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"My doctor wasn't very happy about the condition of my liver. But I'm still drinking a lot. I might drop dead at any minute." - Yoko Taro ***** Hmm... Huh? What do you want? I said I was busy and didn’t have time for any more Let’s Pl—huh? What? What do you mean someone let Taro Yoko make another game? C’mon man... how?! It better not be another goddamn Draken—oh it’s a Nier sequel? I... poo poo... ... Fine... FINE! Goddammit! Let me get dressed... What is NieR: Automata? NieR: Automata is an inexplicable sequel to 2010’s Game of the Year Absolutely Nobody Played (GOTYANP™) NIER. Cavia might have fallen, but somehow Taro Yoko keeps getting work. And this time he was given an actual competent development team in the form of Platinum Games. Like their A-Team too. Not the skeleton crew of interns making all this subpar licensed properties like Legend of Korra or Ninja Turtles. Or even the band of cardboard cutouts standing in a room with Hideki Kamiya pretending Scalebound was ever going to be a real game. Like competent people good at making a video game! I know, I’m as surprised as you! Do I need to have played the original NIER to enjoy this? Nope! NieR: Automata is set thousands of years in the future past the original game and has very little to do with it plot wise. It does have very overt references and some returning characters you’ll miss out on. While I’ll point out anything calling back to the original, I will be working under the assumption you’ve played the first game and spoil the hell out of it. If you’d like to learn more about the original game, I heard there’s a pretty good LP of that over here: NIER And while we’re at it, this is technically set in the same universe as the Drakengard games. Which I also might have LPed in some hazy point in the past: Drakengard Drakengard 3 How are they related? Well... It’s a long story I don’t have time to get into here. And almost not as all as far as this game goes. Except for the direct references. But err... Don’t worry about it too much! That was like four apocalypses ago! It doesn’t even matter much anymore. Mostly. So what actually is this game? It’s an open world action-adventure brawler RPG twin-stick shooter side-scroller platformer with the occasional visual novel element. Wha...? Yes. I cannot believe you’re doing a SSLP for this Platinum action game! Please do an LP custom tailored to my tastes! Analysis: Shits given - 0. Proposal: Nothing is stopping you from making your own LP or finding a suitable screamboy on YouTube or Twitch playing this, champ. This game actually has buzz. It's not just me screaming into the void it's real good this time! If you'd like to have a series of articles going in-depth on all aspects of the game from how it plays to the weird dumb lore, hi. That's me! And what I'm going to do. This will be more comprehensive than any other motherfucker on the internet is gonna do. And there will be videos for every single part you'd actually care about. If that's not good enough for you... tough poo poo, hoss! Or better yet: GO PLAY IT YOURSELF! It is legit a really loving great game! I want you to go play it if you can. How do you pronounce "Automata"? Like "automaton". Auh-toe-mahta. With that said, let’s begin... The Dark Id fucked around with this message at 00:46 on Mar 14, 2018 |
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Fanart and assorted junk made in the LP thread goes here. Spoilers a-plenty, obviously. Sheesh! Rirse reminds us of 2B's voice actress' dark origins. AndwhatIseeisme knows the score. Obnoxipus axes us a question. Adnor chronicles my journey through Kingdom Hearts 2. Fredrik1 has some top boys for us. Elkyrie shares some little dudes having fun. AirborneNinja has prohibited fun on this roller coaster. Elkyrie shows us the eternal plight of 2B. Morbi has an interesting interpretation of 2B's eating habits. Morbi should know jokes are prohibited. Morbi holy poo poo... Obnoxipus has regrets for their words and deeds. Fioaimes (my wife) came tumbling down with this. Ledgy has questionable ethics when dealing with orb boys. Fioaimes has created an actual murder machine. Ursine Catastrophe has shown a corrupting influence. FrostyJones knows the path to deification. megane knows a top boy or two. TurnipFritter wants a quiet life for 2B. TurnipFritter has different ideas about hacking. FeyerbrandX reminds us of much more dire times. Fredrik1 knows class. NHO picked the forbidden Gutter Owl questions YoRHa's place in the world. MShadowy has a deep cut for us. Neddy Seagoon sums up Yoko Taro's writing process. Adnor sees good things in 9S's future. KamikazePotato is just trying to help. Solar Tornado is receiving a C&D order from Yukiko Yoko's lawyers as we speak. Jetamo has returned from the darkest timeline. Tunicate is a bad person but totally right here... Nohman really wants to **** 2B. RoeCocoa is here to blow our minds. The Ayshkerbundy questions the Red Girls' fashion decisions. Tunicate has peered into the machine cores. My son has some NieR: Automata commentary to share. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-XtMNYHsZc Seshoho Cian steams a mean ham. Occasionally I'm an irresponsible parent but... c'mon... This is pretty good. Doodmons I'll be the roooooundabout! The wooooooords will make you out 'n' out! Malachite_Dragon is immune to FoxDie. Squarely Circle implores you to visit Mt. Emilmore. The Dark Id fucked around with this message at 03:17 on Mar 17, 2018 |
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Episode I: A Cautionary Tale New Music: Significance Welp... We’re somehow here. Honestly, of all the games I LPed over the years, NIER was at the very bottom of ones I expected to ever get a sequel. The game sold gently caress all. Cavia, the development studio, shuttered months after it was released. I was more of an ad campaign than Square-Enix put out. And well... it wasn’t exactly a game that screamed for a sequel in the first place. But here we are! Limbo of the Lost 2 is going to be announced any day now. First things first, as soon as we hit New Game we’re told this game does not have auto-save. There is no auto-saving in this game! It is entirely on you to save your game. There’s a reason for that. It’s a bad reason and the single worst mechanic in the game. But save points are incredibly generous in stock most of the time so it’s not a big deal. Usually... We’ll find that out later in the game!* * “Later in the game” means after the Prologue. The Prologue is 30-40 minutes your first time through. The first order of business is naming our save game file. In the original Nier, the player had to name the main character, Papa Nier. Yeah, they named a game after a player character you could rename at the start. Indeed, the name “Nier” is... actually verbally said _once_ in either of these games! But that’s not the case this time around! They only ever use the name here for our data entry. So I’ll just name the save file after myself. I *probably* won’t have to erase myself from existence. That’d be silly! There are four difficulty levels present in NieR: Automata. Easy, which absolutely anyone can beat with no problem. The game will literally play itself in battles if you so desire. Normal, which is the recommended difficulty initially. Hard, which is err... well... for advanced players. And Very Hard, in which literally everything kills you in one hit. If you spec correctly 1.5 hits. Well heck, I’ve played the first game and my fair share of character actionish titles. Let’s give Hard a whirl! Hey, what the hell?! You literally JUST told us there is no auto-save in this game. Please explain what is happening in the top right of the screen right now, mister. I’ll wait... I cannot believe it is 20 seconds into the game and we’ve already been lied to. This doesn’t bode well... Oh well. Let’s just start the drat game and hope for the best, eh? Music: ENDS We are perpetually trapped... in a never-ending spiral of life and death. Is this a curse? Or some kind of punishment? I often think about the god who blessed us with this cryptic puzzle... and wonder if we’ll ever have the chance to kill him. New Music: Alien Manifestation For all the insane happenings in the Yoko Taroverse, murdering deities has never come up. The rhythm battle abortion on the giant pan-dimensional Grotesquerie Queen above the skies of Tokyo was probably the closest it ever got. But this planet is about four apocalypses deep at this point. If God exists in this universe, to his credit it's at least not a malicious absentee landlord... Anyway, have a sweet future fighter jet! Our flight is interrupted by a radio transmission and large holographic display... outside the aircraft. That seems off, but what do I don’t know future tech? Autopilot systems green across the board. We’ve passed the 50-kilometer threshold and are proceeding toward the target. Understood. Once you reach their anti-air defenses, proceed to manual-attack formation... then destroy the Goliath-class unit by any means necessary and gather what data you can. Understood. Hey umm... What did that IFF code say? 12H? 12H... you’ve got some red on you...? Not sure what’s up with th—aww CHRIST! AAAAAAHHH—*crackle* All units, activate manual mode and rely on visuals to evade. Already engaged. Free movement unlocked. Origin point of long-range lasers confirmed. Alright. We can move up and down now. I hope Drakengard 3 acclimated you to having characters named after numbers because this time around a decent chunk of the cast is a number and a LETTER. That’s the power of a bigger budget at work already. We are controlling unit 2B according to that IFF tag. It’s the identical black one there with the Manual: Move notification there. So umm... 11B. I’m not sure if we’re at a higher rank having a lower number or if you’re at a higher rank with the larger number. Regardless. You might wanna consider abandoning your current cour— Aaaaa—*crackle and disconnect* Our Ho229 cancellers are ineffective. Yeah... I dunno what any of that means. And I’m not expert on aerial combat of the future But maybe let’s try flying under the radar here? Sticking above cloud cover has resulted in the death of one-third of the squad on a mission that commenced a minute ago. That’s not going to reflect well on the performance review of the operation... [Radio Ring] Requesting permission to engage. Permission granted! We now have the ability to fight back and actual enemies to engage. We’ve got infinite ammo with no cooldown here, so we’re free to just dump into the distance like any good shoot ‘em up. Our enemies are initially those little flying saucers there. Spoilers: A couple thousand years after NIER ended, aliens invaded the planet! A pan-dimensional entity unleashing magic into a non-magical world and summoning a monster army, a disease that erodes people’s souls, and mankind being split into weird clone bodies and shadow creature souls wasn’t quite enough apocalypses for this planet... The flying saucers all shoot out orbs vaguely in the direction of 2B and the other units. Orbs come in two colors, a pinkish purple which can be destroyed by any attack and a darker purple which is immune to all but the strongest offensive techniques. This is straight from the first game’s mechanics. Unfortunately, our newfound bullet fire ability isn’t really helping against the one-shot laser plaguing our forward assault team’s advance... 7E down. Boy that one didn’t even get a chance to scream before dying. By the way, turns out we can evade by tapping RT/R2/whatever insane button the terrible keyboard controls are assigned to. That might have been useful tutorial information earlier... Ya know, before 66% of the team died to a fixed point weapon firing in the distance. Evasion will make 2B’s craft perform a barrel roll with incredibly generous i-frames and a speed boost if moving left or right. It’s a fairly key ability in this game. So surely, now with our Evade ability this laser beam blast from the horizon ought to be no trouble at all. Let’s watch Captain 1D masterfully circumvent this next beam like a pro... Err... Captain, you’re just kind of hanging out in this very clear particle effect. You don’t need to wait to the last second for dramatic effe— ...Maybe playing on Hard was a mistake. Apparently 2B is now the ranking officer on-site and is taking command. Usually, you don’t want to point out who the team leader is in the middle of an active combat zone. Especially when your side has been decimated. Almost literally. But what do I know? 2B is now team captain and her on-field promotion nets her a sick white paint job for her Ho229. Becoming Captain unlocks the ability to perform Heavy Attacks. This causes 2B to straight up do a Star Fox-style barrel roll that deflects/neutralizes all projectiles hitting the barrier it forms. As the name implies, it can also deal heavy damage at close range, one-shotting most enemies early on. It’s a risky maneuver. But one that can really pay-off if executed pr— ...Err. Err... Well... Huh. ... ...Short game. Video: Episode 1 Highlight Reel (Whoops. This should work now!) 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Ground floor, thank you so so much for LPing this. I wasn't sure if you would or not, and instead - my prayers are answered!
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Yes! I've been looking forward to this! I played this game to death when it launched in JP and still can't get enough of it. I love it to pieces.
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No! NO! I haven't finished Zelda yet! Can't...stop...reaching...for...wallet...
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I'm so glad that after all the bullshit games TDI had to endure to entertain us unruly cretins, he gets to play one of the best PS4 games out right now on the PC. And yeah, no one saw this sequel coming, but drat did it make a loving entrance.
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This is a loving awesome game with one of the best soundtracks I've ever heard.
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That was certainly an intro. And you seem to have linked the video manager instead of your intended video at the end there. But whatever, this poo poo is going to be good!
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I still can't believe Yoko Taro's luck that a perfect storm of events happened and culminated in this masterpiece.
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Yessssss, ground floor for Automata. Should be fun times ahead.
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Awesome. I am all over this. Thanks for coming back, TDI.
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This game is really loving good and I'm kind of sad that it came out at the same time as breath of the wild, which in my estimation might actually be the best game ever made. Also, Id, I think your video link is broken. It's redirecting to https://www.youtube.com/my_videos?o=U which I think is because you're not linking directly to the video, but to something involving video editing (I don't make youtube videos, so I have no idea.) Might just be me, but I'm alerting you just in case. Jen X fucked around with this message at 03:10 on Mar 30, 2017 |
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That awkward feeling when someone joins SA just to hang out in the thread. I just love Nier so much, my life is sad I know!
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I am so excited. This game is fantastic, you'll finally be able to fully enjoy LPing a Yoko Taro game.
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Ground flooooooor~ Seems like Platinum still hasn't gotten Star Fox out of their system. Hmm...
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And so it begins. This is still so surreal, that we live in a timeline where Yoko Taro has a product to his name that's not majorly busted in some aspect.
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I welcome the newest chapter of Taro Yoko's Wild Ride.
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This game... gently caress man this game is just some insanely good poo poo and I hope they let him keep going. I do not have words to describe how happy I feel about this game.
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And so the Watchers laugh once more. (Was really hoping you'd do this one.)
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It begins!
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Analysis: Maybe don't have a pint of Scotch before starting a LP thread. (The end video should work now.)
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This is seriously one of the best games ever made. It was simultaneously a joy to play, and painful in that Taro Yoko kind of way. The soundtrack is as good as the first game's, I feel. I could rave on and on, but I'll just say that I can't wait to see people's reactions.
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I'm glad we're starting off with a happy ending!
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Yay, I knew you couldn't stay away! No one has yet adequately explained to me how Yoko Taro keeps being allowed to make games, but I am sure glad he is. Having a team of people behind him who can actually produce a functioning game turned out pretty well too. We live in the best of all possible worlds! As an aside, I started playing on Hard initially after thinking the demo was pretty easy on Normal, and well... I am very familiar with that particular bad end there.
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MrAptronym posted:As an aside, I started playing on Hard initially after thinking the demo was pretty easy on Normal, and well... I am very familiar with that particular bad end there. That is the one thing I did not like about the game. Hard mode feels like too much of a slog in general, but it is absolutely punishing here in the tutorial. The worst thing is getting near the end of that 30-40 minutes Id mentioned, and choking.
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Thank you for Playing.. Oh wait the game isn't actually over yet. Glad to see the LP start up. I bought it on Steam and loved it so far, but had to put it on hiatus while I worked on finishing Breath of the Wild. And now that game is done, I can resume this again.
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When you ride the tiger, you don't get off, you don't stop. No one stops. Even if you think the tiger's been dead for a year or two.
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This game is loving fantastic and I'm real excited for this LP.
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MrAptronym posted:No one has yet adequately explained to me how Yoko Taro keeps being allowed to make games, but I am sure glad he is. The president of Square Enix is a real big fan of Taro, and Platinum games got to choose which IP they get to work on when they were hired for Next Square Enix game.
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The original LP is a large part of the reason I picked this one up Day 1. Thanks for that, and looking forward to this.
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Oh my am I psyched for this. I still have yet to read the entirety of the Nier LP but between various references in the Drakengard LPs and JordanKai's abortive VLP of it, I believe I've got a feel for what happened there. And in addition I've seen some stream footage from Genocyber, so what I've seen of the game thus far looks pretty cool.
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Holy crap, the best LPer LPs the best game. Analysis: the music in this game is loving fantastic, I literally can't think of a game with a better soundtrack. Proposal: click the links quickly. E: sadly some of the effect is lost, since part of what makes it so great is how it changes based on the situation. megane fucked around with this message at 03:54 on Mar 30, 2017 |
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YESSSSSSSS!!! I'm glad I get to be on the ground floor for this thread and playing along with it. Loved your other LPs, thanks for all the entertainment over the years! Edit: Yoko Taro's a wonderful crazy bastard, here is the promotional video he shot for the Nier:Automata T-shirt bundle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhDL3Q86ofY This is a video of him "helping" to plug a game for Atlas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LT62mVaIpA Never change ya crazy bastard. Thisuck fucked around with this message at 04:08 on Mar 30, 2017 |
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sniper4625 posted:The original LP is a large part of the reason I picked this one up Day 1. Thanks for that, and looking forward to this. Same. The Drakengard and NieR LPs made me fall in love with moon-masked madman Taro's complex, bittersweet universe, connecting in a way I'd never have through straight video LPs or simple summaries. I am incredibly pumped to read this LP, and super, super glad to be here for its beginning.
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Well, would you look at that! Guess you had one last wild ride left in you. I have a good feeling about what Yoko Taro has in store for you, and what you have in store for us.
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To be fair this is much better suited to be your last LP than loving Susana or whatever. If you go that route.
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# ? Mar 30, 2017 04:04 |
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It's a miracle! Really excited this is happening since I won't have the cash to buy another video game for a while.
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Good, good. I will not follow this LP yet, tho, still need to finish the game by myself.
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