What went so right ?

What went so right ?

The butt

dat ass mainly

maybe the gameplay is also fun? idk, haven't heard anything about it

>butt
Literally the most irrelevant thing in the game once you play it

Me on the left

>stick with what makes a game good
>work on details
>don't make false promises
>don't let politics influence your fucking game

>Bait waifu faggots
>Make 9S the main protagonist

Everything but the main story, which only went half-right

Overall solid 8/10 game

9s is fine too.

Watching him lose his mind over 2b was pretty great

Great gameplay
Touching story
Several routes
Some nice RPG touches
2B
9S [/spoiler]going full Nuclear

No, that's literally me, YoRHa Unit Number 9 Type S. AKA, Nines. I can't wait to go the mall with 2B.

Everything. The environment could have been prettier, but that's about it. I especially liked how the game didn't feel awkward or failed to encapsulate the experiences of all the types of games it pours into Automata - from the shmups to the text adventure.

>been reading Nier threads for the last weeks
>nobody has mentioned skindentation ever since the game launched in Japan

>tfw you beat Nier Automata and realize no game can ever compare now

I know that feel. MGS2 was finally dethroned.

I came here for the androids butts.
I stayed for everything else.

lets not get ahead of ourselves

A great core game, old ff style jrpg.

Added to that, you have a dev that isn't afraid to give male players (the vast majority) what they want.

Meanwhile most western devs are fighting to race to ugtown.

Because when you get to play the game, you forget about trivial things such as the butt. The game is THAT good.

What's the deal with swords hovering behind their backs?

Is there some lore to justify not even trying to make carrying weapons look nice?

and the OST

This.

I have been mulling it over for quite sometime now, and I think Automata did it. It may be the freshness and the fact that I've played 2 to death, but I think Taro did it.

It looks cool and is a nice way to deal with clip issues.

Why do people think Taro is some anti-SJW gamergate hero all of a sudden? Pretty much all of his games have had a canon gay character in the main cast, not to mention how much he touches on transgender stuff.

Not saying that's wrong, but I think people new to his work are getting the wrong impression.

Automata's writing is too spotty for me. MGS2 for all its flaws didnt get so scattered as Automata did at times.

They have a close-range manipulation field that allows them to control their weapons.

And at various points in the game this feature is damaged and you can't attack. 9S wasn't even supposed to have this feature and hacked it into his hard/software.

The game looks really nice and I wish it was released on Switch too but it's too bad everybody's way too consumed on console wars.


Majority of people play this so they can see the upskirt shot of 2B and doesn't give a shit about 9S most of the time.

>Is there some lore to justify not even trying to make carrying weapons look nice?

they're supposed to be floating there, held in place by the golden circles around them, and controlled by android telekinesis (wi-fi?).

Turns out all you need is a nicely modeled ass to sell games, gameplay doesn't actually matter

Almost nothing. Taro should quit making games and become a fanfiction writer.
The ass is nice I guess

He just does whatever the fuck he wants.

I can only advise you to read the data if you haven't done so already. Many things that go left unsaid or implied make sense when you read the stuff. I think the story's very focused, and leaving out little details that aren't entirely essential, yet add depth to the characters and the story, feels somehow more rewarding.

It's like an "Aha!" moment when you connect the pieces together, and understand what a certain character meant when they said something, or why the body language is the way it is.

Though I'll concede to you that the Commander should have been a more prominent character in terms of the big plot reveals. Her actions are ambiguous at best, from what I can tell.

guys are sidequests even worth doing? i dont know if i can be bothered but if they're important for the story then im game to grind them

Worked for Overwatch too!

Turns out the gameplay is actually top-tier and you're just a butthurt fag.

People who write like this have not played the game.

I beat the game and know alot of the little things it was going for, but that does not really excuse the lagging first half and really watery characterization of most of the cast.

Compared to the first Nier, it honestly falls short in the department, which is a shame since Taro is pretty damn good at building a cast.

The are not essential but are worth it. Some gave hints to the story.

>people think Taro is some anti-SJW gamergate hero
Strong contender for the most clueless outsider newfaggot sentence ever posted on this shitty-ass board.

Anyone know if you can do all the sidequests as 2B? 9S isn't fun to play as and I don't even wanna fucking beat Route B anymore. Please tell me we get more 2B in the other routes. Please. No more Nines.

The ass did millions of dollars worth of free marketing for the game. That's why I don't worry about SJWs. The western industry will come around, just a question of time.

I see. I dunno, the cast worked well enough for me. I guess I can sort of see what you mean, because even though I think Automata's protagonists were very involved in the plot, most of Nier focuses on character arcs to progress the story. In Automata it works on plot reveals.

I guess it's kinda backwards, now that I think about it. Taro spent most of Nier building the characters and world, and started getting into the nitty-gritty plot details at the end. In this one, the focus is more on discovering just what the fuck happened to earth (basically, the plot and world) and ends by exploring the characters more in depth.

Leave before spoilers hit you. You unlock chapter select. That's all I'll say. You've been warned.

I love this game so far, 16 hours in and I've just entered the forest. That said I'd appreciate a patch so the game would stop crashing randomly. Also am I supposed to be doing all the sidequests as they come? Because some of these enemies would take me half an hour or more to defeat based on the damage I'm doing.

It's not necessarily his ideas toward it, is just his games do it more naturally and the characters more likeable than the heavy handed agenda spreading of western games.
Most of us here aren't Gamergaters looking to win the war we just want normal fun games that aren't trying to sell us eye-rolling political garbage.

Pandering to Sup Forumsirgins

Reminder that most of Sup Forums also found Quiet acceptable

>Anyone know if you can do all the sidequests as 2B?
No.
You can do somewhere around 65% as her.
Rest is 9S / 2A.

Better than pandering to Neofaggers like you. Now fuck off and play Andromeda or something.

Taro does what he wants while still appealing to the male demographic of video games. Taro isn't the only example of this, he's just the most recent one. Plenty of niche developers are like this, Nier is just relatively big for a niche game so it's getting lots of attention.

FUCK
Is A2 at least more enjoyable to play as than the fucking shota? I can't stand this little bastard's gameplay.

I have played it, senpai

A2 is basically 2B in gameplay.

Read and look through the thread for some other tips.
9S' gameplay can be quite enjoyable if you don't limit your self to one button mashing and hacking.

Good, I like 2B. I'll finish Route B and hope for the best.

She's 2B, except she can taunt, and she goes into Berserk Mode (which is this game's closest thing to a Devil Trigger) instead of Self-destructing. Her dodge is unique. I'd advise you to make plug-in chip thingy with a good amount of offensive and deadly heals. And Continuous Combo.

Combat Bracers for lyfe, nigga.

The gameplay just isn't that great. It's the worst of Platinum's good games. Too repetitive, too button mashy, and all difficulty is derived from over-leveled enemies that take ages to kill. You can beat the final Father Servo form at a very low level with the only barrier being that it would literally take hours. No attacks are hard to dodge, you can literally mash dodge and get "perfect dodges" every time.

>but muh story, muh ass

Ass is amazing but you don't need to spend $60 for it, story is ok but very overrated.

Will this game cure my depression?

Either that or you'll kill yourself after realizing you can't ever get what game suggests is the proper way to live your life.

This is the fourth best game ever made of all time ever. This is an objective, undeniable fact. I wish it never ended. I wish there was more. I wish they add endless DLC forever. If it's $60 each I'd buy it.

I've been hearing this all the time on here but anytime I press the poster on it it turns out they haven't played the game

Everyone in this thread and others are talking about the story, the gameplay, that great soundtrack, they're happy taro finally made a succesful game, etc
A little bit of butt posting is unavoidable because this is Sup Forums and Sup Forums lewds everything

The game devs were all

>How can we make the most fun game possible that we ourselves would enjoy?
And the result is Automata, a true work of passion.

Kido you are fast to excuse your degenerate games by putting me inline with other extreme views. The world isn't black and white like that, and the way these games pander with their kawaii nude girls bullshit is not by any means better than neogaf.

The Neofagger is getting real mad now. Sad your LGBTQ+ game flopped eh? Don't take it out on us. Take it out on your shitty Canadian devs.

Yoko Taro

This.

I was fucking blown away when I saw Keichi Okabe interview where he says that the "final song's" choir are people that worked on the game, including Taro, Saito and himself.

Taro can be a bit smug after this game. He fucking deserves it, you can tell this was made with love, despite all budgetary restrictions.

>muh Taro
2B's original design was nothing like the one we got.
Yoshida is the true hero behind it.

The music and the gameplay

They're both so fucking good

Does this game have more than 4 colors? It looks pretty fun.

>tfw just got my tax return

>2B's original design was nothing like the one we got.
Elaborate

brown grey green(lots of green) red (rust, blood, neon) yellow/gold purple
its got color lad

The game is fun but the ass is hardly irrelevant. I have been playing for around 8 hours and i still dont get enough of it.

Taro's vision for the MC eventually became the Commander.

Taro mentioned that 2B's butt was so delicious he decided to make it the main focus of the game.

>Why do people think Taro is some anti-SJW gamergate hero
Where in those posts is that mentioned even?

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God bless Yoshida. He single handedly saved Nier.

I don't see how that's a problem, the Commander is fucking delicious. Probably the hottest in-game model.

9s x Chat Noir OTP

Someone draw this crack ship.

I fucking love these devs

THat a single man can be this based will save the eventually planet and help us colonize the solar system

Probably got redesigned that too. The MC wasn't meant to be sexy.

How's the english dub? I normally play with japanese audio if I can but I'm just curious because Nier had a pretty great one.

not the pc port 2bh

>come for the ass
>stay for the gameplay and story
>come for the ass

English 2B sounds a bit older and comes off as a frigid bitch at first. English 9S is great, starts off polite and curious, but you get a glimpse or two of what he's really like later in the game.

Is 9S as lovingly modeled and sexy as the girl robot?

This. Robutt

There are certain sections of the game where english is used to good effect, that I don't think hit as hard if you're playing in Japanese.

it's bad but the game has dual audio anyway,

Can you elaborate without spoiling anything?

>entire 2B's dying segment
>her very last words
It was like a torture.

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It's really good. I don't think I've heard a dub so good since Tales of Vesperia. Shame they couldn't bring back Jameison Price, his voice is GOAT.

But yeah, who knew fucking Rina-chan and a literally who were so fucking good. I hope the guy that voices 9S gets put into a lot more shit now.

>who knew fucking Rina-chan and a literally who were so fucking good. I hope the guy that voices 9S gets put into a lot more shit now

Thank god for the voice actors' strike.

They took the effort to translate the OST when appropriate. Different versions of the OST play depending on what language you're playing on.

Also, there are some translation errors where subs don't show up at some points.

He does all of that without having to parade it around and shove it in your face to show how "diverse and empowering" his games are. The characters seem natural and don't feel like someone was just marking things off on a checklist.

Sounds like they put a lot more effort into the dub and localization than most japanase games Atlus Thanks I think I'll go with English for at least my first full play through.

Leaving the whole SJW debate out of it, but it's nice that characters like Kaine and Emil feel like real fleshed out characters, and not just props for a political agenda.

>Most of us here aren't Gamergaters looking to win the war we just want normal fun games that aren't trying to sell us eye-rolling political garbage.
I'd say at least half of the "Gamergaters looking to win the war" are just ironic shitposters which attracted a lot of people who have this mindset unironically since most of them are autistic and can't tell when people are making fun of them.
But yeah it is pretty refreshing to have game that doesn't have unrealistic characters just for the sake of appealing to the current political climate.

>What went so right
Route C