Finally played this and honestly don't really get the fascination with this game's story...

The android ass was hot and the music was great, everything else was complete garbage

You're still in time to delete your post before everyone makes fun of you for being retarded

Completed it all the way to E, including the shitty credits mini-game just to see the 15 sec cutscene that's OF COURSE "open to your interpretation". Fucking weeb shit lmao, why do I even bother.

>there are currently 4 threads up right now for Nier Automata
what happened?

Bored shitposters. A few hours ago we had like 3 or 4 threads of "Why aren't you playing Overwatch" and jannies haven't been doing shit to cull the shitposting.

its a cringy game. lame story and submissive protags who cant make things happen.

although nier1 is a good game. it has some cringy moments but overall its a 7-8/10 jrpg.

>Anyone who disagrees with my attempts to discredit any and all differences between playthroughs is a fanboy.
You can fuck right off. There's too much repeated between them, but it's not just "little bits" that are different. There's like five shared segment, two or three having enough additional content to make it worth the revisit, two completely different sections, and an entire excised chunk to speed things along.

>Nier
>jrpg
It's a fucking Zelda clone, where did you find an RPG in there, you retard?

I did, my friend. 9/10 game

Heard the route nonsense was way worse in Nier. It's a very cheap way to pad out the playtime and the weebs are somehow still okay with this.

You could try harder than not at all. People who hate a game after slogging through it don't write like this.

I don't understand why Yea Forums has such an obsession with wanting every game to be boring, soulless garbage (like 99% of western games are).
Automata was hype as fuck, you criticizing parts of it for being "cringe" should instantly get you perma'd for being either underage or too retarded to responsibly use this website.

not a zelda clone in my book. more like a seiken ish arpg.

>Heard the route nonsense was way worse in Nier
It is. B adds more cutscenes but skips almost nothing. C adds Shade speech and again skips nothing and you also have to grind out every weapon to level 4 to even see the different ending. In contrast, Automata route B is highly abbreviated with C being entirely new content, episode 2 of the game, and if you want to go for a different choice at the end you only need to replay the last battle, not the whole second half.

If you see anyone praising OG Nier over Automata for anything, know that they are contrarian retards that are pissed off that people like something they did not.

The aesthetics were very nice and had a very nice atmosphere. The whole time playing it you know that its too late and your struggling is futile. I had fun playing it and would recommend it to friends.

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B has Shade speech, not just C.

You may be right, it's been years. Point is, it has no new playable content.

I honestly dont get the hype either. People keep saying the story carries this game and while I do admit its better than your average videogame story, to me, it still IS a videogame story. If I want really deep and """philosophical""" storys I actually read fucking books. I think thats also the reason why I still dont think Automatas story is some revolutionary masterpiece. Its a mediocre Platinum game with story slightly better than other games but still worse than storys from books or even some movies.

I'm sorry my Stockholm syndrome didn't kick in.

Guess it has something to do with ff14 getting a nier raid
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Yeah, I sorta liked routes A/B, but the whole of C felt like "are you sad yet". Just completely overdone.

i dont know who weebs are, but i guess japanese game fans arent really fine with it. at least im not. i still think the ones who praise this game are mostly casuals, like journos and twitter users who dont play games so much. waifufags are merely a vocal minority group.

It's a game that uses ludonarritive techniques to synchronize the story and gameplay.
Save data is the closest thing we have to representing some kind of real-world value to the player in a game because it's tangible proof of the time they spent and acomplishments they had with a game.
Equating it to a life is what Yoko Taro does in nier games so that when the time comes to sacrifice it the player feels more attatched to that choice.
The aesthetic is also really neat and the music is superb as well.
However it's a game that doesn't appeal to many which I don't mind.
I'd rather nier stays niche instead of being the kind of property SE producers and execs would want to meddle with.

>storys
Fuck off, underage

That's not what I mean, shitposter. Nobody slogs through a game and then decides to vaguely recap it and say effectively nothing while putting on airs of aloof disdain. If they cared enough to play the whole game and still had the drive to post about it at length, they'd start talking about why they don't like it or think it doesn't work.

What you're doing is jerking yourself off while begging for attention and trying to piss off random strangers.

Did the philosophical undertones fly over your head brainlet?

Thats like being a champion in the special olympics.

It does. I had someone shitpost about Automata through the entirety of Praetorium in the same manner as OP is. A solid fucking hour of this guy talking about how it's "desperate pretentious weeb cringe grimdark faux deep pseud fanservice garbage" and how all the fans are retards and couldn't deal with anyone ever saying anything wrong about their precious game.

This all happened because one player at the start of the duty said they were excited for the Nier raid.

Its a boring shallow pandering game. I still havent manage to finish it. I boot it up when i'm horny but after i cum i lose all interest.

I have a lot of freetime and the gameplay was mildly enjoyable, ok? My post was mostly about the story though, since that's what people tend to praise about this game.

Also
>somebody doesn't like Nier Automata
>lol you never played it/only beat route A
>somebody doesn't like N:A and beat it to ending E
>wtf, why did you play it for so long
It's like you can't win.

I never played Nier. Should I pick up Automata?

>In order to play the epilogue you need to replay the whole thing exactly
No, you don't. The B route is literally another route.

Nier is super niche, Automata is a casual action game with only minor ties to it. Most Automata players never played Nier.

I don't know why I'm bothering, but
>wtf, why did you play it for so long
that's not what I said.

You and I both know there would be no precious (You)s if you just talked about what you didn't like instead of making a mildly incorrect recap in a negative tone and then acting aloof. Come off it.

Certainly. It works well as a standalone title, and was actually my gateway to Taro's craziness.

Poor bait, 0/10.

>THERE'S LIKE WHOLE 3 EXTRA CUTSCENES IN ROUTE B, IT'S LIKE A TOTALLY DIFFERENT GAME

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>I LEGIT DID NOT PLAY THE GAME! :^)))

This image is always a good way to tell if a post is worth reading at a glance.

Alright.

I hated 9S. Like, story wise I understood why he was significant, they wanted to pull a bait and switch regarding main characters, but I feel like everything started revolving around him and his angst. Once I hit route C 2B and A2 felt like side characters meant to further his development.

It's just disappointing cause the only real deep perspective of the story we get is from 9S POV. You realize 2B was literally there to babysit his ass. A2 and 2B both show glimpses of development but overall, I'm just salty I spent effectively half the game baited into playing the character I cared the least about.

As I said, it's a shounen anime game. The girls are there just for the hook. 9S is the real protagonist who the audience (Japanese teenagers) are supposed to relate to. Don't play games not aimed at your age demographic/anime tolerance level.

Hey that's fair. I feel like you're supposed to feel contempt but sympathy for all three protagonists, but I can absolutely see it as a failure of storytelling too.

>The girls are there just for the hook.
My ass they are. Well, 2B is. A2 is an actual deutragonist, and the game does a sloppy job conveying that 2B is basically just a clone of her and what parts of their personalities and feelings are inherently shared and which aren't.

>plays a Yoko Taro game
>waaaah why isn't this a power fantasy where I get a harem of pretty girls?????
Zoomers need to be shot.

A2 is just a shitty replacement for 2B with an even more revealing outfit. Her "story" was like 5 minutes long and super contrived. Okay, she hates machines and is ready to kill Pascal on sight, but then she's running errands for his village not 3 minutes later. Nice character development lmao.

That's not even what OP is complaining about, fuck off.

>he didn't read everything
How embarassing.

>the real story is in the item descriptions and archives
Fuck off.

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>A2 is just a shitty replacement for 2B
Other way around, 2B was a shitty method of explaining who A2 is while keeping her out of the story. Also the fact that her anger at machines is skin deep and she flips on a dime when exposed to compassion is kind of the whole point, you know? The character is shown to consistently ignore allegiances and do whatever she thinks is right while being snooty about it. She also gets that whole backstory dump at the camp.

I agree that her section is way too short, though. Would have preferred is route B was 1/2 9S' new content and 1/2 A2.

Fuck you and everyone who posts this shit comic. I love Automata, but this stupid ass image is just REEEEE STOP TALKING IF YOU DON'T JERK OFF THE THING I LIKE

The story, with a narrative requiring multiple repetitive playthroughs to get to the so called "enjoyable" bits, a narrative mired by one dimensional characters and terrible writing and in the end, what is that narrative? The generic concepts of infinite cycles, war being pointless and the question of what is free will and is our enemy any different from us? Philosophical questions explored far better in games like Dark Souls and Metal Gear.

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I like how the game uses its video game trappings to tell the story more than what the story has to say itself.

>one dimensional characters
I will never get over people thinking Automats has shallow characters just because they spend most of the game not expositing their feelings to the audience.

Don't even pretend this thread is anything but fishing for attention.

Oh please. 2B is your emotionless, mission focused-character who then starts to develop emotions slowly throughout the game. 9S is your whiny, very child like character that starts to get some backbone towards the end of the game. A2 is just the battle hardened veteran character from every anime.

You can sum up any character ever in one sentence and make them sound generic. You aren’t smart.

>2B is your emotionless, mission focused-character who then starts to develop emotions slowly throughout the game.
That is factually wrong. She's a very emotional person putting on a facade who starts to crack as early as the first mission.

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