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Plankton2

Member
Dec 12, 2017
2,670
This was a very very underwhelming reveal for a game that I kinda looked forward to

Like everything was off the story bits they talked about, combat, all of it
 

crimilde

Member
Oct 26, 2017
6,004
How did it devolve from that teaser we saw into whatever abomination this is?

Major disappointment.
 

Dust

C H A O S
Member
Oct 25, 2017
32,279
Why even keep the name when the reworked stuff is completely different? Why they didn't keep the same combat from earlier build? This is so baffling.
 

Zetta

The Fallen
Oct 25, 2017
7,643
It funny how I couldn't even finish watching this trailer, just took it off...
 
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SixelAlexiS

Member
Oct 27, 2017
7,731
Italy
Yeah, the game itself looks terrible, animation and gameplay seems an huge step back from og trailer and in general looks incredibly cheap.

Graphic wise instead, I get the style and all and youtube compression doesn't help at all but these screens comes directly from the official site... it really looks like the game is rendering at 480p internally, you can't see s**t:

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more at https://babylonsfall.square-enix-games.com/en-us
 

VodkaFX

Member
May 31, 2018
929
Now i'm really interested to know what happened during the development for this game... Between this and the FF spinoff I'm not sure which is worse.
 

Rosol

Member
Oct 29, 2017
1,397
Why is the image quality so bad..? it looks like a ps3 game.. Pretty clear why it's not getting lumped into Sony's showing. I wonder if this is what Scalebound looked like before they cancelled it.
 

Zomba13

#1 Waluigi Fan! Current Status: Crying
Member
Oct 25, 2017
8,937
Yeah, the game itself looks terrible, animation and gameplay seems an huge step back from og trailer and in general looks incredibly cheap.

Graphic wise instead, I get the style and all and youtube compression doesn't help at all but these screens comes directly from the official site... it really looks like the game is rendering at 480p internally, you can't see s**t:

20210613_multibattle_bow-2x.jpg

20210613_multibattle_hammer-2x.jpg

20210613_multibattle_shield-2x.jpg

20210613_cutscene_02-2x.jpg

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more at https://babylonsfall.square-enix-games.com/en-us

OK so those screens confirm it wasn't stream compression making it look shit.

It's like the took screenshots of the previous reveal and run it through a painterly photoshop filter.
 

Foot

Member
Mar 10, 2019
10,887
Yeah, the game itself looks terrible, animation and gameplay seems an huge step back from og trailer and in general looks incredibly cheap.

Graphic wise instead, I get the style and all and youtube compression doesn't help at all but these screens comes directly from the official site... it really looks like the game is rendering at 480p internally, you can't see s**t:

20210613_multibattle_bow-2x.jpg

20210613_multibattle_hammer-2x.jpg

20210613_multibattle_shield-2x.jpg

20210613_cutscene_02-2x.jpg

20210613_cutscene_03-2x.jpg


more at https://babylonsfall.square-enix-games.com/en-us
Those are the official screens, not something you took from a 480p YouTube video??? Hahahahahahahaha
 

Diogo Arez

One Winged Slayer
Member
Oct 20, 2020
17,653
Now i'm really interested to know what happened during the development for this game... Between this and the FF spinoff I'm not sure which is worse.
I think the original game we saw at the SoP was cancelled in late last year because of Square wanting to have more GaaS games in their lineup and in hopes of making more money, what you're seeing is basically a new game made almost from scratch with the GaaS aspect in mind and done in few months.
This isn't any insider info or anything, just me theorizing what happened taking into account's SE's Modus operandi in the last few years.
 

SxP

Member
Oct 27, 2017
2,867
If someone told me those screen were from a Vita game, I would believe them. I'd have 0 doubts whatsoever.
 

trashbandit

Member
Dec 19, 2019
3,910
I can see what they're going for with a sort of sort/painterly style, but it super did not show well. Dunno if that's the fault of compression or if they haven't finished tweaking the final look, but that whole trailer was just blurry and hard to follow.
 

spman2099

Member
Oct 25, 2017
10,893
Man... that really doesn't look good on any front. Hopefully they surprise us, but I sorta doubt that is going to be the case...
 

Zomba13

#1 Waluigi Fan! Current Status: Crying
Member
Oct 25, 2017
8,937
Wonder if on PC you could mod out the filter layer? At least get a cleaner looking game.
 

tiebreaker

Member
Oct 25, 2017
12,153
At first I thought it's the stream quality, checked the uploaded trailer and it really looks like it's rendered in 480p.
 

Skyscourge

One Winged Slayer
Member
Nov 7, 2020
1,854
Just how much manpower does Platinum have currently? Weren't they a pretty small studio? I think they clearly haven't been able to scale up properly to handle self publishing titles, as well as working on contract/licensed properties.
 

Sanox

Member
Oct 25, 2017
10,555
Its so sad that I can't find anything appealing in this game :/ don't like the overall visual style but on top of that the character designs themselves don't make me interested either and worst of all the combat looks rough and just not great.
 

Kuga

The Fallen
Oct 25, 2017
2,268
I honestly thought it was a mobile-only game due to how the graphics looked in the trailer... And then there's this 'live service' stuff on top -- no thanks.
 

Wispmetas

The Fallen
Oct 27, 2017
6,546
They tried to go for this painting look, but I don't think it worked out that well for what they wanted.
 

Diogo Arez

One Winged Slayer
Member
Oct 20, 2020
17,653
Its so sad that I can't find anything appealing in this game :/ don't like the overall visual style but on top of that the character designs themselves don't make me interested either and worst of all the combat looks rough and just not great.
Scratch that, imagine releasing a good trailer an year and a half ago and then releasing this trash, that's what really baffles me
 

AgentLampshade

Sweet Commander
Member
Oct 25, 2017
14,311
Yeah, the game itself looks terrible, animation and gameplay seems an huge step back from og trailer and in general looks incredibly cheap.

Graphic wise instead, I get the style and all and youtube compression doesn't help at all but these screens comes directly from the official site... it really looks like the game is rendering at 480p internally, you can't see s**t:

20210613_multibattle_bow-2x.jpg

20210613_multibattle_hammer-2x.jpg

20210613_multibattle_shield-2x.jpg

20210613_cutscene_02-2x.jpg

20210613_cutscene_03-2x.jpg


more at https://babylonsfall.square-enix-games.com/en-us
This looks like some weird ass Tony Hawks Pro Skater 5 type filtering going on.
 

Jamaro

Member
Oct 27, 2017
1,281
Ugh, watching this again on a TV it really does look like a low res handheld game, and the gameplay looks like that of a F2P mobile game. I can't believe what I'm watching with this and am only posting this out of disappointment.

And I can't not laugh when hearing the guy at the end, I feel like somebody earlier in the thread said it sounds like he has marbles in his mouth.
 

JaseC64

Enlightened
Banned
Oct 25, 2017
11,008
Strong Island NY
This was another L.

This looks so bad and the voice over WTF was that?

Man I'm kinda glad I put this on for FF1 and witnessed a trainwreck instead.
 

Dever

Member
Dec 25, 2019
5,347


How did it go from THIS, to what we just saw...


Yeah... Crazy thing is nothing here looks undoable. In fact, it looks like this was playable in real-time. It's not like Bioshock Infinite where you could tell the first "gameplay demos" were just bullshots in motion. Maybe turning it into an online co-op thing killed it?
 

Luckett_X

Member
Oct 25, 2017
2,410
Leeds, UK
Just as a reminder, these are the last 3 games that Saito worked on:
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance (2013)
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Transformers Devastation (2015)
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Granblue Fantasy Re:Link (2018-19, before development 'parted' with Platinum)
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So yeah, mah boi is definitely being done dirty with what looks like graphics diving back by a whole generation. The direct feed screens are a horror show of whatever Filter thing they're using just not working because thats not how the human eye works or something it accepts.
 
Jul 26, 2018
4,685
Between this and the horrendous last trailer that Scalebound ever got, Platinum should never EVER be allowed to do anything other than single player character action.
 

Quinton

Specialist at TheGamer / Reviewer at RPG Site
Verified
Oct 25, 2017
17,279
Midgar, With Love
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
"My name is Hammurabi, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The live-service co-op sands stretch far away."