QUESTIONS Q: Which game to begin the series with? A: Go with Re;Birth 1, and follow the remakes from there on. Available for PC or Vita.
Q: I've heard of bad translations in the Neptunia games, care to tell me more about it? A: Here it goes…
Q: I'm too poor to buy the games, where to grab them? A: Ask the Volafile or Share threads. Q: I wanna help with the translation efforts. A: Ask in thread or go to >>>/nep/835
So has everyone on the Re;Birth 3 translation just slipped into a coma or what? I'm pretty sure the OP has read "half the game is translated" for months now. Seems that way at least.
Leo Barnes
The last /nep/ translation was actually 11 days ago, this is what they wrote:
Ayden Rodriguez
Claiming thread in Lady Black Hearts name!
Owen James
This was also posted in last thread.
Henry James
WITH NO SURVIVORS!
Noah Watson
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Jayden Morgan
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Daniel Fisher
I find this Noire posting much more appealing compared to recent Nepgear and Blanc posting.
Levi Reed
Thanks for keeping your shit to the containment thread. I'd love to see all talk of this game banned but I'll settle for your containment thread. You are no different than bronies.
Matthew Cook
Aye, she's an appealing girl.
Oliver Price
I want to massage Noire's anus with my tongue and fist fuck her later on when she gets all relaxed and cozy.
Jaxson Ross
That's because you are a degenerate who would end up in a work camp making game consoles all day as a slave, if you were a citizen or prisoner of war in Lastation.
Elijah Hernandez
The Noire game is pretty bad tbh fam.
David Johnson
Lastation is best nation.
Mason Morales
Too bad her looks are the only appealing thing about her. :^)
Jose Torres
Guess I'm subject to intense slowdowns on Holla Forums atm, making this thread not appear until some posts after we reached page 15 on the last one and I made my own after that. My apologies for the duplicates, then.
I'll be off to settle this problem.
Anthony Phillips
Indeed!
So, you have terrible taste. I see.
Hudson Green
I would do anything if it meant I could eat out Noire's perfect ass.
Hunter Bennett
Why are they so brown?
Jaxon Morales
Still having issues here as well, my last post took around 20 minutes to show up and the images got eaten.
Landon Howard
Yeah, but it taking hours plus hiding a whole thread (as I checked four or five times before posting my own) is really a pain. Thanks for posting the link to here though, it helped.
Now I just restarted my PC, I can post, but it still takes more time posting them, plus it gets rid of every image. But it's still better.
James Flores
Almost passed over this thread because there weren't any eggplants at the top of the OP to catch my eye.
I didn't realize how much I'd come to rely on eggplants to find these threads.
Josiah Sanchez
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Camden Turner
Oh that wasn't me, that was the op who creates these threads. I'm just trying to post some Noire. Clearing my cache again seemed to help, looks like I can post pictures again.
Ryder Evans
I just started playing Re;Birth 1 a couple days ago. I will be looking forward to more neppu.
Tyler Sanders
Good. Join us. Have fun knowing that nothing in the first game is consistent with the second.
Landon Ross
I don't think you know what a brown ass looks like, user.
Cooper Edwards
Then slightly tan. Either way it's darker than the white Japanese characters portrayed in the games.
Brody Johnson
?
Ryder Cook
There should be tanlines.
Nolan Roberts
Going to bring all the fetishes this thread I see.
Don't have many images of Neps with tanlines so doing a different twintailed girl with tanlines for the images.
Grayson Ross
I think slightly tan would be a bit darker.
Owen Peterson
This dark?
Jason Reed
Yes this dark.
Isaiah Watson
Something like pic related.
Joseph Sullivan
This is just begging for a 'Delicious brown girls' mod
Anthony Allen
Meanwhile: still extracting pictures
==kikwhels ples==
Zachary Walker
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Austin Cook
>blind folded Nep-nep is going to crush watermelon with no survivors standing the next to that dug chick That will be extremely painful.
Asher Myers
Why is Hibiki unhappy?
Owen Wood
You told her you wouldn't take responsibility.
Easton Jenkins
Told her she looks like a nigger.
Ryder Smith
But she's Okinawan. Her skin color is more similar to what Neptune, Nepgear, Plutia, and Uzume's should be.
Andrew Morales
Neptune, Nepgear, Plutia and Uzume cannot tan though.
Adrian Wright
Delicious Okinawan brown.
Christopher Cox
Continue.
I'd keep Plutia and Gear's skin tones though.
Isaiah Wood
This is an excuse to go to the beach and to have fun under the clear blue sky with your waifu. Enjoy the opportunity.
Zachary Brooks
I like their initial skin tones as well, but I would like to see some tanner options as well.
Colton Gray
I need help.
I wanna write a list of goals/daily routine/things.
The catch? I wanna print a Neptunia character on the side on some sort of semi-hard material and stick it on top of the list, but, I have no idea which character to use. I wanted to use someone who was also saying a motivational quote but I couldn't think of anyone.
Which character do you people suggest I use? And please don't say my favorite. I wanna make this thematically relevant.
Pic somewhat related.
Logan Butler
Odd, you would think that would be the most motivating. Think of how disappointed your favorite Nep will be if you don't go through with your goals and plans!
Histoire makes the most sense otherwise. She'll get your lazy ass to work.
Kayden James
IF
Ian Smith
Any Nep could cheer you on in a way a Nep would, so all Neps are thematically relevant. You should just pick the Nep you like the most to cheer you on.
Cooper Scott
If it's stuff you have to do then make it Histy, she would most likely be the one nagging at you to do your chores/reps/etc
Mason Lopez
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Nolan Davis
This is so obvious I hadn't thought of it at all. Histy is it. Thank you friends.
I know but this is this and that is that. I could make two versions too.
You have 10 seconds to write a in-character cheering on message written by any Nep. Are you a bad enough dude to do it?
This is perfect. I'll make sure to post my future creation here when I'm finished.
Liam Young
"Ganbatte, Onii-chan!" -Nepgear
Took me around 6 seconds. :^)
Have another then: Don't give up, okay? I-I'm with you now, s-so you better stay strong!
Jacob Lee
Noire with some quotes from Hitler.
Easton Miller
Well, I can't type out this under 10 seconds, but I think it works.
Mason Price
You guys were talking about brown neps, I decided to give it a try the only way I know how, the default dark skin color is a bit too dark for my tastes so I played around with the sliders a bit
Brandon Barnes
And one more for good measure
David Kelly
I never knew tan and pink went so well together. Brownploot is an angel.
Matthew Rogers
I think semen demon is a better description
Thomas Nelson
Wait a minute, why would you write such horrible things on your nep?
Connor Gomez
I agree with you but not in this form.
Luis Martin
To each one's own.
Logan Myers
This is custom maid, right?
Adam Butler
Because I'm a very sick man that enjoys abusing Ploot
custom maid 3d 2
Justin Barnes
Is it finally translated?
Jacob Morales
She looks like some Indian whore. Even more so in that situation.
David Stewart
why is this a thing
Dominic Taylor
Because its true?
Blake Howard
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Henry Price
It is?! I thought it was just a meme
Goddamn
Hudson Sanchez
Oh suck it up you big baby, the fact I want to abuse her doesn't mean I don't like her as long as she doesn't transform
Leo Lopez
You've never been on Holla Forums or /int/ before have you.
Thomas Brooks
I've seen some posts pertaining to it but I never believed them.
Jonathan Howard
Now I wish I never said it was real to keep you thinking it was a meme.
Sorry m8.
Austin Barnes
Some memes are just meant to be true
Andrew Lee
Yeah, like "Neptunia games are actually good" meme, but is something a meme if it's true?
Matthew Russell
Reality is shaped to what we believe in, or rather meme magic.
Ian Brown
The meme is kinder than reality.
Cameron Johnson
I want to fug all the neps. Goddamn it.
Mason Wilson
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Levi Price
I wish this wasn't real but I know it is.
Matthew Peterson
If we believe long enough then yes, if /bane/ can crash a plane then I think some autists on the internet can make the "Nep games are actually good" meme real
Henry Davis
Didn't we already partially did it, through Rebirth 2's retranslation ?
Cameron Anderson
Didn't that become a reality with V-II? I heard the gameplay was a lot better than usual.
You're nepping too much for your own sake. Please stop before you nep.
Brayden Lopez
He might need to go to a nep rehabilitation clinic to help with his addiction, or else someone might find him on the street one day suffering from cardiac anep.
Adam Allen
There was actually the good nep game. It's UT2004 :^)
webm related.
Chase Cooper
Wait, if Neptunia games aren't good, then why do these threads exist?
Mason Wright
Its to create pure share energy for the neps in another dimension.
Logan Wood
autism, it might as well be a my little pony thread
Aiden Harris
Then it fits Holla Forums pretty well then.
Thomas Mitchell
Yours is leaking.
Landon Richardson
Neps are what makes them really good, nothing special about the games otherwise.
Oliver Thompson
Porn?
Jason Davis
You called?
Wyatt Allen
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Daniel Rodriguez
I like the nep games, I can't wait to play V-II in a few days.
John Rogers
Hot damn, Nepnep!
David Moore
Pity those fools who do not know the joys of loving the neps, and congratulate yourself to have that good taste of yours.
Landon Lopez
Where do I go puke now?
Liam Richardson
I love them too but don't fool yourself now
Dylan Peterson
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Jace Wright
I wouldn't be able to play it if the gameplay was not fun enough, not matter how cute it is.
Evan Murphy
I unironically enjoyed the gameplay of the Re;Birth games. It's far from the best, but enough to be enjoyable. I wouldn't say I like the game for its gameplay though. Except the controls of RB1 with its horrible deadzones, that was really bad
Nathan James
NEPTUNIA SUCKS
Charles Jenkins
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Christopher Parker
I used the regular KB controls so I assume this is for the controller.
Wyatt Morris
You're getting later man, keep up with the threads
Jaxon Adams
Yes, the engine supports 360° movement but you can almost only make turns of 45°. This was fixed in RB2 onward.
Ayden Howard
Well that's a shame, I wonder if there's any chance someone could fix this in case someone wants to play RB;1 with a controller.
Eli Cooper
GoG version.
Zachary Anderson
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Jaxson Brooks
In less than 24 hours, a certain decision will be done on /nep/. Good luck for everyone who applied to the position, may the chosen one be the best for this role, and may the others support him to the best of their skills.
It's already 4th May here.
Isaac Edwards
If it's about board owner I'm not sure this will really change much as /nep/ needs negative amounts of moderation.
Jordan James
Better someone from these threads have some control over the board when it gets somehow spammed
Blake Martinez
It'll at least confirm that there'll be someone and some place left for us, should the worst happens for the threads here. At best, it may also organize some new things that'll breath a new life on /nep/, but I doubt more can be done about it. It'll also confirm that /nep/ won't be nuked, as it may happen should the new owner be a nep hater.
And yeah, /nep/ needs no actual moderation. Outside of spammers, mass shitposters and things like that, of course.
Henry Allen
I want to dress Iffy in clothes of other neps and see her emberassed as she sees herself in the mirror
Colton Perez
Well, Neptune's clothes seem alright on her, and I'd say that Noire and Gear's clothes might fit well too. Swpaping clothes can be a fun thing to dig.
Jeremiah Ross
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Adam Davis
Marrying a nep is the best feeling ever, I can understand If on that one.
Adam Ross
Just started Hyperdevotion, pretty cool, but damn, I wish they didn't make keyboard controls so weird. Not to mention the mouse cursor appears on the screen every time there's a prompt.
James Rodriguez
You don't have a gamepad?
Brayden Wood
No. I am a stubborn one.
Gavin Nelson
You really should get one
Ayden Gray
What's a good one? Or is a PS3/360 controller a good gamepad to use?
Christopher Gray
DS3/4 should are pretty much the best ones.
John Wood
I'm personally using a PS4 controller with DS4Windows to emulate a 360 controller, works both wired and wireless but sometimes bugs out and I'd need to restart my computer for it to find the controller.
Parker Diaz
Dualshock 4 is the best controller period and works out of the box on PC.
Levi Edwards
Works out of the box ==wired== You need bluetooth capability on your pc for it to work wirelessly, also unofficial drivers.
Angel Mitchell
Bluetooth dongles are cheap. The drivers occasionally drive me up the wall.
Caleb Myers
Why would you do that?
Brody Brooks
Who would have thought?
Chase Johnson
Because I'm a pleb that trips over wires and I don't need more wires in my life, and I like spinning around my chair sometimes.
Austin Walker
I was going to call you out for tripping on wires but you're an okay guy if you just want to spin around in your chair.
Xavier Lopez
Compa is my favorite Nep, Noire and Iffy are next of course, but Compa is just so hopelessly cute and unaware I would love to help her cook dinner and eat under the start during a hot summer night.
Jordan Nelson
So unaware it would probably be very easy to get her to cook for you with naked apron
Chase Rodriguez
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Nolan Nelson
Let's be honest, would you feel safer being nured back to health Compa or Orange Heart?
Jordan Edwards
OH
Jeremiah Miller
This is a difficult question, but I'd go with Compa, because I know Orange Heart becomes extremely child-like during that state, and Compa went to nursing school.
Eli Butler
Wait, I got a better solution, Uzume/OH AND Compa taking care of you, if only one can be present at a time then they switch every 24 hours
Jordan Clark
Best choice available.
Lincoln Mitchell
Compa, because she needs a nepper better than this guy who won't lewd her in public.
Caleb Parker
Orange Heart, seeing Compa's humansized syringe would probably scar me for life
Carson Baker
Why can't Orange Heart be Orange Heart in both her forms?
Jaxon Young
She would be way too cool
Owen Hall
Why is it that when I think of orange heart, the first mental image that commonly pops up is orange ice cream?
Colton Garcia
Welp now I'm never going to get that image out of my head. Thanks for that. Never going to transform Uzume again. Not that that's a big issue. Uzume is better than Orange Heart anyway.
Ryan Robinson
Because you want to lick her again and again until only the wood remains ?
Lucas Butler
Don't tell me anyone just licks that. I skip the licking, always start with soft playful bites. Then when I lose control I just tear into it, making sure to taste everything there is to taste, consuming it all deep down until nothing remains but the violated and exhausted wood.
I'm talking about the ice cream here, of course. They taste pretty good.
Charles Sullivan
What consoles are Red and Orange even supposed to be? It must be said somewhere but Ive never seen anything about it
Gabriel Phillips
The Dreamcast.
Camden Turner
both or which one?
I'm ok with this, Pko is an unbearable "character"
Xbone controller improved on the D-pad, but it's still pretty bad compared to the DS3/4.
Michael Cooper
How are the bumpers and triggers on those? I remember the old dual shock gave me the claw hands.
Dominic Richardson
Finally, the port is coming. That'll make one less reason to buy the PS4
Cooper Peterson
Wait, you mean it's real? Holy shit
I just wonder how much it'll cost, or how it's going to run compared to the Re;Birth games.
DS3 was great, except for the L2/R2 buttons. Way better on the DS4, though I'm not a fan of Select and Start being replaced by "options" and the clickable screen thing.
Grayson Allen
ITS PARTY TIME
Thomas Clark
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Nicholas Garcia
fuckin'ell lad
Jack Mitchell
Both forms are the same console. And Red isn't a CPU, but a marker, so she represents a company.
Nicholas Martin
user…that's not exactly true
Asher Carter
Specify what is which? You mean for Orange Heart/Uzume?
I thought the Japanese logo was orange, or was it red? I know for sure the EU logo is blue
Brandon Davis
Its orange for Japanese.
Xavier Cruz
Still tickles me that they're bothering to modify the assets for the European version.
Isaiah Long
I wonder if they want to convey stereotypes here.
Blake Johnson
Yes, it took me a bit to realize that I was saying Hair color = cpu and that I was just retarded. Not Red, I meant Peashy/Uzume
Liam Murphy
Peashy is Yellow Heart who represents the PC-Engine (Turbografx-16 in the west).
Uzume is Orange Heart who represents the Dreamcast.
Levi Wood
I'm the new BO for /nep/; my first goal is to do the absolute bare minimal with it aside from the basic maintenance.
I guess I'll fire up GIMP and make some custom system graphics (ie: "File Deleted" and so on) later today or tomorrow, though.
Anything you guys want done on there?
Nolan Barnes
Congratulations. I'm glad to see that one of us got the room instead of a nep hater that would try to delete everything or to impose new rules.
On /nep/'s subject, I don't see anything special to do for the moment. Maybe fire a Q/A thread to ask people there ?
Elijah Sanchez
I want a new BO! :^)
Parker Peterson
I have no idea what the caps on stuff like the file deleted image are, but something along the lines of this quick mockup would be silly.
Henry Thompson
Could use the question mark in pic related as spoilers
Robert Morales
Aw hell yeah.
Michael Torres
Yeah, sure, although I posted here first since this is a bit busier than /nep/; at least when we aren't doing an occasional withdrawal to there. But that'd be the logical place for it.
>>>/nep/3089
Here's the resolution caps; for "File Deleted" its rather tight but you can make things work.
I think that should be possible.
Adam Gonzalez
Nep nep is no longer distinguishable from
You're the same shit.
Anthony Bell
Poor thing who doesn't know the joys of loving neps.
I pity you.
Benjamin Peterson
Nep me a river pirachu
Nathaniel Campbell
Agreed on the question mark. It looks good and doesn't stray too far from the original.
Aaron Ross
Fake gamers
Michael Powell
Fine. Define me clearly what a "real gamer" is.
Jonathan Peterson
Drinks dew, inhales doritos, preorders ultimate editions of AC/BF/COD/
John Hughes
Gonna have to be something along these lines instead then. Damn.
Lucas Kelly
Maybe you could use Histy holding up an empty piece of paper. for the no file picture.
I can't wait for all the normalfags referencing this series! Oh, wait…
Hudson Powell
I was not prepared for this news this early in the morning
This is the best
Easton Wright
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John Scott
So when is summer
I don't live in America
Aaron Taylor
Beta is happening late May so I'd say mid to late June.
Christian Taylor
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Nathan Martinez
Let us pray to Iffy, so that we may be choosen for the beta test
Brayden Rodriguez
Are you the guy who spammed walls of NEP NEP in these threads earlier?
Julian Lee
Shit, I never manage to get into these beta, I wonder if I should even bother now.
David Morgan
You're probably not reading the terms and conditions.
Owen Jones
PRAISE
Parker Lewis
She's worthy of praising, but I'll only worship my one and only.
Oliver Bennett
I wonder how much more intensive this game will be on people's computers.
Ian Garcia
Your waifu is shit
Alexander Howard
Is that some weird Gondola?
Justin Torres
I want to believe it'll run the same as the RB games or at least need a low-mid end PC to run it.
Michael Collins
Well it's made for the PS4 as opposed to the Vita so there might be some more overhead
You should see Neptune in the original game. She literally holds her pistol like a nigger.
Carson Cooper
Yes.
Alexander Turner
I am, I've always been either too late or just not lucky.
Christian Carter
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Isaac Morales
Haha.
Mason Robinson
>Neptune purposefully cheating people out of including Nep is life in their submissions
Justin Stewart
It's called a dreamsicle, dork.
Alexander James
Actually you could re-jig that for "No File Found".
She's going to blow her own brains out if she's that bad with firearms.
Adrian Phillips
That should just be a zoom-in of Blanc's chest.
Brandon Wilson
I have autism
Camden Bailey
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Connor Green
I can't help it, I guess I take too much to my waifu in some ways, spaced out some times and painfully autistic in others
Blake Bell
Tell me I'm not the only one who fucked up the beta application
Liam King
You forgot "Nep is life" didn't you
Christian Green
It's okay, user. Artists should put at least a little bit of effort into making their drawings make sense. Well, unless they are a surrealist of course. That is truly a bad picture.
Michael Jones
Yup, I even re-send the damn thing but I already gave up hope, wonder if I can appeal to the IFI employee lurking 4chan by posting Iffy, otherwise, I'll just have to find a way to "discharge" my frustration…
Kevin King
I feel like even if I did put "Nep is life" I wouldn't get in the beta anyway
Eli Lewis
>Turns out I forgot to put in "Nep is life" anyway.
Goddammit.
Caleb Sanders
And guess what, re-sending it will make the entire thing invalid, so yeah, we are all fucking dead
Samuel Thompson
I don't care, resending it anyway just because I can. Also while a beta is nice I can always wait for the full release. Lord knows my backlog is big enough to keep me busy until then.
Dominic Evans
It's okay user, if you really did read the conditions, beta is pretty much an NDA. Beta testers won't be able to taunt us.
Lincoln Cook
Yeah, I saw. No video, no pictures, no reviews, etc. It's nice but I just KNOW one of my friends will get into the beta and mock me anyway. I'll never report them even if they do mock me with it because friendship is more important than NepNep and Falcom is best girl anyway.
Liam Collins
But all the games are weebshit
Blake Bailey
Even IF's fanart has her in full LARP mode. I guess her autism is cute though.
It's an improvement on the manface bulldykes I have to put up with in western games these days.
Easton Adams
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Jace Mitchell
Yes I tend to still use that shitty place nad it was basicly confirmed someone from IFI lurks nepgen, too fucking bad they don't come here instead
Isaiah Hill
Will she wear a mask and pilot a red Zakustation that's three times faster than the others ?
Aiden Moore
Maybe someone from IFI is already here
Also how bad is nepgen compared to the general threads we have here
Luke Cruz
Why is Noire's game so fucking bad? I got hard baited because I saw it was a TRPG (co)developed by Sting and I love Sting games, but this shit is just unreal. Nevermind the abysmal production value, that's just par for the Idea Factory course, I was really expecting more from Sting in terms of gameplay. There's just nothing going on, it's like playing regular neptunia shit except it's 50 times slower. I did beat Rebirth 1 and it was sort of fun in a mindless mashing buttons + completionist autism kind of way, but I really am not having any fun with Noire. Does it get any better later? That's the first game I'm legitimately considering refunding.
Kind of a delusional and desperate post I guess, but fuck, when I saw Sting I really wanted to believe. That and Noire herself is pretty high tier.
Connor Lopez
What did you find so bad about it?
Though, I'm not the best judge for that since I only played a handful of SRPGs.
Alexander Walker
the game isn't (co)developed by Sting, it's ALL on Sting, I don't know if they had budget limitations or what
Landon Robinson
So I'm not the only one who thinks that she is a true great leader. Is that from an obscure artbook?
Hudson Jenkins
I found the combat to be significantly better than the standard nep games. Of course, nep combat is pretty much as bad as it gets as far as JRPGs go, so that doesn't really put it above any "real" SRPGs.
The story/characters on the other hand seem pretty weak. I haven't finished it yet, only up to chapter 5. Liked Noire as a change from Neptunia until she got handed an idiot ball in this chapter, but the rest of the characters seem pretty generic and even the other CPUs are just sort of "there".
Jordan Jones
-Maps and AI are shit. No interesting objectives or enemy setups, and getting the few chests isolated in a corner is just needlessly tedious, as you don't have any pressure from anything, the enemies just nicely wait for you to get in their range before they do anything, there's no time limit, no reinforcments, absolutely nothing. You're just wasting you're time going from one part of the map to another with no repercussions to gather the chests. You don't even get any reward or incentive to finish missions faster or by minimizing damage taken or anything. -Due to the aforementioned shit AI, combat is always "bait one enemy by sitting at his max range then gang him up". They do nothing by themselves, and even if you "aggro" one of them their buddies just don't give a shit and they'll wait for you to come to them to act. That is reallty mindboggling coming from Sting. How can you do this sort of shit after making Yggdra Union is beyond me. -No interesting options. A simple weapon triangle would've been the bare minimum instead of "normal attack, weak skill, strong skill" where you only have to watch for your SP gauge. It really feels like I'm playing a regular RPG, with all the slowness and shortcomings of a TRPG and none of the benefits. The Lily system is pretty bad because it's strictly better to use a unit to attack rather than making it stand besides someone else so that you get a 5SP reduction, UNLESS you want to get lily points or whatever, which would have been an interesting balance to play around if there wasn't unlimited grinding available. Though I suppose this system gets a bit better once you get skills with more range. Thhese are the things on top of my head I'm most bothered about and I'm hoping to be better as the game goes on, but I'm at the 2 hour limit for refunds (hence my post here). I might just refund it and pirate it instead or some shit.
Are you serious? What the fuck
Yeah I don't usually mind bad story and bad production value in general, and my expectations regarding that were rock bottom to begin with. Though I do get what some of you guys were complaining about regarding the self-insert bullshit, it felt really out of place compared to the yuri heaven that was Rebirth 1.
Chase Gomez
Its retarded , more than half of the post are people insuting each others becausw phrases like ! noire best cpu ! Thats not the worst though, since the guys that argue DON'T POST FUCKING NEPS
Christopher Smith
Sorry, your wrong about that.
Special attacks do FAR more damage than skills or regular attacks and cost LP (the in combat gauge) to use. They also have better range and AOE in most cases. Standing beside characters not only generates LP to fuel those specials, but it also reduces the cost by a lot more than just 5 points. The default cost for a special is 100LP, it goes down to 25LP when surrounded on all 4 sides. Using that special also generates more LP than it costs in that case.
Also the system increases damage significantly for every adjacent character. That 4-link special skill will do at least double, if not triple the damage of what the character could do solo.
My strategy is generally to buff up, form up, and then drop 1-hit AoE kill specials on as many enemies as possible. The buffs generate the LP that my specials and HDD consume. Noire is especially useful in this regard since her HDD gives her a second action per round, so if she is "center" she gets to use 2 specials instead of with all of the above bonuses.
Andrew Jackson
I will definitely agree on your points there. The maps only got interesting near the end, where you had to place boxes upon boxes while being rained on by enemies, the AI is undoubtedly simplistic, only some missions have time limits and no real rewards for finishing quickly.
There's so much potential in a Nep SRPG but it seems it's really not there, I'm hoping they give it the MegaTag treatment, where the first game is really bad, the second game is passable.
I heard Blanc's game was okay, that's where I'm basing this from
Asher Martinez
In fact, I would argue the Lily system is bad because it's too powerful.
Many SRPGs will give you flanking or assist bonuses. The lily system gives you damage bonus, cost reduction, and resource generation, in addition to sub-leveling. The rewards VASTLY outweigh the drawbacks (slower positioning, AoE vulnerability) and generally reduce the amount of strategic thinking involved.
Aaron Rodriguez
That's how I got to finish majority of the game. Stacked all the Neps together, spammed abilities to get 30 LP, HDD Noire, spam more abilities to 100LP, Infinite Slash everything down
Benjamin Robinson
This format is strange, and I'm still not sure if I like it or not. On one hand it's nice, but on the other visualization kind of goes against the point of an audio CD. But of course, I should start to learn Japanese if I want to being out the maximum from these.
Hunter Nguyen
I haven't gotten very far yet, but I like the characters, the dialogues (as they're voiced, not the neptarded text); also the characters during the VN segments are really pretty, I might be mistaken but I'm under the impression they somehow got better animation from the previous games. On that note, Histoire is cuter than ever in this game, did they also make her smaller or something?
Combat is a little tedious indeed, especially going after some remote chests, but I'm hoping this will get easier later with more characters and skills.
Overall, with the change of format, gameplay, and artstyle, HDNoire at least feels somewhat fresh, if nothing else.
Other than that, it's a Noire fanservice game, I wanted Noire and I got Noire, all to myself. It's a crime that so many of the sim part dialogues are unvoiced, however.
Parker Cox
You can't pin it on IF or Compile Heart, every issue with the game is because of Sting because they did virtually everything except the artwork like said. They even handled the writing, which shows because they don't know how to do something in the series' tone or what the goddess' personalities are like (or how to handle a self-insert in the franchise). It's the most disliked Nep game for a reason.
The AI is so hilariously bad. I couldn't believe it when I played. Lily System is too GOOD not too bad, it's ludicrously busted and makes the game a breeze due to the amount of damage you can get off. And yeah, it's as barebones as it gets for an SRPG. The very faint remnant of it being a Sting game at all are the map gimmicks and that's it, and even those are annoying. People are fairly certain no one making the game cared beyond a paycheck which is why it ended up so bad.
Evan Martinez
I'm still wondering why they let Sting handle the writing of all things. Didn't IF/Compa handle the writing for the other spinoffs?
Joseph Clark
Check out who I found while I was browsing for more AA2 characters
Owen Fisher
I want to see what's under her skirt.
Grayson Allen
Prepare to be disappointed
Brayden Rodriguez
Aren't those things electroflares?
Juan Johnson
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Parker Collins
Its honestly sad though, like with a little bit of effort Iffy could be such a hardcore looking Oper8r Oper8ing in an Oper8ional Oper8ion but instead retards make this nonsense. Give Iffy a Plate Carrier over her cute underclothes she has under the coat, a dropleg holster and some generic Carbine ie Sig 552, AKs74, M4, SCAR with short barrel and ect. Done, no stupid miniature desert eagles and retarded hand grenades, lets be real here, stick grenades look fucking huge in a grown man's hand let alone a 16-17~ year old girl's hand.
Tyler Martinez
Like this shit triggers my autism so hard I might try to draw some shit for you guys just because.
I'm not an artist but I'll try my best, Ive got to go back to work so this will continue later
Cooper Myers
While it doesn't include her HDD form or voice, its still neat.
I still need to mess with Uzume
Wyatt Hill
Poor Vert.
Nolan Long
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Luke Bennett
Well we all know that Thunder Tits is well… Also Noire is smug as fuck.
Benjamin Gutierrez
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Dominic Stewart
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Gavin Russell
I realized I am not artistic but good at technical work, so you guys are going to see how tiny the neps actually are. am going to make a new test drawing, will be good, just wait
Oliver Lee
So something that takes their height into consideration? It' actually funny how Vert is the tallest of the neps and has this "onee-sama" vibe to her but in reality she would be shorter than most of us
Isaiah Green
Reminder that only the smallest of manlets are unable to give neps hugs and headpats
Christian Wright
Is Nepgear really that much bigger than Neptune? She looks at least three years older than her sister there.
Jackson Edwards
The only one's I can comfortably cradle their heads in my chest are Nepgear, Noire, Vert, and Compa. Blanc if you count her hat. Everyone else, I'd have to lift up.
Hudson Wright
There's a reason they keep joking about how everyone thinks Nepgear is the older sister.
Hunter Flores
this is a scale drawing of IF next to a standard length SCAR 16 (the 5.56 variant)
Jack Ross
compared to this for a normal soldier
Andrew Taylor
feels good.
Carter Phillips
It's scary to think that if my Blanny was real people would instantly call the cops because she looks like a little girl
So cute
Gavin Adams
Don't know if being a giant is good or bad. Some of the more kinky girls might like you a lot more. Assuming size scales with height and I'm guessing Gamindustri men are probably really short compared to westerners.
Ian Williams
What's wrong with her feet and ankles?
James Bennett
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Aiden Brooks
Looks like the artist might have been pressed for time, or things Blanc has no bones in her feet.
Elijah Barnes
thinks Blanc has no bones in her feet*
Lincoln Long
This image is always hilarious when posted because it makes everyone realize that the Neps are scaled to Nips (who are short as hell).
Levi Wright
Female Nips are the perfect size so that's actually good. If they were super tall, it'd be weird. I couldn't give them headpats as easily.
Samuel Miller
But giving headpats to tall, female nips is great too.
Kayden Brown
Superb. Women should never be anything taller than 160cm. If you can't pick them up like a small and cute animal, then things have gone drastically wrong with your nations foodstuff.
Justin Wilson
I want Kirari to carry me around
Joshua Sullivan
I tried my best for the Iffy crowd, I figure Compa fans should naturally be friendly to them
Angel Russell
my phone is from hell, lets try this again
Adrian Brooks
seriously I tried this game because of you weeb faggots always going on about it/pics cropping up, its fekkin awful
I understand the urge to escape into some jap fantasy about cute little girls that arent really girls, or even human or whatever but jeesus fucking christ the game is shit, super-simplistic turn-based combat, endless text dumps, unbelievabley cheesy dialogue
im not judging here or anything, just stating the obvious. does it actually get good at some point? cant see myself grinding through all that sucrose-coated cancer to find out tbh..
more importantly, do they like…fuck or something?
I could understand that at Ieast, I find it more questionable and odd that weebs play or watch some nip garbage about the gefühlswelt of animu schoolgirls where the panties DONT end up dropping, its a strange form of infantilism that doesnt even have the human excuse of being sexual in natureit probably always is anyways, but still
Charles Parker
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Matthew Richardson
To each one's own, I'd say. This series isn't for anyone, and you at least tried it before judging. That being said, the game's charm comes from the characters, so if you didn't enjoy it after four or five hours, it's best to give up.
And no, no directly sexual content.
Wyatt Jackson
I want to be happy-happy with Kirari.
Lincoln White
Cute drawing though.
No, the gameplay doesn't change. Also nothing sexual. It's not even about that for me, I just really love Neps. Nothing lewd required.
Cameron Campbell
If you didn't enjoy the characters, sounds like this game series is not for you at all
Robert Morales
IT IS TIME
Oh, and next thread is already ready
Brayden Brown
Neptune let's have some pudding together
Jordan Hill
My life's over
Logan Miller
Made me laugh.
Noah Davis
Can I eat all your pudding, Neptune?
Henry Sanchez
As expected.
Oliver Gomez
Try again next time, being stubborn can sometimes be rewarding.
Hey Noire, can I haveUni ?
Austin Price
Will you marry me?
Oliver Williams
Neptune, one last try
Can we have pudding together please
Jackson Taylor
Well that's that fuck me
Joshua Howard
Hey Noire, can I have you ?
Adam Turner
Hey Nep, can I come live in your world and play vidya while you sit in my lap?
Landon Davis
Nepgear, can we go explore the cosmos together?
Nicholas Gutierrez
Awesome. I'll pack my bags.
Nicholas Hughes
it is Iffy LARPing, at least details are correct, I put the fire selector to full auto and its not like a delusional teenage girl has the best ideas on how to use firearms. I mean you would do the same if you were getting assaulted by dogoos. Next one will be more serious I swear. Compa knits woolly covers for the furniture of her gun because it was too cold for her to put her face on
Luis Carter
Lady Noire, will you hand Uni over to me?
Ryan Phillips
At least you live with Noire now.
Anthony Morales
Looks like Noire wants him for herself.
Alexander Sanchez
lol i didnt even hope to think that far, since males apparently dont exist in said universe(kinda glad honestly, would be a whole different level of strange)
ive got maybe…two, shit just went all alternate dimensions on meI did chuckle at one or two things ill admit
You say that, and i do believe you, but is it really true?
where is the fine line between
and
hopefully with pets, kids, babies and the like its pretty clear…
with cute but obviously fetishized japanese caricatures of young girls..its a little..harder
Eli Foster
a tsundere love triangle, sounds fun to me
Nolan Ramirez
It disgusts me that you are allowed to post here freely.
Trash like you should be quarantined to facebook and whatever other normalfag site is popular at the moment. Please, I am begging you; please kill yourself.
Kevin Reed
U wot m8
Sounds like it could be quite torturous.
Aaron Flores
Nepgear, can I give you head-pats?
Dominic King
[question]
Cooper Morris
Blanc, can I take off your hat?
Samuel Brown
[answer]
Ayden Bailey
Welp, I probably can't lewd Blanc without getting a hammer in my face.
Jace Thomas
Nepgear, can I have a hug?
Michael Hernandez
W-Well all right…
Nepgear, can I have a kiss?
Asher Rodriguez
Cocktease!
Lucas Butler
I meant the recoil would absolutely destroy her. Nice that you remember the little things like the trigger though, that's important in a drawing in my opinion. Sounds like you could make some awesome work if you would get better at the drawing part.
I literally have no desire to stick my beanis in any Nep except Noire, yet I still absolutely love them. People are capable of loving things without wanting to have sex with them you know. They just mean a lot to me for a lot of reasons.
Connor Allen
To be honest, that sounds like a passive manner of rejecting someone to me. That's how Japanese people would do it anyway.
Dominic Rivera
5.56 kicks really light, expecially in a gun as "heavy" as the SCAR (but well balanced with a nice short stroke gas system), I'm going to keep drawing and posting throughout these threads, after Compa's "improvement" of Iffy's gun, I'll make a treat for the Noire fans. Nothing lewd, just a bit of a joke, bit of a test to improvise.
Luis Smith
stuff a fucking cock into it you impotent keyboard authoritarian, i said lol you nigger fucking sue me or filter me lololol ayy lmao 420smokewedsqxscope420
seriously calm your moobs, im not gonna stumble over myself to artifically adjust my fucking lingo just to appease you, o arbiter of chan culture
its a fucking lol. sure its annoying but jesus fucking christ you need some fresh air nigger
sorry bruh im pretty content all things considered, could be better but it sure could be worse
i said my piece, ill shut up now
you cunt
Kevin Ross
Despite your repeated assurances that you're "content" with yourself and your diction, your dogmatic defense of your lingo and manner of post proves otherwise. In actuality, you are well aware that posting like a particularly stupid 12 year old girl is shameful. You feel it keenly, whether you admit it or not, that doing as such is simply demonstrating your thorough failure to comport yourself as a reasonable and intelligent human being.
What a pitiful creature you are, that you would rather flail about in mediocrity for all to see, instead of making posts that would convince others you had a good head on your shoulders. Truly pathetic.
You should kill yourself. Just let it all go and end your suffering.
Thomas Long
Hey Vert, may I join your guild in 4GO?
Eli Smith
Congratulations user!
Brayden Price
wow nigguh put away the thesaurus jeesus K christ on a stick you just went from "gas yourself" to writing a fucking MLA piece
so for all your thirty dollar words you are basically saying..Im a stupid 12 year old girl but at the same time I know its a fucking cardinal sin to say lol here but im doing it anyway because…im lazy?
oh wait theres the kill yourself, lol.
I only came here to say this game is…lacking in certain game depts and that i was somewhat astounded that it is always talked about. I got some coherent answers so i left it at that, all the rest was just..musing i guess
anyhow calm the fuck down son you are going to have an aneurysm, i said lol, it happened.
most people dont go off like this, Im not gonna play the Auts cardshit i just played the auts card didnt I
Michael Rogers
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Lucas Price
Please calm down, both of you. Think about the neps.
Adam Morgan
Noire, can I pat your head
Blake Taylor
What a slut.
Joshua Walker
blanc, can I give you head pats?
Wyatt Torres
can I head pat your sisters at the very least blanc?
Anthony Cox
nowa turn into black heart
Leo Bailey
you got roasted by a Wii, how does it feel
Jack Reed
sad
Nathaniel Moore
you know what to do
Isaac Watson
ok user just because you said it but I expect it to end in tragedy
blanc, can I for some kind of miraculous chance pat mina's head?
Brandon Long
today was not a good day
Caleb Wright
I drew another one, next up is my Noire surprise and maybe I'll do one for Compa tomorrow
Cameron Perry
shit, it cut off Compa saying "Gun is cold, no one should be cold"
bad night user
Joseph Carter
Blanc can you let pat your head, I feel kinda bad for him.
Cameron Bennett
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Joshua Ramirez
I just wanted to help.
Cooper Cruz
I think this is my best so far, getting down lines and all this is hard, plus Noire is super leggy
Gavin Edwards
Getting some Initial D vibes from this. I want it.
Tyler Smith
I'm pretty horrible about cross-board posting, I'm one of the 12~ people on 8 /o/ so that kinda narrows me down.
Nathan Brooks
I got an idea user, I could make a series of Noire as "The Driver", just for U. Toothpick, 70s Chevy malibu, Autism and all. The practice would be good and our threads would have some OC other than multi-layered irony and waifu posting. Maybe I would inspire others to draw aswell
Nolan Johnson
That would be great. We can always use more OC. Maybe I'd finally give drawing a try again.
Robert Rivera
I've got work very early tomorrow, I'll do my best tonight to keep the ideas fresh as well as my newfound skills, but no promises.
Samuel Price
NOOOOO Who would molest neps if dogoo didn't exist!?
Jack Price
If not for what you said in I wouldn't have noticed the gun has a sweater
Levi Martinez
Vert, would you like me to pretend to be your little sister?
Liam Sanchez
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Matthew Nguyen
Neps don't make so much of an effective dogoo fighting force sometimes, its likely that IF and Compa just went off the deep end.
I figured that Compa as the wonderful ditzy beauty "just couldnt be mean to Iffy's new pet" or something like that
Lincoln Gray
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Hudson Diaz
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Ayden Barnes
what if she has nothing BUT her hat and coat?
Ryder Moore
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Wyatt Ramirez
And how about Blanc wearing nothing but her hat?
Liam Morales
So which is it? Anyone got their beta invite yet?
Jaxon Sanders
I inserted characters as I felt it would work, will do more later today.
Landon Perry
forgot to add in the song from the part of the movie
Carson Powell
Hey Noire, can I live with you?
Sebastian Thomas
You're real human bean. And real hero.
Michael Rogers
Thanks? I'm not sure if its a good thing or a bad thing. Next up is the infamous toothpick scene. I'm gonna have fun drawing Nepgear for this one.
Zachary Gray
New thread is ready to roll and waiting for page 15. Those in need of eggplants won't be complaining.
Julian White
thanks…
Wyatt Smith
Ah, don't worry about that. I always wait for page 15 to launch the new ones. Yeah, since the very first ones.
Xavier Walker
well I'll hold off on my most recent drawing until that. remember when people had just gotten into the meme hell of vanilla RB;2?
Parker Myers
I do. As well as all the complaints turned towards Doerr that emerged
The thing that got me the most was people's reactions to a certain BAD END though. Perhaps because I've written it ?
Wyatt Bennett
My favorite was the user who got super melancholic every time anyone even so much as mentioned that end and the first couple times he said he cried when anyone even said Conquest But people just posting a rack of screenshots with "What the fuck" as the only thing they said in their post was pretty great
Mason Parker
sorry I had to.
Angel King
I was among those who posted said screenshots.
No problem. Nep threads tend to attract trips and more.
Cooper Barnes
Impressive, very nice I remember the user who gave us a blow-by-blow commentary on his Conquest playthrough, poor bastard
Jose Green
If we're gonna banter here until the end, atleast sage so we can get this new thread up, I'm feeling pretty proud of the Nepgear I drew.
Robert Sullivan
There's no need to sage since every post after the 300th doesn't bring the thread back up (like an automatic sage, if you prefer).
Aaron Gray
Holy hell, I still learn new stuff, even after fucking 9 years on these goddamn cantonese cartoon corners.
Connor Bennett
No problem. Anyone outside of here would have probably demolished you, though, since it's considered to be basic knowledge that "sage isn't a downvote". Consider yourself lucky, I guess.
Eli Nguyen
I was just under the impression that it would still bump, "sage is not a downvote" is an entirely different bag, mainly for idiots who don't understand the "Hide" or "Filter by" buttons
Mason Gomez
Good thing we have this comfy atmosphere here, shit talking each other gets tiresome real fast. Also new thread better have more eggplants to compensate for this eggplant-less one.
Anthony King
These threads are usually a permanent no-bully zone from what I see