Nier Automata Demo Coming December 22 on PS4

Get hype boys, Toobie creepshooting will be available soon.

gematsu.com/2016/12/nier-automata-ps4-demo-launches-december-22-japan

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>available soon

They do it for us already

Probably around same time

Only in Japan

The Japanese demo release date trailer was the same as the US/EU official release date trailer; if the demo was coming out stateside at the same time, don't you think they'd have announced it then?

We probably won't get the demo til January

Might be just that theyre working out other country availability etc. Also you can just make throwaway jap acc and play that until englsih dropa

I'm still holding out hope for a PC demo

Something about this picture really makes the graphics look great. They did a good job on lighting and reflections in this, thats one thing I've noticed.

In the factory room here especially:youtube.com/watch?v=_zmTHb6VW34

Its platinum doing theyr magic really.

>She will take dicks in SFM

that lens flare really gets those neurons firing

should have more motion blur though

My dick tells me to buy this game, should I do it?

>tfw leotard 2b might not exist

In this pic it looks like 2B gets damaged down to A2s level of beat up. This either means
1.Leotard scrapped for A2-like destruction
2. Clothing destruction has 3 levels: Normal 2B, Leotard, this 2B.

A2 for reference.

DO IT

They better release some outfits...

If you like hack n slash - yeah

Nggggggggghh

Japan has finally accepted the ass. I'm proud of them.

>finally
Yoko Taro is an ass man if I ever saw one.

>PCucks have to wait an indeterminate amount of time until after the only relevant gaming platform gets, plays, and finishes the game
>We got to watch them have their hopes for a release date crushed, briefly restored, then crushed even harder, all in one day
>We will get to watch them cry sweet tears as the game is spoiled for them potentially months before they get it

Sweet, sweet, justice.

>no inner designs on skirt
>no dirtied up heels
>no leather stretch behind kneecaps
>hair

>all of these fixed

Why does the OP pic look like it hasn't finished rendering yet? How odd, its the only pic I've seen like that.

I want to kiss her pussy!!

>the only ones who can retake the world from robots are robots
I feel like a real idiot to not realize this until today

ywn put a baby in Toobie's tummy

>Poor man's Devil May Cry

Naah I'll pass.

I'll wait for the superior PC version.

Actually we will.
PS4 is region free, making a Japanese account is easy as 1,2,3.
I will be playing this day one.

And wait...and wait...

SHUT UP!
What do you know? You don't know anything at all about PC Gamers.

Is this demo Japan only, or worldwide? My birthday's on the 23rd, this would be a nice present.

I know plenty. Like how you won't be playing until potentially months after PS4 has finished it and platinumed it and revealed every secret. You don't even get to play the demo that everyone else will be playing! I'd feel so bad for you if I wasn't laughing so hard right now.

PSN updates on Tuesdays in the USA. You have like two weeks to make a throwaway japanese account to download the demo in the event we don't get it on the 20th.

Its suppossed to come for japs(but you can still make jap acc and enjoy it). English is confirmed too, but might come a bit later.

Yes, if you wait with me for a bit you might learn a thing called patience, and then ascend to your adult form one day.

holy shit is that her dead girlfriend?

Justice for what exactly?

What's with the persecution complex?

Nevermind him,he's just shitposting.
I doubt he actually has a PS4.

CONFIRMED
same day release in USA/Japan/Europe*

*on PS4

gematsu.com/2016/12/nier-automata-demo-launches-december-22-west

My autism won't let me play a game is it's the latest in a series
Where do i start with these games?

Nier ps3/360

I know your suffering.
Play Nier.
You can play Drakengard 1 and Drakengard 3 if you want.

You don't have to play Nier in fact they told Japan not to because they are using Western/Father Nier's design for his cameo in this game. It's going to be confusing

>Why does the OP pic look like it hasn't finished rendering yet? How odd, its the only pic I've seen like that.
Outside, probably.

Open world game = lots of assets streaming in (especially foliage, which is tough to render), if you want to maintain 60FPS the render quality isn't going to be as good in large outdoor areas as it is in small indoor areas.

I laughed

Confirmed for doesn't care about the game, just here to shitpost. It's a reference to the most recent trailer, dipshit. Stay apprised of the game's news if you want to keep your bait fresh

>they are using Western/Father Nier's design for his cameo in this game
No wonder why I heard Jamieson Price at the end of the dub trailer

>they are using Western/Father Nier's design for his cameo in this game.

Wut?
Where is this from?

How does it make sense anyway?
We are on Ending E, Nier has been deleted and then re-made as a child, at that point you could cameo him as a kid or as an adult and it would make sense in both japan and the west, as its literally not the Nier we were playing.

>Confirmed
didn't Gematsu also confirm that the Steam release date was the same as the PS4 release date, and then recant it a day later?

They don't fact check shit.

Wait, why are they releasing the console version earlier?
Damn, now i have no excuse to finish my backlog.

PC Gamer confirmed it. They'd been told so by a Square Enix PR rep, who was apparently misinformed.

>Nier has been deleted and then re-made as a child
And then aged 10,000 years.

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Here you go
twitter.com/NieRGame

I've excluded that because we don't really know what he was when he was remade.
Could've been an android too, the pair of Devolapopola we got again aged pretty well.

And Gematsu parroted it, and then ALSO recanted after PC Gamer did.

What I'm saying is, rumor travels fast about this. We haven't gotten any official announcement of the demo date like Japan did, I'm not trusting any source that sites an unnamed Squeenix rep regarding a western release date for this.

It may or may not be. PC's release date is just unconfirmed as of now, there has been no delay confirmed.

Like, a full source?

So, I guess Nier really did lose an eye?

>twitter.com/NieRGame
Ah, well, there you go, THAT'S a source.

docs.google.com/document/d/1vEP2iZ52P-DWhQBQ2Is6R8Wjao99AGi0YuWShTvA-tA/mobilebasic?viewopt=127

It's somewhere in here,just search it.

What, you thought he put on the eyepatch just to look even more rad?

Place your bets ladies and gentlemen:
strawpoll.me/11827716

Right, I guess that does mean we should be getting the jap/west specific ones.

Anyway I'd be super happy to see that dumb retard in the game, certainly would feel better than seeing twinky boy Nier, especially if its the pre-timeskip one.

Also kek that entire segment
>-Why did he return as a young boy?
>(...) Also, as the writer, I simply wanted them to “repeat the fun times they had, traveling together”.
>Yokoo: Even if the destruction system is gone, everyone is going to die, be it late or soon~(looks faraway)

REPEAT THE FUN TIMES
WHILE EVERYONE IS DYING AND KAINÉ JUST RAPED A CORPSE

>strawpoll.me/11827716
Platinum can shit out a PC port same-day no questions asked, they did it with all their Activision releases.

Hopefully the reason for the (potential) delay is that some amount of thought is being put into the PC port above and beyond "press Package Content For Windows" which means that it may not be progressing at the same rate as the PS4 release.

Fingers crossed for native Steam Controller support

that girl gunna get a belly ache

They better fucking have a good reason because with Denuvo and shit theres no excuse of fucking us over on day one.

Denuvo is merely assumed, not confirmed. Squeenix uses it but Plat never has, whether or not it integrates well with their engine (and that depends on whether or not Nier:A is in the old Plat engine or UE4, it looks like the latter to me) remains to be seen.

>They better fucking have a good reason

They want people to actually buy it along with the expensive Black Box Edition.

PC will be delayed for 3 months and will be given freebie 'premium dlc' as a thank you. It will likely be the Kaine costume. Meanwhile PS4 gets Zero, Accord, Kaine, and Commander skins

I wouldn't put it past Squeenix to go for the PC double-dip, but if that's the plan, you don't announce the Steam release until AFTER the console release.

Taro thought it'd be funny to watch people suffer.

I doubt it needs engine compatibility.
In any case SQ is putting it on anything they can and for once I don't mind it if it means we get this game without a delay, because delays "due to piracy" are the biggest assclown thing they can do that really makes me want to pirate their shit.

>implying Taro has any control over publishing decisions AT ALL
You think he was the one behind the NA box art?

Squeenix (not even Saito, others at Squeenix) make accounting-based decisions on games like this. The whole reason the game was delayed the first time was because FFXV was delayed from September to November and that would have pushed it into N:A's release window, and they didn't want to release it against XV.

2 months difference is not really the same window
Though you are right, most of this uncertainty is probably due to SQ bureaucracy in the background.

Denuvo requires engine INTEGRATION, any copy-protection scheme does, because it has to obscure code in order to work.

Plat's bespoke engine is really weird. Really, really weird. It's the only engine I can think of in recent memory that actually demands a constant delta time in order to function; when the framerate drops in Bayonetta, the game literally slows down rather than getting choppy. It also stores all of its data files in .bxm containers, a file format which is totally undocumented anywhere and is like modified XML that Platinum's developers made up on the spot.

If Denuvo doesn't know how to parse the file contents of a Plat release, how can it obscure them and decode them like it's meant to?

The game was originally slated for a November/December 2016 release. When FFXV's release date got pushed back from September to November, N:A's release was moved to "early 2017"

Taro even commented that he was glad that it happened this way because he didn't want to release against XV (especially given Nier was largely ignored at launch because it was released against XIII)

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It makes me sad to not see any guns in the world of Automata. Plasma-ball-shooting laser guns, yeah, but not like, explode-a-hot-metal-slug-outward guns.

Well such an incompatibility wouldn't be making its first rounds of issues now I think, or that would be some serious oversight even if its just for the PC side.

I don't remember them ever slating Nier A for 2016, and what a stupid move that would be considering the game is still probably a rush job with less than 2 years in development, 2016 release would mean less than 1 year in development.

Sorry user but that is extremely primitive when we have magic.

They are qt.
youtube.com/watch?v=PqoNzo2Czns

Was YoRHa ever actually performed or does it only exist as a stage play?

Massive amount of post processing does that

>Well such an incompatibility wouldn't be making its first rounds of issues now I think, or that would be some serious oversight even if its just for the PC side
No, my point is I don't know if Squeenix would even insist on using Denuvo at that point. If there's a substantial expense in labor to add an anti-tamper to a game because of the engine, they may not go to the trouble.

Not all Squeenix-published PC games in recent memory use it. I Am Setsuna didn't use it, for instance.

So there's no real reason to ASSUME Automata will use Denuvo. It might, it might not, it will depend on a host of factors (not the least of which is the cost, which is allegedly pretty fucking high for a game with Automata's shoestring budget).

YoRHa girls only performed in the stage play. I don't know where the rest of the play is, unfortunately.

Yeah but so are swords, and 2B has a shitload of those.

Taro is usually pretty good at asspulling reasons for people to use "inferior" tech when it's cooler; in Thou Shalt Not Die, psychic students are secretly sent to war armed with katanas because katanas can be reasonably procured using high-school budget dollars without raising red flags like a shipment of guns would.

Not to mention the obvious fact that they used guns in the original YoRHa play.

Exactly, and I'd think the decision would've been made earlier and wouldn't cause hangups like this, just either use denuvo or delay on PC.

The fact that they are now cross-promoting with FFXV makes me think SQ probably expects better returns on Automata than what a taro game would suggest.
A shoestring budget and "no piracy" easily adds together to "high profit" for a suit. Maybe the budget is that much tighter because of denuvo.

Anyway I personally took their "early" announcement of "no exclusivity deal" and then Steam that they are finally confident in releasing their new shit on PC straight away - because they believe in denuvo.

sauce

There's plenty of reasons to fuck PC over and they're all your own damn fault.

Too bad you can't turn back time and unpirate and uncrack all those games in the days when publishers/devs still trusted you and saw you as a viable market instead of a liability that is best passed over because it's not worth it to try and appease any of you.

You all made your bed, now lie in it.

if you google it you can find a video rip of the play easy enough
there are no subs last time I checked but Rekka made a story description that will help you follow the plot
You should read it so you know why A2 is so aggro and hates the Pro-Bunkers

Yeah but not MAGICAL swords, see?

We have magical swords and magical guns, non-magical versions of these are irrelevant.
making up an excuse TO use regular ballistic weapons would be convoluted in the world of Nier I think.

What a retard.
We are a liability because when you are selling total-shit AAA titles which are literally SCAMS, then you can't allow anyone to see into it.
If it weren't for PC, Dark Souls/FO4 type of downgrades would be your bread and butter, slave.

I dunno if it's a "denuvo-inspired confidence" so much as it's a "Japan just now realized that PC is a relevant worldwide platform, because in Japan it's a big fat nothing".

PC gaming is to them like Pachinko is to us; it's something that you're vaguely aware is hugely profitable for the players involved in it, but you don't really prioritize it because where you are it's so irrelevant.

In the past year and a half we've seen a sudden surge of weeb games get dumped onto Steam, Japan is finally waking up to PC's relevance in the west. I see Automata's Steam announce as more in line with that than it is with any decision made based on piracy.

Are 2B's swords supposed to be magical? I don't think they're magical. I think they handwave the floating with "she uses magnets" and I don't even KNOW what the handwave is for the swords dematerializing/rematerializing but it's obviously the same magic/tech used to make Pods de/rematerialize (or 2B when she perfect dodges) so it's not like it's anything inherent in the sword itself. The sword is just a sharp hunk of metal, sort of like a bullet.

I think the two together makes it happen, the opportunity with Steam has been established for a long time, and now Denuvo reduced the "risk", so now its a field worth plowing.

Guess we'll see in time which it is, if either.

I hope no one on PS4 buys this shit after Square fuck us over. If they want the PC market so bad, let them carry the sales.

I really hope you're a false flagger and Playstation users don't actually care this little about video games. Why not just write "exclusive" on a rock if that's all you care about?

Yeah, that's true, but it wasn't until Steam became an indie dumping ground that small-time PSP/Vita devs started bringing over sub-only translations to Steam as an experiment. Those games didn't even use Denuvo, but they basically printed money, and suddenly everyone in Japan saw dollars (or yen) in their eyes and started porting.

Denuvo is being put on shit like Hitman and RotTR, games that likely would have seen PC releases anyway (or at least, it wouldn't have been surprising). To my eye, Automata getting a port is less about that and more about SKShinovi and Gods Eater and AoTWoF making buckets of cash.

> If they want the PC market so bad
They don't, that's why they rarely ever port anything and when they do, the port is really shitty.

I'm still getting it in ps4 because physical media is superior

All the "tech" in use is magic, basically everything in Nier's world is powered by and through inter-dimensional magic-stealing.

I guess the weapon itself may be just a weapon, but as it is it is just part of a complex, magic-powered and magic-deploying combat system, which I assume is mostly the Pod, but maybe Toobie herself. With that said I'd think theres an amount of "magical strengthening" involved, over just material vs material.

They're so small.

Interestingly I think Automata is what I'd call AA gaming, if it still existed, so now we are at the crossroads where we'll see if SQ will handle it as an AAA title (cross-promo with FFXV would suggest this) or as their smaller projects.

Considering the entire thing happened with "SQ wants to make a Platinum game" I'd think they want to push it.
AAA treatment would mean much higher chance for Denuvo for sure.

Why shaft a platform that has revitalized their marketshare over a platform where 30k sales is unprecedented success?

Top bait user but we've seen it so often in these threads its getting rusty