>2B Bandwagon Has Crashed, All Aboard the A2 Bandwagon Edition
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! I FUCKED IT UP.
Adrian Baker
It's okay.
Jackson Miller
>That toned back I cable row and bend over row and I will never have a back like that. Kill me.
Chase Jones
She's a perfect android.
Caleb Howard
Have you tried archery?
Landon Green
lol Christ, let me get this straight. We got some spoilers that made people paranoid that 9S was dead, so maybe it's not as happy as we thought.
But truth actually is that 9S is dead, A2 is dead, and 2B is in torpor, and all life is pointless death trip.
I mean I almost just have to laugh. The end of the game now is literally life is meaningful, companionship is great, NO IT'S NOT. Who writes like this? This is like ending a coming of age story with the previously angsty protagonist coming to terms with the facts of life and finding purpose, and then hanging themselves 10 minutes later, because fuck you.
Jonathan Peterson
Nth for gunning down coupleposters in the streets.
Benjamin Martinez
I have some question anons.
The carrier we see in the game is part of the resistance or is from yoRHa? Do the resistance even have planes? The carrier looks like is made to carry flying units of yoRHa.
Another question... How much of you people thing that the remaning androids from the gestalt project are the ones who are behind yoRHa?
Thomas Peterson
I wouldn't be able to go to an archery range often enough to justify it.
Leo Martinez
Game's ending E is a continuation of ending D. The stuff from the concert is a continuation of ending C. Basically two different timelines. This isn't new to Taro games. The ending E as shown in the game is still untouched.
Levi Nelson
Someone noticed that the pods have some demonic element/ magic based attacks?
Nathan Ortiz
Androids have the technology to control magic; it was established in Nier:Gestalt/Replicant.
Jackson Gray
Magic only exists because of Drakengard 1, so it makes sense that the pods use magic.
Easton Diaz
Does Accord could also be using magic to do the time jumps?
Jaxson Parker
I'll believe that when Taro officially calls it Ending µ or something, since no alphabet left. Otherwise just seems like a last ditch effort to save the game. Certainly not that I blame you, but I'm just not assuming that without verification.
Josiah Howard
Are the pods, the android version of the grimoires?
Henry Barnes
A2 is imperfectly perfect.
Nicholas Morris
Here, have your happy couple
Dylan Collins
Not canon
Christopher Allen
Yes canon
Joshua Barnes
Automata Figmas when?
Angel Nelson
Nope, not canon.
Liam Bennett
Stop not-canon-user. With that mentality you are never going to score. Look at 9S, he already scored. Canon
Grayson Davis
Too bad this concert is in Japan where they'll probably just passively accept it. In the west this shit would probably get boo'd off the stage.
Alexander Parker
It's canon. They have android sex all the time.
Jacob Hernandez
>9S riding 2B's dick Lewd
Easton Diaz
"Linking hands" is the only canon thing they have done.
Canon.
Not canon.
If you're gonna couplepost then keep it canon you fucking plebs. And before you call me notcanonfag, I'm not.
Ian Stewart
I don't think most people are autistic enough to boo a "what if?" alternate timeline story that has no impact on the main one.
Jaxson Miller
A concert like this would never happen in the US because we worship media in a different way. If this was in America, it'd be cringey as fuck to go to. Then again in Japan you'll just see people with those stupid glowsticks and that's it.
Elijah Torres
>With that mentality you are never going to score I never will anyway. Also, 9S hasn't scored because that shit aint canon
Christopher Rogers
Oh my god. Shut up.
Gavin Rivera
>"what if?" alternate timeline story that has no impact on the main one.
You hope.
John Garcia
Something to keep in mind is that there is no such thing as "what-if" in regards to Taro's game's as they don't abide by a single timeline. A good case is Drakengard 3, which had sequel stories to Ending A, and Drakengard 1 as we know it is a sequel to an ending not even seen in the game itself.
Brody Watson
Ok sorry
Ayden Torres
The fuck is this gook and why are you avatarfagging with her? My guess is a kimchi.
Joshua Kelly
The stories have several inconsistencies with endings D and E, but they all fit perfectly with C. And since C and D were alternate versions of each other, it seems pretty damn obvious what the concert stuff is.
Connor Baker
She is the goddess Irene.
Sebastian Parker
Concert is canon and clarifies the story. >“Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have come not to abolish but to fulfill. Amen, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest part or the smallest part of a letter will pass from the law, until all things have taken place.” (Yoko Taro 5:17)
Eli Johnson
Yes, yes, I'm aware of all that. This isn't my first (or second, or third) Taro game. I know how his stories work. I just used the "what if" phrase to try and explain that these are parallel timelines and not affecting each other.
Wyatt Sanchez
I'll be honest, my dude, she just looks like a run-of-the-mill post-plastic surgery asian girl. Probably acts goofy so she can rake in those NEET-buks by being "cute" and "not like other girls." And honestly, you'd think with all that money she'd get something other than lazy California girl hair. And no, I'm not fun at parties. I just want 2B to fucking die so all of this can stop.
Anthony Baker
So if I got this right all of the bad shit from the play script is C to E? So the outcome of D to E is still left to the player? with D to E possibly being a happy ending?
Gavin Sanders
Yoko Taro on coupleposting >One who coupleposts shall be put to death; the whole congregation shall stone the blasphemer. Aliens as well as citizens, when they blaspheme the canon, shall be put to death. (NRSV) — Yoko Taro 24:16
Joseph Butler
Did anyone here play Lost Odyssey?
Isaiah Gray
C A N O N A N O N
Thomas Gonzalez
i watched a LP lul
Connor Jackson
No
Jackson Walker
That's what's heavily implied but we won't know for sure until the actual production. Some people are getting bent out of shape over speculation, but I guess that's nothing new.
Jonathan Clark
Don't really see what difference it makes if it stems from C or D, they both go into E anyways. The only weird thing is A2 is never mentioned.
Daniel Gutierrez
Different setups lead to different versions of E that have completely different outcomes.
As much as it annoys me I don't see how anyone can honestly say no.
Brayden Garcia
Still not canon
Oliver Reed
I never said coupleposting is not canon. I only said anything other than handholding isn't canon.
Caleb Rogers
Been mentioned already here, but Yoko Taro absolutely loves parallel timelines and supplemental material. There are some rather large distinctions between C/E and D/E, such as if the machine network fucked off to space or if 9S gets impaled by his own sword or not.
C/E appears to conclude in a bad end with everyone fucking dying and nothing having any meaning or significance. Thing is, we won't know which version of E is "canon" until the next installment in the series. Nier1's storyline came from an ending in Drakenguard that was largely considered a joke ending.
As far as we know, "Nier3", or whatever they want to call it, can stem from a yet to be released side story or whatever other fuckery Taro cooks up. The ride never ends.
Justin Perez
Can we ask Taro vía twitter if 2B9S is canon? Just to settle this shit down
Jonathan Price
>that moment End of the Unknown comes on iTunes.
Jason Richardson
Nobody is arguing that 2B9S isn't canon besides the not canon dude. Ask him if they've fucked.
Ryan Diaz
DEAD 9S CANON A N O N
Ayden Richardson
Now THIS is canon
Liam Turner
Even if we have the bad end, the group behind yoRHa stills operating in all the timelines of automata, right? that means the next generation of androids is gonna be even more op
Julian Long
Ok, guys, all of us should ask Taro is they fucked until he answers something. PLEASE
Alexander Long
...
Lincoln Sanders
I am one of the coupleposting user, but I posted this shit to see if you can say something besides not canon It seems you can. Fuck you. Here take more canon
Liam Rodriguez
Even assuming that's true, you still have an ending that explicitly asks you to negate the games nihilism just to throw it back in your face. It would be absurd to give the player such a major fuck you simply for choosing C instead of D.
And it still makes the ending biased towards nihilism by giving so much detail and extra content to that ending, while the happy ending gets nothing. This is one of the primary things that pissed people off about LiS, is that the endings were obviously biased towards what the devs wanted.
Jason Wright
Aerial shots are fun but everything further than ~150 feet is N64 graphics.
Nathan Ramirez
C->E doesn't ask you to negate anything. There's no credits boss battle, no save file sacrifice. The pods decide to repair the androids on their own and due to the circumstances things are fucked up. Rejecting nihilism is exclusive to D->E.
The happy ending gets "nothing" because that's the fucking point. We remove the authors and ourselves from the equation, the androids are free from destiny and are given an opportunity to make a better future. The bad ending doesn't follow this and thus they are still locked into the cycle of misery.
Nathan Morgan
Good stuff
Jaxon James
just got the ticket to japan lads where is the shitshow going down?
Gavin Wright
Here lies the Forest King, Ernst.
This exalted individual was the earliest among us to awaken to his own will, and for this reason did we name him our regent.
Looking to sow the seed of this will in others, His Highness distributed his own precious parts. His retainers were the first to be so blessed, followed by his subjects. And in doing so, he brought forth a paradise—one made for machines alone. Through his gifts did we learn of the thing called ego, and eventually of our own selves. And just as ego gives way to emotion, so too did emotion lead us to feel great loyalty to our king.
But our king was too great—and too kind. Having distributed his parts, it became difficult for him to function, and he soon fell into a deep and silent sleep.
Now, the only path left to us—his loyal vassals—is to construct a kingdom of eternal peace, one which lives up to the magnanimous heart of our king. And so, as a sign both of our resolve and our gratitude, we leave in this place a chip made from our combined parts.
Your spirit lives on in us, O great king. And so we implore you to rest in peace.
—The Forest Kingdom, Its Citizens, As One
Jaxon Roberts
Forest king was a cuck
Noah Lewis
Eh, I don't care.
Adam Murphy
>is to construct a kingdom of eternal peace >With the first thing on their agenda is to attack the neighboring pacifists.
As sad as I feel for the king himself, with dying and having his data stored in a child robot for years, his subjects were fucking stupid and got what they deserved.
Aiden Rodriguez
what does this mean? how can i know what quests am i missing? I only know about the unit data and the emil quest when you fully upgrade every weapon
Chase Hernandez
>This land is peaceful, its inhabitants kind.
Jonathan Ward
Okay, one of us is wrong here, could be me. I was under the impression that unlocking E was simply a matter of getting both C and D and then credit shit would happen. I did C first and then D so I wouldn't know if only D is necessary.
So what's the deal, you can just skip C altogether and still get E? Or if you did D first and then C you'd actually have to go back and do D again? Because if not, then C would just lead into E.
Landon Cox
Go to the quest icon blips on the map, yo.
Benjamin Young
Hey Irene user, this question is for real: are you a man or a woman ?
Nolan Martinez
there is no icons yamerooooooo
Noah Sullivan
Woman. Thought I made it clear before when me and another female user were giving pointers to that male user. He was asking how to be gay-ish. kek
Adam Davis
I want to eat 2B's ass
Jaxson Cooper
Did you check the bunker?
Logan Ortiz
No, user, having a "feminine" penis doesn't make you a woman.
Jeremiah Ross
As a woman you approve about the obssesion with 2bs ass and a2s legs?
Carter Ramirez
The tickets to the venue were sold out the day it was announced, my dude.
Jason Gray
FUCK well time to hit jaypee and check where i can get shitfaced
Cameron Allen
Well I just looked on the wiki, a guide, and a forum, and they all say you just need C and D and that E is a continuation of either. What you are saying actually really would have made sense if E was only a continuation of D in the game. Even the names somewhat make sense since C is meaningless, and D implies growing up. But unfortunately no, you can do the nihilism negation off of C as well, which puts a big wrench in that theory.
Gavin Phillips
Believe whatever you want.
100% yes. 2B and A2 have amazing bodies.
Isaac Murphy
So what do you think about the theorycrafting of nier?
Are the gestalt androids behind yorha?
is ending C/E or D/E more suitable for the next nier game?
Josiah Cox
2B will never have bigger biceps than good ole papa Nier.
Adrian Ward
How is irene?
Robert Lewis
Go find Emil driving around and shoot him, then go to the mall. That's probably one of them. Then the 100% weapons quest is likely another. And did you do the Desert Rose for 6O?
Aiden Evans
Post 2B suffering. I need it for purposes
Nathaniel Peterson
Just read scene 5 spoilers.
David Carter
Fuck you
Jeremiah Robinson
Taro comes out with interesting stories and I really like them. I have no idea how he does it. I guess it's all that booze. I've been a fan of his since Drakengard.
I'm not sure who made YoRHa. It's probably androids humans left behind to monitor the process of all the D&P.
That's really tough... I think he should leave D/E alone. If he makes a huge time jump I would want A2B9S to make a cameo appearance. I really want a Accord game tho. C/E is more what I expected when I played the game. I just want 2B and 9S to be happy and no suffering ;_;
Amazing picture.
She's cute and out of the other girls, she's my "Bias".
Jace Thompson
Have another then.
Alexander Hall
oh look! you discovered LOD
William Thompson
An old fan then, cool shit. I joined the drakenier fanbase back in 2013 with drakengard 3. In fact, i think a lot of people joined the fandom because drakengard 3 that year, nier 1 went waaaay under the radar back in 2010, and drakengard 2 was shit, literally cliche fantasy anime even when cliche fantasy anime didn't even existed in 2005 (i know that taro just had a minor role in it?