William @ wccrawford @lemmy.world

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I would love to know what they would port to. UE and Godot seem like obvious candidates.

You missed one: They initially said that web-based games count as installs, too. Insanity.

Where I'm from, 94-100 was an A, so 74-83 was still a C, but it would just squeak by.

This actually does make me want to play the game some more. I had beat it once and started a new game+, but then got sick of doing it again. I might actually try it again soon now.

Yeah, most of them are "we have X at home" quality.

There are "enhance" locations in the game that you can pay 500 credits to remake your character. No, not real money.

I lived through the whole saga, and I never thought "JRPG" was a slur until a Japanese developer said it a few years ago.

My theory is that they get a lot of hate directed right at them because they're the developer, and don't realize that it isn't a slur to most people. There's no label out there that isn't used as a slur by someone, especially while spewing their particular brand of hate.

IMO, Japanese developers should get over this label and just keep making good games. Ignore the idiots. You're never going to turn them into customers.

This fails for me on Firefox.

Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at https://pipedapi.kavin.rocks/streams/EMxjwtxn6NI. (Reason: CORS header ‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin’ missing). Status code: 502.

Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: NetworkError when attempting to fetch resource.

I don't consider a game that's still in development "an absolute failure". As long as they keep working on it, they haven't failed completely. It might be disappointing and frustrating, but game development is hard.

This is worrisome, though:

Moving into 2023, we continue working towards migrating SotA to Unity 2021.

Wow, they're migrating to a version that's already 2 years out of date.

On top of all that, they've upped the low-end difficulty to the point that everything feels like a chore instead of fun, and I just find myself not wanting to play more than the current story for the week, when I used to put 40-80 hours per week in. And I only did enough PvP to get the rewards, so that was almost entirely PvE play.

I fully admit that I played too much, but I enjoyed all that, until they decided to up the base difficulty. I've yet to meet anyone that enjoys the new difficulty levels, because now the base is too hard to casuals and the top end didn't get any harder, which is what the hardcores wanted. I've even heard the hardcores complain about the slog through lower-level content that is still no challenge for them, just more time-consuming.

I don't think they could have managed to screw up that change any more than they did.

You can hear Salomon talk about Assassin’s Creed Mirage’s average run times below at the 17:04 mark, but as it’s in French, we at PCGamesN have transcribed and translated the quote for you.

“Given that we do a lot of playtesting internally at Ubisoft, it’s part of our process, we really want to get as close as possible to the players, so we’ll say that the latest playtimes we’ve received average at around 20-23 hours,” Salomon says. “That can go up to 25-30 hours for the completionists, and we’ll say that those who will be rushing the game will be around 20 hours.”

I love how they convert from French hours to English hours in the translation.

I like the scores being in a vertical column, but I don't like that they're so far from the site and author. Overall this is better, though.

Cripes, that's some reality distortion field he's got there. Those people aren't all trolls just because they complain about your game. Many of them expected better from Final Fantasy.

At this rate, I hope they wear him down and he finally starts listening to criticism.

I enjoyed the game, but the plot and characters were garbage. They could throw something interesting in there instead and be way better off.

If you want a cheap shinkansen pass, buy it before the trip from outside the country. It'll cost a lot more once you're there.