New concept art
>>341396741
The fact that those bodies hanging from her head didn't clip with her arms was the most impressive thing I've seen in years.
>>341396741
Apparently this is similar to something that was in Madoka Magica.
Also boar
>>341396916
>>341397160
So...is this before or after the aliens?
>>341396741
>we want the madoka audience
>again
>>341398468
800 years after
>>341396916
isn't that the mask the guys in facade use?
Does that mean those robotswere humans all along?
>>341396916
>that mask
Well shit
>>341399034
knowing taro they are probably kidnapped babies stuffed in machines that runs on baby fuel.
>>341396741
>tfw i'm more excited for the soundtrack than anything else
though my hype on that is like 1000% so my overall hype for everything is still stupidly high.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-o2EtUOtNg
>>341397160
>fully functioning jaws locked behind the featureless lining
oh boy
>>341396741
i need 2B to be THICC
>>341397476
>God of Boar
![NieR_Automata_Train_E3_2016_Trailer_NA_ONLINE_1.mp4_snapshot_01.18_[2016.06.15_08.06.42].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/OaBGFnv.jpg "NieR_Automata_Train_E3_2016_Trailer_NA_ONLINE_1.mp4_snapshot_01.18_[2016.06.15_08.06.42].jpg")
The new trailer also had some nice shots
>>341396741
Man this impressed me so much. Like the color choice stood out so much, the sound wave phase looks really impressive too.
>>341399114
>knowing taro they are probably kidnapped babies stuffed in machines that runs on baby fuel.
is it open world or on rails like rest of platinum games?
![NieR_Automata_Train_E3_2016_Trailer_NA_ONLINE_1.mp4_snapshot_01.18_[2016.06.15_08.07.43].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/fAnq38X.jpg "NieR_Automata_Train_E3_2016_Trailer_NA_ONLINE_1.mp4_snapshot_01.18_[2016.06.15_08.07.43].jpg")
>>341399114
Top kek
>>341401307
If it is like Nier, then it's multiple relatively big areas and some towns/villages between them
>>341399114
the orb heads are shown to have skulls with jaws and shit
maybe they're human brains embedded inside and serve as control units, since the heads are shown on bosses (in the opera singer's chest, on multiple points on the giant boss they originally showed off
>>341401307
I think they said they're still doing a big explorable world like Nier did.
>>341397476
I want to ride that boar
He is going to be the secret character, right?
STANDING HERE
![NieR_Automata_Train_E3_2016_Trailer_NA_ONLINE_1.mp4_snapshot_01.03_[2016.06.15_07.59.58].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/LZ3106c.jpg "NieR_Automata_Train_E3_2016_Trailer_NA_ONLINE_1.mp4_snapshot_01.03_[2016.06.15_07.59.58].jpg")
>>341401942
A2 makes me rock hard
Will there be anymore gameplay?
That trailer left me wanting MORE DAMMIT! The music is so good too I want more.
I'm watching the 2015 gameplay in slow mo right now and the animations in this shit are unbelievable, better than both Bayos and MGR combined
>>341402290
They're going to be doing a panel on one of the other days
>Kamiya has the backing of Microsoft's endless war chest
>Scalebound looks like crap
>Taro has a shoe string budget, a box of miracles, a futon in his office and the desire to finally make a happy ending
>Nier 2 is shaping up to be Platinum's best title of all time
Sounds like some people at E3 got to play the game, if this article is any indication. No I don't feel like paste binning it because I'm fucking lazy.
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/nier-automata-feels-like-a-platinum-games-classic/1100-6440908/
IS 2B NOPAN
>>341402681
taro games run on despair and madness
Eww, edgy.
Going to pass that one
>>341402681
>>finally make a happy ending
I don't believe you.
Do you really believe this madmans lies when he says this game will have a happy ending?
>>341402681
Taro Yoko has the benefit of being really good friends with the higher ups of SE which is why he continues to make Project Dragonsphere games despite their mediocre response in general.
![Nier_PGW_TRAILER_1080p_60FPS_EN_PEGI18Prov__1446126476.mp4_snapshot_00.29_[2016.06.15_08.21.07].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/X9pNNi5.jpg "Nier_PGW_TRAILER_1080p_60FPS_EN_PEGI18Prov__1446126476.mp4_snapshot_00.29_[2016.06.15_08.21.07].jpg")
>>341402852
no
>>341402973
>>341402987
He said that Nier ending was a happy one.
>>341403178
>bulgefags BTFO
>>341403241
Never believe this man. Do not give him any budget.
>>341402681
MS calls the shots, it's probably their fault Scalebound is weird and stupid.
>>341402290
>>341402393
good shit. Is there a time or anything I should be looking out for?
Looking forward to the PC version of this game.
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/sony-lists-20-ps4-exclusives-set-for-2016-release/1100-6433490/
>>341402987
You have to remember that his idea of happy is different than yours. This is the man that found it funny that one of his friends fell off of a building to his death when they were children.
>>341403360
Thursday
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
NieR: Automata
Discussion with the Developers and PlatinumGames' Takahisa Taura
>>341403435
It was delayed to 2017 PCfriendo
never ever
>>341403178
Cute!
>>341403505
Good fucking shit, anon. What timezone is that timeframe in though?
>>341403479
while having an erection
>>341403629
PDT
http://na.square-enix.com/us/blog/square-enix-presents-e3-2016-program-schedule
>>341403881
MY AFRICAN AMERICAN KINSMAN
>>341403738
>tfw there are actually 4k direct feed screenshots from the PC version out there
>>341404168
Just wait for PS4 Neo 4k 120fps
>>341404168
r-really? That is actually pretty cool. I wouldn't mind getting to play this on my PC, rather than my ps4.
>>341404297
Those were screenshots from the announcement, so it was probably not running on PS4 yet
>>341404168
I'm going to be spoiling the whole game for PC fats since they've been shitting up Nier threads since Automata was announced.
Why haven't you been drawing more porn of this game, /v/?
I have 3 pictures. I need more.
>>341404407
As if the shitposters actually care about the story
>>341404464
If i could draw i would
I wish i could draw as good as Yoshida. I'd draw waifus all day
>>341404464
>>341403881
God I hope this game'll be good. It's hittin' all my sweet spots. Should probably play the Nier 1 to get me ready for Automata.WHY IS NIER MUSIC SO GOOD?!
![NieR_Automata_Train_E3_2016_Trailer_NA_ONLINE_1.mp4_snapshot_00.14_[2016.06.15_07.56.27].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/I2gfH2o.jpg "NieR_Automata_Train_E3_2016_Trailer_NA_ONLINE_1.mp4_snapshot_00.14_[2016.06.15_07.56.27].jpg")
>>341404752
The tribute album is amazing.
>>341396741
Those doll android corpses have pretty thick robo thighs.
>>341396916
>>341397160
Seems like the aliens rebuilt the Emil clones into their invasion force or something. You are probably killing an Emil every time you blow them up.
I hope they improve the hair textures.
It looks like they lego hair.
whats niers gameplay like?
>>341405265
Incredibly basic hack and slash mostly.
It sort of becomes a bullet hell at times and has a VN section as well
>>341405130
For some reason it looks better in the actual gameplay compared to cutscenes, but it's mostly just a texture thing. But i guess they had to make some compromises to make it run at 60 with big areas, all those enemies and shit
>>341405265
Simple action and shmup. And you become OP pretty early on, the combat works, but it's nothing amazing
It is kinda fun though since it has a lot of differnet mechanics
>>341405504
>you become OP pretty early on
Not on Hard though. The more you level up the more powerful enemies become.
>>341405265
jump+triangle
>tfw I realize Okabe actually did the OST for Yuuki Yuuna wa Yuusha de Aru
Why the fuck did I not check it earlier, should have been obvious.And I actually like YuYuYu's OST more, sorry.
>>341405734
>Not on Hard though
Wrong. All 4 endings on Hard, only the first one offered a bit of challenge. Most of the time you cheese with Dark Gluttony and click spam Dark Blast, no issues.
The hardest (or most annoying, rather) part was the huge boss after Kaine. Took ages.
>>341402681
>Better than Bayo
>Better than W101Scalebound does look shit tho
>>341406336
It's possible
The gameplay looks amazing, the animations are already above Bayo and the OST and story will be top tier and it will have actual open areas and quests and shit for once
>>341406336
Kinda disappointed with how Scalebound looked from that gameplay they showed off.
A shame, since I like dragons and some of Platinum's stuff.
>>341406906
The gameplay from last year definitely looked better
Actually fighting close range against shit is way more fun than doing platforming 90% of the time
>>341406507
The gameplay doesn't look amazing at all. What we've seen is very basic, very short, and currently not even MGR tier. It could be much better in full, but that's not what we've seen. Open worlds and quests are nice for certain types of games. Not for Plaction games. Maybe they can make it work, but most likely they won't based on the fact no-one ever has before.
I'm expecting (and will be happy with) it being on a level with MGR. Suggesting it's going to topple Bayo or W101 because it has a nice story or OST is just silly, Anon.
>>341407163
platiniumbabbies have arrived, move along boys.
>>341407163
If you say so, anon
>>341407163
>What we've seen is very basic, very short, and currently not even MGR tier.
It's literally MGR with a skirt fused with bits of Nier. Even has similar animations, the heel sword kick thing is nearly identical to Raiden's.
Not to mention MGR combat wasn't anything special anyway. Automata has already shown variety in ranged attack and real-time weapon switching, which is all stuff that MGR failed at.
>>341407469
The animations are actually a quiet different, they more fluid and not as heavy and most of them are pretty much just ballet and other dances combined with weapons
>tfw the Nier segment of Squenix's E3 is at 5am for me
sometimes having a job isn't worth it desu
>>341407163
Platinum are trying to get into RPGs. That's the only explanation I got for Scalebound and Automata.
>>341407350
>Platinumbabbies have arrived in a thread talking about a game Platinum's making
What were you expecting?
>>341407469
I'd bet money it's mostly the MGR team from Plat's side who are working on it.
>>341408218
It's not a Platinum game.
>>341403241
I want that fucking outfit.
>>341407740
I don't think Platinum's trying to get into anything. Scalebound's just Kamiya having money thrown at him and doing whatever he wants with it (supposedly; it's what he's always done before but MSoft are Capcom-tier bastards when it comes to meddling so who knows what's going on behind the scenes) and Automata's just a case of MGR; they had everything down except for the gameplay so hired Plat for it.
If someone came to them tomorrow and said we want you to make some RPGs for this amount of money I have no doubt they'd do it, but at the same time I don't think that's their goal.
>>341408316
Neither was MGR
Doesn't change the fact Platinum's part of the team making it.
>>341396741
Also on PC *
>>341403241
To be fair, it's kinda happy if you take into account the extended fifth ending in the art book or whatever.
>>341404930
Automata NEEDS another tribute album
>>341408475
>Scalebound's just Kamiya having money thrown at him and doing whatever he wants with it
So, an action game with RPG elements?
>Automata's just a case of MGR
MGR had RPG elements? Genuine question.
>they had everything down except for the gameplay so hired Plat for it
We don't know who approached who to work together.
>>341409520
Square came to Platinum asking if they'd like to work on a game with them, Platinum responded by saying they'd like to work on Nier, so technically both approached one another.
>>341409520
Sqaure most likely made the first step
They want Nier to sell, so they want it to have better combat and overall good gameplay and Platinum is both cheap and works fast
>>341409520
>MGR had RPG elements? Genuine question.
No, I'm likening the two because MGR was its own thing before Platinum but they couldn't get the combat right with the people they had so they hired Platinum to do it for them.
Nier was greatly loved for everything but it's gameplay.
>We don't know who approached who to work together.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9Q07XBcgxc
4:10
>hearing we will be able to ask Platinum Games
It's the exact same scenario.
>>341397160
The idea of a head with teeth but no mouth is a horror I'd never considered.
>>341397160
Jesus christ.
>>341408218
>I'd bet money it's mostly the MGR team from Plat's side who are working on it.
let's be honest, most of their games from MGR onwards feel poorer and emptier.
>>341397160
Guys... there's a human face between the robot eyes. >>341399114 may be onto something.
>>341402681
>the desire to finally make a happy ending
Why do you speak such falsehoods on the internet?
>>341402681
>make a happy ending
how much you want to bet that it's the first ending you get and you need to unlock your own despair.
>>341411882
continuing my thought... what if the "happy ending" is all based on a lie the game is telling you and you need to unlock the actual truth, which leads to despair.
I know I'm talking out of my ass, but that's an option I would like to see.
>>341412218
Considering what's happened in past games, it's very likely the worst ending will be the hardest to unlock. Every game Taro has been director of has the most horrendous endings locked behind hours of grind. Especially ending E of DOD1.
You had to max level every single weapon in the game, which means you had to go through all the bullshit involved in just unlocking the fucking things.
>>341412559
>You had to max level every single weapon in the game
No, you just needed to collect them, but that's a feat in itself as there are situations that there's no possible way you'd know without a guide. I think there's one where you had to wait for 15 minutes before a weapon box appeared or kill over a certain about of enemies within the first 5mins of a level.
These are the legs of a boybot.
>>341402706
>The original Nier asked players to complete the game three or four times to completion to uncover the full story; each playthrough would yield new bits of information and fresh perspectives on its characters, adding depth to the narrative. When asked if Nier: Automata would have the same layout, Taro said the team is planning something similar, but not quite along the lines of needing multiple playthroughs.
Sounds to me like it'll employ the Drakengard kind of alt route selection where you are plopped with little explanation into alternate timelines with weird differences.
>>341402973
>>341411812
>>341411882
>>341412795
My favourite is the one where you had to take a very exact route through a level to get to the chest.
>>341412795
cont.
fuck, the more I'm reading of the weapon unlocks the more frustrated I get.
Guardian's Sorrow - "Kill all enemies in under 3:20. You may NOT use magic."
Writheheart (oh fuck this one, I forgot about this) - "Allow 25 minutes to pass and the chest will appear near the final target."
and this guy >>341413150
>>341401803
I'm pretty sure everyone is dead.Besides Red eyes.
>>341413015
I personally really liked how they handled the narrative of Drakengard 3. If it's similar to that I'll be happy.
>>341413320
Ah shit, if he ends up being the final boss I won't stop cumming for weeks
>>341413325
I dunno. Drakengard 3 was my GOTY, but even I was a little taken aback by how more clunky it felt to me. Plus there's the skeevy DLC cut-content that hid pretty damn vital characterization for the Intoners.
>>341404407
As if any game with any modicum of popularity is ever safe from endless platform-independent shitposting on neo-/v/.
'PC' is the same thing as 'x' here.
>>341407163
There's full on enemy juggling and aerial combat in the game. It looks more like Bayo to me than Rising.
>>341413486
Am I the only person who really enjoyed D3's gameplay?
Granted, I've only just finished the first route and used the combat bracers 90% of the time, so I might not be tired of it yet
>>341412218
If we consider DoD's storytelling is through verses of an epic poem that has been re-written and tampered with to make Caim more heroic, I could see this happening, but more from an a.i.'s perspective? The question is how to do this convincingly and meaningfully. The absolute truth need not be something terrible.
>>341413684
I really wanted to like it, but those goddamn technical problems held it back for me. Was still my GOTY due to it's plot and characters, but it's gameplay was hampered by poor poor really poor framerate.
>>341413886
I think I prefer an ending that may seem hopeful, but then you let the player realize it's "wham" reality check that the world/characters/etc are actually fucked.
>>341413684
I did, gameplay was actually totally fun if you got past the clunkiness and shit framerate. It was interesting to try out not just the 3 weapon types, but the different movesets that varied with weapon size.
I can appreciate really interesting games despite the jank and shitty PS2 games like Chaos Legion and Maken Shao Demon Sword hold a special place in my heart, so Drakengard 3 remains one of my favorite games of all time.
>>341414017
>see, happy ending
>for thirty seconds
>>341413437
He's not going to be, if he's in it at all. I'll have no doubt that he could survive the Aliens, robot wars, and time but Red Eye is mindless or at the very least fragments of Caim left.
Red eyes=Caim is speculation anyways. Too bad we never saw him.
I can imagine that future Nier thread will be split between Platfags talking autistic metrics about mechanics and Caviafags jerking off to interpretations and self mental harm.
... I'm strangely ok with this as long as the two just focus on themselves.
What are the odds of Accord and Emil being not just NPCs but full on party members?
>>341414141
Impressive
>>341412218
That's kinda what happens in Nier. Ending 1 is a normal happy ending, Ending 2 adds a flashback and character epilogue. Ending 3 continues the game where it would've stopped to show what happens to another character and 4 is an alternate end to 3. Each ending more depressing than the last.
>>341414375
Accord maybe. Emil not.
>>341401719
The world wasn't very big and there was nothing to explore
>>341414141
Only a happy ending if you don't think past it.
>>341414612
>>341414809
Yeah, That's what I'm thinking of. A "surface layer" ending that you need to dig at to realize that it's lying to you. Something like Total Recall.
>>341414141
nice
Should I play Nier? All the reviews say it's 25 hours of boring garbage then 5 hours of cool shit at the end. How true is this? What's the appeal of the game?
>>341415050
Kill yourself for caring about reviews from retards
>>341414757
It's large open stages where you can walk wherever, but there'll also be areas locked behind story progression, is what was actually said. Just like in the first NieR.
sucks that they're going to have your gay ass brother follow you around with his tight ass pants in your face
>>341415050
Just play it.
It's well under 15$ at this point
>>341415050
Plot is good, gameplay could be better. Try it since it very unique.
>>341415050
It's only boring if you can't stand "meh" (not bad mind you, just "meh.) combat. The game's only boring if you're a twat the decided to do every every every sidequest. We have a guide someone here probably has about those.
It's great and you should try it out.
>>341396741
>Opera Boss
how creative
>>341415171
Eh you still have 2 smoking Android babes in your party. Shotafags can have their due.
>>341415050
It's ok but it seems to be pretty expensive in a lot of places
>>341415050
btw, if you do decide to get it... get out of these threads. We spoil everything with no regard.
>>341415396
>2
Is A2 really going to join the party? She seemed pretty antagonistic so far.
>>341415869
maybe, they did say 3 playable characters though and 2B and 9S are confirmed.
A2 is the only other character showed off majorly.
>>341396916
What the fuck
>>341414141
Wew
>>341396741
Drakengard 1 designs = best and sexiest designs
>>341415171
He'll probably die a horrible and painful death, for an android at least.
>>341414612
I don't know, I think D is a lot happier than C and generally much better than people say. Watchingeverything get deleted item by itemwas pretty soul crushing in a way that I wasn't really expecting even going into it with knowledge of what would happen, but I feel like the characters were better off.Especially if ending E really is canon.
>>341414918
Something like Silent Hill 2 where, once you start reading, you realise how fucked up things are?
>>341417896
>a
Considering that they're all mass produced robot lines, you can probably count on all of them dying several times.
>>341397476
>Also boar
Likely a reference to Chernobyl and how there is a thriving wild boar population there. You are not suppose to eat their meat because of radiation, but the locals don't care and do it anyway.
>>341419659
Or we're going boar drifting again
>>341419659
Or because NieR let you ride boars you retarded /v/eddit fuck LMAO
>>341419659
Uh, no.
It's a reference to motherfucking Boar Drifting.
>>341419002
Yeah"ending E"basically turns ending D into a happily ever after thing but we have no idea if it's canon.The idea is that Papa Nier would choose C to care for his daughter while Brother Nier would choose D because he would fall in love with Kaine. I like to think that Papa Nier might also have feelings for Kaine since they both lived a hard life and it's his way of repenting his shade-murdering sins in a sense, by giving his life to save a half-shade. He might feel like this whole time he failed as a father and that Yonah might be better off with the hardened but potentially motherly Kaine.I dunno, that's how I thought about it. It still felt really sad tho.
>>341397476
Couldn't spare the effort to give it hair, P*?
>>341419002
>was pretty soul crushing in a way that I wasn't really expecting even going into it with knowledge of what would happen,
As I mentioned yesterday, that is a matter of perspective. You are unable to use that character's name again, right? That means that character has been permanently recorded into the game's database, a memorial. Your "100% completion" is now marked in the game. Yes, your files are gone, but the files come and go. The name is acknowledged by the game itself is far more eternal than flimsy save files that could have been written over at any time.
Hence, happy ending. By not existing, your character left a void behind that was an exact shape of himself. And that void is proof enough of his existence.
>>341419882
Except that everyone still dies/goes insane in Ending E because of the black scrawl anyway.
>>341419882
even if one ending kinda leans more towards one nier than the other, neither of them really seemed out of character for brother or father.
Haven't played a single game prior to this, do I have to go through them to understand the story of this one?
>>341419882
The way I saw it,C results in Nier losing everything but his daughter while D results in Kaine and Yonah potentially living long, happy lives without having to remember any of the bad stuff.Of course E sort of throws out that last bit but it still makes sense in terms of motivation for Nier.
>>341420109
True. Except Emil who I think is immortal. And Ending E Nier since his gestalt is dead, yet was somehow recreated from memories which might imply he's not a normal replicant.And maybe Kaine, I was never totally clear on Kaine's status towards the black scrawl either pre or post Ending D.Which might set the scene when Yoko Taro said they might be coming back or at least mentioned in Automata.
>>341419882
D fits Papa Nier cause I think at that point he just didn't want anyone else to die and he might have seen Kaine as maybe a surrogate daughter so he wouldn't have wanted to kill her when there was another option.
>>341420332
Maybe Nier. Nier links with Drakengard but only in a very loose, tangential way so it's not required.
Drakengard 3 has some themes and imagery very close to Nier though so who the fuck knows if Automata will reach back to Drakengard 3.
>>341420952
I see, at least it's not a convoluted mess like KH.
There's no redeeming that games story.
>>341420827She was just possessed by a shade and it removed itself somehow so she should be fine, but she should've at least died of old age by the time Automata begins. Same for E Nier.
>>341421248
Which reminds me, what exactly didTyrann do and why did it require completely erasing Nier from existence?Was that ever explained?
>>341421128
I'll tell you the Drakengard connection in Nier since it's really not a big deal or spoiler to the rest of the story:At the very start of Nier, the prologue basically shows you that the modern world has faced some sort of apocalypse. You learn from loading file notes and shit that it was basically some sort of disease or bad thing that happened or something. That something was one of the endings of Drakengard, in which you follow an ancient elder god to modern Tokyo and kill it but die in the process. Either the elder god, your dragon or both of your remains somehow cause the sickness that kickstarts the story of Nier. Really, it doesn't matter since you could replace that backstory with "zombie apocalypse" or "bird flu" and the story still makes sense, society collapses and humans do desperate things to survive.
Also about Drakengard 3:something similar to the elder God returns and there's post-apocalyptic imagery similar to Nier and even robots kinda, and the manga spinoff even has something like the disease. However, Drakengard 3 very clearly outs itself as a prequel that exists in its own timeline and doesn't directly lead into any of the other games, so it might not impact any future game. The game basically involves alternate timelines n shit.
>>341421248Yeah, it was mainly that I didn't understand what erasing yourself to save her did. Like, did that give her a new soul? Is she a full human now? Does she even need her own gestalt anymore? Does she keep some part of her shade-induced superhuman strength? Does that mean she's a super-human? What exactly happened to Tyrann? Those sorts of questions were what I had in mind.
>>341420332
>>341421128
To answer your main question simply, you might need to play the first Nier. However, Nier Automata apparently takes place hundreds of years in the future, so you might not actually need to know the backstory to get the main plot. Just like how you don't really need to know about Drakengard to get the main plot of Nier 1, even though Drakengard is the backstory because it was hundreds of years ago.
>>341421672
D3's ending A leads to Drakengard. The disease in D3 is the same as in D1, and most likely related if not also the same as NieR's.
The grotesquerie queen's remains caused the White Chlorination Syndrome in NieR's world, while the corpses of Caim and Angelus contained traces of magic that were researched to bring magic to our own world, in hopes of findinng a way to counter the WCS.
I have a PS4 and a gaming PC, so it doesn't affect me if the game comes out for PC or not, but I really, really hope it does, so people can rip the game models and produce tons and tons of 2B SFM porn.
>>341422915
An ending in DoD3 cannot directly lead to DoD1. If A happens, B won't happen; which means no pacts.
>>341423126
>>341423126
This is the reason why you guys should create a Drakengard thread instead of an Automata one.
>>341423126
They can still rip the models even if it's exclusive.
>>341396741
>>341396916
These designs are 11/10 QT
>>341423437
Timelines seemed to get blurred, possibly as a consequence of the watchers coming into the world, albeit briefly. Some weird combination of A, B and D needs to occur for DoD1 to happen, we need Brother One to found the cult, zero to invent pacts and the flower to be destroyed. As far as I can tell C is the only true bad end and Accord seals it off.
>>341422915
>D3's ending A leads to Drakengard.
Not exactly, it leads into the spinoff manga Drag-On Dragoon Shi ni Itaru Aka and novella series all collectively called Drag-On Dragoon 1.3, in which Drakengard 1 happens but with very different outcomes (Furiae makes a pact with a dragon to kill Caim in Ending A of 1.3 for example).
Should I play the first game before this?
>>341424136
Actually, none of the Drakengard games happen in the same timeline or share branches with each other. The only games that are directly related by sequence are DoD1 and NieR, by way of Ending E, and MAYBE NieR and Automata, again via Ending E.
>>341426161
Did she succeed?
>>341426161
Is there a synopsis of the novellas somewhere? How did she go from wanting to bone him to wanting to kill him?
>>341426246
No, Angelus kills them.Sometime later Caim is killed by a rogue dragon and Angelus transforms into a winged humanoid. It's weird.
>>341426391
I'm getting it from the wiki, but apparently the translations are here:
http://drakengard-3.com/blog/category/drakengard-3/dod1-3/
Basically Caim keeps rejecting her and she goes crazy. Such a lust for incest.
>>341426391
Love and hate are two sides of the same coin, anon.
A2 gameplay when
>>341426693
After we see 9S being controllable.
>>341403479
And this was how long ago? Maybe his tastes and ideas are changing
>>341426790
But we already seen that?
This game looks like its really coming together well. Great characters designs, landscapes, and gameplay
My only concern is whether it will be as stylisticly experimental as the first one? First had moments of 1D, 2D, a written choose your own adventure part, and a lot of other stuff.
This game looks great, but if they scrapped all of the above, then my interest has considerably waned
>>341427105
>1D
>>341427190
Maybe he means the top down view parts?
>>341427105
I wouldn't call text "1D"
But yes they've already shown to be doing some of the same stuff as the first one did, mainly the changing of perspective
They'll probably tone down on the text adventure part for the masses though
>>341397160
>Emil face
WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
holy fuck is this where his body came from?
>>341427190
>>341427380
Ay the Top Down parts, couldn't really think of the phrase for it
>>341427390
Not the text,
>>341426894
It doesn't seem like anything has changed from then to Drakengard 1 to NieR to Drakengard 3, so it's unlikely to have changed now.
>>341427507
They are robots based on Emil, nuthin strange about it
I mean bar the grin under the mask.
>>341408789
ending A-C are bittersweet D-E are fucking gawd awful and the hardest manly of men will even shed a tear
Yoko is like Tomino they both don't want you to feel TOO good after going through one of their stories (Turn-A doesn't count /m/ fuck you)
Should I play Drakengard 1,2 and 3 before Nier?
>>341427715
0079 ended with a definite happy ending though
>>341397160
> that grotesque form beneath the metal veil
>>341427507
Emil killed a lot of aliens so maybe he's some kind of infamous warrior or something at this pointThere's also the fact he made clones of himself and that we could possibly be fighting Emil all the way through
>>341427507
These seem like rather cheap production model. Emil and his sister were prototypes of a weapon project that was meant to be mass produced after all, this may be the continuation of that. They are said to be self-replicating and ever modulating using whatever materials they have at hand, but at least the orb heads seem to always be the same.
>>341427731
Doesn't matter really.
I wouldn't have even known Drakengard 1, 3 and Nier were even related without those novel things that I can't remember the name of or the the internet.
>>341420332
>Hey guys do I have to play the previous Metal Gears to understand the story?
>no? ok
>THIS STORY MAKES NO SENSE SHIT GAME
this will be you but replace MGS with Nier
>>341427956
I don't think "the ultimate weapon" is something that was ever meant for mass production, but Emil did become able to recreate and replicate himself.
It also does makes sense to fashion your weapons after "the ultimate weapon" too
>>341397160
>robot skeletons
Spooky
>>341427731
You don't need to. If you want, play Drakengard 1 before Nier. Drakengard 2 wasn't made with Yoko Taro and I don't think it's even canon anymore. Drakengard 3 should be played after Nier. Drakengard 3 doesn't really have anything to do with Nier, I just really liked it and it ties in well if you've played Drakengard 1.
>>341428092
Terrible comparison
>>341427715
Xabungle
King Gainer
G-Reco
Daitarn-3
Dunbine
Zeta: A New Translation
L-Gaim
Fuck off memer
>>341428092
That's bullshit though, you can follow Nier's actual story completely on its own. Knowing the DoD links just improves your understanding of the fucked up lore
>>341428164
Its funny because the part we take as "skeleton" now is the actual skin and theres a skeleton inside it....
>>341415313
>decided to do every every every sidequest
There are people right now in this thread who don't finish every sidequest?
>>341428867
I always save out of the way sidequests for after I finished a game's main story, not for any logical reason though.
Most of the time they're uninspired boring fetch quests or something else entirely irrelevant so I generally avoid them nowadays.Granted that's more my choice in games at fault here.
>>341428309
>Zeta: A New Translation
>Zeta
happy ending
famm...
>>341429418
>not knowing about the Zeta retcon
It ends with Fa and Kamille humping in space. No mind crush.
>>341428867
>>341429336
What I find hilarious about this is that Nier sidequests starts off the most mind-numbingly bad way possible but nearly all of them end up with its interesting little bits.
>>341407163
>wanting Nier to be a full blown cuhrayzee beat em up
What the fuck am I reading
>>341430427
>"Hey put this book in the shelf for me, yeah?"
>Do it and return.
>"Hey got another book for you to put back."
>Do it again and return.
>"Thanks for doing the job I'm getting paid to do, here's a small amount of cash."
I get that not all of them are like this, but some of them were complete wastes of time. The only appeal to some of them is the Nier/Weiss banter.
>>341430796
The first few were literally get 10 mutton and shit, but after that all I remember had something more to it, or was short/easy enough to be inconsequentional.
The only exception was fishing.
Still, I was hooked by the dog/medicine quest and thats at the beginning.
>>341407163
Did MGR have bullet hell elements? No. You can't really compare them because they're not trying to do the same things
>>341430659
muh platinum
>>341396916
But Sechs died
>yfw the aliens are using the backup data of people that the Gestalt program was using to generate a replicant as a base for the machine's AIs
Its been like what, 8000 years? Gestalt program ended eons ago and the aliens could have easily cracked open and stolen the datastores from the Forest of Myth, assuming the system didnt totally collapse and become corrupt before anyone dug it up.
>>341430942
The later ones were good I admit, but honestly I didn't do many in the first half of the game because they weren't interesting.
I deeply regret not doing the Devola/Popola song quest though and have started again to do all the quests I missed, mostly out of boredom..Killing sheep on hard mode is really annoying and that Boar is really powerful.
>>341431550
I think we are only at like 1900-2000 years from the opening of Nier
I think lots of the things we've seen can be easily tied in with Nier already
>>341403241
He never said which ending was happy
>>341430659
Pretty sure that guy was just talking about the gameplay's complexity, which has however been already proven to be more varied than MGR's via real time weapon change and full on air juggling on top of everything Rising did but better.
It's undoubtedly a character action game the likes of DMC and Bayo, so what's wrong with wanting it to be as good at that as can be? It doesn't demand any sacrifices from the story and atmosphere, there's no harm.
>>341403435
You mean watching a playthrough on Youtube?
>>341405051
They are probably older models like A2. Someone is probably gonna get salty during that fight.
>>341432545
>giant armor-robo-princess wearing the dead android bodies of her enemies for cosmetic appealI'm in love
>>341419659
I hit a boar in my jeep last week is my fucking life a Chernobyl reference, fucker?
so i have a ps4
if i buy a ps3, can i CFW it and play nier/draken 3 like that?
should i bother playing draken 1/2, or just watch playthroughs on youtube? watched a few levels of draken 1, looks like utter shit in the way of gameplay with occasional dialogue/cutscenes/summary cards.
>>341421672
>Really, it doesn't matter since you could replace that backstory with "zombie apocalypse" or "bird flu" and the story still makes sense, society collapses and humans do desperate things to survive.
You really can't actually, WCS and humanity's various attempts to deal with it are directly tied to Nier's plot.
as long as theres no currency then I'm good
Literally the worst parts of Niet and DoD3. Drakengard 1 had the right idea of forcing you to simply find/fight for your weapons with no bullshit
Oh man if this comes to PC, I'd enjoy it. Not really feeling optimistic on PS4 running something so beautiful, smoothly.
>>341433942
When is watching games ever ok
>>341434116
I'm right at the start of Path D of D3 and I had to spend about hours grinding cash to get the weapons in the shop. Then I found out I'm missing two swords and a chakram anyway.
Haven't played D3 in a while since finding that out.
>>341434019
Also the fact that humanity had a big technological boom due in part to what they reverse engineered from the dragon's corpse and the queen's remains.
They basically discovered magic because the dragon and the queen brought it into our dimension. Pactless magic, at that. Basically all the old world machines and tech are fuelled by this ghettorigged magic and they used it to fight back against the Legion.
>>341433942
Read that hilarious Drakengard LP/Analysis on Let's Play Archive.
>>341433942
D1 you should play. Maybe not complete, but you should absolutely play it.
D2, just watch the cutscenes. Especially any involving Caim or discussion of Caim ("Okay, we can go fight a man best described as murder on two legs... or his dragon. Personally, I think we stand a better chance with the dragon.")
>>341434328
when the "game" is a shallow dynasty warriors/panzer dragoon clone (which is fucking saying a lot, considering the shallow nature of both of those series' gameplay)
>>341434526
i'll check it out, ty anon
>>341434626
ugh, really? it looks like the most padded-out-tripe. if i were to play it, could i play it on a ps3 with CFW? non-slim ps3s are backwards compatible, right?
>>341435037
Why are you even pretending to be interested in a game you dont want to play.
>tfw best aerial combat in the series but everyone jerks of DoD3 because of waifus
>>341435237
'cause the story/characterization is supposed to be top-notch throughout the whole series
it's like witcher series, anon; i suffered through the glorified rhythm game that was TW1, and the QUEN-ROLL-QUEN-ROLL-QUEN-ATTACK-ROLL that was TW2, and the halfway decent ARPG that was TW3 because everything but the gameplay was really good, but if that series wasn't so into the whole choice-consequence-importing-saves thing, and only had dialogue/story every fifteen minutes, you bet your ass i would've watched someone else play it
>>341397160
I have this sinister feeling that as the game goes on we're going to see enemies without the mask. Speculation is that Emil and his sister's forms are an attempt to connect back to the grotesqueries seen in endings D and E of DoD1, looks like their presence is still lingering.
>>341432291
>It's undoubtedly a character action game the likes of DMC and Bayo
Firstly character action is still the stupidest genre name to have ever existed. Secondly it's done nothing to show it even comes close to the depth of DMC or Bayo, or even MGR for that matter. Being able to do more things doesn't automatically make something deeper or more complex, see Legend of Korra for the perfect example of that.
Game's looking good but hailing it as doing everything MGR did but better because it has some features MGR didn't when so far all we've seen is the bare-bones of a work-in-progress is just far too presumptuous.
Just out of curiosity whilst we're here, people in the thread excited for this game, how important would you consider gameplay to be on a scale of 1-10, compared to story and art design?
>>341435754
I never thought TW1s combat was bad, it was just what it was. Ironically Drakengard 1s is very similar with rythm based combos.
I dont know maybe I just take games for what they are.
Also, if you actually want to experience the story/characters in full you will need to actually play the games. Theres a good bit of shit you can miss in an LP, especially with Nier, but then theres a whole layer of feeling lost if you metely watch a game. Thats why I dont undersrand this LP generation, its deliberately choosing an inferior experience when you dont have to.
