If SquareE supports PC like that, then why on Earth they didn't release Kingdom Hearts on PC yet?
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Octopath Traveler rated for PC in Korea
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Well everyone who was asking for a FF6 remake in Octopath's "engine" (UE4...) might get that now lol. Won't be long before modding community starts work.
With a PC release, Octopath will probably join this generation's club of multi-million selling turn-based JRPGs. Great for Asano and Acquire, and for people who weren't able to play it on Switch.
With a PC release, Octopath will probably join this generation's club of multi-million selling turn-based JRPGs. Great for Asano and Acquire, and for people who weren't able to play it on Switch.
The popularity made some people that cannot stand classic TB JRPG want to try I guess. And they proven wrong
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Combat, artstyle, and music are what carried the game for me. Story is what makes people hate it, I believe, which is pretty understandable. It's just poorly executed.
Same reason as KH3 is on Xbox but the collections are not, Square makes poor decisions sometimes.
EGS is currently blocked in Korea :^)
I think Nintendo Switch having console exclusivity is a reasonable compromise.
expecting a 1:1 of nioh. published by SE/TK in japan, published by sony/nintendo in the west, ~1 year of full exclusivity, then a pc port and just console-exclusivity.
If it comes only to PC, kinda like plenty of PS4 exclusives, keeping the console exclusivity, then I fully support this move since I said already that Square Enix should build a new franchise around this.
Epic Launcher is in Korea, But all the games are blocked except Epic's own titles.
It's one of my favorite games of this generation, some people dislike the lack of party interaction but I was fine with that and appreciated having 8 completely personal storylines that aren't all trying to be as epic as possible.
Was really hyped for it, bought it day 1, and then thought it was incredibly boring story/character wise. Combat is pretty incredible though. The strategy and nuance you need for exploiting weaknesses is really great.
I didn't finish because I felt like I had enough fun with the combat and just couldn't care about the story anymore.
yeah. i think it coming to pc and doing decently there is also good for the future of the franchise, and how much they can invest in a sequel (that will either launch on pc as well or come to the platform later)
Depends on pricing, if they ask full price (60$) i highly doubt they will go past 100k copies ltd without sales.
correct me if i'm wrong, but i don't think even DQ11 did that well on steam. if the steamspy estimate is correct, it sold between 100K and 200K. this certainly won't be able to sell as much as DQ11. ~100K sales is still a decent result tho, specially since it's going to be an easy port. basically free money.
i like where your mind is at 🙃
Yeah, I think Octopath is a fantastic dragon quest game right there
Don't think so. The game is a late port. And there's a huge selection of JRPG on PC already. For Octopath on Switch, the game had a strong marketing lift on Switch by Nintendo, in a period dire in term of JRPG.
There is no such thing as "dire" or "huge", when a game is attractive enough and with the right fanbase at the right time it will do well, later on there will be nintendo select and steam sales for the title, 2m ltd is just a matter of time
with the pc port, 2M is likely in a few years, i just don't think the pc port itself can sell 500k.
I can see Octopath doing better than some other JRPGs simply because it is far more systems oriented than most games in the genre. It plays much more like a game that could appeal on PC than say DQXI did. I loved DQXI overall but it's combat is just not all that fun or interesting even with the Draconian stuff.
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if DQ11 couldn't reach those numbers, i doubt octopath will. still, i think even 100k is a good result, and a good way to expand the franchise's reach while still keeping their relationship with nintendo.
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Fair point. Didn't DQ11 have some fairly solid competition during that month of game releases though? I know that doesn't exactly change things, but the release timing and word of mouth could play a fairly significant role in how successful it would be.mandatory octopath gifs
if DQ11 couldn't reach those numbers, i doubt octopath will. still, i think even 100k is a good result, and a good way to expand the franchise's reach while still keeping their relationship with nintendo.
You're right though, I probably am over estimating it.
you have a point for the ps4 version that was released close to spider man, but games aren't as front loaded on steam as they are on a platform like ps4, they keep selling specially if the word of mouth is good, which was the case for dq11. i think SE will be happy with an additional 100k or so sales from the port, plus the game being available to pc gamers is awesome news.
If it comes to PC in the West then sure it will hit 250k+. People forget Octopath outsold DQ11 in the West by a solid amount.
Octopath basically doubled DQXI's western sales. It did 1.08m through December while DQXI is probably around 500k or less through November. It's definitely going to do better on PC imo.
Kind of. Only the multiplayer mode made it to the PC, with the single player remaining exclusive to the Wii U, implying that the production of that mode was fully funded by Nintendo.
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