is by doing marketing (without exclusives from Nintendo and sony) they will have to pay more and more on marketing which will makes it even harder for those smaller games. They won't disappear completely, but I won't accept as much as before even for the good ones. All games day and date means they need alot of more people making sure that everything is right with all platforms.
Their budgeting sucks. Small indie teams are soon going to be making stuff that looks like that. Sea of Stars should be a wakeup call for their whole operation.Square Enix Says HD-2D Style Is Actually Pretty Expensive
Over the last few years, Square Enix's HD-2D games have gotten a lot of positive attention from [...]comicbook.com
The quality was already there with those games and they were on most platforms so the only way to raise
Those were before gamepass.
I feel like you skim what I'm writing and then claim I said things I didn't. I didn't say Sea of Stars is on the same level as Octopath. I said soon, indies will catch up to the HD-2D stuff. It's actually cheaper to make the 3D assets than all pixel art. Sea of Stars is evidence that they are catching up fast, with a much smaller team and sold for a discount price.
That's fine, I've read some people on here that hated it who I normally agree with. Personally, I was blown away by it. Nearly every screen has some small traversal element that makes it interesting almost like Landstalker or something. Combat was good, with great balancing and some more challenging fights later on. Story was pretty good, with multiple smaller side stories. Several of the party members have cool back stories. Pacing was good. And they managed to keep it under 35 hours which is the sweet spot. I think the music was the weakspot. I can't even remember the last time SQEX designed an actual puzzle like this game has at multiple spots, like that water elevator temple. The level design is light years ahead.
Remakes? No not a chance. Maybe part one.
I'm aware. I think he just did a few tracks. I listened to see which ones he does specifically. A lot of the music sucks from the other guy. It sucked in The Messenger as well.
Honestly, there should have been multiple wake up calls by now. 3D, 2D, 2.5D, i've seen sooo many games throughout the years with that level of visual quality done by teams and budgets a fraction of Square Enix's.
Which ones?
I don't think MS has used wallet money for each and every game released on XBOX. The games that Square has released on XBOX have clearly been made because they have seen interest in do it, as do each and every game publisher. I don't think anyone doubts that if Sony had not paid for the FF exclusivity, these would also have come out on XSeries.
Ohh nice the failure predictions starting for the switch 2 now?
Honestly, there should have been multiple wake up calls by now. 3D, 2D, 2.5D, i've seen sooo many games throughout the years with that level of visual quality done by teams and budgets a fraction of Square Enix's.
If you think 13, 14, 15, 16, or 7R look at all similar or “blend together” you have issues with your eyes. Quality can be debated heavily on it, but they are not at all similar to each other.
I also don't want any game being held back because of the Switch and that's in addition to much longer development times because of multiple platforms. Which the FF7 rebirth project leader mentioned several times.
Honestly, there should have been multiple wake up calls by now. 3D, 2D, 2.5D, i've seen sooo many games throughout the years with that level of visual quality done by teams and budgets a fraction of Square Enix's.
Not more or less since its different styles, but in the same ballpark of quality. From having the proper artistic cohesion and beauty to the quality of the assets used, as well as attention to detail.
Who told you ports aren't expensive to make? Site the sources please. I've been waiting on this information when individuals pull this talking point out.
I love the Octopath games, and in particular Triangle Strategy. All I'm pointing out is that they're going to keep getting squeezed further. Compare it to Metroid Dread coming out for $60 in a world where indies can make a metroidvania for $20. Nintendo put out a straight 10/10 best of all time in the genre type of game, and it still only sells around 2 million. The example in the bottom pic is fitting since it's combining 3D assets with 2D characters. Small teams are going to be able to do this stuff for cheap and add a bunch of bloom to it and visual effects in Unreal. Look at something like Tinykin (this was only a $20 game).
It’s been 7 years between the last two mainline entries. I don’t see shorter dev times happening anytime soon, so I’d be more inclined to believe it will release much later than 2029. We’ll be lucky to get the final instalment to FF7 by 2029.
I think BG3 (and Elden Ring in fact) are interesting cases to look upon because they both involve a developer super focusing on an specific formula and improving it over the good part of a decade. I think they make good cases on how to do AAA properly. Start small, conquer a public, slowly scale up the budget as you refine the formula throughout the years.
Xbox going third party has fucked SE in the ass hard
