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[Comandr]

The fact a reason for review bombing Final Fantasy Rebirth is because there are seemingly gay NPCs, is so wild to me.

Should be review bombed for the absolutely garish lighting. Jesus christ this was one of the most anticipated games in history from one of the biggest studios in the industry. We are one step from scarlet and violent with this shit. Get your shit together, SE! /rant

 

[Plague Doctor]

I mean it's on game pass so included in the price of that service. You could have no remote want to actually own this game and decide to fuck around just to see what it's like for 10 minutes and be counted as a player.

This is some AAAA spin from a small studio. Todd would be proud.

 

[Boss Mog]

They count anybody who downloaded it via gamepass and launched it once before uninstalling as one of their "players".

 

[MayauMiao]

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500,000 sounds bad considering what happened to Hi-Fi Rush:

 

[Heisenberg007]

Horrible results.

The game launched on all platforms as well as on Game Pass.

 

[Black_Stride]

500,000 sounds bad considering what happened to Hi-Fi Rush:

An absolute travesty Tango got closed.

But A44 should being basically self-published and not having a big public publisher behind them means not everything has to pull massive massive numbers.
Public companies are much more likely to trim the fat for the execs to see bigger profits.
The Kepler group generally look out for each other, theyve got another publishing project coming out soonish I think they can hold out on the Gamepass money and any funds they still got from investments and past titles.
They got Expedition 33 coming soon, they shouldn't turn into just another publisher, so ill support everything from the Kepler group.

 

[DavidGzz]

Give me a character creator. It's a reason I don't care about Stellar Blade either. That and all the anime screams.

 

[Bartski]

 

[yazenov]

Shit games that were developed by shit developers and consulted by shit Baby Inc. deserved shit sales.

Good riddance in advance before the lay-offs.

 

[Plague Doctor]

It's kind of funny how consistent negative trends with certain games are playing out time and time and time again and people are scrambling for excuses.

The stench of "Games for a Modern Audience" is getting too high that everyone is going to have to acknowledge it.

The cope is delicious. I await the heavy rounds of gaslighting from authoritative sources.

 

[Interfectum]

Stop making games for a gaming demographic that doesn't exist. It's not that hard guys.

 

[diffusionx]

Number of players means absolutely NOTHING. The only way to stay in business is to actually sell the games, to people, for money. Subscription services are a mirage.

 

[Gamer_By_Proxy]

Give me a character creator. It's a reason I don't care about Stellar Blade either. That and all the anime screams.

#1 Eve is perfection
#2 you're missing out on great games for the stupidest reason. Eastern Devs are starting to shit all over these Western Devs.

 

[Gamer_By_Proxy]

I think a lot of people were pleasantly surprised with Ashen. I thought they gained some good will. Just to squander it with Sweet Baby nonsense.
Their own surveys tell them who gamers are, and yet they target the smallest part of the pie and wonder why they fail . . .
That would be like me targeting vegans that relapse for my meat lover's pizza.

 

[yazenov]

This game was devloped for "modern audiences", however those audiences didn't show up and buy this game.

So you're telling me those modern audiences are racists since they didn't support this product? Since the argument for any person disliking this game was due to racism.

Use thier dumb arguments against them now

 

[winjer]

Their modern audiences are so far in the future, they haven't been born yet. So no one is buying these games.

 

[NickFire]

500k players when it is on GP is terrible. Absolutely no way to sugar coat that IMO.

Shame.

 

[DavidGzz]

#1 Eve is perfection
#2 you're missing out on great games for the stupidest reason. Western Devs are starting to shit all over these Eastern Devs.

So when people avoid games because of the characters in this and Concord it's fine but not for Stellar Blade? How come? I can't handle the anime screams. Waiting for the PC version to mod some shit out.

 

[StereoVsn]

So when people avoid games because of the characters in this and Concord it's fine but not for Stellar Blade? How come? I can't handle the anime screams. Waiting for the PC version to mod some shit out.

Personally I think that’s fair. If you don’t like the MC who you will be seeing for 10s of hours no point to play the game.

I skip a lot of “anime” games when I don’t like character designs. For example I loathed Xenoblade 2, been playing that off and on for last few years and never finished.

On the other hand I love Witcher series or Yakuza games and those are predefined characters.

 

[Gamer_By_Proxy]

So when people avoid games because of the characters in this and Concord it's fine but not for Stellar Blade? How come? I can't handle the anime screams. Waiting for the PC version to mod some shit out.

I wouldn’t avoid a game just based on the character to begin with. I don’t care if I’m a black samurai and that is or isn’t accurate history. It’s a game. If it’s fun I’ll play it. Flintlock has more issues than people hating on the character.

 

[DavidGzz]

I wouldn’t avoid a game just based on the character to begin with. I don’t care if I’m a black samurai and that is or isn’t accurate history. It’s a game. If it’s fun I’ll play it. Flintlock has more issues than people hating on the character.

Not really. People loved Ashen(has a character creator)and this game plays even better. I tried the demo. But if I can't have a character to relate to I don't really have a desire to play it. We live in an age where games are super plentiful.

 

[Gamer_By_Proxy]

Not really. People loved Ashen(has a character creator)and this game plays even better. I tried the demo. But if I can't have a character to relate to I don't really have a desire to play it. We live in an age where games are super plentiful.

To each their own I guess. The game I’m looking forward to most atm is Astro Bot. I don’t exactly identify with a robot.

 

[DavidGzz]

To each their own I guess. The game I’m looking forward to most atm is Astro Bot. I don’t exactly identify with a robot.

Yeah, I am no longer into those kind of games either. No Mario-likes since I was a preteen kinda guy. It makes me sad since I loved Final Fantasy Tactics as a kid, but I don't think I could get into a new one if it kept the same art style.

 

[demigod]

I really enjoyed it. Would love a sequel. It ends at a pretty cool spot in the story. Combat was great once you get some abilities.

I don't get the reviews at all, but I stopped trying to understand other people years ago. Some of the bosses were balanced nearly perfectly. It may be a AA game, but you can tell some people put thought into the game.

It’s a gamepass game, of course you really enjoyed it. If they made a game for gamepass where you literally just pick up shit, i’m sure you would really enjoy it as well.

 

[March Climber]

its fine you can believe whatever you want. I am not operating on belief. I just literally played it and saw what the game was about. It is just funny to me to see people mad about a game plot they dont even know. But I dont take personal offense to it. Knock yourself out

Your purchase decision is your own. I'm just explaining what was in the game accurately. I'm one of less than 500k people that have actually completed it and can explain it.

As someone with actual hands-on experience, what letter grade would you give the full game?

I personally gave Ashen(+DLC) a B- so I’m curious.

 

[Dirk Benedict]

Tweet was a PR/Engagement push.

 

[kikii]

500.000 thats pretty good. Whether its on game pass or not. For this kind of game.

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[Punished Miku]

As someone with actual hands-on experience, what letter grade would you give the full game?

I personally gave Ashen(+DLC) a B- so I’m curious.

It was a 9/10 for me.

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Session #2. Been having fun so far tonight. And yeah I like Nor's character design a lot. Cool outfit. Cool costume changes. Cool armor pieces. I like the hatchet and the guns. Just got grenades too. I cant see it rising above a 7 ever at this point but I still have a ways to go. Feel...

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A great new IP action game. Characters were one of the game's strengths; both of them, and I'd like to see the story continue. Combat was substantially better than I expected. I compared one of the later bosses to one of my favorite bosses from Nioh 1 which is high praise from me. Combat has multiple interesting abilities that were fun to use the whole game. Again reminded me a bit of Nioh 1 where the skill tree felt substantial.

Its not a perfect game. AA for sure, little jank, some audio bugs I did encounter repeatedly. I do think it starts a bit slow before it clicked for me. But I had a great time with the game.

When games are this divisive I say what I think but I dont officially recommend it to people. I just tell people to watch footage and make their own call. You may hate it or like it or love it. No idea. I made several gifs in that thread so that people dont have to listen to me, just look and see how you feel.

One thing though that is just objectively a lie is the woke BS in this thread. Im still waiting for people to show 1 single clip or line of dialogue, one scene, even just type up a plot summary of what is woke. Not 1 person here can produce a single specific example from the actual released game because it doesnt exist.

 

[March Climber]

When games are this divisive I say what I think but I dont officially recommend it to people. I just tell people to watch footage and make their own call. You may hate it or like it or love it. No idea. I made several gifs in that thread so that people dont have to listen to me, just look and see how you feel.

One thing though that is just objectively a lie is the woke BS in this thread. Im still waiting for people to show 1 single clip or line of dialogue, one scene, even just type up a plot summary of what is woke. Not 1 person here can produce a single specific example from the actual released game because it doesnt exist.

Trust me I get it. It’s one of the reasons why at this point I just want gamers to continue this crusade to it’s end.

I thought about it for a while, and I think that’s the only way we can all move forward to just talking about video games again, because if the ‘villains’ are removed, then in the future a game containing any characters or elements that represent different ideologies or backgrounds can simply be judged on their own gameplay and storytelling merits like people used to do, instead of lazily using a catch-all answer for when a game ends up bad or they don’t want to buy something.

At least, that’s my hope for the positive outcome. The negative outcome is that people will slowly realize they have nothing to point their anger at anymore and will go deeper down the hole to blame a new entity, thus putting us collectively back at square one with tons and tons of threads derailed yet again into culture war crap.