Did Sup Forums ever hyped a game up to the point that it urged you to play it and you found it incredible mediocre?

Did Sup Forums ever hyped a game up to the point that it urged you to play it and you found it incredible mediocre?

Pic related for me. Female is hot and music is good, but goddamn, gameplay is fucking garbage.

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>when a brainlet plays nier

Yeah the Atelier series is the most boring thing I've ever played. I can't believe people here let alone anywhere like it.

You must not play a lot of games if you think Nier's combat is "garbage".

I guess CS:GO is more up your alley.

Frogposter aside you're correct. I just want these to stop, happens every time, especially when something gets relesaed on pc. I could go the rest of the year without Nier threads.

>Did Sup Forums ever hyped a game up to the point that it urged you to play it

That is always a mistake, you shouldn't let the opinions of others skew your own perceptions of a game. In any case you clearly haven't finished the game and are probably a pleb.

What is this supposed to mean. What does CS:GO have to do with anything OP posted?
They aren't even in the same genre.

A great soundtrack can salvage any game, but maybe that's just me

Overall I would say it was a good game, but I definitely feel ripped off for the amount of content for the price. There is no way I could ever recommend justifying purchasing this game for full price

Other games having worse combat doesn't magically make this game's combat good. This game has zero to offer the player in terms of interesting fighting mechanics.

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maybe if you're dumb and have no creativity

>A great soundtrack can salvage any game, but maybe that's just me

This is literally all of Sup Forums. If you take any game Sup Forums likes there's a very good chance it plays like ass but has nice music. This chances increases dramatically if the game is Japanese.

Anons think playing Automata makes them intellectuals just because of the existential themes.

When the truth is its just an ok tier ARPG with a choppy story. Its not worth more than $30

T. Bought it at launch

I can't remember a single song from Deus Ex, and VTMB's most memorable song is memorable for being terrible.

Loved the combat in Automata. A lot of variety with chips, blocking and dodging have a great feel to them, heavy attacks send enemies flying. Enjoyed every bit of it.

You're entitled to your opinion, but your opinion is wrong.

And your opinion dosent matter.

Its okay if you don't understand it.

>unironically listening to vidya music
Just buy an album ef0gjsiofghfoaskaus'w

>wire
>slow
>gravity
>two sets of two weapons each
Only if you really, really hate putting in more effort than mashing dodge and strong attack.

>intentionally narrowing your horizons

>and VTMB's most memorable song is memorable for being terrible
I don't know man, I really loved ISOLATION

is they condensed the experience in a single 10-12 hrs playthrough It'd be much better.
Too bad taro is a meme director and doesnt want to move on from his formula

Yes but what does this have to do with CS:GO?
I'm still fucking lost on what a multiplayer shooter has to do with how deep Nier is.

Fuck off. It took forever to get to the first checkpoint so I had to restart that garbage ass bullet hell sequence at the start like five times.

Then you get to the world and it's empty and boring. Big fucking deal

In like 10 miutes some teenager is going to talk about how Automata "redefines the medium" or some ignorant bullshit like that.

Automata has redefined the medium.

This isn't kotaku.

I'm not even good at bullet hell and I didn't have my first death til the opera robot.

There is honestly nothing to understand in the game. Much like in the original Nier, it's a very, very basic anime plot layered in superfluous grim aesthetics.
Sadly, too, as I was honestly hoping for more in both games' cases.
I knew Automata was going to be on this trend, but the original Nier falls into this thread's category for me.
Sup Forums and so many other places overhyped the hell out of me with the game, and it turns out it was just... a basic ARPG with a basic anime storyline, full of horrifyingly cringey "YOU MUST LIVE BECAUSE FRIENDSHIP!" screaming-right-before-death moment.
Seriously, even Weiss gets one of those and nobody in the party even gives a shit about him, what the hell.

The first Nier at least didnt pretend to be more than what it was, and was much more entertaining.

>If you don't like a game for it's gameplay that's admitted to mediocre by nearly everyone you are a brainlet

Back to Sup Forums. A story cannot carry a game especially when that story is fucking terribly written and people only gush over the later half.

This guy gets it. There's a reason The Last of Us is considered the pinnacle of video game storytelling. It's a realistic setting with flawed characters. Unmatched by any game, especially some faggot weeb soap opera about feelings or whatever

Not bad/10

>that's admitted to mediocre by nearly everyone

lol, who's everyone? People love it for its gameplay and ass shots. Don't throw lies around just because you're too dumb to play through it

You should have learned by now to never listen to Sup Forums about anything, especially when the game includes blatant fapbait.

Last of Us felt like it was written by someone competent. The pacing and dialogue are far better than either Nier game.

I wouldn't go as as to say TLoU is the pinacle of storytelling, but it's much better than Automata.

>full of horrifyingly cringey "YOU MUST LIVE BECAUSE FRIENDSHIP!" screaming-right-before-death moment.

Did you play the game?

I took it as bait mixed with truth. Last of Us is literally just Western Nier, but I prefer Nier overall.

>People love it for its gameplay

Lmao, why are you lying? Even superfans will admit it's only "Yoko Taro's best" and that it certainly isn't as good as other hack n slash or action/adventure games.

Hahaha
No. It's a stretched out movie with gameplay that is unchanged from the first 15 minutes of the game to the very end.

Nier was the one to bring that eye opening section for me, yes.
I still dig the setting. I even liked the original Drakengard. To a degree. Certainly not due to the gameplay, anyways.
But Nier was just a very, "That's it? That's all it was?" moment in my gaming life. Specially after I had to wait so long to play it as I didn't have a PS3 for the longest time.

Do you think Yoko Taro directs the gameplay? Are you really this stupid?

It takes parts of Bayo and MGR to make a fun game with its action. Platinum does this, not Taro. Get some perspective or go back to Skyrim

>Sup Forums and so many other places overhyped the hell out of me with the game, and it turns out it was just... a basic ARPG with a basic anime storyline, full of horrifyingly cringey "YOU MUST LIVE BECAUSE FRIENDSHIP!" screaming-right-before-death moment.
Why do people continue posting bait that destroys their entire post.

I felt that way for Automata but I liked Nier 1 alot

But youre my nigga for Drakengard 1, thats unironically my favorite Taro game. It just does what it wants without getting so full of itself.

What really gets me is the terrible fanbase of this game, like what this thread shows.

Even glaring at it wrong gets you the full autistic ramble of Taroshill fanboys saying "you just don't get it" or "you need to play it 20 hours to get good" and it all else fails resorting to insults like children.

Haven't seen something this bad since Soulsborne and Undertale.

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I have. Have you?

>you just don't get it
Obviously.
>you need to play it 20 hours to get good
Nope.

All the oldschool Tarofags know whats up, the people making exucses for Automata watched all the games on youtube last month and pretend to be super fans.

Lorefags are the worst of them all.

What's better is the pathetic arrogance in thinking you being the naysayer for an already criminally ignored game will earn you some sort of superiority over people you don't care about.

Nier:A is plays worse than Korra and Korra is one of Platinum's worst games. Taro most definitely directs the gameplay, it's always been part of his narrative or at least he claims so in interviews. Platinum would never put boring ass fetch quests you can fuck up by jumping unless told to do so.

This is an Automata thread.

Taro didnt direct the gameplay, Platinum just took the first games design and copypasted it into Automata with very few improvements.

They went out of their way to say it was going to "feel like a Nier game" so thats what we got

I love that threads like this one are like containment for all shitposting degenerates and contrarians at once while the rest of the world enjoys the fuck out of the game.

>ripped off for the amount of content for the price

$60 for a 40 hour long game isn't enough?

>"you need to play it 20 hours to get good"
What's wrong about that argument? Route C is about 10h long and that's where the entire pay-off happens.

So basically you had no idea of what you were replying to in the conversation.

>worse than Korra

Yeah, that's not true. The variety in its action section alone puts it above just about most of Platinum's games. Customizing your playstyle with varying weapons and chips always makes fighting mobs fun to see how your new setup will do.

Taro does not direct anything outside of scenario writing. Platinum make the rest to fit the script.

>Platinum would never put boring ass fetch quests you can fuck up by jumping
Wrong game
>Nier:A is plays worse than Korra
Literally incorrect
>is plays
Losing composure?

Yep, Vanquish. Another platinum game, what a coincidence

Good games dont take 20 hours to be good. Ironically youre just talking about the story, so that says even more about this "game".

>the ending is an emotionally charged part of the game
Yeah no shit. Doesn't mean the first route is any way bad.

>Open world is abysmal
>Gameplay is the worst Platinum has ever done since Ninja Turtles or Korra
>Characters are awfully written (b-but 9s goes LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOOOOOOOOOR, so amazing!)
>Story is lackluster coupled with shitty anime cliches from your Saturday morning shonen of the weak trash.
>"B-but 2BRAAAAAAAAAAP"

Biggest ruse cruise Sup Forums has ever done.

You've literally been replying to me the whole time, this post chain is nothing but you and me.

>tfw you enjoyed Automata but you're too smart to pretend its well written

Gameplay was lacking too.

>IP doesn't change

Wow, who could be behind this post?

Of course I'm talking about the story, the entire argument "It gets good after 20h" is based on story alone or did you think the game suddenly changes it's entire gameplay 20h in?

>so that says even more about this "game".
Yeah exactly, literally no one plays these Games for the gameplay. Drakengard 1 had awful and tedious gameplay yet people love it for entirely different reasons, Drakengard 2 was an improvement but still not good, same goes for Nier which was an improvement and Nier: Automata too (which has the best gameplay of all Taro Games). Seems like you made the mistake of expecting Bayonetta/MGR out of it.

And yet you clearly are not understanding, still, that I was speaking of the original Nier and not Automata. Which has a whole other set of different cliche anime writting issues, but that in particular avoids.

No Switch version, don't care

>calling something poorly written makes me smart: the thread

>Guild Wars 2
Looking back all the warning signs were there hell I even ignored the underwhelming closed beta and convinced myself the full game would be better. Destroyed my love of gaming for a while that did

Play good games like RE4, the story is cheesy bullshit but the gameplay constantly evolves and challenges the player, whereas in Nier Automata you can cheese the rest of the game by simply doing most sidequests in the first route. It has piss poor design and balance, so that's already half the game gone into the shitter.

>Yeah exactly, literally no one plays these Games for the gameplay.

And this is where you fuck up even more, if the story is so important then why even make it a game? Not to mention, both Nier and Drakengard 1 had infinitely better stories that didnt waste your time, they were on their shit from the first few hours. Meanwhile Automata takes 20 hours to "pay off" and its not even the whole fucking story, the rest is in stupid side materials.

Nier 1 has this same problem, but its nowhere near as bad as Automata and Drakengard 3 Fuck off with these endless excuses.


>ITT we realize Taro should just quit videogames and make visual novels since he dosent care to actual design his games

This.
>Nonstop shilling on Sup Forums from the nu-vapemen Nier betas.
>Look at gameplay videos -- looks good.
>Preorder.
>Demo comes out.
>Get pumped to try the demo.
>Beat it, but feel completely underwhelmed... I must be playing it wrong.
>Beat it repeatedly in every difficulty, but something is wrong.
>Bland as fuck atmosphere, bland as fuck weeb characters, enemies.
>Start to realize the gameplay is fucked up -- Toobie will do aerial into follow ups while mashing light attack, and her dodge is much more broken than even Bayo's dodge or a fucking Dank Souls roll and feels sloppy as hell.
>Literally one of the worst action game ever made, strictly worse than any DMC (including DmC), Bayonetta, NG, Revengence, GoW, Lords of Shadow, Heavenly Sword, Dante's Inferno, etc.
>Pure garbage-tier butchered gameplay, on par with Lords of Shadow 2, NG Yaiba, X-Blades, etc.
>Immediately cancel pre-order.
Thank fucking god for demos. Never fall for the Sup Forums nu-vapemen hypemen.

motherfucker i know you're not saying godhand plays like ass you better not be saying that shit

this the game was fucking awful.

>i am unable to accept the flaws of the things I enjoy and must belittle the people that point them out: the post

I wish you people would grow some balls so you'd be able to discuss shit like adults.
I loved Drakengard - it was a piece of shit in gameplay.
Nier:A had terrible, abysmal writting. Doesn't mean you can't enjoy the game. But good lord you can't look past the intro without seeing some stupid-ass anime trope. This isn't good characterization. It's weeb bait.

"No feeling allowed."
"U-Uwahhhhh~!"

Come the fuck on.

>And this is where you fuck up even more, if the story is so important then why even make it a game

Because the story is structured in a way that only a video game could tell it.

Quit being a thick faggot, and making shit up. You get the entirety of the story in its routes and endings. Anything on the side is regarded as just omake.

And another cronie from the small circle of fags make another thread about how much they hate goty.

They'll be doing this for years.

>Because the story is structured in a way that only a video game could tell it.
Visual Novels have been doing things that way since forever and a day, get real.

>tfw plated Nier: A before hype because I liked the concept
>enjoyed it free of hype colouring my judgements

Feels good

It's funny how you'll immediately dismiss something because you don't like the way it looks. How Chad of you.

GOTY is Frozen Synapse 2

Same here.

Getting to see Sup Forums turn into contrarian faggots in real time is a real treat.

> they were on their shit from the first few hours
Yeah no, except when you needed to finish Nier multiple times (Nier Automata is way less tedious than it) to even grasp the entire story.

Let's not forget Grimoire Nier here.

>GOTY
>in the year where Persona 5, BoTW and Nioh exist

lmao

>Persona 5
>2017
Fuck off retard

Its gameplay is part of the experiences. VNs are choose your own adventure games. 2B is a combat android, so you fight, 9S is a data collector, so he hacks, A2 is an experimental android so she has primitive abilities unique only to her.

Shifting perspectives on the fly while changing game genres is the core of this game. VNs can go far, but this story was written for this game. It's exactly why it plays the way it does.

same. so glad i finished everything before pcshitters bait for you's on Sup Forums

I already said Nier 1 has the same problem, but you can get exactly what the game is trying to say after Route B, C/D are pretty much irrelevant.

Automata makes you plod your way through A/B to get details that couldve been handled in literally 3 hours, then it decides to ramp things up 20 hours later and the pay off is not that great. The only real saving grace is Ending E, but only under certain conditions.

Overall, Drakengard 1 is the better package than both games, its not bogged down in loreshit

>BoTW

I bought a Switch for this, but it's nowhere near GOTY. It's a solid game, but it's too barren in a lot of areas for it to get the praise it's receiving. I get that it's incredible when compared to the last few games, but that's no excuse to hype it like it's the second coming of open world games

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>It's exactly why it plays the way it does.

The problem is that it dosent play nearly as well as it could have. I can forgive the button mashy combat but the poorly utilized open world and the ultimately pointless stats/leveling limit this game badly, the same with Nier 1.

If they went full Ninja Gaiden where the enemies were all viable threats and you didnt have to piss around with 100 upgrades that could easily break the game, they would have been going places.

I can forgive the story more than that, honestly.

I played Nier and P5 after BOTW, and those two games made it INCREDIBLY difficult for me to consider BOTW my GOTY.

BOTW has too many flaws, many of which are born from the open world setup it has now in addition to jettisoning the strengths the series was known for.

Nier Automata makes you earn what comes after Route B. Having a B-game scenario for 9S was already fun enough for me since I actually remember RE2 doing the same thing.

Everything after feels great because I actually enjoyed everything I'd played before it, and seeing it unfold into something completely new was great.

If you have to (((force))) yourself through a game, then give it up

>JP 2016
Why post proof against you.

>Nier Automata makes you earn what comes after Route B

Does it? I ploughed through everything since I was completely overleveled from doing the sidequests.

Exactly how it went for me too, except for the fact that I also dislike the character design and the music is hot garbage.

>anybody cares about jp for goty

lmao