Nier Automata

27-04-2017 6:09pm

YouSavedMyLife wrote: »

I want to buy it but the apparent problems with the PC version are putting me off. Anyone know if its possible to try it on steam then refund it and buy it cheaper on CDkeys? Assuming it runs well on my system.

The unofficial patch sorts everything and its not finicky to install. I wouldn't hold back if it looks like your kinda thing.

Gingervitis · 27-04-2017 11:07pm

If you have a Radeon 480, you'll want to roll back your drivers to 16.1.5 (around autumn 2016) to avoid random white screen issues. Not ideal.

K.O.Kiki · 28-04-2017 3:43pm

YouSavedMyLife wrote: »

I want to buy it but the apparent problems with the PC version are putting me off. Anyone know if its possible to try it on steam then refund it and buy it cheaper on CDkeys? Assuming it runs well on my system.

You can only refund games bought through Steam.

Adyx · 29-04-2017 5:20am

Anyone know what the PC update yesterday was for? Doesn't seem to have solved any of the ongoing issues addressed by the unofficial fix.

Retr0gamer · 29-04-2017 8:44am

Adyx wrote: »

Anyone know what the PC update yesterday was for? Doesn't seem to have solved any of the ongoing issues addressed by the unofficial fix.

Getting ready for the DLC apparently.

Sure selling you stuff is way more important than fixing your broken game.

lawlolawl · 29-04-2017 12:51pm

I was enjoying this game initially but I'm really struggling to find the will to keep playing.

The world is empty and awkward to get around, the sidequests are awful, the voice acting is cringe worthy and the story is predictable as fook.

EDIT: Finished the A storyline. Started the B one and quit after about 30 minutes. A deeply tedious game.

YouSavedMyLife · 29-04-2017 7:44pm

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

You can only refund games bought through Steam.

Yeah, but what i men't was is it possible for me to buy a game on steam to test it on my system, refund it, then buy a steam key on a site like CDkeys.

Retr0gamer · 29-04-2017 10:58pm

YouSavedMyLife wrote: »

Yeah, but what i men't was is it possible for me to buy a game on steam to test it on my system, refund it, then buy a steam key on a site like CDkeys.

Yes it is.

Moist Bread · 01-05-2017 7:58pm

So I got this for the ps4 and I just can't get into it at all. I landed on earth and immediately got sent on 2 fetch quests. I'm having difficulty finding the items and great difficulty in caring at all. Sad, cause the demo made it seem like a lot of fun. I presume it gets a lot better? I've never had a game take the wind out of my sails as fast as this.

johnny_ultimate · 02-05-2017 1:50am

Moist Bread wrote: »

So I got this for the ps4 and I just can't get into it at all. I landed on earth and immediately got sent on 2 fetch quests. I'm having difficulty finding the items and great difficulty in caring at all. Sad, cause the demo made it seem like a lot of fun. I presume it gets a lot better? I've never had a game take the wind out of my sails as fast as this.

It started slow for me and honestly never improved massively. Playing the game felt like a chore for huge chunks of the running time. The game probably peaks in the final stretch of the first playthrough and beginning of the second (where there's a honeymoon period where they introduce a key new gameplay system - sadly, I never wanted to see the bloody thing again by a few hours later), but even then I would stop well short of calling it exceptional.

K.O.Kiki · 02-05-2017 10:34am

Moist Bread wrote: »

So I got this for the ps4 and I just can't get into it at all. I landed on earth and immediately got sent on 2 fetch quests. I'm having difficulty finding the items and great difficulty in caring at all. Sad, cause the demo made it seem like a lot of fun. I presume it gets a lot better? I've never had a game take the wind out of my sails as fast as this.

The fetch quests are easy.

Use marker, find enemies, pick up items after defeating them.

lawlolawl · 02-05-2017 11:50am

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

The fetch quests are easy.

They are also incredibly boring and there are a whole bunch of them.

Evade · 02-05-2017 12:07pm

lawlolawl wrote: »

They are also incredibly boring and there are a whole bunch of them.

Most of them are sidequests, you can ignore them.

Retr0gamer · 03-05-2017 12:43am

Well just finished it there. After the first two routes the story gets very good especially if you've played the first Nier as there's lots of nods to the original. The game really steps it up a gear or two in the crazy department.

It has its flaws but at the end of it, it was more than worth experiencing.

Potential-Monke · 29-06-2017 2:59pm

So i've about 20 hours put into this. Have to say, amazing game! I seriously hope it holds my interest, and i'm intrigued about the multiple play-throughs. I'm loving the jump between genres, and the fact that there's no loading when it happens.

megaten · 11-09-2017 11:24am

Just finished the 5 main endings a lot and really enjoyed it. The fetch quests didn't bother me too much since I don't play a lot of open world games.

Potential-Monke · 12-09-2017 4:35pm

Hah, forgot i posted in here!

So, about 30 hours in and i gave up. Got bored during the second playthrough, tried to go back a couple of times, but between doing the same stuff again, and having an inferior character compared to the first playthrough, it killed the same for me. Traded it in. Shame, good idea but it just couldn't hold me!

Evade · 12-09-2017 10:26pm

Potential-Monke wrote: »

Hah, forgot i posted in here!

So, about 30 hours in and i gave up. Got bored during the second playthrough, tried to go back a couple of times, but between doing the same stuff again, and having an inferior character compared to the first playthrough, it killed the same for me. Traded it in. Shame, good idea but it just couldn't hold me!

If you're close to the end with 9S stick with it because mild

the story continues past the ending you get with 2B.

I found 9S a lot easier to use, just hack everything, but it isn't quite as much fun.

Sephiroth_dude · 12-09-2017 10:58pm

Hoping this will go on sale on ps4 soon.

Grahamer666 · 13-09-2017 7:40am

I wanted to pick it up as it's discounted on Steam at the moment but i heard it's a very bad port. Anyone play it on PC?

Retr0gamer · 13-09-2017 10:47am

It's a crappy port but the fan patch fixes all the issues particularly the awful frame pacing.

K.O.Kiki · 13-09-2017 12:37pm

Evade wrote: »

If you're close to the end with 9S stick with it because mild
the story continues past the ending you get with 2B.

I found 9S a lot easier to use, just hack everything, but it isn't quite as much fun.

9S campaign is a lot faster too; you don't have to redo the side missions with him since they're already marked.

And it gets crazy good once you reach a certain point & meet A2...

Potential-Monke · 13-09-2017 1:21pm

I might pick it up again when it's cheaper, i've a habit of completing all side quests before advancing the main story, and i got bored of the same ones again (especially that slutty robot quest... ugh).

Evade · 13-09-2017 1:24pm

Potential-Monke wrote: »

I might pick it up again when it's cheaper, i've a habit of completing all side quests before advancing the main story, and i got bored of the same ones again (especially that slutty robot quest... ugh).

I think you'll only get the same quest again if you didn't complete it last time.

megaten · 14-09-2017 5:44pm

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Hoping this will go on sale on ps4 soon.

Physical copies were around 30 quid when I bought it a month or so ago.

K.O.Kiki · 04-12-2017 11:59pm

Finally got back around to completing this, WHAT A STORY!

Now all I have left is the damn-hard secret "Y" ending and I can

replay to Ending E and let the game delete my save files forever.

Sephiroth_dude · 05-12-2017 1:09am

megaten wrote: »

Physical copies were around 30 quid when I bought it a month or so ago.

I'm hoping this turns up on 12 days of Xmas sale :pac:.

Cina · 05-12-2017 11:12am

I tried to get into this multiple times and just found it painfully dull. The world was bland, the quests were MMO fetch, the combat was 2d dimensional (literally, at times). The graphics were crap (and awfully optimized for PC)

What am I missing here? It was sh*te!

05-12-2017 5:05pm

Cina wrote: »

I tried to get into this multiple times and just found it painfully dull. The world was bland, the quests were MMO fetch, the combat was 2d dimensional (literally, at times). The graphics were crap (and awfully optimized for PC)

What am I missing here? It was sh*te!

There are a minority who agree. Apparently you have to get to the third play through before it really gets good. Good luck with that!

J. Marston · 05-12-2017 5:35pm

Deleted User wrote: »

There are a minority who agree. Apparently you have to get to the third play through before it really gets good. Good luck with that!

Really? Sounds like the most hipster, up it's own arse thing I've heard about a videogame recently.

Was gonna look to get it if it was one of PSN's Christmas deals but that has put me right off it.

Retr0gamer · 05-12-2017 6:52pm

The game has major problems but the experience is worth it.

But you have to put up with a lot of **** as well. I loved it but the issues with the combat and fetch quests are warranted.

It's a better 7/10 game than most 9/10 games ðŸ˜‚

05-12-2017 6:56pm

J. Marston wrote: »

Really? Sounds like the most hipster, up it's own arse thing I've heard about a videogame recently.

Was gonna look to get it if it was one of PSN's Christmas deals but that has put me right off it.

You might like the core of the game more than me though. There are 5 main run throughs. I got about a third of the way through the second one and dropped it. The first two runs are apparently almost identical. Exact same ****ty game again? No thanks.

K.O.Kiki · 06-12-2017 1:33am

Cina wrote: »

I tried to get into this multiple times and just found it painfully dull. The world was bland, the quests were MMO fetch, the combat was 2d dimensional (literally, at times). The graphics were crap (and awfully optimized for PC)

What am I missing here? It was sh*te!

The combat gets better once you start getting chips which let you do more (e.g. dodge offset / Witch time style, taunt combos, etc).
Graphics are fine once you use the FAR mod, if you don't like the art style that's on you though.

J. Marston wrote: »

Really? Sounds like the most hipster, up it's own arse thing I've heard about a videogame recently.

Was gonna look to get it if it was one of PSN's Christmas deals but that has put me right off it.

Nier:Automata is the only game this year where, in the middle of a boss fight, it did something that made me go "WOW!" and I had to stop and start talking about it with my friend because of how amazing it was.

And it's made by Japanese crazy people, not pretentious hipsters (the good-crazy kind).

Deleted User wrote: »

You might like the core of the game more than me though. There are 5 main run throughs. I got about a third of the way through the second one and dropped it. The first two runs are apparently almost identical. Exact same ****ty game again? No thanks.

Route B is

the same story from a different perspective. You don't have to re-do your side missions & it's much faster (less than half the length of Route A). Also since you're playing as 9S the gameplay is slightly different (hacking instead of swords). They converge naturally, and Route C will then show you a whole different story/the true end.

johnny_ultimate · 06-12-2017 2:18am

If you haven't warned to the game by playthrough 2, then I'd be surprised if you did later on - the later sections just mix and match the gameplay elements introduced earlier, sometimes pretty much identically (e.g. the schmup sections). The game has played all its main gameplay cards by the time you're a little into playthrough 2, and there's just a lot of tedious hack n slashing, hacking (oh god the hacking - an utterly painful mechanic that only gets less tolerable as the game progresses) and backtracking to get through after that. IMO none of the gameplay strands are interesting, and rather than the different styles mixing things up, they're all just mildly irritating in their own way. The chip system belongs in a far worthier game!

It's an aggressively repetitive game, and while the most satisfying narrative beats are later on, they're neither interesting nor revelatory enough to justify the huge amount of time the game spends spinning its wheels.

Gingervitis · 07-12-2017 2:37am

Having played both Zelda BOTW and Nier: Automata, I am convinced that Zelda will win the Game of the Year award (I know, controversial); however, in terms of narrative, Nier is up there with Undertale in terms of best story and emotional investment of the last 10 years of gaming. Be it the soundtrack, the gut punches, or the almost Spec Ops: the Line's level of meta-narrative, this has it all. What Remains of Edith Finch was similarly engrossing, but when you add Platinum's kinetic gameplay, it elevates the experience, at least for a while. I'll fully concede that the game drags in terms of the core gameplay loop over multiple playthroughs, but I will disagree with the above that the narrative pay off doesn't compensate. For me, it does and so much more. When I remember Nier: Automata, it won't be the fetch quests, or the samey Bayonetta-lite combat, it's the frequent jaw dropping moments throughout the game. The fact that the story can paper over said cracks and also be spine-chilling in places (literally had to get up and walk around the room at the end in disbelief), leaves me to believe Yoko Taro is some kind of god, here to save us from AAA bull**** and multiplayer sh*te.

My GOTY, no question.

(Also, being in the top 10 reviewed games of 2017 on OpenCritic leads me to believe I'm not taking crazy pills!)

K.O.Kiki · 07-12-2017 11:23am

Bonus, 2B has the most beautifully rendered arse in videogame history.

K.O.Kiki · 31-12-2017 10:39pm

Discovered this tool, gonna try it out later:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=890543121

For saving disk space.

J. Marston · 31-12-2017 11:03pm

Still waiting for this go on sale for PS4.

K.O.Kiki · 11-01-2018 5:15pm

I think it's ok to post these now (major spoilers!)

Sephiroth_dude · 11-01-2018 7:03pm

J. Marston wrote: »

Still waiting for this go on sale for PS4.

Same here! 40 is the lowest I've seen it.

J. Marston · 25-03-2018 2:38am

On sale finally on PSN for €35 so got it.

Still early on but the combat is so satisfying. The open world is pretty bland but I can tolerate it since the gameplay is great. Customising your chips is awesome too, can try loads of different loadouts.

Sephiroth_dude · 25-03-2018 10:51am

J. Marston wrote: »

On sale finally on PSN for €35 so got it.

Still early on but the combat is so satisfying. The open world is pretty bland but I can tolerate it since the gameplay is great. Customising your chips is awesome too, can try loads of different loadouts.

Got it too, 35 euro, great price.

brianregan09 · 25-03-2018 8:21pm

When the offer up lads downloading the demo now

Sephiroth_dude · 25-03-2018 9:49pm

brianregan09 wrote: »

When the offer up lads downloading the demo now

April 5th I think.

one armed dwarf · 26-03-2018 12:26pm

If it hasn't been mentioned already the original Nier is a wonderful game. Automata was a good sequel but I liked the original a great deal more even if it feels a bit shambolic in parts.

Retr0gamer · 26-03-2018 2:37pm

one armed dwarf wrote: »

If it hasn't been mentioned already the original Nier is a wonderful game. Automata was a good sequel but I liked the original a great deal more even if it feels a bit shambolic in parts.

It's the best 7/10 game you will ever play.

Vicxas · 26-03-2018 2:54pm

Picked this up from the PS4 store as it was on sale.

Have to say it feels proper old school, I love how the camera shifts from one part to the other, even in the boss fights.

I'm only about 2 hours in, and I've beaten the Amusement boss and discovered the village.

Great fun so far.

K.O.Kiki · 26-03-2018 5:06pm

Vicxas wrote: »

Picked this up from the PS4 store as it was on sale.

Have to say it feels proper old school, I love how the camera shifts from one part to the other, even in the boss fights.

I'm only about 2 hours in, and I've beaten the Amusement boss and discovered the village.

Great fun so far.

Whatever you do, try to avoid reading story spoilers.
Also don't feel obliged to do every side mission.

brianregan09 · 26-03-2018 6:18pm

Played the demo earlier and ya I think I'm gonna buy this tonight

J. Marston · 26-03-2018 6:28pm

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

Whatever you do, try to avoid reading story spoilers.
Also don't feel obliged to do every side mission.

But I want to though.

Also, after seeing a few more environments, I'm convinced the graphics department blew their budget on 2B, her dress and boots and then realised they had about 100 quid left for the rest.

Nier Automata

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