Just got Ending E. And yup. I can see why midwits think this game is some kind of philosophical masterpiece.6/10. Not for me. Tried too hard to be 2deep4u.
The ending was a massive let down compared to Nier 1
>>736992276They literally use philosopher names in the text and have clearly followed what those people have written and used that to create the characters. This generally has an anti-philosophy bend where great ideals about how to live are like pollutants ruining everyone's chance at living.
Whats with the hype about the OST?Its no E33
>>736992276Yeah I didn't get it either. Got the same feeling with Outer Wilds, I mean I enjoyed it but from what everyone says about it I was expecting a revelatory philosophical experience and it didn't come. I got why people liked it and I liked it myself, loved it even, just wish I'd played it without any expectation rather than analyzing every little thing for "is this it? when is it coming?". I imagine it's the same for people just now picking up Expedition 33, not in my case since I played it before it got hyped up. Sometimes though a game's reputation just precedes itself too much to live up to.
>>736993231>I was expecting a revelatory philosophical experience and it didn't come. I got why people liked it and I liked it myself, loved it even, just wish I'd played it without any expectation rather than analyzing every little thing for "is this it? when is it coming?"Same exact experience I had. I wish it wasn't so hyped up to me, I would have liked it plenty for what it was.
>>736992972Nier OST sucks it has only 1 decent track and only the trailer version of it was good.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dovxnn_84N0The actual game version is downgraded, muddy as fuck, poorly mixed, has quieter barely audible vocals and inferior percussion.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onB8RNtnk90
Anybody else drop this dogshit when they tried to make you play as some faggy twink instead of the chuuni bombshell you bought the game for? Never alt+f4’d faster in my life.
>>736992276The first stage of the game is amazing and then it shits the bed completely. Can we be honest and admit people only like this game because of the sexy characters?
>>736993431>you bought the game forYeah it's weird people don't get that half the appeal is the coomerbait protag and expect a masterpiece. Anyways it couldn't be because if it was it wouldn't be hyped up by everyone (see original nier back then). Gaming isn't the same demographic as it was 20 years ago to trust mass public opinion anymore its literally all lemmings
>>736993480Good LARP but you didn’t play the game
>>736993431I knew it was trash when I pressed the finisher prompt on an enemy and instead of doing a cool finisher the enemy just instantly explodes and my character flails around like a retard attacking nothing.This cheap ass game was made by incompetent nigger monkeys who can't even code basic shit.
>>736993543Unfortunately I did.
>>736993431Nah because twink actually had better gameplay than ass2 and AssTWO. Not playing with my dick helped me enjoy route B because controlling and playing as a robot army was fucking fun as fuck.
Legit one the worst dogshit I've ever played, dropped it as soon as I had to replay the same tedious slop as the twink. Stellar blade is the same game but better in every conceivable way.
>>736992276the whole sacrifice your save file to help someone else reach a happy ending was nice and all, but then it turns out the devs fucking did it already in their previous game and are just reusing the same gimmick.the music unironically carries the game
>>736992276The story is pretentious misery porn but it's still kinda fun.
Never got ending E, wanted to get every ending and 100% before I got it but the fishing really killed the experience for me. I'll go back some day...
>>736992276You completely missed the point.
>>736993919you should have said 2ass you retardcan't even make your own joke right
>>736992276Automata is too on the nose and trying too hard. I can see why people were being impressed at the time, it's a unique approach to the medium but if you had played Nier 1 it feels like a retread but with a bigger budget, by that point Taro had gained quite some popularity and it clearly got in his head.
>>736996435Sigh... Okay, man. Humor me. What's it about?
>>736992276>I can see why midwits think this game is some kind of philosophical masterpiece.What does this even mean?>>736992514>The ending was a massive let down compared to Nier 1Not at all. The whole game was a MASSIVE upgrade from Replicant. It literally took its core ideas, and perfected them into better flowing, better implemented form, that also clicks better with Automata's premise.>>736992972It's drop dead gorgeous and emotional. Simple as that. E33 has good OST as well, I do not know why you'd want to make two unrelated products fight.>>736993231Personally, I was about to skip the entire game, as /v/'s shitposting made it seem like a fetish-bait smut.Only after realizing that the core content is more akin to Silent Hill, MGS and Ico/SotC did I get curious enough to give it a shot ... and I was instantly blown away.I'm not sure if the people criticizing the game skipped all the side content, that really fleshes out the world, or if most people just focus on the >plot< alone, and take it all with face value...but to me personally, the strongest point of Nier Automata is its sub-text, and its multi-layered meta within meta commentary. I quickly realized the "Black Mirror" staging the game has going for: the game's presenting a vision of grim future, where the sins and "programming" of us, the living breathing human beings, shitposting on 4chan this very moment, could create a culture and memes of violence and destruction, which rather than dying with the humanity, gets inherited by the "children of mankind".This effect is further accentuated by the setting and characters being both symbolic and literal "faux humans"; digital, fictional renditions of androids, mimicking mankind. Worshipping us even as "Gods" ... although they are physically all around superior to us. Borderline immortal.Yet they seek that mortality and values we've possess, only to later on end up harboring hatred towards us, for in-game-lore and 4th wall breaking reasons.
i found the gameplay a drag to get through and 9s's segments a complete choreat the end the payoff is just kind of eh
>>736996178>Stellar blade is the same game but better in every conceivable way.Not true.SB is just Soulsborne hidden behind a pretty core. It has none of the variety, none of the interactive driving of the narration, and none of the messages of NA.>had to replayNo son, (You) literally did not finish the game even once.Route A and B are merely half of the one, same story. The campaign literally does not end before the [E]nding.>>736996951I really do not know what kind of dopamine addiction you people have to have in order to not enjoy such comfy yet fast paced adventure game, that keeps mixing up the design every passing turn.And like the other Anon said, 9S' gameplay is way more fun and varied.Anyone not realizing the sheer brilliance and emotional impact of the ending is a soulless husk. Literally a worse robot than the machine life forms.
>>736996815Pantyshots and cute girls
>>736996815The ultimate tl;dr :Nier Automata's a game that celebrates both humanity and the history of the video games... while warning us about our own current habits and beliefs trapping us in a spiral of doom.The entire game of NA serves as a dark reflection of our own flaws and cycles of violence, illustrating how miscommunication and outdated beliefs can control our lives and the actions of humanity. How the original meaning of ancient memes (see the OG meaning) may have been forgotten long ago, yet the process itself may still survive and have become a new cause.It warns of the harmful path we may be heading towards and highlights the irony of advanced artificial beings worshipping humans and repeating our mistakes.The game's meta aspect deepens the message by portraying artificial beings, trapped in a fictional media created by humans, unable to escape their programming and stuck in a cycle of death and rebirth. The game's integration of its UI and settings as a part of the androids' own bodies and world view adds another layer of immersion and understanding.Yet no matter of all these cynical and nihilistic themes and portrayals of suffering, the game manages to end on a surprisingly optimistic note. It demonstrates that change is possible, it just requires a potentially painful first step. A strong desire for change.Not to mention the way this choice is portrayed is something only the true video game enjoyers could appreciate, or even begin to understand.
>>736997032>has none of the varietyWhat variety? I hope you don't mean combat variety because Automata has some of the most shallow and simplistic combat I've ever seen. >none of the interactive driving of the narration, and none of the messages of NA>what is machines... le had feelings?Yeah very deep messaging if you're 12.
Metal Arms: Glitch in the System did the hacking first.
>>736992276>philosophical masterpieceIt's not a philosophical masterpiece. You're reading way too much into it. It's the best game of the past decade because of the way it uses the gaming medium to create a fully complete experience in a way that only a video game could. This isn't E33 we're talking about, no one is sucking of Automata for being a philosophical masterpiece. It's just a good game all around. I've never read anything pretentious about Automata, and if anything, conversation usually revolves around 2B's ass.
>>736996909>Not at all. The whole game was a MASSIVE upgrade from Replicant. It literally took its core ideas, and perfected them into better flowing, better implemented form, that also clicks better with Automata's premise.It's absolutely fucking beyond me how anyone could think this, but you do youReplicant's whole project gestalt thing and how it framed and ultimately explained absolutely everything about the story and world and creates the perfect twist ending. Automata just doesn't really have any of that.I love Automata for the vibes and its message and the state of the world and what it all means, but as a story and specifically its ending it all just feels like an incoherent clusterfuck of detached ideas and unexplained bullshit. Like, even once you read all the hidden lore about project yorha from the stage plays and shit it's still just a huge incohesive mess
>>736992276weird way of saying you didn't get it
>>736997768>I've never read anything pretentious about Automatabruh
>>736997768>because of the way it uses the gaming medium to create a fully complete experience in a way that only a video game coulThis is how I felt about Nier 1 but didn't really get it from automataNier does it because it's a game about perspective and how someone could think something as horrible as 9/11 was the right thing to do, and it conveys it by having you be the one doing it without realizing it until the end and that's something that really only works in a video game. Automata was cool but it just felt like a video game, it didn't really wow me with anything about how it used its existence as a video game to convey its messages or tell its story.
>>736997946It's true. It's usually people talking about 2B's ass or people saying they hated hacking, or people saying it's shit.
I played it through once, thought it was boring as fuck and unistalled.There were some nice moments but 90% of the game was running back and forth doing boring shit. I don't get why people like it. The music was neat and 2B's hot, I guess that's it?
>>736998020story is interesting tooliked the music, characters and setting although i couldnt care less for the 2S combat
play rain world
>>736998020Nier 1 und Automata's stories hit harder on the 2nd playthrough when things get told from another perspective.For 1 I'd say two playthroughs and for Automata all three should be played for the full story to hit.
>>736998020You were supposed to keep playing it until the game asked if you wanted to delete your save file.
I just think 2b are kaine are hot, normalfags inject too many of their own personal feelings into a rather simple story
>>736992276The hate for this game is so ridiculously forced, you retards will rather have a movieslop dogshit than a videogame that actually takes advantage of the fact that it is a videogame in both storytelling and gameplay.
Play Replicant instead
People liked it too much so I like it less. They should learn not to reference other media I might have heard before of because I might have expectations that crash and ruin my experience.
>>736992276>>736992972>E33kek. Trannies seething over a decade old game.
