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Nier: Automata still looks freaking amazing in motion (GIFs ahoy! thanks SunhiLegend!)
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Well, just another reason I don't lend much credence to those "Game Award" type things. That seems like a real oversight.
Kyle Mccarley also wasn't nominated for his voice acting, it's a travest
I think the cutscenes are quite lacking in terms of overall animation (I experienced frequent framerate drops and stuttering when I played on PC), but basic movement in this game is so goddamn satisfying.
Running animations are fluid, graceful, and really fit the theme. Combat is smooth and the dash / evade movements are really something else.
And 2B...lawdy. I love her style. And her face. And her...overall design (˵ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°˵)
Running animations are fluid, graceful, and really fit the theme. Combat is smooth and the dash / evade movements are really something else.
And 2B...lawdy. I love her style. And her face. And her...overall design (˵ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°˵)
I loved it back then even tho it was pretty shallow.
Tho I consider it more of a spiritual prequel to vanquish
Yeah it was pretty shallow but for the times it come out it was innovative in his way!
However i still have to play vanquish... My endless backlog..
7/10 game IMO and that's being lenient. I liked the characters, world (lore), music and overall plot, but disliked almost everything else. As much as people (generally) dislike TW3 combat for example I enjoyed it a lot more than the combat of Nier: Automata. During the last third of 9S route I put the game on easy just to be done with combat parts asap. Exploration felt so-so and side quests were terrible, even Dragon Age: Inquisition which was one of my biggest gaming disappointments wasn't as bad in that regard for me.
All in all, if I knew what I was getting into beforehand, I wouldn't play the game and rather spend it on another RPG(s). I hope the next game in the series will be an improvement over Nier:A in places that matter to me the most as I really liked the history/lore of the world.
All in all, if I knew what I was getting into beforehand, I wouldn't play the game and rather spend it on another RPG(s). I hope the next game in the series will be an improvement over Nier:A in places that matter to me the most as I really liked the history/lore of the world.
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Puruzi you're here! :D
Also as someone who got pulled away from Automata due to life reasons I really have to go and finish it, Suhni's .gif's are the perfect motivation, experience describes the game really well, it's just so otherworldly and fun to play to boot!
Nier: Automata is one of those games I wish I could forget so I could play it all over again.
Ah good point, I'll check the system specs. Got my hands full with Wolfenstein 2 now anyway.
SunhiLegend could sell a game with his beautiful gifs. We should have a thread for his gaming gifs, I'd love to see gifs that I've inevitably missed due to not playing the game yet.
I can't fathom this. I tried to enjoy TW3's combat, but it was so repetitive and unresponsive that I just couldn't handle it.
It's definitely a step up over nonsense like AC or Arkham-style combat, but I just couldn't get into a zen-like rhythm like with Automata. And that's not even getting into the character movement.
Yep, it has the fluidity of a character action game that makes the combat better than almost any other ARPG.
No. This one is more of a spiritual successor. It makes references to the first but it's not necessary.
These GIFs look go much better than the actual game that I played (which I still loved, but it didn't look like this, haha).
I was a colossal fan of the original Nier. One of my favorite PS3 games. Even despite its kind of cruddy Cavia game design, it just has so much heart.
Flash forward to Automata, and I found this one charmless, narratively unengaging, and incredibly unbalanced in the combat department. It felt like someone trying to make a Bayonetta game into an RPG and messing it up in so many tiny little ways. Made it to the beginning of Route C and just gave up.
It's sad, because the concept of a Nier sequel developed by the Metal Gear Rising team is one of the most hype things ever for me. The execution was just not there.
Music was good, at least - provided the overworld music didn't glitch out and only play the piano backing track over and over and over again without any of the melody. Which happened most of the time.
It looks incredible! Glad to find people who agree with that.
But when replaying it you can
so that's a pretty cool incentive to go through it all again with your prior knowledge. :P
But when replaying it you can
pick up on all the clever foreshadowing
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I'm happy to see so many nice people I recognize!
And will do, it's way too good not to :)
I just started Route B......and I HATE playing as 9S. Why does he only use 1 weapon with less attack combos? Basically running into enemies attack them with low attack volume and then hack into their brains to self destruct or whatever? I don't like it. Anyone have any tips for me on how to enjoy this second route? I may just run thru it to the finish line, start route C and then buy my trophies from the NPC.
He's fun with a spear. Holding light attack makes him throw it, and it goes really far, pierces enemies and hits hard as hell, especially if you have a Crit chip equipped and it procs. Hack when enemies are clustered together. Get a Stun chip and probably a Combust chip, which do an AoE shutdown on anything near a hacked enemy, and the other lights them on fire for extra damage.
I love playing as 9S.
The gifs look amazing but having watched DF vids and reviews of the game, i have to call BS lol.
Studios need to hire Sunhi because whatever he does makes these games look incredible. The guy has an incredible eye for cinematography. I mean if the reason these gifs look great is because they are rendered at 24 fps with motion blur then sign me up for some hot 24 fps action.
Studios need to hire Sunhi because whatever he does makes these games look incredible. The guy has an incredible eye for cinematography. I mean if the reason these gifs look great is because they are rendered at 24 fps with motion blur then sign me up for some hot 24 fps action.
Thank you. I'll try that with a new loadout of chips. I just got lazy and kept using the same loadout from 2B. Is there a specific spear you recommend I use? I only have a few, and I need to research the forest kingdom a little more as I rushed thru it.
no way my slim PS4 records my gameplay and makes it look crisp and gorgeous as these gifs. What's the consensus regarding PS4 stream recording: 720 or 1080? I believe my settings are set to default 720
Woooow I wish I would have known that when I played through. It would have saved me some headache.
Spear of the Usurper from the B route Heritage Of The Past quest in the desert. It's a really shitty quest that requires you to find old relics in the desert using the scanner, but they always spawn in the same place so just use the Wiki to figure out where and save yourself the trouble. The spear gets Crit + at level 2 and at 4 it gets Turncoat, which has a chance to make hit enemies your allies.
Sunhi's gifs use per object motion blur, which is a post process method used mostly in film, since it's something that is very compute-intensive. It's not something you're going to see in real-time, even on the best gaming PCs.
Maybe in the future, it would really be a boost to IQ in motion.
Um, as I know per-object velocity-based motion blur has been in use for a long time now. Crysis in 2007 had it. Are we talking about the same technology?
