Boogalogist
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Great picks! I agree with this..especially since you still have Bloodborne on backlog.
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NieR: Automata Review Thread
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Great picks! I agree with this..especially since you still have Bloodborne on backlog.
Exentryk
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Nightengale
Member
Exactly.
Mechanically combat is not "that" deep, what makes the gameplay fun is the variety & mix added by all the different change in genres. Which can be an acquired taste, some people didn't like it in OG NieR.
Design-wise, the open world is nothing outstanding. It's small hub, not lived in, doesn't sell scale very well & feels a bit cheap in places with invisible walls and corridors. What makes the world special is how the music, story and lore gives that place a sense of space. Again, it relies 90% on the player being "connected" to the story.
This was a game where I would not have been surprised if some people gave it a 7/10 due to how much of the game's design element isn't necessarily best-in-class purely from a technical perspective.
What elevates every facet of this game are the "Yoko Taro-ness" of it. The atmosphere, the music, the narrative, the genre-shifts, the underlying narrative, the interesting design elements, all of which are strong creative elements. Comparisons with Undertale is quite valid for Automata, it's a game where the fringes ultimately is what differs this game from a 8 to 10.
The fact that apparently so many people are surprised when they find out that the game is open world tells a great deal of how important it is in this game. To me it's more like a semi open world of sorts. At the very least, I appreciate that it's not trying to do the whole massive scale thing that its contemporaries are, and like y'all said, the whole genre-shifts and what not allow it to carve its own niche despite its competition.
Nightengale
Member
Honestly I think it's a game that shouldn't be an open-world. It's cool that all the places are connected and all that, but I don't think the locations gel super well.
Make each space big, but make them some sort of individual hub where you travel to via your mech.
killatopak
Member
Where's the guy who left the planet?
Cramoss
Member
On another planet
Wesley-Sigma
Member
NieR was an ugly game and took more than one playthrough for the full impact.
Yakuza 0 and Nier for sure. After that, do you like Dark Souls mixed with Ninja Gaiden? Go Nioh. Do you like a more open world approach and you fight robot dinosaurs? Horizon.
Exentryk
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NoctisVsStar
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Balee
paragonpro
Banned
Do you only play games that have 90 mc scores? That just seems like your depriving yourself of a lot of great games
I like the game alot so far, the world is interesting in its own way with good art direction even if its not the prettiest, fighting feels great and 2b might be my favorite character design in a long time, i never played nier or drakenguard but ive been deep diving into that lore and its really interesting and cool stuff
I will break my disc if it gets lowered again D:
We back, baby! Guess USGamer is weighed higher than GameRevolution.
Hell yes.
Astral Dog
Member
Nobody cares about OpenCriticAlready 89 on Opencritic, sorry friend
Edit: most importantly,this one has a 90 on user score!
Lee Chaolan
Member
We back, baby! Guess USGamer is weighed higher than GameRevolution.
Yay!
Hopefully it's 90 for good now.
Exentryk
Member
guybrushfreeman
Unconfirmed Member
This thread has been a roller coaster. A pointless, crazy, amusing roller coaster and it's not even over yet
Pretty much just like a Yoko Taro game tbh.
BRSxIgnition
Member
It's only fitting.
Someone should send him this topic's link. We will probably see the consequences of that in his next game.
This game is not just a platinum game. At its heart and soul is a Yoko Taro game, the shell is platinum.
If this had been created by platinum alone, it would not have existed in this manner, not in the overall existentialist world design nor the clever writing and character development that pushes you forward.
I think this is a major success for Yoko Taro more than anyone else because he now has a proper outlet for his ideas not bogged down by technical and budgetary limitations, but i do admit to being biased
I just feel so elated for him. He's always been very self critical, and when i remember him saying he spent 20 years and failed at creating an impact in the industry and how people approached writing, i just wanted to shout "no you fucking didn't".
He is probably the main creative force in the industry that shaped how i view video game narratives and creative thematic design, not because his games were big budget AAA blockbusters that sold a million copies and were super safe, but because he himself was tired of common conventions and just wanted to break things to see how he could rearrange them.
Exentryk
Member
Yes.
Graphically it is primitive and the frame rate is uneven. By comparison I just finished Horizon which has good gameplay and insane graphics. In addition at the time of finish I considered it GOTY. However, Automata even with those flaws (so far anyways) easily, and I mean EASILY outshines even Horizon in the gameplay and music department. It doesn't hold a candle to the graphics, but then again, graphics don't make a game fun.
What an amazing year this is. So many awesome games.
Leona Lewis
Banned
Yeshh USGamer I don't who you are but you came through
91 here we go~
EDIT: We live in a universe in which Arby's tweeted out a NieR Automata reference.
91 here we go~
EDIT: We live in a universe in which Arby's tweeted out a NieR Automata reference.
I like this universe.
Nioh isn't a mainstream game i don't expect a ton of reviews to be added.
Exentryk
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Leona Lewis
Banned
It'll probably end up somewhere in the neighborhood of Berseria's final tally (between 50 and 60 reviews).
Complex Shadow
Cudi Lame
Oh hey look, it's back.
EDIT: Damn, sniped.
never played a nier game before. but from what ive seen i am kinda excited.
also from whatve i been reading. the story for the past nier game is kinda insane. i can't follow any of it
BRSxIgnition
Member
Check out the Clemps Analyses in the OP for Automata - super in-depth, fun watching.
Yabberwocky
Member
Yeshh USGamer I don't who you are but you came through
91 here we go~
EDIT: We live in a universe in which Arby's tweeted out a NieR Automata reference.
I like this universe.
It was thus that US Gamer smited down Horizon with a 2.5/5, and then raised up Nier as the chosen one with a 5/5. I'm conflicted between Nier joy and Horizon salt.
Holy fuck, Nier and Arby's-! This is so very surreal.
Napalm_Frank
Member
We back to 90?
Preordered again.
Preordered again.
Evil Monkey DTT
Banned
Don't worry, it makes more sense the less you understand..... I know that sounds like an oxymoron but
never played a nier game before. but from what ive seen i am kinda excited.
also from whatve i been reading. the story for the past nier game is kinda insane. i can't follow any of it
BouncyFrag
Member
The disrespect...
lordfuzzybutt
Member
90? I thought this game was cool, pre-order cancelled, I don't play these overrated mainstream craps. 89 below or bust.
guybrushfreeman
Unconfirmed Member
After his first mainstream success Yoko Taro loses the will to go on after losing his reputation as the quirky underdog. "Shit Square Enix" he mumbles after being realising the horror of having a well received game
Boogalogist
Member
Schrodinger's preorder.....the thread.