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[Draugoth]

'Game director Yoko Taro may have just teased a new Nier game, as fans say that the ongoing Nier music concert is heavily hinting at a sequel announcement. One attendee even says that Taro himself took to the stage at the London show, telling fans to cheer if they want Nier 3.

"Yoko Taro took the stage at the end, told the audience that the Square Enix president was in the crowd and that if we wanted an Automata sequel to give the loudest applause of the night,"

"The room immediately erupted into claps, cheers and yells."

 

[omegasc]

Hell yeah!

 

[cash_longfellow]

You better not be rubbing my nipple right now Taro

 

[Danjin44]

Taro, I swear to god if it’s another mobile game……

 

[Exentryk]

Give Ni3R a bigger budget and it could be really something. Keep Platinum on the combat.

 

[Lambogenie]

Please make combat actually fun and not repetitive...

 

[Barakov]

If it's a console game, I'm all in.

 

[LectureMaster]

Finishing Automata really turned me into a nihilist for a while. Such experience that only Taro could make me.

 

[Punished Miku]

Was never really in doubt.

 

[cash_longfellow]

Please make combat actually fun and not repetitive...

No!

 

[cash_longfellow]

Give Ni3R a bigger budget and it could be really something. Keep Platinum on the combat.

Noooo, F that. Bigger budgets ruin solid AA games. Same budget, same creative vision!

 

[Mister Wolf]

Please make combat actually fun and not repetitive...

Please make the game actually worth playing through multiple times.

 

[MagiusNecros]

Finishing Automata really turned me into a nihilist for a while. Such experience that only Taro could make me.

NieR means Curse.

Put into perspective with the 2 games you have Curse of the Replicants/Gestalt and Curse of the Automatons and if you've played both you understand how much sense it makes.

And prior to that with Drakengard/Drag-On Dragoon it centers around things with a Cursed nature as well and it primarily stems(heh) from Drakengard 3.

I highly recommend reading up on DOD1 and DOD3 lore and piecing it all together. It's fantastic.

The likes of Drakengard and NieR I feel are on par with the bleakness of BERSERK.

 

[Perrott]

Didn't he say that his big new game that he's been working on wouldn't have anything to do with Nier?

 

[MagiusNecros]

Didn't he say that his big new game that he's been working on wouldn't have anything to do with Nier?

Doesn't mean much if every Yoko Taro game has loose relation to all his games. A new Yoko Taro IP would be sexy though. Even if I really would like a DOD3 port and a DOD4.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Wish I was able to attend one of these Nier Concerts in person but alas... Anyway there's an interesting comment here from one reditor who attended it.

 

[SlimeGooGoo]

This will NEVER be as popular as Automata if they don't add a character with a big butt to make coomers happy

 

[cash_longfellow]

Wish I was able to attend one of these Nier Concerts in person but alas... Anyway there's an interesting comment here from one reditor who attended it.

I would prefer just a quote, rather than my old ass thinking my glasses failed lol

 

[MagiusNecros]

This will NEVER be as popular as Automata if they don't add a character with a big butt to make coomers happy

Truly Commander White was what made Automata popular.

 

[_Idea_of_Evil_]

It's going to happen, just a matter of when.

I went to NieR: The End of Data (2024 Orchestra); Yoko Taro was there and said he would have a "special surprise announcement" at the end of the performance.
The special announcement was...telling the audience that they could take photos for a few minutes lol.

 

[night13x]

I'm surprised square enix didnt do their usual thing of "oh nier automata sold 8 million but for us to consider a new game we need another 8 million - please support us" lol.

Joking aside - it's a no brainer that there is going to be a new nier game. Yoko Taro is a legend and I am glad square is willing to support him.

 

[Puscifer]

Please make the game actually worth playing through multiple times.

You really only played through it once tbh

 

[Humdinger]

I played Nier Replicant. I liked it. It was immersive. It was overly drawn out, though.

I haven't played Nier Automata yet. I want to.

 

[Mister Wolf]

You really only played through it once tbh

I played through Nier Remastered. Every route including Kaine's new route where she is searching for Nier. Awful experience and a complete waste of time.

 

[MagiusNecros]

Awful experience and a complete waste of time.

Disagree. Drakengard 1 takes the cake for that. And I loved(HATED) every minute of it.

 

[Mister Wolf]

Disagree. Drakengard 1 takes the cake for that. And I loved(HATED) every minute of it.

The best thing about Nier is the twins singing that song made up of gibberish words in the village. The rest is hogwash.

 

[Clear]

I'm really not sure how you follow Automata.

Mechanically and technically sure, there's lots of space for improvement, but its a remarkably complete story and Its a hard one to top for sheer conceptual ambition.
Most of all I'm not sure if Yoko can pull off the same surprises a third time around, because the truth is, he lifted a lot of stuff from the 2010 Nier.

Given his big thing is surprising the player, I'd suspect he might follow up indirectly somehow, like Nier span off from the first Drakengard.

 

[Danjin44]

I played through Nier Remastered. Every route including Kaine's new route where she is searching for Nier. Awful experience and a complete waste of time.

 

[DeltaPolarBear]

NieR means Curse.

Put into perspective with the 2 games you have Curse of the Replicants/Gestalt and Curse of the Automatons and if you've played both you understand how much sense it makes.

And prior to that with Drakengard/Drag-On Dragoon it centers around things with a Cursed nature as well and it primarily stems(heh) from Drakengard 3.

I highly recommend reading up on DOD1 and DOD3 lore and piecing it all together. It's fantastic.

The likes of Drakengard and NieR I feel are on par with the bleakness of BERSERK.

The sockpuppet talk by Taro made it clear "why".

The curse, fundamentally, comes from the fact that as a nature of combat oriented video-games, the protagonist will stack a massive literal bodycount. Yoko Taro just couldn't write a story about such a thing, without also making the player feel guilty about it.

He will do his job to "justify" why you have to kill millions of sentient beings, but he isn't going to make the justification clear-cut righteous.

 

[NanaMiku]

New NieR, new marketing

 

[SlimeGooGoo]

Truly Cooooooommander White was what made Automata popular.

Sligthly FTFY

 

[MagiusNecros]

The sockpuppet talk by Taro made it clear "why".

Interview pales in comparison to the actual lore when it comes to the Black Flower Entity or the "Flower" and to the extent Red Eye Virus(increases hostility, insanity, murderous intent and spreads like a disease) as well as the Watchers/Nameless/Angels.

Very much reflected across both series.

Spoiler: Red Eyes

Interview just gives some perspective of might makes right and my cause is just ergo Vae Victus. Woe to the Conquered.

 

[bender]

I hope it is two mobile games.

 

[MagiusNecros]

I hope it is two mobile games.

Eh I doubt it considering they canned REincarnation.

 

[Danjin44]

I hope it is two mobile games.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

Taro, I swear to god if it’s another mobile game……

Totally agreed

 

[kiphalfton]

Maybe this game won't look like a a PS3 game.

Spoiler

It totally will

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

This will NEVER be as popular as Automata if they don't add a character with a big butt to make coomers happy

Come for 2B's captivating character design , and stay for the great story and amazing OST.

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

I would:

- Remake the Drakengard trilogy into two games (1+2 , 3) so there is a strongest lore connection with Nier

- Ni3R on a different timeline (either a follow-up of Kaine's ending or long past the events of Automata)

I get Automata's trio are popular, but that story has already been told with the perfect conclusion.

 

[Go_Ly_Dow]

I had a friend who went to this and he also felt it was a tease. The new Square CEO was in attendance in London for it too.

Perhaps something in the 2nd half of this year.

 

[Long Far Gone]

Noooo, F that. Bigger budgets ruin solid AA games. Same budget, same creative vision!

This is becoming increasingly true. Big budgets used to mean big experiences. Now it seems to mean big disappointment as stakeholders demand more monetisation to claw back expenditure.

Developers who are dialing it in seem to be the same ones who dial it back.

 

[Hudo]

Yosuke Saito also said that he was gonna reveal this year what he's been up to.

 

[DeltaPolarBear]

This will NEVER be as popular as Automata if they don't add a character with a big butt to make coomers happy

There is never a shortage of attractive women in Yoko Taro games, B2 is just well known because Automata is his big major hit.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

It's happening you guys!



Hope he's not trolling though since reincarnation is also the name of that nier gacha game that will soon be shutting down.

 

[Danjin44]

It's happening you guys!



Hope he's not trolling though since reincarnation is also the name of that nier gacha game that will soon be shutting down.

If this turns out another mobile game then both Taro and you…..

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

If this turns out another mobile game then both Taro and you…..

Why me lol!?

Would be cool if the nier reincarnation mobile game would be stripped out of the gacha mechanics and ported to console.

 

[bender]

A trilogy of mobile games with one of them being Android exclusive.

 

[Danjin44]

Why me as well lol!?

Would be cool if the nier reincarnation mobile game would be stripped out of the gacha mechanics and ported to console.

Similar to Elden Ring DLC, you decide to share this news that means you have to face consequences if this news turns out be lie or mobile game.

 

[Go_Ly_Dow]

I expect this one to be a troll, but am confident a 3rd entry is cooking and soon coming!

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Similar to Elden Ring DLC, you decide to share this news that means you have to face consequences if this news turns out be lie or mobile game.

Don't you know that saying, "don't shoot the messenger"?

Anyway, I'm prepared to defend myself!