Nier Automata Review Thread. Metacritic: 89!!

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celador on 06 March 2017

just 20 minutes until the rest of the reviews start dropping

i know it's been said many times, but this run of games is insane

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S.T.A.G.E. on 06 March 2017

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BraLoD said:

Uncharted 4 doesn't have any faults, tho.

I agree. At least in my eyes, it did not do anything wrong, with only having relatively weak/underdeveloped villains (not uncommon in the Uncharted franchise.) But still, it's just different games in different genres. Their scores reflect the improvements and their contributions to the genre. Uncharted 4 was fantastic, GOTY for me, but it was just another uncharted title. Nier looks to shake things up a bit, but I don't think that 94 will stay there for long.

Well said. Neir automata looks like a return to form for platinum before they did business with Microsoft and activision

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BraLoD said:

Yeah, but I'm pretty good at this, and I'm completely sure it won't be better than Uncharted 4, 'cause the bar is already really high and Uncharted 4 has a outstanding lead over Nier as far as ambientation goes, even with Nier sick gameplay I don't think the whole packed can match Uncharted 4 in any possible way.

I mean, if you justify your own conditioning, sure, you are good at it. It reinforces the idea that you've already passed judgment even before the game ever had a chance to shine, regardless of whatever statements you want to adhere Uncharted 4 to keep pushing it on top.

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Oneeee-Chan!!! on 06 March 2017

Why do people taiking about Uncharted 4 ?

Zelda VS Horizon again ?

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Oneeee-Chan!!! said:
Why do people taiking about Uncharted 4 ?

Zelda VS Horizon again ?

I'd talk about the original Nier but few people from this thread has played it. :C

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BraLoD said:

It's okay, I'm not judging it completely out of base, I already see it, and already played it a bit, as I said, it just won't.
That's not how I felt about Bloodborne or Nioh, and it turned exactly like that, in the end, both of them turned to be better than Uncharted 4.

Of course, it's all my opinion which is based on my tastes, and to be honest, Nier have an actual bias lead over Uncharted because it's a sort of RPG, my favorite genre by far, and I still don't see it happening.

So heh.

I'm not sure if approaching a game unrelated in genre and mechanics to a different one with the feeling that "it won't be better" (and reinforcing yourself over this idea) is a healthy approach, to be honest. I could understand some sort of resemblance if we were having this conversation about all time top games, because oneself tend to have that special nostalgic bias (it happens to all of us), but to condemn Automata from the get-go in relation to a game that is intrinsecally different in gameplay, design, mood, story and development is, I dunno, really not a good approach to it.

There's not a single bias lead over Uncharted in this case; genre didn't put a barrier before you already slammed toward Automata. You're not giving it the benefit of doubt. You won't, and as a consequence, it can't already live to its full potential because you'd subconsciously limit it if it happened for whatever reason to go over Uncharted 4. Sure, there's also the possibility that the game's potential doesn't reach that of Uncharted 4, but the veredict has already been passed upon.