The lead director behind Deus Ex: Human Revolution has labelled the boss fights a "big disapointment."
Square Enix announced its financial results and the continued strategy for the Medium-Term Business Plan that will span two more years.
Square Enix talks about developing Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade for Nintendo Switch 2 in a behind-the-scenes interview.
Why do we think this is coming out on Switch 2 before Xbox? Any thoughts? The S2 is not more powerful than the Series S so it’s not a ‘lack of power’ issue. Perhaps the sales forecast is higher on S2 than Xbox so that’s maybe where their priority lies?
It’s definitely a sales issue. If Xbox didn’t have players used to GamePass I bet it would be there already.
The fact people will buy it. Xbox gamers generally have minimal interest in this series. Portable Final Fantasy will go down a storm in Japan where the switch sells huge numbers
The Switch 2 version is really beautiful. It looked as good as the PS5 version.
Members of Square Enix recently made a remarkable discovery upon opening an old storage container at work that had been shut for close to 20 years: a cache of pristine, retro games that includes titles released for the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, Atari ST, DOS computers, N-Gage, Nintendo Wii, and Amstrad CPC, among other platforms.
I kind of wish Square Enix would return to their roots… well, more so the PS1 era.
They were absolutely cooking during the PS1 era, now I can't get excited for the majority of SE's newest games. I would actually love it if AAA developed forgot about making the best graphics ever and focused moreso on other aspects of games. Limitations really did breed innovation back then.
The PS1 was cutting edge at the time, it removed limitations.
The innovation came from a huge wave of game creators using the PS1 as the main development platform.
So are we just ignoring Octopath Traveler 1&2, Live Alive, Bravely Default 2 and Triangle Strategy then yeah?
I guess I worded it wrong, I wish Square would return to MORE of their original IPs from the PS1 era, more specifically things like Parasite Eve, FF Tactics, Xenogears, Brave Fencer Musashi, Einhander, and Vagrant Story. Better?
They found retro games and some are as old as 30 years ? So most of it wouldn't even be retro I imagine.
Weird thing is amstrad commodore and spectrum games are much older than 30 years mostly so how are the oldest ones 30 years ?
retro
adjective
Involving, relating to, or reminiscent of an earlier time.
yeah, they qualify as retro
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.