This game is in the top 10 games ever made (Gestalt was also good but this "completes" it and solves all prior budget/developer skill related talent and gameplay issues that might have held it back while also adding a good amount of content and completing the story according to the creator's vision (budget issues are gone).
Seriously there is very little that is actually better than Nier Replicant. Nier Automata is good, but not as good as Nier Replicant. Just more viral marketed and accessible by virtue of 2B's beautiful ass and Platinum games. This isn't Platinum games combat but it's good and meaty with weight in its combat and a heartbreaking story throughout.
Seriously, I played Nier Gestalt in like 2014, was broken by it, played Automata after many tries to get into it and only had serious feelings for it after some time. But Nier Replicant...
Nier Replicant is a masterpiece.
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kaine's futa wiener
Childhood is preferring Papa Nier because you sympathize with the father daughter story and are deeply emotionally moved by his plight.
Adulthood is realizing there's nothing more cucked than having a daughter, and preferring Brother Nier, because you can self insert as Brother. And think about how you would romance Kaine and then consummate your relationship by fricking her missionary style in her pussy until you both climax, her big fat wiener orgasming and shooting cum all over her own belly and breasts.
No father figure?
How can she stand like that without squashing her big fat balls?
That’s cuz Kaine’s like me. Cute little balls but a massive wiener
Prove it. Also, I think we all know that Kaine would have small parts.
Uh…no? The frick you wanna see my dick for
Meh. I thought it was kind of emotionally manipulative and i couldn't bother getting all endings, got all except the last one.
> i couldn't bother getting all endings
Casual homosexual got filtered and watched it on youtube like modern zoomers?
In my day you earned your fricking endings.
Well, if it was ever remade you'd get chapter skip functionality like Automata. Which isn't bad to want, but if you NEED it you don't fricking deserve it.
>emotionally manipulative
Everything is justified, the only thing kind of ridiculous is Grimoire Noir being a cryptic edgelord but it's been 1000+ years he very well could have gone insane and the basis for the Grimoires was literally making children fight to the death with magic to begin with so all of them except Weiss (Rubrum is an example of both prolonged insanity and edgelordism) being fricking nuts makes sense.
So yeah as I said, Nier Replicant is a masterpiece.
Okay you just said all that about Grim Noir but can you tell me where in the game it explains any of that about making kids fight or all that? I did not see that cutscene. Where in Nier Replicant is that information?
nta but it's not actually in the game. Like most of Nier's lore it's hidden in other media.
>nta but it's not actually in the game
I fricking knew it. This right here only further supports my frustrations with Nier. The game demanding external media to explain its nuances and narratives is hogwash. They could have at least put it in a document or something you can pick up, but just handing you a chunk of story and gameplay doesn't make something so amazing if you needed external media to make it make sense.
Automata is a better game. Necessary narrative elements are all self-contained and don't require Shounen-tier levels of suspension of disbelief. Nier is filled with "It Just Works, Okay!?" while Automata justifies everything very neatly.
I wouldn't really call the thing about the books really necessary. It makes like one boss fight go from mundane to tragic but it's not like there's any shortage of that in the game proper.
And there's still plenty of Automata's lore that's trapped in plays and on park benches.
this is the shit that makes me not want to get into the series
>Nier Automata is good, but not as good as Nier Replicant
Incorrect.
Automata is an all around upgrade from Gestalt / Replicant. It uses and implements the ideas way better, on top of improving on the pacing a frickton.
And when it comes to version 1.224..., they really should've gone an extra mile to balance things out. Just slapping Automata's gameplay on Nier1 feels cheap; at least start the kid off with his PS3 OG speed and stats, and increase them with the leveling up system.
>Automata is an all around upgrade from Gestalt / Replicant. It uses and implements the ideas way better, on top of improving on the pacing a frickton.
You're talking about shallow gameplay nonsense. Replicant makes the previousy shoddy gameplay fully functional while retaining the vastly more sympathetic and evocative storyline of the original Nier.
Automata is good but its story and characters are dogshit compared to the tragedy and characterization of Brother Nier, Kaine, Emil, etc.
>You're talking about shallow gameplay nonsense.
Exactly how?
The gameplay itself is greatly improved and expanded upon, on top of making it a central part of the game's story and meta-level subtext. The fact that everything is "in-world" and "physical" to the characters accentuates the experience, and makes especially the [E] choice way more impactful, make more sense.
>more sympathetic and evocative storyline of the original Nier.
I honestly don't know what people find SO amazing about N1's plot. Is this a new Chrono Trigger phenomena, where people latch on the first game of the sort they played?
I mean yeah, the main cast is good. Banter between Nier and Weiss is a blast.
But everything else is quite lukewarm. Even without the notion of having to replay the SAME HALF of the story 4+ times for all the finales with practically no changes whatsoever, the timeskip Nier / Papa Nier act like morons the whole game.
>Automata is good but its story and characters are dogshit compared to the tragedy and characterization of Brother Nier, Kaine, Emil, etc.
I highly disagree.
Already during my first A route run, I realized the sad beauty of the game's world and its implications:
This was OUR future, if we didn't change our ways and stop OUR circle of hate and miscommunication.
I also know few characters as tragic and detailed in the gaming's history. I'm no 2B fanboy, but I know that most coomers don't have no idea what kind of burden she carries. The ending song's literally dedicated to her.
>Is this a new Chrono Trigger phenomena, where people latch on the first game of the sort they played?
This is how I feel about people who played Automata first.
>But everything else is quite lukewarm. Even without the notion of having to replay the SAME HALF of the story 4+ times for all the finales with practically no changes whatsoever, the timeskip Nier / Papa Nier act like morons the whole game.
Brother Nier (the actual intended protagonist) goes from being a "Tanjiro" style character to literally being fricking Guts. It's a massive and hype worthy change when the "5 years later" shit drops and he comes sailing in from the sky to slaughter humans.
The banter between Nier and Weiss is excellent, banter between Kaine and Weiss is excellent, the younger brother older sister dynamic with Kaine and Emil is excellent, and the subtle, barely mentioned mirror of Emil with Nier is very clever. Furthermore is Emil's subtle gay love for Nier. The "beat the game 100 times" gameplay convention is NOT bad to actually do once you're going for it, you breeze through it once you know what you're doing. It's a convention of oldschool gameplay ideas. It's respectable in that sense as a relic, as opposed to just adding checkpoints and chapters like Automata (and even Drakengard 3 with its branches, obviously Yoko Taro realized he did wrong by not allowing you to play from a certain point).
>I highly disagree. Already during my first A route run, I realized the sad beauty of the game's world and its implications: This was OUR future, if we didn't change our ways and stop OUR circle of hate and miscommunication.
Nier is also our future. Nier is about cycles of hatred and violence and even as Weiss tells Nier that revenge is a fool's errand he solemnly says, "... Yes... I know."
When Emil nukes an entire village Nier gathers himself and says "Don't look back." He is absolutely consumed by his quest for his sister, all else be damned.
I was running out of post space.
The entire game is about how the future doesn't matter if you can't be with those you love and thus anything is permissible. Yoko Taro said he was inspired by 9/11, wherein given the right motivation and belief anything you do can be considered "right". You seem to get the series so I wouldn't shit on you for preferring Automata or anything I respect that but personally Replicant hits so much harder. The characters, for me at least, just feel so much more like family than detached kuudere 2B ever did. I did absolutely love A2, though, and her death probably hit me hardest in the entire game save for the final ending, where everyone who's ever played the game comes together to give themselves utterly to strangers for the sake of their success (with Weight of the World playing). That's a truly amazing moment that absolutely eclipses the original Nier's NOVEL idea of forcing you to delete everything for what you want.
I'd like to hear you expand on how you feel about 2B if you would though. I get her character but she doesn't really "hit" even then. I feel like she's the weakest of all but maybe that's the key to what I'm missing in Automata.
If I replayed Automata I might still cry or shed a tear at 2B's death but I'm just overall more cynical and detached about Automata historically, it jjust doesn't affect me as much. I WOULD like it if I was taught to be as affected by Automata as I was, and still am, Replicant.
I think more tragic than what you're referring to about our future is the fact that Nier inadvertently (but without remorse) ends the human race. All out of love.
P.S. I also really love Drakengard 3 and think it's an incredble game and storyline that people deeply underrate just because of its surface level anime girl bullshit shenanigans that it does.
P.P.S. I talked harshly about Automata lovers versus Replicant lovers but you have a genuine love for the game so I can't have anything genuine against you
Glad to see this thread, I actually just finished Replicant a week ago and played Automata last year. I also saw the Nier orchestra last week.
I personally think that Automata is a better game overall. I'm not talking about story, I'm talking about as a videogame it is better.
The problem I have with Replicant is that the gameplay just begins to feel like a chore. It feels like it's an unenjoyable obstacle that has many segments of slowdown for the sake of presentation. The quests are also big time wasters. I also felt that the gathering of weapons was very
I overall think that I had more fun "playing" Automata as a videogame. The chips are a very good approach to gameplay and having to stop constantly change which Sealed Verse you want to use is annoying, and having the ability to just switch to a second or third pod instead is better, even if you need to find them.
Spamming Kaine's theme with her suddenly "dying" every 5 minutes does not make for a compelling narrative. It happens constantly and it's just annoying.
Frankly, this medium is about gameplay, not about narrative. Story and presentation are important but even if it makes you cry that doesn't make it a good game. What makes it good is the gameplay being fun or not.
Forcing someone to play a game 4 times when there is nothing inherently different about those playthroughs except for arbitrarily making things change this time without any interaction from the player makes it a poorer experience. Automata gives you the game through the eyes of a different character, so even as a replay you are experiencing it differently because you are now 9S or 2B or A2.
That is poor game design in the case of Replicant. No matter how much you wank it for being so emotionally intense, the fact that it forces four playthroughs to get ending E is a waste of time. It is malicious by its nature to force you to go through all of that. It is meaningless. There's no time loop to justify it either.
SURPRISING NEW PLAYERS WITH KAINE'S FAT FUTA wiener
FILTERING NEW PLAYERS WHO LOVE KAINE BY INFORMING THEM KAINE HAS A FAT GIRTHY FUTA wiener (also balls and a vegana)
they developed an entire playable Kaine then barely let you play as her, despite the fact that route B is supposed to be from her perspective
What the frick were they thinking
game is pure slop tbh
Subhuman moron. have a nice day so I don't have to kill you in the coming war.
>nier-gay
>entering into combat
lmfao
Still not playing it until there's a full OST replacement mod frick the remastered soundtrack
>young Nier
ITTIG
This is one of the worst games that this place keeps shilling. The only thing it has going for it is a few kind of interesting story ideas, but they are neither executed well nor are they as deep as Taro gays like to pretend they are.
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you're... 21 years old, right???? right, moron?
I'm very petty about it but I'm really disappointed about there being no father route option. He had excellent voice acting and I feel the narrative with him as a father and daughter bond feels more emotionally impactful for me personally. Is there an option to use the original version of the tracks as well or a mod?
It certainly is one of the top 10 games ever made.
is it on pc?
Yes. Nier Replicant is on PC and plays very well without any kind of mod or whatnot but you can add a mod to have 120FPS or unique button input prompts (like for a PS4 controller for example) if that matters.
Nier Automata is also on PC and kind of requires aforementioned mod to make it run properly.
Drakengard 3 which is a prequel to the entire series is also best played on PC if you can run it on the PS3 emulator RPCS3 at 60 frames (not a hard task with a computer built after 2016) as opposed to native hardware PS3 where it runs at like 13 frames.
>DUDE WHAT IF EVERYONE WAS GAY AND DEPRESSED
Yeah I’m good, shit was moronic and needlessly dreadful
So no offline version of reincarnation?
guys i hav porn adiction
i hav 2b nsfw model for blender what do u want to see
2B squatting down to pick something up and the camera is directly below her.
Kaine's design is not good. She's hot but it's just so blatant coomer japanese ero bullshit. Nier's outfit is great.
But plot reasons. At least they bothered. That’s a rarity
The plot reasons are as good as Kojima's excuse for Quiet in MGSV- bullshit. Her outfit makes no sense just for covering one arm and leg.
Its not even a top 10 RPG you gay ass gay
ultima under world and syndicate, now those were good games
the story is corny as frick
characters who barely know each other are responding to each other in an extremely emotional manner
and it's all fetch quests requiring you to sepnd hours shuttling back and forth between the same locations
It reminded me of Flower Sun and Rain at one point and that is not a good thing.
Automata is far superior in every way.