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The fuck is this

pegusus123456 posted...

Its main character is a big CGI woman 90% of the time and that doesn't include all the other CGI. It shouldn't surprise anyone that it's expensive.

I think the problem is more that why did they think this was the best way to produce a TV show to begin with. Especially since Disney+ ended up being seen as a money sink.

NoxObscuras posted...

Yeah, FF14's sales figures are through the roof (over 24 million players), but I've seen people brush it off with "that's an mmo, it doesn't count" so I didn't include it.

It is a success for them for sure and is overall holding up a lot for Square-Enix at the moment.

But as we've seen with Destiny 2 and Fortnite in the last few months they can't just expect the one game to be successful forever.

This stuff goes beyond sales and player counts. Square-Enix has an investor problem and people aren't seeing any potential growth with their current output and IP. That's what Square-Enix is really struggling with. If it wasn't for FFXIV they'd probably be in disaster territory.

Sony getting ready to swoop in with the Sinister Six universe to save superhero movies forever.

IceCreamOnStero posted...

Elden Ring (effectively Souls games) and Monster Hunter are two franchises that have stuck to their guns though. Everyone knew what they were getting into with them. Sure, they have innovations, but Monster Hunter is still Monster Hunter at the end of the day. They found a formula and refined it to a dedicated fanbase and critical acclaim. FF has been chasing trends and doing completely different shit in each entry for over a decade now.

I think it helps the pitches of those games are simple.

Oh it's like Dark Souls in an open world
Oh I hunt giant monsters with my friends

I don't know what the elevator pitch for Final Fantasy XVI was supposed to be. Devil May Cry isn't even an overly popular game to begin with.

NoxObscuras posted...

Lmao what? Final Fantasy is still one of the biggest franchises in the industry. And it's easily the best selling RPG franchise of all time.

FF13, for all of the hate it got, still sold 7.7 million copies (as of 2017).
FF15 sold 10 million copies (as of 2022).
FF7R sold 7 million copies (as of 2 months ago).
FF16 sold 3 million copies in it's first week (they haven't released more recent numbers yet).

Other recent releases have sold huge numbers, but let's not act like Final Fantasy is suddenly irrelevant now.

That's what they already sold on the PS1 though. There's no growth.

Square-Enix is looking at Elden Ring, Breath of the Wild and Monster Hunter World selling around 20 million and they're envious. That's what they want. Won't surprise me if those games hit those figures with less discounts too.

The thing is it used to be one of the biggest. It really isn't anymore.

It's big enough to still be big but most publishers in their spaces have franchises that are a lot more popular.

Conservatives think family values means Dad works all the time while the Mom raises the kids at home on her own.

Tbh they should have kept this stuff to the imagination and not settled her down with anyone.

Dunno why they had to do this with Bayonetta when they never feel the need to do this with the guy characters like Dante.

_____Cait posted...

The big issue with 16 is that the setting is generic boring grimdark medieval stuff. There is literally nothing to do besides fetch quests and hunts outside of the main story. There is so much dialogue where character just stand at 3/4 and talk at eachother about stuff happening that we dont see.

I actually thought the combat was ok. It is kind of unrewarding though. Why combos? Because combos lead to more damage, and bosses are damage sponges. Encounters should have been rated and given loot based on that. I hate this stagger meter stuff.

It seriously blows my mind they made an action RPG with DMC style combat that goes for like 30-50 hours and you only get to use one weapon.

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Not really. It's always a loop of mashing attacks and managing your cooldowns for your more powerful abilities and stagger meters.

I honestly think the intro is the highlight of the game and shows much greater promise than is ever delivered later.

It just hit me that combat progression in Spider-Man 2 felt better damn.

JuanCarlos1 posted...

15 and 16 were trying to play catch up with modern gaming, but were a bit late. At least 16 gets more things right and 7remake gave us hope for good party based battles. Rebirth is looking very strong so far.

I liked 7 Remake but I wonder if they're happy with the sales that and how Rebirth will do.

It just feels like they haven't gained any new audience that they didn't already have on the PS1 and PS2. This wouldn't matter if Square-Enix had some other major IP that would fill that hole but they do not.

At the end of the day these games are significantly more expensive to make compared to back then. So similar or smaller sale numbers isn't great.

Vyrulisse posted...

FFXIV is very relevant.

I suppose but they want something more than continuing to bank on a couple of old MMO's. They want Final Fantasy to be up there with the modern Zelda's and Elden Ring and they dunno how to do that.

The problem Square-Enix has is they sold off their Western studios and IP to try and get some quick money to invest in blockchain garbo and now they're stuck with Final Fantasy being their biggest IP.

Which is perhaps is currently the least relevant headliner IP for any major video game publisher.

Doesn't Final Fantasy sell more than Yakuza, Fire Emblem and Dragon Quest?

I don't know if BG3 is all that popular on PlayStation either.

Tbh if Square-Enix actually want Final Fantasy to be a mainstream mega hit it needs to be a critically acclaimed open world game.

Any other pitch they can think of isn't going to get the attention of the mainstream.

Oh yeah it would be Catherine.

JuanCarlos1 posted...

If thats so, it will be compared to BG3 and shred to pieces by reviewers. A BIG selling point of Bioware games has always been choosing your own path of doing things.

Bioware hasn't really let you be fully evil since maybe Dragon Age Origins? Even that doesn't quite compare to KOTOR and Jade Empire that actually let you be a villain for the ending.

A few hours! Just started playing as Alan Wake.

Kai_Laguna posted...

Unfortunately I have to wait till it gets out of Timmy jail next year.

It's funded by Epic Games so I doubt it'll go to Steam unless the Epic Store shuts down.

CruelBuffalo posted...

How can he cry about all this while demanding his workers be hardcore and never working from home and always being in the office. Like how is he so so fucking stupid and small brained to see that he directly leads to shitty lives for the offspring of his employees with his working policies and expectations.

He doesn't actually raise any of his children. He has ex-partners and staff to do that for him. So I doubt he thinks about that whatsoever.

Dawkins saying he got sucker punched because the guy he was squaring off with didn't say something like "Put up your dukes!" before he got hit.

I forgot what the full story was. It was something like his Dad would press his ass against the wall while having a shower and farts would resonate through the walls.

Shishiwakamaru posted...

The big companies have the money to make worthwhile content though, if they wanted to.

They're in a situation where they can spend months creating some in-depth article that won't get as much money and engagement as an opinion article with a clickbait headline pumped out in a day. That sorta stuff is gonna have an impact on the content. I remember an IGN specifically making a test by making an in-depth article about the history of Batman games alongside a list that ranked Batman games and the latter got more clicks by far.

A YouTuber has a specific (but smaller) audience that funds content that they want to see. They're in completely different situations. Even then I'd say the lowest common denominator YouTuber shit makes more money than the people who try to actually have good content. But at least specific people can focus on what they want to do and don't have people to answer to other than their audience.

Articles and videos are different mediums on top of that anyway.

Shishiwakamaru posted...

Nah. I think deep dive histories are popular. See the user Summoning Salt on youtube. He produces fantastic content.

Big game journalists like IGN and GameSpot just dont really make anything worthwhile. And more niche sites are worse, not better. Youtube is wear gaming journalism is at.

YouTubers can give more niche content thanks to stuff like Patreon. Nobody is paying a patreon for IGN.

Game journalism sucks because of gamers. They're not going to click into some deep dive history or behind the scenes of a game being developed.

What they will do is click into a hot take, console war bait or some easy to pump out ranking list so they can argue over it online. That's where the money is. What little of it there is in this field anyway.

Proper journalism can't really thrive under the advertising revenue from the internet. Clickbait thrives with that model. So that's what we get because people don't actually want to pay for anything better.

I watched a fair bit since I started my Shudder month trial and got a couple of bonus ones to boot.

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Yep. Resident Evil 4 Remake works surprisingly well on it. I love how versatile it is.

I just wish the screen was as nice as the Switch OLED.

Blue_Inigo posted...

I will say it's dumb that Nabbit and the Yoshis are the ones with this specific invulnerability. You should be able to pick whoever and turn it on.

My little cousins don't care about fucking Nabbit

Yeah I think it should be a badge.

I do think they should add a Yoshi's Island mode and give him a Baby Mario to look after as well heh

Sad thing is these guys are riled up by grifters who constantly need outrage bait to monetize for content. Yet they're too stupid to figure that out.

NeonTentacles posted...

Bro, we live in a civilized society. You tuck the phone in your shoulder after you touch your cock and then wash your hands before you touch your phone again. Come on, man. Aint your mom teach you manners!?

Oh I was talking about hearing the pisser and/or shitter but yeah that's a good tip.

Sir_Will posted...

That's gross as hell. Are people seriously trying to defend this?

I'm not gonna get germs over a phone call. At most it's a funny story.

deanshow posted...

Yeah since MGS3 Kojima has wanted to replace Hayter

Tbh Naked Snake should have always had a different voice. He chickened out because of the MGS2 backlash I reckon.

Solid Snake should always be Hayter though.

But Sesame Street is already part cartoon. Abbey and Rudy's Amazing Adventures is completely animated and a common segment.

Seems like the change is more about the structure of the show. There's two normal segments linked with an animated segment in the middle instead of several different parts within the one episode.

I don't think there's anything to be outraged about personally.

Ivynn posted...

Unfortunately all they learned from Barbie's success is "pEoPLe wAnT tOy mOvIeSsSs"

Yeah have they also realized people also want video game movies and Christopher Nolan movies

It's crazy how both MGS2 and MGS3 had "here's the game with tons of fixes and extra content" edition and people thought it was amazing.

Funcoot posted...

Would it matter if I watch 2 without having seen 1?

Nah. There's next to no plot in 1. All you need to know is that;
Art the Clown went on a killing spree and was killed by police. He somehow came back to life in the police morgue. There was one sole survivor named Victoria who was horribly disfigured.

One year later Victoria horrifically attacked a talk show host by brutally attacking her face and eyes.

That's so weird. I take off all my clothes outside the stall and leave them next to the sink.

As much as I love platformers that's generally how I feel about them yeah. They're perfect in short bursts.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/7/6/AACT2jAAE_Tk.png

Is this Christopher Walken?

I don't get what that would accomplish.

"McDonald's aren't liable for giving this customer severe burns because she ordered from our app" doesn't really make any sense.

Just to clarify what this connection actually was.

Scott Borchetta was starting up a label called Big Machine Records and Swift was one of the first artists he wanted to sign after seeing her play in a cafe. Her Dad was an investment banker and bought 3% of the company (which was worth about 500k at the time).

The only inappropriate joke that should be made in Matthew Perry's honor should be "Why does this happen to Matthew Perry but Keanu Reeves still walk among us?" and even that makes me nervous since I need to clarify that this is references Perry's inappropriate joke in his memoir.

Torgo posted...

They're all industry plants and former child stars now.

Kelly Clarkson and Lady Gaga might be the last organic stars that got where they are on an outsider track.

No idea about rap/hip hop though... so I dunno if Cardi B was connected or came up organically for example.

Why would you count Kelly Clarkson but not Harry Styles?

Wasn't Justin Bieber discovered on YouTube?

Overall yeah there are singers who got to have more opportunities to be successful due to their wealth or connections from their parents. But that's life and isn't unique to singing. It's just how it is. Doesn't mean they didn't earn their success and career. The odds are still against any individual. Whoever at the label still has to believe that there's potential in the artists they sign.

1337toothbrush posted...

It really doesn't matter for a label. They can turn anyone into a star.

I don't think that would be true otherwise we'd all be watching Paris Hilton breaking records with her stadium tour. Voice contestants would dominate the charts. There still has to be star potential in someone (and no that isn't solely about how well they can sing).

At the very least they could maybe force a one hit wonder or a fad but forcing an entire long lasting career is another story.

s0nicfan posted...

No, they backed her when they signed her and then worked with her to get her music recorded, mixed, produced, and released on SoundCloud while pretending she was acting independently. Like... they literally shaped her career up until that point:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Love_Club_EP

They spent 3 years pairing her up with different industry professionals until they found a fit, then they recorded the EP, then they let her release it on SoundCloud.

But she's some random girl from New Zealand. There still would have to be a reason to give her this effort. It's not like she was grown in a lab.

I think the problem is more that nobody cares.

I overall think making Ms Marvel into a TV show instead of a movie was a missed opportunity. Should have been Captain Marvel 2 and Ms Marvel and then this. It feels odd to have a crossover without any meaningful build up.

TheGoldenEel posted...

as far as I can tell shes done nothing to help other struggling artists, her only goal in this is to become even more filthy stinking rich and thats something that doesnt sit well with me imo

https://www.universalmusic.com/taylor-swift-signs-exclusive-global-recording-agreement-universal-music-group/

When Taylor Swift announced her new record deal on Monday with Universal Music Group and Republic Records, she coupled the long-awaited deal with an unusual provision: As part of her joint contract with the label, UMG must promise to hand over to artists, on a non-recoupable basis, a portion of the windfall from its Spotify shares in the future.
Not just to Swift, but to all its artists.

Sounds like regular practice for reality shows. Do people think YouTube shows are genuine and not edited in the same way?

Super Mario 3D All-Stars only being sold for a limited time was dumb.

He'd also bang his step-mother to bank on the popularity of that porn plot.

Lion King was my first game ever so yeah that was brutal.

Funnily enough after playing through that collection with the rewind feature I then immediately was able play it again and beat it without save states. The game is trial and error made much more difficult with limited lives.