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Bonus Pod: Nier Automata Spoilercast

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Leisure, Video Game Development, Television, Rewatch, Replay, Tv & Film, Video Games, Games, Movies, Video Game Culture

4.62.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2017

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

In the sea of excellent video games that 2017 has brought us, Nier: Automata still managed to stand out. Designer Yoko Taro’s latest slice of emotional weirdness struck several us at Waypoint, and by the time the credits were rolling for the fifth time, the only thing on our mind was finding a place to spoil the shit out of the game. Thankfully, our former colleague at Giant Bomb, Alex Navarro, was also looking for a place to spoil the shit out of Nier: Automata. It should go without saying that if you haven’t played the game yet, don’t listen to this podcast.

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0:00.0

What's good internet it is Austin Walker coming to you on recording am I real am I a person am I a machine who could say no

0:26.6

no one knows what's sad internet more like that's what's gonna do nothing nothing is good

0:32.1

everyone is sad everyone is crying don't be a human don't be a robot what's

0:36.1

existentially going internet everything everything about near on a town

0:41.9

yeah I almost did it just not just embrace it this is like the Laura Laura

0:46.1

cropping just so at some point it gets embedded in your head that you're gonna say it

0:50.9

the wrong way yeah look we'll just say up top we realize there's a better way to

0:55.1

say it I'm probably gonna end up saying automata automata okay hey huge fucking

1:01.8

spoiler for it near automata at the end one of those helper bots just straight up

1:05.6

says thank you for playing near automata and they say automata so that you can

1:10.3

and I didn't even notice yes good yes justice I'm also Walker joining me as you

1:17.2

can hear already Patrick Kleppick hello hello hello and giant bombs own Alex

1:21.3

Navarro hey everyone with the well this is sort of like all giant bombs own in

1:26.4

a way yes in a sense in the sense this is a family reunion the lost sons of

1:32.5

giant bomb the sad robots well wait no I'm I wasn't lost I'm still there like they

1:37.2

they didn't lose me oh I just mean that like based on my time there even when it

1:41.5

was just you and me we were the sad robot children of giant bomb oh for sure yes

1:45.5

no I mean I will forever be the sad robot child of that website and the world and

1:50.2

the world yeah so we're gonna talk about near automata we're going to to talk

1:55.3

probably a little bit about the original near when it's relevant and so this is

1:59.4

your your big warning up top that we're gonna go deep into spoiler territory

2:03.1

without any specifics like warning is going forward and like other movies

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