This month has seen a gargantuan amount of games being added into Xbox Game Pass, one of which being the excellent NieR: Automata on PC. According to a recent report, it’s also been discovered to run better than its Steam counterpart, as it's based on the 'Become as Gods' version rather than the Steam 'Game of the YoRHa' version.
As reported by PC Gamer, the Steam version was originally considered disappointing due to a locked frame rate, in-game stuttering, odd control options, and resolution issues. Fans scrambled to deliver an unofficial fix, but an official one never came. Now, it appears the Microsoft version of the game has rectified those problems.
As it's based on the 'Become as Gods' version, players on forums such as Resetera are stating the game is running a lot smoother, has a higher resolution, and performs substantially better in general compared to the Steam version.
It’s great to know that the Xbox version of the game is the best place to check out NieR: Automata on PC. It’s filled with some really incredible combat and stunning art design, so playing it the best possible way in Game Pass is a great excuse to check it out.
Will you be playing NieR: Automata via Xbox Game Pass on PC? Let us know in the comments below.
[source pcgamer.com]
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I really need to give this game another go before it gets removed from Game Pass - hopefully the renewal of the game on PC has pushed it's removal further down the road. I am sure it runs 100% perfect on Series X.
Not saying a removal date has ever been known, just need to get to it before that day comes somewhere in the future.
@GamingFan4Lyf
I tried to like this game 3 times. It just doesn't click with me, but thanks to Game Pass I could try again. Gotta love Game Pass
@GamingFan4Lyf after completing the three main playthroughs it quickly became my favorite game. I played it on PS4, it ran great, but I didn’t get too far. I randomly decided to give it another go on Game Pass and I fell in love right away with it. It ran flawlessly on my first gen One, I’d imagine SX would be incredible.
Automota was the biggest let down after loving the first Nier.
Well, biggest disappointment after the fact that they announced remaster is for the stupid, Japanese specific plot where Nier is a boy and you're trying to save your sister. Whereas the original version has you playing as a dad trying to save your daughter.
@gollumb82 @GamingFan4Lyf How far did you guys play? Did you get into the real game or did the overlong into put you off?
Fwiw, the intro isn't like the real game much. It's a long, linear, on rails thing that starts with a shmup, runs too long, and finishes with an unfair boss that expects you to know far more about the gameplay than you could say that point. It's a bad introduction. After that the actual open world ARPG opens up... It's a weird game. Taro is a weird guy. It's certainly a game that isn't for everyone. But, if you didn't make it past there, throw it in easy, get past that, and sample the real game while it's on GP and see what you think.
@NEStalgia
I was put off by exactly what you described. Got to that dumb boss fight with the Goliath and got frustrated by it. Can't say that I liked the constantly changing camera angles in the intro. Made it seem like Taro couldn't decide what kind of game Nier wants to be. Maybe I'll try again, the beauty of Game Pass Thanks for the useful insight. By the way, does every playthrough start with this intro?
@gollumb82 Yeah, the intro doesn't represent the game well at all. I mean it does, certain aspects of it. The combat, etc is it, but the game structure in the intro isn't really the game structure at all. There are certain main event missions that are more linear like that, but it doesn't represent the total gameplay loop at all. Least of which it's an open world (or at least, open area) ARPG, first and foremost, with hub areas/minitowns and unlockable fast travel/checkpoints etc. The intro feels purely Platinum action game like it'll continue on rails, Bayonetta style for the rest of the game. There are other sequences that take on a similar structure in the game, but they feel more complete as part of a larger whole, and they usually unlock the free aspect of that region after, side quests, etc. The intro takes an hour to complete at least and doesn't demonstrate the main environment.
Of the 3 routes, the 2nd one is just the first one from another perspective, so it does include the intro. I haven't completed the third one (I'd put it down and haven't happened to picked it up. I was going to but ended up picking up FFXV instead and actually ended up liking it for now.) But the 3rd one is different.
I'd say get through the intro on easy mode, no shame in it, then get to the real game. If you start exploring the area and get up to maybe the desert area and still don't like it, you're never going to like it. It's definitely "weird" in an arty sort of way. If we compare to film as a medium, it's not an Oscars kind of game, it's a Cannes kind of game. A very very Cannes kind of game. But not in a cringey, political, only-for-Starbucks-employees-who-are-better-than-you Life is Strange sort of way. Well, ok, maybe there's some beatnik philosophy underlying it....
@NEStalgia
Well, I've tried a fourth time only to find out that I have to do the whole prologue yet again because I can't save in this section of the game and the goliath boss killed me on normal. Don't know if I have enough perseverance to play the intro a fifth time. Especially when I have already started playing Fallout 4 on GP. Still, thanks for the insight and tips!
@gollumb82 Oh, oops, I meant to mention that... Yeah you can't save in that whole thing. AFAIK that's the largest single section of the game with no save points or checkpoints. But I did say to put it on easy for a reason.
That's a ridiculously unfair boss encounter for that stage of the game, let alone without saves. And it's annoying wall just before it gets interesting. Up to that point there's absolutely nothing in the tone or story to build up intrigue.
@NEStalgia I didn't get far. I was on maybe the first boss fight (the big machine with the grinder arms). My daughter turned off the TV right in the middle of the fight and by the time I got the TV turned back on (it's a 2010 Samsung LCD TV that seems to take a few seconds to power up), I was dead and I had to restart all over again from the very beginning (I didn't see a way to save the game during that whole segment).
I was annoyed and didn't have time to redo the fight. I just never got back around to it.
@GamingFan4Lyf Haha, yeah, that's what gollumb discovered earlier, there's inexplicably no save points in that hour long intro, capped with an unfair boss battle. Artistically the intro is cool. But functionally the game would be better without it.
I imagine that the people who bought it on Steam might not be all too pleased upon hearing these news.
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