Triangle Strategy - Challenge Your Convictions Trailer
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This game looks obscenely good, and me and my Tactics people are gonna eat. Call me crazy, too, but at 2:34 I got some vibes from this classic stage:
Yet an improvement from "Project Triangle Strategy" lol. But yeah, I don't get it at all. It's not like these games are prototypes when Squeenix shows them to the public! They're going to get made. And once you show these games with a stupid "temporary" name, you're stuck, because that becomes what people identify the game as. Just think of a real name.
There's three battles in the demo: one to start, and then there's a story branch, each branch containing a battle.
The starting battle wasn't particularly tough, but each of the battles after the branch were reasonably challenging, with good level design.
We also know there's going to be Easy/Normal/Hard difficulty modes in the final game.
I'm a huge 2D tactics fan and I found the difficulty in the demo to be quite decent. And there will be an easy and hard in the full game. Demo is definitely worth a try.
Maybe it's some reverse psychology thing where they're trying to get us to be more accepting of terrible names
First Octopath Traveler, then Triangle Strategy, then the world...
Looking forward to this so much...But I'd be kidding myself if I didn't ask for a FFT remake using this engine.
Pumped. Loved the demo and read they've addressed the issues based on player feedback. Looking forward to challenging battles.
Yeah, but that's a super low budget game. And I'd still argue even nonsensical SE names are better than something that's still sounds like a plain internal code name
I thought Octopath Traveler was a good name, all things considered. It was memorable and accurately descriptive of what the game was.
Triangle Strategy is just indefensibly generic and unmemorable — things a title doesn't want to be. "Triangle" is a largely irrelevant descriptor to the game so far, and they even missed the low hanging alliteration in Triangle Tactics.
That said, I wish every thread about Triangle Strategy didn't inevitably become mired in its shitty naming.
HD-2D?
...Yeah? That's what the graphical style has been dubbed by SE. Games such as Octopath Traveler, Triangle Strategy, and DQ3R.
I'm definitely in the minority, but I like the title for many of the same reasons I like Octopath Traveler. It's a straightforward, unabashed declaration of the game's core design philosophy.
I totally understand why that would feel lame to most people though. It's uniquely transparent but pretty lacking in personality beyond that. Really comes across as an internal design doc name.
I totally understand why that would feel lame to most people though. It's uniquely transparent but pretty lacking in personality beyond that. Really comes across as an internal design doc name.
I love these tactical games, but that's a very odd marketing buzzword/term.
I don't think it works to sell the style
I mean, there's a lot of people who specifically love the HD-2D graphical presentation, and clamor for more things in that style, so I don't really agree.
I hope they include the Japanese voice acting at launch. That made a big difference in my enjoyment of Octopath Traveler.
Looking at the names attached to write this game, there are a lot of unknown people (at least to me, and I am struggling to find out much about them). However, the people who ARE known quantities have worked on quality titles. So yeah, I am cautiously optimistic here. Also, Triangle Strategy does not appear to share any writers with Octopath Traveler (take that how you will).
I'll be there day one. I hope it is able to deliver something quality.
I'll be there day one. I hope it is able to deliver something quality.
You think? I don't hear any difference. But god, I hope so — or at least that they re-did his lines.
Having that flat a VA for the MC could seriously dampen the story's vibe.
yea ugh I hate it.
What does this game stand for?
naming a brand after a game feature… it hurts me.
That might make a fun "guess the game by its triangle strategy name" thread though:
Tower Divers Through Time
It's Assassins Creed!]
It is a weird buzzword isn't it, and really doesn't even make sense. But I'd argue it's thoroughly stuck now, and you've a vocal group of JRPG fans clamouring for more use of it; the style has become synonymous with the name.
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I feel like this game is in a weird spot where it's sort of explicitly styling itself narratively as inspired by tactics ogre and Idk if that will invite praise if it doesn't live up to TO's extremely strong worldbuilding, narrative and characters.
That said, if it's even half as good, that's good enough tbh.
That said, if it's even half as good, that's good enough tbh.