Is this game worth getting in the current sale /v/?

>>381580663
I'd say so, just remember to self destruct when you start the game

Abso-fuckin-lutely

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Yes, but download FAR.

>>381581229
what's FAR?

>>381581326
literal malware that deletes files if you upset the creator, don't listen to this fag

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>>381581326

Resolution and performance Fix

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>>381581406

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>>381580663
Buy it for this girl

>>381580663
This game is worth full retail price without question

How do you like Metal Gear Solid, OP?
That's probably the game series it's most similar to.

https://youtu.be/Egn_VNVKzI4

hold me bros

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>>381582164

This

>>381582334
I Love Metal Gear.
So I guess thats a definite yes

Depends on the price, I bought it at full price and I would still feel ripped off if I paid a third of that

>>381584321

Take your shitty bait elsewhere.

>Eve is voiced by Noctis


I keked

>>381582343
Too many feels anon, too many feels.

if you wanna play the game 10 times sure.

>>381584853

Who wouldn't?

not really, combat is pretty boring and gets old having to play through it multiple times.

THICC


https://youtu.be/4cQSEgg7FzU

>>381581229
>Yes, but download malware.

>>381585136

Shit taste.

>>381580663
nope

>>381585136
Multiple meaning you play the first half of the game a second time then move on to new content.

>>381585307

It's not malware you retard.

God damn I hate weekend /v/

>>381585136

You only replay it once as Nines though. It's not replaying the same segment multiple times like the first game, also the combat is great. You've never played it.

>>381585442
It is you stupid shit.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/524220/discussions/0/1327844097131584424/

https://youtu.be/ykJn8oZdkhs

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>>381585656
>piratefags

>>381585656
>it's malware because some idiot on Steam says so

>>381585656

End your life.

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>>381585975
>make faggots mad on the internet
>save money
I'm still looking for reasons not to pirate video games

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>>381584125
9S is a lucky guy.

>>38158615

Children like you are the reason PC gaming is nothing but broken console scraps now.

>>381586146
>>381586046
>>381585975
samefag

you aren't going to troll anyone here into installing that trojan. no one on 4chan is that fucking retarded, try the steam forums.

>>381585975
>>381586046
>>381586146
>Giving money to Square/Platinum for a shit game with no resolution patch.
>Allowing some cuck access to your computer through malware.

Literally cancer.

>>381584631
>someone doesn't like muh favorit gaem
>he must be baiting
Nier Automata was a completely mediocre experience through and through, and the game peaked in 3 fucking hours with the amusement park and its boss fight.

The only memorable things about the game are the music and the ass which both by the way are almost exclusively the only things even talked about nowadays.

>>381585841
>>381585975

Oh SHIT

>>381586294
>samefag

I don't think so.

>>381586361

>I haven't played the game


good to know

>>381586457
Do you want a timestamp or something?

>>381585975
>not reading the whole thing

>>381586790

There's not need to. It doesn't prove a thing.

Is this game playable without FAR?

>>381587260
Yes, but you'd have to be an idiot to not use it.

>>381585656

everything is malware to you faggots

>>381587260
ye with borderless gaming

>>381585656
So download the non-malware fork from github?

>>381585656
So is there a fork that takes out this garbage?
I'm planning on getting the game some time during the sale but I don't really trust a guy pulling bullshit like that.

>>381587810
https://github.com/marcussacana/FAR
have fun with the game, avoid spoilers like the plague

>>381587758


>didn't even get ending F

Fucking pleb.

>>381588004
Amazing, thanks anon. I couldn't find it as forks apparently don't show up in search and I missed the fork button.

>>381588284
Now get the fuck out of these threads.

I dont know why shitposters prey on these threads so much but they do

Make sure you watch to the end of the first credits.

>>381585656

pirates are so retarded

yep

>>381586186
Sean Murray in the background

nope

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>>381585656

>anti pirate
>wahh it's malware

>>381580663
Yes, but just understand its not optimized very well.

For example, having AA and AO both on at the same time causes problems with draw distance and pop up. Also, unless you have a 1070, don't expect a flat line 60fps at 1080p. The ultra preset also sets AA to 8x MSAA, so scale that down to 2x or 4x depending on your hardware. Just keep AO off, it doesn't too a whole lot and aliasing makes the game look like complete ASS_______

Best game of this decade, have fun and don't listen to the shitpost brigade or to the salty pirates

>>381580663
Why would you buy something that is free?

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>tfw nier automata ruined taro games forever
what went wrong?
>inb4 c-contrarian!!!

>>381589310

/thread

>>381589273
Forgot to mention FAR, its been spammed in this thead already, so install FAR too as long as you actually buy it and don't plan on bitching about it on the Steam forums.

If you don't want to use FAR, you can use borderless gaming so you can actually scale your resolution past 900p

>>381589852
I sorta know where you're getting at, you can't have comfy discussion about these games any more since a large majority are obnoxious waifu posters

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>gameplay made to be as seamless as possible
>fucking tripping mechanic

>>381589273
Also, 'Alt+Tab'ing out of the game and going back in registers the game as holding down the Tab button even if you aren't. If you Alt+Tab out, just quickly press Tab again to make it stop that when you get back into the game. If you don't, it can skip cutscenes the moment they begin.

>>381580663
>Is a game that I'll play through once (maybe twice) for roughly 20-40 hours worth more than $15?

The last game I purchased new was CSGO back in 2013.

If I'm not getting 100+ hours of replayability, it's not worth even $15 to me.

>>381589273
>>381590424
>>381590923
Good summery of the problems with the port. Not gonna rewatch it, but I don't even think DF mentioned the Alt Tab issue.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvnG3-JwLl4

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>>381590970
>csgo, the BadDotaTwo
>good

Should I get this for the PS4 pro or pc? I'm asking because I read the SE hasn't done a performance patch since release? Pretty fucked up imo

>>381592034
specs?

>>381590970
You are asking too much.

>>381592034
I played it on PS4 because I had the white screen issue that is currently unresolved on PC. Runs smoothly at 60 fps with some minor stuttering.

>>381588985
It is malware by definition.
Any software that with intent and purpose removing files off your hardware without your consent or agreement.
He also in some shit with the law and right now being charged again for violating the rules set in place so he can live on the outside, for guess what. Distributing malware. Why do you think it's not pinned on Steam anymore and they banned him from the forums. Why do you think the FBI is sniffing up his ass.

>>381592192
1080 | 7700k

Hopefully I can just brutrforce the shitty optimization. But still, the older I get the lazier I become with getting mods to fix games in pc. That's why I'm just so tempted to get it on ps4

>>381592548
I play on PC with a 1060 | 3570k

Play the PC version

>>381592482
>Why do you think the FBI is sniffing up his ass.
Because pc community is pretty fucking shit in general.

If I play Nier will I turn into a turboweeb?

>>381592548
>I get the lazier I become with getting mods to fix games in pc
FAR is as easy as it gets as far as installing mods. Small window pops up, click install, wait a few seconds, "finished"

Whenever FAR has an update, when you launch the game, small window pops up,
"FAR has an update, install now?"

>>381592482
He was banned for arguing. What's this about FBI?

>>381580663
It's on sale?

>>381592862
>Because pc community is pretty fucking shit in general.
No he violated his parole
>whiteknighting a kiddy fiddler that fucked up so bad he's blacklisted from every programming job only to get some attention from the modding community then go full retard and distribute malware because muh self righteousness even though it violated his ongoing probation
Dude Kal is going to prison, like no shit he fucked. He's not even suppose to be using a computer anymore.

>>381584125
How do you take the eye patches off?

>>381593068
The guy that made FAR got in deep shit about a decade ago, ended up getting blacklisted from every programming job. He's technically not even suppose to be using the internet. He could actually go to prison for distributing malware now, because Feds got wind of this shit and he's technically violating every rule that keeps him out of prison currently.

How is the game on the regular ps4? Good or no good?

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>>381580663
It was worth buying at launch, so it's certainly worth any discouted price as well.

>>381585656

AHAHAHA PIRATEFAGS BTFO. I TRULY LOVE SEEING PIRATES CRY WHEN THEY END UP WITH MALWARE.

>>381593429
frame dips in weird spots/ to many projectiles and 900p

>>381593429
It's as poorly optimised on the ps4 as it is on pc so it's a question of what hardware you have at your disposal.

>>381581326
Badly written Malware that calls home without your knowledge and will literally delete files and block your game if you upset the creator on steam or use any software he doesn't like.

This is not a meme. You were warned.

>>381593392

Sounds like rubbish to me.

>>381593594
It's funny sure, but the dude is now under investigation and it could send him to prison this time, because this isn't his first offense.

Distributing malware is illegal and he's a US citizen that can't leave the country without going to prison. And now he's under investigation again and so he's fucked. He should have never done that or at least covered his tracks after the initial outrage by dropping it all together. But now his asshole is a twinkie.

>>381593823

Is there even any source for these claims?

>>381593789
>sounds like rubbish to me
Hey Kal remember that the internet archives shit and you said all the fucked up shit that you've done you sick fuck I hope you die in prison.

>>381593823

Don't care at least he fucked some piratefags before he went out.

>>381593823
He's also a pedophile.

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>>381580663
No game is worth $40 during the sale. Don't waste your money on suboptimal value.

>>381593983
Himself. Kal's admitted he pretty much got busted by the FBI once which got him fired from his job 10 years ago and blacklisted out of companies and he won't say what for directly, but apparently he's a sick fuck from what his real information criminal record says.

>>381585656
>First and foremost, here is a link to the FAR fix without the malicious code
Its literally the first thing on this webpage, you can get non-malware FAR. Can we stop with the "OMFG ITS MALWARE GOYZ" please? Kaldaien posted the source code, some dude edited out the "malware" shit in it.

>>381594351
Kaldaien then went off the grid, because he distributed malware. Just because there's a source without it doesn't stop the action he took. Don't defend him or his bloatware.

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>all these salty pirates

>>381594351
Don't put malware in quotes either, it is malware by the strictest definition of the word. It is a software that gains access to your hardware on a file admin level to delete files without your knowledge or consent as well edit files then pings an external server you have no knowledge or consent to connect to and sends that information to him, yes he has access to your steam directory information. I hope someone stabs you in the asshole with a screwdriver in prison Kaldaien.

>>381594507
What part of that was defending him? All I said was you can get FAR without malware in it.
>bloatware
don't pretend it didn't do ANYTHING good. Are you saying that even without the malware, the fix is still shit? Not being able to scale past 900p is more shit imo

>>381594817

You're a fucking sperg.

>>381594845
borderless gaming does the same fucking thing without bloating a user terms section into it, a custom sound map and achievement window marker, a million watermarks on the software itself. It is bloatware when over 30% of the product is there for show and doesn't do shit that is meaningful or useful to the consumer.
The only thing and I mean only thing that you should give a shit about is that you can edit GI settings with it, otherwise it's entirely bloatware, because the resolution issue is fixed with an application borderless gaming which is next to nonexistent as adware for self promotion.

>>381594817
Point taken, didn't know specifics of what the malware did, only that there was controversy

>>381593771
The thing is my pc is a potato so PC is out of question. Secondly i might only get a Pro (if at all) maybe next year, and im itching to play this game ever since it came out but im hesitant because i dont know if the difference between regular and Pro is big enough that i might regret playing on the vanilla in the first place.

>>381595180
There are downsides to Borderless Windowed though, such as not being able to use DSR/VSR and GPU doesn't get fully dedicated to the application. Borderless gaming is more for ppl who alt tab a fuck ton, such as streamers who only use one monitor. This gives FAR its advantages over BG.
>without bloating a user terms section into it
>a custom sound map and achievement window marker, a million watermarks on the software itself
fucking where? I've used FAR almost the entire time I've had Nier and have never seen anything like that.

>>381595961
ctrl shift backspace to actually open the config menu, everything in the bottom 30% of the window is entirely bloat.

>>381596227
>implying you even need to go into the config menu to begin with.
What exactly do you even have to configure?
You install it
1080p+ in fullscreen works like its supposed to
Nothing else is needed.

>>381591756
>Problems with the Port
>Running at a higher resolution, still at a better frame rate than the PS4 pro

I never understood why people were bitching about the "port". The issue is more of the engine loading when out in the overworld.

>>381596458
See this is why it's bloatware. It needed to do one function and he included dozens of other shit no one uses.
All he needed to do is fix the resolution bug, he didn't need a config menu or any of the context of it, he didn't need to make 30% of it entirely useless either. The only thing good is the GI engine edit. Which didn't need a user terms in it, speaking of he added that when he turned it into malware thinking he was above the law for distributing malware.

How do I fucking get ending k?

Jackass won't give me the damn fish

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>>381595738
If ps4 is your only optiuon I'd say just go for it. You'll still have a great time and then if you get a pro or a decent PC down the line play it again as given the way that the game is put together, there are some parts that really only hit as hard as they are supposed to on your second time around. By then the DLC will probably be on sale and you can pick that up for cheap for extra content too.

>>381596602
I don't mean this is a faggot console war way but PC users have higher expectations. That it runs better than on PS4s isn't the issue, it still runs more poorly than it should on PCs.

>>381596602
play in fullscreen at 1080p it takes the resolution then scales it back to console 900p and stretches the image making it look like blurry crap.

That's the issue and it's been months with no fix from square and they don't give a shit, because a pedo fuck with a penchant for being self righteous against piracy distributed malware that fucked with everyone and pirates still pirated his mod anyways.

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Fucking hell I can't tell who's trolling who
Is the game good or not? Seems to be an even split on /v/
I'd just get it if it was cheaper, but this way I need a decent consensus

>>381597163

Play the demo and form Your Own opinion, retard.

>>381596730
Looking at the config menu now, there is one thing that I do think is useful, and that is increasing the bloom and AO resolutions to naitive res. A decent bit of it is useless, but with the malware gone, it isn't doing any harm, so why can't it just be ignored?

>>381596602
>doesn't naively support resolutions above 900p, requiring fan made fixes
>Alt Tab issue
>1070 required just to get flat 60 fps at 1080p
>been out for several months and still no fix to any of it and dead silence from the devs about any future fix

>not a shit port

>>381597340
>Play the demo and form Your Own opinion
Because narrative focused games totally work that way

>>381597163
I really enjoyed it if it means anything to you Anon, I got really into it and the game ruined vidya for myself for a week.

You can always tryout the intro, and if you hate it refund it

>>381597464
with the malware removed and you not using the auto update, given you manually placed the plugins you should be perfectly fine.

>>381597610
>Bought Nier A launch week
>Didn't follow his shaningans and proabably have malware version

It does nothing if I legally own the game right? I'm too lazy now to remove it, it seems like Nier is running fine

>>381597163
Well it's been getting daily threads for over 3 months now. This all depends whether you think games /v/ likes to talk about alot are good or not.

>>381597610
>manually placed the plugins
can you explain this? all I did was download the .zip from that steam forum and drop the folders/files into my Nier root folder, replacing the ones that were already there.

>>381580663
Fuck no.

>>381580663
I finally beat it last night....
This is the first game I've played where I'm actually sad i didn't like it more

By the time the credits rolled for the last time, I just didn't feel much.
There were story parts in the game that I recognized as things I should have fucking loved, but for some reason or another, they just didnt land.

I hate that I cant say that I love it as much as everyone else. Fuckin wish i could though

>>381594817
wew lad gotta delete that shit asap not even meming

>>381597794
It pings his server offshores. If you like having him know your steam information to blacklist you should you call him on his bullshit sure.

You can uninstall it from the special K installer, then delete all files associated with it in your automata folder the easiest way is to uninstall the game on steam, go back to the automata folder there will be remaining pieces as well back ups of prior versions of far updates in that folder (even when you uninstall it, there's left over chunks of garbage format he was to lazy to clean up)

>>381598068
Fine fine, you convinced me

>>381597818
has special K pinged you at all when you start the game for an update, if so uninstall it and get rid of those files.

>>381587758
Unfortunately thats about how it was to me.
If 'Route B' was even angrier.

I'll bite.

I played Automata and found it boring, contradictory and thoroughly uninspired in terms of gameplay.

Technically

>The music is good

>Direction is good

>2d sequences out of nowhere

>Played it on a PS4, so not much to wank at in terms of FPS and graphics.

Story

>Awful pacing issues: go here, go there, meet the villain, go back, fetch quests, huge boss out of nowhere, plot twist, villain reappears, even more huge boss, GODSGODSGODS, another villain, ending -no wait, there's more.

>No overarching storyline: it's a collage of vignettes and moral quandaries about life, creation, empathy, the development of consciousness and freedom of will. Things happen, people bleed, you have no idea what happens next.

>No major theme: the meta of having the player act as a mindless soldier in a sensless (and ultimately, useless) battle is a powerful message, but is not explored well and is even too hamfisted at times.

>9s being the only character with some developement -and- going insane in the end are supposed to be connected?

>Nostalgic mood is good, nothing to rant about here.

>Some pretty powerful imagery, completedly unexplored (9s in the machine body during ending A, the whole hacking game, the talking goliaths, Adam disconnecting from the network)

>The machine/android thematic enmity is completely nonsensical: too essential to be questioned, too superficial to be taken at face value

Gameplay

>It's... supposed to be enjoyable?

>3 kinds of attack, musou-tier controls

>No bonus points for flashy swordplay -and- soulslike corpse retrieval both push for conservative, gritty fighting

>Just use the pods already

Granted, it has some interesting intuitions -like how it considers the various chapters as "different gameplays" (with their own credit roll and ending song) instead of pieces of a single story.

Had some great expectations, a mild letdown.

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>>381598306
Why would you format your post like that? Is this some kind of meta bait?

>>381598306
So many points under story that are blatantly wrong or outright stupid
gameplay you suck at action games sorry
>points
You're what's wrong with the genre.

4/10 it's bait just like it's spam

>>381598254
>has special K pinged you
What would prompt me to know if I was pinged or not? Before installing the malware free version, I was prompted for an update once, but that was quite awhile ago. I own the game legally if that matters.

>>381598630
Genuinely interested on the "wrong" parts of the story

>>381598306
People like to meme about reddit spacing, but its posts like these that make me think it has some merit

>>381598714
Whenever you start the game, special K checks for an update to the mod. If this has happened even if you own the game, get rid of that shit, it's a literal fucking trojan given it can edit and delete files without knowledge and phones Kaldaien's server with your steam directory information. Either use borderless gaming or get the pirated version of the mod (jesus christ we live in an age where a modder went full retard to the point his mod had to be pirated)

>>381599064
Like a small window that says "checking for updates" or something? I don't get anything like that.

>>381598306
You can lay off the enter key anon

>>381598859
Probably the biggest one
>no major theme
It's existentialism. Taro is a weird fuck that also slapped a ton of references in and to really know the dramatic nature of the story you kind of have to understand fully the scope of the extinction of humans from the first game and the games that lead up to NieR itself.

I'm actually glad for this that Taro didn't suck Satan's cock and make a game for mass appeal that he actually did it for fans and his own artistic vision. I can firmly say despite the consensus that automata is better enjoyed if you played the prior games, you miss to many references to much shit and a lot of context on the whole situation to really appreciate the game. It was for fans of the series, not an introduction.

>>381599310
Like a window that tells you to update before you even launch the game. That's not a steam update, there have been done. That's FAR.

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>people actually spent money for this game

I completed the route A yesterday, and I'm not really impressed. It's fine, but that's about it. Does it get better from here?

>>381599735
>not experiencing true ending E, because lack of online and missing the entire build up point

Sucks to be you poorfag.

>>381599815
it does. In Route B you have to more or less play through the game a second time before the plot starts really progressing again, though
Route C/D is pretty decent though

>>381597896
>This is the first game I've played where I'm actually sad i didn't like it more
Literally this for me, but with the original Nier, which I just beat.
Its a fascinating game and I enjoyed it, but its nowhere near as good as people made it out to be. I don't regret playing it and it'll probably stay with me for a while, but I kinda expected more than I got.

The issue is probably that it went from "critcally panned" to "underrated" to "cult classic", and the truth lies somewhere in the middle

>>381599815
Everyone has the same feeling after A

>>381599627
I don't get that. I go to boot the game, the game starts with FAR enabled. Nothing in between

>>381580663
It's a good game but the discount isn't very impressive. I got it for $50 on release day from gmg. If you waited this long, you can wait longer for a better discount.

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>>381580663
Yes and man im fucking hating myself for not finishing it yet. I bought it a day before it released but only played it for 5 hours before stalling. Haven't played it since. Some one hold me

>>381600158
alright you just got a straight plugin version leave it the fuck alone

>>381599915
>he didnt figure out how to get ending e by himself

Sucks to be bad and also waste $60 (lets not forget DLC here too)

>>381600924
You can solo the ending, but refusing help doesn't net the same impact as what the game is.
But glad to see you're retarded. Can't expect a dindu to be educated.

>>381601129
youre right dude its like so... deep like deleting a whole save game youve finished and wont play again like holy shit dude nothing could come close to this deep emotional connection

Is Nier:Automata, dare I say it, too deep for plebs?

>>381602323
They just dont have our intellectual capacity to understand it, I dont blame them.

this is the only game i enjoyed since new vegas release
it's very interesting

>>381580663
The game is definitely worth getting but I haven't heard anything too good about the PC version.

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>>381597163
>Is the game good or not?
You're asking /v/, the most toxic place in the entire world, let alone the net, where the vast majority of obnoxious fags will willingly rush into every thread about every game and call it shit whether they've played it or not.
I don't know what exactly you're expecting.

>>381597163
no, it's shit

>>381597163
just try it out for yourself, torrent it if you have to

>>381600109
And then?

>>381599984
>In Route B you have to more or less play through the game a second time before the plot starts really progressing again, though

I don't get this. Why did they think it would be a good idea to make you play the same thing twice to get to actually new content?

>>381587758
If you look like this in ending E you're a brainlet who doesn't know much about philosophy and probably didn't understood half the game themes, no offence.

>>381585357
How is the combat not boring? It's horribly simplistic.

>>381601967

lmao, really gets me when people said they started crying at ending E when the other triangles started appearing.

>>381603574
Because you play it as the real protagonist?

2B does shit damage, and the real damage is coming from 9S mindfucking all the bosses. And you play it from 9S who tries to be all talkative, yet everyone is a straight up ass to him for no reason.

>>381592034
Haven't had issues on PS4.

>>381603785
It's the same fucking game you're playing tho. There's gotta be a better way of doing it than forcing the players play the same thing twice even if they don't to.

>>381603985
Naw id say 60% of it is recycled, 40% of it is new.

Tutorial, The Sea monster, The Factory and the Final Boss all played very different.

I spedrun through the "Replay" part in an hour and half.

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>>381603591
This, these brainlets are just too intellectually inferior understand our philosophically deep complex emotional game without any flaws.

>>381604252
Found the upset brainlet

>>381604252
wew brainlet don't take it like that, he said no offence :^)

>>381604367
>>381604413
Why are you guys calling him a brainlet? he was agreeing with us, the real problem is the actual brainlets who dont understand this game

>>381599509

>existentialism

I concede that existentialism could be the theme of the story, yes -but if you follow me for a moment, that does not feel like the theme of the -game-.

The plot, as written, is fantastic -but horribly narrated and needlessly convoluted in its transposition as a videogame: you, the player, are not "drawn" into the moral quandaries and the vignettes that happen in Automata -those are just things that happen -around- 2b and 9s (unless "existentialism" is used as a very deep metaphor of the player finding "identity" by performing actions and tasks as dictated by a distant authority figure).

The game even does an awful job of explaining how and why most things happen: why machines started speaking, why some act like cavemen and others like Pascal, how in the world were Adam and Eve born, why are "androids" expected to feel emotions and be virtuous and machines instead are the devil incarnate. Take the "you shall be as gods" part, as an example: it's very powerful imagery. But it's just a a series of action sequences, plus a boss fight that (while inspired) has absolutely no depth or connection whatsoever to the current situation.

Or, as another example, the death of Adam: again, a powerful image -and yet one that I feel the game somehow cheapens by overstressing 2b's attitude of... detatched efficiency.
It/he is a machine, and has to be destroyed. No questions asked.

How is the player supposed to accept the theme of (-very- broadly speaking) meaninglessness and amorality while following a very railroad-y story that heavily labels any variation as a gag ending?

>>381604876
>has absolutely no depth or connection whatsoever to the current situation
maybe you should actually remember what the fuck 9S finds out at the same time as factory machines go apeshit and want to become as gods
maybe you should also understand who are their gods
connect the dots, i believe in you

>>381605564
Wasn't the boss So-Shi, the spheric goliath you have to fight in the darkness?

How has that anything to do with the machines self-destructing?

>>381603036
>/v/, the most toxic place in the entire world
no, only place more toxic than /v/ is /a/

>>381606389
So-Shi / Boku-Shi pair most likely belong to Adam / Eve the same way Ko-Shi / Ro-Shi were physical manifestation of Terminal Alpha/Beta.
Eve emerges from Boku-Shi after 9S slams his flight unit into it so masterless So-Shi was most likely left in the Factory by Eve to murder 2B.

>>381606712
I've been lurking both boards and it's not even a contest, /v/ is the most unpleasant board on 4chan, though I haven't bothered checking out /pol/ or /soc/ so I could be wrong.

>>381606712
You asked for some anime recommendations there and got told to fuck off, didn't you?
That's what they do.

>>381606795

I'm... not quite convinced.

You seem to know your lore, so I can't argue with facts -but those two "most likely" in that theory kinda leave that too vague for my taste.

And even considering it true, I'm still missing how a basically unmanned spheroid mech fough in the dark is a fitting match for a suicidal cult of ex-hive minded machines.

>>381608193
Cult only goes nuclear after N2 finds out that machine gods, humans, are dead.
Both Adam and Eve were created to mimic humans as much as possible.
Finding a husk of a creature that was created to mimic a dead god in a place that worshipped dead gods and decided to become as them is very symbolic.

"Vagueness" is Taro's second name, he will never directly give all answers but he gives more than enough clues.

did they fix the PC version? last time i checked it suffered from terrible performance and bugs

>>381603036
I've found some of my favorite games through /v/. I know its "epic" to be self-loathing but this place's elitism does wonders sometimes

What is this FAR shit people keep talking about?

From Steam's pinned post, it looks like some third-party released a mod to "fix" something.

Was anything really broken to begin with?

>>381610075
It's fine to take in opinions and if you see a bunch of posts that just say "it's shit, it's boring, it sucks" you can safely ignore them. However you will also see posts that go the extra mile and elaborate why it sucks, but will feed you misinformation.
For example, there's one guy going around telling everyone that you need to play Nier: Automata "like 10 times", he shows up in every other Nier thread.
You repeat the first half of the game once as a different character in different situations (you often split up) with different playstyles and mechanics, and after that you go on to the next half of the game which is entirely new content.
It's safer to look up gameplay videos on youtube and form your own opinion than to ever trust anyone on this shitty board.

the story is above average for a jap game but the gameplay is mediocre and repetitive

>>381609265
no and they won't fix it

>>381610842
read the thread retard

>>381610842
TL;DR: Nier has performance issues because they were lazy with the port, some faggot modder comes along and fixes it, but bundles malicious anti-piracy measures, e.g. it deletes your files without warning if you clicked the "I'm a filthy pirate" button.

He tried to wave it away in the code's comments with:
https://gitlab.com/Kaldaien/SpecialK/blob/0.8.x/src/steam_api.cpp#L3779

>// The feature that deletes files is for the benefit of people who "upgrade" from pirated to
>// legit and swear up and down they are continuing to be detected as a pirate. Don't click that
>// button unless you are a legitimate user who upgraded and has remnant illegal files lingering.

only if you like playing through a painfully average game that crashes a lot because youre thirsty for anime butts