It's not even a particular outlier other than the fans who obsessively waited on Versus while ignoring everything else.
Forspoken should have absolutely been appreciated more than it was, but that ship has long sailed.
Not sure what you're trying to argue here anymore.
Im still trying to figure out what "exactly like this one" means.
Again, I would point to any other RPG that came out in 2024 alone.
Have you played Rebirth? No other FF released in recent years comes close what Yautja_Warrior has described above and any other 2024 RPGs are either not the same scope and budget (Yakuza?) or completely different games (Dragon's Dogma).
Hhhm.
Why would anyone assume that YoshiP and his team would be the ones doing FFXVII? It actually seems really unlikely.
Square Enix is a big company. In the past few years I'm sure there have been lots of opportunities for different people to step up. Sometimes it can be unexpected!
Former Luminous Studios devs that were absorved into CBU2, they're the only other team with AAA dev experience with free staff.
They can team up with some staff from WoFF too who have experience with older FFs. New dream team!
I can't really see a rogue lite game winning game of the year. It's possible that some other game could swoop in and make a bigger impression but I don't see any on the horizon right now. There's no such thing as a lock but I would say it's looking pretty good for Rebirth atm with what else has been announced.
Are really doing GotY locked in April again? Have we learned nothing from literally any other year?
People are speculating CBU3 may be doing it again primarily because Natsuko Ishikawa stepped away from actively writing for XIV after Endwalker (not even writing for the patches), which is similar to the moves we saw when a lot of the Heavensward team moved on to make XVI. That, combined with the fact that CBU1 will be on two full AAA productions (VIIR3 and Kingdom Hearts 4) and Luminous closed down after Forspoken points to CBU3 being the only team with bandwidth for a new AAA game. The idea is that they may already be a couple years into pre-production since Endwalker's release because thats when Ishikawa stepped into a supervisory role on XIV.
Dragon Dogma's 2, Helldivers 2, Hellblade 2, some third party game I'm probably forgetting. This would still be the case if Rebirth released on all platforms.
I played Remake and found the effort overall overdone, despite some extremely high highs, the lows wore me down and soured the whole thing.
I doubt Hades 2 1.0 will release this year, it was a kind of said in jest, but how is it hard to picture this genre winning when the first game came in second place in 2020.
Yup, or Yoshi-P will troll us with some vagueries and technical truths, like how he repeatedly stated that he was definitely not directing XVI (which was true, he was just producing and heavily involved with it)
Yes I could tell because you were not addressing what the user above was saying about Rebirth's strengths, we're talking about Rebirth here being the template for future FFs and not Remake.
And you know damn Rebirth wouldn't change any of my criticisms personally so what are we trying to accomplish here.
If your criticisms are about the story then maybe not. If it is about game design though Rebirth is a massive step forward from the claustrophobic hallways of Remake to a huge open-world with multiple different environments and amazing level of detail. Again I'm not saying anything original here, that's what all reviews and user impressions have been saying. Recent example is Edge that gave Remake a 7 and Rebirth a 9.
I mean, sales are the reception that matters to most companies. The primary reason so many studios care about Metacritic or getting nominated for awards is because the impact that can have on sales. There are still plenty of critical darlings that are commercial duds, and vice versa.
Might have to be a little more than that this time. No way they can explain everything that's happening in that short of a time. We'd just be confused again as there's actually a lot they need to cover. Now will it change anything that drastically by the end is an entirely different story. Most likely something's will but not insanely so.
Thats quite the strawman. You're conflating my thoughts on what I think will be the consensus game of the year with what I think it should be. I'm intellectually honest enough to separate the two concepts. I would have Rebirth comfortably beating out all those games you mentioned.
And while I hoped Rebirth would be better, it somehow took a step down. Rebirth made me appreciate Remake a lot more.
People are seriously sleeping on Metaphor. Persona 5 Royal has a metacritic of 95 (higher that Rebirth's 92) and it's the first new game (non-remake, non-spinoff) from the makers of Persona since P5. Metaphor could easily be a GOTY contender this year
