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Fire Emblem: Three Houses - Review Thread
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I am sure Nintendo can afford higher budget for some of their games. And I don't see why a stellar looking 2d game is less worth than an ugly looking 3d game. VanillaWare games for example are always praised for their graphics and are full price.
2d art and pixel art games are much harder to sell and generally require more work to get anywhere near the same level of animation as you do with 3d models.
Nintendo dropped it entirely because it was practically always a crutch when it came to actually selling games, especially on consoles. I think the final straw that broke that camels back was Wario shake dimension, a beautiful hand drawn game that was generally strong all around... Barely scraped its way past a million copies sold while NSMBWii did 30m+.
At the end of the day, they've had much more success with quite a few series including fire emblem since switching to models, so it's extremely unlikely they change course back.
Fair enough. An hi-end 2009 card would be around a teraflop single precision, which is still about as powerful (if not a bit more) as a docked Switch, and twice as powerful as an undocked Switch (not to mention with significantly faster VRAM in both cases).
But I get your point, and I agree. Even more people would complain about "ugly graphics" though.
Well for me graphics don't matter that much for this type of game and also imagine if it reviews worse than Awakening for example because of bad graphics while being a better game, you see the irony here?
It is not like this was their priority. Koei is experiened in making strategy games due to Romance of the three Kingdoms, which is a main inspiration for this game.
I think they favored spending their resources on the game content and gameplay over having better graphics. And this is to me, is ideal.
666 total voters. It's a sign. This is going to review devilishly well and sell even better. Believe.
I'm not too concerned with numbers since impressions are universally great. But I am thinking it has a chance of at least tying Awakening, which was honestly scored higher than it deserved, precisely because the reception has been so good. It reminds me of the positive buzz around that game only this time I think it won't be as polarizing in the community.
Yeah, and Vanillaware games...
- Don't sell as well as Nintendo's franchises
- Languish in development hell for years, with them releasing a new game every 5 years or so.
I'm betting on a 87. Means nothing since I've already purchased the game and I'm just looking at the clock.
I think it's going to settle around mid 80s since it's going to be judged as an home console game.
The have had amazing previews, and people here are just talking about the graphics.
If you're playing an SRPG in a handheld (or hybryd console) graphics should be like the less important part of the game, if people are just talking about the graphics because of the SCORES of the reviews then its just to be able to brag about it in console wars.
Im just here aiting to see if combat is on the same level as story and characters of what we've heard.
If you're playing an SRPG in a handheld (or hybryd console) graphics should be like the less important part of the game, if people are just talking about the graphics because of the SCORES of the reviews then its just to be able to brag about it in console wars.
Im just here aiting to see if combat is on the same level as story and characters of what we've heard.
Yeah, but there's the question, what makes graphics ugly?
The textures? The polygons? Or the picture quality/clarity? For me definitely the latter. Cause like I said when I put on a 15 year old game on a PC today (or just take any HD remaster on console as example) and puts it on native res, then I'm freaking impressed of how it looks. What do you have from wonderful graphics and nice textures, when you can never really see them because the resolution is always sub native? That ruins the whole picture, constantly. But yeah, you understand.
Howsoever, I'm getting my game in 1 1/2 hours. :D
No but it looks rough at places with low polys and low res textures.
The graphics might probably stop this cracking 91-92.
The only unanswered question for me is whether the maps are interesting. If they are, it'll go close to 90.
The only unanswered question for me is whether the maps are interesting. If they are, it'll go close to 90.
I dunno I'm the kind of guy who's picky about framerate but doesn't really care about graphics as long as the art direction did its job. So of course image clarity is paramount, but as long as I can "read" what needs to be "read" from the image, graphics are a non-issue.
I would loooove to see more games looking like VanillaWare games.
But at the same time they kind of tend to prove that going that route is not easy, just look at 13 Sentinels which will only get released 6 years after their previous game, and had to go the paid demo route to make some money before that; and that's with a studio which already has the talent/knowhow.
It does mean that, yeah, but the UK's in BST (British Summer Time) right now for Daylight Savings so we're essentially in GMT+1
After reading the spoilers, going to say mid 80s.
- The plot has left some people divided, and some characters aren't handled that well.
- Game getting judged as a home console means people will probably cause criticism in regards to the graphics.
- There are periods in the game where it just feels like padding.
Not gonna post much since review threads can become a little toxic sometimes but I'm excited to read some reviews
The only season pass content available at launch will be the costumes, and I doubt they take much space.
Am I the only one that kinda likes that style? The low poly look can look very good with certain styles, especially anime ones like FE.
I think underwhelming graphics will not affect reviews that much tbh. You get used to them in really long rpgs.
There's not really anything other than the costumes at launch, so you can hold off. Some more costumes, helpful in game items, and side missions are coming late this year, early next, and then spring of next year is a larger chunk of content that has "new maps and characters". People are expecting a mini-campaign during the time skip? Seems like the only way to do an expansion adventure in a branching game with multiple main casts.
The higher difficulty level is coming shortly after launch for free.
