Nier Automata PSX

This game is a pain to do anything with on PC. If, for whatever reason, you wanted to do this on your own, you're probably going to want to get windowed borderless gaming or some equivalent like SRWE or something. I used windowed borderless gaming. And the reason you want to use this is that Automata doesn't let your mouse go over the entire screen when you pull reshade up. This may only be a 4k thing. But that was the first problem Automata had.

The next problem is related. You don't have a borderless option in the game. You also don't have resolution scale options. Those problems combined mean you basically have to run the game at the resolution you want to take screenshots at, despite the fact that you really don't need that fidelity when you're going to be downscaling it in post.

And Automata isn't the best running game ever released for PC. I don't know what they did wrong, but no amount of messing with settings will give you good performance above 1080p. You know, if you are running some overpowered setup, this probably isn't an issue, and framerate isn't really a key factor in screenshotting. But it's still too bad that we have a game that barely looks like a PS4 game running so poorly. I've done more with bigger games before. Let's just say that.

Then once you do get the game going, there's the camera settings that you can mess around with. I ended up pulling the camera out just enough so that it looks closer to how I remember those old 3d JRPGs looking. Pulling the camera in kind of detracts from that effect.

Other than that, it's a great game, and it takes beautiful screenshots. Automata is kind of like the opposite case from Tekken 7. Unlike Tekken 7, these characters weren't in a game back then. But whereas Tekken 7 doesn't quite have that art style to support the effect, Automata absolutely does. It looks like a bizarre fusion of all the classic 3d JRPGs on the PlayStation. And, as long as it's a repeat playthrough, is fairly playable like this as well.

But let's go ahead and take a look at the pictures.