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Octopath Traveler: Preview Thread
- Thread starter Meelow
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Sorry again for bothering, but does that mean on Thursday or Friday?
Sorry! Thursday night around midnight. It'll be available for play before your noon flight on the 13th.
That means Thursday night at 11pm EST or 3AM EST Friday Morning
I played the first demo. Didn't play the second cause I just want to wait for release, even thought it transfers.
But there's gonna be a war between people trying to downplay the game, people overhyping the game, and trolling to troll.
Personally, I had octopath pegged since its reveal, so there's no drama there.
I think you guys are reading a bit too much into that tweet. First 10-20 hours is most likely just getting all the 8 characters and finishing their first chapter, and from the previews so far, that can feel like a drag because you're doing 8 introductions back to back. He's just differentiating that and people who play longer and past the first chapters.
Also an RPG is easy to get burnt out on if you have to play through it in an incredibly tight review deadline.
Mindless shooters or platformers sure, but text heavy RPGs should be savored like fine wine.
Reviewers needed another week to properly play through at a more relaxed pace.
Mindless shooters or platformers sure, but text heavy RPGs should be savored like fine wine.
Reviewers needed another week to properly play through at a more relaxed pace.
Lmao that's pretty accurate
This chapter was hell.
Holy shit that's hilarious. All it needs is a mention of "yer da" and "yer ma" and a few sprinklings of "shite" and "cunt" and you've got true Scottish dialect.
Shame we'll never get a JRPG with "banter" as a character's manner of speech:
"Oi you utter ledge the four crystals have been nicked by that wanker Gilgamesh from 'Spoons. Lets go batter 'im an' get a Cheeky Nandos after with a side order of bants"
I should clarify that I'm (jokingly) angry that I ran out of demo, not trying to downplay or concern troll that I think the game will be bad, quite the opposite. Friday can't come fast enough.
Gonna give the demo one last run before release. Haven't gotten around to H'annt at all, and from what's been coming out the last few days, she might have the most utility out of everyone.
I hope my usual spot gets this a day or two earlier like they usually do.
I hope my usual spot gets this a day or two earlier like they usually do.
No swears, but they do have a lot of talk about wee bairns tha wen missin'
That's a very subjective thing to differentiate like that; it's not like the structure differentiates that much once you've got past the "Chapter 1" stage of the game. He also says:
"the difference between people who sink the full 50-60 hours versus somebody who does 10-20 and then ducks out"
and not
"the difference between people who play 10-20 hours and then duck out versus somebody who plays after that."
As you seem to be suggesting. He specifically mentions the "full experience," and not the experience after a certain point.
Sure, but I still think it's setting the wrong expectations if you think that means "the last ten hours is really different you guys!". Even if that's true, that doesn't make it a good game for people who didn't like the first 50 hours.
OK, but the subjective quality between the two points is not what your post was about so I don't see what that's got to do with my reply.
My original reply wasn't in response to yours either. I'm just addressing people getting their hopes up.
If you have it already, no one's done an unboxing of it so it would be nice to see!
Huh? Your original post was literally saying that the guy was talking about something different to what he was likely talking about. It's not addressing people getting their hopes up when you have to twist a guy's words into something else to do so.
No. The game is very strategy based. Just learn the nuance of the battle system. Unless you're literally level 1, you're good.
I understand the weaknesses and breaks, I just can't deal with the damage I'm taking from three mobs pet turn
He both referenced 10-20hours and 50-60 hours. My interpretation is as likely as the others. If he only said 50-60 hours and not 10-20 hours you can say my interpretation is absolutely wrong. I didn't put in 10-20 hours myself into his statement. You chose weigh the 50-60 hours more heavily, I chose to weigh the 10-20 hours more heavily. Why would he say 10-20hours if he just meant 50-60 hours? A number of previews have said doing all chapter 1s are a drag, whether the structure changes is irrelevant.
But seriously though, this argument is silly, which is why I kinda brushed it off when you first replied. Do you just want me to admit that he's saying the last ten hours are going to be different?
Make sure to focus on the minion mobs first before fighting the main boss; you've got enough of a break in between when the mobs are killed and when the boss summons more to get some pretty decent damage in. AoE spells which hit multiple enemies are great for bosses like that.
He mentioned both because he was making a direct comparison between the two. I don't know how you can interpret it as anything but that.
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Im talking about the official thread not review thread.
OTs can go up 72 hours in advance I believe. I just wanted to read an all in one informative piece about the game.
Don't click this link if you want to go into the game completely blind.
I'm fine with it but I can 100% empathise if you're not.
I was playing Ophillia's route yesterday. To be honest, I have never played a JRPG before where the first boss can summon monsters, and said monsters would self-destruct in a number of turns to inflict huge damage. I can tell this game will become pretty difficult.
bwa hahahahaha - just wanted to say this made me gut laugh quite unexpectedly.
Just rereading the jeuxvideo "review", I'm kinda wondering where do credits even roll? After the last chapter you complete for a character? I'm open to any narrative format the developers chose to do but it would be sorta weird to "end" the game after the just individual chapters.
So by comparing people who play 10-20hours, and people who play 50-60 hours, my interpretation that people who play only 10-20 hours are people who only played chapter 1s and gave up, which does give a different experience than people who finish the game 50-60 hours. And I correlate that 10-20 hours to how long people take to finish chapter 1s, and that a number of previews so far have mentioned the game opens up after chapter 1s and doing chapter 1s are kind of a drag. Therefore I weigh the differences between the people who play 10-20hours and 50-60 hours more on the former because I can see people giving up at just at finishing chapter 1, and not that he's saying that the game changes drastically in the last ten hours at the 50-60 hours mark. I don't believe that he is indicating that people who play 10-20 hours have one set of experiences, 20-50 hours another set of experiences, and 50-60 hours another set of experiences. He's just comparing people who can go past the initial drag and not. Can I be wrong? Absolutely.
And really we don't need to analyze people's statements this precisely because people usually don't bother to be technically correct. Does that make sense?
Duh. People work themselves into a frenzy over nothing.
This game is going to be phenomenal.
Thanks for the tweet
This along with the other tweet from earlier....if what I think both are referencing (trying not to get hopes up...)
Possible Spoiler warning btw
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That's all I needed to hear, cool.
There's the heavily spoiler averse - because of how badly my brain handles them while experiencing the thing they're for - part of me that's a bit annoyed but also... that's gonna make putting up with any frustrations much easier, excellent.
...assuming it's true. I'm sure reviews will state the same anyway, barring a weird Nintendo-style review rule telling them they can't, so...
There's the heavily spoiler averse - because of how badly my brain handles them while experiencing the thing they're for - part of me that's a bit annoyed but also... that's gonna make putting up with any frustrations much easier, excellent.
...assuming it's true. I'm sure reviews will state the same anyway, barring a weird Nintendo-style review rule telling them they can't, so...
In any case... yeah, for the reviews thread I'm reading the ones from writers/sites I like and then leaving. I've enjoyed discussing things here; I'm not up for metacritic fights and such.
This and APZ's tweet sure do have me interested in the second half of this game.
You can explain your reasoning all you want but it will always be based on a false interpretation of that person's Tweet. He was making a direct comparison between those who leave at the early stages of the game vs. those who play the full experience, with emphasis on full. That and 10-20 hours is more than enough to complete all the Chapter 1s, and since the Tweet was using the lower end of the developer's time scale (with 100 hours being the high end) I doubt he was talking specifically about Chapter 1 as you seem to suggest. There are plenty of ways he could have worded that Tweet to make your interpretation correct but he worded it in a way that makes your interpretation very, very flimsy.
Thanks, Dougie.
Havent people been arguing this is not the case for the past few days since last thursday??? the fuck lol.
Oh man, oh man, I really hope this is true but I'm too afraid to believe now LOL.
You didn't refute my points. But whatever, this doesn't matter. :)
Seems like speculation is abound and previews have stopped coming in so I'm outta here.
See ya'll on Thursday for when the real fun begins.
I did refute your initial point, you just threw other points at me as if I was talking about them all along.
But anyways, see above.
See ya'll on Thursday for when the real fun begins.
I did refute your initial point, you just threw other points at me as if I was talking about them all along.
But anyways, see above.