|
Post by Sarge on Jul 23, 2020 22:45:30 GMT -5
|
|
|
Post by Ex on Jul 24, 2020 1:32:10 GMT -5
What a mess SQEX has made of bringing DQXI to various consoles. I still wish we'd have gotten the 3DS version as we were originally promised. I even had it preordered on Amazon and everything. I'd have been perfectly fine with that iteration personally.
|
|
|
Post by Xeogred on Jul 24, 2020 14:39:44 GMT -5
Certainly has my attention!
|
|
|
Post by Sarge on Jul 24, 2020 15:29:47 GMT -5
Huh. Yeah, got my attention with that, too.
|
|
|
Post by Xeogred on Jul 27, 2020 16:18:15 GMT -5
It looks INCREDIBLE! The Kickstarter is live and already hit the goal:
I think we have another Bloodstained coming, a second spiritual successor replacement for another old Konami IP.
|
|
|
Post by toei on Jul 27, 2020 16:38:54 GMT -5
I like how you can just leave the kickstarter page open and look at the money rolling in in real time.
I wasn't really interested when I first heard about it, but it looks beautiful. If I get back to playing RPGs, I need to play this.
|
|
|
Post by Xeogred on Jul 27, 2020 16:47:27 GMT -5
I'm not surprised it hit the goal but I'm truly floored at how amazing it looks and sounds in action. They were prepared for this ahead of time. After some interviews, going through their KS, and Iga's endorsement... I have full faith this should successful. Jumping into the KS thing a bit after the trends will work out nicely for them, since they could probably evaluate what worked and didn't work for a bunch of projects. But yeah this just looks like a rag tag group of straight up old Konami veterans still wanting to make games.
Almost tempted to finally back this for once too.
|
|
|
Post by Ex on Jul 29, 2020 11:37:15 GMT -5
"Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne HD Remaster Director Talks About the Original Game’s Harsh Reception:"www.siliconera.com/shin-megami-tensei-iii-nocturne-hd-remaster-director-talks-about-the-original-games-harsh-reception/“When the original game released, it was a big change from Shin Megami Tensei II in terms of content and settings. However, after seeing it get absolutely trashed with harsh criticism on a certain popular imageboard at the time, the staff was collectively very shocked. A short time later, we began seeing more positive reviews from those who were able to take their time and play. After the release of Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne Maniax, people started appraising it as a god-tier game. It was really something [laughs].” -Kazuyuki Yamai
I agree if a player puts in the time and effort to learn and experience Nocturne, they will be rewarded with a god-tier game. I've often thought SMT3 was ahead of its time. Hopefully it'll get the recognition it has always deserved via the Switch version.
|
|
|
Post by toei on Jul 29, 2020 12:42:12 GMT -5
He's probably talking about 2ch, which is probably full of idiots. Gamers want to play the same game over and over again, until you force them to try something new and they realize they like it. Common story.
|
|
|
Post by Xeogred on Jul 29, 2020 13:14:12 GMT -5
Yeah, I've heard of a few Japanese developers getting burned by 2ch/old Japanese internet from back in the day. Before social media, people still probably took the smallest things online very personally then.
Despite Persona almost feeling like it's even overtaken Final Fantasy in modern day JRPG fandom, I heard this mini Nintendo Direct got a lot of hate and I don't know who really cared about this SMT reveal or the update on SMT5. I bet 90% of the Persona 4-5 fanatics have not and will never play the first two games, so I wouldn't be surprised if these people still don't care about SMT even with the direct lineage there.
I'm sure it'll do better than the PS2 launch though and maybe grow the niche', but yeah.
Just me reading the "temperature" like usual... of all the podcasts and stuff I keep up with, only a few guys on Easy Allies are championing SMT3. Which is why they've been my favorite group for a few years now, generally have great tastes and aren't allergic to old games like other groups.
|
|