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brestugo posted...

I think some people are mistaking the venue, fwiw. This wasn't a darkened movie theatre.

It was theatre lights for a musical. I've never seen this show, but I've been to theatres for plays and it wasn't "dark" like a movie theatre at all. You could easily see what everyone was doing. The stage is just brighter.

This, plus she was already drawing attention to herself by doing other things like using the flash on her phone to take selfies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wzSw2iuk_8

At least one thing is clear, I love how they've been releasing animations to coincide with game releases lately.

SomeLikeItHoth posted...

Anyone use Godot? I was thinking of learning Unity a few months ago. Thank god I never did.

Apparently with Godot 4 it's quite a lot more capable than people credited it for now with a robust 3D engine. I'm looking to learn it myself.

https://twitter.com/Terraria_Logic/status/1704227519027651016?s=20

They don't use Unity but are speaking out against the decision, and as a response, they are helping to fund the Godot and FNA engines in their development with $100,000 each starting out, and $1,000 a month following that.

Absolutely based.

mario2000 posted...

Let me guess, Haiji is your other favorite character.

I liked him until they did *that*. I guess it was to get the player in the right mindset for the end but that instantly ruined the character for me.

mario2000 posted...

UDG has some hella weird shit in it too, yes.

Yeah...I thought the game was okay, but some parts of the game were...

MuscleRobo posted...

Love him, I was really excited at the last event I went to when I met two girls with Teru Teru booths and bought a few doujinshi. One was a bit ... crazy though, lol.

Well that explains why you got weirdly defensive about him, lol. Was just curious.

MuscleRobo posted...

Maybe all you reddit, tumblr types? You all hate Ultra Despair Girls too right? Or is it a split between the people who played it and the people who read let's play's?

Weird response. Do you like Teruteru?

Yeah, everyone hates that little creep Teruteru.

PraetorXyn posted...

Ive never understood the appeal of Pokmon. Shin Megami Tensei came way earlier, and you recruit demons, evolve some of them, and fuse them together to make bigger badder demons, then you make them fight for you.

Pokmon is the same thing but with dorky baby monsters instead of cool demons.

Probably cute and weird monsters is more marketable to children and to the masses.

EpicMickeyDrew posted...

What control scheme should you use?

I used action which maxed out the top speed, and I toned down the aerial deceleration a bit so that I keep most of my momentum after I jump.

EmilyTheCEman posted...

Does it feel at all like the Genesis games momentum based physics or is it the usual light and floaty 3D Sonic?

Funny enough, it depends on what control settings you use. Though for the most part it only affects overworld movement. When you get to the Cyberspace stages the control style is fixed.

I don't think it quite gets to the finesse of the Genesis movement though. You can get it close though.

If it's on sale go for it. I had a good time with it and apparently Update 2 added some things that make it play even better. Assuming you don't mind messing with sliders to determine how fast your top speed is, how your acceleration is, how much air deceleration you get, etc.

St0rmFury posted...

What's that, some sort of prologue game like MGSV Ground Zeroes?

It's a side story they released as extra when they ported it to next-gen and PC.

Heard some people spent hours at a time playing the game when they didn't with MK11.

It seems weird that Arnold himself is not included until you remember that he's a pacifist and doesn't like fighting.

Tyranthraxus posted...

lmfao imagine thinking ES6 is happening any time within the next 5 years

This. With the actual news that they only just started working on it, we're not gonna see it for a while.

loafy013 posted...

I like how they made sure not to take a screenshot on the same frame (look at the sunglasses). Now why would somebody make such a dishonest comparison photo like that? (not pointed at you HudGard).

I saw the comparison video this screenshot was taken from. They literally couldn't get the same frame because of performance issues on the Switch version, lol.

Cage's expression never changed anyway.

St0rmFury posted...

Where's the right image from?

Her appearance in Remake Intergrade.

At the very least, you're given a couple of summon materia if you have saves for Remake and Intergrade.

TMOG posted...

People ITT really talking like Undertale is an RPG with puzzle elements rather than the other way around

Really only one person I think. It shines more on the good pathway because it was designed to be a puzzle game. Playing it like a basic RPG is pretty boring.

Yeah, I'm seeing what they're doing here. It's no longer an actual remake, it's just a new trilogy. Events are mixed around, brand new things are occurring like an alternate timeline with a completely new story, there's likely gonna be an entirely new ending, etc.

This brings up a different can of worms of course, but it seems to me like it's a trilogy. They're doing stuff like this because they know it being a straight retelling of the original story isn't going to keep people interested from part to part. They have to keep the mystery and add new things. If explaining what they're doing is shilling then you're beyond hope.

Avirosb posted...

RPGs be like that.

That's a good point. A lot of RPGs tend to be preachy with their messages.

PraetorXyn posted...

If you kill the bosses like you usually do, you get an unsinkable fight against Sans and the bad ending, right? I heard you couldnt even get away from it by deleting the save as it remembered youd done it or something.

Nah, you get a neutral ending if you play normally. The bad ending with Sans and all that requires going out of your way to grind and kill every last random encounter in every area.

For getting the good ending, it's actually pretty fun to figure out how to go about not killing enemies and bosses. It's not as simple as running away, it becomes a puzzle game. That's actually more fun to do than the Genocide run since the grind is boring. The two boss fights you get from it are fun, but that's it.

It's good, always found it weird that a child kept her shorts unbuttoned like that. Even the OG design.

The added armor on her left arm looks neat too.

It sounds to me like they're still hurt about some inclusions made like two or three games ago, like Sonic having an unimaginative moveset and Ganondorf being a Captain Falcon clone. Because now Sakurai has treated these characters with respect and didn't make them "vague facsimiles of what they really are." Even going so far as to have some of them play drastically different because that's the kind of game they're in, like Tekken or Minecraft.

His description of Smash Ultimate honestly fits Fortnite way more. All those different characters are literally just skins. They may add new abilities to go with some skins but those abilities conversely can be used by any skin. And you end up seeing some characters you'd never thought would hit the griddy.

Dark_Arbron posted...

SA1 had a surprising number of alternate pathways and hidden stuff. The problem was without a free camera a lot of it was too hard to see.

The only SA2 level that comes close to that kind of complexity is Final Rush.

There's probably some stuff I never knew about, tbh. It was only recently that I found out about a big shortcut in Final Egg.

And yeah the final speed stages in SA2 were pretty expansive, forgot about those.

StealThisSheen posted...

This.

Who actually remembers that Tim Allen had a sitcom after Home Improvement? That just ended in 2021? That got nine seasons?

What the fuck. Yeah I've never heard of it. I'm assuming it wasn't great.

EmilyTheCEman posted...

Theyre the best 3D Sonic games but the best 3D Sonic game can only ever be fine because true Sonic gameplay does not translate well to 3D.

True Sonic gameplay in 1-3&K/Mania has intricate and rewarding platforming, level traversal and obstacle overcoming, where the 3D games are just FAST FAST FAST HOMING HOMING HOMING until you win.

Generations was the closest to translating that gameplay into 3D I would say. Sonic Adventure had the momentum physics but the level design didn't take advantage of it.

Punished_Blinx posted...

What's the exact expectation people want? The counter examples that I have played make no sense and make me suspect someone has just googled Save Import without actually caring about how those games handled it.

They seem to want something like dot hack, that actually did carry over your stats and equipment from game to game. That kind of data carryover seems to be pretty rare though.

Kurt_Russel posted...

So uheveryones still gonna buy it, right?

Probably wasn't asked to me, but I loved Remake so I'll definitely be getting this.

ultimate_reaver posted...

Bloober team has never made a good game and this will be no different.

I actually liked Observer, it was nea-

Praised by a few people with no standards,

Oh.

Zonbei posted...

Development and funding are inextricable from each other. Many development choices are due to funding.

This, honestly. It's seen as a waste of development time to make an entirely brand new environment with new assets that the player will only spend a minute or two in, unless you cut down your budget. This is what I mean by game development being more complicated and bigger-scale now than it used to be.

pegusus123456 posted...

To directly quote them.

All of which is already true if you compare the original SH2 to something like Layers of Fear. I'm not saying the remake will be good, but this bit is taken out of context pretty hard.

This. I'm willing to wait and see because comparatively, SH2 does have more action than Bloober's older games.

darkphoenix181 posted...

That is just a line Square corporate fed to people back in the XIII days. This has been dis-proven many times over since then. Look at Elden Ring for an easy example.

This is not about what Square said back then, it's a fact.

And Elden Ring does not have the same kind of presentation as other AAA games these days are you kidding me? It doesn't even have the same storytelling as lower-budget jRPGs.

darkphoenix181 posted...

No that is you trying to find a justification and forgetting how people played old jrpgs.

I don't think you're getting the point I'm making. It has nothing to do about how people played old jRPGs, it's about how game development has changed and gotten more complicated.

darkphoenix181 posted...

They already did it. We have the fully 3D areas already up to Northern Crater at least in Rebirth. But alongside it we have content claimed to make the game "100 hours long". That is a LOT of padding cause not even the entire original game really had 100 hours unless you did something like trying to get to level 100. Take all the work needed to make this padding and the game would been done.

That's why the added content is there. They want the player to be able to experience all these areas longer than for just a few minutes because it makes more sense from a development standpoint.

I mean, it's either this or cut the budget so it's not AAA. Final Fantasy's the only jRPG series that really pushes high-fidelity presentation, all others are lower budget so that they can have an easier time building a world to explore around in. Xenoblade's probably the closest one to FF but, as much as I love it, it still doesn't even match the fidelity of FF and the re-use of assets is quite large. It's why they were able to put out two games + lengthy DLCs and a remaster on one console.

darkphoenix181 posted...

Because all that new content to make it 100 hours right? Even with all that, this part 2 will end about northern crater. If we cut all this filler then they would 100% be done.

I'm willing to argue that creating fully 3D areas and making them look beautiful and hi-res is a lot more work than them being pre-rendered backdrops. And considering a lot of areas in the original FFVII are only a few screens long, there's tons of areas, and a huge visual variety on them all, that it would be considered a waste to design areas that the player is only gonna be in for a couple minutes, like the Mithril Mines. So rather than cut anything out, the devs are rather expanding these short areas in an attempt at making them grander, more epic, and allowing players to spend more time in those areas.

All to say, in short, AAA game development now is a lot harder and time-consuming than it used to be, so might as well make the most out of the assets you create.

darkphoenix181 posted...

Or they didn't cause you, a person who said you are glad they split the game into parts, don't remember any of them. Yes I googled them.

What is this argument about again? Sorry to butt in, I'm just confused.

That would be ridiculous, lol. But the concept of different timelines is likely gonna be a thing anyway.

hockeybub89 posted...

*Square Enix releases bomb after bomb, losing of money*

"OMG we put so much money into well-received FF16 and it didn't sell GTA numbers! Flop of the century!!!!! It's gonna kill us!"

To be fair that's more on investors and not Square Enix themselves. The company lost money in market share because of investors. Square-Enix probably over-promised with FFXVI in sales and even though it did good, it wasn't enough for investors.

pegusus123456 posted...

The only ones I really remember are the big three in Wall Market. They were fun characters, so I don't know what he's complaining about.

There was also Roche who was...whatever, but I imagine he'll have story significance in the sense that it'd probably be an example shown to Cloud what mako-induced madness in the Soldiers could be.

Edit: Which is weird, he's completely absent from the Rebirth advertising. Not even just a little peep. Hope they didn't ditch him because it seemed like they were going for something with him.

PurestProdigy posted...

Suikoden, Baldur's Gate (1/2), Mass Effect, Dragon Age

I actually can't believe I forgot about Mass Effect, that was a big one. Didn't know Dragon Age did it too but that's cool.

pegusus123456 posted...

Hey, they've mentioned like three total game series including dot hack, I don't know what more you're asking for.

I overlooked it, but if it's only three series out of who knows how many RPG direct sequel franchises then those seem to be the exceptions and not the rule.

PurestProdigy posted...

It's an expectation at this point. Like if a long game didn't have game saves we'd all agree it was fucking weird, if direct story sequels in the RPG genre don't let you carry stuff between games it's fucking weird.

Are there any examples other than dot hack?

I just find it really weird that some people are extremely hung up and pissed off over the fact you don't carry over anything beyond maybe save file bonuses.

They managed to turn FFVII into a trilogy. Did they need to, no. But they did, and each game is a full-sized game lasting 30+ hours. It's not even FFVII 1:1 in terms of story because it's gonna be different in lots of ways, so in essence it's a new story. What's the point in doing everything in Remake if it's not gonna carry over into Rebirth? The point is to get more out of the singular game you paid for. I don't get mad when I play a sequel and find out none of my shit from the previous game carries over, because a VERY SMALL number of games actually do that. It's just normal. The best you can hope for is a sequel acknowledging that any side content in the previous game was canon in some way.

I also don't consider story as important in deciding if a game is complete or not, especially if the devs acknowledge they are making the next games. I was peeved that Xenoblade X ended in cliffhangers and unanswered questions, but you won't be seeing me call the game incomplete because holy hell, it's far from that.

It actually looks like a variety game. One part you're doing kung-fu fighting, another you're doing platforming and swordfighting, another you're finding clues and solving riddles, another you're doing minigames to bake cakes and confectionaries.

Corbenik posted...

how is it extortion? its just a tax OMG
do you not pay taxes for the roads you use?

damn people just want freebees

unity should just let ppl use their old stuff for free
and cut ppl off

if they wanna make games they dont deserve to have the benefits of the new features if they dont pay

dunno how that makes me a shill

just trying to see things the fair way

It's a fruitless endeavor because out of all things, Unity broke trust amongst its userbase. Before this new change, their terms of use had a clause that stated that if users do not like any new terms that are brought up, they are free to disagree and keep using Unity with the caveat that they do not update the engine they're using. Now suddenly, that clause is no longer there and they never said a word about it. With the knowledge that they can just retroactively change stuff like that without warning means worlds more than a (still stupid) fee per install.

Alteres posted...

Im confused, is this just a licensing fee? Unity doesnt actually incur any costs for new installs do they?

IIRC they don't. They're just doing this because they're desperate for money.

GuerrillaSoldier posted...

whoever wrote that has really bad grammar. it's hilarious that the quote version is a corrected version.

Yeah, I did the quoted version, lol.

Was an interesting read though.