It's not just "me", the game design paradigm has shifted, and not for the better IMO.
Open world, BR, quick in and out games, casual play, etc. all flood the market now and there's very few games like DQXI or the OLD ff's that ask you to sit there for hours and actually put some work in.
Lived in rural nowhere Indiana. Played Magic the Gathering during lunch in highschool. Definitely did not get beat up for playing games or talking about games. Opening hosted LAN parties. Stop projecting your own issues growing up on an industry's fans.
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Again, major opinion of yours, not of the industry. It shifted to what more people want, that is how for-profit businesses work. I don't like BRs, but i respect that people do, just like i loved Spider Man and God of War, while others did not, which is okay.
We live in an era of "me versus them", an era where something is done that you don't like means you are personally attacked. People whine too much.
Let us play video games and be happy.
We live in an era of "me versus them", an era where something is done that you don't like means you are personally attacked. People whine too much.
Let us play video games and be happy.
Because its not just me.... If you think a certain way you can guarantee there is a decent portion of the population that also think that way.
Like there's at least 4 million people out there who want a JRPG with a good story and turn based combat like there is in DQXI.
But lets get back on the topic of the game. Can't wait for it, nostalgia has taken hold. Going to have to go rewatch Advent Children again.
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That is fair as long as you don't assume that is the majority. For all its faults, the industry is typically following what the majority want, because they are following the money. Yes there are negative trends (loot boxes etc) but those only became prevalent because people supported it. The silent majority leads, the vocal minority follows kicking and screaming.
We live in an era of "me versus them", an era where something is done that you don't like means you are personally attacked. People whine too much.
Let us play video games and be happy.
I'm quite surprised by the number of people upset that the remake won't be a turn-based combat system and rather action based RPG. Seriously, would you imagine FF7 in the remade settings looking good with a turn based combat system?
Why remake the game in the 1st place, then? It's not like the original will suddenly vanish from existence when the remake hits live.
If you want to make a case for turn based still having an audience DQXI is a terrible example.
DQXI sold the vast majority of it's copies in japan, on the 3DS. The PS4 version and especially western sales of the game where a complete bomb, and it's why they're trying to recoup that in the switch version.
So yea, congrats DQXI proved Japanese 3DS owners still loved traditional DQ.
If you want to point toward turn based still having a WW audience better examples are Octopath(1+Mil in the west) and Persona 5(1.5+ mil in west). Even then, those numbers are nothing compared to Square's expectations on main line FF games.
Anyways this discussion is ridiculous because 1) the combat is action based and not shit you're gonna do about it 2) game will sell well regardless and 3) all there is now is to hope the combat is actually good which matters more then the type of combat being used.
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https://kotaku.com/fans-are-concerne...fan-1834678296
TLDR... Barret is a stereotype of a black man.....
Good lord kotaku is just awful unless it's from Jason....
and which "fans" only people I've seen say anything negative about Barret is the fact that he's wearing sunglasses.
Especially if it's from Jason. This is the guy who swore up and down Nintendo of America lied to him by claiming there was a true final boss in Octopath because he was too stupid to find it on his own, then edits his article to a walkthrough of how to get it after someone showed him how(with no credit given mind you).
Jason is literally the "journalist is terrible at games" meme personified.
Fun fact the US government financed the development i of Final Fantasy back in the day... it was never a Japanese series...
When it was opposed by just about anyone they came down as hard literally straight out of WW2 tactics.... you were treated as if you were the Wehrmacht...
People think there's this crazy faction that just wants WoW to succeed but it wasn't as intense as FF it was like the original we need something to clean up all
the extra people here command and conquer and then abandon...
Pretty depressing now.... but that's why these remakes and things are so controversial all of so manyt hings over the last 30 years were created with profoundly
malicious intent and malicious purpose but the fanbase that has risen around them all is in some ways quv equally fanatical about keeping it all anyway.
Like imagine WW2 itself.. people then wanted all the guns the rockets the everything even perhaps during the war itself...
Same now with video games/media etc and everything honestly.
Like in all seriousness we have to be sure this franchise isn't still being used to that original affect... and you can be the most diehard but I want the things anyway I'm ok
admitting I have conventionally some would call amoral impulses but all that want ain't going to change anything on that front.
If they actually played the game they would realise they portray both the good side and bad side with his attitude. He's a tough guy, yeah, but mostly in a good way.
Kotaku being kotaku i guess and judge solely on the outside... Which is ironic.