Nier Automata - /v/ (#714978530) [Archived: 430 hours ago]

Anonymous
7/9/2025, 6:06:04 PM No.714978530
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Got to ending C and I'm fucking done with this piece of shit. How in the living fuck did this game ever get so much praise? Is it purely because the android has a nice ass? That's all it takes? Stellar Blade was a shitty game with a nice ass and it didn't get all these accolades.

People praise the story and the base premise and its very obvious twists (oh no! people are long gone! the machines they made are fighting on their directives for no one! HOW COULD I HAVE SEEN THIS COMING?) are kind of interesting but so little is done with them that those concepts don't even seem to matter. The machine/android characters are all totally uninteresting even without being repeated for the first two runs. Everything else is a nosedive.

Even the combat. ESPECIALLY the combat. I know compared to shit like Drakengard it's better but Platinum should be fucking embarrassed to have put out a game with combat and encounter design this terrible. Enemies ignore your hits entirely while you mash to fuck and occasionally hit the million-i-frame dodge and whittle away at them with no player expression and no depth whatsoever. It's the combat equivalent of fucking busy work ON TOP of being bogged down with a level AND equip system that do nothing but necessitate grinding or sidequest hunting for your damage/HP to not massively lag behind the enemy's.

This isn't outright kusoge just because of the level of polish on this turd, but it's pretty fucking close and certainly doesn't deserve to have GOTY nominations.
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Anonymous
7/9/2025, 6:12:17 PM No.714979015
>Is it purely because the android has a nice ass?
Yes.
And the pseudo intellectual story that amazes dorks who only consume anime
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Anonymous
7/9/2025, 6:12:50 PM No.714979064
>>714978530 (OP)
You just sound like someone who fucking sucks at video games.
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Anonymous
7/9/2025, 6:14:36 PM No.714979174
>>714979015
>>714978530 (OP)
Nier has always been midwitcore, one of the most overrated games of all time
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Anonymous
7/9/2025, 6:16:26 PM No.714979330
>How in the living fuck did this game ever get so much praise?
most gaymers are contrarian retards with shit taste. get it now?
Anonymous
7/9/2025, 6:17:04 PM No.714979378
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>>714979064
Anon I absolutely fucking love action games. I make it a point to complete the hardest difficulty on every halfway decent action game I get my hands on and challenge runs on the really great ones.
Automata sucks.
Platinum's budget action titles like Korra and Transformers Devastation are worlds better in terms of gameplay and it's not even close.
I may go so far as to say I enjoyed my time with fucking Mutants In Manhattan more than my time with Nier.
Anonymous
7/9/2025, 6:17:39 PM No.714979414
>>714978530 (OP)
i finished nier 1.22309482058320 or whatever (the remastered one) and thought "yeah, what a nice story", i even got pretty emotional at the end, Emil is a top tier char and i love Popola/Devola.
but then i saw there's like 6 different endings and you have to basicallly replay half the game 6 times to get the true final totally this one pinky promise ending and thought yeah nah, i ain't doing all this shit again.
Anonymous
7/9/2025, 6:21:54 PM No.714979747
>>714978530 (OP)
I was told to play this after expedition 33, apparently it has an amazing story. But it's so anime/childish right out of the gate, just how they look and talk. If the twist is that the women are re-purposed sex-dolls I guess it would make sense why they look the way they look, but I doubt that's why, they just look like that because the game devs are horny anime fans.
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Anonymous
7/9/2025, 6:24:44 PM No.714979957
>>714979747
>If the twist is that the women are re-purposed sex-dolls I guess it would make sense why they look the way they look
Nah, the director is just perverted. If you need a Watsonian explanation then the people that built the android army were huge perverts.

As for the story I didn't think it was amazing. It's "subversive" and breaks the fourth wall which gets a lot of people salivating for some reason but that isn't really used to good effect.
Anonymous
7/9/2025, 6:26:21 PM No.714980083
>>714978530 (OP)
ok
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Anonymous
7/9/2025, 6:42:30 PM No.714981375
>>714980083
elaborate
Anonymous
7/9/2025, 7:14:38 PM No.714983985
>>714979747
It has an amazing story if you've only ever watched anime and have absolutely no frame of reference for good writing
Anonymous
7/9/2025, 7:24:50 PM No.714984731
>>714979174
so it's the Steins;Gate of video games.
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Anonymous
7/9/2025, 7:46:51 PM No.714986376
>>714984731
It's the Solo Leveling of video games
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Anonymous
7/9/2025, 7:50:50 PM No.714986710
>>714986376
Solo Leveling is actually fun, though
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Anonymous
7/9/2025, 7:54:51 PM No.714987039
>>714986710
So is Steins;Gate if you don't have a tiktok attention span.
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Anonymous
7/9/2025, 8:05:32 PM No.714987895
>>714987039
>Retarded characters aimlessly dicking around for hours
>Fun
Anonymous
7/9/2025, 8:06:18 PM No.714987951
>>714979174
Bro you're still crying? Just play the damn game or shut the fuck up.
Anonymous
7/9/2025, 8:21:39 PM No.714989084
>>714984731
>>714986376
Both are mediocre anime at best. Watch Tatami Galaxy.