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Many video games offer you the chance to make “good” or “bad” choices, but often times these choices lack weight; you as a player aren’t emotionally attached to the circumstances, the causes, or the outcomes. Nier: Automata, however, lets players truly empathize with others in a crucial end-game choice.
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It’s pretty easy to make the “good guy” choices that games ask of us. NieR: Automata, however, offers an interesting choice that suggests players to be kind for its own sake, not just to please a game mechanic.
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I made the sacrifice when the game asked for it. And this was when I was convinved that thisbwas the best game I have ever played. But man, it really hurt when, after I begged for months to get my friend to play the game, they decided to keep their data in the end. They ,ever went back to finish their side quests or to get the platinum trophy. They just kept it for themselves. Man, it just felt so weird thinking, how could you not do the same for others
I'd tell the people
"Hang tight, we're coming!"
I didn't delete all m y date, there were still things I wanted to do, but when I do accomplish that thing, you bet your behind I will
watching these two videos is a never ending loop. I finish Wisecrack's and they tell me to come to Extra Credits'. I watch Extra Credits' and then they tell me to go back to Wisecrack's. Help me.
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Neir: Automata is the greatest game I will never play. This is the Dark Souls of Bullet Hell. Watching someone's playthrough was exhausting enough, spectating someone trying to take down "Square Enix" has brutal.
Reminds me of how I run D&D…in one plot line my players got fee one time passage to another plane, pet gryphons, passage to the fey plane….and a free construction project…all for doing good acts.
Freed the elemental instead of killing it, saving prisoners, ect….
Good acts should be rewarded…not exemplified ❤️
Props to saying w/o showing. That part did make me cry. The music change synergized so well w/ the moment.
…sadly, I did not make the same sacrifice. I, uhh, have like some kind of OCD about history. >_> I do wish I kept track of who helped me. =(
I want to go back and experience this game for the first time, one more time.
I know it can't happen, but I wish it could.
Because as soon as I got to Ending E, when the messages started coming in and the other players joined me… Man, it got so much harder.
Cause my view got foggy from the tears.
What a ride, indeed…
I cried again after 3 years 🤧🤧
This is the first game that convinced me to delete my save data lmao. This was one hell of an experience. I made one mistake while playing this game, i played it with the idea that it’s gonna tell me a story. I never wanted to connect dots myself because i wanted to hear the story. And that’s the mistake i made, the game is not about hearing the story, it’s about experiencing it, and later on in ending E it’s about becoming the author of the story itself and passing on that opportunity to other people. What a beautiful game.
Sacrificed my save data but noticed I still have some saves in the cloud.
Sacrifice? I think the philosophy is if you want to help someone you need to erase all data/memory so that there is no prejudice that makes you stop your act of helping
I would like to say that, even though New Vegas has a karma system, "good" or "bad" are almost meaningless in the greater context of the game. I heavily dislike the NCR, Legion and Mr House, but taking Vegas for myself and pretending everything is going to be alright… I don't know if I could actually hold my own agaisnt the entire NCR, or the Brotherhood. Is my choice the right choice?
Yeah, those numbers don't mean anything in the end.
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Thanks Anthony[USA]
I hope someone smiles when they see the name Solaire the same way I did when I saw Anthony.
This is why you should do all the side quests BEFORE you finish the game. Then deletion of saves will be pretty meaningless. I always do all side content first.
Or you could just cheat the system by backing up your saves and experiencing both lol.
I kind of ruined part of the sacrifice for me because at that point I knew which end would trigger the data loss and saved it to the end.
I still lost all my progress and feel sad about it. But it would have hit me harder if I didn't know anything about that.
I can not say about anyone else down here but this episode felt surprisingly deep
Sacrifice has an actual real life benefit, though its kinda small and sonetimes backfires on us :
It keeps moral corroption away from you to an extent.
(Though some people might get too pridefull about it)
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who helped the very first player who asked for help? . . . any way, this is soo very good game.
I decided to erase all my data, not because i knew i was helping people like they helped me. I did it because i want it, i was aware of what i was risking but i doesn't care i feel it like it was the right thing to do and i don't have regrets of my choice, it was my choice and no one decided it for me.
So if is there any person that my "sacrifice" helped you, i don't need and i don't want your thanks because knowing that i help someone and that i have been worth for someone is better than a simple "thank you", it was a pleasure anyway.
why the baby cartoons?
great narration and summary of the deeper meanings of this game
NIER AUTOMATA SOUNDS LIKE A MACHINE
This video was beautiful
Nier: Automata is the best example of post-modernism in gaming. So many moments there that I would equate to facing Vile in Mega-man X for the very first time. Like Metal Gear Solid 2, it can only be fully experienced as a video game.
So this is the corner where people that sacrificed claim their social shoulder pat?
When you said you were talking about the final boss I thought you were actually going to talk about the final boss not the credits stuff
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this concept still brings me to tears, 5 years later.
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Its funny how he animated an 8bit fight against the credits
Bro I almost cried again like when I first got to that ending and I said yes, my files are gone!
But luckily I had time and I played through it all, AGAIN. But this time in Japanese and boy was it another good experience.
I also went straight to r/NierAutomata to say my gratitudes to all the people who sacrificed their progress for me. And once again, here, thank you everybody <3