So is it actually worth playing this a second time? I was prepared

>>384457789
You haven't finished the game yet

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>hasn't finished route B
>talking about multiple playthroughs

>>384457918
>>384457972
You fucking autists, can you not read?

>>384458028
You haven't even finished ONE playthrough you retard. Listen to the people who have actually finished the fucking game.

>>384458028
I'm saying finish the game. 9S is the best fucking character in the game, which you'd realise if you finished the game

>>384458137
I had the credits roll, I got ending A, I finished the first playthrough

What are you implying?

>>384458140
Except he has shit gameplay so far and it doesn't feel good to play at all compared to 2B

>>384458204
>he thinks he's finished the game
kek

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>>384458204
>I saw the credits roll on Season 1 Episode 1 of a TV show, therefore I have watched the entire series. Should I watch it again?

>>384458281
Quit putting words in my mouth and answer my question, you degenerate mudspawn

>>384458204
You probably watched the credits after the first mission of MGSV and thought you finished the game.

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>>384458204
>I got ending A
They aren't endings, they are chapter bookmarks. Like in MGSV but not shit. You haven't finished the game until you have seen ending E.

You're a fucking retard. Don't bother playing the rest of the game. At least they already got your money.

>>384458446
Finally a sensible answer, how am I supposed to fucking know?


I am doing the exact same stuff as the first """"""""""""playthrough""""""""""" though and having to use the little boy is very offputting

Normalfags were a mistake.

>>384458506
It changes up later on, after that you basically get a Sequel to the events of Route A/B which is arguably the best thing of the entire game.

>>384458506
>Finally a sensible answer

LITERALY the first post:
>You haven't finished the game yet

Fuck off, retard. If you aren't going to listen to people then don't make threads.

>>384458506
>I am doing the exact same stuff as the first """"""""""""playthrough"""""""""""
Except you aren't. The sidequests are new along with the ones that you didn't complete in A and the mainquests are slightly different and then very different.
You are supposed to know because it is very obvious that the game is nowhere near complete when you reach ending A and there is a fucking message from Square Enix that tells you to keep playing.

>>384458506
It's like you can't put 2 and 2 together. You're playing as 9S, so obviously you'll see the story from a different perspective. You know, when 9S isn't with 2E

>>384458506
>how am I supposed to fucking know?
>Game tells you to keep playing after the credits
So this.... is the intelligence.... of millenials.... wow......

>>384457789
The game is not finished until ending E

/thread

>>384458506
If you fucking payed attention you would remember multiple points where 9S and 2B part ways and you would have realised that you would see what happened from 9S point of view and therefore gained further insight on the story.

Face it, you're a fucking moron.

>>384458617
I wasn't looking for some vague non sequitur by some autist stroking his cock at the thought of my inferiority

Neck yourself


>>384458623
Hence me saying I was prepared for several playthroughs,

Did you think I wouldn't notice having gotten ending A and then G?

>>384458670
>>384458703
>>384458743
>>384458763

Literally not what I was asking

>reading comprehension

>>384457789
>>384458204
Put a bunch of crit on him and use a crit+ weapon like spear of the usurper and do big dick damage kill bosses in one hit. It makes him more fun or at least makes his segments shorter

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>>384458792
>EVERYONE'S WRONG BUT MEEEEEEEE

>>384458792
You've hardly done one playthrough

>>384458830
I'll try that, thanks

>>384458870
Calm down bub

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>>384458792
lol this guy...

>>384458792
In fact stop playing the game, you just don't deserve it

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>>384457789
>as how I am forced to play that autistic fuckboy 9S

9S is best boy.
Everyone hates him at the start.

Give him a Spear plus standard Weapon Up chips along with shockwave and proceed to rape everything.

His Heavy Attack will throw the spear and pierce enemies.

He's easily the most OP character OP. Playthrough B is much faster than A. I won't mention C/D/E because of spoilers but its not nearly as dull/repetitive as you're expecting. A lot of it is brand new content.

This is some weak as shit bait OP. Unfortunately with the level of intelligence I have come to expect of /v/ I cannot be sure if they are responding to your bait in earnest or both sides are trolling whoever.

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>>384458906
>calls people "degenerate mudspawn"
>calls people "fucking autists"
>tells others to calm down

It's ok, come hold our hands we'll show you how to play big boy games.

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>>384458506
>Finally a sensible answer, how am I supposed to fucking know?
Anon.

The game tells you right after the credits that the new playthroughs have new content.

How much more can Taro do for you.

>>384459090
I'm just trying to fit in, how is that an issue exactly?
Did I get your knickers in a twist?


>>384459164
Not what I asked, not what he answered

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>>384459236
>Not what I asked, not what he answered

I wish healing items weren't so strong

You either die in 1 hit or don't die at all, it ruins the combat for me

I'll never understand why they made 9S such a raging fag of a character. I hated him even more at the end with his gay ass school boy clothes.

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IS the hate playing as 9shota a meme? I uniroincly enjoy his combos and hacking, especially using the chip to make the machines scream in pain after being hacked. Controlling machines are pretty cool. Not mentioning his playthrough on route c was one hell of a fucking ride.

>>384459727
Have you ever thought that maybe the raging fag character is you?

I just got the game

Im on hard mode and everything kills me in one hit which seems like a mistake, in the demo hard mode took your consumables before you died

Also should I be doing all the side quests or is it better to just do what I feel like, theres an awful lot and they are pretty spread out

>>384459872
Side quests aren't necessary. But they flesh out the themes of the game and some of them are great.

You'll get to a point later in the game where you can go back and do them if you like.

Hard Mode is rather severe however with the increased HP/Dmg that only gets eased by getting good chips.

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I'm happy to hear that based 9S still annihilates retarded waifufaggots.

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>>384459872
A lot of things will one shot you on hard mode until you get a good chip setup going on and even them some things still will. As for sidequests do them all but you can put them off until you the mainquest gives you fast travel. Most of the sidequests are fetchquests but you shoudl already have most if not all of the required items in your inventory if you are fighting enemies and they reward you with very rare materials for upgrading your weapons and great stories that tie in the the game's themes excellently.

Just a heads up that there is a point at which the main quest will cut off all sidequests but almost all of them are avaiable to complete in the second route if you did not do them the first time around so it's not really a big deal.

>>384459058
I'd say that on high-levels 9S lags behind B-mode A2, but he's way stronger and safer to use than 2B and A2's advantage only shows on special rank arena.
Overall when you understand how 9S needs to be played you will have a hard time going back to 2B, controlling her at the beginning of route C felt incredibly unsafe.

Someone explain why Yorha had to destroy itself because i just don't get it.

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>>384457789
I'm honestly surprised by how many people seem to be put off by 9S, what's wrong with him?

You will get an entirely new story arc after you finish 9s storyline

>>384461789
To cover up the fact that mankind was extinct.

>>384462057
Waifufaggots.

>>384462274

But that was the whole point of them starting in the first place. Assuming they were the only point of contact between earth and the moon them being gone would create uncertainty about humanity on the moon and cause the androids to question if they're still alive. Prerecorded messages only get you so far without another person to step in and improvise things in between.

This game is a massive buyers remorse for me, thought the cbat system was at least as good as MGR, boy was I wrong

>>384462483
They needed to destroy everything to do with project Yorha so that no information regarding the actual purpose of the project would exist, most of the androids seemed very willing to believe humans were alive and well on the moon after all these thousands of years when the project started so they probably wouldn't begin to question if humans were still alive any time soon.

>>384459872
Never have i played a game with more fucked up difficulty balance than this one

Normal and lower the game plays itself

Hard+ and it's straight up unfair which is why you're supposed to get chips and then switch difficulty afterwards

>>384462521
What a loaded expectation

How many games even do the same combat quality or otherwise that MGR does?

I think literally only MGR

>>384463041
That just raises the question of why they even kept that info on the damn server in the first place. Just have the commander be the only one that knows about it and remove everything else.

>>384463239
MGR combat is shit compared to Nier. it's overrated as shit

>>384463239
Bayo's even better but I didnt expect it to be THAT good, the demo gave me a good first impression and I thought there would be a bit more depth in the main game. And obviously I didnt expect anything like the blade mode

>>384463239
You must not have played many Platinum games.

>>384463264
Even she isn't allowed access to some information like the Yorha disposal plan, I imagine that information was there for ther sake of the pods.

For me its just a few main issues, the way the same enemies don't react uniformly regardless of my damage output, dodging being uncapped and providing total invulnerability when spammed (except to the projectiles which is another issue entirely since it means being near something shooting is a dice roll basically), the way healing works and how alot of enemies dont have distinctive tells for attacks or those tells can be lost in the chaos of the hitsparks and projectiles from your AI ally

the first naked guy fight is a great example of the issues with all of these things, i did it on hard mode just by swinging at him twice and dodge spamming around with 9S turned off so I could see clearly

>>384462521
All these people who only bought the game because of Platinum and didn't know what they were getting into

Now that i think about it dont see the point in designating 2b to kill 9s all the time when the memory backups are a thing and even if they didnt exist you're just throwing yourself into an infinite loop since he's capable of hacking the data anyway even if they got reset back to 1.0. Seems like creating him in the first place just caused more problems if anything.

>>384463854
The first nier was terrible to play so of course people had high hopes for platinum to massively improve the combat system

>>384464458
I mean its not THAT bad its just that it could be way better with just a few small changes, thats why its disappointing

It reminds me of Dragons Dogma a lot

>>384464312
9S is like a nuclear warhead. It can cause a huge damage to allies if not used right but it's devastating against enemies.
Reminder that he's the only reason androids could win in vast majority of events happening at route A.

>>384464312
He's a very useful part of the war effort, useful enough to be worth this constant resetting. Besides, it's not an infinite loop, Yorha was designed to be terminated.

>>384464598
>>384464692
That kinda loses its impact when you find out they were never really in any danger of losing the war.

>>384464846
They didn't knew it.
And besides, 9S made it all the way past toughest enemy machines up to the very top of a Tower so he ended up being an actual threat, just like A2. He just decided to re-think his own life at last moment.

>>384464952
I'm pretty sure Yorha knew

>>384465179
"YoRHa" is just a plan to bolster android morale. Both Zinnia and Number 9 were absolutely clueless about the true nature of machine network and its goals.

>>384464952
>so he ended up being an actual threat
I dunno, N2 was clearly messing with him the whole time, if she really wanted to I think she could have dealt with him much earlier.

>>384465179
nevermind i checked the archive entry

>>384457789

>multiple playthroughs
>hasn't even beat half the game yet

fucking wew

>>384465345
It was clearly messing up with him in resource units but It actually tried its hardest to stop him from entering the Tower and threw an extremely powerful enemies at him afterwards. If you don't hack Tower door you will get a joke ending where army of machines slaughters both him and Devola/Popola. Not to mention that hacking Tower door was lethal for any android.

And Ko/Ro-Shi are the single strongest machine lifeforms in the game so i assume that they actually were the Tower's last line of defence.

>>384458506

>hasn't actually done ending B
>IT'S THE EXACT SAME SHIT AS A THOUGH

This is almost as funny as it is depressing. These are the kinds of fucking faggots /v/ attracts these days.

I was waiting for someone to call 9S and 2B out whenever they say machines can't have emotions etc when they themselves would get very emotinoal but they never do.

>>384465610
They still messed with him in the tower with the 'special prize' they prepared for him, but you have a point, I have no idea how they expected him to get past the door.

Don't even bother, the game tries so hard being emotional (which it fails at miserably) that it forgot to have good gameplay, just like all taro games.

>>384465848
That "special prize" was the most cruel thing in the world. Since he was clearly capable of fending off forces inside the Tower, they employed an extremely cruel psychological warfare to derail him as hard as they could.

Of course, A2 helped too by throwing N2 into disarray and creating an internal conflict. But by the time both 9S and A2 are ascending the Tower, it was a clear final stand against the network with both sides fighting to win.

>>384457789
just give up on life. that's enough. it's not leading anywhere.

>>384465872
>muh crazy and random moments

mgrfags have ADHD

>>384466295
Literally what has any of my post got to do with mgr.
Nier Automata is a repetitive experience by any standards, unless you enjoyed the original Nier in which they're already low as hell.

>>384457789
Route B isn't playing the game a second time, nigger.
Let me guess, you haven't played Nier, either, right? Why the fuck are you playing Automata then?
Kill yourself, secondary.

OP's not exactly wrong, route B is absolute balls outside of the few segments that are different from route A.
Did you really enjoy playing as 9S? Did you? Did you really? Don't kid yourselves.

>>384466505
This but unironically

While this shit thread is still here, one thing I never understood originally there was a human space colony on the moon, which you know is bullshit if you played NieR because humanity was already effectively extinct by the start of it. Then 9S says the server is a load of old bullshit. So what or who made the YorHa soldiers? For what reason? Humanity isn't coming back and sooner or later the Androids on the earth will run out of parts and stop functioning. So what was the point of it all?

>>384466717
I wasn't even being ironic.

>>384466691
>Did you really enjoy playing as 9S
Of course. I pity retards who can't adapt to changed gameplay and enjoy it to the fullest. You're probably one of those braindead faggots who got through route A with light attack mashing.

>>384466718
https://mintychu.dreamwidth.org/1371.html#cutid1

>>384466718
i assumed other androids but i don't remember the game actually saying.

>>384466782
Then we are in mutual agreement

>>384466718

Android illuminati aka android higher ups. They also probably created Accord.
I guess their goal was just to create stronger androids. Maybe to fight the watchers/God.
There's a gestalt project document mentioning a group that could refer to those higher ups.

>>384466938
wait where the hell did this come from?

>>384458506
You're only doing the exact same stuff for a couple of hours, and you have all of the side quests you missed to do (indeed, some are only available this second time through).

>>384467047

But the Watchers wanted to wipe out humanity. Humanity is already dead. Why bother building special robots to fight the Watchers thousands of years after White Chlorination Syndrome and the Legion stopped being a problem?

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I don't really get the transition from B to C/D.
Did they just upload 9S from the machine and into one of his bodies? And could they really teleport to the bunker without synchronizing their data?

>>384467060
Concert.
It added a lot of background lore including a small follow-up to ending E

>>384467330
What is said 'concert'? Literally a concert, or?

>>384466718
Other androids made the Yorha units, at first they were designed simply to be elite units but of course the project's purpose became to help fabricate the idea that mankind was alive and well and to help boost the severely low levels of android morale.

>>384467330
i really hate when important supplemental info shows up somewhere else. I'm assuming that concert was japan only.

>>384467315
They reconstructed his data inside android body, yes.
Flight units allow them to reach Bunker physically.

>>384467398
Concerts that played music from the games, and during each one the VAs came on stage and read these scripts.

>>384467460
So we are to assume that their flew back up to the Bunker after his data got back into an android body?

>>384467502
Excellent, thanks anon.

>>384462483
>>384463041
>>384463264
>>384463536
>>384464312
It's much simpler than that.

You should read the Side-Materials released with the concert and Strategy Guide book.
They are mandatory for any fan to read.

>>384467603
Yes.

>>384467675
Link to the strategy guide book?

>>384467776
No one uploaded it but there's a link to all the translated side-material that was released including post-Ending E.

>>384467675
What's the simple explanation then?

>>384467873
Yes, I have read all the concert scripts. That was a good read

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how does it feel to know that the series big mysteries will never be revealed because the head honcho only cares about making you cry

>>384457789
If you don't do sidequests (Which you should have already done on Route A) and knows where to go (Which you do by now), you'll be surprised by how fast you can blaze through a Route B playthrough.

Just do it, Route C is worth it.

>>384468176
I honestly don't want Taro to try and explain everything across the whole series, I feel like we'd end up with an MGS4 situation.

>>384468370
There's atleast 1 sidequest you can't do until route B that is extremely worth playing

>>384468370
>Which you should have already done on Route A
There are 9S specific sidequests though.

>>384468375
he probably doesn't care either, aren't the secondary materials all written by other people and he just gives them his approval?

>>384466823
9S's combat was significantly worse, you can't even deny it. And, route B is just a large portion of route A recycled, making it more repetitive and drainging since I've already gone through it all before.
>Y-YOU'RE PROBABLY JUST A
Shut the fuck up you little faggot. Literally every time someone dare makes a criticism of this game you make assumptions about them, it's really obnoxious and just makes people think you're a real shitty person.
I played the demo multiple times on hard, trying out different juggle combos and roundhouse attacks, but in the end the moveset isn't enough to carry a 40 hour game, it just isn't. It's like jingling car keys infront of a baby for 10 hours.

>>384468461
All route B specific side quests are cool or funny.
>that machine in village that merely pretends to be retarded
>game debugging
>wise machines
>Amnesia

>>384468548
Some he writes himself, some is other people that he approves.

>>384468578
>but in the end the moveset isn't enough to carry a 40 hour game
Good job the game is carried by much more than that.

>>384468578
>9S's combat was significantly worse
No, it's not. It's merely different and he's way stronger than 2B when you learn his tricks.
>Shut the fuck up you little faggot
Cry me a river you secondary bitch. I always enjoy looking at waifufaggots who got blown the fuck out by this game.

>>384468768
And by tricks you mean hacking, which is fucking tedious even though it deals far more damage than any of his attacks

Why even bother executing or comboing light and strong attacks if you can just hack shit

>>384468578
t. shit at hacking

>>384468548
He's collaborating with the same writer since the days of Drakengard 1 and she only works under his supervision.
I remember that she was kinda disturbed to write the side story about Octa in DoD3.

>>384468848
>And by tricks you mean hacking
Nope.

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>>384468621
>Amnesia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzdNqDHpNWo
I got chills when this started playing
>Eee hee hee

>>384468578
9S' combat is frankly gimped by the strength of hacking. Hacking should have been situationally powerful, not just a hold Y and play a minigame.

That said, it does open up a lot of variety if you control hacked machines. For example you can get the flying worm machines from the underground cult area out into the game world if you hack them. Plenty of other cool machines to play with.

But yeah, the weapon based combat is a bit shit compared to the first half, at least it gave me a chance to get used to some other weapons.

>>384468848
>And by tricks you mean hacking
And by trick i mean learning how to use his heavy attack and understand how strong his charge attacks are. It's faster than hacking and combined with certain weapons like demon's cry he wipes entire encounter in a single attack.
Good job showing that you don't know shit about the game.

>>384468945
>you can oneshot everything with a spear
>lol combat sucks with 9S

>>384467931
https://mintychu.dreamwidth.org/1371.html#cutid1

>>384468848
>Why even bother executing or comboing light and strong attacks if you can just hack shit
Because it's often quicker to fight enemies normally. No shit you find hacking tedious if you're doing it to everything.

>>384468869
DoD1 doesn't have any side materials does it? that weird bizarro 1 manga is 3's side material right?

>>384468461
>>384468481
Forgot about that but you unlock chapter select after C anyways.

If OP hates 9S so much, blast through the Route and then come back after you've finished C/D/E and fallen in love with the game.

>Inb4 >coming back after E

It's called making a backup

>>384469061
Bracer charged attack is even more bullshit against single target.
I honestly don't know if girls can pump the same DPS outside of B-mode.

>>384468965
Everyone knows how to use his heavy attack, the fuck do you mean with "trick"

>>384468768
>I always enjoy looking at waifufaggots who got blown the fuck out by this game.
If I was a waifufag I would be praising the shit out of this game.
Also I played on hard no problem, suck my dick. Pretentious melodrama only made me laugh. Nothing about this mediocre game could possibly "blow me the fuck out".

>>384469061
One shotting isn't particularly fun. 9S isn't difficult to play, it's just that with only two attack types his combat is less engaging. Hacking and using hacked bots is the only way to make it interesting relative to 2B's combat.

Even so, hacking breaks the pace of combat too much. It's all just a bit clumsy.

>>384469215
No, it's called being selfish. Which I am.

>>384469390
>Not giving back help after having your ass saved

It's almost as if you don't want the entire world to band together against nihilism through the power of video-games.

>>384469240
By trick i mean continuous combos without continuous combo chip, dodge cancels that work extremely well with his heavy strings and SD cancels that can be used on top of that to trigger special ability of type-3 weapons without even actually performing a combo string.
Learn the shit you're trying to bark about then come back you fucking clown.

>OP trying this hard to not finish a game
Retard.
The 9S segments start off kinda lame, but you can blitz through his part and the story still throws se curve balls at you.
The hacking game here on me as it went on, too.
Also, if you hold square you do a heavy attack, you'll need that.

>>384469346
>with only two attack types
?
The only thing he lacks relatively to girls is light-heavy transition attack.

>>384458140
I hate this meme, while his storyline was interesting to follow but gameplay-wise he was boring to play. Hacking your way through enemies is not fun and weapon switching makes combat even slower than before.

>>384457789
Not the second, but the third through fifth, so you should skip right ahead.

>>384457789
9S is the real protagonist. You just played the prologue.

>>384469464
I don't think the game's an argument against nihilism per se. I see it more as a rejection of existentialism, and the isolation that comes with it. Regardless of your disposition. Naturally that includes nihilistic existentialism, i.e., solipsism, but also absurdism and the other derivative concepts.

There's a clear line of reasoning from Hegel's commentary on though via grammar, through to Satre's personalising of rationalism; after all it is through the inherent knowledge of God that Descartes nixes the proto existentialism he comes up with, candle and all. At the same time we're reminded that the commonality of man, or the kinship, is not a unity a la the post-marxist schools of thought.

>>384469876
I may be mis-remembering but didn't he couldn't do all of the light combos could he? Or was it just that he couldn't do combos with both light and heavy attacks? Whichever it was I remember being able to do fewer cool combos. No doubt he's far more powerful than the other two though. Fist weapons were disgusting on 9S.

>>384459729
the only people who hate playing 9S are uncreative fucks who enjoy mashing one button to get flashy combos instead of putting effort into their smoking sicks style.

In the beginning of route C, you can decide only to hack 4 instead of 5 targets, it seems. Does it get harder if you only hack 4 of them? Or do you only get the extra items when hacking the fifth one?

>>384465872
>just like all taro games.
Neither Drakengard 1 or 3 tried to be emotional. Not even 2, for that matter.

>>384470436
I found 3 to be pretty depressing at times

>>384470297
I say Nihilism because of the questions the game throws at you during the Ending E (Trying to force you to admit it's all meaningless, which you reject).

But you could be right, I'm barely a beginner regarding philosophy.

>>384469151
DoD1 has a selection of novellas. They cover topics like how Verdelet is a coward and how Leonard realises he likes boys.
http://drakengard.wikia.com/wiki/Novellas

>>384470436
I don't know about you but 3's final boss was some beautiful shit man

>>384470804
I'm too busy failing it when the screen starts doing its own thing to appreciate it.

>>384470669
I'm no savant, so don't take my comment as anything more than musings.

I did think that the game was philosophically inconsistent though, being a pastiche of comments, some coherently linked, and others just there as they were.

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>>384470436
confirmed for never even touching them

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>>384470887
>relying on visuals

>>384457789
So in the end, the very end, where was their data stored uncorrupted that allowed them to be brought back?

>>384470436
>Not even 2, for that matter.

2 isn't made by Taro.

>>384470954
Ehh, I feel like the central theme ("Life is not meaningless, even when it actually is") was well done.

It's cool that the game allows for so many interpretations though, like SuperBunnyhop's marxist interpretation. It's rare for games to have this much depth.

>>384471050
Yes. The concert shows 2B trying to bring 9S back, failing, almost grieving herself to death, and then he miraculously comes back, implied to be through Player intervention again, and they live happily ever after together

>>384471050
in our hearts

WHY DO THESE FUCKING ROBOTS KEEP JUMPING OUT OF MY STRINGS

STOP JUMPING ASSHOLES

>>384471050
>>384471169
Oh shit I misunderstood the question, sorry.

On the pods, maybe?

>>384471169
I haven't read much of the discussion about the game, but maybe I'll have a look at it. I think that there were two well defined and contiguous themes running through the game. One was on the reduction of man to his existentialist self, an end-game of sorts to the cult of the individual, and the other a commentary on the structure and destructive failure of marxist ideologies and socialisms.

>throw spear at robot
>robot jumps backwards, same direction the spear is going
>spear does no damage
Fucking i-frames

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>>384471015
>implying

>>384471056
I know, but I was just adding it because none of the Drakengard games pull at the heartstrings, only Nier games.

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>>384471740
>he bought 2

Has anyone tried playing Drakengard (1) on PCSX2? Is it playable?

>>384473191
Just watch it on youtube. Don't put yourself though the actual gameplay. Best chapter select menu in vidya though.

>>384473403
Is it really that bad? How long is the game if you want to get all of the important endings and whatsnot? I find I put everything on 2x speed on youtube, and that kills most of the pleasure.

>>384473515
if you played the Dynasty Warriors games back on the PS2 then it should feel right at home.

>>384473618
Hmm, I'll give it a shot then.

>>384473515
You're looking at 10-15 hours for Endings A-D. Ending E is gonna take you another 10 because of all the weapons you need to collect just to reach it.

>>384473765
Alright, I'll have to get started then.

>>384470020
I had the most fun playing 9s. No need for weapon switching.

>>384473849
Good luck. And you will need a guide to find a good number of the weapons.

>>384473919
Thanks for the info anon.

>>384473953
What does Angel's Mercy and Devil's Hatred do? When you upgrade the angel and devil bracers this is one of their specials, but I don't know what it does

>>384475003
Angel's Mercy gives you HP for each defeated enemy, Devil's Hatred generates a shockwave when enemies are killed.

Consequently shockwave+crit+chain+Devil's Hatred is a quick oneshot to everything.

>>384475191
With Demon's Cry and 9S you literally need to hold the attack button and he will clear entire encounters with no other offensive chips equipped and while being at range.

It wasnt even worth playing a first time. What a shallow overrated piece of shit. Gameplay is terrible and easily platinums worst.

Story is regurgitated bullshit too.

>>384475412
>Story is regurgitated
What other games have a story like this? I'd like to know.

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>>384475412
honestly this. the majority of /v/ has the worst taste in gaming I've seen.

>>384475597
Guess that explains the Skyrim, Witcher and BotW threads.

>>384476075
it sure does anon

>>384475325
I should try that, I always had chips.

9S really is a powerhouse though. That and the game was really easy.

>>384457789
Hello Chad!

http://business.financialpost.com/technology/gaming/nier-automata-review-creative-daring-ambitious-oh-and-also-a-big-fat-mess

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>>384458670

>2E

Don't...

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>>384477807
>Her mission ended in failure. She failed as an E type. She’s now a defective product that can’t even justify her own operating costs.

>>384475532
Nier.

Automata story is a liter rehash of nier story. A2 ending is literally the same as the kain ending, with genders reversed

>>384470297
>rejection of existentialism
I think you're very wrong, considering much of the game makes use of existentialist concepts and basically revolves around a metaphor for meaningless existences given meaning through action.

>>384479175
this is by far the most retarded post in this thread
congratulations

>literal /r/ thread
>come in expecting faggot OP to be btfo
>everyone spoonfeeds him despite him acting like a literal 12 year old insufferable dickhead

Jesus Christ what happened to this place?

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>all these hidden spoilers
>just beat Simone as 9S
>Working everyday until Monday

Things are really gonna go full headfuck aren't they

As for all the complaints about playing as him? I can't relate. Being able to control the machines and play as them is great.

>>384479637
>spoiling yourself route C
AWAY
AWAY

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I've never played a platinum game or a nier game
What are the chances i'll like this game?

Those spherical robots look cute

>>384479379
You forgot you weren't on /a/.

>>384479808

I'm leaving, just grateful for people actually using the spoiler text

>>384479913
do you like tragedies?

>>384480089
I guess

>>384479913
Most people that complain about Automata are complaining because they play it expecting a Platinum game and instead they get a Taro Yoko game made by Platinum in order to be made competently. Since you don't have to worry about those preconcieved notions, just know that the gameplay is good/decent, music is spectacular, story is the main focus and that you should also play Nier 1. Also multiple endings.

>>384470362
You get an extra piece of dialogue if you hack all five.