Thread 720610254

This is f*cking awesome.

journalist mode

If they're implementing that faggotry why not just have a "Skip Battle" option, or walking into enemies kills them immediately?

>>720610254 (OP)
oh my fucking goodness why is it that every game with actually fun gameplay mechanics like nudoom or tlou or ff7r have these gay ass accessibility options but turn-based dogshit has NONE????
i want to SKIP every FUCKING FIGHT. SKIP EVERY ANIMATION. I DON'T WANT TO PRESS ATTACK AND DEFEND INTERCHANGEABLY FOR 200 HOURS!!!

>>720610254 (OP)
>it's real
Explain yourselves, nintendo and xbox bros.

>>720610254 (OP)
>It's not about the journey, it's about destination

>>720610254 (OP)
>I love videogames
>I want to watch Netflix instead
yeah.

>>720610254 (OP)
>>720611303
what the fuck i thought this was shitty inspect element bait

>>720610254 (OP)
At this point, why would you even pay for the game when you don't want to play it? Just watch somebody play it on Twitch or whatever site for free.

>>720611557
bro, buy? we pirating this shit
switch 2 cfw soon and drm-free pc release incoming

what the hell is "xbox on pc"
this game has already been on pc for 3 years

>>720610254 (OP)
i dont get why being a father of 3 means you need god mode. youre still slogging through a bloated game. just fuckin kill the enemies its not even difficult

>>720610254 (OP)
FINALLY A GAME MODE FOR ME TO ENJOY WHILE MY WIFE AND HER BOYFRIEND GO AT IT

>>720611859
99% of your playtime in jrpgs is wasted on random encounters

>>720611915
In FFVII R 99% of your time is wasted on cinematics and filler.

>>720610254 (OP)
I'm glad they're adding more OPTIONAL accessibility features like this for us older gamers with families and responsibilities. While I would love to dump 200 hours into 100%ing Rebirth, I simply don't have more than 3-5 hours a week realistically to game. Having features like this that keep the progression smooth and keep the story moving are extremely welcome

>>720612030
You shitpost but there are unironically dad gamers like this on /v/ who should be eradicated.

>>720612013
cinematics is dad-with-3-kids kinoludo, filler on the other hand... yikes. but combat is filler too unless narratively justified, that's not a thing in FF7. so good. less filler for dads with 3 kids.

>>720610254 (OP)
just watch a fucking youtube playthrough at this point

>>720612160
Well FF7 R has fun combat and the bosses have cool interactions.

>>720610254 (OP)
>Always deal 9999 damage to enemies
So just instantly finish fights? What's the point of playing?

>>720611915
just watch it on youtube and fast forward lol
if you don't wanna play games fine, but why would buy a game to not play it when you can not play it for free.

>>720610254 (OP)
I feel like this arguably makes it fundamentally no longer a "game". There are Visual Novels with more engaging gameplay, thought, and strategy required to progress them.

>>720611303
There's so many games coming to Switch 2 so we need the cheats so we can play all of the games.
Xbox bros... your response??

>>720610254 (OP)
Look, I understand not wanting to waste your time playing some garbage game, but still wanting to know how bad the trainwreck nu-plot is out of morbid curiosity. However, watching it on youtube at x2 speed accomplishes the same result for free and even wasting less time, so what is the fucking point?

>>720612129
hey cool it with the divisive rhetoric, especially after what happened this week

>>720612303
I need to get through games quickly so I can experience more great games through Game Pass Ultimate: Get your first month for 2.99$

>>720610254 (OP)
Why not just watch the game on youtube at that point?

>>720611195
The PC releases of turn based FF games have all kinds of this bullshit.

>>720610254 (OP)
Movies*

>>720611517
We have reached the point where game design is becoming too stupid to be fake.

The OP is my screenshot.

>>720611842
It was discussed in the previous thread. It's Xbox new strategy. They don't want to make the audience think you need Xbox console to play Xbox games. Instead Xbox is now multiplatform service and it's pretty much just the Xbox brand and experience you buying into, not the console. If they only said on PC, most people would think of Steam. So now if it's part of Xbox brand too, they need to separate it with saying Xbox in PC

so wtf is story focused mode

>>720612890
oh its just xbox play anywhere re-worded then. ok.

>>720613008
The same you get by watching someone else play the game in Youtube while holding the controller. Illusion of you playing the game.

>>720611313
kek

>>720611915
>99% of your playtime in jrpgs is enjoyed on random encounters
Fixed.

>>720611195
The final fantasy pixel remasters all include gold and XP multipliers as well as an option to disable random encounters

>>720611557
>>720612319
>>720612653
its the same reason people cheat in items or use glitches to skip the grind in single player games. they still want to "experience" the game and have the pride of "beating" the game themselves but don't want to commit the time to do it legit.

its about feeling like (You) accomplished something, taking shortcuts is fine as long as (You) won in the end.

>>720611195
I've seen JRPGs with customizable encounter rates (including 0%, no random encounters at all) as far back as Bravely Default. I think all the Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters let you turn off random encounters, and they also have up to quad XP gains

>>720613519
At this point they should just play on PC and cheat with mods like the rest instead of bothering the developers.

>>720610254 (OP)
>cheats
It's been a while. Would be cool with some wacky ones instead tho

>>720610254 (OP)
kys

>>720613632
Mods are hard to implement. The bigger the thing and more people targetted, the easier it needs to be.

>>720613632
PC and mods make console babies icky

>>720613926
Not really. Most of the cheat-like mods are just drag and drop because they don't always have to change much, plus Cheat Engine is always a thing with pre-made cheat tables for anything remotely popular. So entitled.

>>720614312
>Not really. Most of the cheat-like mods are just drag and drop

You are expecting people needing insta-win option to know that. Never underestimate the stupdity of masses

>>720613550
They only get these things when later ports are released as some sort of marketing strategy targeted at weirdos, PC/mobile Pixel Remaster didn't have those things for 2-3 years.

Is S-E's playerbase that shit that they need to put gameshark codes in every modern FF release? On the PS1 game re-releases I can at least understand the option to let you fast-forward it, because some of those animations are drawn out, but beyond that?

>>720616458
Have you seen the skill level of average player in modern times?

>>720617619
Not really, since most of the 'average player' I see these days are phone/tablet gamers.

>>720616458
if you knew anything about the average FF player (especially the MMO) journalist difficulty is like hard mode for them

some mods and cheat engine stuff can be beneficial. I beat LR with the clock mechanic completely taken out, would never have even bothered to pick up the game otherwise

>>720617780
I don't count XIV players as FF players, especially with my experiences with how many fucking XIV users that admit to having never touched another FF.

I really don't get why people take it as an achievement to beat a single player difficult game. Woooahhh you spent 50 hours beating a game people in easy mode or with cheats completed in 4 hours, wooahhh

Did you enjoy having to hit that lvl 1 wolf 50 times because putting the game on hard makes them go from 10 hp to 99999k hp?
Did you enjoy dying repeatedly and constantly having to reload?

>>720617891
I don't count XIV players as people

>>720617925
>Did you enjoy dying repeatedly and constantly having to reload?

Did you actually lose and get a game over in a JRPG?

>>720617979

I know you guys don't play any games but if you did, lots of JRPGs do have you die a lot, specially if you don't grind or have 9999 potions with you.

>>720618063
Not to mention in the good ol' days, save points were usually 15 minutes away.

>>720611195
Hey, dude, if you don't like turn-based games, maybe don't waste time playing them?

>>720611195
Play FF12. You can program your party and there's a 2x and 3x speedup button on the controller

>>720618063
I dunno, i've been playing jrpgs since nineties and they never were hard if you were smart enough player. Maybe it's a (You) problem

>>720610254 (OP)
I don't have an issue with this as much as I have an issue with calling it progression features rather than cheats. Stuff like this always existed but it wasn't something you selected from a menu. You were very blatantly not playing the game by the intended rules. Semantics perhaps but I think it's different.
When I replayed FFX with the HD version I thought the QoL options were a neat feature. Turning off random encounters was good for when I just wanted to go save, for example. The thing I found is that once you use it once, it increasingly becomes your go to solution. Maybe someone will struggle with a boss and say "I'll just turn on 9999 damage this one time". And before you know it any minor challenge is undercut with "i'll just turn on god mode. I can quit the stuff at any time, man. I just need one more hit!"
At what point do they just get rid of enemies entirely?

>>720618443

So you've been playing JRPGs for 35 years and in not a single one of all those jrpgs you played you never died? :)

>>720613692
>tfw pretty much no games have big head mode now because it would look uncanny and horrifying with photorealistic graphics.

>>720618541
I did. But by 2000s i was already accustomed to the standard game mechanics and illusion of difficulty so I knew how to bypass them

>>720618541
>>720618628
>ice dungeon
>the crossroad with one path clearly leading to the boss arena with the other path leading to fire sword

How on earth were the gamers supposed to know how to solve the pickle?

>>720618470
FFXIV's last expansion had something like literally 4 fights that weren't part of the 6 15 minute dungeons/3 trials daily grind fodder cycle and the new single player games are headed in the same direction of having too many cutscenes to actually fit any enemies in so sometime in the next 10 to 20 years they will get there.

Literally Endwalker, Dawntrail, Rebirth and XVI's cutscene running time is longer than the playtime of any of the first 4 games in the series.

>>720619057
mainline big budget jarpigs cater way more to storyfags than gameplayfags in current year. It's not like the old days, if you want more gameplay-focused jarpigs you gotta look to the lower budget side series like Octopath

>>720610254 (OP)
>have to implement babbymode for Nintendotards because anything more complex than bing bing wahoo filters them
kek, what's next? Implementing Gamepass mode for Xbox players because otherwise they wouldn't play it?

>>720610254 (OP)
shouldn't dad's be, you know, raising their kids? or doing errands for their wife? father's made the conscious choice to get married and have kids, but don't want to spend time with them? i don't understand. they made a sacrifice, they can't have it both ways.

>>720610254 (OP)
Journo mode

Don't see what the big deal is. I beat FF7r twice and it was the easiest fucking shit ever. The entire game is a straight line, so it's almost impossible to be under or over levelled for any fight.
I think I died twice in the entire game: once in that underground tunnel section with lightning robots or whatever and then once on the motorcycle boss (lmao btw) because I was drunk.
The entire game is already mapped out for the player. It's so shit lol

>>720619186
I wouldn't call most of what was in Dawntrail story and I tend to believe that most games that have a non-interactive viewing time that exceeds a 52 episode anime series probably aren't much better. Like another ridiculous way to put this is that they have roughly as much cutscenes as the entire Xenosaga trilogy combined.

>>720619057
I thought XVI was particularly egregious with this. That shit was a TV show with some gameplay mixed it. I like a good story in games but good god, we have to draw the line somewhere. This was bad when MGS4 did, it's still bad.

>>720619639
I agree FF7r was quite easy and linear. Have you played Remake yet? I feel like it improved on part 1 in pretty much every way

>>720619927
Nah I lost interest after being so disappointed with Remake. I've heard from a bunch of anons that Rebirth was way better. Maybe I'll give it a go one day.
There are a bunch of other games id rather play like the Raidou or Trails in the Sky remake.

>>720619893
I didn't mind it too much in XVI. My main issues were the MMO-tier sidequest design (thanks Yoshi-P) and the horrific pacing. When you're cruising and leading up to the primal fights it's pure esctasy, but they'll nonsensically throw in 4-6 hours of bullshit menial quests in for no fucking reason and grind everything to a screeching halt.

Another problem is that you can't start the game in hard mode, and normal mode is obscenely easy, to the point where it made the combat a complete joke. I get that they're trying a new combat style for a mainline FF game, but they scaled the difficulty like the player was a lobotomized retard. Also when you actually get to NG+ they still force you to do all the boring fetch quests and skipping cutscenes is glacially slow. Just kills your desire to keep playing

>>720620094
yea it's miles better than part 1, but you're not missing out on anything by waiting. Can't wait for the trails remake

waiting for more tifa posting

>>720610254 (OP)
Not everyone is a loser who spends all day playing fromslop and silksong. Some of us have jobs and responsibilities.

>>720618543
low poly mode instead for the lols

>>720618239
>hey our games are getting pretty easy relative to the average player, should we work on making more challenging combat mechanics and enemies?
>hell no, just let people program their own auto pilot with a fast forwarding option to skip through the combat faster and call it a feature

>>720611195
Why do you wanna spend your hard earned cash to buy a game and not play it at all?
Fuck, dude. If you don't like turn-based JRPGs, don't play them. Do you like the story? Watch it on Youtube, ffs.

I hate built-in cheats in these games, i'd much rather giving fags like you a story-mode than straight up cheats, because i'm a fag myself and i will use fucking cheats if i'm pressed for time but i want to finish one chapter before i go to close the fucking game.

>>720619893
MGS4 is ostensibly ~48.5% cutscenes while FFXVI is something like 53%. I feel like MGS4 wasn't even THAT bad for what it was because a lot of that is just the 1 hour ending cutscene which is trying to tie up 6 games of characters arcs and retcons and is actually being fairly efficient about it, and in general those cutscenes have a lot of action and actual things happening in them rather than being hours and hours of characters standing around and listening to boring lore and small talk that doesn't advance the story at all or matter 5 minutes after it's been uttered.

>>720611915
>99% of your life is wasted on random shit

>>720610254 (OP)
>game feels so bad to play devs are adding cheats as options
LMAO

>>720611915
>play labyrinth of refrain
>i can see enemies and im able to hide from them or navigate around them
i hate random encounters and i hate zubats

>>720610254 (OP)
Optional, right?

Video games aren't made for people who play video games anymore.

>>720610254 (OP)
there are ff7 remake cuts online with tags to skip the gameplay.

It's not a very good movie though. My playthrough ended at the graveyard years ago.

>>720610254 (OP)
>single handle crashing the materia stocks
NOOOOOO!

>>720613519
I'm autistic. I am the complete opposite. It took me ten years to beat halo ce because I have to play on legendary and if I die I have to start the whole game from pillar of autumn.

did the same thing when I lost a unit in path of radience.

I have the tism

>>720620759
I like this idea. I thought the low poly costumes in Shadow of the Tomb Raider and RE2 remake were kinda cool.

>>720621624
the 51.5% of MGS4 that was gameplay was absolutely goated though. Better gameplay than snake eater despite it having a less interesting setting, characters,plot, and basically everything else

>>720612303
yeah that metriod 4 looks so good, play it twice just for me anon

>>720610254 (OP)
at that point legit just save the money and watch a youtube walkthrough

>>720610254 (OP)
tbf this would be lore accurate cloud

>>720621624
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCOxzBu0f48
how can you not think this was not the most coolest shit

>>720610254 (OP)
>game is filled with bullshit wasting your time like go pick up chocobo poop in that field
>lets make a mode with combat trivialized it will make people play the game
I had to check, it's real, people a square enix are insane...

>>720610254 (OP)
Back in my day devs included cheat codes, what's the fuss about? Why is this some controversial or new exciting feature?

Suckmyrocket
Gouranga
Nopoliceplease

After the Silksong drama companies are now scared as fuck to implement any difficulty.

>>720612030
>I simply don't have more than 3-5 hours a week realistically to game.
Then concentrate on your family instead like you are supposed to be doing you stupid fucking normalfaggot. You can be using that time to buy your kids more games or working some extra hours like the wagie you are you fucking cuck.

>>720618063
Yeah you die sometimes, that's the fucking point of a video game, to challenge you. The argument that you "need to grind" or you die all the time is massive cope.
For fucks sake people do low level clears all the time clearly showing that if you aren't retarded you can get by even underleveled.

>>720610254 (OP)
The dad who just wants to unwind after a long day of work and time with the kids is the most unsung enemy of modern gaming.

>>720611195
In Bravely Default you can manually set the encounter rate at any time, including setting it to zero.

>>720610254 (OP)
Why would you make these fucking games even more boring?

>>720610902
Nah, they'd still complain about not being auto-steered to the next objective and not having enough Niggers in the Party.

>>720610254 (OP)
gotta take care of your wife's sons after all

>>720610254 (OP)
Just watch a movie

>>720612129
>>720625660
You both will get it when you grow up into men with a full life and responsibilities. I cant no life games for 8 hours a day like back in my 20s. I have personal and professional duties and goals that require time. Since time is a limited resource I must prioritize it. FF7 Remake is a bad example here since it was easy but a better example is Silksong. I beat it but I used mods like no walk back and keep roasaries after death, etc. I cheated my ass off and enjoyed it all in 15 hours and I bet you are still stuck on that gay sewer level boss.

Based.
I play video games to have fun, not test my imaginary """gaming skills""" that have literally no use irl and no one else but you cares about.

>>720610254 (OP)
Bump

the next time you want to say something bad about ffvii remake, remember squareenix has a higher shareholder value than sega.

>>720610254 (OP)
>can speedrun battles
>can't speedrun the filler segments
We are truly living in a clown world

>>720633212
(thanks to FFXIV money)

>>720627303
Who is "they" little bro?

If you take a game and remove literally all the challenge from it, is it even a game anymore or is it an interactive movie?

>>720610902
*Tendie mode

You could just watch a compilation of Final Fuckstasy and get banging hot porn segments in between the movie segments and have a better experience than this.
also 9999 is by no means 1-shot damage. in FF7 you could slot up Materia linkages that would smash out 9999 hits and that's like tickling WEAPON's belly.

>>720610254 (OP)
As a husband to my wife, father to her son, best friend and BIPOC ally to her boyfriend, I approve