Hyperdimension Neptunia+Spin offs

[Barktooth]

I was thinking the next game I might play out of my long backlog is Neptunia.. but I'm confused by all the games in this series. Is Megadimension Neptunia VII the only non-spinoff one for PC? Or are those Re;Birth ones ports of the console games? If so, do I need to play through all the Re;Birth ones before I can understand what's going on in VII? (That's kind of a big commitment and I'm scared of those :P)

[Eclipsed]

There's the original three Hyperdimension Neptunia games on PS3 that were remade into the three Re;births on Vita/Steam and then Megadimension V-II on PS4/Steam

Re;birth1's in its own timeline, 2 & 3 and maybe V-II are in the same timeline but they're mostly standalone and aren't dependent on each other

[Barktooth]

1 hour ago, Eclipsed said:

There's the original three Hyperdimension Neptunia games on PS3 that were remade into the three Re;births on Vita/Steam and then Megadimension V-II on PS4/Steam

Re;birth1's in its own timeline, 2 & 3 and maybe V-II are in the same timeline but they're mostly standalone and aren't dependent on each other

I see, thanks for the explanation. I think I'll play VII first and save the others for later, then.

Edited November 30, 2016 by Barktooth
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[Seth]

9 hours ago, Barktooth said:

I see, thanks for the explanation. I think I'll play VII first and save the others for later, then.

Definitely wouldn't recommend that. VII does depend quite a bit on Re3 and it assumes that you already know all the characters and their traits. Re1 is the best introduction to the series, then skip  Re2 (it is the worst one of the bunch but without it you won't really get to know the imoutos), then Re3 and finish with VII. Otherwise you will have tons of references to the earlier works with no way to understand them. Another reason is that the gameplay improved with every new game so it would feel very strange to start with the last one.

Edited November 30, 2016 by Seth

[Kaguya]

I think it's fine if you go and play VII first. 

[Barktooth]

2 hours ago, Seth said:

Definitely wouldn't recommend that. VII does depend quite a bit on Re3 and it assumes that you already know all the characters and their traits. Re1 is the best introduction to the series, then skip  Re2 (it is the worst one of the bunch but without it you won't really get to know the imoutos), then Re3 and finish with VII. Otherwise you will have tons of references to the earlier works with no way to understand them. Another reason is that the gameplay improved with every new game so it would feel very strange to start with the last one.

 

2 hours ago, Kaguya said:

I think it's fine if you go and play VII first. 

Dammit you guys, now I'm conflicted. Maybe I'll play Re1 first after all, though it will probably take me 10 years to get to VII this way.

[Eclipsed]

Yeah you can technically just dive into V-II and while you won't really miss out on the 10% main plot elements focused on baddies like Arfoire and Deity of Sin trying to take over Gamindustri, you'll naturally miss out on all the other 90% little nuances and references and nepu-memes to the previous games (they do ALOT of those, ie. Re;birth 3 loves to pick on Re;birth 2's Nepgear for being a flop of a protagonist) along with not having all those games' worth of getting to know the characters and thus getting completely fed up with all of Compa's desu spams

 

[Barktooth]

3 hours ago, Eclipsed said:

nepu-memes

Guess I'll have to do it in that order then, can't miss out on those Nep Nep memes

[Cassian]

Does anyone know where can I read news about Neptunia? Like an official forum or board or something? or with RSS feed?

[ExtraMana]

On 12/20/2016 at 10:21 PM, Cassian said:

Does anyone know where can I read news about Neptunia? Like an official forum or board or something? or with RSS feed?

Idea Factory Facebook page has all the news about Hyperdimension Neptunia products, releases, beta's, etc. https://www.facebook.com/IdeaFactoryIntl/

 

[Cassian]

8 hours ago, ExtraMana said:

Idea Factory Facebook page has all the news about Hyperdimension Neptunia products, releases, beta's, etc. https://www.facebook.com/IdeaFactoryIntl/

 

Thanks!

[Eclipsed]

It's not required, but Hyperdimension Neptunia VIIR will support VR, that sounds pretty koo

http://gematsu.com/2017/05/megadimension-neptunia-viir-first-screenshots