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[Evil Monkey DTT]

So, at pax east they pretty much confirmed that if there's enough demand. Drakengard Collection PS4 is going to happen.

I know people don't like these petitions but if no one is gonna make one, I'll do it. I won't miss a chance to get Drakengard 3 for PS4.

Drakengard 3 in 60 fps... I don't think I can even understand the concept.

 

[BuckRobotron]

Regarding Drakengard 1, newcomers would probably be repelled by it now gameplay-wise. Was just revisiting it and Drakengard 2 on PS2 and whatever else one thinks of 2 it had some major gameplay improvements. But still clunky. However, being so familiar with the first game I still dig it. And it SO nails the feel of a fantastic/magical medieval apocalypse.

OTOH, considered picking up a cheap PS3 for the third game, Folklore, and some other oddball exclusives that I would likely enjoy.

 

[LotusHD]

The Emil sidequest... The feels.

 

[Veritigo_X]

Nier on PS4? Give it to me! None of that brother Nier shit, Old Man Nier all the way.

 

[Holundrian]

The way the game is structured I kind of wanted more post game content feeling empty now that it's over y_y.

 

[Capra]

Been playing this game non-stop since yesterday. I fucking love it so far... BUT...

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Vague spoilers Losing the ability to finish most of my in-progress quests with no warning is frustrating as fuck. I know NG+ will let me redo them, but come on.

 

[Ourobolus]

Sooo, anyone know where I can find "Mysterious Lithograph 4"?

This description reads like nonsense to me.

If you did the Lunar Tear quest it's in the same area as the one you found in the desert.

 

[freeofgreed]

So what's the best level to fight

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Emil

? I'm level 60 and i'm still getting 2 shotted by him. Hacking him takes forever and when I'm successful it only takes like 5% of his health.

 

[BuckRobotron]

Loved reading the story for the Iron Pipe plus seeing what side character

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Emil had created

, especially since I'm fresh off a thorough playthrough of original Nier. Another part of the experience includes getting honestly pissed off at someone's manipulations at the end of a side quest, heh. I won't reference it any further, best to let it play out for oneself.

 

[Glass Rebel]

The way the game is structured I kind of wanted more post game content feeling empty now that it's over y_y.

Apparently there will be DLC (nothing officially confirmed) but Taro said not to expect too much because they lack the budget and manpower.

 

[Freeman76]

So glad I sold Horizon and got this, was debating it for a while but was definitely the right choice for me, gameplay in this feels really fresh and the way it switches genres seamlessly is right up my street. And no witcher sense in sight

 

[Evil Monkey DTT]

Apparently there will be DLC (nothing officially confirmed) but Taro said not to expect too much because they lack the budget and manpower.

Or maybe.... there were just given a higher budget.

Please world make this game sell decently.

 

[Nightengale]

41 hours for A-E.

 

[Holundrian]

Apparently there will be DLC (nothing officially confirmed) but Taro said not to expect too much because they lack the budget and manpower.

Cruel man makes one of the best games this year so far and then wants expectations to be down. Notlikethis....

 

[LotusHD]

Cruel man makes one of the best games this year so far and then wants expectations to be down. Notlikethis....

He did tell us from day 1 not to expect much.

 

[Veritigo_X]

Apparently there will be DLC (nothing officially confirmed) but Taro said not to expect too much because they lack the budget and manpower.

That's what he said about the game itself, so......

 

[SkylineRKR]

If they remaster his old games, I hope for Replicant in the west. I personally liked that design better.

 

[LotusHD]

The final battle with Overclock and the fully upgraded Engine Blade equipped is a visual treat lol

 

[Clear]

Gotta say, Route B is far more fun and different feeling than I expected. People have been really underselling how impactful the changes are.

 

[Dandy Crocodile]

Gotta say, Route B is far more fun and different feeling than I expected. People have been really underselling how impactful the changes are.

I liked 9S so much more than 2B.

 

[ChanMan]

The final battle with Overclock and the fully upgraded Engine Blade equipped is a visual treat lol

It sure is isn't it, I really love the ending(s).

 

[Hades Hotgun]

Forget remasters, they need to just moderately remake the games. Not FF7 style obviously, but straight forward remakes with Platinum handling the gameplay and some design decisions being altered to accommodate modern sensibilities. Something along the lines of OoT and Majora's Mask for 3DS, but a bit more ambitious.

Also, Nier should be a combo version that allows Gestalt or Replicant, given the minimal differences.

 

[Muffin1611]

If you did the Lunar Tear quest it's in the same area as the one you found in the desert.

Ah, thank you!

Got all the other archives in the meantime, except Project Gestalt Report 5, which also isn't mentioned in that wiki. Anyone know where that is?

 

[Veritigo_X]

Do we know if Gestalt or Replicant is the canon one for Automata? I know a few years difference in the timelines doesn't matter when we're talking about events thousands of years later, but I wasn't sure if anything in the game (or in interviews) gave any indication.

 

[freeofgreed]

Any idea where the

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missle

pod program is? It's the last one I need for the trophy.

 

[guybrushfreeman]

Do we know if Gestalt or Replicant is the canon one for Automata? I know a few years difference in the timelines doesn't matter when we're talking about events thousands of years later, but I wasn't sure if anything in the game (or in interviews) gave any indication.

It's both, there are weapon stories that reference both games

 

[SkylineRKR]

Any idea where the

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missle

pod program is? It's the last one I need for the trophy.

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In the desert. Its marked by a red dot, I think in the centre of the desert.

 

[BRSxIgnition]

Any idea where the

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missle

pod program is? It's the last one I need for the trophy.

Should come with the Pod you find in the desert.

 

[Hektor]

Do we know if Gestalt or Replicant is the canon one for Automata? I know a few years difference in the timelines doesn't matter when we're talking about events thousands of years later, but I wasn't sure if anything in the game (or in interviews) gave any indication.

Taro once said in an interview that the world exists in an endless loop with minor variations per cycle to explain them both as canon.

 

[Shifty]

I liked

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9S so much more than 2B.

Shouldn't this be tagged?

 

[freeofgreed]

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In the desert. Its marked by a red dot, I think in the centre of the desert.

Should come with the Pod you find in the desert.

I wasn't talking about

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Pod C, There's an actual pod program called missile. It's in the Factory though not the Dessert.

I found it though thanks lol.

 

[pezzie]

Shouldn't this be tagged?

This has been untagged approximately 50,000 times in this thread already, and was confirmed by the developers before the game's release, that at this point I feel it's like, eh.

 

[BuckRobotron]

Do we know if Gestalt or Replicant is the canon one for Automata? I know a few years difference in the timelines doesn't matter when we're talking about events thousands of years later, but I wasn't sure if anything in the game (or in interviews) gave any indication.

The maxed Iron Pipe has a lovely little story about

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Yonah and her father Nier

. I heard that the other variant gets a similar mention somewhere.

 

[Nap1400]

Do we know if Gestalt or Replicant is the canon one for Automata? I know a few years difference in the timelines doesn't matter when we're talking about events thousands of years later, but I wasn't sure if anything in the game (or in interviews) gave any indication.

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The weapon stories for the Virtuous Dignity and Cruel Arrogance pretty obviously refer to Brother Nier and Father Nier respectively at level 4, so it's still probably left ambiguous.

 

[freeofgreed]

Do we know if Gestalt or Replicant is the canon one for Automata? I know a few years difference in the timelines doesn't matter when we're talking about events thousands of years later, but I wasn't sure if anything in the game (or in interviews) gave any indication.

I'm pretty sure Replicant is. Most of the supplementary material referenced brother Nier.

Taro once said in an interview that the world exists in an endless loop with minor variations per cycle to explain them both as canon.

I never liked this explanation sicne it doesn't really make sense within the context of universe.

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Like I can buy that there's both a brother and father Nier who are constantly being reborn on a cycle, but that would also mean that there are two Shadowlords and that doesn't make sense at all, Since humanity should've been fucked whenever the first one died.

 

[Shifty]

This has been untagged approximately 50,000 times in this thread already, and was confirmed by the developers before the game's release, that at this point I feel it's like, eh.

I've been following the thread pretty closely since I'm waiting on the PC version, and this is the most explicit example I've seen. The dev confirmation was implicit at best.

Granted the supposed spoiler is easily intuited if it's what I think it is, but casually confirming

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route B changes

still falls into tag territory imo.

 

[Hektor]

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Like I can buy that there's both a brother and father Nier who are constantly being reborn on a cycle, but that would also mean that there are two Shadowlords and that doesn't make sense at all, Since humanity should've been fucked whenever the first one died.

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Humanity is fucked when shadowlord dies, there's only one at any given time, just like there is only one Nier at any given time, it's just that the world at some point is being reborn and humanity with it, repeating everything that happened during the last cycle with a new humanity, a new Nier and a new shadowlord

 

[Iriscomeback]

Dumb question, how do you switch weapons? I know how to change sets, but how do you switch between number 1 and 2 weapon?

 

[Sevyne]

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Like I can buy that there's both a brother and father Nier who are constantly being reborn on a cycle, but that would also mean that there are two Shadowlords and that doesn't make sense at all, Since humanity should've been fucked whenever the first one died.

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No what that means is that in one word cycle he was a brother. Then in a new cycle he was a father. As said, each cycle has minor variants on itself. This would also mean there is only one Shadowlord because only one Nier exists in a single cycle.

 

[Capra]

My knowledge of NieR lore is spotty because I never actually played the first, but isn't it canon that

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Original NieR spoilers both Gestalt and Replicant occur in parallel universes which actually overlap at some point after the first game?

 

[Shifty]

Dumb question, how do you switch weapons? I know how to change sets, but how do you switch between number 1 and 2 weapon?

If the demo is anything to go by, you don't. Slot 1 is for light attacks and Slot 2 is for heavies. Think Bayonetta.

 

[freeofgreed]

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Humanity is fucked when shadowlord dies, there's only one at any given time, just like there is only one Nier at any given time, it's just that the world at some point is being reborn and humanity with it, repeating everything that happened during the last cycle with a new humanity, a new Nier and a new shadowlord

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Is that the explanation? I thought what he said was that it was due to the replicant process and that's what caused multiple Niers to be born during the same timeline, but different time periods. I'll have to reread Grimoire Nier I guess.

 

[Hektor]

Dumb question, how do you switch weapons? I know how to change sets, but how do you switch between number 1 and 2 weapon?

See the tagged posts above you for reference

My knowledge of NieR lore is spotty because I never actually played the first, but isn't it canon that

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Original NieR spoilers both Gestalt and Replicant occur in parallel universes which actually overlap at some point after the first game?

You don't change between weapons, one of the weapons in each set is mapped to the light attack button and the other one is mapped to the strong attack button, depending on which slot you put them into.

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Is that the explanation? I thought what he said was that it was due to the replicant process and that's what caused multiple Niers to be born during the same timeline, but different time periods. I'll have to reread Grimoire Nier I guess.

At least that's how i understood it

 

[Shifty]

My knowledge of NieR lore is spotty because I never actually played the first, but isn't it canon that

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Original NieR spoilers both Gestalt and Replicant occur in parallel universes which actually overlap at some point after the first game?

Whoa.

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Is that mentioned in Grimoire Nier or something? Never heard that one before.

 

[freeofgreed]

Dumb question, how do you switch weapons? I know how to change sets, but how do you switch between number 1 and 2 weapon?

Square for Weapon A, Triangle for weapon B. up on the D pad to switch between sets.

 

[Slater]

My knowledge of NieR lore is spotty because I never actually played the first, but isn't it canon that

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Original NieR spoilers both Gestalt and Replicant occur in parallel universes which actually overlap at some point after the first game?

It's canon that its a multiverse and both versions exist, Accords whole deal is that she can travel the multiverse, which is why all the weapons can still end up in the same place

 

[MultiJhonny]

At least that's how i understood it

same.

 

[LOLCats]

So, at pax east they pretty much confirmed that if there's enough demand. Drakengard Collection PS4 is going to happen.

I know people don't like these petitions but if no one is gonna make one, I'll do it. I won't miss a chance to get Drakengard 3 for PS4.

I'd buy it.

 

[freeofgreed]

Yeah Hektor is right. Taro explicitly said it wasn't parallel universes but just time looping over itself. I don't know why I thought they took place in the same timeline though.

Replicant and Gestalt are not parallel worlds. But are distinct patterns in an ever-repeating world. The main character and Yonah are sometimes siblings, and sometimes father and daughter.

 

[Xliskin]

Just finished Route A

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the ending confused me is it supposed to be confusing ??! 2B said machines gained emotions unlike android but clearly she has emotions when she killed 9S