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I wish any of the studios I'd ever worked at had that percentage of female devs. Maybe it's better these days but I don't think I ever worked anywhere here in the UK outside of indie teams where women were more than 10% of the dev team. And honestly it was normally half that.
The various British accents, particularly Lily, give it a cheesy quality that kind of suits the heightened reality of the game. However, Adam's is just....bad? It sounds like a scratch track.
He's why I wish there was a way to select language per character. The English actor pronouncing library as "libary" cracks me up every time though.
The implication I'm getting here is that if you have a demo save, everything will carry over into the full game, including all skills points you grinded for, which is obviously not the way the game was intended to be played on your first go.
That would be such a great feature! I'm perfectly fine with the English, but Lily is so anime-enthusiastic that it would be better for her to be speaking Japanese.
Eh, you could just grind in the actual game, anyway. Which I will probably do, if they steal away my several hours of pre-grinding from me. I like to have a little edge. I'm sure as heck not going anywhere in the game until I have the wider timing windows on parrying and dodging.
Dialogue Designer here and lord that would be a nightmare to implement lol.
I've seen so many people put crazy hours into the demo. More than the entirety of a full games length
View: https://twitter.com/_Spartan_gamer/status/1778107360482939210?t=kXVNDCmsowZsPI5Hs_nJmA&s=19
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Speaking of languages, someone needs to explain to me why the english subtitles of the demo are SDH/closed caption only.
Like the game displays "(screams)" and "(breathing)" for the noises EVE does in the first few minutes. Why?
I have noticed that streaming services like Disney+ have been doing this for the latest anime shows as cost saving measure, but it's the first time that I see it for a game.
Don't get me wrong, it's great to have as an accessibility feature, but most ppl who use the subtitles only need them for the dialogues to make sure that they aren't missing anything. But anything else is just distracting.
There should be the normal dialogue subs + closed captions as accessibility option.
Like the game displays "(screams)" and "(breathing)" for the noises EVE does in the first few minutes. Why?
I have noticed that streaming services like Disney+ have been doing this for the latest anime shows as cost saving measure, but it's the first time that I see it for a game.
Don't get me wrong, it's great to have as an accessibility feature, but most ppl who use the subtitles only need them for the dialogues to make sure that they aren't missing anything. But anything else is just distracting.
There should be the normal dialogue subs + closed captions as accessibility option.
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while many of use use subtitles that way, their main purpose is for accessibility
Played the demo numerous times and never realized that the section with one bar higher than the other isn't for climbing up, it's for coming down off the roof. There's handholds to get onto that roof that I missed every single time.
Yes, but there's no excuse to not offer both and this is an outlier that hopefully won't be repeated. It's only the english subs btw.
Imagine if movie disc releases did the same.
Doubt that they'll change it though since I seem to be the only one bothered by it lol.
I might just switch to the german menu/subs and call it a day...
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Goofiest outfit in the demo tbh. The individual asscheek plates are one thing but the glowing pelvis really maxes out the goof factor.
That would be my vote as well.
Rather that than a tongue in cheek dig at stuff that is clearly bothering part of the community about the game's presentation.
Can't trust PS play times. It said I spent like 170hrs in MGSV and I didn't even like that game. Was probably counting rest mode time.
Butt plates protect her from "way to go!" butt slaps from teammates…I suppose.
This game looks cool at times, but outfits like this bring it down so much. What a terrible design...
I'm assuming the inspiration for this one was Bayonetta, and they want you to equip the black glasses to complete the look. The ovary lights are just weird.
I expect players to love the game a lot more than critics. Similar like Lies of P last year.
I dont envy reviewers on this one, even here I've had people say I can't critique the games combat fairly because of the games choices towards women.…
Averaged an 82. Response from players was out of proportion with that?
I'd be surprised if this scores as high as that one did.
Yeah Lies of P user average is almost identical to the critical average.
That's insane. Yea this game is going to do REALLY well commercially.
Curious how the game will perform sales wise, think people could be overestimating this one due to the noise surrounding it.
Demo gave it a nice boost, but it never really broke into the top 15 of the general chart on PS Store in any of the bigger markets (US, Japan, UK, Germany, France) and with 2 weeks to go it's actually out of the top 20 in some of them.
To give some perspective, the week after the demo which was when it sold more, it still didn't come close to Rise of the Ronin second week which always placed considerably higher in the general chart.
Unless things change drastically, or the game has a huge physical split, this isn't really going to be a big release. Those games like Rebirth which are multi-million sellers are usually near the top of the charts at this point.
Not saying it'll do bad or anything, since I think for a game like this hitting 1M shortly after launch, similarly to Lies of P which was on 3 platforms and hit that after a month, would be great.
It received two separate spikes in preorders. After the State of Play with it's Gameplay Trailer, and after the demo. It topped preorder charts worldwide for over a week before it started falling off. I don't think it'll do gangbusters, but I can see it landing somewhere between 1-2 millions in it's first 30 days.
I don't know how much reviews will affect potential sales.
The ovary lights are certainly weird. But, I know why they're there.
If we think of the lights as the ones you find on an airplane runway, they're meant to draw your eyes down to her crotch because we wouldn't be able to tell that she was a woman otherwise if we didn't have those lights to make sure that we all knew that she has a vagina.
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Gotta love weird-ass design choices put into place in case you didn't know the obvious.
I like to think they're high tech android versions of the ever important Vagina bones.
25 hours for the main story, 30-50 for completionists
lol at dramatically quoting their own company president at the start
That they physically modeled and scanned all the creatures into the game is pretty cool though and the designs have been pretty interesting so far with a strong contrast to Eve herself
honestly when I saw the quote start to appear I was like... oh, wonder if this was like hr giger or something
then his name came up and I was like "oh, come on"
Don't forget the small strip of light on her crotch as well. It's small, but it's there!
Unless I'm reading this wrong, it's still in the Top 10 Preorders for the PS Store in the US. Deluxe Edition at #1 and Standard at #8.
On Amazon it's currently #2
On Amazon it's currently #2
Sony is promoting the hell out of this game. I hope it's a sign of confidence because they know how good it is, and not just because it's all they got as others have hinted at.
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lol I also love how mundane his quote is
"Monsters…
…are scary sometimes"
It's also a very easy game to advertise. "The main character in this game is a half naked woman with a big butt, preorder now". That's really all there is to it and you will probably get over a million sales just off of that.
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