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The dumbest thing about final fantasy 12, by far, is how it handles victory poses after most boss battles: each character has a unique dance they do for a few seconds depending on what weapon they’re carrying, but the camera cuts between them too quickly and moves around too erratically to get a proper look at them. Then, after the animations are complete, the camera finally zooms out and begins slowly panning around the characters for a full ten seconds, but there’s nothing to see: the characters remain completely still for the entirety of those ten seconds. They don’t even breathe. So what you’ve been given, in total, is a mess of camera angles for a few seconds followed by a long, uneventful bit of nothing. Can’t believe they haven’t fixed this in the remake
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They didnt add a proper steal gambit and you think theyre gonna fix the victory screen?
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Feb 18, 2019 11:18
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Jay Rust posted:The dumbest thing about final fantasy 12, by far, is how it handles victory poses after most boss battles: each character has a unique dance they do for a few seconds depending on what weapon they’re carrying, but the camera cuts between them too quickly and moves around too erratically to get a proper look at them. Then, after the animations are complete, the camera finally zooms out and begins slowly panning around the characters for a full ten seconds, but there’s nothing to see: the characters remain completely still for the entirety of those ten seconds. They don’t even breathe. So what you’ve been given, in total, is a mess of camera angles for a few seconds followed by a long, uneventful bit of nothing. You're supposed to listen to the FF victory theme
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Feb 18, 2019 12:40
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I agree, they should've taken the time to show each cool victory pose individually, since we're sitting there for long enough for that to happen anyway.  Some of them are pretty great and/or funny
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Feb 18, 2019 15:06
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This alt-right guy that's in my extended friend group has been totally obsessed with Anthem despite the overwhelming evidence that it's a poo poo game and I can't help but feel there are many similarities there to our current political climate.
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Feb 18, 2019 15:20
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I have friends who approach games with the attitude of 'Can you shoot a gun? If so, game good.' Also a lot of them log on just to socialize while playing games with friends so a new shiny thing, even a lovely one, is appealing to them. I asked in our discord about Anthem since many of them tried the demo and got a lukewarm reply, but they all bought it anyway. The same will happen with the Division 2.
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Feb 18, 2019 15:34
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I don't know if this is a nice thing to say about Anthem or not, but my take is that it's a pretty serious gently caress-up, but it's also a reasonably "honest" gently caress-up. By that I mean that I get the strong impression that the team working on it really did try their best and believe in what they were doing but hosed up anyway. I don't know if that makes it better or worse. Like I don't feel like Anthem is a game where the team just kinda phoned it in to meet some sort of obligation. They seem to really care and want to do well. It's just going very poorly for them. PantsBandit posted:This alt-right guy that's in my extended friend group has been totally obsessed with Anthem despite the overwhelming evidence that it's a poo poo game and I can't help but feel there are many similarities there to our current political climate. I want to say that's unfair to Anthem because Bioware at least seem to be operating in good faith but at the same time I'm more just surprised that there's an alt-right shitlord who is obsessed with a Bioware game for reasons other than whining about how they put brown people and gays in their games sometimes. Relax Or DIE posted:Also a lot of them log on just to socialize while playing games with friends so a new shiny thing, even a lovely one, is appealing to them. I asked in our discord about Anthem since many of them tried the demo and got a lukewarm reply, but they all bought it anyway. The same will happen with the Division 2. I thought people came away from The Division 2's beta with a reasonably positive impression, though, or at least more so than Anthem. Granted it's just "what if The Division, but we did it again?" but The Division turned into a pretty good game eventually so that's not really a terrible thing. If nothing else, The Division 2 is bound to be a significantly more feature-rich game, given that Ubisoft was smart enough not to throw out a whole bunch of systems and mechanics from Division 1 (like Bungie did with Destiny 2) while also building on top of them. So while it's still a looter with mediocre shooting, there's a good amount of variety there, where Anthem just doesn't have that.
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Feb 18, 2019 15:36
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The Division 2 beta left me with a pretty positive experience and I'll probably play it again during the open weekend. I like the kind of game Anthem is a whole lot more but the demo was incredibly dull and hardlocked my system about 3 times in the first 30 minutes.
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Feb 18, 2019 15:39
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Jesus, I thought the Frozen world in Kingdom Hearts 3 was dragging on. Then they started singing.
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Feb 18, 2019 15:39
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a disney game with singing in it? how entirely unexpected
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Feb 18, 2019 15:41
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Honestly most games are made better by musical numbers
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exquisite tea posted:The Division 2 beta left me with a pretty positive experience and I'll probably play it again during the open weekend. I like the kind of game Anthem is a whole lot more but the demo was incredibly dull and hardlocked my system about 3 times in the first 30 minutes. I thought at first that the demo was a bad impression of the game but it turns out I was pretty wrong and it was actually a reasonably representative slice of gameplay. I even posted about that last Friday, when I'd just started out, flying high on a pretty cool opening and the vastly improved controls. But now that I've played a decent amount over the weekend, no, I was pretty wrong about that. The demo was basically how the game is. And even though they really, really improved the PC controls and the game's overall performance, and also added more interesting loot, it's still pretty unstable and I've had CTDs a lot more often than it seems like I should. Basically if you were bored by the demo, you'll be bored by the full game, at least in its current state. For me, I'm enjoying the baseline "fly around, shoot dudes, blow things up with flashy abilities, collect loot" loop enough to play for another couple weeks or so, but the game is trying its best to get in the way of the fun part as often as possible.
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Feb 18, 2019 15:45
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:Honestly most games are made better by musical numbers Finny Fun e: rhapsody
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Feb 18, 2019 15:52
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Sorry, I wasn't trying to comment on the quality of the division 2(I haven't tried it) but just the observation that they'll just move on as soon as it's the new thing in shooters, and how disposable these games are to an audience like this even though they really want to be a service.
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Feb 18, 2019 16:08
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Cowcaster posted:a disney game with singing in it? how entirely unexpected To be fair it's only happened in one prior game in the whole KH saga, and that was the Atlantica segment in KH2 which most people probably want to erase from their memory. Which is a pity really because sung boss fights against the forces of evil and black coats could have been very fun.
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Feb 18, 2019 16:11
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKmZSc0jJXg
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Feb 18, 2019 16:12
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Relax Or DIE posted:Sorry, I wasn't trying to comment on the quality of the division 2(I haven't tried it) but just the observation that they'll just move on as soon as it's the new thing in shooters, and how disposable these games are to an audience like this even though they really want to be a service. From what I can tell, people tend to rotate between them when they have lulls in content/quality. Even though a lot of people aren't going to make Division 2 their main hobby, many of them check back in for a month or so at a time a couple times a year, and that's how these live service games keep on rolling. I sort of hope EA realizes that that's the market Anthem is in and so lets it live long enough for the inevitable "we fixed stuff" relaunch campaign in a year or so.
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Feb 18, 2019 16:13
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i think everyone knew that after the andromeda debacle bioware really needed anthem to be a breakout hit and albeit it's kind of too early to tell the writing on the wall seems to be that it isn't, and EA isn't a company known for NOT taking studios out back to give them a talk about the rabbits now on the other hand, everyone expected apex legends to be a hot diarrhea squirt and that respawn would be the one receiving a mercy killing, and it turns out they managed to pull the next fortnite out of their rear end. the games industry is a fickle mistress.
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Feb 18, 2019 16:18
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Cowcaster posted:i think everyone knew that after the andromeda debacle bioware really needed anthem to be a breakout hit and albeit it's kind of too early to tell the writing on the wall seems to be that it isn't, and EA isn't a company known for NOT taking studios out back to give them a talk about the rabbits Anthem's kind of an odd situation for EA, I guess, which is why I'm not quite ready to assume BioWare's about to be sent to a farm upstate. It's not a single-player game, nor is it a live service game that's already planned to have another sequel in a couple years, or anything like that. It was always going to be a long-term investment for them. I mean, this is EA we're talking about, so they might not really draw a distinction there, but if there was ever a time I could see them giving a game time to be fixed up before deciding whether or not to pull the plug, it'd be their big live service pseudo-MMO title.
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Feb 18, 2019 16:21
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They might still pull the plug on either of those, even if they were successful, if they are not successful enough. Video Games.
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Feb 18, 2019 16:25
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I had a premonition of the 2020 EA shareholders call in which they praise the unprecedented success of Anthem before discussing how they will be shuttering Bioware to "enhance market-share synergy".
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Feb 18, 2019 16:28
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EA has already seemed to undercut Anthem bigly by 1) debuting it to the world through one shitshow of an open demo with constant performance and stability issues, 2) releasing its own popular F2P Battle Royale two weeks prior to ship, and 3) letting people basically spend $15 to buy the game, play it a week early, and then generate bad word-of-mouth ahead of its street date. Like if I was a billion-dollar game publisher planning to screw over my own development studio as much as possible, even two or three of these moves would have been sufficient.
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Feb 18, 2019 16:29
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while i doubt anything will ever be able to truly make the multi-billion dollar profit fortnite lightning strike twice, apex legends is apparently doing it's goddamnest. EA shuttering respawn right now would be killing a golden goose.
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Feb 18, 2019 16:30
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Yeah there is absolutely no chance EA shuts down Respawn, or at least not any time soon. Apex Legends has the potential to outright print money for them if it gets the continued support it needs to keep growing.
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Yeah, Apex Legends will keep Respawn alive but Titanfall is loving dead. Thank God Blisk made it out. Pure, sweet Blisk.
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:Honestly most games are made better by musical numbers mystical ninja starring goemon is v good yeah
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Feb 18, 2019 16:33
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I know Apex Legends is doing well because it has fanart. Where's the Anthem fanart
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:I know Apex Legends is doing well because it has fanart. Does it even have characters?
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Feb 18, 2019 16:35
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Hahahaha don't look at /r/anthemrule34 oh man oh geez!
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Feb 18, 2019 16:36
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What weapon should I play as in God Eater 3? The Tira Switch Axe? Edit: Sorry, what GOD ARC should I play as
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Barudak posted:Yeah, Apex Legends will keep Respawn alive but Titanfall is loving dead. New one is later this year https://www.twitter.com/VinceZampella/status/1092856944199495686 And the tf2 community is growing because of apex. Don't forget that both Titanfalls were casualties of the console war, so this ensures that folks look forward to their next project.
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Just know there's no guarantee the new Titanfall game will be a shooter. We know there's a new Titanfall game coming but it could really be anything.
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Feb 18, 2019 17:09
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Titan dating-game plz. Notice me Legion-senpai.
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It almost certainly won't be unless they love cannibalizing their own audience. I'd put my money on a VR thing
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Titanfall: the T-shirt! Titanfall: the coloring book! Titanfall: the lunchbox! Titanfall: the breakfast cereal! Titanfall: the flamethrower!
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would there be much cannibalization going on between a single player first person shooter campaign and a battle royale though?
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I think I remember hearing that Respawn was already confirmed to be working on some VR "thing", but I don't know if it's confirmed to be in the Titanfall universe. It had better be though, because I imagine the first high-quality VR mech game will do gang-busters.
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bentacos posted:Titanfall: the T-shirt! Titanfall: the coloring book! Titanfall: the lunchbox! Titanfall: the breakfast cereal! Titanfall: the flamethrower! 
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Harrow posted:Just know there's no guarantee the new Titanfall game will be a shooter. We know there's a new Titanfall game coming but it could really be anything. I'd be 100% in for a Titanfall Tactics Has Squeenix ever talked about an actual Front Mission after Left Alive or can we consider the franchise dead?
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I'm more excited for the star wars game knowing I'll probably be able to run it based on Apex's performance.
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