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NieR Automata PS4 demo available now
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That's nier
I guess that's how it will be. Not everyone will like it. This isnt ninja gaiden or a character action to start. Its a mix of styles generally
Sure it's not your TV? The game is super responsive and fluid.
Boy do I have good news for you! Errm. Now if anyone can find me that video where 2B is riding a Boar. lol.
BinaryBear07
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I know nothing of this series.
Playing this got me really interested.
Playing this got me really interested.
Pinko Marx
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Oh snap I was making a funny! I didn't think they'd reallt bring back the boar mount!
GoldenDarkness
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I never heard of this game until I saw this thread last night, downloaded the demo...will be buying on day 1. Amazing stuff
IISANDERII
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Very sure. I play lots of Titanfall and Rocketleague with no complaints. Maybe it's the controls but I did try increasing the sensitivity and it made it worse.
Are you referring to the move where you swing yourself forward by grabbing the pod? That is Jump + Fire.
Its far better than most '60fps' games Platinum has made.
Not that i don't get what your saying. It does drop occasionally. But its basically comparable to the 360 COD titles in that the 'perceptual 60fps' holds up well. And doesn't have bayonetta 60's screen tear to boot.
DangerMouse
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ProgenitorCastle
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Whoa, that's extremely stylish!
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Naw, the PC versions release date is TBA.
NESpowerhouse
Perhaps he's wondering why someone would shoot a man before throwing him out of a plane.
Played the demo this morning, was super impressed, but I worry that I will have to catch up in both the Nier 1 and Drakengard lore to fully enjoy the game.
You won't need it. It may help enhance it, but they're all technically standalone games. Drakengard is only tangetially connected to Nier, and Nier is only tangentially connected to Automata.
I asked a few times in this thread, and no one ever replied to me, so I assume there just isn't a way to lol.
Which kind of sucks, but I guess they have to justify those translucent bars at the top of the screen, and they wouldn't be able to do that if you could disable subtitles.
Or one's own TV. ;p
Unknown Soldier
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Several characters from Nier appear in Automata, so I think Nier will be more important than what we have seen so far.
It literally tells you that it doesn't work lol
Oh, I thought you could disable them? Isn't it a removable plug-in chip or something?
Astral Dog
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Pai Pai Master
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played the game on ps3 some time back cause it was 7 dollars because of the hype. I did beat the game (and I hate everyone that stated to go into new game+). This demo just proves that the game has no place in my life. I really wanted to like the first but it was so bad
It's not a bad game at all.
It just wasn't your thing, that's fine.
Only 3 so far by my count, and they'll likely be explained proper in the story. Hence, how I said playing Nier will enhance your enjoyment, but it's not de facto required as far as I know
EatChildren
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I kinda feel "camera shifts are Nier" misses the point of difference between what the demo does here and what Nier actually did. This is more akin to Super Mario Galaxy 2 which routinely took the core gameplay formula and swapped it between full 3D environments and side scrolling sections. Nier's perspective shifts are more unexpected and specifically channeling a genre or mood; Resident Evil style fixed camera perspective, isometric dungeon crawler, etc. Sidescrolling was mainly reserved for interiors with NPCs, while most of the game played as 3D action game.
Anyway, I finished the demo finally. Definitely liked it more than my first sitting, but my thoughts are more or less the same; it's a good vertical slice of A Platinum Game but not really anything else. I like the mood and setting but yeah. Nothing evidently or overtly unique in the design itself, much in part to it being a snipping of standard character action rather than all the other nuanced game systems that the full game will have.
I am going to be a stick in the mud about this though; despite adoring Platinum's games, I'm getting a bit tired of seeing so many concepts, set pieces, animations, etc recycled in their games with clear influence from predecessors. As much fun as the boss fight is I was still thinking parts of it (particularly the last half) are just like other boss fights in other Platinum games. Transformers gave me the same vibes. It's a weird criticism as I can't blame Platinum for trying a spin on existing ideas, and it makes sense. There's only so much they can do. But I think that's also why I found myself falling in love so quickly with something like The Wonderful 101; because it took Platinum's staple talent but did something very unique with it.
Still pumped for the full game of course, and keen to see what Taro does with the narrative. Just hope it doesn't regress to lazy ass AI commentary where the robots pretend like they don't have emotions and value yet so obviously do routinely.
"Emotions are forbidden"
*proceeds to express a multitude of emotions constantly*
Anyway, I finished the demo finally. Definitely liked it more than my first sitting, but my thoughts are more or less the same; it's a good vertical slice of A Platinum Game but not really anything else. I like the mood and setting but yeah. Nothing evidently or overtly unique in the design itself, much in part to it being a snipping of standard character action rather than all the other nuanced game systems that the full game will have.
I am going to be a stick in the mud about this though; despite adoring Platinum's games, I'm getting a bit tired of seeing so many concepts, set pieces, animations, etc recycled in their games with clear influence from predecessors. As much fun as the boss fight is I was still thinking parts of it (particularly the last half) are just like other boss fights in other Platinum games. Transformers gave me the same vibes. It's a weird criticism as I can't blame Platinum for trying a spin on existing ideas, and it makes sense. There's only so much they can do. But I think that's also why I found myself falling in love so quickly with something like The Wonderful 101; because it took Platinum's staple talent but did something very unique with it.
Still pumped for the full game of course, and keen to see what Taro does with the narrative. Just hope it doesn't regress to lazy ass AI commentary where the robots pretend like they don't have emotions and value yet so obviously do routinely.
"Emotions are forbidden"
*proceeds to express a multitude of emotions constantly*
I read a random comment about this but I'd love confirmation since I haven't seen a way to disable subtitles yet.
Well there's 3 playable characters, so who knows what happens
Tricky I Shadow
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The combat looks incredible if you play on easy with everything automated! I learnt quite a few things about the combat too.
I think we already know that is going to happen
They obviously are basically human beings in every way but having actual flesh and blood. They just obey their natural programming by paying lipsevice to it every once in a while, and that's just 2B, 9S doesn't even try to act like a machine.It also makes sense with why A2 has gone rogue herself.
ShockingAlberto
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Literally every Yoko Taro game is "Here are rules and here's how people break them, either casually or dramatically."
I expect this to be true of robots.
NowhereFaded
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Loved the first nier and love this demo. Day one. What PS4 game should I get to hold me over until this releases? With the same kick ass gameplay as automata?
Yappadappadu
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Played through it and I enjoyed the gameplay more than I expected. Really liked the music.
2B is voiced by Yui Ishikawa who is also the voice of Attack on Titan's Mikasa, so that's a great choice, considering that the character seems similarly stoic.
2B is voiced by Yui Ishikawa who is also the voice of Attack on Titan's Mikasa, so that's a great choice, considering that the character seems similarly stoic.
baberunisei
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Loved the demo, it certainly will be one of the great games of the year.
Lmao! I picked the game from PSNJ since it was up there earlier, and you get to change the language to English after picking the difficulty(reset every time you start the game). No wonder I missed it. >__<
wow didn't know this
wondering if the gameplay for each one will be different, if thats thecase then the demo really can't sell you on what's there as well?
DMC4 and DmC come closest. Then transformers maybe.
I think the english dub VA may also be Mikasa, but i'm not sure. She sounds very familiar.
Could be replaced by exact replicas, maybe they're somehow salvaged and replaced. We have to play as 9S at some point, so obviously there has to be some explanation for what happened. Not to mention there's gameplay of them fighting in different areas, including the boss fight trailer that got us so many of us interested in the game to begin with..
Who's to say? 9S is a scouter, which implies that he's less of a physical threat compared to 2B, so I wouldn't be surprised if he fought differently, or made use of the mech more. No idea on A2, but her being an outdated model that appears to be in isolation makes me feel that she'll fight in a more... savage manner? At the very least, I expect their animations to be quite different from 2B. They're very intent on keeping the story under wraps, so we likely won't see gameplay of them anytime soon, if at all.
I wonder if playing as them involves New Game +, or if you just simply switch and play as them during certain parts of the story. Also wonder if we keep stuff like our levels and the weapons we have on us at the time. Ah, so much of this game is a mystery lol