>Q:"I have questions about a plot point in the game." A1: Play the game and finish it if you haven't. A2: Finish playing the game? Ask away. If you have any suggestions or links you think would be useful, then respond with it to the OP and help build up the archives.
>"What is /ndg/?" A place to talk about Nier, Drakengard and Taros games
Not really, though when you get the chance you should at least play the first Nier.
Jonathan Diaz
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Lincoln Myers
god I want her to smother me with her oversized, overweight breasts so bad
Carter Perez
The latest Giving Tree spinoff is looking good
Henry James
You are trash, but don't feel bad.
I haven't played any of the Drakengard games. Loved the original NieR though
Lucas Ortiz
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Connor Mitchell
Requesting someone color this please.
Mason Reyes
Is the PC port of this bad for anyone else?
It just is running really poorly for me. And it doesn't seem like THAT graphically intensive a game.
And even just changing stuff like anti-aliasing and shadow quality caused it to lock up for me.
Also I really don't like that alt tab windows the game instead of minimizing it, especially since theres no borderless windowed option
Bentley Thompson
I don't think current Tales fans have been around long enough to be offended by that.
Landon Moore
if you liked automata you should try to play the first nier at somepoint. while automata is a good standalone experience, there are some moments that hit really hard if you had played the first.
and as a standalone game nier is incredible in its own right. gameplay isnt the best, but the story is magnificent and potent.
William Bennett
Here's hoping for a remaster Else I'll have to borrow my little cousin's xbox
Evan Johnson
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Carson Ramirez
So the red girls are the ones that control the machine network, right?
Joshua Morales
>those Virtuous and Cruel weapons >2B loves 9S madly but hides her feelings and is also sick of the cycle of pointless violence she's forced to go through >9S is batshit crazy murderboo who apparently killed other S models in the past and not even 2B knows what he truly feels
Ian Hill
>mfw Simone's backstory after finishing Jean-Paul's sidequest
Oliver Allen
oh shit, the dude in those memories was jean-paul?
that fuck
Brody Murphy
>simone >jean paul
Cooper Evans
Finally beat Emil Bike Boss.
All he says is that power is all that matters in this world anymore.
Not a big fan of this outcome.
Ryan Brooks
>Sartre >not *beep*
Justin Walker
>tfw I only played symphonia I played its sequal and then honestly had no desire to play any of the others. But that's neither Nier nor there.
Parker Williams
When i first saw the red girl and copied city i thought i was about to see some Drakengard shit
Matthew Evans
WORLD OF STR
Henry Torres
>Cult of the watcher symbol on Eve >Red eyed machines with red faces on the kid sized robots
Sweating bullets the whole time
Bentley Robinson
>references to Accord >red girl >The Tower and the Copied City >Angelic text
WHAT ARE YOU HIDING TARO
Hudson Lewis
>4th parts of Virtuous Dignity and Cruel Arrogance Yoko Taro, you absolute mad man
Jace Murphy
>99 existential problems >bitches ain't one of them
Isaiah Barnes
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Charles Adams
And then you understood that it's all bullshit and goes nowhere?
Andrew Hill
well you did break into his home, steal one of his prized possessions, then tried to steal again, and forcefully beat him to the point of him submitting and letting you keep the items. are you happy with yourself? are you happy now that you've stolen from and beat him?
Grayson Morgan
don't forget to check out the canonical puppeteering show that will only be shown once in kuala lampur at a random date
Michael Cook
I want 2B to jump on muh cock and destroy every bone in my body
Owen Young
What are the red girls? Like the personification of the machine network or some shit
Hunter Scott
>who apparently killed other S models Weapon stories aren't related to the actual game plot
Ian Turner
Well, user's of /ndg/
Was it all for nothing? Do you give up here? Do you admit there is no meaning to life?
Liam Cruz
>Was it all for nothing? Yes >Do you admit there is no meaning to life? Yes >Do you give up here? No
Nicholas Morris
what's the worst possible ending you can think of to the drakengard/nier series? besides an ending scene of taro waking up and realizing it was all a dream
William Cox
>a weapon story that has 2B and 9S at its background is not related to the story okay user glad to see you're still retarded i mean, it might be an allegory about 9S' traitorous and bloodthirsty nature but connection with him is extremely clear
Levi Flores
4th pristine screw where?
Easton Howard
>they are still in denial about Cruel Blood Oath and Virtuous Contract
Hunter Scott
>bullshit >goes nowhere Oh you sweet summer child.
Kayden Flores
"and to explain the weird shit going on with textures, apparently 1024x1024 for her dress is the highest we're going to get for some arbitrary reason. and plus, platinum is still fucking using DXT, meaning shit gets really bad artifacting. could also have to do that she has a separate map for the velvet look it has - experimenting is actually being done on that."
"And I can see why. Unlike the weapon models which are running pretty standard metalness pbr, 2B can best be described as 'What the fuck even is this' with the exception of detail and ao mask.
Which is really bizarre when you also take into account the normalmaps being dxt compressed in 2017. What the christ are you doing platinum.
So with that said 2B probably is not running metalness; but just to be sure I treated them as if they did."
What I thought was weird was when you fight the super Emil boos fight and you machine companion identifies it having magical weapons from the old world. But why would the androids have forgotten how to use/make to weapons but still be able to recognize them?
William Ortiz
Yes No I make the meaning of life by observing and labeling it as its the only way i can personally be sure of its authenticity and "real".
Luke Nelson
Kill the two giant dudes outside the Castle. Spawn at the King's room and jump out the window.
Joshua Howard
>taking yoko taro games weapon stories seriously >calling others retarded k
Nathan Johnson
Eh, I installed that and its still running pretty poorly. About 40 FPS
Also now theres a constantly stat thing in the top left that I dont know how to get rid of
It absolutely does though It's pretty much dark souls 2 all over again
Jacob Mitchell
Can't wait for the porn
Wyatt Diaz
Cause the weapons use high densities of maso from qb and/or angelus and maso itself is almost entirely non-existent at this stage due to the android cleanup effort to make earth habitable by humans. We've managed to digitize magic to an extent but its nowhere near as potent as straight from the source maso powered shit.
Tl;dr emil is using low-tech shit but its super packed with obscenely powerful magic whereas androids use high-technology piggybacking lowlowlow magic principles to function.
Cameron Collins
>Preorder Day One Edition because Limited isn't on Amazon >Oh well I'll get over it, whatever >Finish the game >TAKE IT BACK AMAZON GIVE ME MONEY I'LL GET THE STEELBOOK AT LEAST
Jacob Green
Ah in other words go forward in the story
Chase Reyes
Much like Minazuki Suu Taro is out to ruin everything you love.
Dominic Young
Thoughts on Yoko Taro's new mobage? It's already showing its ties with Drakengard/Nier with the use of Angelic script.
Theres enough commonalities for responsible connections to be made plus the next avalanche of supplementary materials that will guaranteeably link this shit to watchers and drakengard as thats literally the point of the cycle and story.
Benjamin Lewis
>preorder Limited Edition for 55€ months ago >check back today >limited for 110€
Evan Turner
>Preorder the Day One Edition >Recieve the Steelbook Limited Edition
Everything went better than expected
Angel Barnes
I bought off the artbook from a friend. THe figure isnt worth it imo. Square Enix CEs are always way too overpriced i wish they'd just make 100 bucks game+artbook editions
Colton Bell
I just wanted to find all the content...
Though the fact that 9S doesn't talk at all and Emil Bike doesn't seem to bring it up afterwards makes me think that it's just a bonus non-canon fight for everyone who wanted him to be a boss.
Nathaniel Sanchez
After watching first unboxing I couldn't care less.
Colton Ortiz
Already out.
John Scott
I think the figure's actually pretty good. I also got the DoD3 CE, so I might as well continue the trend.
Tyler Nguyen
When does it come out?
Jace Garcia
Reasonable.*
Brody Ortiz
So I don't have a real question for platinum on what they were doing, because I'm pretty sure I've an idea.
My question is "What all did they do to increase performance?" Any trained eye can see that there was a lot of shortcuts taken in this game, and they were VERY smart with the art direction.
This is somewhat off topic, but that part where you're climbing the tower as A2 and 9S works so well because everything in it is pure fucking white.
Aaron Lopez
Nah, honestly it sucks, I already plan to buy the World Guide and OST so it's the same without figure. Actually I think the World Guide has more stuff than the artbook, so that's cool
There's still around for 65€ here. Still, I didn't even plan to buy a PS4 when the preorder was up, but then I did and what a right choice that was
Benjamin Evans
I'll rather get the one made by flare.
Anthony Mitchell
Gonna try it at least. Concept seems fun enough and you got both Taro and Okabe on it.
William Torres
>use chapter select to go back and find weapons I missed >find 2Bs flight unit in the flooded city for the first time What the fuck man
Nathan Walker
It doesn't suck at all. If nothing else, it's way better than other game figures. Too bad nothing else will be in English, though.
I'll probably get that too.
Brody Campbell
Which thing did you download? If it;s the fullscreen fix, look in the "oldish" pastebin file. I pasted a convo in there that may be related to what you're seeing.
Aaron Phillips
Will the future of the Nier world be nothing but androids with a few machines or would they manage to clone humans?
Aiden Morgan
What the fuck is this Sarte bullshit? I cant find a definitive answer, everyone just writes "legal reasons" and buries the question. This is retarded. And beeping is fucking annoying.
Nathan Johnson
Drakengard will leak into Nier and we'll have Androids vs Dragons
Justin Green
Sartre's family is just a bunch of dicks and don't want his name used in anything. They sue anyone who tries.
Hunter Hill
Does the story pick up after ending A? I didn't have the same emotional attachment I had to the story like I did with Nier or dg. The characters just aren't as good. Adam and Eve were really awful. Everyone in Nier was awesome, even the book that followed you. I understand the game is about developing consciousness and character, so I'm hoping it's all towards to where I'm heading
Jacob Brown
Oh cool, thanks
Shame that the fps still kinda sucks. Wonder if I should just return it and get it for ps4
Austin Scott
>future of the Nier Hah, good one. Yoko Taro doesn't give a crap anymore.
Ayden Ortiz
Why do you say that?
Colton Taylor
They have the genetic info for the gestalts so they COULD make replicants. Only issue with this is in Nier-verse a replicant without a soul existing somewhere that its paired with won't come out alive. Its not like a clone where it just pops out alive and well and they can't actively make souls/gestalts.
Worst case scenario: they do try replicants and they piggyback off the acquired gestalt info on machine cores/the network then we have the blackscrawl and doublemurder all over again.
Best case scenario: SOMEHOW(apparently this shit is hard) you make an actually diverse clone system and somehow god gives the okay as well on this project so they come out with actual souls though his whole gig is humans are cosmic cancer so you should die so this is almost entirely unlikely.
Tl;dr machines forever since androids recently lost their main resources and places of serious repair.
Leo King
He said in some interview he gets bored easily and would rather be unemployed again now, and that he wants to check out restaurant businesses or something like that.
Mason Ward
Why is it so fucking hard to get the photagraph locations.
Andrew Gray
So, it's one of those name glory abusing relatives, fucking fags. Guess they couldn't reach nippon to sue the Japanese dub.
William Walker
Just walk up to the big red circles and you automatically get them. What's hard about it?
Adam Howard
that's what he says every single time he releases a game
Caleb Sanchez
His family are pricks and covet his name for sueing and easymoney purposes. In america that copyright shit last 70 years beyond death so we have something like 35 years until its free use. Japan is much looser on this.
Aiden Ortiz
>last Engels record
Benjamin Foster
I finished this game 4 days ago
Why do I still feel so empty inside
I don't event want to play any other games anymore
why do I keep listening to the OST
fuck your taro
Benjamin Morales
why does emil have masks of himself
Landon Powell
They're not masks
Wyatt Lee
Same thing happened to me. I still get melancholic fits when I listen to the OST, but I can play other games now.
These things take time user. In a month you won't give a shit about 2B and 9S anymore.