Square Enix and PlatinumGames have just announced that NieR Automata will be coming to Steam in early 2017. As the press release reads, NieR: Automata tells the story of androids 2B, 9S and A2 and their battle to reclaim a machine-driven dystopia overrun by powerful weapons known as machine lifeforms.
In order to celebrate this announcement, Square Enix released a new set of screenshots for NieR Automata that can be viewed below.
NieR Automata is developed by an all-star team consisting of producer Yosuke Saito (DRAGON QUEST X / NIER), director YOKO TARO (Drakengard / NIER ), character designer Akihiko Yoshida from CyDesignation (FINAL FANTASY XIV / BRAVELY DEFAULT), game designer Takahisa Taura from PlatinumGames (Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance), and composer Keiichi Okabe from MONACA (TEKKEN / Drakengard 3 / NIER ).
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I’ve never played any of the Drakengard series before, but I’ll keep this spin-off game on my radar.
Glad to see this happen, but the team responsible for the localization is heavily known for censoring or altering key aspects of the games they’re put in charge of, often for the sake of not offending our delicate western sensibilities. In addition to relying on traditional reviews, I’ll be sure to check out Censored Gaming to see if I want to give them my money.
This is PC, not console. If they censor anything in a day or two somebody will release a mod that restores everything.
Still don’t want to support them out of principle.
Not necessarily, it depends on how the game is built and how the censorship is done, but yeah at least it’s a possibility with the PC version.
Is this a dream? Holy sh*t, never thought I’d see this come to PC so soon! And it’s by Platinum no less. Another game added to my Day 1 list along with Berserk. Great going SqE!
Awesome news !
Looks weird but I dig it.
Awesome
How is figthing giant mechs with a katana sword “americanized”? :v
That’s because the way Kojima directs their things (but MGR is made by Platinum, so I don’t know how much Kojima was involved).
What Kojima does is “translates” that American culture he likes into something more “Japan”.
Kojima wasnt involved much with MGR, he stopped by platinum a few times to check in and see how they were treating his characters but thats about it. Platinum likes to roll with as much creative freedom as possible, and it usually works out….usually…..*looks at TMNT*
That’s a surprise.
I’ve read that the first game has a really twisted new game+ and today is regarded as cult, would be cool if we could get a port of that one aswell. 🙂
holy shiittt i never thought this will come to steam. this is something i like actually
I remember hearing something about the combat having a simpler design than the typical Platinum combofest. It’s probably fitting for a sequel to Nier, it’s not really in the style of a crazy fast character action game, it’s more like an action RPG with a great story and characters.
So the combat is more like the Witcher 3?
For realz? And I thought this was going to be PS4 exclusive. This is awesome. I know Platinum has had a rocky track record as of late (TMNT and Star Fox Zero), but the games deemed as good are really good.
You’ve seen it with Vanquish, Bayonetta, MGR:R, Wonderful 101,Transformers Devastation (which is actually more fun than people give it credit for, especially if you decide to play the challenges and higher difficulties), heck even Korra wasn’t that bad considering the price admission and game budget.
And from the looks of it NieR Automata looks like it would fit right in with the games I mentioned above. And I’m sure I will play it and replay it for all it’s worth. 🙂
Non-exclusivity is to be assumed for every single game nowadays, unless you have some executive parade a game around on stage whilst shouting from the rooftops that it is one.
If a PC version hasn’t been announced yet despite there being no signs of full exclusivity, you should a timed exclusivity deal has been bought, although paid silence on other versions until later on seems to be getting more common as well (mostly a Sony thing).
Best News I’ve heard in a long while.
i hope bayo can come to steam too..
can you hear that, it is the sound of a thousand fanboys screaming “muh exclusive”
instead of batman or witcher the combat are more similar to DMC to me
YEYYY =D
lol ps4 fanboys #BTFO
square enix loved the extra sales for FFXIII triology on steam ! the thing is we want proper pc port we aren’t a mean to an end ! give us proper pc version or personally i won’t buy it ! same goes for FFXV the game that i’ve been waiting for for yrs
Lets get a port of Vanquish as well as a sequel now pls.
NICE! I wanted to try this when I saw the first gameplay trailer
nice! another reason to not get a console!
Yeah, but for many people like me, that was never really an option anyway.