What is Ganker's honest opinion on the Neptunia franchise? Unpretentious JRPG junk food, or forgettable and morally questionable kusoge?
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What is Ganker's honest opinion on the Neptunia franchise? Unpretentious JRPG junk food, or forgettable and morally questionable kusoge?
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Also, can I start is V2 ans skip three rebirth games?
Yes, you can. The story is self-contained.
the gameplay is bad but the girls are cute
Neptunia is essential Ganker-core
I just saw some screenshots for this and I have to ask, is the development team even given a budget, or are they just given a bag of hamburgers and $20 to get them through the 3 or so hours it takes to shit out these asset flips?
They basically have an 3D RPG Maker set, ready to dump out the same shit with a different title
The very first Nep game is basically the latter and got shat on it as expected
But people find the characters cute and it spawned sequels and spinoffs
Neps are based and make trannies seethe
>Neps are based and make trannies seethe
Trannies love Nep, though.
Trannies enjoy breathing too, so you should stop doing that
1 joke
Alot seem to lose interest in breathing
Then why is there a literal /vt/ranny Nep game?
Well considering the fanbase all agree it's the worst in the series I don't see the big deal.
Oh nononono ahahahahahahah
Its good shit. I play for the characters. The rpg mechanics are average
The main games were fun, but I don't think we've had a 'serious' entry in years now
I played the first few hours of Rebirth 1. It was garbage so I never tpuched the franchise again.
I played the remake of the first one, I think. It was kinda shit. An obvious budget as frick JRPG and combat wasn't particularly interesting. I guess they might be enjoyable if you're into the type of storytelling and characters the game offers. I love my anime schlock but this was kinda eh. Also Pluto or whatever best girl despite just being an added character that doesn't really exist in the story.
>Unpretentious JRPG junk food
That’s the Tales of series
>forgettable and morally questionable kusoge
That’s Neptunia
The gameplay is complete shit but is has endearing characters and setting. That's about it for every single game in the franchise.
It's shit; but the soulful good kind, where you can feel the developers actually did the best they could on a shoestring budget rather than just phone it in. (God damn it; these people need to be given some actual budget to work with.)
You don't need a good budget to make a good JRPG. The devs are just talentless hacks
I think if you're deep into being a shameless weeb who likes typical anime bullshit, they probably have a lot for you. I can't help but feel like it's a series that won't survive much longer, it seems like it had a heyday in the PS3 era and now anytime I see it, all the references and whatever just seem...dated. Never played one and never will though, I'm too old.
The gameplay is like standard jrpg shit but made more tedious by the fact that you have to move the characters into position to attack. If you just want something to shut your brain off and reduce your IQ, it is like Kemono Friends in that regard. This isn't intended to be a scathing review, it is an endorsement actually.
>nepslop
LMAO
I played caligula effect. With a bigger budget they could've had something there. The music was head and shoulders above everything else though. I think they got an actually very talented singer to just sing a bunch of j-pop songs and act as one of the main characters. She sings everything on behalf of a bunch of the villains. What a guilty pleasure, it's one of the only weeb games I've played and the only exposure to j-pop I've had.
They even fricking registered the fictional characters as artists on youtube.
That’s pretty soulful
The second one has something that roughly resembles budget with dungeons containing shit like puzzles and gimmicks instead of pure corridors. I actually enjoyed it a lot more but it has the same issues as the first game when it comes to gameplay, shit gets too easy if you don't deliberately keep yourself a bit underleveled and even if you do you eventually become too fricking strong.
But it has DIO as the antagonist so all is forgiven.
she deserved better
Why yes I only PURCHASE and CONSOOM nepslop, how could you tell?
>Why yes I only PURCHASE and CONSOOM nepslop, how could you tell?
You shouldn't post pics of yourself on 4chins, you might get doxxed boyo
The former, except the art is way too good for a series so mediocre.
Agreed. The characters deserve to be in much better games. At least put Nepgear in a good one, I don't care
I might just have to make an Neptunia fan game... it will be 2d indieslop but whatever
Absolute dogshit gameplay and completely unfunny but the girls are cute. Just download the artbooks, the games are bottom of the barrel.
Be honest with me guys, should I at the very least give Rebirth 1 a try or this shit is too kusoge but soulful? what's less bad this or ryza?
Ryza just by being based around alchemy, being more recent, and because Gust had some actual money.
Just play the fricking game and make up your own mind, clearly your time isn’t valuable to you since you’re wasting it here
>what's less bad this or ryza?
This. Believe it or not, Ryza actually has something you can call "depth" when compared to these shitty games especially Rebirth 1.
In Rebirth 1 you just select ugly copy-pasted dungeons from a JPEG of a world map. At least in Ryza there are hub areas you can return to and do some different things besides fighting the same guys over and over.
>This
I mean That, sorry. Ryza is an objectively higher-quality experience with more to do.
Ryza is a million times better, and I've finished rebirth 1 and enjoyed it.
Million times better than shit is still shit.
gameplay wise its the absolute most basic rpg drivel you can think of, and rebirth 1 is infamous for being grindy. story wise it's cute anime girls making kind of funny jokes and gratuitous references to other anime and VNs sprinkled with slightly too many 4th wall breaks to be palatable. it's alright as long as you know what you're getting into and pretty soulful in a "indie game developed by a single game in his spare time" sort of way despite being netiher of those things. personally i had a good time beating it while watching scrubs, it certainly doesn't demand too much of your attention
I don't know where this shit about grinding comes from. If it's pic-related then you just fricking suck at JRPGs in general, including games as super-simple as Neptunia are. You didn't use ALL of the available resources to you, which includes buying equipment at the shop. There is no grinding, you defeat one of each enemy encounter in the dungeon then move to the next event marker, which is likely a boss. If you have to grind in these games (which is a solution unlike most JRPGs which have real depth) then you're doing something stupidly wrong.
noire is the matador of neptunia, a first real challenge and then there's nothing else after her
I'll never forget when I played Rebirth 1, hadn't saved in quite a bit, then suddenly I got locked in some Lastation factory and there was a boss at the end with no way for me to save. No warning about that, just suddenly you can't save anymore
Ended up having to grind for hours out of sheer terror that the boss would kill me.
do you have pc or psvita?
you can play it for free on both, try it, if you like it you can buy it if you want
Just fap to the art and pretend you play the games just like 99% of the other people who bump these threads do. Get Ryza, you'll get a lot more moneys worth from her games than Neptunia has/will ever shit out.
>trying to make Ryza vs Neptunia
Frick off tendie
My comfort franchise.
I enjoy them but objectively they’re middle of the road games and not even the best stuff Compile Heart has put out, plus there’s too many dubgays around for my liking
>plus there’s too many dubgays around for my liking
I agree, it's disgusting.
Honestly it doesn’t concern me how others choose to play single-player games but coming up with bullshit excuses like “the English VAs are putting so much more effort into their performances unlike the generic Japanese cast phoning it in” is where I draw the line
Also this might just be me but whenever I listen to them trying to do an English language equivalent to a cutesy anime girl voice I can almost hear the physical weight of the actresses every time and it’s profoundly disconcerting
Neptunia is one of the few dubs I'd actually consider unlistenable. Shit is atrocious when the plot gets even slightly serious like during conquest ending in 2. Neptune going from being on the verge of tears begging nepgear to grow up and kill her in the JP dub goes to
>lol grow up kiddo
in the ENG dub shit ruins the scene. The comedic portions aren't much better but any drama sections are truly egregious
Not understanding any of the gibberish people are saying kinda ruins the scene too my guy
yes because tone an intonation cannot be innately understood by anybody no matter the language
ONI CHAN KAWAII UGUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
yes and this probably has more passion put into it than the english voice actor doing a line read or god forbid actually trying to sound like a little girl when they are a 34 year old chain smoker
Bro, neptunes jap VA is literally 44
yeah and shes able to sound like shes 14
whats your point
And she still sounds younger than the crack prostitutes they pulled out of the gutter for the >dub
bro what game series do you think you are playing
neptunia is kusoge made for otaku
resorting to ad hominem just makes you look like a moron
I think theres a difference between a nep enjoyer and the absolute homosexuals that wanna get anal about the fricking voice actors when theyre all middle aged women trying to sound super cute.
And she doesn't sound off. She sounds young. Hell she still sounds great as Shiny Luminous.
>tfw that little bit of Nep slipped out since she hadn't done Luminous' voice in such a long time for Hugtto's anniversary episode
>neptunes jap VA is literally 44
Damn, Yamadera got to play with that?
You might be actually autistic if you can't tell the quality difference between a VA putting emotion into their dialogue and the shitty dub phoning it in and saying everything flatly even if one is in a different language
only the very first nep on ps3 had a tolerable dub since the actresses were fairly down to earth, later it's too much hamming and shrill noises
Yes, is that because the dub can affect your interest in the game the problem, for example I have a friend who ignored all the new spin-offs just because it didn't have english dub, and I say, it was so hard for them to play it in the original language it was created? We are not talking about a cartoon of childhood or something like that, the great majority of people who play it are older, that is already known
Now he is interested again because it has an english dub, and because it is a "continuation" of the main games
The thing is those two games were the ones that only have JP voices. Vtuber game would have no point existing if it were dubbed since all the JP tubers appeal is their actual personalities. Having them be dubbed over loses all the appeal and probably breaches contracts with the agencys representing those VTs. Since mixed dubs aren't really a thing they chose not to do it. Then Senran doesn't have a confirmed English cast so they didn't bother. Now it's all Neps only so they can again. It was all logical but they took it as a personal attack.
>Now it's all Neps only so they can again. It was all logical but they took it as a personal attack.
Now that you put it that way, yeah, that makes sense
You also made me think that, there were very few, only two, games without english dub, no big deal either
>Then Senran doesn't have a confirmed English cast so they didn't bother.
Technically it does since both anime series were dubbed.
>pic
Imagine getting this in [current year], it'll never happen again. It's just gonna be more goofy spinoffs and outsources and never a real new game with only core characters (and plutia ofc).
>plus there’s too many dubgays around for my liking
Go back Gankerutistic subhuman
buy their game.
I got bored half way through the first game.
The main series started out objectively awful and gradually improved to the point VII is a game I would honestly recommend to some people (assuming I knew they would enjoy the mood/humour etc.) sincerely.
The mood itself is the core selling point though, so if you don't like light hearted, self-aware and referential humour and cute girls doing cute things style stuff, it's not going to be for you, but if you can enjoy those things, they can be fun games. I thoroughly enjoy the mood and the way it massively leans into the sillier side. Heavily carried by its appealing and likable cast, unsurprisingly.
The gameplay isn't the main draw and never really has been, but it's servicable and sometimes mildly fun in VII. It does its job, but there isn't anything inherently interesting to the gameplay besides perhaps how some of the animations can be fun.
The spin offs vary considerably in quality ranging from bad to acceptable and span a fair few genres. The main series is consistently okay (with the exception of the original PS3 version of the first game which is objectively fricking awful). VII is the peak of the franchise and is actually decent.
Neptune is one of my favourite vidya characters. She's a legitimately fantastic protagonist.
>gradually improved to the point VII is a game I would honestly recommend to some people (assuming I knew they would enjoy the mood/humour etc.) sincerely.
>The mood itself is the core selling point though, so if you don't like light hearted, self-aware and referential humour and cute girls doing cute things style stuff
Some of these ticked my boxes but I just could not get into VII. It really feels like a game you could only appreciate if you suffered through the terrible games before it as well as be incredibly familiarized with the cast from said experience playing through the terrible games beforehand.
I always see people talking about Nep in waifu threads, what do I start with if I'm 100% new?
re;birth 1, then 2, then 3, then the anime, then vii (no, that's not 7, that's v2. rebirth 3 is v1. at least, i think). then play the spinoffs in basically whatever order you feel like. right now theyre all on sale for peanuts so you can get all 4 mainline titles for around 20 bucks
If you intend to play more than one game, play the Rebirth games in order, then VII.
If you want to try one of them and to get the best experience, I'd argue VII but as
says, it's written in parts with the assumption you're already familiar with the cast, which is definitely a fair comment to make. Considering that, it might be good to try Rebirth 1 first.
i got recommended last week to start with VII and so far with 0 idea going into it, its pretty fun and its easy to keep along with the story. they do well to fill in gaps.
Is the Neptunia anime worth watching
nta but I’d say yes but it’s probably more fun if you’re at least somewhat familiar with the characters beforehand
so.. it's a shitty vn with rpg mechanics? good to know, can skip safely.
Go for it, anon, this isn't a series where I'll tell you you're missing out. If it doesn't look interesting to you on the surface, it probably won't be.
Cute characters and all, but the games are mostly mediocre, you wouldn't bother playing them without cute girls. I don't mind the series existing, it's nothing outstanding.
I played the first three games and completely forgot it existed. Why did it get memory holed?
A mix of both of those. The gameplay is fricking awful, if you play these games, you know exactly what you're playing them for.
Would have been better as a series of visual novels instead of trying to be games.
Honestly no. Neptunia's whole concept kind of relies on it aping classic JRPGs in a few ways. You could tell a similar story as a VN, but it would miss half the joke, or need to be done differently.
Did they have to make the gameplay pretty awful as part of the joke?
the fact that (You) play these games to begin with is part of the joke.
Damn, you've got me there.
The new game actually looks pretty good
The Nep games are 6/10 JRPGs that keep reusing assets even though they have cute and fun characters. The mainline stuff is worth getting on sale, but most of the spin-offs but 4GO aren't really worth it even if they're free. IF's other non-Nep stuff the last 5 years has actually been pretty decent though.
I haven't played any of the PS5 games yet so I don't know if those are better than the older ones.
I only had eyes for Iris Heart, Rei Ryghts and Arfoire. Since all three of them won't get any meaningful appearances anytime soon there's no reason for me to bother with the games.
>Arfoire
>won't get any meaningful appearances anytime soon
Anon...
4/10 gameplay but I am in love with Nep and I wish I could a girl even 1/10th as precious as she is
>they still haven't introduced a PC CPU, even after the franchise got on PC
Wasted opportunity
... Peashy?
She's the PC Engine
>PC Engine
frick me, never seen one of these before
It was known as TurboGrafx-16 in the US
i think the new game has one
I'll buy it if true, but it always seemed like Compile hearts begrudgingly accepts that their series is popular on PC. If it weren't for its success on Steam, it's doubtful they would ever think about it at all.
>but it always seemed like Compile hearts begrudgingly accepts that their series is popular on PC
Well, they are hardcore snoys.
>Be such a brand loyalist that you make a game where the avatar of your favorite brand is the waifu of the faceless self-insert male
What the FRICK is with these companies worshipping snoy?
Honestly surprised Dokapon launches on Switch first for that reason.
Sting must of had as part of the publishing agreement.
Does it bother you I play CH games on my PS5 and vita?
>PC land doesn't have a CPU
So who is he?
some criminal really no one special
All of the above
Legitimately shitty games but they have their charm despite all the flaws. If you have to ask about the series it probably isn't for you.
I'm gonna jump on these.
Whats the starting point? Last time I asked someone said Rebirth 2 because Rebirth 1 was written as a standalone story and isnt relevant to anything else. Is that still true after more games have come out?
The main story still starts with rebirth 2, but rebirth 1 is also recommended as starting point, because it presents the main goddesses at a good pace.
The first game had the best jokes and best representation of the main girls characters. No game after it has managed to be as funny and endearing as the original Hyperdimension Neptunia on the PS3.
I somewhat enjoyed them, but it’s basically okay ideas with barely any execution to them. Stuff like positioning would be cool if it was more relevant than once every hundreds of fights. They recycle the frick out of dungeons and they aren’t very good in the first place.
The main games are fun if not long winded at times, the side games are anything from barely playable to fricking abysmal and not even the cuteness of the girls saves them
So what's Nepgear's new game like? I'm gonna assume that the story's probably not great. Neptunia stories have struggled for a long time. They blew their load in terms of ideas with the first game and expanded on those eyes reasonably well in Re;Birth1, but that's it.
It starts off with 20+ minutes of talking so who knows.
>I'm gonna assume that the story's probably not great
It's actually good. Partially because the story is back into Hyperdimension and not another clean dimension, so there are references to what happened and what is going on now.
Neptune has been dead for 2 years
Eh, I'll believe it when I see it. It just sounds like an alternate take on Nep2. A massive issue with Neptunia as a whole is that the devs clearly have no idea what to do with the main CPUs, so they keep trying to write them out of the story or keep them busy with B-plot stuff.
>Nep2: They're captured for most of the game.
>Nep3: Nep goes to another dimension, allowing her to interact with fresh alternate versions of the characters. Subsequently, the "normal" versions of the other CPUs are completely and totally irrelevant.
>Nep4: They're absent in chapter 1, busy with a pointless B-plot in chapter 2 and irrelevant in chapter 3.
>Nep5: They're absent again.
It's a very frequent issue in the main games and the devs are clearly sick of these characters.
>nep is dead
then who the frick is this in the screen shot?
a tithag
What side games are worth playing? The Super Neptunia game looks like it has potential
4 Goodness Online, definitely
the Nep RPG game is not bad for a game made in france
I thought it was made in french canada
>Canada’s Artisan Studios
yes, you are correct
Theres a frickin game called Top Nep, cant make this shit up
more rom and ram please
Can you jump into this new game if you haven't played any of the others?
There'll be a few minor references you don't know and the characters are already established so you won't be slowly introduced to them but overall they're standalone games.
I like nep but couldn't recommend them to even the weebiest friends. The gameplay of any of the titles is the pinnacle of average. Nothing wrong with any of them on a technical level, but the gameplay is the most basic, competent but boring vehicle with bare minimum presentation to get you to the characters and skits. If you don't like Nep, you won't be able to bear the gameplay for long enough to see them through.
TOP NEP is a great Space Harrier knockoff.
this girl looks like she molests other, smaller girls
>molests
Such a serious accusation demands proof, ideally copious amounts to peruse so we can be completely sure
she particularly enjoys shoving their face into her chest
Can't they finally give her a "little sister" by making her Series X and making the sister Series S? I mean it's not exactly a handheld but that ship's ailed after the 3DS and Vita.
>Vert gets so desperate for a younger sister she creates a younger, smaller clone of herself
>Vert clone is half the height but double the boob size
Silly anon she already has sisters
>nobody cares about Chika
Everyone loves chaika
>chika
oh nevermind
I want an Action Unleashed 2.
roleplaying as railgun is the absolute best
I want Action Unleashed Neps in the next Warriors Orochi
It's call blanc + neptune vs zombies
Is that vtuber game and the Senran Kagura one really as bad as people make them out to be?
Didn't play the vtuber one because I don't give a frick about vtubers.
The Senran one wasn't anything special. Not as bad as Nep RPG, but still a weaker entry
I liked Senran x Nep, found the combat to be quite nice, contrary to what I saw some reviews say about it.
Character interactions between the Neps and boob ninjas were pretty weak, though. The Senrans really do feel like they were late additions to the script.
>Neptune dies in the bad ending of Nepgear's first game
>Neptune's dead in Nepgear's latest game
Hmmmm...
spoiler that shit Black person
It's a basic part of the game's premise. It's not a spoiler. Saying that it's a spoiler is like saying Empire Strikes Back begins on a snow planet is a spoiler.
its a cute and funny game
ToT
Alex did it again
IFI you glorious bastards
WAY cuter and funnier
I FRICKING KNEEELLL
I want to creampie the witch until shes good
WHICH ONE SHOULD I GET
P-please respond
rb1, rb2, rb3, VII
You will buy ALL the nepslop
Play Re;Birth1 first. It's probably the best way to tell if this series is for you or not. If you don't like Re;Birth1, you're unlikely to like the rest. In terms of story, Re;Birth1 is completely standalone. It's in a separate continuity from all other games and therefore nothing that happens in it is of any consequence to the rest of the series.
re;birth 1, 2, 3 and VII, the main games
4GO, which is a spin-off
that's all
This franchise used to have DAILY threads on Ganker like 6 years ago.
What stopped the hype?
6+ years of remakes and mediocre for fricking awful spinoffs
Mediocre to fricking awful spinoffs rather
Mainline games stopped coming out
Some of the spinoffs are good but picture if a whole franchise just became pinball spinoffs, action RPG beat-em-ups and cameo vehicles
You get Senran Kagura, and that also used to have daily threads on Ganker 6 years ago until it died
Blue balls simulator that doesn't have the courage to lean fully into hentai.
neptunia is almost alright, the big issue is that all the characters are minor coded which makes it pretty uncomfortable to play.
(You)
^bait
I love my wife Neptune!
did they fix nepgears panties from the jap version?
Idk how it is in the jap version, but on the steam version she has white panties on display
>white panties
modders are our last hope then
I can't believe Neptune is fricking dead
wtf do you mean she's right there. MAGES. however, is dead for real...
SHES BUGGING OUT
I'll pour out a Dr. Pepper in her memory.
HEY, NOIRE! LOOK WHAT I CAN DO!
>W.W.WHOA.WHOA...WHOA.... L.L.LL..LLOOK A.A.AT.. M.M.MEEEE N..N..NIORE!
>I.I...I...I'M BB.B.B.BUGGING OOOUUUTTTTT!!!
I can't help but read this in Neptune's English VA voice.
Am I supposed to get VII or VIIR?
VII
Do you want to stare at nep panties in VR? Get VIIR
Do you want to play a better game with more content? Get VII
VII. The extra character DLC is worth it and it has more endings. Also if you're on PS5 VIIR runs at 30 FPS for some fricking reason while VII gets 60 FPS.
I bought the first game, on PS3, it was a complete disaster. Technically playable, but horribly boring. 0 balance of difficulty (piss easy normal fights, annoying boss fights loaded with ohkos)
Never touched another one after that.
Filtered
I am a pedophile and I am pleased.
this series panders to e-girlcons
and I'm ok with that!
this cg was drawn by a woman btw
Tsunako is the best
She looks like a child. Why does Tsunako like drawing female children?
good taste
females are the biggest degenerates
I feel like Nep is supposed to be a petite highschool senior and PH a slim 20-24 year old.
ouuuuuuuuhhhhhhhh tot
I stopped playing it when I found out it has Disgaea level paid DLC. Frick that shit.
as in the sims level of DLC?
You mean buying characters?
Also I'm pretty sure Disgaea DLC is dead since every version has a complete edition except for DD2, but people will just emulate that anyways.
I want to kidnap Neptune and lock her in my dungeon.
I think the only Neptunia games I really like are Re;Birth1, Victory and V-II. Re;Birth1 is the most solid in terms of general story, while Victory and V-II are the most refined in terms of gameplay.
Is Nepslop pudding?
Only factory bought pudding. And eggplants.
It's eggplant pudding
Nepslop is Neptune's viscous thick cum she pours down (you)r throat straight from her massive nepis
does she make jokes while she does it?
No she just yells outdated memes from 2010
both hot.
She exclusively calls it her eggplant, and praises you for taking in all her shares.
How strong is Neptune? Did they finally return her to gamebreaker status or are they still a bunch of PUSSIES?
Is Conquest canon yet?
always has been
It is in the SeHa timeline in my headcanon
Definitely JRPG junk food.
Tons of fun, but not particularly great in terms of story or gameplay.
Bring back 5pb. you buttholes
Given the state of her sister, she'd be lucky to even get a text cameo.
Are 4GO and Super RPG good? They're cheap as frick right now.
>4GO
Eh. Kinda boring. Gameplay really just boils down to spamming skills over and over while guzzling recovery items, as doing anything else is way too fricking slow. Bosses are all HP sponges. Attacks have no knockback so all bosses have super armor. Overall it's not really all that interesting.
RPG was made by Canadians so it's bad. Not even kidding, it's a really lame game.
>4GO
I liked it, not bad for the first game made on UE4
>RPG
mixed feelings, watch some video to see if you like the gameplay, it's 2d only
AA Jap industry is just gone, isn't it? It's either AAA or full shovelware.
this, lets play forspoken instead
I am not happy about it, I liked low budget Jap shit that sold 10k domestically, whatever abroad, and that was a success.
>when you press randomize on the character creator
The definition of weebslop
Brought down by being yurishit. There is a reason it's a nearly dead franchise.
Play Noire's game? Like the rest of them, it's not very good, but it is straight.
>Vert: Queen of wienertease. She will ruin you with her techniques.
>Noir: Has a natural talent for handjobs.
>Blanc: Is too rough with her hands but her throat game is A-tier.
>Nepgear: Normal
>Rom & Ram: They're little devils who has tremendous untapped talent.
>Uni: Has a natural talent for blowjobs.
>Neptune: Is pretty bad at it. A worthless goddess.
Noir is for anal, get it right.
We're talking exclusively about hand and mouth techniques.
i want to see more content where nep dominates (You)
Please, PLEASE have a nice day.
smartest man itt
So what's Uzume been doing during this crisis? Do they just gloss over her?
Used to be utter shit. First game was slow-ass garbage where you couldn't even heal on command IIRC. Rebirths are better but still mediocre.
2 OG was good, mostly because it had the balls to do the conquest route which was pure soul. Shame they pussied out from then on and didn't bother to put effort into later games.
Conquest route was only worthwhile for the shock value, but they didn't really put much effort in it.
Effort in the sense they made an entire separate bad end route. If they had the balls to even make a bad end these days it would be a mere dialog before spitting you back out 5 minutes before instead of a separate route.
Yeah but that's all it is. They half-assed it pretty hard so I don't really feel much towards it.
It was a reasonable attempt given the low budget these games have and still far more than they have since.
It's not even an issue of budget. The characters all turn even dumber than they usually are in order to make the route work. The writing quality wasn't amazing to begin with and it suddenly takes a dive. For Conquest, they wrote the ending first but barely put any thought into how they would get to that ending. Subsequently, everyone acts moronic and out-of-character. It's not just the budget, the writing staff half-assed it too.
If you take Rebirth 2's new ending into consideration supposedly the sword was making everyone moronic.
That's just lazy writing. Neptunia's writing is usually fairly convenient but that's overkill. So they still halfassed it. When it comes to writing tragedies, you have at least put a little effort into it. Hubris, a poorly dealt hand, greed, self-destruction, etc., etc. No matter what it is, you need to be more careful in how you portray the events that lead up to that tragic ending. In the Conquest ending, the tragedy is "the sword made everyone stupid and out of character so Nepgear killed everyone because the writers needed her to." The only real tragedy here is that the writers didn't give a frick.
Nepgear wasn't out of character because she was a crazy moronic b***h to begin with.
iffy is perflat!
My brothers! Is it worth it or skip it all together?
Skip so hard you red shift.
>worth if you like blanc
>skip
>worth
>worth it
>skip it
>worth it
KINO
i love nep games and ch games in general
It's just a simple fun time, unironically just turn your brain off and enjoy cute girls
thoughts on the new girls?
They looks good, their alternate forms are shit.
not the hot witch. pass
left is apple
what is right ?
left looks like totally not origami
I want to throw left in the trash after she becomes planned obsolete in six months
I want to set right to vibrate mode and get root access.
I want to use my phone as an onahole
Is there a PC girl in the new game or just the phoneposters?
Some of the main games are decent, most of the spinoffs are decent for half an hour then get completely repetitive
rebirth1 on the vita is the only one I played that I actually enjoyed
>morally questionable
where do you morons come from?
Are these games good podcast games or should I listen to its music?
the only thing I know about this is that Chris Chan went crazy over it and came up with the Dimensional Merge
Gatekeep.
Does Nepgear's new game has conquest end?
No. Conquest end can only really happen once. If you keep doing it, it becomes normalized and loses all shock value.
Yes and no, it can't happen frequently but you can do something like it more than once. It's been long enough that if they did it again it would stand out. Especially if they doubled down on the edge.
Maybe. But I don't really think you can do it again with Nepgear. You have to keep things fresh somehow.
>Neptune creepypasta
This would be an unironically genius way to do conquest route again
>Secret route only accessible through some hidden arcane bullshit
>Game plays like normal after activating it, most players won't know that it happened
>Except things get weirder
>and weirder
>Until finally you're killing party members thinking they're enemies
It's been over a decade since Conquest. They could easily whip it out again.
there will never ever be another conquest ending
>Groudon in the background.
Why did Compa never got a game anyways? even IF had one
Nobody likes Compa. Compagays don't exist.
wrong
If compagays exist why does she have the least doujins out of the main cast?
Not only doujins she has the least lewds in general. I like her design I wish she had more especially her as a child
Compa is cute but she has the personality of a brick. Her main character trait is that she's friends with IF
Was Nepgear's new game out in Japan already? It's weird there's basically been no news about it.
I actually think neptunia may be more popular abroad than in Japan, now.
Thus is the ultimate fate of developers who neglect the switch
switch gays are so annoying
Well they are legion in Japan, so IF better get used to it.
This. Look at them spamming fanarts saying the ip needs to die, larping as nepgays
Frick off already, I dont want tendies making Neptunia threads about sales which is the only thing they talk about
Same, I'm fine with Neptunia being biche, I hate Nintendo fans soulless sales talk with a passion. Meanwhile Capcom games are mostly succesful and you won't see Capcomgays being wienery with sales, just enjoying their games
if thats true, why doesnt the eggplant witch have any fanart?
It released in Japan back in April of last year.
F
i don't remember saving these
Most rapeable nep?
i want linda wrapped around my willy and she should have bigger boobs
what did it taste like?
Open up your PC and lick the memory. That's how it tastes.
If I lick the CPU, which Nep is that?
Find a Nintendo Switch cart and give it a lick. That's what Rom tastes like!
me on the left
I'm honestly amazed this series is somehow still alive. The quality's been declining so steadily that by now even actual fans say the games are trash.
If you're new, don't listen to loregays, just play Re;Birth 3 first, it's the best Neptunia game by a landslide. It's a remake of Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory from PS3 with some extra dungeons/bonus content/extra scenes (think Persona 5 Royal). Victory was Compile Heart's most successful game during that era, which led to them making tons of Victory clones, like Fairy Fencer F, Dark Rose Valkyrie, Death end re;Quest and so on They're all visual novel/JRPG hybrids where the only 3D parts are the dungeons and the hub is just a menu.
Personally, I stopped buying nepslop about 4 games ago, just can't vibe with all these crappy arena fighters. I still play Compile Heart JRPGs from time to time (Dragon Star Varnir was the last one I liked), but they pretty much stopped making them, so RIP.
IF could have turned Neptunia into a major franchise if they weren't so fricking lazy. Just look how many weebs, myself included, still cling to the IP despite all the remakes and whoring out to any developer to shit out a spin off.
This
picture if they were remotely creative with it instead of making the same few action/RPG spinoffs
I personally don't mind the spinoff idea if they're unique. They could be doing fun things with the idea like making City builder games, or actually making their MMO game into an MMO. Instead it's just RPG, action RPG, RPG, shooter RPG, RPG
The JP voice actresses are already in their mid-40's, just let it die IMO, I don't want it to end up like Sailor Moon where it's literally grannies pretending to be 15 yo girls. The games have no appeal outside of characters anyway, just make a new IP or Death end re;Quest 3 or something.
Sexy old hags voicing my anime girls…
And? Weren't they late twenties when they started?
Japan is autistic with vas. Look at Goku having a voice of a dying granny and Franky from One Piece who is literally dying everytime you hear him
>please kill the ip
Just dont play it moron
>just play Re;Birth 3 first, it's the best Neptunia game by a landslide
Comfy and cheap
what was the purpose of having uzume move move to nu-planeptune in the vii true ending if the writers were just gonna be cute frick her off of everything going forward
It's a waifu game, so it's gonna be a sitcom with 0 meaningful plot development, are you new to otaku shit or what. Literally the only appeal is the main cast, so they're never going to change or be dethroned (by Uzume or whoever).
They hate everyone except the four main CPUs and the few game studio-tans that follow them around.
I can sort of understand not entirely liking the Candidates. Rom and Ram are extremely shallow characters. They're cute, but that's kind of all they are.
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NEPU
Is V2 still the most recent "mainline" game? Are we really 7 years into spinoff purgatory?
They've said that SvS is how the future of Nep looks so it's most likely mainline.
is SvS already out in Japan? What's the fanbase think about it?
does SvS have actual gameplay?
yes
Ye, but it's pretty shit
What do you prefer? Rehashed decade old turn based antiquated shit, or barely more functional than braindead musou schlock excuse for "action-rpg" gameplay?
>ctrl+f
>no Nyamota
Let me fix that
I played the first one and didn't want to play more of them as a result.
The girls are charming but also overrated. I guess if you don't watch much anime, you won't immediately see them as their archetypes. That or you have to really be into CGDCT and the type of humor these games seems to carry.
Is Rebirth I the first game in the series? Never played it before and wondering where I should start. Also this is not yurishit is it? I won't even bother if it is.
It's as close to yurishit as you can get without it actually being. They bait the frick out of pathetic /u/gays, but they still need to bait the waifugays so they can't exactly go full gay.
Rebirth 1 is the remake of the first game and the perfect place to start
>yurishit
Worse, it's yuribait.
So it goes nowhere.
That sounds based, frick /u/Black folk
what if it had hack and slash gameplay
thanks for you suggestions you guys said to my post i think last thread, I decided to get the stuff you recommened and finally start this series with 1.
My friend kept telling me about this game 10 years ago but i never tried it. Hopefully it's cute lewd and comfy.
Its comfy but dont expect quality. They are good when they are cheap
Gets less lewd as the series goes on that to snoy. Install nude mods or something if you want that.
are there lewd mods?
Not a fan of nude to be honest as it's not that well done. i prefer cute and lewd clothes
I dunno about the recent games, but older ones let you apply custom textures to the CPU form transformations so there have been nude mods even on console from the get go, among numerous other outfits. I would assume that feature wasn't removed but again, I haven't played recent ones.
These games are for those who are fans of magical girls genre not vulgar porn
>magical girls
>not for vulgar porn
You lost me. What is a magical girl if she isn't being mating pressed by a 500 pound smegma encrusted fat man, bred by a pig, turned into a quadruple amputee tentacle seedbed, or addicted to meth and abortions?
This.
The games were always cowardly with fanservice, the girls didn't even get fully naked in transformations scenes until the anime. If you're expecting Senran Kagura, you'll be sorely disappointed.
Literally the extra on ps5
That's just merchandising extra. It's not in the game at all. It's well known that these games also have more censorship on snoystations than on switch or PC, and on PC you can mod them. Not sure what you're trying to do here by defending a company that hates japanese games bro.
Just started, why is there so much dlc? is any necessary like it adds to or completes the story or adds some good shit?
none of it is canon or needed. It's extra fluff.
Sure, as long as you don't mind missing characters, items, costumes, content, and level caps
do those matter? I feel like getting most of them but i don't know.
Do you get extra cutscenes and are the level caps important to play the game?
I'd say the characters do at the very least. Just pirate the DLC.
DO NOT USE ANY OF IT!!!
it will break the game's balance
most of the dlc you can equip will totally break the game
The Black heart game with the self insert killed the franchise it was all downhill from there
You mean IdolPP with the similar self-insert, only 5 songs for an idol game and without the fricking idol character.
Bring back my girl. 5pb.
I like the games. They are low budget games that don't do anything groundbreaking or amazing but I've still enjoyed playing them. I began with the original game on PS3 game back in late 2012. Had to buy a copy on eBay since it was out of print at that point. I pre-ordered the collector's edition of V. I got the PC version of VII when it released and haven't played another Nep game since. I found each new game to be better than the last with Mk2 being the biggest jump in quality in terms of gameplay. Is Sisters vs Sisters an actual mainline game? I know it's been out in Japan for a while now.
It's a spinoff that's close to a mainline game. It could arguably be canon, but it's not considered so, as of this release.
So we're still waiting for a mainline game then. I might get Sisters vs Sisters at some point. I haven't played any of the other spinoffs but SvS seems to resemble a mainline game in terms of gameplay and presentation from what I've seen.
is sega hardgirls good?
I thought it was sort of dull
out of the spinoffs it's one of the better ones, that's because they played it safe and it's basically a rebirth 1.5 kinda game
Do you like IF? It's kinda her game.
trash!!! DO NOT BUY!!!
I thought it was good. Outside of the 4GO game, its the second best spin-off in my opinion.
any good mods or recommended mods for these games?
are there any other games that sexualise e-girls this much?
I dropped this game 7 years ago after 100% completing the first one, should I give it another shot?
why are you asking us?
Give me a reason to go for the conquest ending I guess
you could just watch it if you want...
don't you want to watch all of the cute happy go lucky characters die?
It's the true ending and best ending.
play it to see nepgear go mental and schizo. also linda gets stab and nepgear liked it
It's the real God of War 4
The anons in nep threads are always really helpful, it's nice
Is the Re;Birth 1 remake on PS5 worth grabbing to replay? I'm moderately interested if only for the fishing. The lighting seems kinda messed up.
It's got raytraced reflections so you can see pantsu in the water. No idea why they thought they needed to do that when everything else is kinda fricked. A shame because the V-IIR graphics look better.
Always one step forward two back with CH lately.
Is this series seriously only capable of making fricking remakes
Dogshit games with hot characters
should've been an H game series instead
Should I play rebirth 2, I hear it has an interesting ending? I played through rebirth 1 a while back and it was alright, not great but I'd rate it higher than any of the Tales games.
Yes, it introduce the sisters
If you are trans
about to start this series, anything i should know?
>PC
rb1, rb2, rb3, meganep vii
>if you got PS3, PS4
og nep, nep mk2, nep v, meganep vii
pretty sure the emulator runs all the ps3 neps
Those autistic names don't help. Say what you want about Capcom but its ome of the few companies who dont go autistic with names, its why we have Nep threads full of people asking where to start because they decided to go full autism after Rebirth 3
>after Rebirth 3
>after
newbie.
But even then names are not a problem as you just spend 3 minutes to read a Wikipedia article and never ask stupid questions again.
It's a series that is very good at what it wants to do and you will like it a lot if that's what you're here for. But this very thing makes it extremely niche as only a handful of people have heard of something like Cave or CyberConnect let alone played their games, or are invested in the Japanese entertainment industry to understand everything the game offers.
VIIR also has an incredible combat system and is one of the best RPGs of its time.
What did they do to Compa??
Cancel culture got Compa censored because of her spicy opinions
reminder that the series only keep going after the first game thanks to keiji inafune
oh yeah?
one of the reason why mk2 is the better version
it literally told CH to continue and ask the fans of the first game what they liked so much to make it better
Elaborate
>neptunia vii not playable on SteamDeck
>but the shitty rebirth games, super neptunia rpg and 4 goddesses online are
What the frick?
Different engines, Rebirth and SeHa all share the same one by Stella, Nep RPG was by some french canadians.
4 goddesses online is really the only anomaly there.
I'm pretty sure VII is still on the same engine as the re;birth games. It's VIIR that's a different engine
>VII keeps randomly crashing in battles and I cannot figure out a cause or a fix beyond the fact it seems to be driver-related
If this shit is gonna happen in all the old games I will be extremely upset.
play VII in window mode and make it full screen with borderless gaming, this fixed the random crashes for me
None of the Neptunia games are "good" ports, but for some reason they got worse after VII instead of better.
VII barely runs on PC
VIIR runs on Deck but you need to do some neckbeard linux shit to play it also VIIR is shit and VII is better
im gonna do it im gonna buy rebirth 1-3 wish me luck on actually ginishing them
I got what I think is the first one on PS3. It was ok, but pretty forgettable. It weirds me out how many of them there are now. Fanservice, eh?
everyone should play it once, just so they can know what an idea factory game is like. also works as a handy dandy normalgay repellant
The last nep game came out 8 fricking years ago what are they doing
yea like I said
though I did forget that 4GO was after VII
what are you talking about? a nep game is coming out TODAY
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