Nier Automata belongs in the hall of fame alongside with a number of other greatest games of all times. It was a huge positive surprise that such magnificent, engaging and soul-full games could still be made this day and age, by an AAA studio at that.
The gameplay is extremely fun and varied, and the game uses it to drive through its themes and ideas - which is exactly what this art-format requires.
The story was curious and thought-provoking, though its the themes and message that were the most striking.
Visual-design was gorgeous, and OST is drop-dead beautiful. For fans of the DrakeNier series, this game was a treat.
>Utter garbage
plenty of games are utter garbage, yes, but Nier:Automata factually isn't. that's not even bait, op. if you want to see pictures of 2b just search engine it.
Game isn't crashing, it doesn't have over 9000 paid dlcs, it isn't an always online shite service from an abhorrent corporation, that pretends to be your friendo. So what is wrong with it, as a piece of software, except your personally not liking it? You individually liking or not liking something doesn't automatically render anything good or bad. Because your opinion doesn't matter, facts do. Fact is, for what it was in the year it was released, Nier was a a decent/good game.
minecraft is popular and Ganker loves minecraft. and if anybody doesn't, they don't belong on here, because they must love minecraft.
TL;DR: I think, that some morons forgot what makes a piece of software a good game. Their personal approval is irrelevant.
Its people like you who make my life garbage because you support shit games. Nier Automata is the most overrated garbage ever only popular because of 2B's butt and the soundtrack.
>ever only popular because of 2B's butt
this is exactly how everybody knows that you're a lowlife braindead Black person. 2B, design, game, accent were never on 2B's ass, because that's disgusting Black person shit. The ass was never meant to be big, fat, too attractive, or in your face. 2B's boots, stockings, and legs in general are the way they are, because of the leg and stocking fetish. This is what on the forefront of coom. And most actual human beings love legs and stockings. If you don't, you're biotrash. Simple as.
>2B, design, game, accent were never on 2B's ass
Well, in terms of her design, i think there was quite a bit of accent on her ass.
Of course it's true that it was never meant to be the exceedingly fat one people often depicts her with (which is, btw, way worse).
I don't how this would be an obstacle for you to love minecraft. Doesn't matter, if you've played it during the golden age of minecraft. What matters, is that you love it.
Pretty much the same can be said about lots of videogame characters, 2B included, btw.
Best, and most succinctly put post in the thread. It's clear that OP is some discord transvestite, or just some autistic spammer. It might even be the guy that starts *all* the Nier hate threads. That is this person's life, crying into the void.
It wasn't the story itself that was good (though it was filled with brilliant ideas). But it was the way it used video games as a medium to present its themes, making you actually play through character deaths, making you feel the seemingly endless cycle of 9s's pain etc, the ultimate catharsis of teamwork via online connectivity to defeat the boss of ending E etc.
Just absolutely fricking magical stuff.
It's shit like this that makes video games amazing, and when you play a western AAA game afterwards that just has you ride a horse from passive cutscene to passive cutscene, it just feels insulting and a massive failure of imagination
This exactly.
It may not mean anything to the modern audiences, but N:A really felt like a throwback to the Golden Age of games, the early PS2 days. The atmosphere's like something out of GitS or Ico/SotC, while the gameplay marries Zelda-like progression and adventure with DMC/Bayo style combat.
It's a love letter to people who grew up and love video games.
It's shit like this that makes video games amazing, and when you play a western AAA game afterwards that just has you ride a horse from passive cutscene to passive cutscene, it just feels insulting and a massive failure of imagination
But NIER also had a ton of story cut scenes? Why does that get a pass where western games dont then?
The gameplay isn't really good, dodging is too easy, and there is very little depth.
But that aside, visuals, OST and presentation were all pretty great.
>The gameplay isn't really good,
True. It's MAGNIFICENT.
And again, you gays just cry and repeat your mantra about "muh combat!!", which just shows how shallow your idea of "Gameplay" truly is.
Just running and leaping around brought me similar joy as sprinting and doing double sommersault in Mario 64 back in the days. The controls are crisps, character animatinos gorgeous, and nothing feels janky.
And that's not even touching on the matter that the game combines, mixes and changes between like half a dozen different styles and genres on the fly, and it never feels weird.
>True. It's MAGNIFICENT. >And again, you gays just cry and repeat your mantra about "muh combat!!", which just shows how shallow your idea of "Gameplay" truly is.
Dude, calm down. Ok, i should have used the term "combat", no need to get so worked up.
I think the game is great in a lot of aspects, and overall is wonderful.
I certainly agree that the controls are good, and the animations are definitely amazing.
It just that it seems to me that the combat lacks depth. Maybe i'm wrong, but i could go through the whole game just spamming dodge and attacks without any issue.
So that's my opinion about an issue i had with the game. Must i say that the game is perfect under EVERY aspect to please you?
>Dude, calm down
No. Learn to articulate properly instead.
>It just that it seems to me that the combat lacks depth. Maybe I'm wrong
Yeah, very convincing argument.
>Must i say that the game is perfect under EVERY aspect to please you?
Do you always act like a pissy princess whenever someone disagrees or corrects you? No one has claimed the game to be "perfect", but it's absolutely more than a mere cut above the average AAA shit we've been suffering of the past 15 years.
>Do you always act like a pissy princess whenever someone disagrees or corrects you?
No, i'm just saying you don't need to be a dick, but you do you. >Yeah, very convincing argument.
I think it would be better if i had to actually do something more than spamming dodge and attacks to successfully beat enemies. If you don't think it's a flaw, do explain why. >it's absolutely more than a mere cut above the average AAA shit we've been suffering of the past 15 years.
yeah, i would agree with that.
>shallow, braindead simple button-mashing combat >your dash is not actually for positioning but just gives you a ton of i-frames. It's just a braindead react button that nullifies all damage, just spam it in any direction to prevent damage >world is empty and soulless, filled with constant invisible walls, random garbage lying around arbitrarily, and bullet sponge enemies (if you run past will just lead to you being underleveled/undergeared) >quest design is extremely basic and repetitive fetch quests >camera has constant jarring forced switches >free camera is terrible even after messing around with the options; really weird angle and constantly gets caught on walls in smaller spaces >enemies are braindead hordes of harmless trash mobs with tons of hp >bosses are boring fights against generic robots with basic attacks but absolutely massive pools of health >enemies and bosses are extremely unbalanced since your damage and stats increase so much with upgrades. If you aren't wasting time wandering the empty world for shitty fetch quests, gathering crafting garbage, or grinding trash mobs, then the enemies quickly become massive sponges >"open-world" game that is an on-rails linear path with invisible walls absolutely everywhere >outside of the tutorial, items are absurdly cheap and you can just spam them with no downside >pseudointellectual snoozefest story with completely unappealing characters >tons of half-baked ideas like praying for player corpses, shitty tedious hacking sections, acting like saving is core to the story then you can like every two minutes including from the menu after the prologue, copying Souls bloodstain but doesn't matter because you never die and you lose very little if you do, all the half-assed shmup sections, etc.
Nier Automata was never a good game and you are a braindead coomer
>shallow, braindead simple button-mashing combat
That's a (You) problem. The game gives you a plethora of tools, options and upgrades to choose from, so being a 1-trick pony is all on you.
>your dash is not actually for positioning but just gives you a ton of i-frames.
It's called a dodge, and obviously it's for iframes. Never played Bayo or DMC3 with Trickster? Who am I kidding, of course you haven't.
>world is empty and soulless
It's one of the most tightly packed and soul-FULL maps to come out of a big budget game in a while. It's compact and hub-based, just like in 3D Zeldas pre-BotW, and filled with secrets and side content. It's not "open world" at all, which is a GOOD thing.
>camera has constant jarring forced switches
None of it is jarring, and that's exactly the beauty of this game.
It manages to change entire GENRE, multiple times, and it never feels off.
I also never experienced this "getting stuck" effect you talk about.
>if you aren't wasting time wandering the empty world for shitty fetch quests, gathering crafting garbage...
Wow, so you tell me that actually leveling up and training...makes you STRONGER?? Stop the press!!!
>pseudointellectual snoozefest story
This does not mean anything in English, kiddo.
Fortunately, the story's pretty good, but the game's MESSAGE and THEMES are amazing. And the way the game uses the GAMEPLAY to deliver most of the good stuff = literal art.
>Ok but don't tell me Nier Replicant is also good?
It's okay, but the B-E runs suck ass, because it's literally 99% the same (half of the) game.
This is one of the many things Automata improved upon tremendously.
Never played automata because I feel I should play replicant first at least, I found nothing about it memorable other than playing as some homosexual femboy with some quippy floating book. but it got good reception so idk, the combat was boring and the side questing was frickin dogshit
>Never played automata because I feel I should play replicant first at least,
You don't NEED to. Every single Taro game is / works as a standalone tale.
How many NieR1 gays recommend you to play the Drakengard 1 first? None ? Yeah, same thing with Replicant and Automata.
You obviously will miss SOME references and shit, but they do not play a massive role in the game's own tale itself.
It is also absolutely possible to dig through the games in reverse order afterwards, like a digital archeologist. It will give you similar "Ooh shit! I know where this' going!" vibes.
That being said, if you just want braindead combat 24/7, Nier games ain't for you. Their bread and butter is in the side stories and side activities, the chill parts in other words, alongside with their stellar atmosphere and story.
>Their bread and butter is in the side stories and side activities, the chill parts in other words, alongside with their stellar atmosphere and story
This is what I sort of didn't enjoy about replicant from what I played, it was very much go here collect that with a sort of dead/dull atmosphere. I'll probably still replay it, but killing like 15 sheep or goats fricking bored me. Does it take a while to "pick up" story & side content wise?
>This is what I sort of didn't enjoy about replicant from what I played, it was very much go here collect that with a sort of dead/dull atmosphere
Thats how you could roughly sum up most of the side content, but there are side STORIES that really do tickle the mood bones.
>killing like 15 sheep or goats fricking bored me.
Okay, are you literally still in the TUTORIAL phase of the chapter A? Holy ADHD Batman, you wouldn't get out of the Kokiri Forest in Zelda OoT with that kind of mentality.
>Okay, are you literally still in the TUTORIAL phase of the chapter A
Nah I got further, it's just what little murky memories I have of it. there was more collecting/kill these things quests but I forget is all, I remember some story about some old b***h in a lighthouse or something too? Idk the only other memorable thing was that half-naked b***h having a dick other than that, boredom.
If most of the side shit is just collecting and emotional bait I'll give it a skip
5 months ago
Anonymous
It stays that boring, don't bother.
5 months ago
Anonymous
>If most of the side shit is just collecting and emotional bait I'll give it a skip
There's also farming and fishing. Lots of killing shit too.
But yeah, sounds like it's not for you. NieR's essentially an edgier Zelda OoT, not Dark Souls.
5 months ago
Anonymous
>NieR's essentially an edgier Zelda OoT
5 months ago
Anonymous
>starts you off as a young kid in a chill village >things take a dark turn and you need to start collection magical trinkets to save the world
>Oh no! Your quest results things going from bad to worse! >Time skip to adult age >Now gotta clean up the darker version of familiar places
5 months ago
Anonymous
>NieR's essentially an edgier Zelda OoT
I mean the whole point of Replicant was that it *is* OoT, but you don’t save anyone. Cbf finding a source but I’m near certain I’ve read a Taro interview where he said he time travel time in OoT on a stop watch when the areas between hubs/towns in Replicant were getting designed to keep a similar pace. And that’s ignoring the most obvious evidence of playing as young teen/young adult Nier with the time skip.
5 months ago
Anonymous
Like automata it's only good for porn
the actual game is fricking lame
While the gameplay isn't exactly stellar in Replicant, the story and music are much better, and by the second half of the game you can switch between three types of weapons on the fly. Also, the deutragonists in Replicant are much, much better than in Automata, imo tbh.
Its people like you who make my life garbage because you support shit games. Nier Automata is the most overrated garbage ever only popular because of 2B's butt and the soundtrack.
No, 2B being hotter than the sun and the music being godtier aren't the only things that make Automata a masterpiece.
And I have no influence over your life, and neither do I want to.
Incorrect, kiddo. It's a great VIDEO GAME.
Sad that you've never actually played it. Otherwise, you'd know that the ass is FLAT, because 2B is actually a leg-bait. Also you only play as her for a mere 1/3 of the game.
Best vidya stay alive thanks to fun gameplay, not some online smut you seem to consoom.
Babies first 2deep4you anime plot. I can't stop laughing at how impressed normalgays by this garbage. Considering gameplay, why not play Platinum's superior titles?
I was playing the bit where 2b gets a brain virus and it reached 100% and I got an error pop up and the game froze.
I thought I was experiencing a kino 10/10 game moment, but actually it was just fricked and I can't get past it.
If you are a dumb gay who plays for story alone then yes, nier automata disappoints on that front. But the bigger joke is you are still a dumb homosexual.
I've got replicant sitting in my steam library and I thought it frickin sucked for the 4 hours I played it and that's all I remember. Is it worth a go again? I just thought it was really boring.
Never played automata because I feel I should play replicant first at least, I found nothing about it memorable other than playing as some homosexual femboy with some quippy floating book. but it got good reception so idk, the combat was boring and the side questing was frickin dogshit
I'd say I agree, but it comes at the cost of being a lot more repetitive and the game not being as fun to play.
I think I also liked Automata's world more, and generally the sidequests were more thought-provoking. Replicant's story and sidequests hits harder in the feels, however.
True.
And NieR's gameplay is great all around. But hol' up, because I can already predict your next move:
you gonna ONLY b***h about "muh combat!!!!"
>Nier Automata has the worst combat ive ever played in a video game.
Yosh! Nailed It!
Anyway...That just means one thing: you have not played more than maybe 3 video games in your life.
Automata's combat is fun and varied.
But I know that you only care and refer to the on-ground melee combat, which still is the pinnacle of the Platinum games. The animations and transitions are buttery smooth, weapon combo and switching is damn much fun, and all the Pod Programs make you feel like a God.
It's fast, it's smooth, you got tons of tactical options, and everything has impact. It gets even better in later chapters when the Hacking is introduced, as you get to control other machine life forms and wreck shit up.
"too basic" compared to what?
Your typical CoD or Souls clone #24519?
If so, I'm glad that the game keeps filtering ADHD zoom zooms, 7 years later.
I absolutely adored the gameplay. I spent over 30 hours in the chapter A alone before I even unlocked fast travel.
I've now 100% the game twice.
rewatching the Ko-shi and Ro-shi boss fight with the dynamically shifting soundtrack before the characters finally collide after a game's worth of build up, god Automata was incredible.
I swear I'm too fricking stupid for this game. I really want to enjoy it but the combat is ass (hehe). People keep saying it's god-tier but I can't shake off the feeling of jank. I played other Platinum games and I swear MGR has the best gameplay out of all of them, I just can't play Automata without feeling like I'm playing an obsolete game (gameplay-wise of course)
Like I told earlier ITT,
(You)r kind only seem to care about hack & slash shit, and ignore all the rest.
NA is easily the peak of Platinum games' progress, and marries it with chill and engaging action-RPG adventuring. This alone elevates it far above the ADHD Devil May Cry clones, but naturally the ADHD gays loathe such pacing.
tl;dr: Automata is a master class example of how to make a great GAME, that also delivers the main bulk of its thematics VIA games. It's a video game that celebrates the history of mankind and video games.
Trannies say gameplay isn't everything but it is. If you want story read a fricking book not play a boring ass game for its boring story
Gameplay is the king, and NA's gameplay is the main attraction as well.
And it's used to deliver not only the story, but the message as well. It's a game greater than the sum of its parts.
I don't think you've even read this thread, to be honest.
Also this thread = the general consensus. Try not to choke on your own tears when you go read and watch some reviews and analysis articles on the game, because massive majority of all of them praise the game's brilliant gameplay and the way it is utilized to deliver its meta-level themes and the ultimate message.
Unlike Alan Woke, NA is a video game.
As in, fun to play, and uses the games' interactive nature to serve its narrative and subtext.
5 months ago
Anonymous
Remedy-Epic shills say the same thing
5 months ago
Anonymous
They don't. And AW literally is a movie-game more than half the time.
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But NIER also had a ton of story cut scenes? Why does that get a pass where western games dont then?
>But NIER also had a ton of story cut scenes?
Having cutscenes is not the point.
AW only uses cutscenes to do any kind of story delivery, and loves to even do that hybrid "walking forward and watching silly scripted sequences / listening to a guy talk" moments the modern AAA shit loves.
NA on the other hand uses the gameplay and player's own participation for the delivery, all while keeping cutscenes as clear cutscenes that do not interfere with gameplay.
Everything from the UI to skills have an in-world explanation (they're machines) that are acknowledged.
The "never ending cycle of death" = literally people playing the game, over and over again.
So now we got artificial imitations of humans, wishing to be humans, repeating the same mistakes and memes as us humans, no matter that they're better than us in every possible way ... all while being artificial to us IRL humans, stuck in an entertainment product.
The finale goes extra two steps beyond:
The player himself is acknowledged as "the sixth" member of the group.
The characters go against their "creators" and "programming", by literally destroying the makers of the game, opening up an exit path for them, with a heavy cost only video game players could understand: a total erasure of all your progress and "memories" you've acquired in the game.
Yet even this sacrifice is given a silver lining in form of elevating the players who went through with this process into potential helpers and saviors of other players that would get to the same point later.
halfway through I was convinced there was a twist that the robots were all literally human in some kind, like the molerats in Shinsekai Yori but it turned out to just be boring cliché robots with feelings and esoteric nonsense. Aside from the soundtrack and the unique, but poorly implemented perspective shifts, there really isn't much to like about the game.
I played the first one & found it mediocre so skipped this one due to being associated with it & also because of my utter disinterest in wacky weird weaboo shit.
>beat the game >they expect me to beat it a second time but now with a shitty hacking minigame
LMAO
The church Leddit LARP a while back was really fun to follow though, that's the most amount of fun I got out of the game
These "hate" threads are just poorly disguised fan threads, right? People who genuinely dislike the game are not saving title card images and making dedicated threads to it.
Half of the reason this shit became popular in the west was because westerners worship ass and got obsessed by something you can't even see in game 99% of the time unless you are climbing ladders(if you are running the most you can see are her thighs)
Game has a really good OST, nothing else stand out
>Half of the reason this shit became popular in the west was because westerners worship ass
Completely wrong. You couldn't be more wrong, ever. I despise fat fricking asses. That's Black person shit, not "western" shit. Western Europe is all about boobs and stockings.
At least get your facts straight before shitposting. We "in the western yurop" know that the intention was to create attractive long legs in erotic footwear and stockings. And we love it. We love 2B because of it.
They were even making shit up about how yoko taro told everyone in the team to make the most perfect ass or how 2B ass had more polygons than anything else in the game, and the morons actually believed it.
The fact replicant abobawdely flopped in the west because it had no "android ass" just makes everything else funnier
>westerners worship ass
Everyone does because it's a sign of fertility and attractiveness. Do you think you're exempt from that due to where you are/from? Frick no.
really is.
also, somewhat unrelated, but why do trannies love nietzche so much? is it because he was a spineless cuck who allowed his bestial urges to overcome him like the homosexual he is?
filtered
Only coomers can like this shit game, take away your waifus and the game is dogshit
Nier Automata belongs in the hall of fame alongside with a number of other greatest games of all times. It was a huge positive surprise that such magnificent, engaging and soul-full games could still be made this day and age, by an AAA studio at that.
The gameplay is extremely fun and varied, and the game uses it to drive through its themes and ideas - which is exactly what this art-format requires.
The story was curious and thought-provoking, though its the themes and message that were the most striking.
Visual-design was gorgeous, and OST is drop-dead beautiful. For fans of the DrakeNier series, this game was a treat.
>great gameplay
lol
Yes, the gameplay is exciting, flashy and fun.
>phone shitposters are this afraid of keyboard chads
Can't make this shit up.
>mash one button and dodge
>exciting
play it on hard you baby
Sounds like a (You) problem.
Also, can you kids even analyze anything else in the GAMEPLAY than the on-ground melee combat? Of course you cannot.
And? Sekiro is all about one button timing/parry and its one of the greatest combat systems ever made.
sekiro isn't button mashing, moron
>press one (1) button a million times
>not button smashing
Sure is schizo double standards....
ai bot post
Agreed, just play d-od instead
>great visuals
>great OST
>great gameplay
>good story
Dunno man, seems pretty great to me.
It's popular, therefore, it's shit
>Utter garbage
plenty of games are utter garbage, yes, but Nier:Automata factually isn't. that's not even bait, op. if you want to see pictures of 2b just search engine it.
Game isn't crashing, it doesn't have over 9000 paid dlcs, it isn't an always online shite service from an abhorrent corporation, that pretends to be your friendo. So what is wrong with it, as a piece of software, except your personally not liking it? You individually liking or not liking something doesn't automatically render anything good or bad. Because your opinion doesn't matter, facts do. Fact is, for what it was in the year it was released, Nier was a a decent/good game.
minecraft is popular and Ganker loves minecraft. and if anybody doesn't, they don't belong on here, because they must love minecraft.
TL;DR: I think, that some morons forgot what makes a piece of software a good game. Their personal approval is irrelevant.
>ever only popular because of 2B's butt
this is exactly how everybody knows that you're a lowlife braindead Black person. 2B, design, game, accent were never on 2B's ass, because that's disgusting Black person shit. The ass was never meant to be big, fat, too attractive, or in your face. 2B's boots, stockings, and legs in general are the way they are, because of the leg and stocking fetish. This is what on the forefront of coom. And most actual human beings love legs and stockings. If you don't, you're biotrash. Simple as.
>2B, design, game, accent were never on 2B's ass
Well, in terms of her design, i think there was quite a bit of accent on her ass.
Of course it's true that it was never meant to be the exceedingly fat one people often depicts her with (which is, btw, way worse).
I have never played Minecraft and probably won't do so any time soon.
I don't how this would be an obstacle for you to love minecraft. Doesn't matter, if you've played it during the golden age of minecraft. What matters, is that you love it.
Pretty much the same can be said about lots of videogame characters, 2B included, btw.
I don't have any strong feelings for or against Minecraft. I did decry it as kiddyshit in my edgy teenager phase though.
Best, and most succinctly put post in the thread. It's clear that OP is some discord transvestite, or just some autistic spammer. It might even be the guy that starts *all* the Nier hate threads. That is this person's life, crying into the void.
It wasn't the story itself that was good (though it was filled with brilliant ideas). But it was the way it used video games as a medium to present its themes, making you actually play through character deaths, making you feel the seemingly endless cycle of 9s's pain etc, the ultimate catharsis of teamwork via online connectivity to defeat the boss of ending E etc.
Just absolutely fricking magical stuff.
It's shit like this that makes video games amazing, and when you play a western AAA game afterwards that just has you ride a horse from passive cutscene to passive cutscene, it just feels insulting and a massive failure of imagination
This exactly.
It may not mean anything to the modern audiences, but N:A really felt like a throwback to the Golden Age of games, the early PS2 days. The atmosphere's like something out of GitS or Ico/SotC, while the gameplay marries Zelda-like progression and adventure with DMC/Bayo style combat.
It's a love letter to people who grew up and love video games.
But NIER also had a ton of story cut scenes? Why does that get a pass where western games dont then?
The gameplay isn't really good, dodging is too easy, and there is very little depth.
But that aside, visuals, OST and presentation were all pretty great.
>The gameplay isn't really good,
True. It's MAGNIFICENT.
And again, you gays just cry and repeat your mantra about "muh combat!!", which just shows how shallow your idea of "Gameplay" truly is.
Just running and leaping around brought me similar joy as sprinting and doing double sommersault in Mario 64 back in the days. The controls are crisps, character animatinos gorgeous, and nothing feels janky.
And that's not even touching on the matter that the game combines, mixes and changes between like half a dozen different styles and genres on the fly, and it never feels weird.
>True. It's MAGNIFICENT.
>And again, you gays just cry and repeat your mantra about "muh combat!!", which just shows how shallow your idea of "Gameplay" truly is.
Dude, calm down. Ok, i should have used the term "combat", no need to get so worked up.
I think the game is great in a lot of aspects, and overall is wonderful.
I certainly agree that the controls are good, and the animations are definitely amazing.
It just that it seems to me that the combat lacks depth. Maybe i'm wrong, but i could go through the whole game just spamming dodge and attacks without any issue.
So that's my opinion about an issue i had with the game. Must i say that the game is perfect under EVERY aspect to please you?
>Dude, calm down
No. Learn to articulate properly instead.
>It just that it seems to me that the combat lacks depth. Maybe I'm wrong
Yeah, very convincing argument.
>Must i say that the game is perfect under EVERY aspect to please you?
Do you always act like a pissy princess whenever someone disagrees or corrects you? No one has claimed the game to be "perfect", but it's absolutely more than a mere cut above the average AAA shit we've been suffering of the past 15 years.
>Do you always act like a pissy princess whenever someone disagrees or corrects you?
No, i'm just saying you don't need to be a dick, but you do you.
>Yeah, very convincing argument.
I think it would be better if i had to actually do something more than spamming dodge and attacks to successfully beat enemies. If you don't think it's a flaw, do explain why.
>it's absolutely more than a mere cut above the average AAA shit we've been suffering of the past 15 years.
yeah, i would agree with that.
>shallow, braindead simple button-mashing combat
>your dash is not actually for positioning but just gives you a ton of i-frames. It's just a braindead react button that nullifies all damage, just spam it in any direction to prevent damage
>world is empty and soulless, filled with constant invisible walls, random garbage lying around arbitrarily, and bullet sponge enemies (if you run past will just lead to you being underleveled/undergeared)
>quest design is extremely basic and repetitive fetch quests
>camera has constant jarring forced switches
>free camera is terrible even after messing around with the options; really weird angle and constantly gets caught on walls in smaller spaces
>enemies are braindead hordes of harmless trash mobs with tons of hp
>bosses are boring fights against generic robots with basic attacks but absolutely massive pools of health
>enemies and bosses are extremely unbalanced since your damage and stats increase so much with upgrades. If you aren't wasting time wandering the empty world for shitty fetch quests, gathering crafting garbage, or grinding trash mobs, then the enemies quickly become massive sponges
>"open-world" game that is an on-rails linear path with invisible walls absolutely everywhere
>outside of the tutorial, items are absurdly cheap and you can just spam them with no downside
>pseudointellectual snoozefest story with completely unappealing characters
>tons of half-baked ideas like praying for player corpses, shitty tedious hacking sections, acting like saving is core to the story then you can like every two minutes including from the menu after the prologue, copying Souls bloodstain but doesn't matter because you never die and you lose very little if you do, all the half-assed shmup sections, etc.
Nier Automata was never a good game and you are a braindead coomer
>shallow, braindead simple button-mashing combat
That's a (You) problem. The game gives you a plethora of tools, options and upgrades to choose from, so being a 1-trick pony is all on you.
>your dash is not actually for positioning but just gives you a ton of i-frames.
It's called a dodge, and obviously it's for iframes. Never played Bayo or DMC3 with Trickster? Who am I kidding, of course you haven't.
>world is empty and soulless
It's one of the most tightly packed and soul-FULL maps to come out of a big budget game in a while. It's compact and hub-based, just like in 3D Zeldas pre-BotW, and filled with secrets and side content. It's not "open world" at all, which is a GOOD thing.
>camera has constant jarring forced switches
None of it is jarring, and that's exactly the beauty of this game.
It manages to change entire GENRE, multiple times, and it never feels off.
I also never experienced this "getting stuck" effect you talk about.
>if you aren't wasting time wandering the empty world for shitty fetch quests, gathering crafting garbage...
Wow, so you tell me that actually leveling up and training...makes you STRONGER?? Stop the press!!!
>pseudointellectual snoozefest story
This does not mean anything in English, kiddo.
Fortunately, the story's pretty good, but the game's MESSAGE and THEMES are amazing. And the way the game uses the GAMEPLAY to deliver most of the good stuff = literal art.
it's kino you are just too full of yourself to see it
disclaimer: I have not fapped to any of them even once
Ok but don't tell me Nier Replicant is also good?
That was the most boring thing I've had to endure for 15 hours.
>Ok but don't tell me Nier Replicant is also good?
It's okay, but the B-E runs suck ass, because it's literally 99% the same (half of the) game.
This is one of the many things Automata improved upon tremendously.
>Never played automata because I feel I should play replicant first at least,
You don't NEED to. Every single Taro game is / works as a standalone tale.
How many NieR1 gays recommend you to play the Drakengard 1 first? None ? Yeah, same thing with Replicant and Automata.
You obviously will miss SOME references and shit, but they do not play a massive role in the game's own tale itself.
It is also absolutely possible to dig through the games in reverse order afterwards, like a digital archeologist. It will give you similar "Ooh shit! I know where this' going!" vibes.
That being said, if you just want braindead combat 24/7, Nier games ain't for you. Their bread and butter is in the side stories and side activities, the chill parts in other words, alongside with their stellar atmosphere and story.
>Their bread and butter is in the side stories and side activities, the chill parts in other words, alongside with their stellar atmosphere and story
This is what I sort of didn't enjoy about replicant from what I played, it was very much go here collect that with a sort of dead/dull atmosphere. I'll probably still replay it, but killing like 15 sheep or goats fricking bored me. Does it take a while to "pick up" story & side content wise?
No, it’s shit at the start and it stays shit
Do not fall for it
>This is what I sort of didn't enjoy about replicant from what I played, it was very much go here collect that with a sort of dead/dull atmosphere
Thats how you could roughly sum up most of the side content, but there are side STORIES that really do tickle the mood bones.
>killing like 15 sheep or goats fricking bored me.
Okay, are you literally still in the TUTORIAL phase of the chapter A? Holy ADHD Batman, you wouldn't get out of the Kokiri Forest in Zelda OoT with that kind of mentality.
>Holy ADHD Batman
Are you lost?
>Okay, are you literally still in the TUTORIAL phase of the chapter A
Nah I got further, it's just what little murky memories I have of it. there was more collecting/kill these things quests but I forget is all, I remember some story about some old b***h in a lighthouse or something too? Idk the only other memorable thing was that half-naked b***h having a dick other than that, boredom.
If most of the side shit is just collecting and emotional bait I'll give it a skip
It stays that boring, don't bother.
>If most of the side shit is just collecting and emotional bait I'll give it a skip
There's also farming and fishing. Lots of killing shit too.
But yeah, sounds like it's not for you. NieR's essentially an edgier Zelda OoT, not Dark Souls.
>NieR's essentially an edgier Zelda OoT
>starts you off as a young kid in a chill village
>things take a dark turn and you need to start collection magical trinkets to save the world
>Oh no! Your quest results things going from bad to worse!
>Time skip to adult age
>Now gotta clean up the darker version of familiar places
>NieR's essentially an edgier Zelda OoT
I mean the whole point of Replicant was that it *is* OoT, but you don’t save anyone. Cbf finding a source but I’m near certain I’ve read a Taro interview where he said he time travel time in OoT on a stop watch when the areas between hubs/towns in Replicant were getting designed to keep a similar pace. And that’s ignoring the most obvious evidence of playing as young teen/young adult Nier with the time skip.
Like automata it's only good for porn
the actual game is fricking lame
While the gameplay isn't exactly stellar in Replicant, the story and music are much better, and by the second half of the game you can switch between three types of weapons on the fly. Also, the deutragonists in Replicant are much, much better than in Automata, imo tbh.
but enough about your life
NieR Automata, huh? A masterpiece.
Its people like you who make my life garbage because you support shit games. Nier Automata is the most overrated garbage ever only popular because of 2B's butt and the soundtrack.
No, 2B being hotter than the sun and the music being godtier aren't the only things that make Automata a masterpiece.
And I have no influence over your life, and neither do I want to.
Incorrect, kiddo. It's a great VIDEO GAME.
Sad that you've never actually played it. Otherwise, you'd know that the ass is FLAT, because 2B is actually a leg-bait. Also you only play as her for a mere 1/3 of the game.
Best vidya stay alive thanks to fun gameplay, not some online smut you seem to consoom.
Babies first 2deep4you anime plot. I can't stop laughing at how impressed normalgays by this garbage. Considering gameplay, why not play Platinum's superior titles?
Gameplay-wise this is among the better ones. Better than stuff like MGR or Bayonetta 2.
The aesthetics of this game BTFO anything else they made and most games generally. You can't see that because you're dumb.
Absolutely delusional
I was playing the bit where 2b gets a brain virus and it reached 100% and I got an error pop up and the game froze.
I thought I was experiencing a kino 10/10 game moment, but actually it was just fricked and I can't get past it.
contrarians are homosexuals
i bet you play vns or some gay touhou trash
If you are a dumb gay who plays for story alone then yes, nier automata disappoints on that front. But the bigger joke is you are still a dumb homosexual.
I dont care about story. As a game its terrible. The gameplay is boring as frick.
I've got replicant sitting in my steam library and I thought it frickin sucked for the 4 hours I played it and that's all I remember. Is it worth a go again? I just thought it was really boring.
I've been waiting for a sale to buy it... I hear it has better characters than automata
Never played automata because I feel I should play replicant first at least, I found nothing about it memorable other than playing as some homosexual femboy with some quippy floating book. but it got good reception so idk, the combat was boring and the side questing was frickin dogshit
I'd say I agree, but it comes at the cost of being a lot more repetitive and the game not being as fun to play.
I think I also liked Automata's world more, and generally the sidequests were more thought-provoking. Replicant's story and sidequests hits harder in the feels, however.
>Nier Reincarnation revealed it's setting is actually part of the human server on the moon
>And there is Grotesquerie Queen inside it.
Threadly reminder that Drakengard 1 and 3 are the only yoko taro games that are actually worth playing
Today i will goon to 2B's ass
If you think this game is just 'garbage' you are a total pleb or moronic.
Yes as a game its garbage. I dont care about story because Im not a homosexual. Trannies like you dont like gameplay thats why you like garbage games
>PIebbit meme slurs
>ad hominem assaults
yup, sure is schizoposting!
A game is only as good as its GAMEPLAY you homosexual .
Nier Automata has the worst combat ive ever played in a video game.
True.
And NieR's gameplay is great all around. But hol' up, because I can already predict your next move:
you gonna ONLY b***h about "muh combat!!!!"
>Nier Automata has the worst combat ive ever played in a video game.
Yosh! Nailed It!
Anyway...That just means one thing: you have not played more than maybe 3 video games in your life.
Automata's combat is fun and varied.
But I know that you only care and refer to the on-ground melee combat, which still is the pinnacle of the Platinum games. The animations and transitions are buttery smooth, weapon combo and switching is damn much fun, and all the Pod Programs make you feel like a God.
It's fast, it's smooth, you got tons of tactical options, and everything has impact. It gets even better in later chapters when the Hacking is introduced, as you get to control other machine life forms and wreck shit up.
You type like a redditor
Sorry kid, never even used that forum of yours.
I think (You) need to go back. Like, right now.
>kid
Yep, definitely a reddit refugee
Lol nope. I'm something way worse. Something you zoombies fear:
A true oldgay that's been on Ganker since 2005..
Like I instructed you already:
return to your tribe, tourist. Be happy.
Just stop, you’re embarrassing yourself
Can't stop. Won't stop.
(You) need to stop blinking and breathing manually, now.
There’s far and then there’s too far
Not cool
We're only getting started.
Please try to ignore the feeling of your own tongue inside your mouth.
Or your own clothes rubbing against your skin.
It’s chatGPT
shut up tendie
Skill issue
The gameplay is too basic. I got bored pretty quick.
"too basic" compared to what?
Your typical CoD or Souls clone #24519?
If so, I'm glad that the game keeps filtering ADHD zoom zooms, 7 years later.
I absolutely adored the gameplay. I spent over 30 hours in the chapter A alone before I even unlocked fast travel.
I've now 100% the game twice.
ok
CoD and Souls have infinitely better gameplay than your troony game
rewatching the Ko-shi and Ro-shi boss fight with the dynamically shifting soundtrack before the characters finally collide after a game's worth of build up, god Automata was incredible.
I swear I'm too fricking stupid for this game. I really want to enjoy it but the combat is ass (hehe). People keep saying it's god-tier but I can't shake off the feeling of jank. I played other Platinum games and I swear MGR has the best gameplay out of all of them, I just can't play Automata without feeling like I'm playing an obsolete game (gameplay-wise of course)
Trannies say gameplay isn't everything but it is. If you want story read a fricking book not play a boring ass game for its boring story
Like I told earlier ITT,
(You)r kind only seem to care about hack & slash shit, and ignore all the rest.
NA is easily the peak of Platinum games' progress, and marries it with chill and engaging action-RPG adventuring. This alone elevates it far above the ADHD Devil May Cry clones, but naturally the ADHD gays loathe such pacing.
tl;dr: Automata is a master class example of how to make a great GAME, that also delivers the main bulk of its thematics VIA games. It's a video game that celebrates the history of mankind and video games.
Gameplay is the king, and NA's gameplay is the main attraction as well.
And it's used to deliver not only the story, but the message as well. It's a game greater than the sum of its parts.
You're the only moron defending the gameplay, everyone else in this thread agrees its shit.
I don't think you've even read this thread, to be honest.
Also this thread = the general consensus. Try not to choke on your own tears when you go read and watch some reviews and analysis articles on the game, because massive majority of all of them praise the game's brilliant gameplay and the way it is utilized to deliver its meta-level themes and the ultimate message.
>Also this thread = the general consensus?
FTFM, I suck dicks.
>meta-level themes and the ultimate message
Nier Automata confirmed for being Alan Wake 2 of 2016
Unlike Alan Woke, NA is a video game.
As in, fun to play, and uses the games' interactive nature to serve its narrative and subtext.
Remedy-Epic shills say the same thing
They don't. And AW literally is a movie-game more than half the time.
>But NIER also had a ton of story cut scenes?
Having cutscenes is not the point.
AW only uses cutscenes to do any kind of story delivery, and loves to even do that hybrid "walking forward and watching silly scripted sequences / listening to a guy talk" moments the modern AAA shit loves.
NA on the other hand uses the gameplay and player's own participation for the delivery, all while keeping cutscenes as clear cutscenes that do not interfere with gameplay.
Everything from the UI to skills have an in-world explanation (they're machines) that are acknowledged.
The "never ending cycle of death" = literally people playing the game, over and over again.
So now we got artificial imitations of humans, wishing to be humans, repeating the same mistakes and memes as us humans, no matter that they're better than us in every possible way ... all while being artificial to us IRL humans, stuck in an entertainment product.
The finale goes extra two steps beyond:
The player himself is acknowledged as "the sixth" member of the group.
The characters go against their "creators" and "programming", by literally destroying the makers of the game, opening up an exit path for them, with a heavy cost only video game players could understand: a total erasure of all your progress and "memories" you've acquired in the game.
Yet even this sacrifice is given a silver lining in form of elevating the players who went through with this process into potential helpers and saviors of other players that would get to the same point later.
halfway through I was convinced there was a twist that the robots were all literally human in some kind, like the molerats in Shinsekai Yori but it turned out to just be boring cliché robots with feelings and esoteric nonsense. Aside from the soundtrack and the unique, but poorly implemented perspective shifts, there really isn't much to like about the game.
Anyone spewing bullshit like this clearly didn't either beat the game, play the previous titles, and has no idea what a cliché means.
I got all endings and I'm not wasting my time on a prequel which is supposedly even worse.
>I got all endings
All 28 of them?
Wow, you got guts.
you're so fricking smart anon good job
only when she doesn't have a Queen of Spades tattoo.
Good game, good story-- but if you haven't played it with the Japanese VA you've done yourself a disservice.
I did that and missed half the dialogue since it shows up in gameplay all the time.
I played the first one & found it mediocre so skipped this one due to being associated with it & also because of my utter disinterest in wacky weird weaboo shit.
You must be so much fun at parties.
WE ARE TIRED OF YOUR TOXIC FEMINISM AND LGBTQ INCLUSIVE PROPAGANDA BULL SHIT FRICK ALL THE WOKE c**tS
I literally am, straight masculine guys tend to be fun at parties so that's not really a surprise.
I don't think I've ever been more excited/floored by a game than the opening to Route C, incredible.
Hi utter garbage, what's your opinion about the great NieR Automata?
I don't think people realize that nier had the best commentary on religious sectarianism.
Agreed
O.K
why is throwing in billions of unengaging side quests a staple of Japanese games?
Game is great and I love Toobs.
It's trash and you're a homosexual
>You're a homosexual for liking attractive women
Okay.
kys
🙂
>beat the game
>they expect me to beat it a second time but now with a shitty hacking minigame
LMAO
The church Leddit LARP a while back was really fun to follow though, that's the most amount of fun I got out of the game
CAUSE WE'RE GONNA BE SHARTING LOUD
Yes it's a very poor game. Similar to everything that ironic weebs worship.
These "hate" threads are just poorly disguised fan threads, right? People who genuinely dislike the game are not saving title card images and making dedicated threads to it.
it's just some autist like xv-kun
2/10 game
8/10 porn
Half of the reason this shit became popular in the west was because westerners worship ass and got obsessed by something you can't even see in game 99% of the time unless you are climbing ladders(if you are running the most you can see are her thighs)
Game has a really good OST, nothing else stand out
>you can't even see in game 99% of the time unless you are climbing ladders
So you didn't play the game, uh?
>Half of the reason this shit became popular in the west was because westerners worship ass
Completely wrong. You couldn't be more wrong, ever. I despise fat fricking asses. That's Black person shit, not "western" shit. Western Europe is all about boobs and stockings.
At least get your facts straight before shitposting. We "in the western yurop" know that the intention was to create attractive long legs in erotic footwear and stockings. And we love it. We love 2B because of it.
Taro told the 3D's modelers that 2B's ass had to be as perfect as possible or they would be fired.
They were even making shit up about how yoko taro told everyone in the team to make the most perfect ass or how 2B ass had more polygons than anything else in the game, and the morons actually believed it.
The fact replicant abobawdely flopped in the west because it had no "android ass" just makes everything else funnier
>westerners worship ass
Everyone does because it's a sign of fertility and attractiveness. Do you think you're exempt from that due to where you are/from? Frick no.
Must’ve played the switch version
Easily in top 100s of all time,suck a dick
Kino game
Top 10 of the decade
One of the best games of all time, even
You are utter garbage.
really is.
also, somewhat unrelated, but why do trannies love nietzche so much? is it because he was a spineless cuck who allowed his bestial urges to overcome him like the homosexual he is?
It is a masterpiece.
Filtered.
Game of the decade. You can do nothing but cope.
>R:143/P:59
mental illness
agreed, game sucks, tried to play it twice but lost interest quickly