series later with a fresh mindset once I complete some other vita games, the position based battle system seems pretty neat although it seems like it's going to take a while before the games squeeze a good amount of depth out of it.
ac9102 No.15149182
>>15149110
>I've been trying to think about how to explain why I associate this kind of humor with westernshit but truth be told I can't quantify it myself.
Because in the past it was used to cover up shoddy/nonexistant translation.
Now it's generally used in place of references that don't exactly translate well but when you see that sort of shit being brought back, even if it is a moderately correct equivalent, it feels as if they're trying to go back to lazy days/garbage.
bcaab7 No.15150061
>>15149110
>I've been trying to think about how to explain why I associate this kind of humor with westernshit
That's simple as hell: mockery has become the staple food of this generation, time-wise. That's a big constant in the west, a way to signal not to take matters so "seriously" and really you should just "relax and be easy my good sheep".
Specifically stating, much comedy and wit in the west that doesn't stand out on its own tends to take this low hanging fruit as a first resort to try to fit in and not look dumb. Your reboots and revisits in media are littered with the shit. They take Scooby Doo and they lampoon it. They take Charlies Angels and poke holes through it. Star Wars itself was littered with ill-timed, poor jokes that shouldh't have existed in such quantities or in such a non-subtle manner but there they were, ruining the tone of what's thematically supposed to be an action-packed soap opera in space.
I haven't said Big Bang Theory because that's shooting fish in a barrel, but you get the point. Anyone with even the most minimal taste for something that isn't derivative and bereft of actual punchlines or payoffs—even from something like Married With Children, to say the least of actual comedic setups in Mel Brooks films or Monty Python or Police Academy—they're going to look twice at depreciating, refrencing or self-referencing humor. It's low-effort, it is its own punchline, therefore not all that funny. It's sloppy and often can't carry a scene, to say the least of the few bits of dialogue around it.
The neps get away with it for the most part because you're supposed to be focusing on how cute they are and how much you want to bring Blanc whimpering into womanhood, and all the mostly by-the-numbers adventures they get up to while invoking hamfisted yuri tropes here and there. If referential humor is a weakness, you're not gonna get far. That's all Neptune really does, made far worse, as anon indicated, by Doerr's piss-poor meme-a-thons in two mainstay titles and damn-near all the Pre-Blanc vs Zombies spinoffs.
97c369 No.15150762
Hey, if that anon looking for a better quality copy of that Plutia BOING thing is still around, I finally found it and got around to re-compressing it to a 15-16MB version. The resolution has improved by one-third, a lot of the visual artifacts are gone or minimized, and the audio quality is much improved as well.
6a01dc No.15151679
>>15150762
I was still here!
97c369 No.15152294
>>15150061
>The neps get away with it for the most part because you're supposed to be focusing on how cute they are and how much you want to bring Blanc whimpering into womanhood, and all the mostly by-the-numbers adventures they get up to while invoking hamfisted yuri tropes here and there.
And some of the yuri stuff isn't all that codified either; it's a hell of a lot stronger in Hyperdevotion Noire, than in VII where regular Noire there is practically screaming I'M STRAIGHT, to the violent chagrin of an (essentially) actual psycho lesbian.
As far as the writing…Neptunia is a bit different in this regard, to me, than it is in the West where cultural references or excessive joking around is usually just used for an "I GET THAT REFERENCE" or group mentality thing. That's all very banal, not much too it, just sort of an exercise in teaching a seal to clap.
In Neptunia overall, at least when translated somewhat properly…sure, there are the references and self-depreciating humor, but there’s also seems to be an additional framework to it. I see it like this; instead of trying to distract you, the joking around frequently ties into insecurities that the characters in the series have. This fleshes out the characters a little bit, more importantly the choices stemming from those insecurities usually lead to serious situations later on in a particular game. In those situations, where someone is in a bad position and the story isn't making light of it, I've found that invariably the game gently suggests to the player that "you do the right/brave/good thing" through the story at those points. It could be something like trying to help a little kid who lost their parents or a special gift they got from them, or trying to take a dangerous object out of the hands of someone who is trying to harm/kill your friends at great personal risk or fear to yourself. Things along those lines.
Sometimes it even tries to sneak something like that into a lighthearted scene, too: there's one bit in the third game, for example, where the game mentions how one of the main characters is raising some kids in it and is telling them to be careful with money and to be cautious with borrowing and lending said money. The whole scene, nothing bad is happening, but the point is still made inoffensively as part of the narrative. Still instructive, and telling you to think about your finances is diametrically opposed to what we see in the West with lootboxes and cosmetics. Or arguably gacha in the East, as well.
So overall, there seems to be a bit of moral fibre mixed into the whole thing. Not a lot, and you can certainly go over the quality of it. But even so, what is there feels a little more substantial than what it could otherwise be, and frequently is elsewhere.
320133 No.15164192
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If you don't post anything, I'll bump with horrible images.
9d46f6 No.15164199
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>15164192
It'll never happen again I swear
9dd61b No.15164282
>>15164192
Cosplay was mistake.
>Not naming fourth image "Vert made Blanc lost her patience for last time".
>>15164199
Third image was fine though.
97c369 No.15164327
More Brave Nep art leaking out. Will try and find a cleaner version.
6a01dc No.15166435
For the melody right at the start of the Neptunia 1 battle theme what is the instrument called? It shows up in other Neptunia tracks and I happen to really like it for some reason.
>>15164192
Filthy.
b79184 No.15166639
Why is Compile Heart doing this to me? I just wanted to play NeptuniaU casually, beat the main story and then be done with it; but i feel like I have no choice BUT to get all my neps to level 99 and clear the tower with them all and then finish the last five level 99 quests. Why Compa? I've already put 16 hours into this game, please let me rest.
Are all the other Nep games like this? Goading you into sinking more of your life into clearing every quest and such? please tell me they aren't.
cfc4ac No.15166643
>>15166639
You can get through the main story without excessive grinding, but most of the RPG entries in the series feature a colliseum of some kind where you fight overleveled monsters.
b79184 No.15166671
>>15166643
as long as IF and Compa aren't jabbing me in the side going "hey hey you haven't actually done a damned thing until you COMPLETELY clear this with ALLLLL the characters!" then I'll be ok.
I'll probably sink another 4 or 5 hours into this easily, because I can't not feel the need to get my neps leveled up (which is best done in the Tower) to take on those character-specific level 99 quests.
6a01dc No.15171519
>>15171509
Are you literally retarded posting that to bump the thread?
de8eb9 No.15171617
>>15164282
He deserves a trip to the eggplant farm for the first two pics.
>>15166639
Some of the things I can think of are that the main games can require some grinding to unlock certain outfits and equipment, there's also some mini-games like Stella's dungeon or the one in V-II that you'll need to clear if you want to 100% the game.
9607c3 No.15171705
>>15171617
I don't mind some grinding, I just don't want to be pressured by the game itself to 100% things. It's such a bizarre feeling. It's not the same feeling as I WANT to 100% it, like the one or two games I have in the past, it's like the game is guilt-tripping me or something into doing it, it's devious:
> finish chapter 3
> "hey here's a post-game gauntlet and some extra quests for story mode! Have fun AND WELCOME TO HELL"
> finish gauntlet first time
> "hey good job, but make sure you clear it with ALL the characters AND their HDD forms because now those count as separate characters lol! And I hope you're nice and lubed up now because you gotta clear this 50 floor tower with ALL the characters!" though at least the HDD forms don't count as separate characters here.
> go back to story mode
> the level 99 quests are impossible to cheese
> some of the solo quests require defeating 1500 or 2000 enemies while not difficult by any means, incredibly time consuming for a single quest
at first it's begging me to complete it all but then it just fucking takes out my kneecaps and spits on me. That shit with HDD forms for the gauntlet really chafes my dick in particular. I know I could blow through it on the wimpy or normal difficulties if I really wanted to clear it quickly, but that'd just feel like a waste of time just the same. I love this game, but god damn fuck this game.
2fad32 No.15180008
>>15164327
Did you ever find it fag?
677958 No.15183169
I saw there was a sale on IFI games on Fanatical and 4GO is $16 bucks on there. Looks like they're gonna reveal some more IFI games on sale over time.
4433b4 No.15183218
>try to play Nep rebirth 2 on my Vita
>be intensely bothered by the frame rate and graphical quality
Did I turn into some kind of faggot?
Fuck me, hopefully I can just ignore it and play this
>>15183169
How much % goes to IFI themselves? Any idea?
b2e5dd No.15183275
I've started playing Megatagmension on Vita today . Are there multiplayer trophies? If yes then I'd like to play some multi later.
97c369 No.15183292
>>15171509
You might want the new version? >>15150762
>>15183218
What's the matter? What system you running on?
>>15183275
I think there's multiplayer achievements, at least I recall things for that on the PC version. So it may well be there, too.
677958 No.15183307
>>15183218
No idea. Never heard of this site until today.
b6a690 No.15184649
As I said in Vitagen I started playing Neps again, just 1 from scratch, and 3 from where I left off which was before stealing Blanc's shares and triggering her to pay us a visit. I'm just doing a bunch of sidequesting before I take back Lowee since they're piling up. I also want money for the yandere costume (100000 gold).
>>15183218
The graphics are fine for a handheld. The slowdown is pretty atrocious though, I recommend using oclockvita or equivalent with any of the Re;birth games. If you can't use that, you are totally doing it wrong as far as owning a Vita.
>no SD2Vita/PSVSD
>no rePatch for applying the re;translations
Hacking them is about as empowering as hacking a 3DS, and especially since it lets you bypass a lot of Sony's nonsense.
97c369 No.15184692
>>15183307
Fanatical used to be Bundle Stars. Don't know the cut IFI gets, but it's not the first time they've used them.
4433b4 No.15184877
>>15184649
I got the fanslated vita versions and I have oclockvita installed; I just have never used it yet and feel a sort of headache from trying, I'll give it a shot though, hopefully its not too complicated
b6a690 No.15185031
>>15184877
You can just use the examples provided on the plugin's Github but that only loads the plugin for a specific title. If you find yourself using it frequently there is a global section *ALL that applies to all loaded Vita games and homebrew that you could stick it under, and if it causes problems for any you can stick an *! section for that particular title above the *ALL section. Full details on taiHEN configs:
https://github.com/DaveeFTW/taihen-parser/
There's also another plugin that just sets fastest speed from the get-go but I prefer being able to set it per-game anyway.
677958 No.15185805
>>15184692
Well IFI is promoting the sales on their Twitter so I guess it's fine.
677958 No.15188181
VII is less than $7 on Fanatical if anyone is interested
a07827 No.15188208
If anyone cares, Mary Skelter got a gog version. Depending on if you want to still support them you could obtain it from them or from other outlets.
4433b4 No.15188391
>>15188208
That would support Ghostlight though, not IFI wouldn't it?
And because its Ghostlight its unknown if the port will be good or censored
ac9102 No.15189492
>>15188391
The Vita release was unaltered in the West as far as I know because it was handled by IFI and, unless I am mistaken, Ghostlight is mostly only guilty of supporting censorship by porting precensored games but not "actively" censoring shit themselves with their PC ports. other than Agarest
Ghostlight presumably gets a cut of sales but it is most likely a smaller amount of revenue sharing plus a lump sum for porting since they are using an IFI script and porting a Compile Heart game.
2483bd No.15189654
>that plutie SP skill where she beats up her own toy so nastily that all the enemies get damaged too
I absolutely regret pausing Re;birth 3 where I did last time. Shame its HDD variant is identical to the one for fancy rain.
>>15189492
Any middlemen take a cut. That's how it works.
ac9102 No.15189742
>>15189654
>Any middlemen take a cut. That's how it works.
I know, the question >>15188391 asked looked to be
>how much does this support Ghostlight, they are known to censor.
Not buying a game because you don't know its censorship status is normal.
Not buying a game because you don't want to support one of the three parties involved in its release seems rather ridiculous.
c840c3 No.15191056
>>15188391
I didn't make it very clear but I was referring to what GoG has been doing recently, some people might not want to support them and want to buy it somewhere else based on their opinions on stuff like GG. I'm pretty meh about ghostlight.
0d882b No.15191059
How is the summer season treating you /nep/? I for one am thanks to this heat, I also wish I was at a beach with beloved nep having fun
0d882b No.15191070
>I for one am dying thanks to this heat
Guess the heat took away my ability to type properly too, well, any excuse to psot more neps is as good as any
09b095 No.15191183
>>15191070
>>I for one am dying thanks to this heat
Dito
Playing abit of God Eater 2 and the Mary Skelter game that was released a couple of days ago to distract me from the heat, but its not working
4b10b5 No.15191337
>>15189742
Ghostlight isn't great or the most trustworthy by far
GoG was good before the marketing thing, now their status is questionable and worrying since its unknown how much power journos actually wield over them.
Considering the majority of money would be split between these two rather than Idea Factory/Compile Heart/IFI its kinda sketchy to be buying the PC version.
Does anyone know if IFI gets anything and if so, how much?
I imagine the split is 30/60/10 or something, between GoG, GL and IFI respectively. I know 30% is the standard GoG cut
b2e5dd No.15191377
>>15183275
I finished the story yesterday night now I have to grind for the lv99 trophy. Level 11-5 is the map I'm grinding with Uzume but I don't know if there is a better map.
768419 No.15191460
Some of you fags buy from GoG so this might matter to you:
>>15184916
>>15184916
>>15184916
and I'll just repost the guidelines and addresses for ease of use (Reminder that it only takes a few minutes to write an email and put pressure):
From the CD Projekt site (this seems to be the more business/overarching focused one):
General inquiries:
kontakt@cdprojekt.com
recepcja@cdprojekt.com
And for CDPR's site since they're basically GOG's gigantic big brother (over 2/3rd of the staff is at CDPR, maybe more):
Media:
media@cdprojektred.com
Business inquiries:
biz@cdprojektred.com
Guidelines and tips for email-writing to these guys:
0. USE A PROFESSIONAL EMAIL, THIS IS IMPORTANT
1. If you've bought any Witcher games or played GWENT, you have a big advantage because of how important of a product it is to CD Projekt group. Bring that up, especially Gwent if you've done anything. Doesn't matter which platform you bought it on. Gwent was considered their biggest/most important project in 2017. If you're at all excited for Cyberpunk 2077, mention this as well.
2. Be polite and courteous, inform from an objective standpoint why GoG is bungling on their marketing and PR fronts- From their financial report they pride themselves on communication and management, as well as direct, clear communication with gamers. What has been going on recently has been the exact opposite, and many gamers feel alienated, disappointed and even silenced in some cases. Bring these up with examples you can point to. Mention how you feel the communication is lacking, how you feel that GoG was unfair in taking sides in such a heated and controversial topic, how you feel your needs as a gamer and customer are not prioritized. If you feel the Witcher or CDPR twitter was good or better in handling situations like this, bring that up and mention that you feel GoG needs to take a note from that model.
3. Mention which country you are from- This has an advantage for most people because of GoG's breakdown of customers. If you are a U.S. customer, you get an advantage because of how big a portion you count for in GoG and CD Projekt's financials but most large and common countries will be noteworthy enough for you to include yourself. Plus it will aid the effort more if they receive emails from a diverse variety of countries.
5. Say you feel this harms and does damage to the CDPR and GOG brands in your eyes. Use the word "brand" explicitly as well as "risk" if you are able, they're automatically head-turners. Brand is key and critical to nearly all companies. Bring up their mission statement and financial reports and what have you. Be sure to be coming from a position of understanding. Bring up matters you believe GoG handled well, like their sales (or the Summer sale), the large and increasing amount of new games being added year by year, the visual novel additions in the wake of Valve, a major competitor's attempted censorship or what have you, but be clear that this event and events like this one will cause the same kind of issues and further problems down the line for GoG. Consumer trust will fall if GoG cannot manage simple marketing for game releases without these kinds of issues happening. Mention that GoG never had to create this problem in the first place; that it was an unnecessary risk that has alienated numerous amounts of customers and that the lack of transparency is jarring.
4433b4 No.15192993
>>15191070
>Compa in a one-piece
would've been great if they didn't fuck up on her lower body's anatomy
Good shit though anon
69cc55 No.15193034
>>15191460
I sent them an email, I also did not use the phrase, Purple Bush, which is unusual for me. That is how mad I was.
4433b4 No.15193081
>>15193034
>I also did not use the phrase, Purple Bush, which is unusual for me. That is how mad I was.
>Purple bush anon sent an email
That's it, GoG is finished
hopefully this shit never happens again; I just want to enjoy nepping in peace without possible future risk of censorship (Steam especially but now GoG isn't too trustworthy either) or extreme jewishness
ac9102 No.15193652
>>15191460
I understand your efforts are meant to be positive but if your aim is to look like a consumer your email should not be "professional", it should be "polite".
Mentioning shit like "brand" and "risk" while telling people to mention that specifically in a mass campaign is literally a flashing red light that signals to a lot of people that the campaign may not be legitimate, even if it is, and can be cause for them to ignore the emails entirely.
Your best bet is actually going to be informing people of what happened, their correct lines of communication not their business email address normally, and send positive reinforcement.
Supporting a company that you like is several times more helpful than sending angry emails because it is far easier to continue to do something than it is to stop and replace something.
4433b4 No.15193993
>>15193652
I think its a bit too late to change that now anon
>Your best bet is actually going to be informing people of what happened
The fact that this thread knows now is a start, at least, and I did inform my friends.
>and send positive reinforcement.
Eh?
They screwed up here.
>Supporting a company that you like is several times more helpful than sending angry emails because it is far easier to continue to do something than it is to stop and replace something
They've been doing plenty of things I like and people were told to mention what they like that GoG has done in their emails.
I was fine with GoG before this and I'm still fine with them as a storefront, just… less trusting of them now and also disappointed in them. I'd just like an olive branch extended to more fucking places than Resetera. They could've at least went into their own forums or subreddit to douse these flames but they didn't. There's no positive reinforcement I can give that I can see here, unless you mean supporting other companies and storefronts entirely but many of them just sell steam keys for nep games which kinda defeats the purpose of using them anyways
ac9102 No.15194413
>>15193993
>Eh?
>They screwed up here.
Did you give a shit about GoG's political stance on anything before those tweets?
Do you know what actually happened? Do you think a monolithic entity, known as a whole as "GoG", runs their twitter? I know you aren't that stupid.
Is it not entirely possible that the retards running GoG's twitter are responsible for this entire debacle on their own and they are the ones who need to go? Based on a bit of evidence gathering, I suspect this to be the case.
I also found all of this out with about 20 minutes of research. Does GG not do basic research anymore?
https://archive.fo/TP26N
https://archive.fo/84DrK
A moron who decided to support retarded, unethical journalists realized his tweet could be seen as support of something he doesn't believe GG as an ethics campaign and broadcast himself twice using the GoG Twitter account as part of his "job".
The mistake GoG made was hiring an actual SJW to run their Twitter.
If your goal is to show GoG that their customers align with GG as an ethics campaign you should let them know that. Doing so is more valuable than sending three thousand emails that are the equivalent of
<reeeeee brand is bad now reeeeeee
>I was fine with GoG before this and I'm still fine with them as a storefront, just… less trusting of them now and also disappointed in them
I'm not saying what they did was ok but a lot of companies do extraordinarily irresponsible shit, like not keeping their "social outreach" arms inline with their company philosophy or not requiring them to run shit past their actual bosses. This is what leads to a lot of these "incidents"
Revise your campaign.
>members of your social media team take part in a forum dedicated to extremism, publicly tie themselves to your company, and broadcast political content you may not support. As a customer I don't like this image very much
I suspect they, and other corporations, will move far faster with a message like that.
4433b4 No.15194443
>>15194413
>Did you give a shit about GoG's political stance on anything before those tweets?
No, that's the point. I would've preferred things to stay that way.
> Do you think a monolithic entity, known as a whole as "GoG", runs their twitter?
That's not the point. Its one thing for an employee at GoG to screw up, or even a branch of them. What's irresponsible is their lack of communication and transparency with their own customers and consumer base. Anyone with a brain at GoG could've seen how much of an incident this was, the support tickets sent alone should've told that. but nothing was changed. This entire idea was borne out of a lack of options due to GoG's utter lack of responses besides shutting things down. They've had to delete threads on their own forums like mad and contain everything to 2 threads while plenty were being made organically out of the outrage.
>Konrad
That was the same faggot who went on Resetera and chatted those fags up while the GoG forums remain silent and the subreddit's thread about the apology got locked.
Their own users are letting them know right now, look in the GoG forums and as many people know right now as are going to at this point.
They haven't communicated whatsoever with their own customers, their twitter has been radio silent and nobody knew about the Resetera forum until people found out about it.
>I was fine with GoG before this and I'm still fine with them as a storefront, just… less trusting of them now and also disappointed in them
This sort of thing was included in the email along with the brand shit. The guidelines are clear in terms of representing oneself as a customer first.
>Revise your campaign.
Its too late anon. This idea was already made late and to salvage whatever we could out of people who still felt strongly enough about it to do something. Within the next 1-2 days it'll pretty much be done with unless GoG does something.
I'll keep this in mind the next time this happens, I suppose.
Just wish you showed up earlier, this might've borne fruitful results if it had been done earlier, maybe. Considering how silent they were though… maybe not.
f8ad90 No.15196034
is 4 Goddess online any good?
1f15e7 No.15196112
>>15196034
The multiplayer is still laggy I'm pretty sure, which is insane considering the fact it takes place in an MMO and playing with others is an aspect they talked about when unveiling the game. Other than that there's some characters that are a bit OP but it gets a pass for giving Vert the closest thing to a sister.
f8ad90 No.15196117
>>15196112
i would be playing it purely for the single player experience.
1f15e7 No.15196125
>>15196117
I think it's the best action Nep game, so if you like those spin-offs you will probably enjoy 4GO.
f8ad90 No.15196148
>>15196125
hyperdimension VII was my first and only neptunia game. Does the single player hold up on its own? I heard its good, but very short.
1f15e7 No.15196209
>>15196148
The single-player is fine, it gives you AI partners and it's how I played the game.
>very short
Compared to V-II this one will be about half as long.
f8ad90 No.15196305
>>15196209
thats pretty standard for action vs turnbased. is there any postgame content? like extra bosses and over-leveling?
7120a2 No.15196432
>>15196305
There is some post-game content in the form of more guild missions after the main story is done, I think they raised the level cap and added new multiplayer missions in an update.
97c369 No.15196776
>>15191337
Well GOG in this case gets 0% because it's only on Steam to my knowledge right at the moment.
>>15191460
Thanks for the heads up anon. I'm personally not touching GOG for the time being until the situation develops a bit more one way or the other.
>>15193081
It's sort of funny since Steam's been more anti-censorship/anti-journo as of late. I guess if you get powerful enough, doesn't matter what the Polygon crowd thinks.
>>15196112
Single player's breddy good, MP is a bit hard to get going reliably, seems to be a recurring problem with Tamsoft collabs.
4433b4 No.15196789
>>15196776
>Steam's been more anti-censorship/anti-journo as of late
No? They just tried a mass-purge of games a little over a month ago. It took operation no nudes no peace, petitions, emails and huge amounts of autistic screeching from everyone to get them to back down, but the fact that they tried that to begin (along with plenty of games still being censored; just search on OAG) with is far worse than anything GoG has done in terms of their actual storefront. The only reason journos are screeching about them is because they backpedaled and they paid what is currently lip service to the games
4433b4 No.15196804
>>15196789
and to be clear at this moment I don't like either of them (though I will admit to having a former preference for GoG because of their stance on DRM), ideally Nep games would be available on more platforms or even better, able to be downloaded directly from Iffy's online store. I still suggest people email them about that if they think its a good suggestion.
ac9102 No.15196822
>>15196776
It is on GoG right now. It was released on both platforms on the same day.
>>15196789
Was that not chalked down to one rogue new employee being retarded? one of the Superhot devs if I recall
If anything that caused Steam to take a stance on the issue at all and look into ways to better present their storefront along with the formulation of an actual policy on "adult content" rather than some vague bullshit.
ed8124 No.15196823
>>15196776
>Well GOG in this case gets 0% because it's only on Steam to my knowledge right at the moment.
Mary Skelter is available on both, that's why it got brought up.
4433b4 No.15196841
>>15196822
>Was that not chalked down to one rogue new employee being retarded?
I don't remember anything like that coming out, what was the name of the employee and do you have a source?
Either way assuming its true a single random literally who rogue employee shouldn't have that much power on Steam to be able to ban all those fucking games, it also seemed way too organized of a response against numerous developers to be a single employee. NCOSE also claiming credit for it implied it reached higher level management, at least with how proudly they were displaying those letters they sent to Valve's higher-ups about asking for this sort of shit to get banned.
>formulation of an actual policy on "adult content" rather than some vague bullshit
They don't have an actual policy yet afaik, that was just a single almost blogpost-tier statement was made by someone who was equally a literally who employee in Steam's company.
Not to mention despite that statement coming out there are still games that were censored that were never brought back up with Valve refusing to talk to them, like in the case of MangaGamer and A Kiss for Petals:Maidens of Michael
0c2fdc No.15197691
>>15196841
Looks like the rogue employee was a rumor that wasn't followed up on but valve had purchased Campo Santo around this time and I suspect it may have had something to do with it.
>They don't have an actual policy yet afaik, that was just a single almost blogpost-tier statement was made by someone who was equally a literally who employee in Steam's company.
Erik Johnson is a bit more than a literally who but I presume the reason the isn't a concrete policy yet is because that sort of thing takes time, even something as loose as "hands off as much as we can.
4433b4 No.15197728
>>15197691
The excuse of "They need time" doesn't fly with me because it never works both ways with Valve. It always takes them significantly longer to fix their mistakes if they ever bother to, than to make them. They can censor niche games in a heartbeat and they've done so. There's a loli VN that got pulled entirely off Steam because a single fucking leaf complained, despite the developers pleading and explaining their situation.
If I wanted to, I could teach retards on Steam a lesson by reporting a bunch of nip games and I'd likely be able to fuck them over. That's beneath me, but anyone can do it.
97c369 No.15197846
>>15196789
I remember the censorship situation, but it seemed once all the screeching happened they reversed course pretty hard. Got the usual suspects upset too. Now I heard they're trying to set up some kind of official framework for this, which gives me pause, but I'll wait until it get released to get angry.
For what it's worth, I had a strong preference for GOG myself but if they are going to bend the knee I'd rather go with another group that, while incompetent or rotten in some areas, is less pliable that way despite the other problems. Ideally I'd rather get directly from IFI, however.
>>15196823
>>15196822
Interesting, I assumed it wasn't on there since a lot of the other Nep games aren't. Well, I should have checked.
0c2fdc No.15198222
>>15197728
Most of the time a corporation will spend a significant amount of time deciding new policy before rolling it out.
They have already reversed most of the garbage from whatever happened that caused the tittypocalypse.
What they need to do now is actually craft a concrete policy that covers most situations.
They can't roll out a perfect policy instantly when every region has different actual laws regarding what is and isn't allowed and valve does have to follow the law.
Oddly enough that does take time but I'm sure you have experience with this and you don't need to be reminded of that.
>there are still games that were censored that were never brought back up with Valve refusing to talk to them
Yeah that happens with widespread policy decisions. Things get caught in limbo and nobody says anything until they can say something specific.
Would you prefer weeks of valve emails saying "please stand by while we figure things out" repeatedly?
4433b4 No.15198390
>>15198222
>Would you prefer weeks of valve emails saying "please stand by while we figure things out" repeatedly?
That's what's going on now.
http://nichegamer.com/2018/07/16/gamedevs-claim-steam-is-halting-adult-game-submissions-until-filter-system-is-working/
>Unfortunately we’ve not been able to get a timeline on this but we’ll continue to keep you all informed once we have new information as well as any other decisions we make in the meantime
>We’ve also learned via TechRaptor that when they reached out to other developers of adult games, that even some titles already on Steam may need to be resubmitted.
>We reached out to the publisher Sekai Project who confirmed the situation and said that they had other titles that they had been told to resubmit for. They were unable to share which those titles were, but also explained that it will impact existing titles as well as new ones. Sekai Project also explained they are exploring alternative platforms to release the games on as they had been waiting for over two months.
>Following up on this I reached out to other developers who were impacted by the events in May. Several of them said they had received letters from Valve detailing that they were working on new tools that would require additional information to be filled out when the new system is implemented.
So basically these devs and publishers are fucked in the meantime despite Valve's statements otherwise.
(((Sekike Project))) aside, this is happening to a lot of developers and damaging them heavily.
>Earlier in October of last year, Valve stopped developers from posting links to “uncensoring patches” for their games via the game’s Steam Community message boards.
And that doesn't help either.
With Valve's luck this might take a year or two to finish rolling out, and the same shit that was happening before the policy comes out will happen afterwards because of Valve's shitty, inconsistent standards and terrible history when it comes to this shit.
>They have already reversed most of the garbage from whatever happened that caused the tittypocalypse.
"Most" isn't good enough when it comes to allowing entire fucking games on the storefront. The games are already censored and Valve doesn't allow uncensor patches to be linked on any of their pages, but at least having a gimped version that can be
fixed is better than not having any game on the storefront at all. Its impossible for the developers to take in any revenue and that's a huge fucking hit to them.
>Yeah that happens with widespread policy decisions. Things get caught in limbo and nobody says anything until they can say something specific.
Widespread policy decisions that came in the wake of an attempt at mass censorship. You really think they'll bother to make a meaningful change? You think Valve got the message? You don't think they'll try to do something similar to this again? I'd be shocked if you did because the company is going to cancer in so many ways even unrelated to this debacle that I'd have trouble believing you. I won't bother listing them since this is isn't the thread for that but I am extremely skeptical right now and only expect further incredible fuckups, followed by some backpedaling while hoping people ignore the increasing collateral damage and sketchy shit going on behind the scenes.
>They can't roll out a perfect policy instantly when every region has different actual laws regarding what is and isn't allowed and valve does have to follow the law.
I would imagine in certain regions they just have to censor games. That's the fault of the countries in those cases. They're not going to "figure anything out" for those reasons. That's what will happen and it will be a waste of time.
They've been on my shitlist since late 2015/early 2016. Thank god I never fell for the Steam meme and wasted thousands of dollars like most whales on the games I got there like many people apparently already did.
3f957d No.15207487
Who's your favorite Nep antagonist? I find the robotic characters to be the better villains in the games.
76ab82 No.15207596
>>15207487
This is true. The best of which is Extinction. Through his efforts, we got all the Chaos Neps and he was actually a menacing boss fight. Sadly we will never get him in English unless they make an actual JRPG of this game instead of the Japan only Gacha system they have now. Which I would totally be down for.
4433b4 No.15208660
http://www.compileheart.com/neptune/yu-shanep/
Got a lot of updates including the character pages
ac9102 No.15211314
>>15207596
Didn't the gacha game get taken offline?
With how often the Nep series reuses characters/settings I don't doubt they might make a game using the concepts maybe not the art if it was done by a 3rd party and they can't keep the rights for a new game
76ab82 No.15211827
>>15211314
Well most designs were third party stuff. The game got its final three chapters released this month. The game gets taken offline next month. But then the game ended with a "To be continued…?" so who knows. Maybe they'll cancel the mobile game and make a console version or a sequel. The game ended with Nepgear basically killing the final villain but then he might get resurrected or some shit. I wasn't paying too much attention.
61b10e No.15212625
>>15208660
I don't think I've seen pic related in any of the promotional material before now.
>>15211516
>first pic
One small step for Neps, one giant leap for flatkind.
ac9102 No.15212870
>>15211827
The question is if they got the rights to use the art in other Nep related games or just the mobile game. or if they just bought the art outright, I confess I'm not very well versed on how game art is licensed
I'm sure they could still use the "concept" of Chaos CPUs but if they have to pay for the art again to use it in another game they probably won't.
It's more likely that if they use them at all they redo the art entirely but frequently "redone" art loses bits of the original because it's trying to emulate old art rather than just being different art of the same character.
76ab82 No.15212969
>>15212870
I'm not too sure either in regards to licensing rights. But since the characters themselves are Compile Heart's, then at the very least they could have Tsunako make new art for the characters. I'd wager that they own the art done by third party people though.
63bee8 No.15214596
>>15027615
this is literally just porn
2c25a6 No.15214918
63bee8 No.15214966
>>15214918
why would i pay for porn i can watch it for free
47a6ad No.15215157
>>15214966
Why are you in this thread
6a01dc No.15215630
Finally finished Re;birth 3. Only the good ending but I'm actually feeling it to try for the true ending too. Kind of pissed that I expended a bunch of credits on girls that didn't end up being usable for the final part, even if it meant getting to play with Uni. I'm so glad they fixed her to have SP skill targeting for her regular attacks instead of needing to do very awkward hitbox manipulation, like MAGES. in the first game.
Whether I actually give Re;birth 2 time is up in the air. 3's improvements and rebalancing is making 1 more awkward to play. At the same time 3 at least made me want to use Nepgear in battle even if I still don't think that highly of the character so it'll probably happen. Also Stella's dungeon was something I totally missed and it's a cool feature.
7120a2 No.15215737
>>15215630
>a bunch of credits on girls that didn't end up being usable for the final part
If you want to use them more I'd encourage you to reload a save around chapter 9 and go for the true end it unlocks a post-game scenario and you'll get to use the other CPUs and Candidates for it.
b8ead9 No.15215925
>>15214960
>another palette recolor
why am I not surprised?
ac9102 No.15215937
>>15215925
A lot of games use palette swaps and/or even reuse the same enemies in multiple areas. It saves money and time while not affecting most people's enjoyment of the game.
Even Final Fantasy did that when they didn't have multimillion dollar budgets.
If you're seriously expecting any studio other than an AAA studio to not reuse assets you're in for a bad time.
6a01dc No.15216014
>>15215737
I kind of didn't keep multiple saves so I'm going through NG+ from the start. Just cleared the prologue and got stuffed by some of its upgraded dungeons. Taking those can wait until third loop. I'll be checking the DLC girls in NG+ also.
>>15215937
Even for a budget dev they are nothing short of shameless in reusing stuff. I want more varied game world's, not the same forest, cave, factory, and the same dogoo model recoloured or scaled. They're as work-shy as Neptune.
b8ead9 No.15216022
>>15215937
looks like I forgot the sarcasm sign.
In a franchise where they reuse the same fucking dungeon in 4 different games without any change, or the same monster with same appearance in the same game just with a different name and stats, this time at least they bothered to do a palette swap. (And yes, previous Neptunia games has fucktons of palette swapped enemies, you don't have to mention it.)
ac9102 No.15216118
>>15215937
>They're as work-shy as Neptune.
You gotta write what you know.
>>15216022
I'm not very good at catching sarcasm but there are a shitload of people that are legitimately mad when jRPGs reuse enemies. Sometimes there are legitimate reasons for devs to reuse, other times it's just laziness.
I suspect the Nep games reused so many assets because most of their development time was used elsewhere. The first three games were released almost exactly one year apart, that isn't enough time to do much
4433b4 No.15216183
>>15215925
I like this recolor, tbh, they look nice
6a01dc No.15218730
Apparently NG+ Re;birth 3 isn't giving me my Uni fix like it does in Re;birth 1 so I'm all the more tempted to give Re;birth 2 another go. I'll have to start over though since I stuffed up one of that ending's story flags.
>>15216118
>You gotta write what you know.
Neptune is Sega though. Compa and IF don't reflect reality.
>I suspect the Nep games reused so many assets because most of their development time was used elsewhere.
The most I'll concede is that it makes sense to have locations shared between games, such as the starting dungeons, to be reused. Not when you have multiple locations in the same game based on the same map and altered a little bit, like was constantly done in Drakengard 3. Enemy palette swaps don't bother me nearly as much, especially when it has memorable designs like the Tokimeki Sister, but it's not good when almost every enemy type in the game has multiple variants. Like if it was just for the dogoos it might actually be pretty amusing.
47a6ad No.15218745
>>15218730
Personally I'm fine with palette swaps. What bothers me is when you have two differently named enemies with different stats that look exactly the same, so you think you're taking on an easy fight only to get ground into the dirt. Those Ancient Dragons and some of the robot enemies were especially annoying, since they don't even get palette swaps to help you tell them apart.
6a01dc No.15218781
>>15218745
That also. Particularly when you unlock altered dungeon plans such as for the Shampura dungeon in Re;birth 1, where they all look about the same but the monster plan change ones are even more deadly and often have similar names. Then there's the "god's chosen pawn" Shampura or whatever it was in one of the caves late game who hits like a truck. Still nothing quite beat the bullshittery I ran into recently in 3. In 1 you have the horsebird dogoo encounter. 3 one-ups it by having the same enemy in one of the maps but you get 7 of them at once, and they just gang-rape all your Neps if you cannot eliminate them immediately.
1f15e7 No.15221379
>>15218730
Lily rank discs help to avoid the conquest end in Re;birth 2.
6a01dc No.15222530
>>15221379
I actually want the ending as the first one I get. I missed one of the events last time. Anyway I've gotten it started but given the harder nature of 2 I'm taking it slowly and doing more sidequests than I normally would. I just need verification this is the criteria before I commit to making actual progress.
b8cdd8 No.15224556
>>15222530
That sounds correct.
6a01dc No.15226576
>>15224549
This thread has not needed your dirty tactics lately, not since I'm actually playing them and have stuff to talk about.
>>15224556
Cheers. Well next in line is more level ups before I go get fucked up by Uni. I just love back-to-back fights and so does this game.
6a01dc No.15227488
>>15226576
Got Lowee opened up and one of the sword rumour events popped up. Uni was an item sink, as expected for what might as well be Re;birth 1 Black Heart fought solo. Everything else has been pretty smooth, even the first fight with HDD Neptune which was taking 0 damage when defense buffed. Am not looking forward to the Lowee sisters, and I want Uni in my friggin' party already instead of being a whiny tsun bitch. Cave too.
Speaking of difficulty spikes, I hit a ridiculous roadblock in Re;birth 3's Stella's Dungeon floor 1710, where a sealed calamity or something appeared. Twice. Both were loss thanks to them hitting for 9999 damage.
6a01dc No.15227574
43240e No.15228034
>>15224549
Histy is for tender love not rape.
ac9102 No.15231731
>>15231715
Did they just beat the fucking system? You can reuse dungeons as much as you want in a desert setting because there's only sand, caves, and underground lakes.
367176 No.15231754
Isn't this the series that has a cute girl that summons mini Hibachis to bullet hell your enemies?
6a01dc No.15231759
>>15228034
She wouldn't last 3 minutes.
>>15231731
No you can't! It's really noticeable in Nep games when you have the same level used multiple times, even if they might open up a path or start from the other end. You can't do it just because they're all the same type of map.
2e4103 No.15235319
>>15227488
>>15227574
Shares for the Share Queen!
6a01dc No.15236700
Turns out I didn't actually miss anything last time, but starting over was for the best anyway, even if it mean suffering through the CPU fights again. Hit another story flag for the terrible ending, and am now off to Leanbox. I knew I'd eventually get into Re;birth 2 to finish it but it probably won't see a second playthrough. Also Stella is being useless lately.
>>15235319
I'm tempted to request a "Serves her right, she trusted Nepgear!" or "Around Nepgear, always fear!" image in the draw thread.
889962 No.15236978
>>15027615
So the Re;Translation files are no longer on MEGA. Does anyone have a copy to reupload?
610e62 No.15237000
>>15027615
The retranslation links are dead, are there any mirrors?
3f957d No.15237016
>>15237000
>>15236978
Here's Rebirth 2 for the PC:
https://files.catbox.moe/cg9iev.zip
If there's any errors I can pull up my copy that I have on an archive
889962 No.15237025
>>15237016
Thanks Anon, file looks clean. What about Nep 3 though?
3f957d No.15237032
>>15237025
I'll take a look through my unorganized hard drives. I know I have it, I'm just not sure in which one.
610e62 No.15237039
>>15237016
>>15237032
Appreciate it, I hope you find 3.
3f957d No.15237048
889962 No.15237080
>>15237048
Your efforts have not gone unappreciated. I don't have much, but this slooty pic of Ashe is pretty nice
6a01dc No.15237130
Damn. I think I only found 2 events and hit chapter 3. At least I don't recall one for Lastation. When does that one trigger? I'm gonna hate repeating chapter 2 so I might just throw on DLC cheat items for that part. Or leave it to NG+. Also Broccoli is great.
6a01dc No.15237175
>>15237130
Actually never mind I think I'm golden. I actually posted further up about one encountered before hitting Lowee, and found the screenshots I took for all three, doing that was a good idea. Also I just love Nepgear's blank stare for those three events.
Also fuck this installment's obsession with consecutive fights. It's bad enough when CPUs show up after a regular monster but Warechu and Underling were total assholes challenging me twice in a row.
889962 No.15237289
>>15237130
>Also Broccoli is great.
Do you mean as a fighter? Never used her in the first game, always stuck with the CPUs or IF
6a01dc No.15237524
Just saved Uni and then got stuffed by Nepgear bravado. It's just fabulous when CFW Trick is a struggle and then you get locked into another CFW battle with just Nepgear and a shit Uni.
>>15237289
Never used her except just now in 2 but she has a good healing SP Skill and had EXE Drive when none of the party did. EXE is gold. I also like her Di GI Charat theme. Still, Cave is my absolute favourite alt.
97c369 No.15237875
>>15237000
Retranslation dude here. Some random flagged the files on Smega, killing the links. You have to provide a fair amount personal information to the striker when contesting things on there it seems so I just said "fuck it". It's being hosted elsewhere now, and here are the links:
RB2:
https://gofile.io/?c=HCcDhY
RB3:
https://gofile.io/?c=oIghL4
5baf97 No.15237974
>>15237875
>Some random flagged the files on Smega, killing the links.
What the fuck? Who would care enough to actually flag them?
97c369 No.15238043
>>15237974
Hey, don't ask me. All I know is that it did not come from anyone official, happily, so that means some other punter is screwing around. So I'll keep it up, but just to be safe it's always a good policy to keep backups of important packages for a rainy day.
5baf97 No.15238054
>>15238043
>All I know is that it did not come from anyone official, happily, so that means some other punter is screwing around.
I think it could be flagged by some butthurt faggot from newch after they tried to shill their website on /nep/ several times now.
>So I'll keep it up, but just to be safe it's always a good policy to keep backups of important packages for a rainy day.
They aren't that big, so I still have them too.
6a01dc No.15241629
CFW Brave down, albeit a hollow victory. Mostly Nepgear chipping away while Uni propped her up with items and the occasional buff/debuff support. She'll be infinitely better now I can set her up correctly though. My present party is Nepgear, Uni, Ram, Cave, supported by friends of theirs. However now I'm in chapter 4 and can re-visit the Gamindustri Graveyard I'm concerned about saving the 4 CPUs, is there anything I need to watch out for? In particular, right now the shares are very unbalanced: >50% Leanbox, Planeptune 0%, and the rest weak. I won't progress just yet, there's plenty of sidequests I can do right now.
6a01dc No.15242761
OK never mind it looks like I just have a lot of share rearranging to do to get them back since I have Vert. Raising Lastation got me CC2 so I assume higher for Noire. Honestly despite the overall negative feel on RB2 and all its annoying bits I'm less invested in the bad end. Still curiosity is killing me.
Also bump since last one was accidentally sage. Not like there's much longer to limit though.
71b969 No.15242794
I'm on my second playthrough of Megadimension right now and every battle is far too easy. I want to max out all the lily ranks but still enjoy challenging battles. I tried unequipping all my equipment but I'm still one-shotting everything. Is there no hard mode like in Rebirth 1-3? Also how do you activate the harder enemies in each dungeon?
47334f No.15242832
>>15241629
>In particular, right now the shares are very unbalanced: >50% Leanbox, Planeptune 0%, and the rest weak.
Try to get them all to 50% early.
I took way too long for this and I was unable to get all CPUs.
6a01dc No.15243021
>>15242832
Got Noire. Blanc will suck ass due to the only quests being 2% at best. After though is just easy street to Planeptune and story progress assuming I did it right. I should really be making happy Rei ends in 3.
47334f No.15243287
>>15243021
>I should really be making happy Rei ends in 3.
At least you got several endings for games.
I am too lazy to get them myself.
6a01dc No.15243577
>>15243287
I will take it as acceptance despite, honestly, my guilty pleasure to seeing bad events. Early game Re;birth 2 was irritation but it got sweet enough to negate.
621bf9 No.15243863
>>15243577
>my guilty pleasure to seeing bad events.
I just watched them on (((youtube))).
>Early game Re;birth 2 was irritation but it got sweet enough to negate.
For me Re;Birth 1 was worst early game for me from obvious reasons.
6a01dc No.15246139
>>15243863
I only know the boring wiki summary and vaguely what other people have said in here so I'm expecting it to hurt. It won't have the same impact if I just watch it online, especially now the game is returning to being more cheery. Also Re;birth 1's early game isn't so bad if you know the one or two tricks, while Re;birth 2 loves to make annoying roadblocks, as I've been bitching about.
>Underling vs. Nepgear
>Uni vs. Nepgear after a mid-boss
>Rom and Ram after a mid-boss
>Underling and Warechu x2
>CFW Brave vs. Nepgear and a Uni who hasn't bothered to adjust her moveset since chapter 2
The last one bothers me the most since even in RB1 you usually got a chance to configure your party when new girls show up, as with MAGES.. I was definitely tempted a few times to switch the weaken foes plan on, or even resort to the key fragment.
8276b8 No.15246790
>>15246139
>Also Re;birth 1's early game isn't so bad if you know the one or two tricks, while Re;birth 2 loves to make annoying roadblocks, as I've been bitching about.
I didn't have any problems in Re;Birth 2, but then again I fought a lot against dangerous foes.
I sometimes did that so much that I managed to beat them first instead and not storyline bosses.
4433b4 No.15251740
Reminder for whoever is baking the next thread to update the links and whatnot