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glam rock hamhock posted:But even then, the pods realize that they are just giving them the potential to do something new, and the same thing might still happen again and again and again. It adds a small bit of hope of something but also might have done nothing but create a new cycle That's called "being alive," yes.
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Doesn't that ending have an amazing line about "life being a pretty much continuous stream of embarrassing moments"? It's so good.
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Snak posted:Doesn't that ending have an amazing line about "life being a pretty much continuous stream of embarrassing moments"? It does, yes. And yeah, they're loose from the cycle, if they let themselves be. Both on a personal level (since 2E and Nines don't have to go on in the murder loop any more), and societally (Now androids know the con that's been run on them for countless centuries, and aren't getting fooled again).
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I guess the ending is a lot like that of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind where how hopeful you think it is depends a lot on you.
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glam rock hamhock posted:I guess the ending is a lot like that of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind where how hopeful you think it is depends a lot on you. "So you're sayin' there's a chance!"
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This game is so good and even though I started playing BotW and Persona 5, I feel like my heart is still dwelling with Nier: Automata. The soundtrack and the directing in the game go so well together that listening to a lot of the tracks, I still have this strong impression of the emotions from the scenes they were used in. I know some people aren't crazy about the ending, but I feel like it gives the story enough breathing room to stay alive in my imagination. I just think this game is swell.
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Rangpur posted:Ha!
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Pants Donkey posted:That would be me.  Well, it's great.
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Thanks! Know what's really great? Nier Automata Playthrough C When A2 dashes she turns red for a few seconds and hovers if you hold the button, but I've never found a purpose for it.
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Pants Donkey posted:Thanks! Know what's really great? Nier Automata You do more damage temporarily while she's red.
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I do find it interesting that Pascal is the one counter-example to the whole "the machines can't break out of their programming themselves, even if they think they have" issue, what with how he explicitly goes against the pacifism the Terminals built into him in order to protect the children.
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The Sandman posted:I do find it interesting that Pascal is the one counter-example to the whole "the machines can't break out of their programming themselves, even if they think they have" issue, what with how he explicitly goes against the pacifism the Terminals built into him in order to protect the children. Eh.... is it really going against his programming if he's just tapping into his deeper programming to be a killing machine? If anything it kind of shows how the pacifist evolution didn't take nearly as strongly as it seemed to.
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Oh, side note, probably discussed already, but that just struck me as rather clever? The way YoRHa was structured, with a "terrible secret" known only to the top brass, the whole council of humanity thing. It means that everyone who knows assumes they're "in the know" is going to try to stop anyone from poking too deep, and finding out the whole expiration date deal. There's more than enough to keep quiet already, and they're too busy with that to look for more. It's just this cycle, the timing worked out just right for Nines to survive poking at what he shouldn't know, and things spiraled further from there.
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I just got ending B and now I'm getting my rear end kicked repeatedly by common machines. (Bold choice to put a combat difficulty cliff right after you play Galaxy Wars for a few hours.) I've been blasting through the main story which I'm loving and ignoring side quests -- did I skip doing something and screw my character? JRPG side quest poo poo feels tedious to me these days and Zelda spoiled me on open world exploration so if I have to do any of that I'm probably going to set this aside. Should I suck it up and drop down to easy like a filthy casual?
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acksplode posted:I just got ending B and now I'm getting my rear end kicked repeatedly by common machines. (Bold choice to put a combat difficulty cliff right after you play Galaxy Wars for a few hours.) I've been blasting through the main story which I'm loving and ignoring side quests -- did I skip doing something and screw my character? JRPG side quest poo poo feels tedious to me these days and Zelda spoiled me on open world exploration so if I have to do any of that I'm probably going to set this aside. Should I suck it up and drop down to easy like a filthy casual? Consider having a look at your plugin chips. Heal-on-kill/damage is pretty good, and a small amount of evade range goes a long way too. I also like a small auto-heal just to top me up between fights if I get hit a little bit. Also, weapon damage matters whenever you can't hack, so consider upgrading your favorite pair to level 4 using the forest smith.
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The game expects you to be around level 45 when you get Ending B, which is easily done if you did some sidequests along the way, but if you beelined main quest you'll be at around level 35 or so. You can make up for being underleveled by slotting in a good set of chips, but if you're at the part I think you're at, you might not have access to that right now. The sidequests in this game are pretty good, honestly. Pretty much all of them are relevant either thematically or for character development. Might just want to suck it up and drop it to easy until you get access to shops again.
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What percentage of Unit Data do I need to complete the scanner unit's quest? Because I'm already at 83% and I still can't clear it.
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I've heard 95.
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My Lovely Horse posted:I've heard 95.
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Yeah, the scanner quest sucks because you not only have to fight every enemy type in the game, but you also have to fight every variant of every enemy, some of which appear once and are easy to miss, some of which rarely spawn. When checking what you have, go to the model viewer of the enemy and cycle the outfits because each of those outfits are like an extra half a percent. Unrelated to that, I think if I had any complaint about the game from a gameplay perspective, I wish there was a difficulty between normal and hard. I found normal too easy and hard too unforgiving for my liking. Like towards the end of even my B playthough, I was a pretty overpowered but when I upped it to hard, I would constantly be one shotted even when changing my chips to be more defensive and damage absorbing. Ah well, not a huge deal.
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glam rock hamhock posted:When checking what you have, go to the model viewer of the enemy and cycle the outfits because each of those outfits are like an extra half a percent 
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Cephas posted:This game is so good and even though I started playing BotW and Persona 5, I feel like my heart is still dwelling with Nier: Automata. The soundtrack and the directing in the game go so well together that listening to a lot of the tracks, I still have this strong impression of the emotions from the scenes they were used in. I know some people aren't crazy about the ending, but I feel like it gives the story enough breathing room to stay alive in my imagination. Same here. So many good games to play but the soundtrack is on constant loop in my head and I keep thinking about what I just played Ending E
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Question about the post-game shop: which achievements are the Ending E/All Endings/Emil Fight ones? I don't wanna buy them but I DO wanna buy the rest of the ones I'm missing.
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I don't follow achievements but are you guys talking about paying actual money to say that you did something?
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Heath posted:I don't follow achievements but are you guys talking about paying actual money to say that you did something? No, there's a postgame shop that lets you spend in-game currency to automatically pop trophies. They're not even that expensive.
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Oh, I didn't even realize that. And here I am hunting down joke endings like a sucker!
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I would really like to see the stats on how many people buy/earn each trophy.
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I earned every single trophy with utter joy because this game owns and anything that helps me pull an extra second of gameplay out of it is worth it.
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My favorite thing about the trophy shop is the trophy for having 100,000 G costs 100,000 G to unlock.
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Bad Seafood posted:My favorite thing about the trophy shop is the trophy for having 100,000 G costs 100,000 G to unlock. That's amazing.
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Bad Seafood posted:My favorite thing about the trophy shop is the trophy for having 100,000 G costs 100,000 G to unlock. I love this game
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Bad Seafood posted:My favorite thing about the trophy shop is the trophy for having 100,000 G costs 100,000 G to unlock. lol
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I did all the trophies except the upskirt one (which seemed dumb) and the pantsless one (because it was dumb and would take time)
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Exploding 9S' pants off is not dumb and is in fact the intended way to play the game.
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I just beat ending A and can't seem to find the chips that I was using during that run. Am I supposed to have gotten them back into my inventory? I did die a few times on the final boss but I didn't see a body to collect.
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i just bought this
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eonwe posted:i just bought this Good move
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potatoducks posted:I just beat ending A and can't seem to find the chips that I was using during that run. Am I supposed to have gotten them back into my inventory? I did die a few times on the final boss but I didn't see a body to collect. If you died on the boss and didn't collect your body, those chips are gone. Happened to me as well. If you still had your chips, they'd be slotted in like usual.
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And Tyler Too! posted:Got a controller, this game is so much more enjoyable now. I just have a few bad habits to break. Monster Hunter has me conditioned to dodge *into* attacks instead of away from them. I hosed sawblade guy up this time. Do you ever get to return to the starting area? I found a locked chest and it was taunting me. I don't care what's inside it, I won't let that chest win. So speaking of Monster Hunter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwUXUzII4xw
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