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Sabotage Studio initially projected sales of 250,000 copies of Sea of Stars in the first year. They hit that target within just a week. (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 117 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Good, I hope this means we get even more turn-based RPGs again. I'm 100% fine with people enjoying the new action-oriented RPGs like Final Fantasy has become, but I love turn based so much more. I didn't like that it felt like there couldn't be both on the market. There is just something way more enjoyable to me about turn-based as opposed to mashing buttons and twitchy moves like I'm playing God of War.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

Final Fantasy moving away from turn-based because it's "outdated" is peak Square silliness. Have they ever heard of chess, card games, board games, DnD, Civilization, Persona, Dragon Quest, XCOM, Pokemon, Darkest Dungeon? If anything, DMC-style character action games are far more niche.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Uh... I hope they've heard of Dragon Quest. They own it.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

Funny enough Yoshi P was the one that said turn-based was outdated and he's worked on DQ before but only the MMO, arcade games, Minecraft clone and a Wii FPS thing. I think it's pretty obvious he just doesn't like the genre. DQ11 was the breakthrough hit in the West and he had nothing to do with it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

But so they know that they own it? That's the question here!

[–] thekidxp 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm really worried about the new dragon quest. It's possibly my favorite series and I'm concerned that 12 is going to be action and not turn based.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I haven't seen anything about it. Is there info out that makes you think this?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I believe spinoffs like "Dai" and "Heroes" will be action based, but the main game and "Monsters" will be turn based

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

I'm kind of sad that the RTS genre kind of died. I like RTS games and I hope they can make a comeback one day.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I seem to remember them being surprised by the success of Bravely Default, not expecting a deliberately old-school RPG to appeal to modern audiences.

The cynical part of me believes this is performative on their part - they know a game like that will be popular, but it won't be the most popular thing ever and they won't make all the money. So, they try to push bigger games that are more easily monetized in hopes that people will just forget their own preferences.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Could also just be their own tastes evolving. I used to love turn-based combat RPGs and the RTS genre but I'm kinda over both of them now. If game makers lose passion for those kinds of games, then the "it won't appeal" might even be more of a "I'm not into it, so if I do make it, it won't be very appealing" than a "no one wants this kind of game".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I stopped liking final fantasy once they abandoned it.. Literally last game I played was 12.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It turned me off the FFVII remake, which is a shame as I really wanted to experience the original but in a modern style. I guess I may actually boot the original up instead; I wonder if there are mods to make it more playable.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I've got the benefit of nostalgia I guess, but I played through the original a few months ago for probably the fifth time in my life and still enjoyed myself. The main things that has aged is the ugly character models, this mod can improve those. Might want to look as some of these as well. You want to play through the original+crisis core first before the remake for... reasons.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Especially with the huge boost DnD had in the last few years.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Have you already played Chained Echoes? It's another masterpiece in the world of 2D turn-based RPGs.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClrZiz_IMmY

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Looks nice! Will have to take a look, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I bought it awhile back, but never got very far into it. I might pick it up again after I beat Sea of Stars.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

I agree, I’m glad games like this (and baldur’s gate!) are enjoying so much success and attention right now. It’s better for everyone if we have a variety of polished experiences in different genres.

That being said I don’t often find myself enjoying turn based games lol. Even going back to the super nintendo, I massively preferred Secret of Mana (with it’s real time combat system) to Final Fantasy. There’s just something extremely satisfying to me about a well done action-oriented RPG, where you feel like your skills are improving alongside your character’s.

“Well done” is not to be overlooked, of course. I was quite disappointed with final fantasy 16, as it truly did just feel like mashing buttons

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

I thought this was already understood after the success of octopath traveler... but here we are.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

I never really liked turn-based RPGs until I became an adult with a full time job because they’re perfect for when I’m burnt and wanna play video games but I’m also too burnt to play most games.

I imagine there’s a lot of millennials/early gen-Z that feel the same way. A whole market that is just starting to be tapped

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Yeah it's far more relaxing to play a jrpg with good music, nice looking environments when I can actually listen to the music and look at the world instead of focusing on the enemies tells and dodgeroll at the exact perfect moment. Nothing wrong with perfect dodgerolls. But I don't want them in all my games.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Really? I love real time strategy games but feel like most of the new strategy games I see are turn based.

[–] skullone 1 points 2 years ago

Anyone know of any 2d turn based RPGs that are coop?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

I have the feeling there are like 20 turn-based rpg going out every month, it’s one of the most seeked genre out there. Sure, AAA titles kind of strayed away from it but the AA and indie markets are still very much into them.