Nier Automata

How hyped are we?

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looks like an alright platinum games game.
and i am always in the market for one of those.
certainly looks better than scalebound.

Loved Nier so anything related is in my to play list now. Plan on playing all of the Drakengard games and Nier again just before the game comes out.

Which one?

Look senpai I'm just hype as the next guy, but we're going to run out of things to talk about at some point

middle.
why yes, I suck dicks, ask your dad

Release date?

Can you stop shilling this shitty game?

>shitty
Don't worry. You won't be able to play it anytime soon anyway.

what's the point of the little faggot side character

>implying he has a penis

I'm actually hyped since they announces SO5 for PC. Apparently Square Enix finally thinks like a business and will port this one aswell.

Toobie all day err day

i am a little worried about the enviremental variety after they said the game pretty much entirely takes place in the city ruins

Is there any particular reason they haven't shown off the HUD? I don't think they've shown off any menus at all actually

>people referring to Nier Automata as a "platinum game"
It's that feeling where you know the person is not technically incorrect, but good lord do you want to write a 2000 character post on why what they're saying is wrong.

it means that it will work good technically and have good combat.
it being a platinum game is a bigger bonus than it being a Nier game for me.
Another Nier would be neat as it is, but it being made by platinum just makes it a lot better.

woah we got 10 posts without port begging

Make him. cunt.

Oh wait a sec, you can't do shit.

FUCKING ROASTED.

You clearly don't know what begging is. Might aswell stop shitposting before embarrassing yourself further

op are you gonna make this fucking thread every day? kys

They said the city is effectively like Nier's plains. Remember that Nier also gave us a desert, a seafront, a mountain, a forest, a robotic dungeon, a desert dungeon, and modern city. Automata will be fine.

Because they're showing off how the game looks. HUD comes later.

I just recently fully completed NieR in prep for this

FUCKING TARO
ABSOLUTE MAD MAN

How is he going to top himself with Automata?

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Not nearly as hyped as I should be for a new Nier game. It's weird.

Toobie. Her character design is fantastically elegant.

All three.

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The evil but actually good endboss android girl

could you please leave?

Any other dev would be torn apart by Sup Forums for the incredible grim darkness featured in these series. What makes Taro the exception?

i dont mind that they made dante a girl its the current year or what ever but why do the swords still float on the back?

i mean wtf are developers that damn lazy they cant put a fucking sheath / scabard in the fucking game ?

Exclusive

Chicks with dicks and nice OST

It's not necessarily Grimdark. It's more brutal and tragic.

Also fucking no one has played his games

magnets nigga

>Any other dev would be torn apart by Sup Forums for the incredible grim darkness featured in these series. What makes Taro the exception?
Taro made a point that he makes most of his games in a way to justify why you have to murder your way through thousands of people. Games he make tend to have a lot of killing because that's what sells. Taro just made sure it makes sense why you do what you do. In Drakengard, he made the protagonist a psychopath. In Nier, he made the protagonist think he is doing the right thing. It makes perfect sense, and as such the gameplay is merged with the plot. And the darkness of the story is linked to the player's actions and not jut shown in cutscenes.

They're not really grimdark so much as batshit insane.
The escalation of insanity in Drakengard 1 alone is so off the walls that by the time you get Ending E your not even sure if it was all worth it.
Trust me, though, it is.

Do you even need to ask? Easily the MOST anticipated game for me. The last good action game I played was Rising.

>those proportions

DICK STATUS: MUH

i think it's March 2017

Since Taro hates waifus so much, how do you suppose he'll ruin 2B for us?

How did he ruin the other waifus?

Dicks, and murder

>ruin

I don't see how that ruined them

>ruin

>i dont mind that they made dante a girl
Oh man, if only.

>Drakenguard
Literally everyone in that game was insane
>Drakenguard 2
Both girls wanted Nowe's dick. Ruined by proximity to a shitty protag
>Nier
He gave Khaine a dick

Every single important female character in his games is great with perhaps Five being the only exception because she's fucking dumb.

>ruin

So its pretty much guaranteed that thighsbot is going to be a boss, right?

>He gave Kainé a dick

Most likely midboss and then 2nd buddy for the rest of the game and we can most likely play as her

Actual spoilers for people who want to play the games

>Furiae
Is actually a degenerate and turns into a disgusting monster
>Arioch
Crazy ass cannibal
>Kaine
haha you were actually fapping to a DUDE all along haha youre fucking gay dude hahaha fucking tricked
>Devola and Popola
were against you all along

Haven't played Drakengard 3 yet but from what I heard the protag is literally a prostitute.

Taro builds up hope, and then he crushes it. He does the same thing with the girls in his stories by making them cute or sexy and then flipping your expectations on their head just as you were starting to see them as potential waifus.

>thighsbot
Who?

fuck i accidentally read devola and popola. please tell me that part isn't the end game. please

>haha you were actually fapping to a DUDE all along haha youre fucking gay dude hahaha fucking tricked
>there are people who actually believe this

It is. Sorry senpai.

it's literally endgame

I didn't want to believe it either man but it's undeniable. You can't keep deluding yourself like this.

>instead of making sheaths work properly let's just make swords hover near the back with MAGIC

it's actually clever

What games do I need to play for this series?
Is there some draken game or something?

The endest of games, you won't understand shit though until your second playthorugh

You don't need to play any of the games, but playing the first Nier would help a lot to understand some deisgns and the world and gameplay elements. Don't get scared off by people saying the gameplay is bad, it's just simple bad not bad at all

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awww... i guess it's fine. i can't be mad at that guy. i kind of suspect it already as it started. thanks my dudes

All the games in the "Taroverse" are Drakengard, Nier and Drakengard 3.

The only actually good game here is Nier, I wouldn't bother with the Drakengards unless you're interested in Taro's style and writing.

maybe i will play it couple of years from now when the game is in bargain bins for 15 bucks and the ps4 costs $200, especially considering p5 has a ps3 port.

Kaine is a full blown female with a fat dick pasted on by accident, not a dude. She uses it to fuck a corpse in one of the drama CDs.

Zero WAS a prostitute, then a psycho rapist, and then just a slut. Probably the most cockhungry vidya protagonist of all time, not counting porn games.

Yeah it's kinda obvious actually. It definitely wasn't some big shocking moment for me at least.

Thanks friendos

>fapping to dicks
>somehow not gay

Toobie, no question.

Its not gay if its a robot.

Futa is less gay than straight stuff. I hope you have fun being gay, user.

Ok but stop begging

DO NOT CALL HER """TOOBIE"""

That's Toobie? Who's the gayboy then?

9S

>2b
>BB
>CC

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DoD3 had an awesome final boss though.

I actually hope Plat does something like that with the Opera boss at least.

>taking the bullet

I feel like the only people who say this are people whose experience with "Platinum games" is playing through MGR once.

Nier was exactly the kind of game Plat would make, except the execution was shit because Cavia wasn't up to the task.

As an example:
Hideki Kamiya, much like Yoko Taro, is a fan of old-school shmups.

So he made an entire level in Bayonetta that's literally a clone of Afterburner where you surf on a missile. If enemies get too close to the missile without you shooting them down, the game turns into a 2D-locked side-scrolling beat-em-up while you fight them off the length of the missile.

Plat's actually somewhat infamous for all the genre-switching minigames; TW101 caught a lot of flak for how many were included.

Meanwhile Taro made a game that, despite its shallow combat, featured
>an opening scene that drags on forever through killing like 90 cannon fodder enemies
>air dodge rolls
>a combo hit counter that could get into the 100s
>aim-driven spells
>a heavy emphasis on timing and evasion in boss fights

Nier was absolutely a cuhrayzee game; he even listed God of War as a major inspiration. The problem was, like God of War, the combat wasn't well-tuned.

Taro and Plat make very similar games. The difference is, where Plat nails the execution they can't craft the world/story, and Taro fumbles the execution but the world/story is a masterwork.

I think making "Bayonetta: Written by Yoko Taro" is EXACTLY the sort of thing a Nier sequel always needed to be. People say Nier "wasn't about the combat" but that's just because they look past that weak element to what the game does right, not because Taro didn't WANT the game to have combat as a focus.

I don't think they'll do another rhythm hell until DoD5.

Automata will probably go full touhou at least once though.

Hopefully...

But the opera boss IS music-synced at Taro's insistence.

I'd love to see it do a string of unavoidable attacks that you have to stationary-dodge through with perfect timing like DoD3's ending.

THIS

but that's toobie

>psycho rapist

where tho

Blind Youmou

>I think making "Bayonetta: Written by Yoko Taro" is EXACTLY the sort of thing a Nier sequel always needed to be.

I don't entirely agree.

With a fast paced game like Bayo or Rising, putting quiet parts like exploring towns or just moving around the map would feel extremely out of place. The combat is so intense, that spending it long parts without action would ruin it.

Nier's gameplay must be slower to fit with the rest of the pace of the narrative and exploration. It's not a cuhrayzee game and it shouldn't try to be.

That being said, an improvement in the combat was absolutely necessary.

Nothing wrong with action games that also has exploration / puzzles

Ninja Gaiden did it just fine

>With a fast paced game like Bayo or Rising, putting quiet parts like exploring towns or just moving around the map would feel extremely out of place.

So... You never played Bayonetta?

Because I sure remember wandering around for hours looking for secret chests, Alfheim portals, Golden LP pieces and Umbran Tear crows tucked away in various hidden corners and secret paths.

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TWO > TOOBIE

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I'm not saying it's bad or impossible or anything. Just talking specifically about Nier.

I have, and it's one of my favourite games actually. It's a different kind of pause. No pause in Bayonetta is too long unless self-imposed like you mention. Pauses in action games are necessary to give you a break, but the pacing is always moving forward.

Nier had a pacing more similar to that of a JRPG. It's not just the exploration (optional after all), the narrative and level design is also imposing you a slower pacing. A contrast too big between combat and narrative could have a negative impact.

But hey, just speaking hypothetically here. The gameplay shown so far looks beyond perfect.

I could have sworn the novella mentioned her raping the men during her murder/robbery spree, but I just checked and it didn't. Seems I was mistaken, unless it was in some other side material.

>Blind

The game, visuals, and music look great, so I'm def gonna buy it

HOWEVER

I feel like we all know what Yoko Taro's gonna pull

The humans have died long ago, the fight is pointless, and actually, get this, YOU KILLED THE LAST CHANCE OF HUMANITY!

Which is all very well and good, but it become a broken record the fourth time around