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Former Square Enix exec on why Final Fantasy sales don’t meet expectations and chances of recouping insane AAA budgets | Game World Observer (gameworldobserver.com)
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[–] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago

Jacob Novak is defending SquEnix.

I would like to take the time to remark that this guy was defending the travesty and literal horror that was Silent Hill Ascension.

This guy has absolutely zero credibility, negative actually. Believing he has any credibility makes you lose some of yours. Like a credibility black hole.

[–] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Go back to your roots...make a sprite game again.

I'm so sick of polished turds and needing flashing shit on the screen while fighting.

I want a turn based, ff3(6) style adventure with amazing story and music. I don't want live combat MMO style 3d with weird story and cars that you can't do anything with. I want to play the reason I fell in love with final Fantasy.

I personally couldn't stand anything after like ff9 and even then I prefer sprites.

[–] Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Isn't Octopath Traveler basically that? I didn't play it, but that's what it looked like.

Also, did anyone play Final Fantasy Dimensions 1 and 2? They were literally that.

Also, Dungeon Encounters was a ton of fun. But it's essentially no story, pure turn based combat.

[–] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago

It was exactly that, yes.

[–] criss_cross@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

A lot of their 2.5 D games are actually pretty damn good.

I had a lot of fun with Triangle Strategy and I heard a lot of good things about Octopath 2

[–] overload@sopuli.xyz 4 points 6 months ago

I get where he's coming from to an extent.

SE is going to look at their production budget as an investment and compare that to the ROI of putting that money into the stock market, that then sets the expectation.

Problem is that all the covid money printing situation really messed with the equation, as the stock market exploded while gaming and other discretionary spending has now decreased for their target audience post-covid.

Honestly for myself, the demo just didn't excite me. So much of the discussion was around how bad the textures were on the performance mode as well. Knowing its coming to pc, I'll play it there.