Look Ubisoft: this is what your devs could be making if you'd let them make what they want to be making. Instead of churning out another cookie cutter "Ubisoft game".
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This rate of sales would be considered a flop, at Ubisoft.
They would've already laid off 90% of the entire Dev team and closed the studio.
Review scores for this are shockingly high for a new RPG entry from a small team. Seems very Persona/FF-like, which isn’t exactly my kind of game (I tend to find most JRPGs a little stale in the game design department), but I think I will give this one a try. I’d rather support a new effort in any case than play yet another Bethesda remaster. I know they’re different games, but I hope CO will get the attention it seemingly deserves.
It's more of a progression from FFX than something like Persona or the newer FF games. It's still turn based, but its more active. It feels like what Square should have done with the franchise, instead of going the direction they did.
Yeah FF has turned to absolute trash. Used to be my favorite franchise
I would like to say plot wise it has very little to do with jrpgs. Those often feel a little cookie cutter to me while this story is very fresh
I haven't played the first 32 games, am I going to be lost?
Well with this series it started at 0 then the sequels count down from 99. So there's about 67 other games you need to play.
Wow, I'm really behind then! Or ahead. I've lost track.
I think this one's going to sell quite well once word-of-mouth spreads.
I've played several hours of this already and the deeper I get, the more it makes me think of Dark Souls. It has that same sort of cadence in the dungeons, just turn-based instead, with a party. What's wild is even with how derivative the concept is, it's a brilliant, fresh-feeling idea for dungeon design. I've been feeling like JRPG dungeons have been stale for a while now, and I'm loving both how dangerous the dungeon trash is and how there isn't a ton of it. Normally by this point in a more traditional Japanese-style RPG I'm starting to skip around in boss rush mode. Not here. I'm wanting the challenge.
It's nowhere near as difficult as a Souls-like though. I've seen many complaints about how not-optional the dodge/parry system is, but at least so far, I think there are ways around it. I'm not even through Act 1 and there are already enough tools that even people that miss most dodges can find busted builds to offset with (and I'm sure I've missed a lot of helpful Pictos and other loot already).
I have some nits to pick, but it's been a great game on the whole so far. The soundtrack and voice acting in particular are top-notch.
I just bought it last night and this is quickly becoming one of my favorite games. Everything just hits so well.
I haven’t had a story draw me in like this one in years.
I'm 11hrs in so far, and I'm hooked. The world building, gameplay and characters are amazing. I also really loved the music, especially inside the manor.
The soundtrack is incredible! It's such a wonderful game.
It's a weird ass game so far. But I only got through the prologue and went back to oblivion. The sound design is atrocious in just the volume mixing. I though stellar blade has a quiet voice overs but damn this game sets a new bar lmao.
I like it though, I'm all for just weird ass stuff that makes no sense, it's refreshing to see new IPs these days.
Audio has seemed fine to me, have only need the subs for the characters that aren’t speaking a real language lol
No I mean volumes. Like the music is insanely loud compared to voice. I had to turn effects and music down to 40%
Yeah haven’t felt that way idk
This sounds like the issue I had a good while ago, before realising something I was using was trying to output as surround sound, whereas I only had stereo speakers (so some sounds seemed normal, some incredibly low).
Just thought of giving that a mention. It may be worth having a look in your game settings, if there is an option to output as Stereo.
No option for that on the audio section of the game.
I installed the game myself and had a look, unfortunately you're right. My speakers are decent with hearing everything, however I can definitely notice the vocals being considerably lower than the music and such.
There is a way to normalise audio levels from within Windows sound settings, you just have to remember to revert once you're done playing.
This seems to be a good article about it: https://pureinfotech.com/normalize-sound-volume-windows-10/
It's a workaround, but it should help with the game and anything else you'd have this issue with. If you're using Linux, unfortunately I can't help. Good luck!
It's on console dude lol.
Ah fuck. Sorry man, I hope someone can figure it out. It's a very new game, so hopefully more people take enough notice for a fix to be implemented.
Otherwise, I found an article which seems to allude to advanced volume settings to 'normalise audio', on an Xbox, in a similar way: https://support.xbox.com/en-GB/help/hardware-network/display-sound/choosing-speaker-audio-output
If you're using a Playstation, it may be worth digging around in your system settings. Sometimes the option is referred to as 'equalise', 'dynamic range', etc.
Hope this helps!
Set the music to 75%, and turn up the volume knob on your speakers just a bit. The combat hits should ring out with a startling clarity. Also, easier to parry that way.
Everything is turned down to 40 except for dialog
Don't have the energy to play myself. But started watching a Let's Play today and I really love the premise.
Nice that it's on GP, can't wait to start. Looks great
I don't like this picture. It brings me sadness.
I hope it does well, but I'm just not interested in strictly linear games anymore.