So Nier: Automota , is a lot of fun and Im super into it...

So Nier: Automota , is a lot of fun and Im super into it, but all these side quests just feel like a lot of busy work and just leave me feeling exhausted. Am I fucking myself If I just skip them?

Kind of? You're missing a lot of dialogue and character interactions.

Well, I don't plan on skipping them ENTIRELY but Im sicking of MMO style grinding

Feel free to ignore them for a while and focus on the main quest if you want.

You’ll be fine, I skipped them to enjoy the incredible story.

Playthrough #2 is where I decided to dive into those and really hone in on a lot of the other gameplay mechanics

Some of them have really important little stories that tie into the larger narrative. They're worth doing. There's one big revelation later, that's worth doing the side quests for.

Don't listen to retards suggesting you skip quests. 95% of side quests are vital to the main story.

They're just not fun though and they kill the pacing

Speaking of Nier:Automata, why the FUCK is this not on sale??

Because people will still pay full price for it?

Skip them and revisit them after you get Ending C, I 100%ed them first aside from the one that required you to grind and the final boss encounter was ruined for me due to being overleveled. It would have been the most emotional final boss in vidya if it weren't for me. Not talking about that one, I mean.

95% is a pretty serious exaggeration

If you want to get the most out of the game, the only sidequests I'd recommend doing are Emil's quest, Wandering Couple, Amnesia, and the two Operator quests, and Gathering Keepsakes are the ones I'd say are vital. Others like the ones you get in Pascal's village or the Amusement Park are pretty hilarious.

Some of them are kind of important to do.
Unfortunately by saying which ones, it's kind of spoilery in itself.
Plot-important quests: yorha betrayers, the emil quest, the one where you take a picture of the flower, and Amnesia

Been on sale twice.
If you're going to buy it full price, buy it off the SE store since it gives you the day one extra shit.

Anybody willing to gift it? I was hoping it'd at the most be $40...

Get the console version then you can probably get it used

why is this fucking game so awesome... fuck

I meant the Steam version, otherwise I would.

You can always go back later and do the sidequests but you miss out on a ton of interesting world building/dialogue.

sent ;)

>he pays for video games

>Why don't they make sequels to good games!

I can think of only one quest that actually matters to the whole story and that's the girl with the lost memories.

Sure. Stay retarded.

There's only like one or two quests that will impact the main story. Like the knowledge of what does ____________E________ stand for.

Just skip them for now, OP. After you get ending C or D, you unlock Chapter Select and can revisit any part of the game from any point within each chapter. (Think Bayonetta or Vanquish chapter-select mode) By the time you go revisit earlier chapters, you'll likely have any items and/or be overleveled for any battle-related quests to be a challenge. Enjoy your game, OP. I poured about 100+ hours into Automata, it's my GOTY 2017.

I just can't play this game because of the exploitive design of 2B. It's sickening and objectifying.

Yeah how awful that an attractive girl is depicted by heterosexual artists. Go play your western genocide simulators where you atleast can be shielded from the concept of sexual expression.

Don't take the bait, retard.

"Bait" has nothing to do with this. It's just unacceptable for women to be portrayed this way in this age, you know that right? This isn't 1940 anymore you fucking sexist virgin. Maybe you could get a girlfriend if you didn't consider women's rights as "bait"

Yeah, you don't deserve a (you). Try harder.

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Too obvious

If you have only just started, keep in mind that you will want to wait till fast travel is unlocked, otherwise side questing requires too much running around.

Yeah this game suffers with serious pacing issues. Play games to enjoy them, play it how you wish.

you can "miss" them in the short run, but eventually you can go back via chapter select and go for completion.

Sent

Babbiees first Yoko Tarro game

>waah why do i have to put effort in to get the most out of this purposefully frustrating and idiosyncratic game

The side quests in this aren't even that bad, have you ever even played an mmo or a JRPG not half made by platinum games

Good, the game wasn't made fo you anyway.

Yeah they get tedious after awhile. I knocked most of them out on the first playthrough you don't have to do them again. The second playthrough went pretty quick and I only had to do a few sidequests exclusive to it.

>purposefully frustrating and idiosyncratic
Explain

Have you no played this, or the first Nier?They're frustrating by design, any little thing that might annoy or exasperate you (bar the combat in nier, that was probably the best they could do) was probably done on purpose by Tarro.

>Why don't they make sequels to good games?
That is because normies can't pirate and they have a shit taste in vidya, ledditspacer-kun.

>nines is my safe word
hearty kek

I’ve played it, but why would he make to intentionally irritating?

Yes, they actually support their games so sequels get made. Very good, you understand how commerce works.