(Feb 1st, 2024, 11:41 PM)Moonface Wrote:

(Feb 1st, 2024, 11:16 AM)Dragon Lord Wrote:

Yeah, I heard about Tokyo RPG Factory. Very sad, as I Am Setsuna was a very lovely game that got a lot of hate for absolutely no reason. As for what it means when Square Enix does this -- it means they didn't make enough money for SE to be happy and they've essentially closed down the company and most likely put its previous members into other teams within SE to work on other projects.

Unfortunately SE always set their goals way too high and when they fail to meet them, they blame the people who made the games instead of themselves for their stupidly high expectations.

To give you an idea of how stupid they are when it comes to this, the new CEO recently announced that they would stop focusing on "mid level games" and only focus on their "high end" games. This despite the fact that it's been their mid-level games that have rated the highest. Games like Octopath Traveler I & II, Triangle Strategy, Tactics Ogre Reborn, Star Ocean 2 R, etc. have been the only things that keep people interested in SE any more. They don't sell tens of millions of copies though, and SE has this delusion that they are a company that can release games that sell 20+ million copies.

Worse yet is that they claim these mid-level games are under performing and that's what is costing them, when it reality it's absolutely flops like Forspoken, which may have only avoided the tag of worst game of 2023 thanks to Starflop, that have cost Square Enix millions. Not the mid range RPGs that they now want to stop making.

It's also weird the double standards they have for a lot of their owns games. They claimed to be unhappy with FFXVI despite the fact it sold over 5,000,000 copies just on PS5 alone and within its first week, yet they seem to be perfectly happy with Final Fantasy VII Remake only hitting 7,000,000 sold back in September of 2023, over three years after its initial release while being on PS4 (MUCH bigger userbase), PC (<) and PS5.

Paired up with their now obsessive pursuit of heavy AI usage in games (most likely to try and drastically cut costs of production), even after their NFT pursuits blew up in their faces (another area they bled money, but refuse to acknowledge it and blame the smaller games instead), they just need to either go under or get bought out by a company that's going to slap them upside the head and tell them to stop being so fucking stupid.

Yeah, I've viewed SE as being ridiculous with expectations ever since they said Tomb Raider 2013 was a failure because they put such a high sales goal onto it, and each game following that got a bigger budget under the idea it would equate to more sales. I always wonder what state SE would be in if FF14 wasn't bringing in so much money for them on a regular basis.

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(Feb 28th, 2024, 12:24 AM)Moonface Wrote:

Right, I keep forgetting that Sony own the Bloodborne IP and therefore the ball is entirely out of Miyazaki's side of the court unless Sony passes it to them. I can't recall if the current 60fps hack for the game has any issues that come from running the game at a frame rate higher than what it was made for or not, and I also can't guess if it would either because I just don't know what any game handles like running it at a higher fps than what it was originally designed for.

(Mar 4th, 2024, 05:34 PM)Dragon Lord Wrote:

(Feb 28th, 2024, 12:24 AM)Moonface Wrote:

Right, I keep forgetting that Sony own the Bloodborne IP and therefore the ball is entirely out of Miyazaki's side of the court unless Sony passes it to them. I can't recall if the current 60fps hack for the game has any issues that come from running the game at a frame rate higher than what it was made for or not, and I also can't guess if it would either because I just don't know what any game handles like running it at a higher fps than what it was originally designed for.

I've watched streamers play the 60FPS Mod for Bloodborne and I never saw them encounter any issues with the game from the increased Framerate. Usually it is a worry with Fromsoft games because back in the day when they modded Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition with a 60 FPS mode, there was a lot of issues with the game. Players would have to be careful about sliding down ladders because sometimes they'd fall through the floor at the bottom. Believe there was also some issues with some mechanics around the game due to Fromsoft usually always tying their game's mechanics into the frame rate.

But as far as Bloodborne Remake/Remaster is concerned, I'll wait to see what gets announced later this year. With it being Bloodborne's 10th next year, there's a good chance that Sony might announce any possible project with it during this summer (I assume they'll do something around when E3 used to be -- State of Play or whatever). If they don't announce anything concerning the game by... I'd say end of September, then I'll start to doubt about any chance of them doing anything with it at all. This is assuming they'd want to release a Remake/Remaster around the same time as the original. They could also just announce it early 2025 for release in September-November, but I would think they'd want to release it around the same time as the original.

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