NieR Creator Is Tired of The Repetitive Gameplay Found in AAA Titles

Yoko Taro, the creator of NieR and NieR: Automata, expressed his fatigue with the repetitive gameplay often found in AAA games.

He also shared a glimpse into his unique mindset of a game creator.

[ccgr]

I thoroughly enjoyed NieR: Automata and look forward to more from him

[KaiPow]

You won't have to wait very long. There's a mobile title in the works.

[KwietStorm_BLM]

And?

[Silly gameAr]

I think he meant he was waiting for a real Nier game.

[mikeslemonade]

Nier is an offender of repetitive gameplay too. Bayonetta 1 is the one game that wasn't repetitive.

[_-EDMIX-_]

Agreed.

This collaboration between his team and Platinum is just amazing and I'd like to see it again for the sequels.

[TheOptimist]

I agree with him..... I became an overnight fanboy of Yoko Taro after playing Nier Automata..... All hail Yoko Taro

[Festano]

I only played the demo but I already fell in love with it. Just need to work through my backlog first.

[DevilOgreFish]

- "Yoko Taro, the creator of NieR and NieR: Automata, expressed his fatigue with the repetitive gameplay often found in AAA games. "

If you mean "AAA" by western AAA games that's probable because of some factors - "Realism", and "easy pickup and play" action mechanics. these two concepts will usually be the template for today's games. Also key thoughts like --- "going with what you know" --- "As long as it sells good" --- and --- "if it ain't broke don't fix it" --- are also the template with today's games. It's good to set new trends but there's also a risk factor. game development is a balancing act.

[Derceto]

Nier creator is not alone.

[UnSelf]

Honestly it's devs like him kamiya, itagaki, the original GOW dev who rly drove the industry.

These kinda devs all found innovative ways to keep me lee combat fun flashy and challenging.

As much as I love HZD, that simplistic melee combat got very old very quick. Good thing GG did a phenomenal job at making it work for what it had to and it never felt old

[IamTylerDurden1]

The melee combat in HZD is intended to be used as a last resort or at least sparingly. Stealth and projectiles are the main focus of combat.

[sampson3121]

Don't waste your time

[sampson3121]

HZD GoTY

[il-JumperMT]

Persona 5

[Darkfist_Flames]

Melee isnt the focus of HZD, specially when battling boss level machines, though they need to improve the hit animation against human enemies similar to Infamous games.

[HollowKnight]

Clearly you haven't played HZD and you don't know what your talking about.

[_-EDMIX-_]

Except.....HZD was never made to be some Hack and slash like GOW or Bayonetta or DMC etc. Those titles were handcrafted and took YEARS to get that feel right as that is the biggest part of the game.

HZD it actually isn't. I'd say the BOW and other projectiles are the games main focus. It was never made to be a DMC or Bayonetta killer bud. Not even a little

Not because it can't (HELLO Sony owns GG and Santa Monica studio.....the team that made GOW....) if they wanted to have it feel that way, they have teams like Santa Monica Studio that could have basically did the combat IF that was what they wanted. The melee was in the game for a nice counter or finisher etc, it was not in the game as the MAIN means of attack or anything like that.

[Dragonscale]

If you have to use melee too much your playing it wrong.

[Fist4achin]

Thank you and hell yeah for daring to be different!

[SCW1982]

Amen

[Umbasa]

Yea well I'm tired of AAA priced games that are optimized like shit....

[Ashunderfire86]

Games like Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay, from the Xbox Original and PC, literally had no repetition in it. It was a whole new experience for 10 hours of constant change in gameplay throughout. Riddick was the first few games where you had the option to get rid of the HUD display, and the first person stealth was amazing. The shadow of the player and looking down at actual moving legs, made the game more realistic. This game was the biggest surprise of 2004 that no one saw coming. Vin Diesel and Starbreeze shock the hell out of us with this masterpiece.

Here take a look:
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That game should of been a AAA game every shooter should follow. When I say follow I mean follow in it's footsteps of constant change in gameplay formula throughout the 10-12 hours in a shooter.

[Irishguy95]

Eh, I think Half life 2 did the whole chianging gameplay thing better than most games...

At first its standard shooter, then it goes for a hover boat, then a zombie city with projectiles from your grav gun, then a someone explorationy feeling car/highway part, then to controlling these giant spider like things...Then mixing them all together! Until, war of the worlds. Eventually threading back to pure shooter for the end.

So many gameplay experiences, from unlocking new weapons to simply feeling different throughout the game.

Riddick was great though I remember playing it back in the day and being shocked how good it was.

[GrimDragon]

Nier is repetitive as well. Traversing the same environment going back and forth and back and forth for fetch quest missions fighting the same robots again and again is super repetitive. That's like the pot calling out the kettle. Sorry yoko but your game does not differentiate itself at all from any other repetitive game on the market. Though the game and character design along with story is cool your game suffers the same creative wall as everyone else when it comes to varying activity and environments.

[Omnisonne]

I recognized this too. While it's a great game so far (havent finished it) and I'm definitely enjoying it, there is a noticeable repetition in the game, though mostly with sidequests.

[Helios86]

Knowing Yoko Taro, he probably includes himself in that critique.

[Darkfist_Flames]

funny he says that now when all his previous games has repetitive gameplay, except story paths.

[Omnislashver36]

Platinum needs to make Kenji Saito's Kill la Kill game he brought up last year...

Nier is good, haven't decided if it's great yet.

[TheUpbringer]

I find this funny that this is coming from Platinum Games, who have essentially been making the same game since Bayonetta. Outside of Vanquish and StarFox Zero, they've been making the same game.

[Nodoze]

I thought Vanquish was fantastic! Wish they would make a sequel to that one. It was truly like playing through an action movie.

[Darkfist_Flames]

and Okami :(

[coolbeans]

Yoko Taro is more of an independent agent than being an official part of Platinum Games. I get what you're saying, but that's an important consideration to remember.

[showtimefolks]

now a days it's this UBI affect on games, let's see with how many icons i can fill the game map with even if most of them are boring side fetch quests. more is not always better please give us quality content in 30-40 hours instead of fill in side quests that can drag the game to 100 plus hours

i knew in advance that mass effect will be filled with fetch quests because dragon age inquisition was filled with those too and bioware didn't disappoint they made sure all the fetch quests made you run around the galaxy to find 3 of this and 4 of that

[captainexplosion]

What an ironic statement. Nier is so damn repetitive. Its 99% walking around. When you do fight its the same damn enemies and same environments over and over.