What is your honest opinion of Nier Automata?

>>382132251
Weeb game.

>>382132778
quality post

The game was good, but a bit overrated. The story wasn't as profound as some people think it was. It raised a lot of interesting questions, but ultimately did nothing with them and kinda just threw them on the floor. Good music and cast though.

>>382132251
Game was good. Soundtrack was the best out of any other game this year. Gameplay is fun, but I wasn't too blown away by the story. I don't regret buying it though.

story was interesting but kinda let down by a pretty below average cast (only interesting characters imo were 9S [who is typical shota gone postal] and Pascal)

gameplay is fun but it's easily one of Platinum's worst efforts. there aren't a lot of options and dodging is overpowered to the point where it doesn't even feel good to dodge attacks. the shmup sections were interesting but overall pretty badly designed (should've really brought in some experts from the industry, but I guess Taro is working on a small budget)

i still enjoyed it, though.

>>382132948
the storytelling is better than the actual story, which is fine in my book, the one thing this medium has over the others is the different ways to tell a story

>>382132251
Someone post that webm of him fucking her and slapping her ass

Positive, beautiful underlying message, one of the best true endings in history of vidya, some of the best love stories i've seen in video games (mostly because it's not thrown into your face every five minutes and hidden under multiple layers of the story), great ost and very fluid gameplay. Like every game, Automata has its share of flaws, but it's one of those rare as fuck games that is better than a simple sum of its parts. It manages to be a unique experience which is way more than i can say about most modern vidya.

>>382133429
I was disappointed by the combat since early gameplay vids made me believe it was pretty much MGR combat or maybe even better but then again it tries to be a JRPG at the same time which I guess made more sense for the game to have more typical hack and slash combat. At least it is fun to play unlike the original Nier

>>382132251
GOTY

>>382132251
slightly above average for a taro game.

could've been better, but about what I expected. anyway, bring on mgr 2

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soundtrack was great
setting was meh
gameplay was meh
graphics were meh
characters were good
story is more compelling than the average vidya
all blends together pretty well. it's been overhyped but still an enjoyable experience
pic related is the highlight of the game for me

9S is cute and I want to kiss his lips

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>>382132251
Best game I've played since Bloodborne. Unironically 10/10.

>>382132251
I really enjoyed it. 8/10 in my book. But I'm a sucker for these cheesy types of stories.

>>382133762
Show some restrain, 2B.

>>382133754
THIS CANNOT CONTINUE.

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>vague hope starts playing

>>382132251
It's great, easily the best game I've played this year so far, though I haven't played P5 yet.

Like any other action rpg, if you take your time to do the side content you end up overpowered. I guess I could just gimp myself but that's a boring solution. Some boss fights were over in seconds

>>382132251
Story is boring, but the combat is good. It seems fine for a platinum game, but I was expecting more.

Game is overrated as fuck and only weebs seem to think that it is GOAT.

Game is about as Asian as it gets as far as combat story character design which would be great... If this was 05 and Asian games were considered the best as far as story and character design went.

Ending e unironicly made video games art

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A generic story that is good at best, with great art and combat. The problems begin when you are forced to play as 9S and redo the entire game. They should have shortened it to parts that absolutely required 9S. Also the ending E minigame...

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>>382134471
Easily the biggest problem of the game. Should've balanced boss levels around levels all side content gives to you because side missions are incredibly important for the story sometimes.

i have a question for the story, huge spoilers
are 9S models designed to get corrupted and/or become mentally unhinged, which is why Command sent 2B (or 2E, as we learned) to put 9S down when he eventually gets corrupted or mentally unhinged? is that the real fate of 9S?

>>382135171
9S model is simply too advanced so he figures out the little charade of project YoRHa very fast and needs to be restrained.

9S only goes mad because the love of his life dies and his entire life crumbles around him.

Love it, finished the first run, but I hate the hacking and weak ass 9S, second run isn't as fun because of him

>>382135931

you need to get through it, because the first and second run are literally only half the game

>>382132251

This is one of those fun phenomenon in gaming. Once the game is cracked, the overall reviews plummit. Nier was cracked a few days ago, and now there's a massive influx of people talking shit about it (much more than normal).

Why? Because those people's pride isn't forcing them to defend their purchase. They're not blinded by denial trying to fend off regret. So we get honest reviews.

This is why I wait until games are cracked before buying them. Sort of ironic.

>>382135931
9S is way stronger than 2B even without hacking.

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>>382134287
>Sound of the End (Quiet corrupted ) starts playing

Here's the real question: Why were these androids built with emotions in the first place? Putting emotions into your slave bots is how you get anomalies, rebellion, and generally catastrophic failure

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>>382136258
>War & War starts playing

>>382136113
How? His combos suck in comparison and the bots, which are arguably the best dps in the game are the same for both. I didn't like playing as him because the hacking minigame got really tedious

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>>382136280
>Cherry 2000 will never fall in love with you.

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>>382132251
It's an artistic game that unlike every other artistic game out there, does not have dogshit gameplay. Delicious music, storytelling, ass and gameplay variety mixed with decent graphics and core mechanics makes for an amazing blend showing what the medium can actually do when it does not pretend to be just an interactive movie or just a children's toy.
Best game I've played in a decade, but to be honest I've only played a moderate amount of different games in the last decade.

>>382136280
They are built to be as humanlike as possible even if it's counter-intuitive.
They desire to be like humans, to simulate humans.
On top of that YoRHa models have their personality data inside black boxes, alien piece of tech, and the only person who truly manages to reverse-engineer them is dead before the events of a game.

Pretty okay game
My only gripe is that they didn't fix the resolution issue, I'm aware there's a third party fix but still. The story is decent, gameplay is good on boss fights, moderately okay everywhere else.

I think it's overhyped and raised but still it's not a bad game.

>inb4weebtrash

>>382136406
His spears and large swords have better movesets than 2B with way more range and safety.
On top of that he has overpowered ranged attacks on charged light attacks. Spear throw on crit build is the single most bullshit move in the game. Bracer throw has crazy DPS.
On top of that he has heavy strings performed by dodge into light string.
His dodge counters are better than dodge counters of 2B for everything but bracers.

Tried to give it a chance but I just can't.

My heart sank when the first hub shat out some WoW quests to me. Sank even further when I had to go to the desert that had zero level design.

>>382136067
>few days ago

It was cracked over 2 months ago dumbass. Also please don't tell me your'e actually stupid enough to take /v/s opinion seriously on anything.

>>382136280
The original purpose of the androids was just to oversee the replicants while awaiting for their merging with their gestalt masters.
To commit this task, they had to act as humanlike as possible to avoid raising suspicion.
Thus, they planted emotions into them, one of those emotions being an overwhelming desire to love humans, quite possibly to prevent the eventual rebellion.
Of course as 9S points out when he goes nuts, having an intristic desire to love something doesn't prevent from trying to destroy it's remains
I suppose the emotions remained after the project failed.

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Right now I just think it's good, the characters aside from 9s, which they used almost all the routes on to explain, felt lack luster. The cast really doesn't hold up to Weiss, Emil, Kaine and Nier, and the tragic characters they stumble upon.
Also, I think it was rushed? Like, even A2's model look like it's using low resolution texture?

But yeah, I think I'll find it great once I replay it, after Taro has elaborated on the characters with more reading material.
Then, it might be a great game.

As you see, my only problem was the dialog + story side of things.

Great combat wasted on shit enemies.

i fucking hated 9S's gameplay

the hacking should just be something saved for special occasions. he breaks the combat up way too much and is ridiculously repetitive because there aren't enough scenarios

however the game kinda pushes you into it because his actual fighting style is slow and boring as fuck and hacking is actually really powerful

why even fight the boss when you can just hack it 5 times in a row and kill it

>>382132251
Good game, would be better if it had a bigger budget. You can see the game suffering from it with the lack of new mobs in Chapter C and the lack of more combos/ weapon animations.

Also graphics is pretty poor, but thats what you get for a 10m budget game i guess.

Didn't really like playing as 9s or a2. Ending E was okay I guess. I had fun though.

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9s a shit

>>382137347
Nines was one of us.

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>>382132251
Pic related.

>>382137398
the fuck is this deviantart fanfic shit?

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Too shallow for its length. Should have stopped at ending A or had more content variety. Feels bait falls flat because characters aren't developed enough. Chips were a mistake.

>>382137485
it's one mad A2 waifufaggot shitting up all Nier threads

what a2fag? i'm not even an a2fag and i think 9s is little fag.

are you lost?

>>382137558
Are you talking about this pic?>>382137347

it wasn't even made by A2fags you retard, it's just funny

>>382132251
Weeb trash

>>382137540
>Chips were a mistake

Chips were a great concept.

It was a solid 7/10 for me. Gameplay was fun. Music was great. The story wasn't as 5deep4me as everyone made it out to be. And I'm not super into weeb stuff, but overall I'm not mad that I payed for it.

>>382132251
Undertale for weebs. Plays like shit, story is shit, characters are shit, music is nice but gets old real fast. Has a bunch of nice gimmicks, but that's about it.

>>382132251
good

>>382137920
>payed

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A2

>>382137890
Great concept, abysmal execution. They made the game either too easy or too hard depending on how many functional brain cells you've got. Should have worked on the combat system more instead and balanced the game around it.

>>382137890
Executed like shit though. You could literally easily build and auto-healing ranged character and win everything by running in circles. I guess that's what tactical RPG combat looks like in weebshit

Sure is summer in here.

>>382138097
And here is one example>>382137558

GOAT OST

>>382138097
>t-they don't get how DEEP this game is!!!
Nah, we get it. We saw entry level anime, nothing new here. It's trash.

>>382138096

Yeah giving people options, what a terrible idea.

It was a 6/10. And worse than the original. Nearly everything about it was either interesting but poorly executed, or flat out uninteresting. Anyone calling it game of the decade, or even the year, truly deserve death for having taste so shit.

>>382138187

Way to prove his point.

>>382132251
It was pretty decent. After I got all the ending the first time, and deleted my save file, I just haven't felt the need to replay it.

>>382138269

t. Contrarian

>>382132251
really, REALLY good story, characters, music, and art direction, i know a lot of people say it's not that deep, and they're right, but for a videogame nier automata is one of the best stories if not the best
but it also has repetitive and boring side-quests, rpg "mechanics" are really light and take away from the fun parts of the gameplay and replayability, the weapon upgrade system encourages you to use 1 or 2 weapons only, 9S is not fun to play as and he's 1/3-1/2 of the game, 2B/A2 are fun to play as but offer little depth, the ending gets too meta and cheesy where the game literally asks you "DO YOU THINK VIDEOGAMES ARE SILLY THINGS" and stuff like that, you can breeze through the whole game depending on your configuration (just buy a bunch of healing items and put in the chip that heals you when you're almost dead)
overall the gameplay isn't outright bad like yoko taro's other games but its really simple and nowhere near as complex as DMC or bayo, and 9S is shit
5/10 gameplay 10/10 everything else

>>382132251
One of the main contenders for game of the decade so far.

>>382138027
ugu

>>382138191
If some of those options aren't balanced, then yes, you shouldn't have that option in the game.

>>382132251
GOTY so far

>>382138360
>nowhere near as complex as DMC or bayo

I don't know people keep spouting this shit. Did you really expect combat like that out of what is essentially a jrpg?

>>382138352
No, that's actually normal opinion outside the weeb circlejerk.

>>382138375
What a sad decade this is.

>>382137558
you should read this>>382138360

>9S is shit
probably must be A2fag right?

>>382138390

You're an idiot.

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>>382132251
Plot wasnt nearly as good as Nier, but it did pretty much everything else better.

>>382138352
Nothing contrarian about that. A lot of people find the original superior, and for good reason.

>>382138461
Every time someone says action is shit, people say it's an RPG. Every time someone says the balance is broken and upgrade system is shit, people say it's action. Reality is it's a bad action RPG. Bad at action, even worse at RPG.

>>382138027
I WANT TO FUCK A2!~

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I really wanted to like Automata, Nier is one of my favorite games, and all I really wanted from Automata was another cast that I could get attached to. I was emotionally invested in Nier to a degree I never thought possible. Was the gameplay amazing, no, but my love of the characters and story overcame that when in most cases it wouldn't.

Automata didn't really have that for me. I was intrigued by the game, but I could honestly care less for any of the characters, and while the combat itself might have felt better, just in movement and certain mechanics, I really didn't like it at all. It felt very shallow, as another anon said it looked like it was just a newer MGR to some degree. My disdain for the combat and my non attachment to the characters made me not really too invested in the game, and so when I beat it I kinda just moved on. Nothing stuck with me besides the music, great soundtrack.

>>382134783
>great combat

Nigga what. Have you seen how OP the dodge mechanic is? Even KH2 has better balancing on its mechanics.

>>382138553
Let me introduce you to 4chan, fellow redditor. Over here we use arguments to prove points.

>>382138580

Yeah it's called being contrarian. The original was executed far worse. People complain about playing again as 9s, but playing half the game five times is far worse.

>>382138554
>that pic
Disgusting normalfags

>>382138461
nier automata has literally no jrpg mechanics other than upgrading weapons and leveling up and you cant pick what stats you level up
>>382138542
i don't dislike 9S as a character, but i don't like playing him. his moveset is shit.
in terms of moveset, 2B>A2>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>dogshit>>>>>>>>>>9S

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>>382138652
By looking like newer MGR I meant before it actually came out when I saw gameplay videos. Not what the game actually plays like.

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>>382138542
You know, i'm really happy that character action games are dead so their whiny fanbase will become extinct over time.

>>382132251
Good sound track, decent if repetitive gameplay, loved maxing the weapons for the stories, story was a ride and I enjoy the characters of 2B, 9S and A2.

>>382138773
>you cant pick what stats you level up

Just like 95% of jrpgs then.

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>>382138773
>2B>A2
You got it wrong

it's A2>2B

>>382138773
>jrpg mechanics
It has all mechanics of a typical single-person JRPG.
If stuff like Rogue Galaxy is widely considered a JRPG, then Automata is a JRPG as well.

>>382138903
>enjoy the characters of 2B, 9S and A2
But that's pure weebtrash. There's zero depth to any of them. Watch literally any currently airing anime and you'll get your own version of 2B in that.

>>382138773

I bet you didn't even know 9S had heavy attacks.

>>382138723
If how to get to the endings being less tedious is the only case you can make for Automata, that speaks volumes about its quality otherwise. Far more things were executed in a much poorer manner in the sequel, like character development, certain aspects of the gameplay, and story.

>>382132251
the game above everything else was worth it. That said though, combat felt kinda lazy, and the open world was pretty bare, so I had 0 motivation to chill and do the sidequests, which everyone tells me actually were pretty quality.
I appreciated its aesthetics and soundtrack though. The amusement park level really made me happy when i first saw it. I also thought the story was pretty cool. And yeah, doing narrative stuff you can only do in video games does deserve a ton of praise.
I had a great time with it.

Am I the only one who doesn't understand why everyone is jerking off the original Nier? I decided to play Drakengard 1 and Nier before playing Automata, and I don't see the appeal. Characters are great, music is fantastic, but the story itself is some Spec Ops the Line shit where the game tries to guilt trip you into doing shit you're forced to do. Not to mention the whole plot is based around the villains being complete fucking morons. Seriously I have no idea why Devola and Popola did what they did, it's literally counterintuitive to their goal. And why did Grimoire Noire not explain the plan to Weiss, it just feels lazy, as if the game was built around the plot twist, but the character actions don't reflect the twist.

The people praising this game to high heaven now are exactly the same people that gave Bioshock Infinite more praise than it deserved when that was first released. Both games are fairly mediocre and are not as deep or intellectual as people make out.

>>382139035
>t. 9os fag shilling his shitty character
Who would've know

I already knew that he had shitty heavy attacks you retard

>>382139092

You're actually gonna defend that?


Totally not a typicam contarian who likes the older game as soon as a new one is out.

>>382139142
It's literally waifufaggots. Weebs get so attached to weebcharacter they consume any trash those characters are featured in. I wish I was exaggerating.

>>382139205

How do you execute his heavy attacks?

>>382138926
in some, sure
either way, stats in nier hardly matter at all besides your health. you can beat the game at level one if you wanted.
>>382139020
i've literally never heard of rouge galaxy but watching a video, it looks like kingdom hearts, which is a JRPG, and nothing like nier.
>>382139035
i actually didn't, and that probably makes his character 10x better, but the game didn't tell me this, its a combination that no other character has, and it would still be better if heavy attack was bound to y and they just made his pod's special ability hacking

>>382132251
fapbait/10

>>382139260
I'm not defending it at all, but I guess you don't know how to read. Good at saying the same redundant shit over and over, though.

>>382139295

Stop replying to your own pasta.

>>382132251
Unironic 10/10 for almost all of the game, but the ending kinda left me feeling empty. I get that Taro doesn't like happy or conclusive endings, but I wish we got something a little bit more definitive in ending E.

Finding out that C/D/E take place after A/B and that 2B was a bait and switch protagonist were both awesome. Can't wait for what Taro does next.

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>>382138886
Me too actually

>>382139442
Stop being triggered all over this thread. Also, stop using reddit spacing.

>>382139390
>kingdom hearts, which is a JRPG, and nothing like nier
It's literally the same kind of action-oriented JRPG like Nier.
You have zero experience with the fucking genre.

>Entertaining combat but easily broken if you use the right plug-ins
>Overall interesting and solid story for the most part with lots of unique set pieces but has some very Japanese-y contrived moments here and there
>Route B was a bit of a drag imo right after the first playthrough, even with the changes
>Side quest quality varies a lot, some a boring as shit fetch quests while others are fairly interesting
>Open world often feels like it's only there to pad the length of the game
>Best soundtrack of the year so far

It has its faults, but still a very solid game. Would definitely recommend if you can get it on sale.

This thread is terrible. Fucking summer..

>>382139390
>i actually didn't, and that probably makes his character 10x better,
Changed his opinion about a character in 2 fucking minutes

wewlad

>>382139474
>I get that Taro doesn't like happy or conclusive endings, but I wish we got something a little bit more definitive in ending E.
Read side materials.
Both nier games have happy endings for main cast expanded by side materials.

>>382132251
Both this and NieR are 2 of my favourite games, I acknowledge both of their flaws but I still really like them nonetheless

10 out of 10... times that i tried it it crashed.

Don't know, it hasn't been discounted enough yet

Near a tomato

What are the RPG segments like in this action/RPG game?

>>382139496
And you stop being a buzz killer and go discuss your favo games or unless you reverse falsflagging forever in these threads

Got it because everyone was raving about it. Didn't enjoy it. Turns out it only gets good about 20 hours in.

Got a life to live, not gonna slog through 20 hours of shit to get to the good parts. It's a no from me.

>>382139512
Let me explain this to you, mr retard sir.
>player's skill means more in combat than character's build
It's action, example Bayo
>player's skill means less in combat than character's build
It's RPG, example FF12
>player's skill means as much in combat as character's build
It's action-RPG, example Souls

>>382137437
I am hard now, got any more?

>>382132251
Overhyped weeb garbage

>>382132251
9s is a faggot

>>382139895
>player's skill means less in combat than character's build
So like Automata and vast majority of JRPGs?

>>382140023
A2fag is that YOU?!

Played some hours until the underground UFO, loved the boss fights, but the pacing is tideous, the world is empty and the conversations are something bewteen anime clichee and cringe

Should I still keep playing ?

Does it get {spoiler]better ?

>>382137090
>It was cracked over 2 months ago dumbass.

Most people couldn't even get that shit to work. CPY did the legit crack 3 days ago. The previous Baldman release was not even passable as a crack.

A2 a shitty shit

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>they are still mad he got all that majestic ass for himself

>>382132251
Mediocre at best
Characters are nigh impossible to care about, combat is repetitive/bland, boss fights peak completely in 3 hours, open world is a huge fucking field full of nothing, quest design is 99% fetch quests and the game repeats not only its enemies, areas and even music a bunch of times, it also forces you to replay it in full while shoving an obnoxious internet-browser tier minigame in your face the entire time.

Music and animation is great but holy fuck did it leave me cold on almost everything else
I had such high hopes for it too

>>382140193
9Sfag is that YOU?!

>>382140101
Okay mr retard, let's play this again
>you can easily win the game with skill alone
It's action
>you can easily win the game with build alone
It's RPG
>you need both skill and build to win
It's action-RPG
Now tell me, which one is Nier? Correct answer is action because you can easily complete the game without upgrading anything at all. Meanwhile it's impossible to complete the game without using your action skills, purely by building the character.

>>382139029
I have a thing for convoluted plots and the non-existent character depth felt appropriate given that 2B, 9S and A2 are all essentially fake humans only just really scratching the surface of what it means to your own person.
It's in no way stellar but it did feel like it fit with the theme of the story and the way the world is.

Call me all kinds of a shitter.

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>>382140239
I have A2

>>382140115
>playing half game as the shota fag
>not giving enough game time to A2
That little faggot must die

>>382132251
If I can't sniff 2B's bum I don't see any point in being alive.

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>>382133498
It confuses me why this is not what I see disscussed about Automata. The use of video games as a medium is what made the game so compelling. You bet that sweet android butt that I had a big ass smile my face as I made the only choice that matters at the end of the game.

>>382140338
>you can easily win the game with build alone
So like Automata?

>>382132251
I'm grateful that we are getting some decent SFM /ss/ out of it.

>half of the game is a SHMUP
>IT'S RPGEEEE
What the fuck

>>382132251
Utter garbage.
Paid 60 fucking bugs for a game that is for about 35% fucking space invader nonsense.
The world has it's pretty 'aspects' but is mainly boring,repetitive and empty.
Bosses are more boring than annoying, as they are.
The story is pretty weak, and 9s is a gigantic faggot.
Fuck his story line, can't skip it.
Then fuck the whole game

>>382140515
Can you win the game without using action skill, by standing still, hitting the attack button from time to time and using items? That's what it mean to win through build alone. Pretty sure that's not how Nier is meant to be played.

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>>382140553
>jrpgs have minigames
Holy shit Sherlock.

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>>382140429
I have nothing against shotas, i fapped to few of them aswell, but I feel A2 should've had her own route 100%

>>382136627
This.
What makes Nier Automata special is that it's an artistic game that is actually a game, not some walking simulator. Even the gameplay aspect of the game tries to be artistic at times.

I thought it was alright.

Because of the hype I kept waiting for ending E to blow me away with some kind of profound story insight but what I got was some meta you-can-do-it! bullshit.

>>382140680
>minigame
>literally about a half of enemy encounters
What the fuck

>>382140660
>without using action skill, by standing still, hitting the attack button from time to time and using items
Yes.
>anti-chain damage
>damage resistance
>deadly heal
>other heal chips
>crit build
Literally invincible.

>>382138984
This is so NOT necessary.
Would've been twice as fast if you'd just keep hitting the rusty cunt.

>>382140812
Shmup sections take at best 1/6 of the game.

>>382140816
>Literally invincible
Well that's a pretty shit RPG isn't it. You broke it while you were trying to defend it

>>382140816
On normal maybe, but the game obviously wasn't meant to be challenging on normal.

>>382132251
never played it
like the bootybot

>>382140854
The thing is, the mobs in this game were shit, but the combat was pretty neat. Here is your problem

>>382140927
Oh shit look at him trying to switch the subject after getting blown the fuck out.

>>382140919
That's if you don't count third person SHMUPing. When and enemy shoots slowly flying big orbs at you and you evade those orbs while shooting back, I would argue you're playing a SHMUP.

I felt more for the first game. This just felt like a flashy impersonation. Emil's bossfight being a copy of another boss in the game was pretty lazy. I hate how the combat is fast paced, but the enemies are not even a challenge. Even the Yorha units.

>>382140960
You can use it on hard as well by fusing good chips.
Only very hard is 1hko land but it's not uncommon thing for JRPGs to have bullshit difficulty levels too.

>>382141008
So far you've only proven it's an action-RPG because it's clear that you can also complete it easily without ever leveling up. That's an action-RPG, not an RPG. And it's a shit one, as proven by you.

>>382132251
My favorite game of 2017.

I don't trust Jrpgs /v/ likes except for Souls series

>>382140816

You can break jrpgs all the time. Look at the Final Fantasy games. 7 literally plays itself with the right material setup.

>>382141179
t. weeb with no taste

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My biggest gripe with the game is lack of interesting bosses, all of the bosses in the original had a neat back story whereas only Simone was given that treatment this time around

>>382141269
>You can break jrpgs all the time
And that's why everyone agrees gameplay in JRPGs sucks.

why /vg/ thread filled with obnoxious 9sfaggot?

Game sucks 2B honest LOL

>>38214129

Yeah, and it wasn't even good. Couldn't feel bad for her. Jean-Paul is just a baller.

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>>382132251
A solid successor to Nier, that improved upon the first game in almost every way sans inter-party banter. Nothing will top how cool the black verses are though, but oh well.

The lvl 99 boss left me absolutely heart broken.

>>382141269
I'm not saying it's a bad thing unlike that retard. I will take a whole fuckload of customization options over sheer difficulty any day.

>>382141372

It's more interesting than wrpgs. Games like The Last Remnant and Resonance of Fate shit on most.

>>382141395
this is cancer

>>382141513

Only good part of the game.

I'm only 4or 5 hours in and I like the combat but the open world isn't fun and the side quests are boring.

Does Nier appear in this game at all?

What's the connection to the first? Or is this just marketing purposes title?

>>382141702

It's not an openworld though.

>>382141767
N2 is based on Shadowlord data.

>>382141767
The game is so far into the future that it being the same world as nier has no relevance outside the game references

>>382141767
>marketing purposes
>barely anyone knew Nier existed

>>382141767

N2 is literally Nier2

>>382142259
>>382142096
I haven't played Automata and don't know what N2 is.

>>382141767
Nier's actions in the first game are the direct cause of the current state of the world (minus the machines and aliens).
His actions resulted in humanity being fucked.

>>382142462

A cute loli

>>382132251
It's okay, a solid 9.4/10 for me.

best game since the ps2 died

[I know it's hard, therefore don't give up!] - United Kingdom

Haven't picked it up yet. I personally don't like the design of the machines. The bosses are cool, but if the mooks looked a bit scarier instead of metal munchkin men it might be more appealing.
Is there a lore reason why they look like walking trashcans with eyes and limbs? Even if it's a lame excuse, as long as there is some reason for their design I'd be satisfied.

>>382132251
Pretty solid game that I had a lot of fun with that got overhyped as the second coming of Jesus Christ.

>>382144286
making them look scary is redundant and shallow.

anyway, just play the game. I was kinda in your boat at first but now I think they are cute

>>382132251
Trash for cuckolds.

>>382132251
Ok game. Fun to play, but way overhyped for what it was. 2B's ass was good too.

I put an Emil head sticker on my car yesterday. Am I a faggot now?

>>382147254
>2B's ass was good too
faped couple times aint ya?

>>382147409
Absolutely.

>>382147409
yes

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>>382147409
he is cute and the skull design is cool

there's nothing wrong with being a faggot anyway, I guess Emil was one

>>382147409
Yeah but thats still cool.

I'm the only one suprised that the game sales so well on steam? for a weeb game at least, he is in the top 3.

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>>382144286
But they are scary looking, anon.

>>382147859
it's obvious why, really, also pretty much captivated the same type of people who like Undertale.

>>382147859
It got hyped pretty hard on the PS4 since the console had very few exclusives and when it got announced for Steam all the PC fags had heard about it and got interested.

>>382132251
It was okay, I liked it, but it was very disappointing. It should've been the greatest game of all time as a product of a dream collab, but instead it's a better made Taro memegame with an incomplete story and underdeveloped characters from mixed media shenanigans.

Can I play it with mouse and keyboard or does it require controller?

What games do I have to play before playing this one to "get it"

>>382148764
Get a fucking controller already

>>382148787
None really. I played it blind and got everything. The most you don't get is some references or backstory to some characters you encounter

>>382132251

It was quite good, but it could've been a LOT better.
7.4/10

>>382148520
Exactly this.

I would've bought it if 2B stayed pure and didn't get together with 9S

>>382132251

It was fun but the gameplay is mediocre and the difficulty settings are completely retarded to the point that I think they never actually playtested the game. It also manages to run like garbage on PC while looking like an early PS3 game.

I thought the story was nice, at least for the first couple of endings. Then the game feels the need to go OMG SO DAAAARK by murdering everybody with no subtlety whatsoever. "Look a puppy! Oh wait it has AIDS and will die suffering horribly while his parents watch! Then the parents will commit suicide!". Got old after a while.

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6.5/10 story, good foundation but they kind of let it slip towards the end.

8/10 gameplay, kind of brainlet-tier but very fun. Loved the variety.

7/10 overworld, absolutely gorgeous with some mediocrity like the desert.

10/10 music, literally could not have been better.

But it ended up being more than the sum of its parts. Easily the best game released so far this year. I don't know why but it touched me in a way no game has in a very long time. The true ending was also a treat - I'm not sure how often that's been done in video games but I thought it was really creative and heartwarming.

>>382133628
t.Tarocuck.

A game with great narrative ideas that were completely wasted on it's abysmal cast of characters. I still heavily prefer the first NieR game.

>>382132251
Never gave much of a fuck about Taro's stuff
I still don't.

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>>382132251
Taro's best game. Really goes to show what would happen if you gave him a competent dev studio and an acceptable budget.

I like A2! Therefore: Put your back into it you *#^^$!

>>382132251
Boring game with very shallow gameplay
I don't care for 2deep4u stories

>>382151807
So what you're saying is Automata is a mash up of NieR and Bayonetta, only its strengths are nowhere near as good as either of those games.

>>382151807
Comparing this game to Bayonetta is an insult to Bayonetta

I would enjoy it if it fucking worked, i'm stuck at the part early on in the game where you kill 2 goliaths in the city ruins and the game just infinite-loads after that

deleted the save and reinstalled and now it just crashes when i try to make a save game file

CAN I BUY THIS GAME AND IMEDIATELY PLAY WITH THE REVEALING DLC OUTFIT or do I have to do some ng+ garbage

>>382151925
wat

>>382132251
I guess it's good.
I just got really bored after like 2 hours of playing it and main characters wearing bondage gear into battle does not really do it for me, I pretty much can imagine who designed these androids.

>>382132251
So are sidequests worth doing or not?
Should I do them in the first run?

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>on sale
>$40 (USD(united states dolars))(715 Mexican pesos)(35 euros)(.015 bitcoins)
fuck that, i bought three games instead

>>382153334
Sidequests do not repeat across playthroughs and after chapter select is unlocked. Do them whenever possible for the rewards which are necessary to upgrade every pod or weapon (which is necessary to get a side boss and ending Y). Just don't forget to complete them before going off on a story-related cutoff mission or you may have to perform the quest sequence from the beginning on the next playthrough.

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>>382132251
bought it during the sale. i really like it, but bayo and DMC combat is better. nier: automata, however, is much more comfy than both, and i really like what they did with 2B and 9S. i really want a 2B for myself so i can use her lap as a pillow and play kissing games with her !

is DLC worth it? why isn't that shit on sale?

>>382132251
Fun gameplay
Bit of a tearjerker
Characters are cute, even the machines

>>382154387
>i really want a 2B for myself so i can use her lap as a pillow and play kissing games with her !
>posts 9s doing all those things
Are you a newfag or just a normalfag?

seems like ''waifufagging'' flew over your damn head you retard

>>382132251
Okay but not great.

>>382155996
kek how mad are you because 9S won?

>>382132251
i liked it but it was a few things that made the games drama feel forced. maybe i feel this way beacuse i already played the shit out of the original nier but the games theme and drama did not catch me the same way like the first one did. dont get me wrong, i still liked Automata story and its characters and there was a alot of sadness to be had.

as for the gameplay, i felt hard mode was to "hard" in the first part of the game. once you get some good chips, hard mode becomes alot of fun. kinda like devil may cry lvl DMD of fun but the chips drops at random so when you can play hard mode differs for people. other than that, collecting weapons and parts was fun and reading the stories from the weapons themselves was fascinating (some stories being better than others while others being total crap).

the story was great. i kept having the feeling of hopelessness going on. the world felt very "empty" as it comes a point were you ask yourself if what you are doing it worth doing at all? as if your life and purpose has lost all its meaning.

>>382156992
And I think you are also dumb.

Let me clarify what I said:

You can't waifu her unless you roleplaying like a fucking retard

Or you trying to self-insert yourself into 9S which is retarded because you are a retarded newfag

The
>kek
Proves it

>>382134471
yeah. some missions stomp my ass hard but i blasted through the main story until i fought eve.

>>382157208
>>382157324
Kill yourself

GOTY

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>>382157332
kekking kekkers!

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>>382134287

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>>382157430
why? as mush as i like 2B and want one for myself, she and 9S are perfect for each other

>>382157587
>as mush as i like 2B and want one for myself
Read this again>>382157332

>>382157703
kekking kekkers! stop being mad over 9S

Great game with a few flaws.

9S and 2B is probably the only video game couple I root for.

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>>382136258

>>382157842
How old you are?

Very good game, but not perfect

>>382132251

There are "better" games in just about every sense, but it's been a long, long fucking time since something sat with me the way Automata did.

There's a noticeable sense that this is somebody's life's work and they put everything into it. Something about the combination of Taro finally getting a good team and a good budget, and Platinum getting to work on a passion project rather than licensed shit out of desperation lends a very tangible feeling of heart to the game. It's a vague and nebulous thing to say but it's what stuck with me the whole time I played it and for months afterwards. It feels like everybody involved just liked working on it and wanted to make it as good as possible, and it's been forever since a game felt that way. It's a breath of fresh air.

>>382157884
>9S and 2B is probably the only video game couple I root for.
That's because the sheer struggle they go through to be together is fucking crazy.
It's like Xenogears but one has to kill another to be with him.

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>>382157703
What did she mean by this

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>>382157703
Anon, you need professional medical attention.

>>382158123
>>382158374
But she's not for waifuing and you are just a retarded newfag that only fags over automata and can't look outside the box.

Literally wake up

i hated the hacking at first but later grow on me. it gets even better when 9S goes nuclear and install the chip that makes the robots scream before you blow thier brains out.

and they say 9S suck as a combat unit. that little nigga was a killing machine.

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>>382158526
>But she's not for waifuing
Of course not. She's for wishing a happy future with 9S.
If i was the last human in that setting i would've tried to find both of them and keep them safe so they could enjoy peaceful life together.

9S is cutest

>>382158748
Kill yourself newfag! oi! it's so FUN to fuck with your retarded head!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX-YfuVQmX8

9S

>>382158583
There's actually a cute moment in route B when Operator calls him and says that he impressed commander so much they will boost production of his model.

And then when 2B goes around with a virus fucking her up on route C she hears a pre-recorded message from moon server saying that they will produce some model that will decide the course of a war. And she thinks about 9S not long after. So the whole point is that he really doesn't suck at combat, 21O just tells him this because she feels like a mother to him and wants to keep him out of danger, and ultimately he's as much of a soldier as 2B, only way more advanced and specialised.

how old you are literally? like 17?

>>382140139
The game's plot doesn't start until Route C. Don't force yourself to play if you don't want to, if you aren't hooked by then, just drop it

>>382138096
Figuring out ways to break the game are what I love about games like this.

It is similar in the Bravely series. If you are actually creative you can come up with some god tier combos.

It was an excellent game and I enjoyed every second of it.

The Pods were the true heros of the game.

>>382159416
>It is similar in the Bravely series
This. Bravely and Automata are two of my favourite JRPGs in last five years too, and both go into kinda meta stuff at the times.

Honestly is was only just ok.
I've had people hype this up for me for so long and to be honest I was quite excited from the original gameplay trailer because I'm a fan of Platinum games and the original Nier was interesting.
I should have been aware of the signs when the game came out and all people discussed was 2B's ass, but I still bought it for full price anyway. The whole experience felt really lukewarm, nothing remarkable.

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>>382132251
Mediocre as fuck game that literally survives on /v/ because of waifufags.

There is no reason to change weapons. All you do is dodge. The bullet hell sections are easy to the point of annoyance. The open world itself feels empty. Even just using your bot during combat puts you in this weird claw grip.

Oh but wait, I gotta beat it a few times to get the real ending, right? Then I can truly appreciate it after 50 hours even though you've pretty much seen all it has to offer after 2 hours, right? Cause then you get the 2deep4u story?

Fuck off, this game is shit. I can't believe Platinum made this. Yeah, sure their Activision games are pretty bad, but I'd never thought the action in any non-licensed title would be this flat. I'd honestly rather play their Transformers cash-in.

>>382157324
>Ending E aftermath.webm

>>382159639
I think I replied to you in a different thread the other day.

Excellent taste.

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>>382159945
Don't think so, it's the first time i said something like this here. BD and Automata just have a few other general things in common like character designer or godlike OST.

>>382159575
>The Pods were the true heros of the game.

Fucking this. I loved those little guys.

The two operators were lovely as well. Fucking sad as fuck what happened to 21O

The way the story was executed was truly a masterpiece. Can't think of another game that holds a candle to the method of Automata's storytelling. I went in expecting an interesting story with ambiguous morals from Yoko Taro and that's what I got, and I'm satisfied. Although I agree with everyone saying the gameplay/mechanics kind of suck, one boss I beat by just locking onto it and shooting with my pod because the camera was flipping out so hard.

>>382132251
On launch it felt like an easy GOTY but I'm a bit more lukewarm on it now
>combat is fun but shallow, especially by Platinum standards. Kept me going for the whole game but don't think I'd come back to it.
>less impactful/interesting world than og nier, but makes up for it by making sidequests bearable
>story isn't anywhere close to the 2deep4u existential paradox trap it keeps getting reviewed as, if anything I was pleasantly surprised that the AI/consciousness stuff was mostly played low-key
>god tier OST as expected
>i cried at the ending e credits

I really like the story presentation of Automata. It's like peeling the onion, there's multiple levels of it and at some point you start crying like a bitch.

>>382132251
insane buildup, incredible atmosphere, awful letdown at the end.

All along I let cheesiness and obvious dramatic reversals slide, because they felt like tools to a grander, more important story. But unlike the first NieR, there's nothing.
Shit ends and that's it. Your actions accomplished about nothing. You can save 3 guys if you want. Good job.

Ending E made me instantly hate the game. All loose ends, all drama turned from hype to huge holes in the script. I can't believe it's done by the guy who thought up the original game and it's incredibly dramatic and powerful final chapters.

I still would rate the game pretty high though, because the hype was there and I enjoyed 99% of the ride. But I feel cheated.

>>382159764
>Oh but wait, I gotta beat it a few times to get the real ending, right?

And just like that you proved to everyone you didnt play the game ;)

>>382132251
Fantastic game, I loved it.

It was okay. I expected better story from Yoko Taro but the narrative was relatively one-note. I expected better gameplay from Platinum but the combat lacked challenge.

Not bad but not the dream team production I was hoping for.

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>>382132251
It's the best game I've ever played

>>382162606
lol

>>382132251
Not bad, but certainly much less than expected after insane amount of hype it gets.

>>382162694
don't lol me nigger

>>382132251
It's easily in my top 3 games I've ever played in my life

>>382162596
>i bought the game but didn't even finish past ending A

It was excellent and deserved the recognition it got.

>>382162596
>physical copy says "day one edition"
why

>>382163164
>moving goalposts

>>382163495
Shit I don't know, I got it two weeks ago.

>>382132251
Best game I played this gen.

>>382159416
You don't really have to "figure out" how to break Automata though. It breaks itself. The most straight-forward and simple chip setups make you borderline invincible and just playing through the game will leave you way stronger than you need to be.

>>382141767
You're Nier nigga, the player data that you give a name to and sacrifices himself is his human data. Main villain based his personality off Nier Gestalt too.

>>382136067
Pirates aren't any better than real buyers when reviewing. You know why? Pirates treat the developers like dog shit by not giving them the money they deserve, it's only natural that they treat the game the exact same way since it's just another download they found on the Internet for free, there's no appreciation for anything.

You can only trust yourself in terms of reviews. I personally thought the game was a solid 9/10 looking back at the things it did.

>>382132251
Is it worth playing just for the syota?

>>382167506
Yes. You can also take off his pants.

>>382139881
>muh life no time for bideo gayms
Why you fucking normal shits allowed to post on this site is beyond me.