Hyperdimension Neptunia - Game consoles personified

That hasn't been my experience with Saints Row IV; that game's crashed during or immediately after autosaves multiple times right after I pick up a collectible, yet when I boot up the game again, I still have it and don't have to collect it again.

The Ys games auto-save as well every new dungeon area. It's a good thing to, because they'd be fucking impossible with how tough enemies can get, especially in Oath in Felgana. You're going to get used to that game over song.

Also, Broccoli is great, even better in this game than the first remake I'd say. Also it seems they had a budget increase, things look a good deal smoother, there's some little animation sequences in the cutscenes from time to time, and there's a lot more English voice acting. Plus Nepgear is a great heroine, and Uni's brand of tsundere is delicious.

Yay another Uni fan, she does not get enough love.

Should I give Hyperdevotion another chance and see if I can get it working once I have enough money to spare? Someone from IFI did eventually get back to me, but I didn't respond since I had already uninstalled the game and got a refund by then.

^ What happened exactly?

Every time I tried to run the game, I got a message that said it stopped working.

Gameplay-wise, Hyperdevotion is pretty fun, albeit rather basic. Definitely the best spinoff we've seen in English.

It is a really good character based SRPG, a genre that is near dead outside Disgaea and Xcom.

With the craziest expanded cast in Neptunia with characters based on franchises instead of companies. So you got characters based on Final Fantasy and Metal Gear Solid attempting to mesh with Noire and getting her to do stuff more fitting for their series.

^ Well there's also Tekken, Million Arthur, God Eater in the main games for characters based on franchise, not company...so yeah. I guess things change after Hyperdev Noire came out.

edited 16th Aug '17 2:40:37 AM by onyhow

All of that just makes me wish i knew how to get the game to run.

Honestly I wish they'd just put it on PS 4 PSN instead of Steam where if you're PC doesn't meet the game's system requirements you're pretty much screwed.

edited 16th Aug '17 4:52:38 AM by PhysicalStamina

When I hear you people gush about Hyperdevotion I almost wish I cared enough about Noire to play her game.

Shame I care about her less than most makers.

Tekken was probably the source of Hyperdevotion's idea, she was originally going to be just 'Namco' but the company had too many franchises so they decided to just cut it down and choose Tekken cause the Tekken producer himself gave permission.

The cut character from Victory, Capcom, got the same treatment becoming Vio in Hyperdevotion and solely based on Resident Evil.

But yeah they went crazy in Hyperdevotion, you got Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy as Friendly Rivals, Pac Man, Dynasty Warriors, Winning Eleven, Hatsune Miku, Super Robot Wars G Generation, Street Fighter, Monster Hunter, Yakuza, Record Of Agarest War, Tokimeki Memorial, Sakura Wars.

Looking at the steam forums the primary source of issues is having invasive video codes installed or a missing dll

Noire is quite different in her game, she faces a hard reality check that her aloof Tsun personality isn't going to earn the loyalty of her generals so she has to lighten up.

If anything though I would just play it for the generals, a suffering Neptune, and the actually quite good gameplay.

^Ah. Shame about the locked 30fps tho, it just makes the game look choppy.

Noir is great for me personally, and I lament her actress won't be in Four Goddesses Online and possibly the rest of the series, she's a perfect mix of exasperated, snobbish, and put upon cuteness, the series will be lessened without her.

I personally never got the impression she was a Tsundere- She always just acted like kind of an ass.

Being an asshole is how many people see Tsunderes and why there seems to be a very strong hatedom for that trope/archetype/whatever.

So I was looking at IF's store because I have enjoyed 2/3 games from them. I'm mildly curious if anyone can explain the popularity of Neptunia? What sets it apart from all the other games where you get a team of quirky ladies who make lots of jokes? Like, I played Mugen Souls Z and Re;birth 2 and they seemed like they would appeal to th eexact same crowd, with the notable exception MSZ was fun and had characters I liked.

Right now, I'm thinking of getting Mary Skelter next month but have no interest in all the Nep stuff they are advertising.

Because people think it's fun and has characters they like?

I honestly don't understand the point of questions like this when the answer is so simple.

edited 16th Aug '17 1:08:18 PM by PhysicalStamina

The thing with Tsundere that default to Tsun is their various Dere moments. Like the Pudding scene in Rebirth 1 or finding out Noire had been waiting for months for Neptune to come visit and such, those little moments that chink their Tsun armor and cause embarrassment or other cute reactions.

As for why Neptunia is so popular. Its the concept of personifications of consoles and their relationships with each other as well as likely the non-SD art like Mugen Souls Z. In the west the whole Girl Power aspect seems to be driving the rather large female fanbase.

In addition the Neptunia games themselves have never been censored outside of an age up in Mega Tagmension, which actually better fit the story. On the other side Mugen Souls and Record Of Agarest War are like half a game with whole sections of the game excised and not replaced, no one wants to pay for that.

edited 16th Aug '17 2:12:26 PM by Memers

That's a bit of an exaggeration as far as I know. The only thing censored in MS was a minigame.

But fair enough, I appreciate the large cast of females, too. It's surprisingly rare and of course big name titles like FFXV only made the problem more obvious.

Fanservice or not, it still has a wide group of girls who are good friends to one another and sex jokes and skimpy clothes aside, the core theme of the series that you shouldn't let your differences get in the way of becoming friends is a positive message for girls.

Not replaced content, it probably lost like half of the sales it would have gotten in its uncensored form by simply word of mouth alone that it was censored.

There are not really many sex jokes, there are A-Cup Angst or Gag Boobs jokes but those are rather standard in shows aimed at girls too.

Its full on Power Fantasy really, Serious CPU Older Alter Ego included, and unless Blue Reflection turns out to be different than I am expecting its probably the only games series next to the Atelier Series that is full on Magical Girl Warrior.

There are no relationships like say the SAO games or Record Of Agarest War games as well so no focus on that. Also it took 3 games to get a guy in the plot that has an actual portrait and had to wait till VII to get a male playable character.... who is a Seaman floating fish.

edited 16th Aug '17 4:12:28 PM by Memers

Well there's no general IFI/Compa thread, but Moero Chronicle is out on Steam. Wow, I didn't know that that would be released. Just bought West of Loathing yesterday...

edited 16th Aug '17 6:22:32 PM by onyhow

Hmm interesting, they didn't release it on Vita in the west right? Only asia?

^ Apparently so from Wikipedia. So that's great for ROW people since Steam release is worldwide!

edited 16th Aug '17 6:23:46 PM by onyhow

I worry about the translation lol.