depending on who you ask, expedition 33 is also a woke game (it has a black person so it counts apparently even though they die not long into the game)
It's all one giant incestuous circlejerk.
Sorry for the old man moment and autism. But what is with shitbags doing that "look down at the camera while doing that two fingers to the side thing"? I assume it's meant to make them look tough or "gangster" but it always comes off as stupid. It's up there with the "black and white photo of them with a cigarette hanging loosely from their mouth" I notice a lot of journos and authors have.
Agreed. That was tried back in the day. Feminists made the excuse that it's okay to demand a 6 pack because "I need a man who can throw me around in the bedroom" while men who don't want fat women are "objectifying". These days there's the far funnier condemnation of them wanting to fuck billionaire werewolves.
Dragon Age Veilguard superfan admits the game is shit when the general consensus comes in, admits to only "liking it" to own the chuds.
The game is chuck full of niggers, which is not surprising considering it's made by a fr*nch studio and this is normal for them. That said, it's also a shitty JRPG and people who praise the game have absolutely no taste in gaming at all, just like Final Fantasy fans, possibly the only creatures on this earth lower than Jason Schreier.
The real story is that even as mid tier at best slop Ex33 is, it's still better than what Square Enix is capable of putting out nowadays. Every one of their JRPG franchises has devolved into shitty, bottom of the barrel ARPG or Mobile Gacha trash. Even their cash cows, Dragon Quest 10 and Final Fantasy 14, are bleeding out -- DQ10 simply because of it's age (and the fact that they refused to release it internationally) and FF14 because the devteam let the Western Tranny Brigade write the latest expansion and it's really, really bad. (Main character is your bog standard girlboss bimbo, voiced by a tranny who can't act in the west, so you can't even say you don't like it. Gameplay loop is the exact same meta-loop as the last 3-4 expansions so the only reason to play -- the story -- being fucked up causes really big problems for it.)
Fantasy Life is a Level 5/1-UP Studio property and it was originally 2D on the DS. It seems unlikely that Square-Enix were involved.
Level 5 developed Dragon Quest IX, so there's more connection than you think. Most work on the first nine Dragon Quests outside the main creative roles (director, writer, character designs, music) were actually outsourced to other companies like Chunsoft and Level 5. It wasn't until X and XI that they built up in-house teams at Square Enix to do most of the work.
Yeah that's not the Fantasy Life that we got, tho:
It was reported in the past that you had designed a prototype of Dragon Quest IX with action-based gameplay, but based on audience reaction, you changed back to turn-based battles.
YH: Yes and no, to that rumor. When we worked on the prototype, we actually did make it more like an action game, where you can kind of do the action button mashing, but people didn't really like that kind of gameplay system well. But we didn't change it back just because of that; we also found that turn-based battles are actually fun in the multiplayer mode, so that's what we wanted to do, too.
When you say "people didn't like it", do you mean people internally developing the game, or focus groups, or something else?
YM: It was actually a media event where we brought that prototype, and then there started to be comments on YouTube -- people started arguing about which style was better.
Fundamentally, the core gamers don't like the change. Whenever we try to make some slight changes, they will reject the idea and just bash it. They key is to balance what kind of things we need to change, and what kinds of things we need to maintain.
Well, that's difficult. Ultimately there's an expectation that every Dragon Quest game will sell in the multiple million copies range, in Japan. You need to keep your audience happy, and to keep a lot of people happy at the same time is not an easy thing.
YH: It's very high pressure work.
The UK studio probably doesn't have people who can do bad Spanish accents and pretty clearly some of the talented voices were contracted for FFXVI instead.
The gay who plays Sylvando in Dragon Quest could effectively do it.
He could - but he was also in FFXVI instead. Must have had too much talent.
He must not have read up on how other companies do layoffs.
"Journalists" should learn they're getting "fired" by the bullet getting fired into their heads.
None of these people have existed in the real world. The idea that a company would tell someone they're being fired/let go without having cut off access to company communications and of course data/resources, is fucking insanity. And without having forced the employees to work out of the office instead of at home, they can't "look them in the eye" anyway. Nevermind that even in person people throw tantrums and do stupid shit when they're getting the boot. And even then this guy would just complain about having to make a morning commute home after getting canned or something.
I don't know, because maybe publicly shit talking your own company is a terrible idea even if it isn't publicly traded? The fact that this moron thinks it resembles contempt is funny, because it isn't. It's business.
Does this moron think upper management never gets the boot from companies? Sure those people are probably far more financially secure than the devs, but directors/VPs/c-level execs get fired or told to resign all the time... which is why they also negotiate those golden parachutes people bitch about while forgetting those benefits packages were part of their hiring or promotion in the first place making it a contractual obligation assuming they didn't also own shares that needed to be bought out.
Indie studios can also have executives, and shitty ones too. And of course indie studios do layoffs as well. Being indie instead of working for a studio owned by a publisher isn't a safeguard of anything.
Because again, badmouthing your own publicly traded company is fucking retarded.
Oh, so NOW he understands that they aren't just the happy merchant greedily firing people as if the desperation of the plebs is what feeds them, and that there are multiple layers involved in anything other than a mom and pop operation with shit like this but he still misses them.