Nier

It seems some of them had different expectations given that this is an RPG, but it could also just be another third group I suppose.

Draghinazzo: Your conclusion about my prior post is correct.

edited 24th Feb '17 7:27:11 PM by SaintDeltora

Yeah, length seems to be some sort of big deal for RPG's when it comes to some players. Kinda like how Tyranny received some complaints because it can be beaten in around 20 hours despite the game having Replay Value. It's expectations set by the huge games and time-sinks the genre is known for, which is kind of hilarious, because Planescape: Torment isn't exactly long either. Lenght for me is no big deal, I'd rather have a well-paced game than spending a long time digging through filler encounters.

I won't really know how to feel about this game's length until I play it for myself. I don't care how long it takes me to get Ending A but I will care how long it takes me to get Ending D.

One thing I wish the game had- and correct me if it does- is a Boss Rush mode that grades your performance like any other Platinum game does. It doesn't have to give you anything for a perfect score- Platinum games don't to my knowledge- but it'd add some classic Platinum replayability to the game.

Considering 9S is the only known male android, maybe there will be (If there isn't already) a few harem fanfics for the guy out there somewhere. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

9S x Adam, Eve, 2B, and A2?

They don't call him 9S just for function reasons!

edited 25th Feb '17 7:35:02 AM by UltraWanker

Anyone know where I can find stretched coils?

I'm on the third route and I only have a grand total of 2. I need 5 to upgrade the cypress stick and I really want a Cypress Stick and Engine Blade combo and the cypress stick is so bad at level 1.

If it's those long stretched enemies that can't attack you they're not in the desert anymore they were replaced.

edited 25th Feb '17 11:33:24 AM by Ukokira

All the endings for Automata have been found. 26 in all.

Three high level Bonus Boss to fight. Two are 99.

Sorry meant 26.

edited 25th Feb '17 2:26:24 PM by OmegaRadiance

So endings A through Z, but what's the last one?

Without going into spoilers, what kind of Bonus Boss are they? Are they just like super mooks/palette swaps or they are unique enemies with some plot relevance or w/e?

One starts off as a normal machine and you fight him multiple times while making him better using machine parts till he's a Karate fighting robot. The other two are the same person and not a machine. Er kinda. Both are level 99 and you fight one underground in the dark and the second in the desert.

Don't mean to interrupt your spoiler-ific discussion (thank you for spoiler-texting the details, by the way), but can I rant about how obnoxious it is that I can't go on You Tube without having the game further spoiled for me? I'm a big fan of the first game's soundtrack (and the game itself too, though I'll never be able to play it) so I listen to it on You Tube a lot and so they decided to make spoiler videos of it the only thing I'll ever see. I'm waiting for the NA release on PC but I've already had several of the bosses (including a secret one) and the details of one of the endings spoiled for me. You don't even need to watch the videos, the titles and thumbnails do that job for them.

edited 25th Feb '17 4:31:14 PM by Nerevarine

People have complained about that elsewhere too. I've seen some stuff that I'd rather have not but most of the plot is still intact for me thankfully.

And at exactly 31 hours and 11 minutes in (I think that's the max time recorded because that seems way too perfect) I've beat the final main ending of Nier: Automata.

It's honestly my favorite game of all time.

edited 25th Feb '17 4:36:21 PM by Ukokira

I did forget to mention before that you must avoid youtube and not only avoid the Automata trope pages.

Yeah as a big fan of the first game, everything i've heard guarantees im gonna like this game a whole bunch.

Wont be able to play it for a while tho.

So for anyone wanting a super easy and incredibly fast level grinding spot I found that this guy gives out a ton of exp. I grinded up to level 99 in less than an hour.

There is minor spoilers for route B in here. I also noticed here that [[spoilers: remote controlled enemies can level up as well oddly enough]]

https://youtu.be/J5FCin8VlIk

edited 25th Feb '17 10:05:37 PM by Ukokira

Isn't it great that all the uberhyped, long-ass open world games are being released around the same time frame? By great I mean hilariously sad?

God I hope Nier does well. Platinum and Yoko Taro never catch breaks with sales.

First review by RPGFan is out, they gave it a 9.3.

That's already far better than any score the first game got.

Technically Nier Automata is open world but it's never been advertised as such or had it as a touted feature. And besides it still has distinct zones, in this case open world just means you can transition seamlessly between them without loading screens or geographical bottlenecking between them, because of the increased power of modern gaming platforms.

Anyway I hear that's why they delayed the American and European release dates, so they didn't have to compete with these other games. I already witnessed a few typos and bugs here and there in the English script for the Japanese version so they may be trying to iron those out for international release.

So I think it's likely that Satre is the robot that Beauvoir is in love with. There's a french love story that has characters with those two names

Spoilers for a second playthrough of the game

edited 26th Feb '17 10:37:22 AM by Ukokira

A good way to describe it would probably to make comparisons to how the map worked in the old Zelda games, except with no bottlenecking/less loading between zones.

x2 That was kinda obvious from his appearance in her flashbacks in Route B, just like all his fangirls swoon over his lack of interest in them.

Here's the weapon story for Noctis's Engine Blade.

edited 26th Feb '17 2:01:44 PM by dmysta3000