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Nier gets some screenshots n' that photo

The official Web site for Square Enix's brand new action game Nier has been updated with a bunch of fresh screenshots. Most of you remain cynical about this title, and rightly so, since it comes from the same people responsible for Bullet Witch and Drakengard 2. Regardless, I have a massive bonk-on for big, dumb action titles, so I'm going to give it a chance.

The screens look rather simplistic at the moment, with rather uninspiring environments. This is atypical for a Square Enix game, which usually looks beautiful if nothing else. Hopefully these are just early shots and we'll see it looking a lot better in the future. For now, what do you think? Have you had enough of hack n' slash games, or are you willing to give Nier a chance?


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hoyt414's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/10/2009 15:04
hoyt414
This looks like a PS1 game. UGLY.
Magnalon's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/10/2009 15:09
Magnalon
Have you had enough of hack n' slash games,
NEVA!

But seriously, I'm predicting 6s and 7s for this game: I'll get it in the bargain bin, but I'll get it. A big budget hack n' slash from Square Enix? I can't miss it!
CallMeRotten's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/10/2009 15:14
CallMeRotten
Nice birkenstocks Nier. I can't wait for the hacky-sack quick time events.
t0pc0w's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/10/2009 15:23
t0pc0w
So generic.
JLanphear's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/10/2009 15:30
JLanphear
How do you guys know it's generic? Have you played it yet?

I think it looks pretty fuckin cool. Hopefully we'll see some serious gameplay pretty soon.
mOnion's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/10/2009 15:35
mOnion
about as generic as godofwar

i'll give it a chance, but COME ON SQUE!!! where were the FFXIII: Versus screens and announcements at E3? am i the only one who's more excited about versus than the main title?

GIMME SOME CANDY GUYS
flabzilla's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/10/2009 15:35
flabzilla
Wow some of those screen shots do actually look like late PS1/early PS2 games with pre rendered backdrops lol, picture 6 and 9 especially.
Magnalon's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/10/2009 15:45
Magnalon
@JLan
Because we saw the last trailer for it: did you?
It was the most generic looking game ever, WAY more than the initial God of War footage we saw. At least Kratos talked, and scowled a bit during that. Here, he's just hacking some enemies in a very drab world, without any "special" abilities or weapons being shown.
foolishwolf's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/10/2009 15:51
foolishwolf
Jesus guys, it doesn't look THAT bad. Pipe down. The whole lot of ya.
Demtor's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/10/2009 15:53
Demtor
If there was blood, I might care.

The main character makes me wish there was a sequel to Vagrant Story.

>:(
Brandnamecommercial's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/10/2009 17:08
Brandnamecommercial
@Demtor
The first thing I thought of when I saw the header pic was that it looked like they took Rygar (from his Wii outing) and threw him in a Vagrant Story filter.
flabzilla's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/10/2009 18:26
flabzilla
@foolishwolf, yeah actually it does lol. Probably more to do with shitty screen captures on squares part though.
LogicallyDashing's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/10/2009 20:28
LogicallyDashing
Looks like Bryan Fury grew his hair out for the next Tekken tournament.
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