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Day One Edition

>What is /ndg/?
A place to talk about Nier, Drakengard and Taros games

>Official Nier:Automata page
https://www.platinumgames.com/games/nier-automata/

>Important information
http://nier.wikia.com/wiki/NIER_Wiki
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Toobs bump
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I wish all the supplementary material was as short as Beepy's story
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I really hope Jackass gets some play time in the DLC.
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>>170997714
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Can we play as Adam in the DLC?
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Are we getting a DLC? Already?
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why did 2b send 9s away after bunker destruction
totally unnecessary
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>>170997714
>new home
Is this our C route, senpai?
Also does anyone have a 1080 screenshot with pic related?
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>>170999298
Because the things were doing EMPs and she wanted him to survive.
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>>170997714
>Niergard general

What a historic occasion this is.
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I'm ready for a 10 hour DLC expansion already.
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>>170999776
Taro literally said they couldn't make big DLC you faggot.
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>>170999726
Why can't we all universally agree that papa nier is the best nier?
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>>170999906
So does that mean I can't want it?
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Coming from a Souls series vet, I was thinking of picking this game up because of the waifu material.
Before I did, I was curious about how engaging the combat was.
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>>170999032
So all the shit that happens in Automata was basically Beepy's fault right?
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>>170999776

Same here, I usually hate DLC but I'm already jonesing for more so this time please bring on all the fucking DLC in the world

I went back and replayed Nier 1 just because I wanted more and that was the closest thing, now I'm considering buying DoD3

Help me
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HEY

HEY LOREFAGS

HOW THE FUCK

DID EMIL

NOT KNOW ABOUT GESTALT?
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>>170999983
No, why do people keep saying this?
Beepy's network has nothing to do with the alien Network
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EVERY DAY IS GREAT

WHEEEEEEEEEEEEN

YOUUUUUUUUUU'RE

MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

quote by genocide boy
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>>171000002
Its not the real emil.

Emil copied himself a shit ton to fight off the aliens but only gave them memories needed to fight.
The Copy Emils go crazy and lose bits of their minds without the aliens around to kill and die off.
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>>170999726
To be fair, this was tried a few times before Automata was announced but it kept falling off the board sadly. Should survive better these days though.

>>170999971
If you want a straight forward action game like Dark Souls/Bayonetta, it's not that.

The combat is interesting and has some cool shit to it though, but you want to be playing it for the story/concept more than anything.
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>>171000151
1. I was talking about Emil in Nier, not Automata.
2. It is the real Emil, you'd know that if you actually finished the game.
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>>171000056
Beepy is the one that gave them the spark of self awareness and the passion for humanity
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>>171000056
>I didn't play route B
lol
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>>171000235
I did. Its a Copy Emil.

In Nier 1 its because he was a test tube baby kept in a mansion away from literally everything why would he know about gestalts and replicants?
Its not like a scientist is going to say "hey! Lets tell this 10 year old super weapon top secret information."
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>>171000260
Yeah so how is everything in Automata Beepy's fault?
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>>171000442
The machines went on to kill their alien masters because they evolved too much thanks to beepy, and then they entered a state of perpetual war to avoid shutting down. If Beepy didn't happen to become space machine god they just would have fought to the death and either won or lost
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>>171000227
Cheers.
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>>171000537
Machines went on to kill aliens because Watchers took over the network.
The machines apart of the network killed the aliens, not ones that disconnected from it
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>>171000391
>can't spell a three letter word
>didn't finish Emil's quests and instead repeats misinformation as an argument due to retardation
Nice.
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I'm still crying.
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>>170999971
Nothing like Souls games. At all. More like DMC but not exactly like it either.
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>>171000642
are you the same guy constantly saying this in every thread? There's no indication of that ever happening. If anything, the machines got the red eyes by absorbing the gestalt data since the whole gestalt project was started to avoid WCS and those are things that are actually mentioned in the game
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>did the Ending E erase
>already raring to replay the game
PC port cannot come soon enough. I also wonder if there'll be actual mods like custom plug-in chips, model swaps, texture packs, etc? Really curious to see what comes out of it, but I'm perfectly fine with the base game as-is
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>>171000831
When did they absorb gestalt data? It's all on the moon.
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>>171000928
it is mentioned in the final document you unlock after the end of the game
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>>171000995
Post it, I deleted my save.
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does anything special happen if you just let the ending d/e credits roll without intervening
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>>171001035
Give me a few minutes and I'll post some pictures, I never figured out how to export ps4 screenshots because I am fucking retarded
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>>170999909
If Nier gets ported to PS4/PC, my only request is that they fix up his face. Give him actual eyebrows, scale the proportions a bit, etc.
His model looks way uglier than it should
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>finish Ending E
>was satisfied with it last night, loved it
>now feel like it's not quite over yet for some reason
I don't know what it is. I do plan to platinum it but I feel like it's more than just that. Is it just that I want more of the characters? Fuck, man.

I don't even want to play anything else right now.
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>>171001232
It's the feeling that a good game should leave, wanting more.
Alternatively you can get and fully upgrade all weapons to fight the secret boss.
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Played the ps4 version already but will buy the steam version as well. Hope we can mod textures desu. Will look great.
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>>171001101
Get a USB stick and go to the screenshot library thing and copy them over, then put USb on PC and pull the photos. ezpz. Alternatively you can share them on twitter but you'de have to save them out as something other than the retarded format that twitter converts them to.

Seriously, when it comes to downloading images and gifs and videos; fuck twitter.
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>>171001479
thanks for telling me but I already took the pics and uploading them on imgur, just give it a few minutes
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>>170999909

He is the best Nier. Like, there are individual story beats and lines that work better with the young Nier (because they were written for him in the first place) but the general motif of desperately trying to save Yonah no matter what the hardship or cost makes so much more sense when it's a parent trying to save his child than an older sibling trying to save the younger.

Is the Young Nier's father ever mentioned? Because I've got this headcanon that Papa Nier and Young Nier were actually part of the same family, and in one of the continuities the other one had died offscreen before the game starts.
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>popula/devola just standing in unreachable spot in town for majority of a/b
why why why let me talk to them earlier fuck taro fuck why
no one stops
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>>171002015
Wait what?
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DLC is region locked right? Fuck I might have to buy more JP PSN cards
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>>171002140
They are in the back of the resistance camp under an awning near the hobofire in the majority of A and B.
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Thanks for making a general!
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>>170999046
>yfw Jackass was trying to save YoRHa androids by getting them addicted to the android equivalent of ecstasy
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>>171002174
Same here, sucks.
But it was nice to play the game earlier and avoid spoilers.
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>>171001035
https://imgur.com/gallery/6pIGW
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>2B's subtle jealousy throughout the story when 9S tries to flirt with other androids
>that entire goddamn backstory
>flight unit message
>9S' madness
>that motherfucking true ending start screen
Are they the most heartwarming couple Taro ever did?
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Anyone willing to put a link up for the first game's soundtrack or Replicant's?
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>>171002003
The whole "we are friends" with Kaine doesn't really sound credible with Papa Nier though.

Personally, I think both are legit, but Brother Nier makes more sense with that stuff with Kaine but also the fact he had to sell his body at some point IIRC.
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>>170999726
Yonah a cute!
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>>171002348

They're a good couple. Good enough that I'm willing to ignore how they basically have no characteristics other than that they love each other.
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>>171002296
Jackass DLC incoming.
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>>171002368
>Brother Nier makes more sense with that stuff with Kaine but also the fact he had to sell his body at some point IIRC.

Papa Nier was a mafia legbreaker instead of a boywhore. Both have a past they're not proud of, it's just a different past.
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>>171002296
>"Traces of information regarding human memories from quantum server of the old model were discovered"

Old model? What she is referring to?
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List of 2B9S fanfic I found:

Set after Ending E.
https://nines-s.tumblr.com/post/158355031953/9s-realizes-suddenly-that-hes-crying-hes-not

9S and 2B try out a glitch to make them more responsive. SMUT
http://archiveofourown.org/works/10142798

and

2B is trapped in a cycle of hell, loss and love.
http://archiveofourown.org/works/10180091
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>>171002368
I took him saying "that's right, we're friends" as comedic and also a desperate attempt to keep people around him other than just wiess.
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>>171002701
>fanfics
What the fuck
Just wait for Taro for write some, there are short stories by him coming with world guide and strategy guide.
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>>171002915
I read on gamefaqs there's a novella about 2E killing 9S a couple of times prior to the game.

No idea where to find that though.
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>>171002915
Rekka is going to take forever translating them or not translate them at all.
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>>171003050
nier2.com/blog/2017/03/07/nierautomata-world-guide-novellas/

Are you talking about this one?
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>>171003156
Probably.
Just read it for a bit.
The part about sand in the shoes matches with devola and popola. Clever.
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2B is the kind of cute that doesn't even make me hard, it just makes me sad that real girls that cute will never ever want to even speak to me
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>>171003120
Rekka singlehandedly killed the western drakengard/nier translation community.
Look at how many people were working on this stuff before she started spamming her shit everywhere, it's a real shame
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>>171002675
>fixed state as a new network
>old model
it's referring to the old network, basically
Anyway you can add this to future OPs if you want, I keep adding shit but it's almost done by this point
https://mega.nz/#F!1U9FABJA!mMSLFtaWnMsjC5kNrzsgHA
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>>171002675
Original servers containing the gestalts. The "Shapes" the machines found are literally human souls they started to incorporate into machine cores which lead to the rise of sentient machines.
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>>171002368
Honestly I took that line as Papa Nier trying his best to put things into perspective and coming off as an utter dork
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>>171003709
wait fuck

since the Yorha folks are using repurposed machine cores, some of them might have legit souls?
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>>171003651
I'm quite surprised Jackass managed to salvage that. The collapse of the tower was quite messy after all.

>>171003709
wait what? I thought the moon server only had genetic data of the gestalt, not the gestalt themselves. Weren't they doomed because of NieR killing Shadowlord?
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>>171003651
If you maybe have the Japanese novellas, that would be nice.
See >>171003156

I'd rather read them instead of a translation by someone else.
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>>171004328
not yet, the book ships on the 22nd for me for some reason
I'll take some HQ pictures for you by then though if you're still hanging around these threads.
If you want, the archive includes some stuff that was never translated already (drakengard 1.3, ending E of nier)
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>>171004020
hinted in one of the Nier 1 endings shit might work out in some way. Technically it did but actual humanity is dead which made evryone think it was an utter failure. Moon servers only has the genetic material so they COULD make replicants but without souls to even latch onto cause they're in use they'd come out stillborn.
>>171003961
all of them do. Thats the irony of that decision as it was originally deemed cruel to use actual AI cores as thats equivalent to "killing someone" when the resets happen so now they're just "killing machines" without knowing the truth of the matter or the truth of their want to genocide machines in the name of Humanity.
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>>171004454
Very nice.
I'm thinking of buying the world guide myself, but I'll wait for a coupon code and order together with other stuff when the time is right.
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>>171004791
I still need to find a japanese black box edition for the nier novelization but the prices are insane
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warning warning shit opinions
jackass best girl
commander 2nd
devpop tie 3rd
21o honorable mention
2e and a2 lame af
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>>171004972
You started off strong and then tripped and broke your ankle on the trail there, anon.
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>>171004972
Let's discuss the commander's hips

Seriously in that one cutscene where it zooms out behind her it's fucking insane, I don't have a screenshot but her hips have to be 70 fuckin inches
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>>171004972
>2e and a2 lame af
What did you say about my girls, anon.
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>>171005254
>never get to see her outside the Bunker with it's gray out the ass filter

fucking shame
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>>171005254
Commanders can't be pushovers, anon.
You gotta stand strong against adversity.
To stand strong you need a strong base.
To have a strong base you gotta have strong legs.
To support those legs you gotta have strong hips.
its to facilitate her experimental usage as a baby factory. Someday all YorHa shall use this data for enhancement.
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>>171004972
I like that red haired yorha unit from 9S sidequest a lot.
Surprised you didn't even mention her.
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>got automata's endings A and B
>start the game again
>that beginning
ooooohhhhh fuuuuucccck
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>2B getting jealous that 9S is doing sidequests for pretty girls

CUTE!!!!!!!!!
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>>171005502
I loved it when 2B was jealous during the quest.
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>>171005502
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>>171005617
prepare for suffering
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>>171005617
I found it a bit weird that they advertise routes C and D at the end of route B.

Maybe they thought the players would think they have finished the game and would just stop playing?
On the end of route A they gave you a message too.
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Thread theme:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSuYuPz0dlU&t=20785s
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>>171005801
>Maybe they thought the players would think they have finished the game and would just stop playing?

Probably. I mean, it makes sense, since route B is basically new game + but from 9S POV, so of course you finish it and most people think, "oh, well that's it, only thing left is grinding money and material to upgrade weapons", so the advertisement they do right after the credits prompts you to play again
also, the bombshell the commander gives to 9S right before fighting Eve is more than enough hint to keep going
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>>171005967
I think you mean
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwBh_7zV4Wo
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I just met devola and popola

what
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>>171005801
>was hoping it would be that song
>it is
Very nice.
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>Square Enix shows up
>Difficulty goes from normal to hard

SHIT
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>>171006070
Yeah, I kinda thought it was over there but hoped there was more.

Then during route C I realized all the scenes present in advertisments for the game that I haven't yet seen.
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>>171006202
This is correct.
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How do I get unit data on big zombie robo in the park? They're all friendly to me and killing them doesn't do shit.
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>>171006297
taro was warning us
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>>171005801

And yet there are still people who played route A and quit the game thinking they finished it.

Cannot underestimate the stupidity of people.
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>>170997714
OST pastebin when?
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Okay so, there is one big dude and one small dude on this bridge, they are the TANKIEST mother fuckers alive. Only level 26 but I do basically 0 damage. I've got level 3 weapons.

What gives?
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>>171006567

Gold robots can be damaged solely through hacking anon
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>>171006567
Ignore them for now and deal with them in route B.

I killed them in 15 minute battles at that point in the game and it's not worth it.
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>>171006567
gold plating is powerful stuff
you're supposed to wait until 2nd playthrough but they don't tell you that ;)
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>>171006607
No, they're just really resistant to normal damage.
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>>170999971
>Coming from a Souls series vet

Fuck off.
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>>171005793
>2B thinks that 9S only wants to help because he thinks she's cute
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>>171006567
>robo monk faggot and that other fuckhead in the cannon are those models
really annoying
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Do I have to like anime to like this game?

thx
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>reach the Flooded City
>no Combat Bracers yet

I just want to punch shit.
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>>171004883
The novel sometimes comes up on auctions by itself on auctions for somewhat more reasonable prices.
If you consider 10000 yen for a book reasonable, still better than 60000
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>>171006880

Or 2B did that whole act to distract 9S from thinking further about E types and stuff.
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>>171007126
Nah, I think she was just jelly.
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>>171007091
No, it suffices if you enjoy suffering and despair.
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>>171007126
She seems to be pretty jealous when he tries to flirt with other androids in general.
Existence of E models itself is not a secret.
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>yfw 2B accidentally starts to say "Nines" and stops herself
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>>171005801
They learned from their past mistakes that gamers are idiots and don't know there is more than one path.
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>>171007394

Yeah but that E type is blurting out their true purpose in front of another one.

If this were a western game 2B would've beheaded that android halfway through a sentence.
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>>171007473
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Anyone know what the name of the song is that plays when you're zooming up the Tower swapping between Nines and A2?
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>>171007473
>yfw flight unit voice recording
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>>171007473
>clenched fist in "glory to humankind" scene
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>>171007473
I know the feeling. I was feeling fuzzy inside. She probably used to call him that before things went to shit.
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>>171007768
what is it?
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>>171007892
go and find it
don't ruin things for yourself
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hello friends

I own Nier on PS3 but I never finished it, not even one ending. I started doing sidequests and I got bored.

I'm loving Automata and I'm going to finish it and go back and finish Nier.

But, without spoiling, just how much am I missing not having finished Nier going into Automata?
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Would you rather have 6 or 21O as your Operator, assuming you were a member of YoRHa?
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>ywn be completely oblivious to a beautiful girl's feelings toward you because she has to conceal them
>she will never tease you for chasing pretty girls to conceal her jealousy

just end it now, friends
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>>171007473
>2B probably invented the nickname in the first place
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>>171007892
Look for it in the flooded ruins.
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>>171007950
I can't
I already achieved e
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>>171007892
You didn't find it?
Boy you missed something.

Go to the flooded city.
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>>171007473

Too bad "Nine...ze" doesn't work in English. Localization doesn't get a cookie this time.
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>60 gets turned down by a cutie

poor girl

>you will never be the cutie girl that would have accepted 60s proposal and had strange space bunker sex
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>>171007993
21O
She did nothing wrong.
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>>171008072
https://my.mixtape.moe/wocsmw.webm
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>>171007990
You won't understand several documents in Automata that relate to the gestalts and replicants, several throwbacks/references, and the importance of several characters like Emil and Yonah but you'll understand the core story.
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>>171007301

there are no happy moments in this game?
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There's something oddly romantic about 9S going on a genocide crusade because of 2B.
I doubt she will even be mad at him for tis.
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>>171008287
I know a little about Emil but yeah I've never heard Yonah.

I will go back and finish Nier.
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>>171008303
ehhh, endings A and B?
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>>171008218
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>>171008091
Nine zuh sounds close enough, I guess?
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Whatcha listening to /ndg/?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=JHqeZi5W05A
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>>171008072
Your noble sacrifice will not be forgotten. I wonder how many people choose to go through with it, I did.

Might start another playthrough when the first DLC comes out. Ths time bare handed mode.
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>>171008345
You don't necessarily have to play it to understand Automata, but I do feel like a lot of things will go over your head. It gives the game some extra charm when you're able to recognize events and details that happened in the first Nier.
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So I was browsing the enemy data for Nier Automata and apparently it confirms ending C (A2 winning) as being canon, do they change according to which ending you got last or is it a confirmation?
basically the 9s description and the A2 one both confirm 9S died at the hands of A2, but maybe it changes depending on which ending you got?
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>>171008340
She won't be mad at him. She'll understand because she would've done the same thing or killed herself.
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>>171008905
there will be DLC?
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>>171009026
>do they change according to which ending you got last or is it a confirmation?
Ending E is regarded as the true/canon ending, which is the closest you'll get to a happy ending like Yoko Taro promised. As for it changing based on which ending you get I can't confirm that because I've never checked.
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>mfw happily deleting my save data

I was cautious about it because I thought there was going to be an extra scene if you don't delete your shit, but seeing how there isn't, I happily did it without any regrets.

The fact that I could help someone with the chaos during those credits is good enough for me.
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>>171009261
Yeah I gladly did it as well.

>tfw it slowly goes through all your menus and erases every single item, weapon, intel
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>>171009259
well yeah obviously ending E takes place regardless of the outcome of the final battle, I was just curious wether or not said outcome actually has a canon confirmation in-game since the character descriptions specifically mention that
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>>171007990
>>171008287
>But, without spoiling, just how much am I missing not having finished Nier going into Automata?

The biggest thing you'll miss is not in Automata, but in Nier itself. Because Automata just casually spoils all the major twists of the original in a much less dramatic form. Playing the original game isn't required for Automata, but you'll enjoy the original game much less if you play Automata first, not just because of technological reasons but story reasons too.
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>>171007768
Which character do you find it as?
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>>171009261
I will play up to the part where help starts to comes in, then cease firing and just keep my system running to completely empty out the queue on the server.
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Did you like the E credits, /vg/?
You gave your power to other friends, right?
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>>171009624
Who do you think?
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>>171009957
"I know it's tough right now. But just remember: there's light ahead."
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>>171009957
>he didn't give up his progress to help a friend
someone somewhere did this.
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>>171009957
I wish I could remember what my message was.

>Keep standing back up!
>Just remember,
>The whole world is rooting for you!

I know the second and third lines are correct but I'm not sure if the first is correct.
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>>171009957

The gimmick is really cool, but I don't like that it's literally impossible without online help. I don't like parts of any game being sealed behind an online wall because I'm always thinking of the future when internet becomes outlawed.
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>>171009957
>>171010260
I think I picked something along the lines of

>2B and 9S gave it their all.
>That's why,
>You can't give up now!
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On every chapter I am missing one shared quest, is it the same one?
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>>171006607
I killed them as toobie, it just takes forever.
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>>171009957
>already forgot what i wrote
whoops
not gonna bother on pc though
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>>171010380
they're going to make cheats for it once the pc version drops.
I don't like it but that's a long term solution at least, people will stop playing this game eventually
>>171010427
probably yes, you unlock one once you max out all the weapons
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>>171007096
Emil sells some, go catch him
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>>171010380
The weight of the world cannot be carried alone.

If in the future things change that's not the developers fault, they never could have sent this message as well as they did if they cared about such things.
As they said, the future is uncertain...
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>>171010380
I think the point is that it's impossible to do this alone rather than an online only function.

Is it kinda shite in the respect that you need online, but most people nowadays should have it. You don't even need PS+. And for the Stream users it's gonna be on reagardless unless they play offline. Far more goods then bads.
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>>171010385
>>171010260

Just imagine if there was a type-in option. Every single message would be something like "JEWS DID 9/11".

In fact I hope the PC version does that just to see the next level of shitposting.
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>>171010768
If you scroll through the options, the devteam definitely allowed for shit-talking other players.
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>tfw backed up my save data last night before I did ending E
>load back up the saves
>it's older saves and not the save I made last night.
>the system data is from last night
>not the saves

I'm confused.
I have three files saved.
One is system data from last night and the other two are save files, but one is a super old save file I didn't have before.. Some one help.
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>>171010706
>>171010732
>I think the point is that it's impossible to do this alone

Yeah I get it, it's symbolic as fuck, but at some point in the future, 10 years from now or 20, it's going to become impossible for people to reach ending E and I'm pre-emptively upset about that. Unless they patch in something like a "win this shit" button that activates after you lose 100 times or something.
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>>171011212
Didn't someone mention how there are NPCs from previous games that come to assist the player when there's no online help left?
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>>171011212
Thinking about the here and now, anon, not 10 years in the future.
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>>171011313

Is that a real thing, speculation or wishful thinking?
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>>171011212
How many times do we have to tell you there are NPC rescuers
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>>171011059
pls respond
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>>171011367

That's not how I live my life.
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>>171011059
>>171011508
Don't be a cheater and delete your backups now.
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>>171010260
>>171010385
>It was hard for me as well.
>Be that as it may
>let's see how this really ends.
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>>171011410

If there are, how come they didn't activate when Liam had no online connection and spent two hours bashing his head against the credits?
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>>171003651
Hey man, I'm the guy that offered to translate the timeline, did you see my reply? Are you going to redo the pictures of should I give up?
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>>171011661
>Watches lets players
>No connection
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>>171011561
The only thing I still have is the System data which is apparently nothing.
I wanted to go fight Super boss but backed up and did the E ending so I could stop avoiding threads.
I had a wonderful time and deleted my data, but apparently I didn't /do/ the backup correctly or fucking something.

Only my System Data is current. My only save from the back up was 40 hours back. This is enough of a punishment.
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>>171011703
oh I missed your email, I'll check it out in like 30 minutes when I get home and give you everything you're missing
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>>171010596
He didn't sell any weapons last time I found him
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>>171011794

His PSN account was deactivated at the moment by Sony and he couldn't go online, so he tried to beat the credits offline on his stream. For two hours. No help arrived.

This NPC helper thing sounds like wishful thinking unless somebody can provide proof.
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>>171012002
His inventory rotates, keep reloading until you get one selling weapons.
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>>171012097
Is there a way to find him easily?
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>>171012097
No his inventory does not rotate. It's dependant on where you stop him on the map.

>>171012158
You want to stop him in front of the resistance camp.
The best way to do this is to teleport to the City Ruins: Factory point and save and reload until his roaut clearly takes him there.
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>>171009957
The fucking chorus breaks me every time I hear it kick in.

https://youtu.be/M-4BV4A35bQ
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>>171011212
10 years from now it will stand together with DOD1 and DOD3 bullshit final bosses.

>>171011384
It's people naming their saves "Weiss" and "Nier" and people thinking those are NPCs
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>>171012634
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>>171012634
>Pod 042
>Pod 153
>2B
>9S
>A2
>You, the player?
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>>171012861
Wouldn't be surprised. The pods talk directly to the player during the ending too.
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Why the fuck is there no physical PC release, this could've been the first game I bought at full price in literally more than a decade.
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oh shit, /dodg/ is back
don't forget to include the link to the mega with all the OSTs except Automata's in the next thread
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>>171013610
digital era
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFhM1ayTsqE
day 4 of listening to this song and nothing else
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>>171012634
So, if everyone loses 7-8 people's data in the credits, how will this helping others thing ever work?

Or is the data you give up on the server permanently?
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>people pronouncing it otta motta
Automata's not a hard word. It's like automaton, but it ends with an a. Shit gets under my skin.
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>>171014164
I don't think anyone knows exactly how it works. But I have to assume they pre-seeded it at some point or how else would reviewers / first players have been able to beat it.

I assume if someone manages to lose everyone's data you'll just get canned messages until they repopulate.
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>>171007747
BIPOLAR NIGHTMARE
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>>171014454
Onomatopoeia.
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>>171014454
When I say Nier Automata I will say it exactly the same way Taro says it and no other way
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>>171013807
but consoles get it
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Sup /ndg/. Nice to see that you got this going, I quite enjoyed the comfy /v/ threads last night.
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>>171014634
Because published by square enix and sony.

Ask the localizers why they didn't care.
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I was supposed to do C and D to get E but instead went to D and then right to E.
I didn't delete my save, got help and got scenes with Pod transport services and 3 MCs being alive.
Is this definite ending or I'm missing something? It was late at night, I was confused af, tired because of marathon and had to get up for work in 6 hours.
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>>171014698
I just couldn't help myself.
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>>171014867
Yeah that ending was my favorite
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>Perhaps we now understand that not everything has to have an answer

I've watched the ending like five times now and the pod dialog plus the music gets me every time
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>tfw no 2B to give chocolate
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what is with this game and reawakening my fetish for everything below the chest?

>Toobie butt, A2 thighs, PopoanDevo midriff
Help. I want to fuck the android.
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Where does the 6 hour soundtrack on youtube come from? Any way to get it in decent quality?
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>>171015719
>they'll never wake you after toying with you for hours
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>>171015871
Need a webm of this scene, looks so...enticing in motion
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>>171015871
>you can see them in a background long time before you even interact
It was worth the wait. They didn't deserve the shit they've been put through
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>>171016225
Nier did nothing wrong
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>>170997714
>Nier/Drakengard General

What a time to be alive.
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>>171016336
I doubt it's gonna last long.
Or it'll become really fucking bad and we'll want it to end.
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Someone explain to me Zero's thing.
Is she just a sloot that had a good singing voice?
When and how does Dod3 take place? It seems a tad off brand to be a Drakengard game.

I get the basic gist of the plot but I still just don't know about her specifically before her parts broke off and why she was important before that happened.
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>>171015730
I think it's just recorded from the jukebox or maybe ripped from the game files directly.

The official soundtrack won't have all the variations with different machine chants and whatnot.
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>>171016524
Play the game
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>>171016524

Drakengard 3 happens like a thousand years before Drakengard 1 or something. It's chronologically the first game in the series.
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>>171002003
>>Papa Nier and Young Nier were actually part of the same family, and in one of the continuities the other one had died offscreen before the game starts.
That's my headcanon too, also never saw anyone discuss this
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So, how cuhrayzee can you get in this game?
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>>170999046
Instead of boars and moose she could ride a shopping cart.
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>>171016772
>1412
>1312

Huh. That's weird. Why would they alter that?
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>>171016805
I only played a handful of Platinum games but;

>COME...2B! adam boss fight
>the first so-shi boss fight where you wait for 9S to hack in overhead view and then zoom in close range when the music kicks in
>the last tower where you alternate killing two bosses between two different characters

was some of the best theyve ever done
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>>171016453
I'll enjoy it for the moment anywho.

The future is not given to you.
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>>171016524
She was a dying child prostitute who got attacked by a parasitic alien plant. That gave her powers and kept her alive. She tried to kill herself, so the plant shat out the sisters to propogate it's powers..
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Question: How the fuck do I remote hack enemies?
I;ve palyed trough this entire god damned game and I've not figured it out.
I want to do the rabbit robot farm.
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Stupid Question: If I have overclock equipped and I dodge while it's active does it start another instance of overclock?

I'd try it myself, but I'm away from my PS4 and I just realized I've never used it.
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>>171016896
Different iterations of replicants. The one we happen to see is just when shit happens to hit the fan in each particular instance.
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>>171002264
We have the druggies, the scanner at the castle, and that girl chilling out beyond the sandstorm at the oasis, all survive the purge.

Together they'll be a family.
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>>171016805
>>171017007
Pretty much.

I hate when they make bosses talk during the fight though.

My brain can't keep up while having to concentrate on the battle. I hear the words but they aren't processed.
Always have to rewatch those parts.
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>>171017134
You have to hack a stubby that's not aware of you to take over. From the stubby you can overtake anyone. They taught you that in the story mission, come on.
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>>171017273
The pods say all Yorha black box reactions are ceased in ending E, though.
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>>171017134
To control them?

It's basically a matter of sneaking up behind them, and hacking them from far enough away that they don't notice you.
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>>171016524
Read the novella. It explains her life up to when she got the flower, which isn't explained in game.

tl;dr of it is that She was born in some ultra shit slums, her mother was a poor woman who didn't give a fuck about her, her father was likely some rando who fucked her mother and went on with his life. Her mother sold her to a brothel as soon as she was old enough to be wanted by one, then Zero spent a reasonable portion of her teen life working in said brothel.

After a failed escape and a betrayal by one of her friends, she murders everyone at the brothel and becomes a travelling thief. Eventually she comes across one of her old clients from the brothel and teams up with him, but she comes down with a disease that makes her weaker and less able to pull her weight, so the guy betrays her and attempts to kill her in her sleep, but she gets him instead. After that she becomes a travelling murder hobo and questions why she's even still living. Eventually the authorities catch her, torture her and then sentence her to death for her crimes, then as she dies the flower appears before her, making her an immortal bringer-of-the-end-times.


I don't know where it was stated but I remember being told the flower simply picked her because of her immense distaste for the world and the life she'd had in it.
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>>171017134
If you have a question you can ask them in the game
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>>171009445
I'll say this as someone who never played Nier:
When I started reading the Gestalt Project's entries I actually got a few chills. Knowing some of the past through documents hidden in records felt like I was discovering something very important. Reading backwards didn't feel like I was spoiled, though I knew I was. I'm excited to play through Nier though.
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>>171017416
Storm-walls and drugs clearly affect their wireless signal.

I say in naive hope.
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>>171009445
Automata also ruins Emil's theme forever.
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>>171017571
>she comes down with a disease
>so the guy betrays her and attempts to kill her in her sleep

What the hell would he get out of that?
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>>171010260
>This world is rife with hardship.
>One thing is certain:
> I'm in your corner!
;_;
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>>171018062
Her body, probably. This is fucking Drakengard.
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>>171007950
>>171008050
>>171008084
Is is available from the start of Route C?
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>>171016842
Fuck, now I wanna see Yoko Taro's Pro Skateboarder
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>>171017792
Enjoy, as someone who thought N:A was amazing and would be a total improvement, I actually felt like it lacked some of Nier's charm: Nier 1 had a lot more dialogue, which makes sense with human characters instead of androids, but it made the party feel a lot more livelier than 2B and especially A2 and her huge lack of sidequests.

That, and Nier 1's overworld while smaller and less well designed than Automata's feels a bit more substantial because its more populated, has larger dungeons, etc.
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>>171018216
Once you get to choose between A2 and 9S
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>>171017321
>>171017395
>>171017438
Thanks anons. I've now picked a fight with a level 80 rabbit even though I'm level 37 on this save file.
I miss my 90% save but I don't regret sending friends my energy
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>>171018320
Just keep hacking his shit and enjoy your EXP
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>>171018303
please no
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>>171018062
They were both known criminals. If he'd just left her behind to be taken by the disease, she could've ratted him out before she died or something. At least I believe that's the reasoning given in the novella.
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Anybody knows exact release hours?

Will pre-download be available?
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>>171010260
>It was hard for me too.
>Nevertheless,
>I'm here for you

Or something to that effect.
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>>171018558
>>171017571
why does Zero still engage in the sex if it was a bad time
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>>171018296
Correct my of I'm wrong, but I believe A2 had a Stage Play that was only referenced in a few logs. Personally, I wanted more of the twins, but what was included was nice.
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Meant >>171018547 to go to >>171018154
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>>171018320
>literaly have rabbit on its last sliver.
decide to go in for the kill
>get hit by a bullet and die instantly.
>mfw
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>>171018694
Flower increases libido, which is why all the Intoners have sex buddies.

Zero doesn't seem to actually dislike the act either way, considering her dialogue with Octa and Decadus near the end where she straight up tells them how she likes it (that Octa is way too into pleasuring just himself and that while Decadus is a gentleman in bed and Zero does enjoy a bit of femdom, he wants that angle a bit too hard).

>>171018296
I definitely feel like the cast of Nier 1 was more enjoyable for me. 2B is a bit too passive when it comes to interacting with the other characters, and 9S only really got super interesting by route C/D. A2 was cool as fuck, but there wasn't enough of her.

Maybe I'm just spoiled by Drakengard 3 and Nier 1 having so much banter with a lively main party and I kind of expected it here when I shouldn't though. Not that Automata didn't have the some good banter though.
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>>171017571
>Read the novella. It explains her life up to when she got the flower, which isn't explained in game.
>he did this shit in Nier too

If there's one thing I wish Taro would fucking stop doing is putting half the story in some side material that comes later in Japanese only. Fuck.
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>>171019510
Isn't 4 not a sloot though. Also if this is a prequal than why are elves in Drakengard 1 if 4 genocided all elves
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>>171019603
She masterbated like a 13 year old who just discovered you can poke the thing between your legs to feel good.
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http://www.strawpoll.me/12530179
http://www.strawpoll.me/12530179
http://www.strawpoll.me/12530179
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can i run automata on 660m?
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>>171018296
Yeah, I feel like Nier and Automata went for and accomplished different things.

I loved exploring Automata's desolate world and side-quests, but I wish that the camps or the bunker felt a little more lively to make up for the lack of actual towns.

And 2B's aloof interactions with 9S and the others really fit with the tragic revelations about her character, but I did miss the lighthearted group interactions that Nier and his band of misfits had.

Kind of apples and oranges.
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>>171019603
4 is a virgin, but that doesn't stop her wanting the Deca-dick.

Pretty sure it's stated somewhere (novella maybe?) that she had him stand outside her room as a guard and she'd masturbate loudly, hoping he'd come in and fuck her, but he always assumed that she was actually just teasing him by letting him hear it but not letting him fuck her.

And her intoner memories straight up have her say "I-it's not like I actually wanted you to fuck me" when she talks about Decadus.
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>>171020035
I want to hug A2!
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I should feel bad but I chuckled when A2 stabbed Operator in front of 9S. They just keep meeting in wrong moments.
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>>171019560
It doesn't help that he didn't really get all of the time in the world on his games. You can liken him to Hideo Kojima, but SqEnix just gives him a game and doesn't let him take all the time in the world with no spending oversight. I think Nier was a well-coordinated hail mary, but even then he didn't get everything in, but tried to include a lot of side-plot as text exposition.
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>>171020286
>>171019854
I'm entirely unsure if this is the best or the fucking worst.
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>>171020035
Hard to say.

I did like 2B, but so much of her character is left to tragic implication about what she's repressing that A2 gets the meatier part of the narrative in the end.

I doubt we'll get a huge prequel DLC, but I would have really liked to see one or two of her real first missions with 9S. And the first time she had to deal with killing him.
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>>171020286
This game sounds way too lewd for me.
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THE METACRITIC SCORE IS NOW 88 I REPEAT THE METACRITIC SCORE IS NOW 88 ABANDON THREAD THIS GAME IS NOW IREEDEEMABLE TRASH I REPEAT ABANDON THREAD
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Can anybody help me find the Small Biped EMP (apparently appear near Engel's arm) and confirm the Thorn Snake things actually appear in the sunken city?
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>>171020035
What's the deal here? Better personality even though less screentime? Major/Kaine vibes? Fact that she's single that makes her better waifu material?
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>>171013610
There is tho.
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>>171020468
I am glad the text adventures made it in.

I thought they were more fun as atmospheric detours in the first Nier, but I'm glad they made time to include some character background info in-game this time.
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>>171020665
Good, it's a piece of shit compared to Nier, no amount of autistic talk about the """themes""" will never change that
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>>171020118
Going for two different things is a good way to put it.

I thought Automata's final scene was just as good as Nier 1's conclusion which is high praise. Getting to see 2B/9S' relationship twisted around like that messed with the main game a lot, to the point that I wonder that said moment would lose power if we were better acquainted with those two if they were more developed.

It's hard to defend A2 getting a grand total of three or four sidequests and barely any dialogue though to the point where people are expecting story DLC.
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So I bought some sort of costume thing from Emil but I dont see it under any of my inventory screens or in the key items.

Does anyone know what it is and how to use it?
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>>171020665
Pretty sad, desu. It's probably the best game to come out this year.
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>>171020572

Didn't Taro explicitly promise a ton of DLC? The three suicide robot doors certainly seem to imply such.
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>>171020964
self destruct and try to use the item you bought
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>>171020871
Best girls
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Where can I find pristine cables and pristine screws? Only thing I'm missing for ending Y
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>>171021118
I'm not sure I follow. I literally don't see the item in my inventory. I don't even remember what it's called. I don't even know how to self destruct.
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>>171021045
I think they said in a recent interview not to expect extra story content.

It'd be nice if that changes, but I don't want to get my hopes up.
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>>171020927
Why is it that any amount of negative talk about any game at all is an open invitation for shitposting?
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>physical copies in my third world country make it so the patches don't work
Well I guess that means no Weiss pod and Engine blade for me. Or any online elements at all until square fixes this.
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>>171020964
You just didn't check properly. Dress Module is in the key items.


[Use] switches the current costume of your character with its damaged form and vice versa.
[Equip] always reverts the costume into normal and prevents it to be damaged.
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>>171021045
I read on Japanese forums about a randomly generated dungeons to farm chips or something.

>>171021269
He's out of letters though, Ending 1-10 incoming?
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If I start the original NieR now and keen it, could I get all the endings before it came out on friday? Or is is quite a long game?
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>>171020964
Bug maybe?

I saw it listed near the accessories in key items.
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>>171021243
Open the Menu and go to key items and then check the tutorial in the Intel to learn how to self destruct
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>>171002003
>the general motif of desperately trying to save Yonah no matter what the hardship or cost makes so much more sense when it's a parent trying to save his child than an older sibling trying to save the younger.

not in japan, parents aren't lovable people, they scold children most of the time and they are never there, siblings on the other hand share bath-tubs even during puberty and end up cooking for one another and passing the time togheter growing close, I know it sounds totally anime but I've been an exchange student in kyoto and that's literally what I saw
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With Chapter select can I jump anywhere, complete quest or two, get exp, save and load any other chapter as natural progression?
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>>171020286
>>171019603
>>171019510
So if this is all true then why does 5 exist and represent if they are all lewd.
Also why does 5 have a shota
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>>171021274
CUTE

>>171021417
Nier is the shortest game in the series, you'll be fine
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>>171021274
What's that attack 9S does in the beginning?
Maybe I should have used that short sword more.
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>>171020725
2B is just too passive. I like her and I like her story, but A2s personality reminds me more of the Kaine/Zero style personalities and the banter they got involved in that I loved a lot.

Like that one bit where she's taking on N2 in hackerspace.

>Proposal.
>What now?
>Utilize the enemies logical learning function to formulate a weakness.
>I don't know what that means!
>This pod has serious concerns about unit A2s cognitive abilities.
>Shut up and explain it already.


This shit almost felt like something Kaine and Weiss would say and I love it.
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>>171021274
>fist bump at the end
I laughed. thanks, anon.
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>>171021417
It's not a long game, no. 30 hours for the first two endings, and the last two endings change so little of the main game besides an extra few scenes at the end that you could just watch those.
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>>171021535
Pod Program Mirage
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>>171021417
Put it on Easy mode and don't be afraid to use a guide if you're trying to finish grindier side-quests and fishing requests, but I don't think it's a terribly long game otherwise.
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>>171021328
>>171021419
>>171021423

If I equip the Blue Ribbon, the Dress Module disappears from the list. Bug? Intentional?
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>>171021045
Oh Fuck I forgot about those
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>>171021683
Ah, I never used that one.
Always went with 3 times charged blade to shred through everything
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>>171021607
Yeah, and I thought it was a form of being aggressive/frustrated that still made her likable, rather than just being edgy and confrontational.

2B has her moments as well, but for a lot of side-quests she just lets 9S do all the talking.
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>>171020118
>Yeah, I feel like Nier and Automata went for and accomplished different things.
All Taro games go for different things, that's exactly why I like his shit
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What super NSFW fanart is needed the most?
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>>171021274
How do I fist bump the bot?
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>>171020665
Having looked at the reviews, at least I know the people giving it shit reviews are idiots who played one route and stopped. About on par with the Nier 1 fishing nonsense.
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>>171022138
9S hacking 2B for lewd time, alternatively 2B domination.
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>>171022138
Jackass
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>>171021607
A2 is not an E unit that should be giggling like a lunatic at this point as the other one.

She has pretty much no real role in the story other than to act as a mouthpiece for 2B after she's gone and just be there because she and N2 were both part of the stage play, but unlike 2B that took until I started doing side quests to really get me interested in her, I wanted to fuck A2 minutes after she was playable despite the less attractive frame.
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>>171022178
Same as patting it with 2B, with the PS4 controller's touchpad thingy.
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>>171022178
Stroke the ps4 controller's touchpad.

Stroke it.
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>>171022178
rub touchpad
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>>171021724
Maybe a bug? I tested it and the dress module stays for me
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>>171022138
Red haired E-type Yorha model.
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>>171021274

WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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>>171005657
>Emil's truck being in the BG
Every fucking time. Fighting Father Servo was priceless since I had that in the BG the whole time.
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>>171022629
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R8-HFR5coQ
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>>171020948
I didn't really like Nier's ending nearly as much as I did Automata's. Nier didn't really contribute anything to the series and as a whole and was just a completely personal story, but Automata is a culmination of everything from the first game all the way till now, with all the ideas coming to a head with Ending E. It almost feels like a conclusion to the series.

Nier is a game where the characters are way more compelling than the themes. Automata is basically the inverse of this, with the exception of characters like 9S who are carrying all the themes with them as the game goes on.
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>>171022629
The fucking worst is when you want to use the jukebox and Emil decides to drive outside the Resistance Camp
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>>171022138
The twins
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>>171023147
>It almost feels like a conclusion to the series.

I assume it's because Taro thought this was the last time he'd ever get to make a game that's not mobiletrash.
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>>171023410
I hope Taro gets more. Maybe this will be his MGSIII.
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>>171023535
Automata is his MGS2, the real meat of the game assumes you're invested in the series as much as MGS2 assumed you were someone that played MGS1.
9S is Raiden, 042 is Snake
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>>171019560
Come on, this shit would be Nier impossible to put into the game unless he inserted full novellas into every title. Most of the time it is literally supplementary information meant to expand on characters in the world in the first place, so it's A-OK.
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>>171023690
A2 (2B tangentially) and the pods are all Snake together
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>>171023690
Is there any good video to watch before playing Automata assuming you never played this series before?
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Where would you put Automata on this scale?
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What the flying fuck. I finished E with 50/60 quests. Now I loaded chapter to search for Flight Unit just to see I'm 45/60 done, i.e. Gathering Keepsakes is missing.
Also, can I reply quests I've picked and hadn't complete?
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>>171023871
Where Nier and DOD3 are in the orange and DOD1 is in the red, Automata is in the red
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>>171023873
I made the same mistake my dude

Gathering Keepsakes ends at Emil's Flower Farm, not at the camp when you get the items
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>>171023840
There are full Let's Plays, and people usually point to Clemps for summary and analysis on Drakengard/Nier.

I'd recommend checking out the first game for yourself at some point though if you're interested in the story and have the means.
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>>171023871
smiling thumbs up guy.
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>>171023871
If you played the first Nier, it's pretty much orange to red tier.
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>>171023840
I'd recommend this, although it only covers up to the demo of Automata.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE6n2KGbaZ0

I'm sure there's something better out there somebody could link to.
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>>171023840
Two Best Friends play Nier Gestalt is alright, but I just like those guys. If you want, you can just watch a summary of it's lore. There are a few good ones that go for about 30 minutes.
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>>171023871
Top Yellow during Route A, Top Blue during Route B, Red during Route C/D/E.
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>>171023871
I was the last 3 from left to right through all the game
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>>171024004
>Gathering Keepsakes ends at Emil's Flower Farm
And is depressing as fuck
9S had no intentions of evolving, after he had no enemy left to fight he was just gonna kill himself. Popola probably would've done the same if she'd beaten Nier (as would any non-human that lost everything in this series, unless they could make an enemy out of someone else).
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Don't know what it says, but it's qt!
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>>171023871
I haven't hyped or marathoned any other game this much in 30 years of my life. It's not perfect game but god tier experience if it suits your taste.
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http://business.financialpost.com/fp-tech-desk/post-arcade/nier-automata-review-creative-daring-ambitious-oh-and-also-a-big-fat-mess?__lsa=07cd-5d0b

Hilarious!
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>>171023690
>>171023813
>A2 (2B tangentially) and the pods are all Snake together
You just blew my mind there
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>>171024358
It's probably clickbait.
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>>171024358
Isn't this the guy that's getting attacked from all sides (fans and other reviewers) for making this review?
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>>171024358
Clicks = Money

Retard.
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Just started playing recently and got to the boss in the amusement park

>when the music syncs with the boss's attacks

MUH FUCKIN' DICK
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>>171024143
fucking cakelords
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Is non-cosmetic DLC a ruse or reals thing?
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>>171024706
>the laser syncs up with the apex of the choir
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>>171024676
https://twitter.com/chadsapieha/status/840330240941522944

He's getting super blasted because he complained about the story not answering questions that were answered in route A. It's likely he never even finished route A to begin with.
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>>171024883
Nobody knows, just that good JP sales are a nice step towards that.
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>>171023871
>A/B
Top yellow to orange.
>hacking after the billionth time
Blue
>C/D
Red.
>the start of C and ending E
Way beyond red.
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>>171025029
Taro said off panel at PAX that Square isn't giving him enough money to do "meaningful" DLC, and that what's behind the doors is a lot of poop. However, he's got Saito's support for DLC, so Taro getting random people to pressure Square into giving him money is just the next step of his master plan.

He also said that DODHD collection is at the "if people ask Square about it, it will happen" stage.
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>>171024954
>I got about an hour into 9S's story and it didn't seem terribly different beyond the perspective.

He literally missed the second half of the game. His reasoning is well I didn't like the beginning so why bother with the rest.

So why the fuck would he bring up story in the review if he deliberately didn't experience part of it. He read half a book then complained the plot isn't good.
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>>171025131
This.
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>game runs just fine for a taro/platinum title
>60fps here and there, usually 45-50
>some crazy dips but never unplayable
>gradually starts running worse
>chop city in the forest now
>usually 25-30 elsewhere

Anyone else experience this during 9S section, or did I fry my ps4?
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>>171025131
hacking is fun m8
mashing it for every small robot you come across will tire you out since it's just the square box pattern every time though

>>171025437
My frame drops happened entirely in the huge pit in the city ruins, your ps4 could be dying
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>>171009957
They really poured their hearts and souls into this one.
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Do you guys like Adam?
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>>171025257
>DOD HD collection

Please no. DOD1 needs to be remade from the ground up. I would be happy with DOD3 and Nier getting separate HD versions but only if Nier came with both Replicant and Gestalt.
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>>171025538
Hacking is fun when it's actually unique. The unique shooting challenges from the sidequests or opening the abandoned factory for 2B are great. I wish the bosses had more of that complexity to their paths. It's also a shame you didn't get more that ended in boss fights like the one for Eve.
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>>171025707
I like both of them.
They deserve their own side story at the very least.
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>>171025779
Is that so?
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>>171025707
He fucking looks like a male Accord. Why does he look like ACCORD? It bugs the FUCK out of me.
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>>171025559
>first game Taro's known for entailed sneaking in a joke ending at the last minute that everyone on the team hated
>most recent game he's known for entailed bringing in everyone who worked on the game to unite their voices in a show of world-wide encouragement
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>>171025707
Yes, loved his insistence on an honorable duel.
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>>171025707
yeah
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I know it was released like, this week, but when should I expect price drop?
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>>171025707
They really didn't make a big enough deal about how Adam is the hope of all the machines. Because him taking himself off the network JUST so he could put his life at risk would've been hilarious right when it happened, instead of at the end of the game after you've had time to think about it.
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>>171025779
I'm just so sad for Eve.
He could have been a friend under different circumstances, like a dog to play fetch with.
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>>171025538
I sure fucking hope so_

If my ps4 dies, that means I won't be able to afford not immediately replacing it because I'm loving Automata, which means I'd have a great excuse to grab a pro instead
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>>171025707
Thought he was a little under-utilized in the face of everything else.

I thought he was kind of standard anime-villain at first with his rant on hate, but the genuine interest in humanity was kind of a fun angle on it.
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>we will never get a post-E healing DLC just with 2B and 9S doing cute things
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>>171025734
>DOD1 remake
>Taro gets the Nier team to make a new soundtrack vastly surpassing Automata's
>then runs it through a woodchipper
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>>171026161
They still gotta go shopping for t-shirts.
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>>171024358
AHAHAHA
HOKY FUCK THIS IS RICH
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>>171026131
The rant on hate is pure 100% Drakengard
There was just absolutely no subtlety about it at all, I loved it
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>>171022629
I had him cockblock the Tower entering scene with DevPop.
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>>171026247
Drakengard was more about ranting about love though.

A deep love. A great love.
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>>171025707
I liked the first encounter, when he keeps leveling and evolving learning more and doing more.
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>>171026352
Good, makes sense for him to get his revenge on Popola during her moment of triumph.
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>tfw we probably won't get any DLC until like fall at the earliest

What am I supposed to do until then famalams
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>>171026131
Finally some Red Girl art.
Been crusing the /v/ drawthread trying to get some
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>>171026442
A love that crushes like a mace.
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>>171026442
love that crushes like a mace = conflict bruh
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>>171025779
This, I want more robros.
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>>171025840
Accord flier is in game it's possible he bought them from her
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Anyone have a list of what drops all the upgrade material yet?
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>>171026442
Love? It's hate!
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>>171025734
>Nier Replicant/Gestalt
>Papa Nier and Brother Nier have different movesets
>can swap between them at will

it'd look so fucking stupid but hell i'd play it
>C
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>>171026131
>the genuine interest in humanity was kind of a fun angle on it.

It was such a good angle. He basically had such a thirst for knowledge about humanity that he didn't even care if he died as long as he got closer to comprehending what death is. He even fucking knew he'd be leaving Eve behind, and knew how badly that would fuck him up, and didn't care because he was so set on his goals. I really like adam.
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>>171026548
We waited roughly seven years for a sequel. It'll be alright.
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So, what's the appeal of Taro games? Being niche experiments you can hipster about? Characters? Scenarios? Memes?

>>171026548
100% everything.
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>the music at the robot village

Cute. CUTE!
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>>171026224
Instead of using classical music they would just literally make the DOD1 soundtrack out existing Okabe music
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>>171026984
They're wild rides
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>>171026862
Yeah, the fact that he went out of his way to handicap himself to embrace the genuine threat of death was pretty solid.
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>>171026995
It's impossible to think anything about that village is cute after beating the game
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>>171026995
Love and peace
love and peace
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Aren't Adam and Eve like few days old when we kill them? Is there some decent timeline graph for Nier?
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>>171026984
Whats the appeal of anything anon
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>>171025707
Would you fuck Adam or would you let Adam fuck you?
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>>171026984
Everything.
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>>171026984
Nier was genuinely emotional and atmospheric, with fun banter and character exploration. Drakengard was an insane downward spiral that subverted a lot of established tropes at the time, like the silent protagonist, and standard "save the princess while avenging your family" plot-line.

They're flawed, but memorable.
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>>171027123
I think what I liked the most about that is it's not just a like "ooo im an anime villain with god powers but i'll fight you on foot for no reason at all" it's that he cut himself off from the network entirely and the network may aswell be a gigantic fucking machine learning brain. Like...all that potential knowledge and everything and he just cuts off from it because it doesn't have what he needs. He wants to experience it himself and he wants to learn through doing like people did.

Fuck I love this game.
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>>171026995
Hold on to that feeling, anon and keep it in a bottle where nothing can touch it...
Where nothing can touch it..
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http://blog.us.playstation.com/2017/03/03/nier-automata-was-fueled-by-an-unknown-passion/

>What I wanted to say was that both the previous Nier and current Nier: Automata are games that exist due to the constant support of fans. The true nature of a game is not a strong and charismatic director displaying his or her vision, but instead is something formed by some kind of an unknown passion felt by a greater number of people.
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>>171027148
I hate Yoko Taro for doing this. This time he went too far.
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2Bs fat ass
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>>171027932
I wonder if he masturbates to all the save files being uploaded to the server.
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>>171027932
>all
>smiles
;_;
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>>171027990
DELETE THIS
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hello i have a question

if 2b was allowed to freely express all her emotions without restriction

what would her normal emotional state be
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>A2 sees Emil for the first time
>"What the hell is that?"
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>>171028308
Check the cuteposter's 2b9s comics

She's quite fond of her hackerman
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>>171028308
She seems to already hold it back to protect 9S. It's personal choice at this point.
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>>171028308
It'd be like this T-shirt but also verbally and physically.
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>>171028308
>if 2b was allowed to freely express all her emotions
She would be flying off the walls constantly because she's an E model
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>>171027932
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>>171028384
That's exactly my thoughts when I first saw him.
I hate that "thing". It feels kinda forced into this world and doesn't really fit the setting.
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>>171028308
It'd probably take her a while to transition away from awkward stoicism.

And appreciate the concept of things like laughter.
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>>171028423
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am I the only one that doesn't like 9S?
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I feel retarded for saying this but I'm really struggling to use the map in this game. All of the locations have like a billion levels and the map is very basic so it feels like a chore to try and figure out where things are.

This is my first playthrough, should I just try to do the side quests that I come across naturally and fuck everything else off?
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Alright, where the fuck are all the novels? I got ending E and cleared all quests but still at 50%
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>>171028308
She'd probably remain quiet but smiling more often. The novella pretty much implies that kind of behaviour
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>>171028524
She'd be more like 2A because she had her personality used as the base for all E's kiddo.
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>>171023871
Ending A: Red
Start of Ending B Run: Yellow
Hacking for the ??? time: Blue w/ thumbs up.

That's where I'm at. I Miss enjoying the game to the point where I played for 19 hours w/o a break.
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>>171028882
I was pretty indifferent to him in route A but he was a nice guy, then I liked the hacking minigames until they got a bit stale, then shit started to go down and I loved him.
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You can pick one and only one.

-A prequel DLC where you see the first meeting between 9S and 2B

-A prequel DLC about the assault on Pearl Harbor

-A DLC that adds a sort of new route where you play as A2 around before she kills the forest king up to where she kills 2B

-An epilogue DLC

-Other
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>>171021183
Anyone knows? Please I'm going mad on this shit
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>>171029002
That will sky rocket the moment you start ending C, senpai.
Trust us.
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Does anyone have any theories of who the picture in Emil's Lunar Tear house is of?

I don't know if it's supposed to be someone we recognize.
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So if I go through endings A-C can I do a new game+?
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>>171029179
Epilogue, but only if it's happy.
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>>171029179
First choice is already in novel form in the world guide book, second is a screen play.

I'd go with 3 because an epilogue would probably ruin everything.
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>>171028308
2B would be happy, laughing, and smiling at 9S all the time.
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>>171028882
I didn't have particularly strong feelings for him one way or the other, but I enjoyed Route C.

His downward spiral and descent into rage/despair was the emotive highlight of the game for me.
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>>171029276
Start the game using your save data, get ending D by starting the tower climb in chapter select, and then proceed to say "yes" after ending D and get ending E. Then be happy.
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I like the English voices for everyone a lot. There isn't a single voice that I think is miscast.

I also now want to sexually violate Pascal.
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>>171029957
English 2B is shit
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The only way I can see anyone just flat out not liking this cast is if they went in expecting that they'd be exactly like the main characters in Nier.

Everyone in this game is just like Devola and Popola, but instead of being tasked with maintaining the illusion of humanity they're soldiers.
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>>171029957
delete this post, pascal is for protecting
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>>171029179
I want Atelier DP spinoff where you manage your experiment.
>>171029276
There is no new game +. You get Chapter Select and you can jump around it freely and get missed quests/items/exp
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>>171028308
You know, I feel like 2B is allowed to express more emotion than she lets on.

She just represses things to make it easier on herself.

But without the war and cycle of death going on? Who can say. I guess her recording to 9S in the flight unit shows a more genuine side of things.
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Question: how bad is the presence of Denuvo for the pc release? I never played any game with that shit in it. Do I need to log in something everytime I want to play Nier?
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>>171029957
Yeah the dub is pretty good which again is surprising considering how niche the series is.
6O in Japanese is BEYOND cute though
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I spent the entirety of the third playthrough wondering why 9S made such a big deal out of the "the machines always make the same mistakes and fail the same way why cant they fucking learn" thing then never brings it up again. I was disappointed as fuck.

>that intel file explaining it all
i want yoko taro to be preserved for the rest of eternity.
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>>171029957
>I like the English voices
get the fuck out of /a/
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>>171030207
but I'm not in /a/
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>>171030021
I still don't get the hate for 2B's dub
>>171030173
What
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So why is an E unit clearly labeled in the prologue flight sequence as part of your squad when E units are meant to be a secret?
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>>171030113
You will never get ending E.
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>>171030307
Who said E units are secret?
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>>171030291
2B in english sounds more haughty and a bitch at times. For instance, when 9S offer data for the minimap in the prologue, she bluntly tell him "do it", whereais in Japanese, it is "了解" which is "understood/got it".

More often than not, the english version makes her more bossy/giving order for no reason.
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>clean water only spawns on a couple of points in sunken city once in a centrury
>need 20 to upgrade my pods
This is bullshit
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>>171030307
2B being one was a secret.
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>>171030349
Why not?
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>>171030426
The fact that in Branch B you do a quest for an E unit that wiped it's own memories to cope with having killed so many of it's friends.
And after 9S says that he'd never even heard of E units and they're kept a secret.
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>>171023712
>unless he inserted full novellas into every title

Why not? He's almost doing it already.
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>>171030291
which part

9S goes on a rant at some point about how he doesn't understand why machines can't learn because their network should let them figure out "hey, X didn't work, lets try Y!" but they never do and they always make the same errors over and over.

When you're in the tower in path C/D you get a file explaining why.
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>>171029216
The person in the picture has dark hair, so I doubt it's anyone from the original gang.

I guess he's had plenty of time to meet new people.
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>>171030064
Emotions being prohibited is on the very bottom of the list of reasons she has for bottling them up. They clearly don't enforce that rule for shit.

>fish fanatics
>6O sobbing about getting rejected, probably right there in the command room
>9S giving constant sass
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>>171030736
Not him, but can you indicate which document exactly? Did end E, so gotta check with someone else as result.
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Is it explained at all why machines off the network end up going crazy/zombie?
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>>171030173
Everything that comes out of 9S' mouth after 2B is dead is him trying to justify his actions. He completely forgets about machines like Pascal and Beauvoir that made him question what he was doing because the only thing keeping him alive is fighting.

The only thing any of these characters have to frame what being alive means with is what humanity programmed them with (or what Beepy put on their network from what the shade boy gave him).
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>>171030614
Prologue is from 2B/E POV so seeing another E unit marked as E shouldn't be surprising unless they are supposed to operate in seceret and independent (which shouldn happen because A2 whiped whole squad at once)
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>>171030838
It doesn't have to do with being off the network, it's because of the red eye virus.

Bigger question is why didn't the clown zombies attack you?
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So is our Toobs a qt redhead like that one in the starting building and just got some body mods to go undercover, or are all 2Bs actually 2Es?
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>>171030736
DESU I just took that as a comment on communists...
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>>171030828
Should be the last document in your Intel, "The Reasoning behind Machines" or something with an image of the Red Girl when you hover over it. pretty sure it's not missable.

written by Jackass
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>>171019560
The novels he and Nagashima write are too hardcore for CERO and totally fine for books.
The short story from Grimoire Nier was a part of Nier novelization included in the black box and they had to black out whole chunks so CERO would let them publish it at all.
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>>171030541
Requires network
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>>171030927
2B wasn't assigned to kill her squad until later, she was specifically assigned to keep track of 9S and kill him over and over whenever he found too much out.
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>>171030838
red eye disease, it's the will of god and can't be stopped unless the conflict ends everywhere

>>171030931
One of my three favorite moments in the entire game was buying items from a red eye shopkeeper
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>>171031061
Ah, that one. I paid more attention to the conclusion and completely forgot about their inability to get over mistakes.

Got it, thanks.
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>>171031184
So internet connection?
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>>171030828
https://imgur.com/gallery/6pIGW It's this one. Another anon posted it earlier.
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When humans contact the red eye virus, they have a choice to work for the gods or become salt.

What was the choice for the robots? Cause we never see salt anywhere
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>>171030809
Yorha types can emote as much as they please, 2B is just trying to deaden hers so that having to kill 9S more won't fuck her.up any more than it already has
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>>171031214
I liked how the one taking a break in the allyway was the only one who avoided the virus.

But it was also sad cause he was scared
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Do you feel proud for investing in motherfucking Space Center that sent rocket to Mars and back?
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>>171031260
It's not so much that they can't get over mistakes its that theyre actively trying not to. I thought that was a fascinating part of it.
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>>171031372
>N2 is based on the Shadowlord/OG Nier
>N2
>Nier 2, voiced by Jouji Nakata
Bravo Taro
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>>171029216
>>171030802
It's Kaine's grandmother
The futa drew it when she was little
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>>171031380
Maybe it manifests in androids differently, because they aren't organic. Maybe they aren't given a choice and it just drives them to aggression or decay.
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>really like the robot village
>friendly robots are cute and funny
>remember it's a Yoko Taro game

I basically can't even pretend there wont be suffering ahead.
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>>171028597
>This thing doesn't fit the setting it was made to be in.
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So do you guys think that we'll get anything good from a DLC? Taro said that they wouldn't have a big budget. Those doors in the Dessert and Flooded City really elude to something more being added to the game.
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>>171029957
>Not using JP voices by default
Fucking ingrate.
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>>171031372
Think that means that Jackass would take out Pascal given the opportunity?
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>>171031948
Saito said hes on board for the DLC

that means we are guarnteed to get good DLC
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O T P
T
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>>171031948
Sadly, I'd like to see more than just DLC challenge areas and alternate outfits, but I won't hold my breath if they seem to be indicating that there won't be any big additions to the story.
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>>171031380
Clearly the choice was to just become as Gods.
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>>171032094
>Not the Lunar Tears Screen
Shiggy Diggy.
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>>171032094
Are there just the three main title screens?

Default, lunar tears, and Ending C?
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>>171031380
There's only two things for any of them at any given moment - fight or die. They can kill their creators but they can't escape the purpose they were given. The only one that was different was Adam and he eventually decided that fighting was the only thing worth anything anyway.

And the ones that aren't on the network that try as hard as they can to be different can barely handle being disconnected in the first place, which leads to shit like suicide kids or a failure to conceptualize shit right like the forest knights who even acknowledge that they're too stupid to think things through.
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>>171029957
I totally thought Pascal was Laura Bailey. They should've used Pascal's VA for Persona 4 Dancing All Night.
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>>171032445
I honestly thought that 6O was Laura Bailey. they shoulda just used HER for P4DAN
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>>171032354
It's the Ending E title screen when you delete your save.
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>yfw you realize that 2B's metal skin layer is a school swimsuit and using the curtain key item turns it into a 2 piece
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does anyone have a link with all the weapons and where to get them?
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T-SHIRT DLC
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>>171033115
D L C!
D L C!
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>>171033115
T - S H I R T D L C
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S
H
I
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T

D
L
C

WHEN?
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>>171030516
>More often than not, the english version makes her more bossy/giving order for no reason.
>for no reason

She is the one of the two who's nominally in charge.
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>>171033115
SH*T SQUARE ENIX!!! especially in E route
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>>171033334
When I said no reason, it is regarding the context of the original text.
We already know 2B can be strict when it comes to mission, but adding an extra layer of hardass was unecessary, which actually screws her characterization.

There is a glaring difference in term of character between JP and EN voice. And I don't think it is the voice actress fault here because the translation reflect that change of character already.
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>>171031357
>>171033647
Not nearly as bad as Zero was.
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>>171033578
>Square Enix staff is the part where the bullet hell gets insane
>the choir that comes to help you is all people that actually worked on the game
What did Taro mean by this?
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>>171018251
I was thinking more along the lines of this.
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If I already finished Route A, am I still able to get the endings that I missed during Route A and some of the ones I've missed during Route B so far?
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>>171033647
I agree. 2B' JP voice is soft and sweet sounding compared to her NA voice.
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>>171033981
It's a Drakengard game, you get a chapter select at the end.
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>>171033902
>SqEnix, you were a bitch to work with and I almost didn't get another chance, but thanks to my supporters we will get the best ending :^)
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>>171034030

You didn't get a chapter select in original Nier.
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>>171034301
Nier isn't a Drakengard game, it's a completely different thing set in the same continuity
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>>171034408
>Nier Automata is a Drakengard game
>Nier isn't

What did he mean by this?
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>>171034408
>Nier isn't a drakengard game
>But it's sequel Nier Automata is
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>>171034548
Automata is much closer to the other games than it is to Nier. It's talking about ideas that are present in those games that were largely absent from Nier. Nier is telling a very personal story that's distant from the rest of the games.
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>>171033090
PLEASE RESPOND
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>>171034874
It's definitely as close to Nier as it is to the Drak series, Devola and Popola alone make sure of that.
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>>171035034
It has characters from Nier, it's chronologically set after it, the androids in everything that's come out since play by the same rules, but Nier isn't really about Devola and Popola or their inner workings, in fact it was barely about the two of them at all.
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Oh my sides

Taro you gem
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>>171035997
the absolute based man
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>N:A DLC
>set after ending E
>free control of 2b, 9s and 2a
>you have to rebuild civilization
>its called niercraft
would you buy it?
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>>171036392
No.
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>>171036392
Can I have 9S and 2B marry each other?
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>mfw starting route C
>mfw everything happening all at once
>mfw the title drop
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>>171037003
>the sadness followed by intent watching
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>the moment you get to the end and you realize all the foreshadowing that was in the game prior
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>>171036934
Concept of "marriage" is pointless to them.
They simply can't exist without each other.
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In route C why is 9S totally fine, what events happened that result in him being in his body with all his memories and not being dead/inhabiting the machines.

I can't remember if this is addressed or not I was too distracted by how amazing everything that follows is.
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>>171037516
>9S:"Type-E... I didn't even know such a thing existed. Did you, 2B?"
>2B:"... Some things are better left unknown."

TARRRROOOOOOO
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>pulling a big-ass juggle with 9S and initiating hacking when his sword is still raping the enemy above the earth
He's way funnier than i thought he would be.
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>>171037751
9S knew tubey was an E type all along, right?
This is kinda fucked if you think about it. It's like they are both lying to eachother.
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>>171038264

Never had two people keep up a lie so they can stay close to eachother a little longer?
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>>171037671
I guess the commander was confident he was clean and just let him upload his data.
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How're enjoying 9S's game, /vg/?
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>>171038874
Did 2B actually know or was it just a natural part of her programming that often fell into place?
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>>171038939
Already got the plat. Legit.
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>>171039239
Then it's time anon!!
Give your energy to your friends!
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>>171039358
I already did.
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WHERE IS THE COMMANDER PORN

I NEED IT
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>>171039208
She knew.
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>>171039208
She knew, going by "This always happens" at the end of route A.
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How do you get the Cruel Lament bracers? I already leveled up three weapons to level four.
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>>171039208
She did, the whole time, every time.
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>>171038264
The fact his feelings to her only continued to grow shows exactly how powerful their bond is.
Same for 2B who was almost killed by him in the past yet considers him to be the only ray of light in her life.
Honestly i never expected Taro to write a couple like this. Not in a billion years.
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>>171039417
>>171039489
It feels weird that this is all kept secret from the player until the very end.
Also really impressive too, christ.
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>>171031085
kek seriously? Which short story was that? I'm curious, I haven't been able to get a hold of the nier novelization yet
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>>171039768
>>171039653
Oh god.

I'm remembering that thing Jackass said about the pleasure of killing and the emotion of love being two sides of the same coin to androids.

And now suddenly all the scenes with 9S stabbing 2B or 2B killing 9S, 9S yelling 'It's okay! I'm going to kill you now', and the "You want to *** 2B" suddenly make sense in a ton of ways.
The **** could literally mean Love or Kill.
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>>171010380
I don't think you understand the genius of this.
When PSN is ded it becomes an impossible bullshit fuck you up the ass boss like in Drakengard, except this time Taro didn't get any shit for it when the game was released and got praise instead, selling the game boatloads.
Two birds with one stone.
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>>171035242
It's not even just the themes, the story (not so much the developments which are unique to this one) is like 20% stuff from Nier and 80% stuff from DOD1 with plant shit from 3

It's the gameplay that's just purely iterative on Nier, which is probably what Platinum signed up for.
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>>171040128
**** is there to specifically mess with both you and 9S, anon.
Though for him it's probably closer to "love", "date", "kiss" or "fuck", all at once.
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>>171011212

Actually the difficulty lowers dramatically if you keep retrying without online access. It becomes so that you can clear minor names and titles with one shot and clear major titles like Square Enix with only a few shots. It's still really hard, but not impossible.
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Underrated track

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw9qOtJvdUE

That feel when it plays during the 2E quest
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>>171039950
Probably the one where Kaine is caught fapping.
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About Jackass's report:
Who's there even left to kill? Who are "the people behind YoRHa? YoRHa is gone; the bunker is gone. The tower either crumbled, the network with I assume or the machines fucked off into outer space. And there's fucking nothing on the moon. What's left?
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>a single true ending main menu screen shows more about relationships of characters than some other games manage to do with a shitload of text
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>>171040295
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne1HcEU7sho
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>>171040295
I could've sworn to god that this was a song from NieR
And they only used it in the story for Ending C
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>>171039950
The one with Nier whoring his underage boypussy to buy Yonah medicine.
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>>171040521
Topbrass Androids are still in the woodworks, so they can create another YoRHa base.

The machine network merely sent data in outspace. It doesn't mean they migrated the machines. So the Earth is still infested by machines.

Regular Androids are still alive.
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The core Pascal sells you looks whole in the picture

Does that mean he didn't realise one of the kids was "alive"?
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>>171037671
9S sort of explains it very quickly right before the game cuts to credits
He got back from the machine network to his body on the Yorha network once, he can do it again
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>>171040521
The files make it clear the info is top secret and can only be viewed by people who rank above the commander, meaning there has to be androids above her who are still running.,
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>>171040702
He has no idea what the fuck anything is anymore besides money
You turned Pascal into a greedy fuck
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>>171040779
The ones on the moon, obviously.
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>>171040828
>anything is anymore besides money
The true ultimate evolution
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>>171040828
Now I'm imagining Pascal stumbling on the desert yorhas and creating an e-drug empire.
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>>171040676
>The machine network merely sent data in outspace.

I thought they sent the terminals in space so the machines that are left are no longer a networked murderhivemind and can be coexisted with
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>>171040128
>2B killing 9S
She was rubbing herself all over his crotch too. Maybe she was trying to give him pleasure before he "died".
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>>171040521
All Jackass is really doing here is looking for an enemy to fight because the reason why she was living turned out to be hollow, like how it went for everyone else in this game.

What she's doing is pointless too (she even says she doesn't know what the point is), she's just continuing the fight, while Ending E shows us the only way anyone will ever be truly happy is if the fighting stops everywhere.

The machine network will reestablish itself in 400 years anyway based on Emil's weapon story so they'll have enemies to fight forever.
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>>171041320
If they don't just turn on themselves again. D&P were the enemies before the aliens even showed up.
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>>171028918
Pls respond
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>>171041352
I LOVE Operator 6O!
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>>171040549
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>>171041252
Pascal returns in Nier- Drakengard 4 as a wisecracking pimp
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>>171041484
the ones youre missing are from anemone. you get them by examining her PC with A2, I believe its when you go visit the camp and she asks how A2 has been and says its been a while since they've seen each other.,
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>>171040521
There are Yorha members on the moon stationed there for maintenance, I believe.
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>>171040128
Programming-wise, * is a wildcard character, it could be anything. So yeah, the **** was super deliberate.
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Can i do the The Circle of Death trophy in Route C or did i just mess up ?
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>>171041625
they dead
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>>171040128
>Love that crushes like a mace actually made it into Automata on top of everything else
Taro had to have had this game bundled up inside of him for years and years
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Some people mentioned that Humans still survived for some 800 years after NieR1. Does anyoen know what kind of item/doc confirm this in automata?
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>>171042181
Commander and the document she gives you.
Some of Devola and Popola's persecution backstory too I believe.
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>>171017273
Doesn't everyone at the camp survive?
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Where did everyone see the stuff about Beepy? Did I miss a file or something in game?
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>>171040702
Yes. Nor does he recognize what it even is.
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Why the fuck do I just break down when listening to Kaine or Emil's themes? Those are some of the most emotional songs I've heard.
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>>171042294
Come to think of it if Jackass found out about the Yorha deception the others will too. Would not be surprised if they turn on the Yorhas that didn't get fried by the network until the next opponent for them to shoot at turns up.

>>171042313
Beepy is the volcano god thing, you also have to read Flame of Prometheus, the network established in that works exactly the same, though Beepy clearly evolved past the other machines and likely left it.
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>>171042285
Wait, she did? Was it when 9S confronted her about this info or something? Going to check again the documents but I can't even remember properly which one it should be.
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>>171042426
Wretched Weaponry and City Ruins both make me feel really heavy. The former was such a perfect fit for the Pascal Village burning down scene.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQT_LwV2qwM
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>>171000642
In all likelihood, the Watchers didn't "take over" the network at all. The network Terminals just became a new analogue for the Watchers instead, replacing them in form and function.

The ones who separated from the network did so AFTER they had killed the aliens. Hence, the picture book story of the machines killing their "mother and father" and what they gained from doing so. The Terminals deliberately started inducing machines like the Forest King and Pascal to separate from the network so that they could start evolving as well as create a deliberate deficiency in their side of the war against the androids.
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>>171042802
Ah found it. [Top Secret] Project YoRHa indeed confirms it is around 4200
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When does GMG usually send out its preorder codes? Surely they do it before the actual release date time.
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The existential struggles of machines and androids resonated with me much stronger than anything in Nier did, despite those characters being far closer to real human beings. Anybody else felt that way?
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I wish Automata's plot was a bit more unexpected. If you played Nier the "twist" with the moon was painfully obvious. I was hoping that Taro would have found some clever way for the humans to actually to have survived or something.
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>>171043227
>it took humanity multiple evolutionary steps before a man like biblical Adam could be created
>it took the machines multiple evolutionary steps before a machine like Adam could be created
>the whole game is about a struggle to evolve and Adam is the machine's triumphant entry into what is very close to humanity
>Adam gets himself killed pretty much intentionally

We are all very lucky that Taro isn't literally god.
None of us would be here, we would've died as a species hilariously before we could take off
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>ending B is just ending A with some different dialogue at the end
>still Disney tier happy
>still kills the mood
>still fucking awful

>typing a long angry post to vent about how awful that Disney ending is
>game goes into gameplay again
>that fucking preview cinematic


Ending C and D are going to be pretty fucking good, aren't they?

Oh boy I'm excited
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>>171043227
To an extent, yes, but I really wish there were more dialogue and character for them in general, especially A2 who barely got anything.
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>>171043301
The more you think about it Ending E's happy ending of sorts isn't really happy at all

now get the fuck out of this thread
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>>171042026
>make a game about robots
>turn it into one big research of how deep and maddening yet still beautiful love can be
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>>171040549
>tfw always figured it would happen in the end
>it happened
>mfw I still wasn't ready
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>>171043301
Yeah. Ending A was definitely meant to be sappy, we saved the day stuff compared to Route C.
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>>171043301
>Disney Tier Happy
>I'm infected by this virus you have to fucking choke me out and kill me again
>Bitch tears while murdering the person you love by choking them to death
>They managed to survive partially due to luck
>Disney Tier
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>>171043456
Yes but he was literally revived immediately and theyre laughing and joking by the end.
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>>171043227
As a narrative I think Nier is stronger as are the characters, but thematically Automata is much stronger and all the points build on themselves well because of this

It also helps that I am more interested in the ideas Automata presents
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>>171043456
Yeah, sure, choking and crying was great. I liked that part a lot, especially with how drawn out 2Bs crying was. It broke my heart how long it went on for, I was about to start bawling too.

But that just made the blow of Iron Giant 9S popping back to life to the tune of Hakuna Matata three seconds later hit that much harder, I didn't even want to start route B after that, wouldn't have if I didn't know Drakengard and Nier also had weak A endings.
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>>171043245
I think the game just wasn't going for that, partly because you expect it to and any twist would be compared to Nier
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>>171043341
A2 makes me believe the MGS2 analogy from earlier in the thread even more.

Snake's character really came more from MGS1 than it did from 2. In this game, A2's character comes more from the stage play than it does from Automata.


But, assuming Taro's complaining to his audience pressures Square into giving him enough money for it, A2 DLC that would be like MGS2's codec calls with Snake in them is basically inevitable
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Holy shit lock-on trivializes hacking.
Shame i need to play on normal for this because it makes 9S way more bearable in long run.
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>>171043341
Part of an intrinsic problem with Automata is it can't do that. Everyone has to be not quite human enough for it to work, when it finally does get more emotional the game is ramping up to the conclusion so you can't really have everyone stop to do stuff for a while.
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9S did nothing wrong
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Just finished ending A. Pretty fun..I won't lie I'm not that interested in playing as 9S. Can I get through it fast?
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>>171044250
9S did everything wrong
Everyone except the pods did everything wrong
that's like the point of the whole story
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>>171043245
Who knows, Replicants were pretty much humans, and Nier's region wasn't the only one. Replicants and Gestalts could've fused back together somewhere else.

It was still quite a while before Replicants were totally gone, either way.
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>>171044297
kys
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>>171044297
>I'm not that interested in playing as 9S.
You can but you are wrong for not liking 9S
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>>171044297

It's really easy to speedrun the B playthrough especially since hacking trivializes every enemy in the game, including bosses
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>>171044297
Yes, just rush through the campaign.
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>>171044297
He's the strongest character with right setup. Only matched by leech rage mode A2. If you want to blow through his story, you can easily do that.
Ditch small swords though and take either bracers or spears with large swords.
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>>171044320
It is funny that 3 of the least human looking characters (Pods+Pascal) end up being some if not the most human
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>>171044395
It's definitely understandable to not like 9S before Route C starts. Afterwards is a different story but I've never heard anyone say they dislike the direction his character took.
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>>171026442
Didn't Caim drag her loli ass across the entire continent to make her repay for shit or something in the second game?
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>>171044576
>but I've never heard anyone say they dislike the direction his character took
Just go on /v/
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>>171044217
You can aim with your stick and if the white circles on them you're essentially locked on as far as hackings concerned even at range.
It just requires a tiny bit more precision and skill.
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>>171044576
I always liked him more than 2B. She was a bit dull (which was international) but 9S always had some funny stuff to say or at least a weird insight. And it is because of that ending C/D 9S works cause it is such a change
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Yfw you jump with the bucket of oil for the brother robot so you drop it so you get more oil in the bucket for your brother robot and you trip...
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>>171044812
Mostly the same CaimS posters there too, but maybe it changes thread to thread.
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>>171044894
>the whole section was set up being able to control enemies now
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>>171044576
Right now i'm replaying the game and find myself enjoying 9S way more than i did on first playthrough simply by knowing what hides beneath that whiny weak shota act.
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>>171044812
Where do you think we or this general came from?
We had an entire thread where people who hadn't hit C yet were bitching about 9S and just plain didn't understand.
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>When people shit on nines
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>>171044871
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>>171017157
of course not, that would be straight up broken
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>>171045075
>tfw you do a bracers-only run with 9S with the Shockwave chip
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>>171045362
>when people shit on 2B
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>>171045362
Wow, now I'll never unsee that moment as that meme.
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>>171044871
2B is adorable (mostly thanks to japanese VA, she makes her sound really soft) but only really works together with 9S. Though it's the same for 9S. The whole game is about their deep, mad bond which surprised the fuck out of me.
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>>171044297
Well hope you enjoying rushing through 50% of the game bud :^)
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>>171045441
>game doesn't allow broken
>hasn't played A2 with a Permanent Berserk Mode immune entirely to oneshots and 450% boost to taunt damage
You're still right about overclock though.
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>>171045584
>Though it's the same for 9S.
Not really. 9S going mad without her is great, 2B without 9S only really gets good around the Adam fight
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Drakengard DLC when? I don't give two shits about humans and robots.
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>>171045584
I'm really disappointed that A2 was kind of shoehorned into the plot as a way of directly replacing 2B gameplay-wise. She doesn't serve as a foil to 9S and rarely even crosses path with him (deliberately on the Pod's part).

There could have been more to A2's side of the story, like having 2B's memories overwrite her own personality and creating an existential crisis similar to the two Yonahs in Nier, or A2 becoming more and more like 2B without her being aware of it with Pod 042 was gaslighting her transformation, only to get rejected and hated even more by 9S.

A2 really needed to get fleshed out more. She's literally the most expressive character in game and Taro denied her the build up for the sake of people buying DVDs of his shitty stage play.
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>>171045740
how do I deal with the constant health decrease? auto-heal?
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>>171045447
I still don't know what i like more with him, spears or bracers.
Second slot is always for a large sword, he's the character that can really main them without getting fucked by enemies that can poise through your swings.
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>>171046310
>spears or bracers.
Spears are for faggots
I'm doing a playthrough with 9S and looping Kenshiro's ATATATATA for immersion's sake.
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>>171045873
We don't know how 2B would act if she lost him permanently and had a time to reflect upon this like he does. But given her soft true nature i think she would probably go full Mikasa and kinda collapse without any will to continue living.
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>>171046283
offensive heals and auto-item use.

Damage grants you health when its just mobs and the latter will be your safety net in case you get ohko'd or drop further than you think.
With the damage bit remember taunt damage caps out at 450% and again your auto-item use prevents their 450% from ohko'ing you.
Worst case scenario you drink a small recovery to do up its timer.
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>>171046310
Fists.
Between them and the greatsword and you switching between them as you attack the 15 feet in front of you is a killzone plus whatever shockwave you have going.
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>>171046647
I thought auto-item doesn't kick in if your health goes from 100 to 0?
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I wanna fast forward to the future just to see what Taro's next mask is gonna be
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>>171046415
He's too twinky to go full Kenshiro, but he does Luffy's Jet Gatling just fine.
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>>171046981
Never had that issue. It always kicks in below 15% and i have a single anti-chain for yet more safety.
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>>171047261
Are you playing on normal? Auto-item NEVER worked for me because I keep getting one or two-shotted.
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>>171046031
You're not really surprised that paid ending DLC man who is alive right now because Saito likes him wants to wring as much money out of his fanbase as possible right
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>>171047491
I've never had that issue. Are you sure you didn't just get followed up on the second it healed?
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>>171047648
I'm not to sure now desu. The few times I had it equipped, I got my shit kicked in so I just stacked on more offensive heal instead.
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>>171046031
Game shits on A2 really hard. Like, what she's even going to do after ending E, watch 2B and 9S cuddling around awkwardly?
I wish there was a way to give her A4 back or something because she deserves happiness as much as main duo.
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>>171047609
DLC's not going to happen with Automata, at least not story-based DLCs. Squenix didn't give them the budget to create DLCs when the project started because they assumed Automata wouldn't sell too well. And even if that money was handed out right now, the gameplay's director and Platinum Games have their hands tied in other projects, so a true story-mode DLC won't happen for at least a full year.
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>>171047887
Drakengard 3 had DLC out the ass.
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Is there a guide on how cool combos? I've seen the combo videos people posted and all I can do is spam Square into Triangle.

How do you mid air jungle, should I be using the lock on feature, the combat seems fairly deep but I don't have an understanding on how to perform certain moves.
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>>171047972
And those had been in production alongside the main game. Taro himself said that no ongoing work was being done with a DoD3-style DLC.
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>>171047887
I'm still not really sure how seriously I'm supposed to take that when he said this in the same breath as "the stuff behind those doors is just poop, tell all your friends it's just a lot of poop"
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>>171048056
Well shit.
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>>171048098
You can glitch into one of the doors (the one in the flooded city by glitch-jumping from the Resistance camp) and see that it's an elevator. There is nothing else modeled above or beneath it if you glitch through the floor again. It really is poop.
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>>171047887
Taro said he was understaffed, not that he had NO staff
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Where can I find desert flowers?
I was a big idiot and sold the guaranteed five that a quest gives you. I've spent the past hour running around the desert on a moose picking item deposits up and haven't found one.
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>>171048345
I already saw the footage of that, that isn't the point.
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>>171048375
He also said that SE didn't give their team enough money to make DLCs along with the actual game. And again, Saito and Platinum have been busy with other projects since the end of 2016, so it's unlikely that they'll be able to work on any story-based DLC for Automata barring personal sacrifices.
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>>171048376
I've found one randomly in the main desert.
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>>171048376
just reload the chapter and restart the quest, they will respawn
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>>171048529
>Saito
We already know that Saito is willing to produce DLC
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Does anyone have this but with 2B?
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>>171048529
wait, I thought dlcs were already announced? Or was that just a vague announcement that could also mean costumes and shit?
Why would the main game have locked doors with no way of opening if there were no actual content dlcs planned?
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>>171048790
yes here is the but
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>>171049490
got a toobie and A2 version? cause this is pretty good.
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>talking to my dad about Automata
>"yeah there's this really cool thing, at the end there's basically a boss where if you die, someone in the world's save file gets deleted"
>he spends five minutes talking about how someone's gonna get their PS4 hacked
>insists that someone, somewhere, will for some reason reverse engineer this save file system to "hack" other people's consoles
>this man has a master's degree in computer science

And then he went back to playing Horizon
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>>171049657
>masters degree
serious people take the joy out of literally everything.
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>>171048529
>personal sacrifices
Or just shifting people around to prioritize getting something fast out and on the market. Worked for Atlus. It really depends on what they're going through over there, Scalebound's cancellation could not have meant anything good for them.
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Is this it? Is this how children are made?
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Any general tips for finding Iron Will/Phoenix Lance? I don't want to bother trawling through every square inch of their respective areas.
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>>171048098
Its a reference to DoD where some random doors just like these existed that went absolutely nowhere for no reason and were permanently locked.
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>>171050318
Probably not, he said that Square Enix wouldn't be happy with him talking about it
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>>171050228
Phoenix Lance is closer to the entrance of the main desert area, unless it changes.

A2 gets an entire sidequest to find shit like this, it was awful.
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>The Japanese version of Weight of the World at about 4:15

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu87oGsjkic

I'm okay.
I'm not okay. ;-;
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>>171050228
I got you senpai
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>>171050889
why does shota have a censor over him and why are you wearing ugly alien head
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Do i need the desert rose beyond the operator quest?
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>>171050885
>the bit at the end where it sounds like she's trying not to cry
It works.
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>>171049657
Do do what, delete other people's saves? All that's happening is you sending a message (in the form of a sequence of numbers) and a player name to a server somewhere and your save file being deleted on your end. In the best case scenario the very most you could do is mildly annoy whoever owns the server.
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>>171051126
Keep it around. It's pretty.
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Hey nerds, what's the cutest pair of characters and why is it 2B/6O?
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>>171051990
6O was too cute for this world
At least she didn't die on screen
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>>171051990
because 6O is pure and loves all things.
I wish there was more art of her.
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>>171037516
How does Type-E for Execution do in the Japanese translation?
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>>171051871
Well i sold it afterward. I was more worried i could wear it or it was needed for another quest.
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>>171052048
>didn't die on screen
you kill her in the command center melee.
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>>171042294
Hopefully.
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>>171052170
It is, but they're easy enough to grab during that quest.
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>>171038264
>all along
He only found out about it when Nier 2 gave him the Yorha Disposal document, which is the only one we're not allowed to read because A2 drops the reveal on us before the final boss.
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>>171052342
Midriff sisters die though don't they?
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>>171052159
They still use english terms in the Japanese version. Ekusukiyushon.
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>>171052301
You don't, you only hear her over the loud speaker in the hallway. You can kill everyone on screen at that point and you'll still hear her talking.
They chose to give her dialogue subs but not N2's. And N2's was referencing DOD3.
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>>171044634
After the war Manah was the only figurehead of the Empire left that they could pin all the blame on.

So Caim, being Caim, basically went on a journey to drag her to multiple villages and tell the world to hate her for all the damage the cult caused.
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>>171052675
Wew, not to atone but to be hated?
Why tho. wasn't entirely her fault
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>>171052675
>>171052913
being Manah is suffering
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>>171046031
I liked what was there, but I wish we could have played through her suicide mission with A4.
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>>171052301
6O and 21O are the only operators actually missing from the room when the virus hits. 21O because she's AWOL.
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>>171052565
every operator has a distinct hairstyle. Some anon back in /v/ did the melee, slowed it down, zoomed in, and inspected. Shes in that melee and you can kill her. I'm on my phone or i'd post the picture. That means the shit over the loud speaker is either a recording, some sort of divergent bullshit like 9S did with machines and his AI, or somebody dropped the ball somewhere.
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>>171052675
>>171052913
>>171052960
Okay, but can someone explain why the Terminals looked vaguely like Manah? I got into all this with Nier, but I never went back to Drakengard.
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>>171052913
Why: yoko taro, manah's entire existence, people needed someone to blame so why not her?
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>>171047887
I'd be happy with DLC, even if it took a while to come out.

Because I know it'll probably be a while before we get word of Taro's next project.
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Can the anon that made this thread please prepare for a new thread?
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>take blindfold off 2B
>she's barely older than 9S if not the same age
Fooled me here, Taro.
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>>171053089
I really just think it's a reference, butthe N2 manifestation is made from data found that pertained to Nier's Gestalt specifically, so she might really be based on Yonah.

>>171053308
And please find and include the mega with all the soundtracks in it and put it in the OP
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Red pill me
Should I go buy the PS4 version right now or wait for PC?
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>>171052913
Caim wasn't exactly a heroic figure. He was just depressed/pissed about losing Angelus and was making good on her promise that the world would know what Manah did.

Though if it's any consolation, she eventually stabbed him and made a run for it.
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>>171053089
Manah is cute, the Terminals are not
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>>171053631
>YOROKOBE + yandere loli
There is literally nothing in this world that is cuter
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>>171053594
mods, anon. the mods.
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>>171053631
so much screenshot oments
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>>171053741
Denuvo, anon, Denuvo.
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>>171053089
Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think they really resemble Manah outside of wearing red.
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>>171053805
What is this "denuvo" thing people are bitching about?
I assumed it was some sort of anti-piracy thing but people buying it are bitching about it to.
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>>171052961
A4 was too pure for this world ;_;
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>>171053813
This

One/Bro One resembles Manah/Seere
Terminals are little girls wearing red which harkens back to Manah but the similarities end there in terms of appearance

the fact that a middle-aged dude voicing them and other stuff are blatant references so there's definitely a connection
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>>171048790
I tried
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new bread
>>171054203
>>171054203
>>171054203
>>171054203
>>171054203
>>
>Dark Colossus Kaiju
I had to pause the game and sit there in awe when one of the remixes happened.
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>>171054062
The network has become a tool of the watchers basically.
The relation lies in manah was also a tool of the watchers and was pretty effective so why not make this tool similar?
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>>171047868
That's why I think Ending C is a better canon lead into E because she at least realized the beauty of the world and wishes she could have seen it sooner before she died rather than in D where she just falls over dead only to be brought back.
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>>171009957
It was hard for me as well, but one thing is certain! We're all here for you.
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>>171054287
Unless 9S committed suicide after leaving his backpack and 2B's sword behind as a market at the forest, it's gotta be Ending D.
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