Ashtear
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Getting it done with the power of friendship since 1991 (formerly ashtear@lemm.ee).
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- Comment on The Expanse: Osiris Reborn Will Take Cues From Mass Effect, Souls Games and More 23 hours ago:
New engine, new gameplay style, new [licensed] IP. Lots of variables. Owlcat’s exploded in size recently but I can’t quite tell yet if this is their big swing like BG3 was for Larian.
I’m also confident the writing will be competent, and Ty and Daniel have have a good track record of being available to assist on adaptations. I just hope I like the player characters more this time around. I didn’t quite click with anyone in the Pathfinder games (haven’t tried Rogue Trader yet).
- Comment on Square Enix acknowledges Expedition 33 success as inspiration for next Final Fantasy as turn-based is still beloved by gamers 1 day ago:
Once bitten, twice shy. They’ve had really mixed results doing this with the brand in the past, and their current corporate strategy suggests it’s not happening again anytime soon.
I think the Bravely series is the closest to that we’ll be in these times, although it’s not even clear at this point if that series is continuing or not.
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- Comment on Square Enix acknowledges Expedition 33 success as inspiration for next Final Fantasy as turn-based is still beloved by gamers 1 day ago:
Final Fantasy X was also the first pure turn-based game in the mainline series since 1990.
I keep hearing people cite Final Fantasy nostalgia with Expedition 33, but pure turn-based combat with realistic graphics happened exactly once in all of Final Fantasy. I don’t get it. It’s much more of a thing in the rest of the genre, including SQEX’s other properties.
- Comment on Square Enix acknowledges Expedition 33 success as inspiration for next Final Fantasy as turn-based is still beloved by gamers 1 day ago:
The writing was already on the wall following the massive successes of Persona 5 and Honkai Star Rail. Expedition 33 had its moment in the zeitgeist, but at this time it’s not clear it will be the massive revenue generator those games are. And that’s the goal for mainline FF.
That said, SQEX has been very internally-driven for a while now, and their major teams get more excited about developing games with action elements. I’d be very surprised if FF17 returned to turn-based for that reason alone.
- Comment on New report suggests third-party Switch 2 game sales are "below estimates" 6 days ago:
conventional wisdom does not apply
All the more reason why it’s far too early to draw any conclusions.
- Comment on New report suggests third-party Switch 2 game sales are "below estimates" 1 week ago:
It’s too early to draw any conclusions. Take it from Mat Piscatella, who’s forgotten more about video game market research than I ever learned myself.
Hardware launches are not like game releases, anyway. It’s the establishment of a new product market, and early game releases on consoles have an ebb and flow to them that later blockbusters do not. It’s about building growth, not first-week sales.
- Comment on Nexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Community 1 week ago:
Ouch. Even selling it to Fandom would have been better than this.
- Comment on Does Super Metroid get any better? 1 week ago:
You’re not going to find more text/explicit plot than you have already. That said, there is good environmental storytelling in the last zone of the game. The next zone for you (Wrecked Ship) might have a little more for you to chew on. I’d say get through that zone and then see how you feel about it. If you like it, the ending will probably feel rewarding.
- Comment on First/notable 3D games where you could dive below water (and walk on land) 1 week ago:
Half-Life 2 always stands out in my mind for this due to it being such a physics playground.
I usually hate water areas in games, though 😂 Especially the Zelda ones.
- Comment on Gachapwned: How gacha MMOs drown us in progression and randomness | Massively Overpowered 1 week ago:
There’s almost no multiplayer in Honkai Star Rail, though, much less anything approaching what an MMO does. It has asynchronous character sharing and chat. That’s literally all the player interaction there is in the core game. Every now and then there’s an event where you can go head-to-head in simple games like match 3.
- Comment on Steam Next Fest has started once again. What good demos have you found? 2 weeks ago:
I tried a bunch of these today and yesterday.
In the “Shut Up and Take My Money” tier:
- Bits & Bops - Sure, it’s a total Rhythm Heaven clone but, hey, why mess with a winning formula? Still, I worry about devs borrowing this heavily from Nintendo titles these days 😬
- Dispatch - I only needed 10 minutes with this to know I’m sold. The animation is gorgeous and it has a hell of a cast. Between this and Expedition 33, how are new studios getting these people!?
- Mina the Hollower - Shovel Knight’s the best retro game I’ve seen and I didn’t need to see much of Mina to know that Yacht Club delivered again. It’s got a Zelda vibe (the jump especially feels just like it did in Link’s Awakening) along with all that other 8-bit-with-present-day-game-design goodness. I also cut this one short so I can enjoy it in full later. Day 1 for me.
Pretty good but a couple hiccups:
- Forestrike - Hey, PlayStation gamepad glyphs! Always appreciated. Outstanding atmosphere in general. The pixel graphics are interesting; the character design reminds me of old Sierra games. I wonder if at some point during dev they considered just not going roguelite. There’s real storytelling talent here and I think a linear game with increasing complexity might have been even better (and helped to not undercut the narrative as roguelite progression tends to do).
- inKonbini - Pretty short demo, but the gameplay seems it’d be good and vibe is cozy. Really strange that only the written Japanese is gibberish. It seems too elaborate to be placeholder text, so I wonder what the story there is? It takes me out of the life sim aspect of this a bit.
Not for me:
- BALL X PIT - The gameplay pacing on this is unfortunate, with the roguelite elements stopping the action too much. Kept wanting to get into a flow state and was constantly interrupted.
- Bloodgrounds - All the other demos I played came ready with story and this one feels underbaked in that department. What I played of the demo was almost all gameplay. Didn’t see much that really sets it apart from the pack.
- Dice Gambit - I don’t think this strategy game gets the basics down well enough to add on the dice layer. Feels like one move should be guaranteed regardless of rolls (and lack of move undo is unfortunate also). The art style also isn’t for me.
- Comment on Xbox dumped a mountain of trailers on us 2 weeks ago:
Aphelion: I’ve been kinda out on Don’t Nod but the trailer tells me they at least still know how to pick licensed music.
Beast of Reincarnation: Didn’t know Game Freak had this in them. Still wouldn’t recommend going anywhere near their stuff without seeing reviews first.
The Blood of Dawnwalker: This is my dark horse pick coming out of this week’s showcases. Yeah, it’s a Witcher clone from CD Projekt devs, but it only needs to capture some of the Witcher magic to be great. The publisher is curious, though. This has to be Bamco’s biggest swing with a Western studio yet, right?
Persona 4 Revival: Little more than a title card reveal. Honestly, the timeline for this one works for me. No way it comes out this year, and I’m still relatively fresh off Metaphor. Good name, too. “Revival” is a very TV-coded hype term.
- Comment on Persona 4 Revival - Teaser Trailer 2 weeks ago:
They improved the handcrafted dungeon stuff in P3R, so I think it’ll probably still be better, but definitely not P5 level.
This seems a long way out though.
- Comment on Persona 4 Revival - Teaser Trailer 2 weeks ago:
“Teaser” is certainly accurate. This was little more than a title card. So much for this coming out this year.
- Comment on Persona 4 Revival - Teaser Trailer 2 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t expect dungeon overhauls. It will most likely still be procedurally generated like P3R was.
- Comment on The Expanse: Osiris Reborn Announcement Trailer 2 weeks ago:
Would never have guessed Owlcat’s new game would be in The Expanse universe, or that it would be an action RPG, for that matter.
I’m a huge fan of The Expanse so I’m going to check it out regardless, but I don’t know how this is gonna go.
- Comment on MIO: Memories In Orbit Gameplay Trailer 2 weeks ago:
Played through the demo for this and thought it wasn’t bad. The tutorial sections are highlights, which I think is smart design for a metroidvania. Enjoyed this overall more than Nine Sols, which I didn’t seem to like anywhere near as much as seemingly everyone did.
Biggest negative is that it uses Hollow Knight’s map system, which was easily my least favorite part of that game.
- Comment on Chronicles: Medieval - Announcement Trailer 2 weeks ago:
I’m interested and I’ll keep an eye out for gameplay on this, but holy hell is this name bad.
- Comment on What are you all looking forward to at Summer Games Fest? 2 weeks ago:
Fortunately, Silksong’s never missed a release window before.
- Comment on Mina the Hollower: Release Date Announcement Trailer (October 31) 2 weeks ago:
This looks sweet. Vibes of Startropics and something else I can’t quite put my finger on.
- Comment on Welcome to Lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago:
Good call, that did it. Don’t know why I didn’t think of that. Thanks!
- Comment on Final Fantasy Tactics - The Ivalice Chronicles - Announcement Trailer | PS5 Games 3 weeks ago:
Yep, most of it is at Final Fantasy Hacktics.
I’m not familiar with FFTA’s scene.
- Comment on Welcome to Lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago:
Hey, thanks for welcoming us in.
I’m having a little trouble on-boarding. Anytime I try to import my settings via JSON in the Import/Export Settings box, I get the following error: “Please wait a few minutes before trying to import or export settings again.” The error was thrown on the first attempt and has been the same for a couple days. Happens in both Firefox and Chrome.
- Comment on Final Fantasy Tactics - The Ivalice Chronicles - Announcement Trailer | PS5 Games 3 weeks ago:
Well, there are few modding scenes as robust as the FFT one, so maybe someone will put a nice package together.
Nothing out there is anywhere close to the quality of the Reborn soundtrack, though.
- Comment on Final Fantasy Tactics - The Ivalice Chronicles - Announcement Trailer | PS5 Games 3 weeks ago:
It’s coming out on everything. Post on Square Exni’s site with multiple details here.
- Comment on Final Fantasy Tactics - The Ivalice Chronicles - Announcement Trailer | PS5 Games 3 weeks ago:
I can’t believe they didn’t orchestrate the soundtrack as they did for Tactics Ogre. That was the only thing I wanted out of this project. Ughhh.
All I can hope for at this point are that the new content and gameplay changes are positive.