Nier

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>>377877749
Would like him to revisit one of the Ideas for drakengard 3

>Drakengard 3
>Titled Drakengard 4
>the point of the game is to figure out what the fuck happened to the 3

>>377877749
I'd love for all bosses to be as good as Simone if the budget allows it next time.

>>377877749
I'd like to see what I was hoping we'd get out of Nier Automata but didn't, which is a game where Yoko Taro writes, produces, maybe does the scenario and cutscene direction, and someone else directs the gameplay.

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>>377877749
Yeah, my only immediate nitpick would be increasing the budget enough to allow him to expand on environment and enemy variety.

I prefer smaller environments packed with content over huge empty environments, but a little more variation in exploring over the course of the game would be nice.

>>377877749
Less emphasis on waifus so we can have less obnoxious threads like Nier 1

I wouldn't wish Witcher 3 sidequests on the worst game.

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>>377877749
I'd like to see a good game with good characters. Which is impossible to say about NieR Automata unless you're seriously mentally challenged. So in short: Don't work with Platinum.

>>377878060
You're acting like Nier threads prior to Automata weren't filled with dickgirl porn.

>>377877895
I remember being hyped for Automata's bosses but Simone really was the only interesting boss

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>>377878060
The Waifu's were great I love almost all the character designs in the game with the exception Adam and Eve. Remember every fan base has it's shitty members.

>>377878175
Who was the Simone boss, the name doesn't wring a bell for some reason.

I thought the prologue boss, the BE AS GODS Boss, EVE, SHMUPP bosses, Tower Boss fights, and the Opera Singer were all fun.

>>377878175
I think it's just down to bad balancing, Simone comes in at a time when she could still be considered a fight. Every other boss goes down like tissue paper, except for maybe the clusterfuck ball fights as A2.

>>377878524
Simone is Beauviore. She's the opera singer boss we saw from E3

>>377878524
Simone is the opera singer.

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>>377877749
I'd actually really like to see a Drakengard sequel that takes on some traits from Nier and lets us explore that world more.

There's a lot of weird mythical creatures and magical lore we hear about, but we don't really get to see a lot of it.

drakengard 1 remake
automata was shit so I've lost faith in anything else he could do

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>>377879037
>Drakengard 1 remake
>it's Drakengard 1.3

no pacts but everyone and their moms gets a dragon

and instead of killing herself over Caim she doubles her efforts to get Caim's dick.

>>377879037
Taro is 48 years old he's becoming an old man the last thing he should work on is remakes he only has so many games left in him.

After Nier: Automata they have a blankslate on what the world they could pretty much make anything and make it fit.

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>>377879143
That's where the bad human Angelus design comes from isn't it
Angelegna waifu is better

Add really big boobed girls and make the boy younger.

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>>377879417
yeah, it's not as good as Angelegna

>>377879490
I think this guy's onto something.

Why does Taro keep making shitty musous out of Drakengard games, why not make them more like Nier. Isn't he allowed to or does he choose not to?

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>tfw Yoko was right
>Automata was too big for its own good
RIP Yoko cult

Enjoy your corpse scavenging Automatafags, if you look back far enough we once had games like DoD

>>377879393
Automata had little to no connection to the first Nier, it was just Yorha the game with some old characters brought back for no reason. I know it was based on that ending from Grimoire Nier, but it was executed horribly
He needs to either remake DOD1 or just make a new IP altogether

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>>377879596
>I like Nier!
>Oh, you mean Nier Automata? Me too I love 2B ass xD

>>377879612
Well he's directing SINSoALICE so it's not like he's sticking around to that

But SoA looks to have some connections to the storybook shit NieR was on about

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>>377877749
Better Boss fight and more redhead

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>>377877749
What's so good about witcher 3 quest? I only played about 6 hours but it doesn't seem like anything special.

>>377879596
>RIP Yoko Cult
Good. We dont need obnoxious faggots like the Kojima dicksuckers that fellate his games because his name is on it.

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>>377879417
The funny thing is, didn't Yoko Taro make a joke video about how since Persona is the hottest shit now, the new direction his games would be in would be high school settings?

what if it wasn't sarcasm

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>>377879143
Isn't everyone even more of a complete lunatic in 1.3?

I think they're pushing it a bit too hard if they just keep trying to top what was already crazy/edgy about the first game. I had the same problem with Brother One's manga.

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>>377879735
Go be a secondary somewhere else, this is the mourning thread

Yoko Taro next game is Sin of Alice, release 6 June 2017.
It's smart phone game.

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>>377877826
>He Was Only 15

> side content that ended up in concert/strategy guide books are ingame
> more areas in response which results in more background story (Dont pretend you wouldnt love to see M002 and Atlantis)
>Complete enemy and balance re-design since balance is fucked and barely do anything

>>377879874
i hope it's a good game. i'm tired of online mobile games

>>377879804
>Mourning thread
You are right, we should mourn the fanbase being infiltrated by faggots like you that is more interested in the person than the games he made/makes

>>377879710
>>377879874
I heard he made some kinda comment about not getting any money from that game. Is that true?

>>377880068
> mobage
> good
> ever

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>>377879874
He probably made a deal with SE that allowed him to make Nier if he made a cell phone game. The producer for Nier 2 had to pull alot of strings for the game to be made.

>>377879991
I would of loved for more areas and larger dungeons but the game had a shit budget which is the cause of most of the problems in the game. Difficulty is alot better if you don't use the meme chips.

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>>377880102
>we should mourn the fanbase being infiltrated by faggots like you
That's Automata's fault, I doubt the anon you're replying to is part of the problem

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>>377880102
If you were actually interested in the games he made before Automata then you'd realize why braindead waifufags and animeposters is a shitty day in the Taroland amusement park.

>I-I'm part of the fanbase too!
Oh please, don't even try to start that shit. It's sadder than sad.

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>>377880195
I hoped everyone here payed attention to the credits and had to see how much outsourcing was done the core team at Platinum was only around 30.

An optimized game on pc

Nier 1 > DOD > DOD3 > DOD2 > Automata

>>377880306
Waifufags are as bad as Tarofags, dont pretend otherwise. They never contribute anything to a thread ( to much suprise like waifufags)

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>game crashed again

>>377880417
Anyone not putting DoD 3 in "I wish it never existed" tier needs to be shot

>>377880483
>Tarofags... They never contribute anything to a thread
You need to leave.

>>377880376
>muh pcbro
enjoy your indie box

>>377880621
Keep posting your memes while avatarfagging with Taro images.

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>>377880556
It's bad compared to the first game due to the waifu shit but Dito was an interesting character (despite the others being trash) and the final song was pretty kino
>>377880483
Anyone who likes DOD is a "Tarofag" because we appreciate him as a creator shut the fuck up

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>>377880417
You know, for all the well-deserved flak DOD2 got, I probably still enjoyed Caim and Angelus's short role in that story more than I enjoyed Zero and Mikhail's in DOD3.

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>>377880376
Meh it runs well enough even with the a GTX 970 and a 6 year old cpu. The big problem is I had to downgrade my drivers to fix the white screen of death and use a fan patch to fix several problems.


Is their anyway to fix the transparent black bars in the cut scenes.?


>>377880509
You on Nividia? If you are downgrade to driver 365.10 or start the game and force it to use one thread in the task manager.

Why the fuck do you guys care about the fanbase anyway instead discussing the product itself.

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>>377880802
>that scene where Caim comes up behind like 10 guards and oneshots them all with a single swing while flashbacks are playing

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>>377877749
I want more party top-tier party banter.

The first Nier was the only Taro game where I was happy to do incredibly remedial tasks if it meant I could get a few more comedic interactions between Weiss and Nier.

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>>377880760
You're posting at the wrong anon, but go ahead and try to fit in

>>377880760
They've been around way before he put on the Emil head for Automata you know.

I think you are confusing the avatar fags with those who genuinely like Taro. Those guys are really bad. So I agree if you just mean those guys.

>>377880778
> anyone who likes DoD is Tarofag.
Nah its not about those people, its fine to like the creator of certain games. I enjoy Taros games too and games of other creators. Its about people that spin a cult around him just like obnoxious Kojimafags.

>>377877749
Anyone else enjoy all his games equally for different reasons? The only one I disliked was Drakengard 3 since it goes too far with the toilet humor and profanity to the point of self parody. Not to mention the jewey as fuck DLC that it pretty much a necessity if you want to understand the characters at all.

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>>377880802
Same here, they were best couple.
I also liked that one scene towards the end about Manah, shame that only lasted five seconds due to Nowe's POWER OF FRIENDSHIP
Zero and Mikhail felt forced.

>waifuing anyone on nier

>>377881008
I'm talking about those kind of people.

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>>377881036
>acknowledging how Automata's popularity will drive down discussion of Taro's previous works and all the differences between Automata and his earlier entries is "spinning a cult" around him
Autism unleashed

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>>377881135
Just say you don't like avatarfags you goof

>>377881198
You'd have point if the original poster did actually point it out instead of "RIP Taro Cult"

>>377877749
a game about the alien war
your party will consist of Emil, limE, emeel, ehmeal, and gary

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>>377881048
I feel like the potential for Manah's story would have improved exponentially if Nowe wasn't a factor and she wasn't reduced to standard damsel in distress/love interest.

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>>377881247
>>tfw Yoko was right
>>Automata was too big for its own good

>>377880802
DOD2 may have been garbage but people forget that Caim was great in that game.

he was a man willing to end the world for his waifu.

>>377881198

If new people come in because of popularity and only want to talk about Automata that isn't stopping you REAL FANS from talking about boring old games.

>>377881259
who the fuck is gary

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>>377881281
Everything bad about that game is Nowe's fault in some way

>>377881326
The game came out two months ago. Shit will calm down when most people forget about it months down.

The worst thing about this all are the fanfiction posters and waifufags in the general. Those will probably stay a fucking long time.

The talk about fanbases is going nowhere fast it's ok if you don't like it but it doesn't lead to good discussion.

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>>377881048
How'd they get Nowe so wrong when everything about Caim was so solid?

>>377877749
Platinum needs to switch to UE4 instead of sticking to their own terrible engine

>>377881558
Taro wasn't involved with Drakengard 2 as much if I recall correctly, so Nowe was made into a generic mary sue.

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>>377881531
The cosplay is nice.

>>377881558
They wanted to appeal to a wide demographic.

>>377881326
I think you're overestimating how popular Automata in the west actually is. While it sold extremely well compared to other Taro games, it's pretty much only /v/ and a couple of weeb Youtubers who give it much attention. I highly doubt it'll win any GOTY awards, which I don't really mind since they're a waste of time anyways.

>>377881558
Cause DoD2 isn't a Taro game?

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>>377881531
...but that's completely besides the point?

>>377877749
balanced difficulty.

normal is piss easy while hard is hard as balls

>>377881669
>it's pretty much only /v/ and a couple of weeb Youtubers who give it much attention
I wish

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>>377879797
I wouldn't really want the whole game to be a parody of his old works, but I'm admittedly curious what Taro's take on a supernatural high school story would be like.

>>377881669
First, I'm quoting the OP that's got 'muh kojimbles' in a tizzy

Second, it's a lot more widespread than any of Taro's previous works, the extent to which it is known far exceeds what he usually got. You're underballing the relativity at play.

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>>377881735
Are fans really that against the game being popular?

I think it's nice that Taro finally made a game that makes me think that he won't disappear from the industry.

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>>377881793
Why was the old art so good?

>>377881719
I dont see your point then.

>>377881997
What was wrong with Automata's art direction?

>>377882385
Well, I never said Automata's art was bad. It's pretty, just kind of generic. Then again I'm an edgy fag who always tends to put older art on a pedestal for no reason.

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>>377881981
Taro got away with the prospect of making a sequel to fucking DRAKENGARD, not once, but twice, and even got away with having ridiculously priced DLC. Not only that but then he made ANOTHER game that flopped and got an even bigger budget and a well known game studio. If you don't think he's got some jumanji shit held over the SE CEOs you're deluded.

I'm against Automata being popular because it's radically different than all the other Taro games, and would be getting people who don't appreciate how stupid Taro's portfolio is, just plain old shitty waifufagging and surface level feels, when even as recent as NieR there were better feels and better waifus.

Whatever zanyness is present, like the 26 endings, they'll just echo as being part of that cuhrazee director Taro's fanbase, and then refuse to actually give a shit about what else he's done because muh repetitive gameplay is Platinum's this time, muh waifus, etc.

>>377881997
Are Furiae and Nier discussing whether familial or incestuous love is superior?

>>377881981
>Are fans really that against the game being popular?
hipsters are always trying to preserve their secret club exclusivity and imagined purity and superiority of the fanbase. ignore them.

>>377882569
They're giving each other a thumbs up because they both love their siblings. Nier is probably oblivious to the extent of Furiae's love.

>>377882546
You are way off base with this new fans of Nier will want to play the older games if they want more why wouldn't they?

>>377877749
official porn

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>>377882385
I love Yoshida's Art things but the Kimihiko Fujisaka's art is really bold. I think Yoshida is a bit lacking in the face department, though it's less he can't draw detailed faces and more he doesn't want to.

>>377882546
If it makes you feel better, I know several people who picked up older Taro games after playing Automata. One of them even picked up DoD3 with all its DLCs

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>>377882546
>I'm against Automata being popular because it's radically different than all the other Taro games
>just plain old shitty waifufagging and surface level feels
Compared to Drakengard 3?

I thought Automata was leagues better in the story apartment after that one.

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>>377882546
This. I always hated Drakengard 3 but now I appreciate it because at least it's not bland shit like Automata. It must seem autistic to get mad over, but I hate seeing good franchises get ruined like this, because it ruins all discussion (see >>377882717).
Anyway we need to keep this comfy thread going so enough of this junk

>>377882689
Because they're nothing like Automata, and they're even more grueling to play for a few hours than spam "XY RT XY RT" was. Have you played NieR? DoD 1 and 3? It's an ocean of difference. Automata is more like a regular game with strange directorial decisions than it is an old Taro game.

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>>377882756
Like I'm not sure what about Fujisaka's art sticks out the most. The lines, the coloring?

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>>377882967
In fact I really want to see how he draws Automata characters

>>377879724
A man with taste.

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>>377878120

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>>377882967
I just really like the way the faces are drawn.

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>>377882385
I loved the character designs in Automata, but I thought the way that hair looked in-game could use a little more polish.

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>>377877749
Decent writing.

But it wouldn't be a taro game anymore.

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>>377882546
I never would have played Drakengard if not for Nier.

Likewise, I'm sure plenty of people would never have heard of Nier if not for Automata.

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>>377882756
Oh I agree with you somewhat on the faces, Yoshida even says the models are better than his concept work.

>>377882901
Why did you fags just spam their are so many ways to be stylish with weapon switching and combined with the pod programs.

>>377883187
The hair is lack of budget if they had more tech designers and graphics guys it would of looked better.

>>377883320
The writing fell short in places but as a complete package was very good.

>>377882546
>sequel to fucking DRAKENGARD, not once, but twice
he only was involved in drakengard 3, though.

>>377883516
>there's so many ways to be stylish
But what's the fucking point? the game is easily beat by spamming, and there's no style meter, no reward for being "stylish" this isn't DMC, the game doesn't fucking care if you just tape down the pod fire button and spam light attack for 25 hours. In fact, that's the EASIEST thing to do. Button mashing shouldn't be the easiest way to play the game. I shouldn't be forced to make my own fun by comboing and weapon switching when you don't need to.

>>377883532
He was responsible for what DoD 1 became, did some early drafts and worked on DoD2 for a little bit but eventually just floated in the background as a name credit, and then after two shitty DoDs got away with saying "Let's make DoD3"

>>377883320
I'm okay with bad writing, but I want all of the bad writing to be in the game itself for once.

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>>377883516
To be honest I just forgot what the pod program was bound to, but don't think you don't do your fair share of holding down turret pod to eliminate orbs before using missile program, switching to laser pod, using a different program, holding down laser, and switching back again.

>weapon switching
Yeah, sure, but there's no incentive to. Sure, it raises the entertainment level of the game a little bit, but in the end it's just "press right on D pad, spam XY, use pod program, press left on D pad, spam XY, use pod program..."

Not to call any of Taro's previous games masterpieces of gameplay, but not to call Automata particularly riveting either.

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>>377883648
I would argue that being stylish is fun and is one of the most fun ways to enjoy combat. I took off almost all weapon modifiers with the exception of bosses Switch up your play style when you feel board experiment with chips I even played the game as a shooter for awhile.

Try different build like such as crit weapons with crit modifiers.


>>377883782
I've read most of the side material and you are not missing out on much.

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>>377879797
I'm curious what Taro would do with a completely new IP where he had free reign.

Where do you go after post-post apocalyptic fantasy turned sci-fi war?

>>377877749
Stop with the Endings meme, just call them Routes or Playthroughs, or just say that it's one continuous story. The amount of people who genuinely believe that his games have multiple "ending" (as in the typical branching storyline style) is fucking absurd.

>>377879874
>released on his birthday
>which is also considered the most unlucky day of the year

Taro's outlook on life suddenly makes sense.

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>>377884161
>endings meme
>called Endings by the game
Fuck off you absolute sledgehammer. Your autism isn't wanted here.

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>>377884161
Drakengard 1 did.

Kind of.

>>377884060
Space dragons. In space.

>>377883984
It's fun for like, a few minutes to try out a new build. The gameplay for a Platinum game is still shallow, and the bloated enemy health combined with the complete lack of punishment on dodge just make things tedious. Killing things by spamming the same light and heavy combo a bunch is already annoying, after doing that stylish combo that takes a 3 minute encounter into a 5 minute one a few times you lose the same entertainment from it. Chip arrangement barely changes how you play unless you stack a million pod chips at once.

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>>377884338
>Cosmic horrors optional

>>377883984
It's not that I think the side material is amazing , but 2B's backstory is central to everything in the game and it's not explained very well.

There was a thread today from someone who beat the entire game and didn't catch on that 2B killed 9S more than the two times shown.

The game needed some surreal dream/flashback sequences with snippets of 2B and 9S in the past or something to reinforce that idea.

Would've had more impact than finding out about this kind of thing from inferring and bland side material.

>>377883516
>Why did you fags just spam their are so many ways to be stylish with weapon switching and combined with the pod programs.
But dude, why would you ever bother? The game does absolutely nothing whatsoever to incentivize interesting play.
It's an action RPG, really nothing like DMC, Ninja Gaiden, or Bayonetta. The combat is comparatively extremely shallow, and the game is 40+ hours long. Trying to be as stylish as possible with such a limited combat system against the same groups of enemies over and over for all that time is completely retarded. Just no.
And the enemies are all complete chumps who can do absolutely fucking nothing against mashing, dodging occasionally, and shooting from a distance, so the game demands no more than that from you. It feels like everything is balanced around the one-hit death difficulty mode, honestly, which may be a large part of the issue here.

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>>377881793
He already did one. It has a male yandere.

>>377879724
Huh, I never noticed before, but it looks like Devola's wearing lipstick.

>>377885041
They are both wearing lipstick

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It was easier to connect to the characters in Nier than it was to connect with the characters in Automata. 2B is only popular for her ass, and the side material basically turns her into Furiae. 9S is just Gideon 2.0. A2 is basically a plot device. And the other minor characters barely get a chance to shine.

>>377882546
>I don't like Automata because I don't want the ~wrong sort of fans~ to get into my series

Fuck off.

>>377882756
I WANT TO MARRY HANCH.
Seriously, her charm wasn't the price, but rather it was amplified.

>>377885234
The Pods were the true heroes.
I liked A2 because at the end she was the only rational one. Also her gameplay is the best.

>>377882546
>I'm against Automata being popular because it's radically different than all the other Taro games

What a complete load of shit. Every one of his games is radically different from the other ones moron. The only similarities between D1 and D3 is that the levels are mission based and there's dragons.

D1 and Nier play nothing a like, have a completely different tone, different music, different aesthetic and the only similarity is a few weapons.
The main thing people bitch about D3 for is being radically different from D1 and Nier.

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>>377885261
>if I paraphrase his argument he's wrong

>>377885720
Where's the good endings, waifuism, optimism, happy characters, 7/10 gameplay, focus on things getting better in DoD 1-3 and NieR?

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>>377885234
I think 2B and 9S deserve more props than that. But a lot of their relationship is only understood after the fact, so I would agree that as far as the arc of relationships go I still had more investment in Papa Nier looking after his group of misfits.

They're kind of hard to compare when they were striving for different things though.

>>377885607
A2 was great but needed more screentime. She didn't have much of a character arc, she changes the moment you decide to spare Pascal and that isn't really motivated from a character standpoint.

>>377884963
The one-hit difficulty mode isn't really balanced either, it's just tedious and stupid and involves a lot of running around shooting things, which is the combat at its worst.

Also no matter what difficulty you play, enemies that aren't comical HP sponges like the golden family don't really have enough health to combo.

>>377886062
>Where's the good endings, waifuism, optimism, happy characters, 7/10 gameplay, focus on things getting better in DoD 1-3 and NieR?
>Every one of his games is radically different from the other ones

>>377886284
>The one-hit difficulty mode isn't really balanced either
I'm not saying it is. I'm saying the speed and aggressiveness of the enemies and the overpowered dodge and shit feel like they are balanced with the one-hit difficulty in mind. I'm saying it seems like they're the way they are because the one-hit difficulty mode needs to be reasonable to beat.

>>377886463
Your argument is that DoD 1-3 and NieR are all radically different, but they have a shared pessimistic tone, a domino effect, if you will, of people (specifically humanity) getting shit on and dying - mostly because of the protagonist too. Automata masquerades around as having a similar setup then tosses it for Taro trying to right a feels-like-things-are-looking-up attitude that is foreign to his previous works and comes across very poorly.

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>>377879724
>>377883119
I LOVE Devola!

Half the reason I went and played the original afterwards was because I wanted more Devola.

>What kind of idiot sings a song without knowing what it means!?

>...This kind of idiot?

MMM!

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>>377886671
>>377886671
The whole point of Nier 2 is that humanity is already dead and it's successors can't deal with it and everything go's to shit. For the entire game things look like they are going to hell then at the end of route A you think things may be ok. The high's and the low's of the narrative are handled pretty well.

>>377886671
It's because he's maturing and realized that purely dour endings suck dick. Just like Makoto Shinkai.

>>377877749
>No lolis
>No post apocaliptic world
>No enemy robots

The three reasons I didnt play automata.

>>377877749
I tihnk one of my issues with OG Nier's story is that some moments in the second playthrough feel kinda hamfisted. Like the scene with Beepy and Kalil while sad, tried really fucking hard to make you feel bad about doing what you did. I think moments like the Facade Warriors vs. the Boar Shade felt much more poignant and of course Replicant Nier vs Gestalt Nier, as they demonstrate the games theme of good people being forced to do shitty things to achieve their goals.

>>377887532
>Automata
>no post apocalyptic world
>no enemy robots
wat

>>377886062
>>377886671

>waifuism
>I want to choke on Kaine's cock! I want Zero to dom me!

>optimism, happy characters, focus on things getting better, good endings
Just because you list the same thing 4 times doesn't make your point any better
>ambiguous ending where the main cast survives
>it's a happy ending because they're not dead even though all their friends are dead and were nothing more than sacrificial lambs and most of the characters in the game died for no reason in a pointless war.
Is ending D in Nier happy because Kaine and Yonah didn't die? Don't forget that Emile is also confirmed to be alive after ending B. What about anding A where everything was fine and Nier went home happily ever after?

Yeah the game really had a "things are looking up" feel when the bunker was exploding and 6O talking about how she loved 2B as she slowly lost her mind. Same with when 9S started repeatedly stabbing that dying machine that was calling him a coward, or when his arm got blown off and he ripped off a 2B clone arm and stuck it on himself.

>but they have a shared pessimistic tone,
Are you actually retarded enough to think Automata wasn't pessimistic?
>Pascal's whole village dies
>All or Yorha is dead
>billions of androids died in a pointless war
>multiple sidequests of machines killing themselves because their lives lack purpose
>multiple sidequests of androids losing friends and loved ones in the war

>>377887982
>What about anding A where everything was fine and Nier went home happily ever after?

Ending A was a flashback, did you not notice that Yonah and Nier both looked like they did before the 5 year time skip?

>>377887532

So what do you think the world and enemies in Automata are?

>>377887532
Are there even any enemies in the game that aren't robots aside from Emil?

>>377887059
I want to get Devola drunk! I just know she's the sexually bullying type, especially to brother Nier.

>>377888675

There are some androids and animals.

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>Contrarian Taro fans are eating their own

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaRYfg1_ByI
What did she mean by this?

>>377888724
Androids are just robots designed to look and act like people.

But yeah, I guess some moose and boars do actually count as enemies in a small handful of specific subquests.

A good pc port

>>377888781
So kind of like that scene where the robots start to lose their shit and become zombies?

>>377882784
I always thought Drakengard 3 fans had an inside joke of ironic waifu fagging. So they could quote the Disciples like Cent.

>>377888420
>>377888675

The question was what improvements do I want.
No lolis, no robots no shitty world. And then I would play.

>>377890612
What lolis were there?

>>377879953
>Genre: instant death love battle RPG

>>377886062
>and would be getting people who don't appreciate how stupid Taro's portfolio is

How to interpret that any other way than 'the wrong sort of people getting into my fandom'?

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>>377879804
Let us mourn, comrade
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzdNqDHpNWo

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>mfw AMDfag and haven't had a single crash or bug whatsoever.

>>377877749
How about finishers that actually work. Enemy flies all over the place and explodes and I'm still stuck in the finish animation beating up nothing. it's probably makes Automata seem unfinished.

He's working on Sinoalice.

i'd like to see him make a game that's good on purpose instead of bad on purpose

>>377894351
his games are just bad except for automata
whoever doesn't think so are being jaded hipsters.

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>>377882385
It's different to take the suffering of a character seriously if it looks like a blow up sex doll. Kaine was already pushing it, but at least they had a half-decent excuse of the thing being set in a pseudo caveman post post apocalypse humanity. Drakengard 1 is Taro's best work, most unique work and I don't give a fuck about /v/'s spiel about how it's "le unplayable". The music alone elevates the game above everything that has been done after. Nier was good, but it was different.

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Oh so the /v/ effect is finally starting to take effect on Automata?

You know, the thing where a games starts to become popular enough that everyone has to hate on it in order to feign a semblance of intellect/taste.

RIP Witcher 3, it's Automata's turn now.

>>377894736
>game is just ass ass ass ass with an occasional forced "feels" moment that is hamfisted and poorly done
>people that know Yoko's franchise for being emotionally disturbing and provocative are understandably upset
>You're just mad it's popular!

If the price of popularity is being a shallow, shitty game, then yes, it is understandable that people wouldn't want it to be popular.

>>377894946
> game is just ass ass ass
t. never played the game

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Hopefully something autmatafags won't enjoy, so those underage shits won't ruin threads about the gayme.

>near end of route A
>get to the white copied city
>fuckton of corpses on the ground, like 50 of them
>expect to get wrecked
>I actually have to run circles around Adam, doing nothing so I could hear his dialogue because whacking him once took off 30% of his health
The balance in this game was fucked.

>>377896403
Its Valkyria Chronicles all over again

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>tfw just completed Emil's Determination
>the Emils moaning in pain, then laughing, then sobbing while his theme is playing and I'm getting assraped by lasers
>BECAUSE THIS IS THE WORLD MY FRIEND TRIED TO SAAAVE
Boy howdy what a fight

>>377897405
>tfw the average faggot playing this game didn't play the first Nier and won't understand the significance of this scene

>>377897405
>tried to save
I dont think dooming mankind counts of saving it

>>377898626
>implying the average faggot playing this game will actually collect and upgrade all the weapons
>implying they don't think emil is just the wacky ball guy
hell I didn't even realise there was a path to emil's house until I finished route D and unlocked the chapter select