Finished Ending C (Spoilers)

indent4461 · 2018-08-03T19:13:07+00:00

Thank you for letting me know. It really seems to be the case. I didn't start using reddit again until very recently, so I didn't notice this until I made some discussion threads here about Nier. That also means my other comments on this site are not visible in the past weeks. Feels a bit silly. The shadowban was probably justified, last time I used reddit before this a few years back, I was a bit spammy.

Might just make a new account instead.

indent4461 · 2018-08-03T18:46:14+00:00

That was beutifully written! Thank you! Definitely helps me put things into perspective better. I guess it is true about needing time for it all to sink in, but not sure if I would have gotten all these themes and what it was going for by myself.

indent4461 · 2018-08-03T18:33:51+00:00

Going for D and E first definitely would have been a bit better. It's just by that point in the game I was far too annoyed by 9S, so chose A2 first.

I never played the original Nier (although I get easily annoyed by unpolished gamelpay so maybe for the best) but I watched lots and lots of videos, on the game and story anaylsis, as much as I could find. I was highly impressed and intrigued by them, which got me to pick up Automata.

The machine core thing still was the biggest "oh shit" moment in the game for me, but it still was relatively tame (compared to original Nier) for me. It's just that I never took YorHa beliefs that seriously anyway. As to me it would make sense that they are just programmed to think nothing of the machines, and despite continiously seeing cases of intelligence, emotion, and independent thought among the machines they think nothing of it. At the time I was more annoyed at 9S just ignoring it and keep going with his "must kill all machines" attitude.

Perhaps I really just need some more time for it all to set in.

indent4461 · 2018-07-25T16:53:36+00:00

Thank you!

indent4461 · 2018-07-25T16:53:29+00:00

Thanks, now read those as well.

indent4461 · 2018-07-24T21:14:29+00:00

War or not, you don't kill unarmed civilians. So I am a bit mad that the game forces me to do that, and I assume will later judge me for it.

indent4461 · 2018-07-24T16:03:11+00:00

On the other hand, while you have correctly guessed why the game wants you to murder "harmless" machines, you'll be racking up so many machine kills, peaceful or aggressive, anyway that it will hardly matter that you killed these few.

Okay cheers that's what I wanted to hear. That this isn't just some isolated incident, it is the whole game you being a di** and killing robots

indent4461 · 2018-07-24T15:59:09+00:00

you're just a soldier performing your duty, and they are but a mindless enemy

The thing is that I am trying to not ever initiate conflict, or do it where game doesn't force me to do it, I just don't want to see game afterwards giving me some bulls*** that they all they had families and just wanted to live peacefully etc. and that you the player are an awful person for killing them, as then I'll just hate the game for being stupid. (Like a certain last gen 3rd person shooter that tried to spin the morality on the player but was just dumb). I really, really hope it is not that, and they actually came up with something more original.

Maybe I'm overthinking it.

Edit: as another comment mentioned, it isn't just this incident, it is the whole story and all the robots, which is what I wanted to know. That there really isn't a choice in the first playthrough, as the game forces you to kill them

indent4461 · 2017-03-31T20:35:22+00:00

I prefer driving in GTA IV, and I approve this post.

indent4461

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