The lead director behind Deus Ex: Human Revolution has labelled the boss fights a "big disapointment."
Saad from eXputer: "I'm glad I don't have to choose between Square Enix, Atlus, and FromSoftware due to bad release windows and Shadow of the Erdtree."
Atlus is releasing their game one week before Erdtree, SE is releasing theirs one week after.
HZD released four days before Zelda, HFW released one week before Elden Ring.
It seems to me like they are still releasing their games too close to Erdtree.
Yuji Naka was fined $1.2 million and given a suspended jail sentence for the crime.
I find his comments around how Balan turned out to be very insightful as to why the game is trash. He basically apologises for its existence
can you please give some of us who don't know anything about this, a summary of what happened?
Balan was knowingly rushed out by S-E, it had an extremely short dev cycle and was fairly low budget.
Naka was the game's director until near the end when he was fired or perhaps he quit, I forgot.
@Chocoburger Yeah they did fire and replace him which caused him to unload a bunch of rants about the company. The project only existed because of Naka in the first place, he convinced Square to give him one shot at making a platformer. They gave him an opportunity but pulled the rug out before he was done for reasons not explained.
The top producer of Square Enix flagship Dragon Quest franchise is stepping down from the role, following delays in developing the next installment of the popular series.
Please o please don't turn dragon quest into final fantasy square enix we dont wont that. Dragon quest works well just as it I. Plus you'll piss off Japanese fans to.
Hopefully they don’t. From this it doesn’t sound like that is the case and development is just taking too long.
then why did you guys put it in?
Yes, yes they were. If you did outsource parts of the game, in the end it's your fault how your game turns out.
I only had two problems with Deus Ex.
PS3 controls were freaking terrible.
Boss fights.
i thought the boss fights were really hard but once you got use to em they were pretty easy. just use emp grenades, emp mines, head shot them repeatidly, rinse and repeat. the second to last boss, i found an exploit where he just camped in one spot(bad ai programing). kept peeking from the wall to head shot him, and then hide behind wall again, rinse and repeat. honestly the bosses are easy if you know how to beat them. for such a great game that had an amazing 5 minute trailer, i was severly disapointed to find out they outsourced the boss fights.
Talk about using a scapegoat.
Are you telling me the Lead Director never saw or met with this 3rd party? He didn't come in and...I don't know...ummm...direct them as to how the boss fights should be? This is a multimillion dollar project with huge stakes on the line and he wouldn't have met and consulted with something that is a little important like boss fights?
The lead director should take all the blame. This 3rd party only did what they were lead to do. If the Lead Director didn't like it then he would have stated so and told them to change it. What really happened is that he liked it and now is trying to save face and throwing the blame on someone else. This Lead Director should be fired.
He should look in the mirror. You don't outsource to India and blame them for having funny accents. Just so you don't outsource to a shooter dev then blame them for designing boss fights that isn't Deus Ex enough.
What an idiot.