Quote Originally Posted by Voltyblast View Post
I really got bored at that time but I know well enough to say one particular thing: it's set on earth, real earth, just a trillion years later (I forgot the exact date, I think it was 11k years later?).
Do you know what means? It means that Eorzea, a fantasy realm invented for the sake of this game, a fantasy world where it has its own rules, a fantasy world where there are different races, is going to be tied to our earth as a potential canon. Is this the first time that something like this happened? No: Drakengard 1 has an ending where you go to Tokyo - which leads to the Nier games - but it's not shoved up to our throats and it's actually well implied and explained. What are they going to say here? That humans got to Eorzean to escape the alien invasion and suddenly they forgot about earth?

My point with this is that Nier: Automata, a game world set in the real world, is going to be canon to Eorzea, a fake world, and as far as I know, "metagaming" references are pretty much disliked...so now suddenly they are? I don't care about the game's plot of both games but even I would think "it's pretty dumb". Why not make a crossover with kingdom hearts? It's all about world travels, it fits the world. Or even Dragon quest? Sure the style is incredibly different but it's another dimension we can buy it.
You assume that YoRHa in XIV and YoRHa from NieR will be the exact same organization rather than, you know, given a new origin specific for XIV that has nothing to do with Earth.

The Crystal Tower didn't suddenly make our world connected to the world of FFIII. Usage of the Void didn't make XIV connected to other FFs with their own Voids. Omega's appearance didn't connect to any other specific FF games and even had a rivarly with a different dragon than he usually had (Shinryu being the usual one though XIV's Shinryu was essentially inspired by Midgarsomr.) The closest we have to being connected to other FF games is VI when it comes to Sigmascape as they didn't really try to connect that to Hydaelyn lore, unlike Deltascape which does have justification in the lore without the world being connected to V. Even then if we somehow are connected to VI its so far in the past as to not matter now.

Also the Drakengard 1 E ending isn't well explained. The PC is just suddenly sent into the future as well as across continents, and after winning gets shot down by F-16s. Now NieR works very well of it and The Watchers certainly screw up so many things when it comes to known physics, but it still wasn't explained all that well.

On another note, I will be very sad if the a Pod isn't some sorta reward/drop from this set, its the perfect minion for us! Coulda even talked for us if minions actually did something beyond being little pets.