For me, the art is so fugly it's funny and it ends up working.
And clearly, this is done on purpose (also said somewhere by the dev).

I understand anyone not liking this art style - it is really VERY... uh... unusual - but comments like these grind my gears.

But, sorry, these placeholder graphics are absolutely awful, its not even some kind of artistic direction or a question of style. These are just awful placeholder graphics, imho.

Sorry, devs, please hire a skilled artist.

You are free to dislike the art style, of course, but to claim there is no art direction in this just shows a staggering amount of ignorance.

Here's what makes a well done art style: Consistency and execution.
That's it. Got nothing to do with the actual style, the amount of pixels or anything else - every professional artist will tell you as much.
And when you actually look at the screenshots and videos of this, the art style is remarkably consistent throughout, even including the UI.
And the execution of that "absurdist web comic" (not sure what else to call it) is at the very least decent.

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Five year justical run for something that can put you in prison for three years?
That's... quite something.

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At least the Deck has a built-in magnifying glass feature.
But yeah, scalable UIs should be much more of a standard at this point...

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Ah, the kind of DLC I never play, because I want to know how the story continues.
And I don't want to play through an entire game for a second time just to reach the DLC area - at least not in games where huge build variety isn't really a thing.

Anyway, if someone has never played this, it's by far the best JRPG released in the last decade, so waiting for that DLC would seem like a good idea to play for a first time.

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Quoting: Jarmer

Quoting: Mountain ManRuns well on the Steam Deck, although it's surprisingly resource intensive. I had to leave the CPU and GPU speeds set to max or the game would chug. I guess there's a lot of data being crunched under the hood.

I've just barely even scratched the surface, but the depth of the simulation (you can do almost anything you can imagine) is supposedly just off the charts. I was reading some comment about how someone found a "spray a brain" item and accidentally used it on a piece of wall and now he has a nearly invincible pet but it's stupid as shit LOLOLOL. I can only imagine if the simulation running under the hood is cranking out insane possibilities, this could be why it's so intensive?

It is probably the fact that a lot of the calculation can only happen all at once, due to the turn-based nature.
When you do something, the game has to calculate all the things that also happen at that one time (not just the things immediately involved in your action).
I'd imagine this leading to a very high-spikes graph of CPU usage.

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Quoting: EikeI would buy any point and click from Wadjet Eye Games without any additional information, pictures, trailers, anything.

Indeed.
Not many devs like that.

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I'm not really following the argument that they need that data for their project's future.
But I also don't really care if they gather extremely basic system information [External Link].

In big projects, you need user telemetry to not develop features and make fixes in a vacuum, based on guesses and/or some vocal minority.
That's just a reality of software development.

Still, they should at least be up-front about it and force a choice to opt in or out on the user, so that nobody can claim to not having known.

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Quoting: GamingTFMHopefully they go for a silent protagonist, like in the first game.

Doesn't have to be silent, but I really do hope they take a hint about what was most disliked about Below Zero - the partly awful writing, especially the almost entirely unlikeable cast.

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Quoting: LestibournesSounds like the usual case of cultists banning anyone who doesn't subscribe to their doctrine, and I'm so tired of that.

It has the very distinct smell of that, doesn't it?

However, it could also be a case of people just being extremely thin-skinned - say anything they don't agree with, maybe don't sugarcoat it, and it's immediately harassment.
Some also just really go out of their way to take anything said as a personal offense, especially if they know the person in question disagrees with them about something.

If you refuse to walk on eggshells around people, the internet can quickly close some doors on you.
It's also one of the reasons I don't really communicate much on Discords and such - context gets immediately lost as nothing is really backed up or searchable from the outside.

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Quoting: M@GOidI'm sorry if this sound harsh but, they get no sympathy from me. People should know that money is not infinite, so if you drag development of something for 6 years, it will end with the project being canceled.

Gaming development is not a new thing. People should know how it works by now and have realistic goals, when they start a project like this.

Absolutely, yes.
Game development is a business - especially once it isn't only your own money on the line anymore.

I had never heard about this before, but looking at the Kickstarter and digging in some more into the developer "history", I see more red flags here than at a CCP National Congress.

Quoting: whizsethis reads like a cautionary tale of how NOT to do game development.

Couldn't have put it better myself.

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