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[Nier and/or Automata] Glory to humanity (and the anime)

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  • KetBraKetBra Dressed Ridiculously Registered User regular
    Must...not...click...spoilers..
    Recording this for posterity

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  • vagrant_windsvagrant_winds Overworked Mysterious Eldritch Horror Hunter XX Registered User regular
    Renzo wrote: »
    Stilts wrote: »
    mxmarks wrote: »
    So holy shit, just got past the intro of playthrough B and
    it really recorded me setting up the options. Wow.

    I feel incredibly, strangely creeped out by this.

    So funny thing about that
    I actually had to leave to take my dogs outside for a few minutes right when the game was making me adjust brightness settings. So when I got to that part, I had to just sit and wait for about 10 minutes to pass until the game would continue on.

    Apparently, I had the worst timing in the world.

    I think I
    checked my phone or something near the end of that sequence. There was about a minute of nothing while I waited for my previous self to just hit Accept.

    It was pretty great realizing it actually had been recorded "for posterity".

    Mine took longer for a different reason.
    I was trying all the options and finding the various dialog easter eggs. The vibration ones are hilarious once you get to 9S's playthough.

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  • glimmungglimmung Registered User regular
    edited March 2017
    Renzo wrote: »
    Stilts wrote: »
    mxmarks wrote: »
    So holy shit, just got past the intro of playthrough B and
    it really recorded me setting up the options. Wow.

    I feel incredibly, strangely creeped out by this.

    So funny thing about that
    I actually had to leave to take my dogs outside for a few minutes right when the game was making me adjust brightness settings. So when I got to that part, I had to just sit and wait for about 10 minutes to pass until the game would continue on.

    Apparently, I had the worst timing in the world.

    I think I
    checked my phone or something near the end of that sequence. There was about a minute of nothing while I waited for my previous self to just hit Accept.

    It was pretty great realizing it actually had been recorded "for posterity".

    Mine took longer for a different reason.
    I was trying all the options and finding the various dialog easter eggs. The vibration ones are hilarious once you get to 9S's playthough.
    Do the Easter eggs only appear during the in game configuration?

    glimmung on
  • vagrant_windsvagrant_winds Overworked Mysterious Eldritch Horror Hunter XX Registered User regular
    glimmung wrote: »
    Renzo wrote: »
    Stilts wrote: »
    mxmarks wrote: »
    So holy shit, just got past the intro of playthrough B and
    it really recorded me setting up the options. Wow.

    I feel incredibly, strangely creeped out by this.

    So funny thing about that
    I actually had to leave to take my dogs outside for a few minutes right when the game was making me adjust brightness settings. So when I got to that part, I had to just sit and wait for about 10 minutes to pass until the game would continue on.

    Apparently, I had the worst timing in the world.

    I think I
    checked my phone or something near the end of that sequence. There was about a minute of nothing while I waited for my previous self to just hit Accept.

    It was pretty great realizing it actually had been recorded "for posterity".

    Mine took longer for a different reason.
    I was trying all the options and finding the various dialog easter eggs. The vibration ones are hilarious once you get to 9S's playthough.
    Do the Easter eggs only appear during the in game configuration?

    Details.
    Yes.

    Specifically, it's taking forever to confirm the audio volume as he gets embarrassed constantly trying to get 2B's attention. Refusing to turn on self destruct multiple times. And adjusting the vibration and 2B saying she can't feel anything up to four times where 9S goes from a light tap to try and touching bolder places and then eventually thinking 2B has to be fucking with him.

    They're bonus 9S/2B dialog. And you see 9S's inner thoughts during them second playthough.

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  • SpawnbrokerSpawnbroker Registered User regular
    KetBra wrote: »
    Must...not...click...spoilers..
    Recording this for posterity

    Do...do I click it? Hmmm

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  • QuiotuQuiotu Registered User regular
    Just FYI if no one noticed. Never seen him do this, but Jim Sterling posted ANOTHER video about NieR Automata after getting all the endings, calling it the best game this year so far, and potentially the most important title for gaming so far this generation. It's marked having BIG spoilers, so don't watch if you're not through with the game, but I'm floored that the game got Jim to post another video JUST to gush about the endings.

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  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    Did anyone get the PC version on Steam? I saw a non specific tweet saying the port was badly handled and the source is questionable (super high standards) to begin with.

  • vagrant_windsvagrant_winds Overworked Mysterious Eldritch Horror Hunter XX Registered User regular
    Jim heaping massive praises for Yakuza 0, Zelda BotW, Horizon, and now Nier Automata.

    I wonder if his faith in video games is being restored?

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  • SpawnbrokerSpawnbroker Registered User regular
    Henroid wrote: »
    Did anyone get the PC version on Steam? I saw a non specific tweet saying the port was badly handled and the source is questionable (super high standards) to begin with.

    I haven't had any issues with the PC port. I have some minor complaints. Cutscenes are locked at 30 FPS and AA should be turned completely off. I get good performance and never drop below 60 FPS outside of that, though. I do have to play with a controller, do not attempt to play this game with KBAM. The Steam Controller sucks for this game, play with a PS4/Xbox controller. When I alt-tab, it comes out of fullscreen and I have to go back into the menu and set it back to fullscreen, which sucks; no fullscreen windowed mode.

    Over all, I would say it is a decent to good port with some minor complaints. Compared to other recent PC ports, it's like a dream.

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  • KetBraKetBra Dressed Ridiculously Registered User regular
    Jim heaping massive praises for Yakuza 0, Zelda BotW, Horizon, and now Nier Automata.

    I wonder if his faith in video games is being restored?

    One might say there has never been a better time to play video games

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  • glimmungglimmung Registered User regular
    glimmung wrote: »
    Renzo wrote: »
    Stilts wrote: »
    mxmarks wrote: »
    So holy shit, just got past the intro of playthrough B and
    it really recorded me setting up the options. Wow.

    I feel incredibly, strangely creeped out by this.

    So funny thing about that
    I actually had to leave to take my dogs outside for a few minutes right when the game was making me adjust brightness settings. So when I got to that part, I had to just sit and wait for about 10 minutes to pass until the game would continue on.

    Apparently, I had the worst timing in the world.

    I think I
    checked my phone or something near the end of that sequence. There was about a minute of nothing while I waited for my previous self to just hit Accept.

    It was pretty great realizing it actually had been recorded "for posterity".

    Mine took longer for a different reason.
    I was trying all the options and finding the various dialog easter eggs. The vibration ones are hilarious once you get to 9S's playthough.
    Do the Easter eggs only appear during the in game configuration?

    Details.
    Yes.

    Specifically, it's taking forever to confirm the audio volume as he gets embarrassed constantly trying to get 2B's attention. Refusing to turn on self destruct multiple times. And adjusting the vibration and 2B saying she can't feel anything up to four times where 9S goes from a light tap to try and touching bolder places and then eventually thinking 2B has to be fucking with him.

    They're bonus 9S/2B dialog. And you see 9S's inner thoughts during them second playthough.
    Damn I hope I get another chance on a subsequent play through.

  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    Henroid wrote: »
    Did anyone get the PC version on Steam? I saw a non specific tweet saying the port was badly handled and the source is questionable (super high standards) to begin with.

    I haven't had any issues with the PC port. I have some minor complaints. Cutscenes are locked at 30 FPS and AA should be turned completely off. I get good performance and never drop below 60 FPS outside of that, though. I do have to play with a controller, do not attempt to play this game with KBAM. The Steam Controller sucks for this game, play with a PS4/Xbox controller. When I alt-tab, it comes out of fullscreen and I have to go back into the menu and set it back to fullscreen, which sucks; no fullscreen windowed mode.

    Over all, I would say it is a decent to good port with some minor complaints. Compared to other recent PC ports, it's like a dream.
    That bolded point is a thing I hate most about games but I've dealt with it before so I can do it again in this case. Otherwise everything you've detailed isn't that big of a deal. So, okay cool, I'm still down to get this.

  • CormacCormac Registered User regular
    edited March 2017
    Henroid wrote: »
    Did anyone get the PC version on Steam? I saw a non specific tweet saying the port was badly handled and the source is questionable (super high standards) to begin with.

    It runs great for me using either the FAR mod to enable proper rendering for the fullscreen option, or running borderless while using the Borderless Gaming program. I'm still having issues getting ReShade 3.0 to work with the FAR mod, so I've given up on that and am just playing on windowed now.

    I'm also running with only Ambient Occlusion on but everything at the highest settings at 1440p with a 1080, and it's a buttery smooth 60fps outside of the prerendered 30fps cutscenes. The in game AA is highly demanding and I have it turned off since AO already has some built in AA.

    A news update was posted a little earlier today saying that the Platinum is aware of the issues and are working on solutions, so a patch could be coming in the near future for people who'd rather not deal with using mods and external programs in order to get proper fullscreen rendering.

    All of the controller button prompts are for a Xbox controller, but there is a texture pack that will reskin the buttons with Playstation icons if you'd rather use a PS4 controller.

    Cormac on
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  • Pixelated PixiePixelated Pixie They/Them Registered User regular
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    Henroid wrote: »
    Did anyone get the PC version on Steam? I saw a non specific tweet saying the port was badly handled and the source is questionable (super high standards) to begin with.

    I haven't had any issues with the PC port. I have some minor complaints. Cutscenes are locked at 30 FPS and AA should be turned completely off. I get good performance and never drop below 60 FPS outside of that, though. I do have to play with a controller, do not attempt to play this game with KBAM. The Steam Controller sucks for this game, play with a PS4/Xbox controller. When I alt-tab, it comes out of fullscreen and I have to go back into the menu and set it back to fullscreen, which sucks; no fullscreen windowed mode.

    Over all, I would say it is a decent to good port with some minor complaints. Compared to other recent PC ports, it's like a dream.

    I play it with the Steam controller just fine. I mean, I've yet to encounter the game where the Steam controller wasn't superior (once configured for that game) to a 360 controller, so there's that, I guess. I haven't touched my 360 controller in so long now I'm not even sure I could say where I tossed it.

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  • glimmungglimmung Registered User regular
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    Henroid wrote: »
    Did anyone get the PC version on Steam? I saw a non specific tweet saying the port was badly handled and the source is questionable (super high standards) to begin with.

    I haven't had any issues with the PC port. I have some minor complaints. Cutscenes are locked at 30 FPS and AA should be turned completely off. I get good performance and never drop below 60 FPS outside of that, though. I do have to play with a controller, do not attempt to play this game with KBAM. The Steam Controller sucks for this game, play with a PS4/Xbox controller. When I alt-tab, it comes out of fullscreen and I have to go back into the menu and set it back to fullscreen, which sucks; no fullscreen windowed mode.

    Over all, I would say it is a decent to good port with some minor complaints. Compared to other recent PC ports, it's like a dream.

    I play it with the Steam controller just fine. I mean, I've yet to encounter the game where the Steam controller wasn't superior (once configured for that game) to a 360 controller, so there's that, I guess. I haven't touched my 360 controller in so long now I'm not even sure I could say where I tossed it.

    I tried both and the bullet hell portions were a bit of a pain with the right trackpad.
    Reclaimed a 360 controller from my CNC machine before continuing on.
    Granted it could have been made better with a bit of tweaking.

  • DemonStaceyDemonStacey TTODewback's Daughter In love with the TaySwayRegistered User regular
    KetBra wrote: »
    Jim heaping massive praises for Yakuza 0, Zelda BotW, Horizon, and now Nier Automata.

    I wonder if his faith in video games is being restored?

    One might say there has never been a better time to play video games

    Seriously. Next time we hit a drought it's going to feel so much worse after this.

  • mxmarksmxmarks Registered User regular
    edited March 2017
    I'm just loving the fact next time we hit a drought I'll have Yakuza 0 and Horizon: Zero Dawn to get (hopefully discounted by then), because I know there's just not enough time for them now!

    Long gone are the days where I'd go "Eh...I guess I'll try "Wet", there's nothing else right now."

    mxmarks on
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  • OatsOats Registered User regular
    Ending C down.

    Not sure I want to do the next two?

    This seems like as close to what I want as this game is gonna give me.

  • RainfallRainfall Registered User regular
    edited March 2017
    Oats wrote: »
    Ending C down.

    Not sure I want to do the next two?

    This seems like as close to what I want as this game is gonna give me.

    Ending C
    Just redo the final fight as 9S via chapter select.
    Trust me, it's good.

    I prefer C to D but E builds on them, it doesn't overwrite them.

    Rainfall on
  • kriegskriegs Registered User regular
    I haven't been playing this game for very long and I'm only just past the forest.

    So I stumble upon an animal-loving machine and
    decide to spare his animals because I'm not a complete monster.

    Anyways, upon completing that, I noticed the music changed to this:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzABV5ugAOY
    and I was just wandering around the forest absolutely loving this song. Seriously, it fit the scenery so well I didn't want to move on. I became very annoyed when I reached a certain point in the forest which prompted the song to stop and got angry that there wasn't a music selection device I could access in game.

    GET ON IT, PLATINUM.

  • RainfallRainfall Registered User regular
    edited March 2017
    kriegs wrote: »
    I haven't been playing this game for very long and I'm only just past the forest.

    So I stumble upon an animal-loving machine and
    decide to spare his animals because I'm not a complete monster.

    Anyways, upon completing that, I noticed the music changed to this:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzABV5ugAOY
    and I was just wandering around the forest absolutely loving this song. Seriously, it fit the scenery so well I didn't want to move on. I became very annoyed when I reached a certain point in the forest which prompted the song to stop and got angry that there wasn't a music selection device I could access in game.

    GET ON IT, PLATINUM.

    There's a jukebox at the Resistance Camp you can listen to any music on.

    Rainfall on
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  • kriegskriegs Registered User regular
    But can you listen to it while running around in the overworld?

  • lakhesislakhesis Registered User regular
    I finished route A last night. That was a solid ending, and I was surprised to find that I liked it was only about 15 hours from start to finish. It made it feel more like a short story, instead of a movie.

    This is my first Taro game, so I don't know what I was expecting from multiple endings/routes, but the first hour or so of B was not it (in the best way). I'm really looking forward to playing more, instead of being bored with replaying it.

    Also (Route A spoilers):
    BECOME AS GODS

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  • vagrant_windsvagrant_winds Overworked Mysterious Eldritch Horror Hunter XX Registered User regular
    Just started Route C myself finally. I did a lot of sidequesting and wondering around and enjoying the game.
    Holy fuck. Holy fuck. Holy fuck. Holy fuck. Holy fuck. Holy fuck. Holy fuck.

    My mouth is on the floor.

    That prologue. That glorious opening credits sequence.

    Is this the real game that everything else was just the prequel to?

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  • RainfallRainfall Registered User regular
    Just started Route C myself finally. I did a lot of sidequesting and wondering around and enjoying the game.
    Holy fuck. Holy fuck. Holy fuck. Holy fuck. Holy fuck. Holy fuck. Holy fuck.

    My mouth is on the floor.

    That prologue. That glorious opening credits sequence.

    Is this the real game that everything else was just the prequel to?
    Sure is! Welcome to the shiiiiiiit!

  • vagrant_windsvagrant_winds Overworked Mysterious Eldritch Horror Hunter XX Registered User regular
    More Route C.
    ;_________;

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  • RainfallRainfall Registered User regular
    edited March 2017
    More Route C.
    ;_________;

    Route C
    Make sure you find the crashed flight suit in the flooded city with 9S

    Rainfall on
  • OatsOats Registered User regular
    Rainfall wrote: »
    Oats wrote: »
    Ending C down.

    Not sure I want to do the next two?

    This seems like as close to what I want as this game is gonna give me.

    Ending C
    Just redo the final fight as 9S via chapter select.
    Trust me, it's good.

    I prefer C to D but E builds on them, it doesn't overwrite them.

    Ending C
    I kind of hate mentally-shattered-9S though? Not his playstyle. Him. I don't want to play as him.

  • AkilaeAkilae Registered User regular
    edited March 2017
    Alright, can somebody tell me if I'm doing something wrong? I just spent the better part of an hour killing a gold tank and a gold short stubby machine. Am I stumbling on some late game content? Should I just come back later with stronger weapons and higher levels?

    Akilae on
  • Zerozaki IshikiZerozaki Ishiki Registered User regular
    Akilae wrote: »
    Alright, can somebody tell me if I'm doing something wrong? I just spent the better part of an hour killing a gold tank and a gold short stubby machine. Am I stumbling on some late game content? Should I just come back later with stronger weapons and higher levels?

    If you can't hurt it save it for later.

  • AkilaeAkilae Registered User regular
    edited March 2017
    Akilae wrote: »
    Alright, can somebody tell me if I'm doing something wrong? I just spent the better part of an hour killing a gold tank and a gold short stubby machine. Am I stumbling on some late game content? Should I just come back later with stronger weapons and higher levels?

    If you can't hurt it save it for later.

    Super. Just want to make sure they're going to be there when I come back for them later with lvl 4 weapons.

    Scratch that. If the two golden giants and short stubby are still gonna be there, since I killed the tank.

    Akilae on
  • PolaritiePolaritie Sleepy Registered User regular
    Akilae wrote: »
    Akilae wrote: »
    Alright, can somebody tell me if I'm doing something wrong? I just spent the better part of an hour killing a gold tank and a gold short stubby machine. Am I stumbling on some late game content? Should I just come back later with stronger weapons and higher levels?

    If you can't hurt it save it for later.

    Super. Just want to make sure they're going to be there when I come back for them later with lvl 4 weapons.

    I'm told subsequent playthroughs carry over everything basically? So...

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  • AkilaeAkilae Registered User regular
    edited March 2017
    I also think I'm starting to figure out what the subsequent playthrough/alternate routes are going to do.
    My money is on a 9s playthrough and some sort of machine playthrough. All the spare crates littered around the map give obvious enough hints.

    Don't tell me if I'm right or wrong! I want to be surprised either way!

    Akilae on
  • AJRAJR Some guy who wrestles NorwichRegistered User regular
    edited March 2017
    I'll spoil this for just in case (I promise I'm not going into any significant detail), but regarding the gold robots:
    Feel free to hack n slash em with upgraded weapons if you want to, but you'll be able to deal with them much better in subsequent playthroughs.

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  • RenzoRenzo Registered User regular
    I hacked them. Took about 10 hacks for the tank.

  • KetBraKetBra Dressed Ridiculously Registered User regular
    B run (through 2nd boss fight)
    Maybe I'm just misremembering but I don't think robo-lady who wanted to be beautiful screamed quite this much the firs time around

    It kind of reached a point where I actively did not want to keep attacking her

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  • glimmungglimmung Registered User regular
    Pod vaulting is pretty cool.

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  • BursarBursar Hee Noooo! PDX areaRegistered User regular
    Death Rattle probably shouldn't amuse me as much as it does. :D

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  • mxmarksmxmarks Registered User regular
    Man I really cant stop thinking about the
    Become As Gods

    section in Playthrough A. So much so that I risked spoilers to listen to the music during it again.

    I don't know if I've ever had that mix of amazing gameplay, which pushes me forward doing awesome things and loving what I'm doing - combined with, honestly, horror and terror as the music, the dialogue and just the world around me descended into pure, unsettling, chaos.

    It was a hell of an experience going through that the first time.

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  • RainfallRainfall Registered User regular
    Oats wrote: »
    Rainfall wrote: »
    Oats wrote: »
    Ending C down.

    Not sure I want to do the next two?

    This seems like as close to what I want as this game is gonna give me.

    Ending C
    Just redo the final fight as 9S via chapter select.
    Trust me, it's good.

    I prefer C to D but E builds on them, it doesn't overwrite them.

    Ending C
    I kind of hate mentally-shattered-9S though? Not his playstyle. Him. I don't want to play as him.

    Ending C
    I get that! But you just need to play him for the thirty seconds it takes to beat 2A to get D, and then you're into E which is an astoundingly good finish to the game.

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