/ndg/ Nier/Drakengard General #5

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What is this "NieR Automata", Legna?

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I want 2B to sit on my face.

I'm not sure if I'm retarded or just missed something, but what was up with 9S' visions in route B?

>>171209394
Keep playing.

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The most meaningful choice.

2B9S OTP

Do you really have to search this entire fucking desert for Facade souvenirs

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>you will never be a cute android

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>>171208873

I don't think N2 needs a logic virus to make the machines who are a part of the network do what it wants and control their wills. Adam and Eve could control the machines on the network without needing any viruses.

But it is indisputable fact that Beepy did everything wrong.

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2B9S
O T P
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>>171209540
>no blindfolds

>>171209214
Saw a streamer yesterday get ending E for the first time, he declined the help request for like half an hour and never even read the comments in the background.

>>171209480

Yes.

Or you can look it up in an online guide.

>>171209480

There's only four, and the fourth one only spawns after you get the other three. Look up a map of the four locations if you can't be assed to do a simple grid-based sweep of the desert.

>>171209530
His actions helped kill the aliens who forced Emil to become 80 million clones he's a hero.

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>>171209428
>>171209540
O T P
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>>171209530
Beepy deserves to be eradicated.

>>171209652
>the fourth one only spawns after you get the other three
Such bullshit, that location was one of the first I checked.

I'm going for 100% Unit Data and I've been teleporting between the desert camp and the flooded city for a while now to try to get some of the enhanced machines to spawn. Is there somewhere with spawn rates or something because I just can't get the Gun-equipped Multi-tier Type to spawn and I'd like to know if I'm just unlucky or the rate is stupidly low. Same thing with the Drill-Equipped Linked-Sphere Type and Reverse-jointed Goliath.

These guys sure have a lot of hyphens in their names.

>>171209146

You only have to obtain all the weapons to get Ending E, grinding them all to level 4 is only if you want the weapon stories.

>>171209623

There hasn't been a single good stream playthrough of this game because the streamers are too busy trying to be funny and entertaining to sit and engage with the game.

I haven't watched Liam-senpai's stream of it though. He's a genuine Nier fan so maybe he approaches it from a less shitty angle.

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>>171209619
When they are about to have sex, they take them off in the heat of the moment.

>>171209428
>>171209540
>>171209741
Doujin of shota9S getting ara ara'd by 2B when?

>>171209801
He cried.

>>171209896
>ara ara'd by 2B
>2B
Wrong android

>>171209842
But blindfolds are hot anon.

>One of the pods during the ending scene says something along the lines of "us six being connected"
What's the sixth supposed to be when there were only 2 pods and 3 androids?

>>171209801
Liam's Ending E was amazing, and his general excitement the whole playthrough was great.

When he broke down on Ending E, I did too.

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Anyone notice how much Pod 042 sounds like data in the English dub?

For reference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSJ_Mxt_9mc

>>171209896
They are the same height dumbass.

The other S-Type with his daddy Resistance and 4S are shorter.

>>171210093
Six pot sub-systems talking during the chat sequences.

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I just realized that the picture I was curious about in Kaine's house in Automata is the same picture that was in the house in the original Nier.

Do you think it's meant to be the picture young Kaine drew of her grandmother?

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>>171209368
Shut up, Nowe! No one likes you!

>>171210093
You, the player.

>>171210181
I found it more interesting that he's voiced by Grimoire Noire and also lets you fire off what are essentially the same sealed verses.
For a smol period of time, I actually considered that it might be a plot point before I looked the JP voice actors for Noire and 042.

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>>171210128
>Liam reaction to the Ending C intro credits basically mirrored my own

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>Daily thread reminder!
2B and 9S are both 5'2. Heels on 2B make her 5'5.
She is 330 pounds and he is 286 pounds.
They're small and qt, but weigh a lot.

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>>171209428

>>171210128

Wish I could have been there to see the comments. Watching streams without the comments really hurts the atmosphere.

>>171210543
the twitch VOD has realtime comments tho

>>171210543
You could always watch the VOD with chat replay.

>>171210480
Link to channel pls, I want vod.

>>171210503
Aren't all android's raw bodies the same height so that the transport and blackbox systems work?

>>171210332

Nowe, jose.

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>>171209506
>door locked during the massacre
>his ambition saved him

>>171210128
I'm not familiar with streamers. Liam who?

>>171210378
Noire and Rubrum get their own Pods made in their image, unlike that filthy evil monster known as Weiss.

>>171210503
>She is 330 pounds
Well of course, that ass isn't weightless.

Not long into the game, but I can't for the life of me position myself to get the Machine Examination 1 quest to start; any screencaps or advice? The youtube vids available didn't yield much either.

>>171210665
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reeGopVGiTE&list=PLg1dmg5vyaL6sIUBhYERFM7G2kTpPKOpp

>>171210665
twitch risingsuperstream

>>171210761
Liam used to be a Best Friend, his last LP before leaving the channel was the Nier LP.

I hope Adam and Eve find Beepy in space and murder his rotund metal ass.

>>171209530
Adam and Eve weren't really doing that either. The annoying KH 0.2 machines are big groups of machines and the drills too come to think of it, but we already have individuality in huge mobs like that accounted for in Beepy's big bubble. Following that Eve kills stuff on the network to heal himself, which isn't really controlling.

Another thing worth pointing out is that all the machines on the network really do in this game without being corrupted are fight YorHa/other androids or take up their buckets and protect their niichans from their enemies. They have some concept of family and affection and sex just like the YorHa do.

>>171210840
I think there is a piece of a building a bit in front of his face that you have to stand on.

>>171210840
There's a little hill in front of the machine that you have to climb to the top of first.

There might be some hostile machines nearby that you have to get rid of before you can interact with it though.

>not a combat model
>best moveset

>>171210840

Stand directly underneath the Engels's head and look straight up and hit O.

>>171209773
All weapons? I thought the only requirements for ending E were having achieved C and D.

>>171210994
but A2 is a combat model

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>>171208623
>Yeah, I think people over-exaggerate about just how bad Nier's gameplay was.

Of course they do. Nier's (original) gameplay was functional. You had two buttons, a couple moves, a block, a dodge roll, a weapon specific special and a bunch of spells. That was totally fine for a game where combat isn't meant to be the main attraction. And while the grinding for materials can go fuck itself, people forget to mention that the grinding, all of it, was just for trophies. No endings were locked behind grinding, the only ending condition was collecting all the weapons. You didn't have to upgrade any of them.

The fishing minigame has also reached meme status by now because as long as you're on the right spot and using the right lure, the fishing is down right easy. I did every part of the 9-part fishing miniquest line with minimum fuss, a few minutes per quest.

Saw something about Commander being called White. Is it confirmed anywhere in-game because I really don't remember it and it seems semi-important given the intro letter in the art book

>>171210935

>Following that Eve kills stuff on the network to heal himself, which isn't really controlling.

He does turn all the machines into mindless zombies that suicide attack the Resistance HQ and Pascal's village. I'm pretty sure ripping their own heads open to literally eat people and other machines is not something the machines on the network would have agreed to.

9S HAS A GIANT DICK AND WILL MAKE 2B HUMBLE WITH 9 INCH COCK


OTP FOREVER AND IMPREGNATION ON FIRST CONTACT


AHHHH

Guys help, I think I'm in love with these fictional characters, I made a Nier folder just to save all the fanart I find of 2B and/or 9S, I've never done this before

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>>171210979
>>171211016

I'll try all this, thanks anons.

Do they make sounds fighting?

>>171210694
Funny thing is that some anons insist machines are still part of the network, when the ending with Pascal and NEET being left behind is the point that they ARE cut off from the Network.

Emil's Weapon even points out The Network is gone until the Machines left behind remake it in 500 years.

>9S isn't a combat model
>He's by far the strongest playable android
What did they mean by this?

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So the aliens are literally just penises, right? Also where are the machines in this picture?

Who else is playing the waiting game for PC version here?

I'll probably make the last half hour more enjoyable by watching all the trailers before the game unlocks.

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>>171210685
>as long as you're on the right spot and using the right lure, the fishing is down right easy
I have a soft spot for the fishing questline, because I love the banter between Nier and Weiss, and the subplot about the old man was surprisingly emotional in the end.

But the think the tutorial they give you about which order you're supposed to press the button and pull back to reel it in is straight up wrong, and there's no shame in using a guide for what kind of bait and fishing location you'll need.

I never would have guessed that you're supposed to go fishing in the desert.

>>171211238
Same, although for me the first character I did this for was Megumine.

>>171211165
Not him but isn't that the same thing as infecting them? Eve is a red eye by that point too.

>>171211479
He's too intelligent and adaptable for his own good and taught himself to fight on par with actual combat androids despite not being designed for combat at all, that ties into why he had to have an E type monitoring him

>>171211165
Yeah they point out they are being overwritten and turned into those things against their will.

>>171211212
Android corpses have no vaginas or buttholes.

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>>171211238
>I've never done this before
Get on my level.

>>171211485
It's Emil's repressed cocklust for Nier and how he wanted that deep dicking in his shota bussy so hard that when it was a dick removed from existence he ended up manifesting it due to his thirst. Emil's "fight" and "clones" were all just him struggling to handle both rejection and lack of understanding of how sex works.
Lunar tears are allegories for cum.

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>>171211460
>The Network is gone until the Machines left behind remake it in 500 years.
Like, after Ending E?

Oh joy.

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>>171210503
>Over 300 pounds of pussy and ass!

>>171211580
Even YoRHa command knows 9S are too OP to dispose of even with how dangerous they are.

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>>171211479
Being able to hack and use tech support is OP as Hell in a world filled with machines.

Especially when he starts using it in a way that he's not supposed to.

>>171211580
>tfw too intelligent for model limitations

>>171211768
Yes.

Emil's clones which keep making more of themselves encounter 2B a 1000 years later. Though he doen't remember her name.

>>171211576

They don't mention any viruses, though. It's implied that Eve can just control them outright.

>>171211635

Yes, but there's no mention of any viruses (and it doesn't seem to have lasting effects like a virus would on the machines, the machines only go crazy again later on because N2 does the same or a similar thing to them). It appears that Eve is just able to control machines through the network regardless of their will.

>>171211576
Actually yeah, there's no network rationale for attacking the free machines. It's got nothing to do with what they're trying to achieve, Eve has gone nuts.
So then the network managers have to let machines go if they want to, which is still in line with Beepy's story.

This shit is hella consistent.

>>171211523
The trailers are all awful and/or spoiler-filled. Don't watch them if you haven't already.

>>171211016
>>171210979
>>171210971

It's still not popping for me at all, I have the marker with the quest name but nothing appearing on quests and no prompts. What the heck.

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>>171210324
I don't know who else it would be.

>>171212085
Showing A2 at all was a fucking mistake.

>>171212117
Already cleared out the area of enemies?

Might be a bug. Tried reloading?

>>171212070
Eve is doing a 9S
>Pain will go away if you destroy everything.

Eve is basically machine 9S if he was a little bitch and not very bright. Adam also compared himself to 9S.

It's quite clearly that their similarities is part of why he ca let go of his old issues and move on if he leaves with them on ending D.

>>171212281
Yeah, cleared them out. I'll restart then and see if it helps.

>>171212085
Really? I couldn't tell since I've been avoiding all gameplay videos and what have you besides the PS4 demo.

So how fucked am I?

Was the Cult of the Watchers-esque symbol on Eve ever explained? Are there at least any plausible theories?

>>171212117

Like the other anon said, sometimes quests do bug out and a restart seems to fix them (happens with the speedster quest sometimes). If that still doesn't work, I recall that Machine Examination is unlike most sidequests in that it requires you to occasionally go out and do plot objectives for the quest or the quest's next objective to trigger.

>>171210543
Still can senpai. Twitch has comment playback if you watch the archived videos off the twitch channel.

>>171211238
Look in the OP for the Weekly 2B zip. That person does it for you.

>>171212516

No real strong theories other than it's probably from the Gestalt data that N2 ate up. Because it doesn't seem to have an actual meaning to it or at least it has no real bearing on the plot, it can be inferred that it's mainly there for a visual callback and not much else until we get some side materials that might draw a stronger connection with the Watchers plot and how it might be playing out underneath the surface of what's happening. Wouldn't shock me if there was something like that going on, but at the moment there are no strong ties to prove such a thing.

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I finished ending E. Trying out alcohol is looking like a reasonable option right now.
I need your best suffering pics.

>>171212117
If you have chapter select you will probably have to go back to the chapter you beat him or the chapter after you beat him to do the quest.
Quests are weird sometimes and I think chapter hopping resets some flags.

Also make sure you are playing as 2B or 9S and that both of them are in the party.

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>>171212805
Don't do it, anon.

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>>171212805

>>171212516
I don't think there's anything in game that says outright, but the machines, or at least the aliens, have to be connected to the Watchers. There is angelic text and everything.

>>171212805
But that was the happy ending, you're supposed to get suicidally depressed after seeing ending D before C

http://www.strawpoll.me/12530179/
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A2 is for bullying!

>>171210324
Its her old shack. Emils saved it all this time.

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>>171212805

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>>171212516
Why the symbol itself appeared is anyone's guess, considering that it was inherent to the cult of Drakengard's universe.

But there are people who theorize that the Watchers are influencing the machines in certain ways, because the Logic Virus almost seems to be a new stage of evolution of the Red Eye disease that that the watchers used to infect the cult in Drakengard 1.

So it could be that the White Chlorination Syndrome that the Queen Beast spread to practically destroy humanity lived on in some way, and adapted to affect androids/machines now that humans are gone.

If you're feeling down, just remember, at least you aren't a 10,000-year-old skeleton monster with amnesia after everyone you ever cared about died

Whatever happened to Emil's butler Sebastian? I assume he was an android

>>171211485
>where are the machines?
The Emil clones
Just kidding. I don't know.

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>This fucking credits shoot up.
FUCK YOU MARKETING.
AHHHH
Do I accept this rescue offer I've been given?
I'm so worried that one misclick here will put me back to the start/erase my shit.

>>171213379
>Do I accept this rescue offer I've been given?
DO IT

>90% of fetish art for 2B is her being morbidly obese

Fatfags are the worst

>>171213379
You can't carry the weight of the world alone, anon

>>171211976
Can we just have ONE happy ending?

>>171210849
>didn't lose a single person's save data
Now I feel bad about thinking I was pretty much invincible and didn't even really bother blocking the shots.

>>171213379
Accepting help wont erase the data

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>>171213191
MAKE IT STOP
I DON'T WANT THIS

>>171213379

You can't carry the weight of the world on your shoulders, anon. You can't save everybody, you're just one girl.

>>171213379
You're just one girl.

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>flooded city literally cancel all my quests without warning
reloaded before that shit I wasn't done yet bitches

>>171211635
>no buttholes
I dunno man but they can eat food if they desire even if it does jackshit for them and that has to go somewhere.

>>171213191
Would be nice seeing my name in one of those screenshots.

>>171213582
Ending Y is the only missable in the game don't worry anon.

>>171213582

It might seem like a cheapshot, but you'll get a chance to finish them in the next playthrough.

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>>171213436
>>171213419
HOLY SHIT THIS IS INCREDIBLE.
I'm able to laugh despite how amazing this is because the first fucking helper I got was someone called NEET.
NEETs data was lost.

>>171212805
Suffering?
But anon, ending E is supposed to make you happy and feel good that there are people who deleted their saves to help you!
You can do it, anon!

>>171210503
Post more characters. There were more.

>>171212516
It's Eve's expression of affection for his sibling, much like how the symbol was intended to be if you take the DoD3 explaination of the cult's origins from One's clone brother's affection for his dead sister.
And Taro is just fucking around with us pending the release of novellas, drama cds, or Grimoire Automatas.

>when the singer starts to almost cry

fug m8s

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>>171213247
>Whatever happened to Sebastian?

Yeah, I assumed that he was a leftover android from Hameline Organization that felt responsible for what happened to Emil.

I imagine that he kept trying to find a cure to Emil's condition in the end, but either he got caught up in the hopeless war of the alien invasion, or more likely, he just stopped functioning after a long enough time.

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>>171213683
Maybe if you keep believing, your dreams will come true anon...

>>171213247
Aliens probably killed Sbastian dead.

>>171213425
>No Giant 9S being cute.

NieR:Automata World Guide book hasn't been scaned, right?

>>171213683
The real test is if you are willing to do the same to help others, anon.
Even if you're not done with the game.

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>>171213914
They will anon, they will.
Don't give up now.

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>>171212805
Just close your eyes...It'll be over soon.
>>171212997
Someone didn't figure out the overall message of E.
>>171213439
But, anon! That WAS the happy ending of sorts.

>>171212858
It's my first play through and rebooting helped!

So thanks to - >>171212541 and >>171212281

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>>171213991
Not afaik.
If it isn't too much work please scan the novels from it.

I don't want the feels to stop quite yet.

>>171213425
>tfw

Is it too much to ask for art of 2B as a tittymonster? Or with an even bigger ass?

>>171207320
>literally the conglomeration of 100 or so human fucking souls all united in a single purpose of survival, self-discovery, self-preservation, hatred, fear, anger, and self-defense into a demigod
>instantly evolves from a newborn to an almost adult level personality in 30 seconds flat
>decides binary fission is his next move and makes a brother equally as powerful
>"that base"
Anon, i realize shits been done but thats a literal miracle made solely by enough souls enacting their collective will over reality.

>>171213439
It's a Happy Ending...of sorts.

>Nietzche is so right they don't even mke him a Machine to fight.

Does anyone else find it weird that even though most every living thing in Yoko Taro's work has some pretty fleshed out morality and consciousness no matter how fucked up their actions are (outside of maybe the Watchers), the aliens are basically plants?

>>171214363
Yes.
Taro tasked the 3d team to make the most perfect ass ever and they succeeded.
Take at least one lesson from this game to heart and know when enough is enough and why greed is objectively bad.

>>171214023
Great anime.

>>171214518
The aliens were at least intelligent enough to develop the original machines, it's hard to say exactly how advanced they were since we never see a live one

Adam calls them 'simple' but he also sees himself as a pinnacle of evolution and nearing the perfect being

>>171214435

The Nietzsche plug was so minor and yet absolutely vital to understanding the core themes of the game, especially when it starts talking about the 'cycle' which is bigger than just the nonstop android vs. machine wars. The cycle is a concept from Nietzsche that claims that everything that has happened has happened before an infinite number of times, and everything that will happen will continue to happen an infinite number of times.

If Nietzsche had been made into a boss, he would have probably been literally impossible to beat.

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>>171213997
I wasn't ready to end it all just yet.
What a game.
I preferred Nier though, I think.

>>171214025
>>171214435
Both Nier games have done this now, where you fight your hardest to get to the very last ending, sacrifice everything for some image of happiness, only to learn from some obscure piece of lore that everything's just gonna get fucked later.

SCREEEEEEE

>>171214518
the rape flower was also a plant. Just because something's motives are simplistic doesn't mean they can't be enigmatic as fuck or non-understandable to our vastly different minds and it definitely doesn't mean they're harmless.

>>171214363
But her ass is actually as perfect as Platinum's best modelers could make it. They made Raiden's butt for god sake.

Also this combined with the Bravely Default artist's love for hips and thighs has made this all culminate together to make it.

>>171212025
To get a little more exact about this, the explanation for the machines going berserk are the wild transmissions the corrupted Eve is sending out. He's crying for his brother and that's making them go nuts. He's not telling them to do anything, and they're just going haywire because of their own emotions. He's able to have that much influence over the network, yet Eve is not actually on the network anymore which is why we're able to kill him.

It's way too difficult to use Adam and Eve as a standard for anything about the network since they're fundamentally different from every other machine. They're the homo sapiens to the network's neanderthals.

>>171214695

Automata's ending is a bit different from Nier's, though. Androids and machines aren't doomed to extinction like humanity were, and the final message is one of hope and the possibility for change for the better.

>>171214689
You will be forgiven as long as you do it at some point.
Don't let their sacrifices be for nothing!

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>>171214518
I guess in a sense, they were like the Watchers. A force of nature that only seemed intent on destruction, and in this case, giving birth to new conflict.

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>>171214695
It'll be a happy end when every man, woman, and child give themselves over to everyone and eachother's existende entirely and forever.
so never.

>>171214518
Most Dragons are assholes.

It's a literal thing with them. Michael was an outcast because he loved humans and always fought with them. Gabriella was weird in that regard too.

>We'll never know the story of him and the boy with the dog.

Angelus loves Caim, but as C route shows she puts her duty above their feelings, and she casually gets over his death in the Dragonpocalypse of 1.3 Ending A.

Legna is a huge dick though.

>There's actually a chance 2B could be in another Yoko Taro game since she's still alive 500+ years in the future after Ending E.

>>171214893
Not if the machines wind up making the network again in 500 years according to Emil's Head weapons.

Wait a second, who built YoRHa?

>>171215035

The network doesn't have to be a force for conflict. And nobody ever said it would be easy.

>>171215012
Considering he actually put Emil and the twins into Automata, I wouldn't even be surprised if we get to see Toobie again in a future game, but I also hope we don't because with ending E we can at least hope she and 9S got to be happy, but you just know if they show up again it'll be pure suffering

>>171215113

N2 colluded with some androids to make YoRHa. At least, that seems to be what's implied as N2 literally calls itself YoRHa.

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>>171215012
>since she's still alive 500+ years in the future after Ending E.
Hah, good one.

>>171215113
Other androids, most likely high ranking ones watching of Project Gestalt.

>>171215113
Beings with superior taste in bodies

>>171215113
Either a group of androids, the machine network, or both of them together

It's strongly suggested that it really was made by androids, but there's also enough evidence that the machine network had some hand in it to consider it

>>171214935

>the pottery of Arioch being devoured by a giant baby

>>171214972

Gabriella was fucking amazing, just a sassy black woman-dragon stuck babysitting One's dipshit Sister's, I'd be pissed too.

Did One force her to change into a Daemon?

>>171214893
no. It really isn't. Whatever YoRHa survive will be hunted by the new E-types besides 2B who dies much later, supposedly alone, moondroids or whatever up there is still swinging their big dicks, jackass(a resistance-tier android and thus a child in strength) is the only one taking a swing a this and we know she ultimately fails cause this next bit, the machine network starts back up which means the war does which means shit will never change as far as we know. Its all doomed to just repeat and escalate in tragedy till Yoko says we've had enough and he'll do that 100 years after he's dead and they can open up his final stageplay as per his will which shows the earth being consumed by the sun and the Big-Stretch happen and even energy ceases so FINALLY the universe can know peace.

Who built the city ruins we see in Automata? Those can't possibly be pre-Nier because they'd have to be 10,000 years old.

It seems like YorHa was a really big extreme solution to making the androids feel better about themselves, don't you think?

Then again, knowing this universe mass android was probably a very likely outcome if somebody didn't make something up about the humans being fine.

>>171215447
You'd be surprised just how resilient concrete and steel are, I've seen science documentaries on end of the world scenarios suggesting that modern buildings and industry really would survive like that for thousands of years

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>>171215252
I don't think N2 straight up built Yorha, but they did go out of their way to keep the war's stalemate going so that they could have an enemy to fight while they continued to evolve and deliberate what they should do next..

>>171215346
>moral of the story: existence is pain

>>171215515
It's extreme but it seems like it kind of just inflated and resulted in the entire proxy war

>We feel a bit sad because humans are dead
>Humans are back!
>Where are they?
>On the Moon!
>Why wont they come back then?
>We need to kill the biomachines first!

>>171215346

New E-types? YoRHa's gone, mate. The whole thing's kaput. And just because the machine network comes back doesn't mean it has to be for war. Well, unless Beepy's the one who brings it back, because he's responsible for every bad thing that happens in Automata so naturally he'd fuck it up this time too

>>171215131
Emils still fighting them after Automata.

>>171215252
It also has the top secret files which not even the Commander is allowed to know about which implies they're the thing giving her the orders in the first place

>>171215594
Would that mean that the whole world didn't go medieval in Nier? Some places were still mostly "modern" cities?

>>171215515
But humans are fine!
now that they're all dead and out of Taro's reach. Except the ones from gestalt. They get to suffer forever just like the Legion. Pray you die before 2026.

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>>171215012
>>171215189
Taro has quite the selection of immortal characters to bring back in later games now should he have the desire.

So if the Tower was just a way to fire off an arc with machine personalities inside it so they could chill out in space why would the Network care about continuing their conflict with the androids for so long and evolving if it was just planning on fucking off of Earth

>>171215854
It's very much possible at least

>>171215594
It's also really cool that they thought of nature taking over, which in realty in any apocalypse scenario should be the case.

>>171215335
No it was willing. Gabriella was sassy tsundere towards One. Like Zero is to Mikhail/Michael.

>>171215948

Zero went way too far at times.

>>171215890

The ark was really just a contingency plan for survival and to protect mankind's legacy in the case that everything on Earth happened to go tits up. N2's main plan is still in effect, which means it still wants to force machine lifeforms to evolve with controlled opposition.

Does anyone else think that Adam's english VA is trying to sound like Xemnas?

>>171215515
They needed a way to keep the fighting going for as long as they could, because they had no idea you could stop the war by making the enemy evolve. With what info they had, they aren't really completely in the wrong. Even A2 wasn't trying to stop the war because she's a dummy and it was the pods that actually stopped things.

Now, if the androids that know about what they did kill them without a second thought, THEN we'll have a party that's totally fucked in the head.

>>171215346
Jackass was friends with the Commander. White, her friend, is mentioned to be Commanders name in the artbook.

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While I quite appreciated ending E, I kinda felt like endings C/D were a bit weak. Am I just a big knucklehead or does anyone else here feel the same way?

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A2... Thank you.... giving meaning to my life...

>>171215842
>Tower contains SS level information on Project YoRHa
>Black Boxes are made from Machine Cores
>N2 literally refers to itself as YoRHa at one point
>The 'Council of Humanity' correspondence has the same voice as N2

I'm not saying YoRHa was made solely by the machines and the androids had no part in it, but I don't know how some people can adamantly believe that the machines had nothing to do with it either

>>171215890
Because at first that was the plan. But as they saw androids grow and machines become independent, they started questioning things.

>>171215775
only the current YoRHa. Moon survivors still have the technology and machines still exist for them to rip cores out of to repurpose. Even if the network doesn't start the war the new YoRHa definitely will as it will always need it so long as the lie needs to be maintained to some degree. Ontop of all of this we know Emil still fights them actively 500 years into the future so its STILL a future of war and conflict.

>>171216107
I liked ending D

>>171216129
Can someone sum up the screenplay in a few greentext lines?

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>>171215854
I don't know how modern by Automata's standards they'd be, but considering that there are still androids running their own facilities and the shadowlord's castle was in a city of sorts with sections of active electricity, there could have been some replicants that managed to find more advanced housing in abandoned cities.

Which androids are AI driven and which ones other than Yorha have black boxes?
s BB superior because it causes evolution? Is it 'soul'?
Whose idea was to put machine parts into androids?
DePo should run on AI?

>>171216156
It's definitely obvious that they were or are in cahoots with each other, that much is clear if not just for the reason that the Bunker has a backdoor specifically designed to let machines in

The rest is just extra confirmation really

I think actually the androids probably built some cities, possibly even the city that turned into ruins, given they have a goddamn aircraft carrier which means they need to have some serious infrastructure and cities going on somewhere in the world.

>>171215678
>bit sad
>Persecuted an entire series of androids and unjustly punish them with brainwashing because two let their feelings towards Replicant Nier doom humanity
And the culling of Dev. and Pop. was a lie so others are still suffering elsewhere.

>>171216102
And? That has no bearing beyond Jackass knowing the now dead commander who WASN'T the ultimate head of YoRHa or creator/perpetrator of the continued war.

>>171216187
What about it did you enjoy? I mean that as a serious question, I want to understand what I'm missing.
I liked the callbacks to 2B/9S' first meeting, but otherwise I wasn't particularly into it.

>>171215594
Nah they can't be pre-nier because some of them are built over the ruins of facade, people forget that replicant society survived for 800 years after nier, giving them ample time to get up to modern construction work

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>>171215948
>>171216014
>constantly insulting, actively stabbing in the back, and forcing to commit mass murder on a regular basis
>sassy tsundere

>>171216442
I just think Nier's locations are on the opposite side of the desert and Emil just moved Kaine's tent to a safe place underground

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Why is 2B so lewd? What's the lore reason?

>>171216240
Only Yorha androids have Black Boxes. Black Boxes are made from Machine cores and not AI cores because the higher ups thought giving them an AI core would be too inhumane for what Yorha's purposes were for.

This ultimately became rather ironic since machines were capable of becoming self realized and therefore so were Yorha androids, but at the same time it's deliberate because them having machine cores neant they would become infected by Red Eye Logic Virus as planned and would wipe them out.
This was their purpose in the end. Possibly so that no one would ask questions about humanity.

>>171214841
This, Eve having to regen through sucking machine lives away is also different from how he and Adam both healed in the spaceship.

>Androids make a new space station when?
>Androids hunt down the aliens when?
>Androids find out the aliens are just pawns for the Watchers when?
>Androids go to war with the Watchers when?
>Humanity's last scraps of DNA is destroyed on the moon by giant space babies when?

>>171216240
the "shapes" the machines found and integrated are Gestalts they found on the "Old Network". Literal human souls. Every machine core is a soul and every blackbox is a machine core. Onl YoRHa have blackboxes. Previous iteration androids like DevPop and possibly resistance members have AI cores.

Some NieR:Automata livestream started just now by Square Enix.

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>>171216107
I thought the final confrontation with N2 could have been stronger, but the boss fight where the perspective was repeatedly switching between 9S and A2 and leading up to the choice of their final conflict was top tier.

>>171216608
When your job is to kill the same guy over and over again if he ever gets close to learning about humanity's true fate, while you're at the same time slowly falling for the guy, you develop strange fetishes.

>>171216553
There's a sidequest where you find Facade remains in the desert, the temple is stated as being in the desert area in the novella and the researcher specifically states that facade stood there at some point

I don't want to shell out $50 for Drakengard on PS2, would watching the cutscenes and reading up on story for both that and the original Nier suffice? I hope I don't speak sacrilege, but I don't have a ton of time to pour into games anymore and want to get into Automata after I finish Nioh.

>>171216481
She liked One that much. Fuck the other sisters. And Dito.

They even made a pseudo-pact in Utaihime where she went
>It's not like I came to help you or anything One!
All you are missing is B-baka!

Male One knew their bonds of friendship was so strong he makes the cult to worship Gabriel and Gabriella along with his sister as well.

>>171216648
All non-yorha androids had AI core. This is why we never see any of them going berserk during route C.

>>171216863
Watching a few plot analysis videos should be enough. Not gonna lie, it can be really confusing, but it's a wild ride and you'll figure out enough of it through videos and wiki pages.

>>171216698

>WEE ARR PROD TO ANNOUNRCE DERE WIRR BE FURR DEE ARR CEE SUPPART FAHR NIERU: AUTOMATAU INCRUDINGU THUH PEARR HARBORU MISSION DEE ARR CEE ANDU THREE NEW STORYU PACKAJUUS

pls pls pls pls pls

>>171216863
you can download an iso and emulate it on an average pc, it runs fine on pcsx2 and if you are fine with standard resolution it runs on a toaster

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>Pick up woman statue for desert quest
>get attacked by cowboys
>Laughing because it's awesome
>take it back to the guy
>"On Your Wedding Day" caring in the statue
>suddenly feel like shit

Why does he do this
Why does he insist on turning all humor into pain

>>171216648
>>171216625
So what's the difference between AI and Machine? in terms of self realization, emotions and evolution? Are androids with AI cores condemned to mindlessly run as they were programmed?

>>171216107
Ending D broke me and hammered home the pathetic inevitability of all of it. 9S being my favorite helped tremendously with the suffering. Everything about the lead up and conclusion followed by the song and his novel destroyed me. It was my first one before C as well. All the buildup and plot points that got revealed but never addressed finally snowballed to D's finale and it just hit me all at once.
It really redeemed the game since I had been getting frustrated with some of the issues but by the tower unlocking, with the twins showing, and onwards the game reached outstanding heights.

>>171217032
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FJ6YFTmRT0

Seems like they are just gonna play the game and give away a black box edition.

Eve always wants to play with Adam, what do they do to play?

>>171217068
Well the twins seem to have actual emotions, but it's unclear how much of this is true self-awareness akin to a human soul, and how much of it is just following their AI programming

The fact that they considered putting an AI into a sacrificial lamb to be inhumane implies that the AI core androids do have emotions though, but it's hard to say how 'real' those emotions are compared to a YoRHa android

>>171217068

AI in Nier means fully sapient and capable of self-actualization. Machines were never designed to be capable of either of those things because they're just simple weapons of war, but Beepy changed that and made their lives absolute hell forever. The androids only think machines are dumb machines because machines are actually really stupid, but they're still capable of thought and emotion.

>>171216741
True, the events leading to the ending were really rad aside from when it switched my perspective and suddenly I'm next to some exploding cunt but the endings themselves just felt a tad limp to me.
Like a high speed sprint towards an outstanding finish but the finish line is just a brick wall that you slam into at full speed.
I dunno, I guess I just expected a short sequence after my choice of A2/9S where I got to play a bit more.
I didn't feel like the game had any Shadowlord equivalent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IEbfDtDaUc

>>171217161
I still don't quite get that same feeling for ending D, though I will say the way the game handled Devola and Popola was fantastic.

What difficulty does /ndg/ play on? I was on hard for a while until I got sick of getting killed in 1-2 hits.

>>171217032
Are the characters anywhere near Hawaii? Because that's where the Stage Play takes place.

It seems unlikely A2 and Anemone both went over to Japan after the events of the Play.

>>171216107
I felt sad for A2 but I couldn't really feel attached to her since we knew not much about her and we barely spent any time with her.
D was a kick in the nuts but the impact was lessened by knowing that I still had E which was going to be better in every way. It just felt like getting a bad end in a VN.

I also realized E is basically a shitty end for A2 as well. She seems to have been released from her survivor's guilt in C but what the fuck does she have left to live for in E?

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>>171217049
>doing the machine examination quest
>expect a lighthearted exchange between the two parties
>instead he comes to learn the concept of sin and comes to terms with his death, eventually giving his parts to 2B
>you learn later that he finds the planet beautiful, especially a bird that landed on him

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>>171217394
Stack defense chips and rape Hard mode.

>>171217414

Either C or D can come before E. A2 could have come to terms with her own guilt and then been saved by the pods.

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>>171216204
You can read the full summary here.
http://nier2.com/yorha-stage-play/


>A2's team is sent planet-side to destroy the machine server hidden in the mountains
>things go wrong on descent and most of the team is killed, leaving A2 as the new leader.
>they meet up with Anenome and the other Resistance members that have been abandoned planet-side, and they agree to work with them to finish the mission
>The team is split up during the conflict, and only a few of them make it to the final elevator including A2 and A4
>N2 confronts them, and tells them that their suicide mission is completely pointless, because even if they succeed it obviously won't damage to them, or the machine network as a whole
>A4 sacrifices herself to stop the other infected androids and save A2
>A2 succeeds in her mission but is left to die alone
>Command thinks the mission is a success, while N2 apparently hacks the bunker's signal and turns off the signal alerting that A2 somehow survived, and isn't particularly happy about it.

>>171217068
There is no difference, the machines and YorHa are exactly the same. The androids that weren't built from machine cores are pretty much the same too. Everyone has to evolve in different ways and they all struggle to.

Adam and Eve were the closest anyone in the game got to being free like humans. They could alter their reasons for living at will, they weren't slaves to anything. They even tried to recruit 9S and 2B at first, going against their core programming.

Then Adam read a book on nihilism and ruined everything.

>>171217394
Normal. Hard just got annoying for me because I died in like 1 or 2 hits, and I couldn't be bothered tinkering with chips.

After the ending where you can sacrifice your save data, do you then lose the ability to chapter select as well, if you've unlocked it?

If so, i assume it makes more sense to get that ending (the save deletion one) early and then use your new save for the rest as you'll be able to jump around

I'm sure in the stage play A2 is interesting, but I can't help but feel she was the weakest of the playable characters. You've got 2B's well paced storyline, learning about peaceful machines, trying to save the moon, and inevitably dying (with the reveal of 2B really being 2E adding icing to the cake for everything), you've got 9S and his slow descent into madness and his hunt for the truth, and A2...well, she's angry. And she just kinda wanders into places. And we have to go through the whole "machines can be nice" arc with her even though we already saw it with 2B (even if it led to one of the most devastating moments in the game, though that's mainly about Pascal and not A2.) Really A2 just seemed "there", not really that important to anything, and what she did contribute was mainly to make other characters stronger.

>>171217068
Given Nierman was able to do whatever the fuck he wanted, I think only DePo had protocol in them -that is- until the thing happened and their units were recalled and the only two left had their memories erased with no longer any protocols.

My theory on the inhumane aspects if the yorha units is that machine cores were supposed to make them feel nothing while still maintaining their susceptableness to the logic virus.
And that didn't work out so well on the feeling nothing part. At least not for toobie, 9S, A2 and other deserters. Of course I could be wrong. It's just my thoughts on it though.

>>171217557
C's weird because 9S is still alive at the end.

>YoRHa druggies and 4S must have died offscreen.

>>171217602
The game explains to you exactly what you lose before it'll actually let you delete your data. It will also try to talk you out it as much as possible.

>>171217251
Tag, catch, i-spy, stick sword fights, wrasslin', who can vivisect their recent acquisitions the fastest, who can cause as much damage within the time limit, who can keep their victims alive the longest, and who can hug the other the longest before bedtime.

>>171217602
Uh, you must not have seen that ending at all because it literally brings up Chapter selecting disappearing.

>>171217602
You lose everything. It's as if you never played the game. I don't mean that in a condescending way, that's literally what happens.

>>171217590

Adam's weakness is that he lacked strong emotions to balance his logic and reason, while Eve's weakness is that he lacked strong reason to balance his emotions. When they were together they were unstoppable, but Adam fucked off without Eve knowing that Eve would stop his plan to die at the hands of 2B for the sake of SCIENCE

>>171216187
>>171216417
I don't really understand the appeal of ending D, at least if you consider it the canon end before E happens. I guess if you really care about the homolust between Adam and Eve it isn't that awful, but you are simultaneously saying you are okay with A2 being revived after having no personal revelation about the world when she just wanted to die, which is simply cruel. Plus the machines basically won if they launch the ark, considering that was their goal at the time. Personally I think C is supposed to be the proceeding ending that leads to E because unless it is a design oversight, regardless of whether you picked C or D first in your first time through, C still plays first when you pick E from chapter select. Not to mention it made the revival of A2 less emotionally painful for her, probably.

>>171217650
Making the stage play an actual playable thing would've helped a lot with this, but unfortunately they probably ran out of budget.

>>171216107
>tfw got D and then right away jumped the slide "I never quite realized..." with ["do you accept help"] skipping pure C.
I can't remember half the stuff that has been happening but I still remember emotions.

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>>171216204
>A2 and A4 are lovers.
>A2 gets a mentor named Seed, who dies to create the next generation of YoRHa.
>A2 and 16 other YoRHa members go to Earth on a suicide mission.
>A2, A4, G16, and S21 are the only survivors.
>Meet up with Anemone and her crew.
>All go into a place (dunno where) and Term Alpha/Beta (N2) are there.
>They kill everyone.
>They bully A2.
>A4 goes and sacrifices herself to save A2 by blowing up her core reactor.
>A2 goes on a machine rampage just like 9S.

>>171217741
yeah that's great and all, but the reason I'm asking here is so I can plan around it. I want to eventually get all the endings, and if the sacrifice ending means I'll lose the ability to chapter select, I'll take care of it earlier on, before I collect all the weapons and shit (i'm assuming there's an ending that needs all the weapons because nier)

>>171217251
Mating press!

>>171217590
Adam was super super super facinated by Human stuff and took it a little bit too far.

>>171217779

Not everything.

You get the greatest prize the game has to offer.

The final, and best, title screen.

>>171213665
>>171213681
So will doing the Flooded City allow me to continue quests at some point later or will it force me into some kind of NG+ where I have to do all the quests again?

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>>171216874
I was actually referring to Zero's abusive treatment of Mikhail.

Not One or Gabriel's treatment of each other.

Hows the screenplay? Is it any good? Honestly watching few loose clips of it made me cringe pretty hard and was difficult to watch.

>>171217765
No, I haven't seen the ending, I've just played Nier 1 so I know there's an ending that wipes everything, and I've heard Automata gives you chapter select enventually; Nier didn't have it so I was curious how it worked.

>>171217765
>>171217779
Good to know though, thanks. I'll get the sacrifice ending soon as it's possible to, and then use my next save that I can hold onto forever to get the other endings, unlock all the weapons, and do a very hard run if i'm feeling masochisitc

>>171216481

>that ending where Mikhail sacrifices himself

Man, Zero went fucking apeshit.

>>171218080
God no it's fucking awful unless you like that kind of thing.
The japs seem to enjoy it for some reason though.

>>171217992

Any quests you haven't finished yet you will have to start over from the beginning on the next playthrough, but questlines with multiple side quests in them will not reset. You'll keep your progress with Father Servo and the speedster for each individual quest you completed with them on the next playthrough.

>>171217898
it asks you if you want to delete your save and you can just say no.
The only missable thing in the game is a specific bad ending that happens in a specific sidequest
light spoilers here:
in the sidequest you unlock by maxing out every single weapon there's a small timed sequence at the end, let the timer run out for the bad ending, and bam you can't miss anything else ever
if you want to delete your save after that just replay the ending and choose yes when asked

>>171216187
So did I anon.

>>171217804
The Machines don't care. Hell they don't even care if they never reach the new planet. It tells you this.

A2 is revived no matter what, but in D she doesn't get to choose death, while C 9S is still alive and taken away.

Is Caim or Zero a bigger murderer.

>>171217580
>>171216204
Isn't it exactly the same as Anemone ingame journal?

>>171218080
not good, and i love taro. not good at all.

if you're worried about missing out on the story, just read the translation online; it'll take less time than watching it and it'll look less cringy in your head than it does on stage in real life

>>171218212
If you could would you do all the side quests before that then?

>>171216181
Jackass recovered substantial proof of the truth in that final archive you get when you beat the game, which she got from tower salvage supposedly. Assuming she spread it around,, which she probably did, I don't think they will be stupid enough to pull another YoRHa. She wants to fuck up the bastards behind it and I am sure she is smart enough to know that you are going to need allies to do that who would also need to know the truth. And we know Emil fights the network in 500 years. All he said was that he met an android in black that is assumed to be 2B but couldn't remember her clearly, not that he was fighting them.

>>171218361
there's a summary of it in game as well

>>171218018
Zero is asshole tsundere. Not Sassy. I meant just tsundere

>>171217992

Any quests you've completed will stay complete, but that's more of a curse than a blessing since it means you can't easily score free upgrade materials.

>>171218225
is that even missable though? like, couldn't I just chapter select, do that sidequest again, and let the timer run out?

>>171210128
>>171209950
https://youtu.be/LMaFWNzR7X4?t=16m15s

Holy shit. I've been looking for shit like this since I finished the game. This is great.

>>171218312

Pretty sure Zero is like a fucking scrub to Caim.

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>>171217580
>>171217850
The only thing from the Yorha stag-play that I wish they were a little more blatant about in Automata's story, is that the androids' personalities, or at least the A-models, were straight up lifted from the real recorded memories and thoughs of long-dead humans.

And that they experimented with uploading different personalities of people who had no prior combat experience in order to bring new variables to the combat data collection. It adds another layer of tragedy to just how human the androids have become and the way that their thoughts and feelings have been weaponized.

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>>171218080
It's alright. The girls at least try with what they are given. Japan loves their stage plays.

>>171218289
Well, all the black box signals are confirmed gone in endings C and D by pods before you're given the option to go to E.

I'm pretty sure Taro completely forgot about 4S and the drug queens

>>171218410

I wouldn't worry too much about Father Servo since you basically have to be on the second playthrough to be able to beat his last form without it taking an hour, but I'd try to complete everything else before then. Emil's sidequest can also wait for the second playthrough if you want, it's not crucial to get it in the first one.

If 21O was my mom, things would be different around here.

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>>171218080
I kind of liked the themes of the characters and story summary that I've read online.

But the stage-play itself looks a bit, quirky?

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Chat so fast nobody will notice I'm gay

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>>171218775
THIS CAN'T CONTINUE!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuNFxZ_Zm0A

This is cute.

One is the biggest piece of shit. Fuck you too, Gabriella.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maUt4zw0TFA

>>171218534
I hoenslty wonder if A2's human data is based off Yonah or Kaine based on the way the white hair.
Before I knew anything about Automata, I was convinced that 2B was just Yonah.
Inhadn't been thinking about the obvious at the time.

>>171218653

The signals being gone doesn't mean they're dead, they could just be hiding the signals somehow. 4S would probably be capable of that, and I imagine the drug queens and the oasis chick figured out how to do that ages ago since they literally went AWOL. It is true that none of them are a part of YoRHa anymore, so 9S and A2 really are the last of YoRHa and their deaths mark the end of the project.

How do I get Anemone's novels? I'm at 50% and I read that you need to browse the computer near her in route C, but there's nothing there.

>>171218506
no because you can never repeat sidequests unfortunately.
Once it's out on pc I'll probably replay the game while skipping all sidequests and 100%ing everything else so I have a save I can always come back to if I want to just replay all the sidequests for that reason

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>>171218345
>>171218425
Pretty much, except Anenome's journal is limited to her perspective, so you see what happens to her instead of A2's initial descent, and what happened once the rest of the group made it down the elevator.

>>171217334

What did Beepy do? I haven't really read any side materials.

>>171218826
Fuck you Zero. You caused this with your edgy chuuni wish.

>>171216608

Translation for this? I don't speak 11.

>>171218897
Talk to her first as A2. She'll trigger a thing.

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>>171218719
Damn I wish the main plot was a bit longer, and I probably won't get to play as 2B forever

>>171218990
you need to do the anemone's memories or whatever it's called sidequest earlier on in the game to unlock that, I think 2b gets it

>>171218946
There's some speculation that Beepy spread his conciousness to the machines to create machine personallities like that of Pascal, though I believe the reason these self aware amchines were created was part of N2's plan to stay in conflict with yorha.

>>171218289
What does it matter if they don't care? I still didn't want them to win. And obviously A2 is revived in E regardless, but it isn't so shitty for her in C because of her reconciliation. And I don't see what difference 9S living and being taken away makes since he still needed to be repaired, just less extensively than 2B and A2 did. I'm not saying I think D was an unenjoyable ending, nor that I didn't like it, I am just saying that I think C fits E more.

>>171218312
Caim: how many genocides you do a day?
Zero: i dunno, like, 8,000?
Caim: you are like a baby. Watch this.
-nothing personals all orphanages in time forward and backward from his single point of existence plus decimates an entire universe-

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>>171217394

I always play every game on normal because I'm not some kind of a deviant.

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>>171218971

>post yfw 'You've grown strong, Mikhail' in final route

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>>171218859
Some people theorize that A2 was based off of Kaine's Gestalt memory data, because the human memory she recalls in the stage-play is the time she spent living with her grandmother.

>>171218742
>But the stage-play itself looks a bit, quirky?
It is.
That's Japanese stage plays for you.
Just think of it as wasnting to be a corporate Broadway spectacle, but with a fraction of the budget and design talent, and it's actually not as weird as it seems.

But lets not digress into theatrical discussion.

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>>171218932
>Almost 10000 years in the future
>Still rockin' Kalashnikovs

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I just realized Keiichi Okabe has been the composer for many of the Tekken games. Fucking outrageous.

No wonder this went so well with the Adam fight in the Copied City.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T00yWAmKpw

>>171219124
>Caim: how many genocides you do a day?
>Zero: i dunno, like, 8,000?
>Caim: hold this beer

ftfy

>>171219157
This makes 100% fucking sense because of that Banter with WeskerPod is basically Kaine talking to Weiss.

>>171219168
that's more because of the kabuki theater legacy, there's also a resident evil canon stage play which is just as funny

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They should shill the game with people who know how to play the game instead.

>>171219157
This, the whole grandmother memories pretty much confirms that she is based of Kaine's Gestalt

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>>171218946
Beepy wanted to spread consciousness to A.I. when he rose to the surface in the middle of early stages of the war between androids and machines.

Some people theorize that it was the spark of consciousness that allowed the machines to grow advanced enough to turn on the aliens.

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>COMPLETE ENDING E
>THOSE DOORS IN FLOODED CITY, DESERT AND FOREST ARE ALL STILL LOCKED.

WHAT
THE
FUUUUUCK

>>171217394
>What difficulty does /ndg/ play on? I was on hard for a while until I got sick of having to redo lengthy shmup gauntlets because 9S is a delicate little flower.

>>171219354
Gestalt Kainé lived with both her grandmother and her grandfather though, and her grandfather was actually the kind one out of the two
>>171219396
DLC

>>171211976
Where is this from? I don't recall it being stated after his desert battle

>>171218312
http://www.strawpoll.me/12544663
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http://www.strawpoll.me/12544663

>>171219110
She accpeted death because she got to be with everyone immediately afterwards.

Adam and Eve are not N2 either and deserve a chance as well, becuse they were ultimately not evil. Just like many machines weren't. Hell getting N2 to turn on each other was already payback that even the personal Machines went crazy.

The machines stored on the ark get a chance at a second life on a new world just like everyone else, which fits the theme because it doesn't meant they can't fall back into the same situation again. It sounds like you are trying to force it to not fit the theme when its clear both do equally.

>>171219336

Really. For an official shill stream like that you need to bring in somebody who can just SSStyle the whole game and make it look good, not a trio of bumblefucks who get killed every five minutes.

>>171219296
Listen to this and ask yourself if it belongs in tekkan
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dPbL4Y8KsSM

>>171219296
>replacing the OST
but that fight is one of the best songs

>>171219495
Emil's heads weapon stories

ahhhhH I WANT A SHIRTLESS 9S

GIVE IT TO ME TARO

>>171219540
It really does. It's a fantastic theme too, but I killed him too quickly to listen to it fully.

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Imagine if the Logic Virus turned all the YoRHa androids into bimbos and S-models into /fit/ breeding bulls

>>171219324
WeskerPod is Noire.

>>171219396
Pray for good sales in the US, and we might get DLC.

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>>171218826
>>171218971
In terms of morality?

Two>>>>One>Zero>Five>Four>Three

>>171219578
I did it the second time around in chapter select. I was just bored.

>>171219701
Given the initial reviews were all at 9.0 and so were the player reiviews, I believe its already sold better than the original by now.
I believe reviwer scor is an 8.8 now but the player score is still a 9.0.

The fact people are receiving it very well is a good sign though.

what are the chances of the automata pc port being bad

>>171219329
Not sure how kabuki fits in to this vein of live-action performance, but I'll take your word for now.
What little of kabuki I know about seemed reasonably recognizable to western theatre sensibilities, but I'm probably wrong. I've only ever poked my nose in to bits of noh and butoh.

>>171219640
All non 9S probably go be gay on earth. Only the 9S series wants that 2B(utts).

Most of YoRHa is gay. On top of their creators making them women so it'd be easier to dispose of them.

>>171219640
PLEASE have sex 9S

>>171219640

You mean imagine if the logic virus ruined the one interesting part of their designs?

>>171219730
Is two the only one who literally did nothing wrong?

>>171219985
If Metal Gear Rising was anything to go by, the port will be perfectly fine.

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Did you prefer Nier or Nier Automata?
I preferred the original Nier.

>>171218926
>you can never repeat sidequests

interesting. So if this sidequest gives two endings, one if the timer runs out, and one if it doesn't does that mean it's actually impossible to get all the endings on a single save? That you'd need to collect and upgrade every weapon in the game twice on two different saves to 100% the game and get all endings?

>>171219730

What did Five do to put her worse than Zero?

Five is just a moron nympho.