The new Nomura?

[ChonkGoblinSuprem]

And Cyberpunk also got 87 despite it being a disaster. Only games over 90 can even be plausibly considered as universally successful.

Nier Automata is not. There are many issues with that game.

Cyberpunk was a disaster for some people. My experience was great. I played through my canon run from launch day with only some minor issues: People oft mistake the clamor of an angry minority online as the sentiment of the masses when the masses are more busy playing the damn game than posting stupid bs on Reddit.

[Tanis_Ebonhart]

Cyberpunk is amazing nowadays and it has a huge dlc coming. I enjoyed it after they fixed a lot of the bugs. Game is beautiful and the story is great.

[Atelier-Bagur]

I mean... Most people are waiting for a PS5 sale. Like, I won't be getting one until winter time as that's when the sales and bundles hit.

Also how are people seriously trying to say that FFXVI didn't sold systems when it theoretically sold around 3 million PS5s outta of 38 million consoles shipped within this year with those sales figures?

Are people being just as mental and delusional as SquareEnix with expected sales?

[CNitsah]

Also how are people seriously trying to say that FFXVI didn't sold systems when it theoretically sold around 3 million PS5s outta of 38 million consoles shipped within this year with those sales figures?

Are people being just as mental and delusional as SquareEnix with expected sales?

38m is the number of PS5 sold to this day. That said, it did sell 19.1 million on 2022-2023 fiscal year (yeah, about half of its total sales), which ended in march 2023. And it's the year of the end of the lack of semiconductors and GoW: Ragnarok and its 11 millions sales. No infos for Q2 has been released (which is when FFXVI has been released).

[CaptainLagbeard]

Let's keep it down to earth, let's talk that real ish; YoshiP hasn't done anything great since heavensward (maybe stormblood).

I would say Shadowbringer was mostly great, gameplay did start taking on a downwards trend there but the writing was top tier. Too bad Ishikawa apparently is leaving the writing team...

Has dawntrail showed you something that which gives you faith in his skill as a producer and director?

To be fair, Dawntrail has shown nothing. All that seems to be out there at this time is that we're going into the New World. I'm sure the two upcoming fanfests and patches 6.5 and 6.55 will give more to work with and to dread.

[Burmecia]

maybe Nier's producer, forget his name.

the guy who always wears the moon from majora's mask on his head?
yesyesyesyes

Also, Yoshi is not the new Nomura, he scrapped belts.

have ur +1 u fiend

[RitsukoSonoda]

the guy who always wears the moon from majora's mask on his head?
yesyesyesyes




have ur +1 u fiend

Actually... In a recent event he didn't have that mask on. Apparently someone misplaced it or lost it so he did the event with I think it was a creepy looking leprechaun head on lol.

FF16 sold extremely well first week. Something to be expected as the first next gen FF mainline title and all the media hype. Sales basically tanked the week afterwards. Essentially to me this indicates a few things. Trends with AAA title releases in general has resulted in the majority of gamers no longer preordering titles and also no longer paying actual attention to reviews from published "games experts". They're waiting for the titles to get in the hands of actual gamers to see how the game actually is and then deciding if they want to play it or not. In the case of FFXVI you had people that still did decide to purchase it but at the same time a substantial amount of people that chose to skip it because it wasn't the next gen FF title they were waiting for. It wasn't a JRPG, hell it wasn't even an RPG. It was a carbon copied action game attempting to write itself as western fantasy with a FF wrapper on it. Hardly anything FF was kept aside from impressive visuals and music. Final Fantasy as a series is fairly well known with changes/innovations with in game battle systems and it has had it's fair share of hits and misses. However in 16's case it wasn't a matter of innovating and more a matter of just grabbing and using what an entirely different game had. Something that was somewhat familiar with this title as well as the ARR reboot was essentially trying to turn FFXIV into WoW without it looking like WoW. And to many FF16 has simply indicated that SE is willing to throw aside a longtime loyal fanbase of customers in order to chase after the possibility of a quicker buck.

[Kazhar]

I would say Shadowbringer was mostly great, gameplay did start taking on a downwards trend there but the writing was top tier. Too bad Ishikawa apparently is leaving the writing team...

To write FFXVII, maybe. Her sudden promotion follows the same pattern as Maehiro, when they started the pre-production of FFXVI.
Seems like they're mostly using XIV to train their future talents.

(Personally I'm hoping XVII won't be CBU3 at all, but the relative success of XVI might have sealed the deal already)

[ChonkGoblinSuprem]

Also how are people seriously trying to say that FFXVI didn't sold systems when it theoretically sold around 3 million PS5s outta of 38 million consoles shipped within this year with those sales figures?

Are people being just as mental and delusional as SquareEnix with expected sales?

FUD never changes…

I’m enjoying FF16 overall, but the boss fights do seem like knockoff soulslike slogs with a few QuickTime events to break up the monotony. At least there aren’t dodge rolls…

[Amnmaat]

Yoship seemed more excited at caressing xbox's spokesperson for 30 minutes than about danwtrail; to me anyway.