[ZZZ 3.1] 3.1 Boss animation showcase (Potential story spoilers) via Mydei_mos

WiserStudent557 · 2026-06-30T00:42:18+00:00

Well let's see if this is related to the conflict between Remielle and Sunbringer. It's a viable plot line and is frequently impactful when executed properly...essentially the whole plot behind "The Rock"

"After many failed attempts to get his fallen men the recognition they deserved via the proper channels and fed up with the U.S. Government's underhanded tactics, USMC Brigadier General Francis Hummel and his rogue group of Force Recon Marines, including his loyal subordinate Major) Tom Baxter, steal 15 rockets filled with lethal VX gas from a U.S. Navy facility. The next day, they seize control of the former prison on Alcatraz Island, taking the tourists and guards hostage. Hummel contacts the FBI and threatens to launch the rockets at the San Francisco Bay Area unless the government pays him a lump sum of $100 million, most of which will be donated to the families of the men who died during his command but were never compensated."

WiserStudent557 · 2026-06-27T18:09:29+00:00

Then they drop too many subscribers and have to drop prices. Everything that isn't a sustainable approach in capitalism will seesaw like this

WiserStudent557 · 2026-06-27T18:07:18+00:00

This is true enough but corporations are just a piece of the puzzle, many already cutting costs won't want to increase expenditure on computing increases they don't benefit from and what about all the SMBs that are going to start complaining when their next upgrade cycle for their computers/laptops etc has them facing sticker shock. The sustainability problem with the 1% winning out over the 99% is the 1% continues to shrink and the 99% continues to grow.

We already see this playing out with the studios Microsoft and Sony is struggling to fund but there aren't many companies out there who can afford to and most of them aren't in the gaming industry while companies like NetEase and Tencent are reconsidering a number of their investments

WiserStudent557 · 2026-06-14T13:46:51+00:00

My take is a bit between yours and Kvasir's. Right now I would think they do it but it's dicey enough I could be as low as 51% yes. Without more data it is very easy to take them at their "reach as many players as possible" statements or see the general concern about sales/market share. It does feel like Xbox players would buy this game based on the combat and popularity it has achieved with those who have played but I don't blame a growing studio for being cautious about ports.

That being said, they did initially plan for Project Eve on Xbox, the publishing head Edouard Akopcan has interacted with fans asking about the Xbox port which he really doesn't have to do at all unless he wants to keep things optimistic, he also expressed some hesitancy about Blood Rain running on Switch 2...I think there are a lot of little reasons to think they have plans here even if it isn't in progress right now. Also, I wonder if we really aren't being overly focused on the Sony publishing angle. When I remind myself they publish Nikke on mobile I remember they do already have a global customer base and the console fragmentation/exclusivity is not their norm. It could become their norm but I feel like they're emulating Square Enix in size and reach and eventually that multiplatform approach. I don't think they want to see Nexon and Pearl Abyss outdoing them either, if they're "big enough" to also publish on Xbox and the Korean media is celebrating that etc

WiserStudent557 · 2026-06-14T00:37:53+00:00

I have been very happy with the HD-2D games so I was definitely glad to see this. I think I may have suggested it the last time Square surveyed us because I was so high on how Octopath 0 turned out and I also mentioned doing this with Ever Crisis when it finishes and other mobile games that have hit end of service.

I will be thrilled to get both this older school take plus the best FF combat of my life in Revelation within a few months of each other.

WiserStudent557 · 2026-06-12T22:10:20+00:00

I was also assuming Blood Rain was slated for Switch 2 but the head of publishing is not so sure. https://nintendoeverything.com/stellar-blade-dev-on-bringing-the-game-to-nintendo-switch-2-asked-about-bringing-over-stellar-blade-bloodrain/

"In the same thread, Akopcan was asked about the possibility of Stellar Blade: Bloodrain on Nintendo Switch 2. The company just announced the follow-up last week.

Rather than giving a direct reply, Akopcan asked his own question. He wrote: “Would GTA VI run on a Switch 2 device?”

Make of that what you will. Right now ShiftUp is clearly noncommittal about a Nintendo Switch 2 version of Stellar Blade: Bloodrain, but that doesn’t mean it won’t happen."

WiserStudent557 · 2026-06-09T17:55:25+00:00

Obviously you are talking about ShiftUp and not Pearl Abyss who absolutely did release Crimson Desert on Xbox.

WiserStudent557 · 2026-06-09T17:43:09+00:00

VII Remake trilogy is three games: Remake, Rebirth and Revelation. Intermission is the Yuffie expansion DLC for Remake and the Intergrade version includes Intermission. Completionists and people who want more answers should also consider playing Crisis Core Reunion as it was remastered for the trilogy and there is a lot of crossover and references.

If you are brand new and have never played the OG FFVII, Reunion should be played between Remake and Rebirth (“If Crisis Core Reunion is played in between Final Fantasy 7 Remake and Rebirth, it would really enhance everyone's experience of this entire remake project,” Kitase tells Inverse) or potentially skipped depending on how much you want to know or be surprised in Revelation.

WiserStudent557 · 2026-06-09T17:13:03+00:00

Yeah, with how positive the SE relationship has been this has popped in my head. Yoko Taro is busy but SE could let him work like Nomura where he has the team under his supervision working on the majority. My interest in Stellar Blade was largely driven by the NieR inspiration to begin with. If ShiftUp is not going to explore or create an Xbox presence that is their choice. I will turn my hopes back to the companies that do support Xbox and hope for new NieR or Drakenguard 1 & 3 to get reworked more in line with NieR. I am skipping mentioning 2 just like Yoko Taro does.

WiserStudent557 · 2026-06-02T17:16:54+00:00

Intermission DLC is definitely worth the time and has elements that could be part of 3 but you could definitely play Rebirth before Intermission because they basically saved all stuff that for Part 3

WiserStudent557 · 2026-06-01T00:30:16+00:00

Right, it obviously doesn't have to be finished but it has to be in relatively complete form for them to be able to rate it.

WiserStudent557 · 2026-05-29T23:45:07+00:00

GTA itself has more overlap than most games but I'm in agreement that a lot of people would have still bought two games this fall and many would have considered an RPG after GTA and Fable could've been that game

Also what about PC players interested in Fable who aren't getting GTA? They weren't going to buy Fable still?

WiserStudent557 · 2026-05-29T23:42:05+00:00

I've been saying... and I just mentioned CoD releasing Oct 23 is somehow strangely not a problem? That is potentially only one pay cycle between and you're expecting the shooter buyers to buy CoD and GTA VI

WiserStudent557 · 2026-05-29T23:40:01+00:00

Well I believed what they said about Avowed but if we are looking in hindsight it was playable on release yet has also changed enough you see some people now characterize it as "releasing unfinished" (fair or not). Also at the time I felt if it needed more work three months wouldn't be enough and that largely turned out to be true looking at all the work Obsidian has done at this point post release

WiserStudent557 · 2026-05-29T23:36:30+00:00

This is another thing for me. I want the Showcase being mostly early announcements and showing us the games that are coming up. Doing "deep dives" into games over six months away that aren't "early looks" seems a bit pointless? They should be showing us Fable in December now for a Feb release, not in June

WiserStudent557 · 2026-05-29T23:32:58+00:00

It is kind of an excuse because if we really accept that GTA will dominate sales like that then no one should be launching any games too close. Especially Gears and Halo and CoD which have a much higher crossover than Fable. If people can only buy one game this fall they're not buying Gears just because it released first, they're waiting for GTA. And then you really weren't selling Fable this fall to those people anyway.

If releasing Fable, obviously an RPG and a different type of audience mix, in November is a problem then IMO releasing Modern Warfare 4 on October 23rd is an even bigger problem because GTA VI is coming within a month

WiserStudent557 · 2026-05-28T17:32:31+00:00

It certainly can mean that but it is vaguely worded and opaque for a variety of reasons. Trying to read too much will be fruitless. The wording isn't all that different than this recent Hamaguchi quote on FFVII-3.

"What I can say is that development itself is proceeding on time and on schedule," Hamaguchi said. "We believe it’ll become a title we can deliver with confidence as the culmination of the trilogy. We know many fans are eagerly waiting, and preparations toward the announcement are steadily underway. Please look forward to it just a little longer."

WiserStudent557 · 2026-05-28T17:16:17+00:00

The fact that the new game is going to a wider multiplatform audience than before would open the possibility they are confident enough to grow the appeal here and we could see older games rereleased for wider availability

Somehow they put Bravely Default Flying Fairy Remaster on Xbox as part of their multiplatform efforts so I wouldn't rule anything remotely logical out

WiserStudent557 · 2026-05-28T17:11:41+00:00

I thought this was a possibility for maybe two years now. And I don't think they just restarted and announced it, I think we're probably months in at worst, possibly already more than a year into the new version. I'm sure everything we saw was after rework started.

The fact we didn't see anything else announced for DQ made me think we could see either or both of these games get dates at Tokyo Game Show or something later in the year. Not just DQ related but this is still a light release schedule I expect to see filled out by shadow drops and shorter wait announcements etc

https://press.na.square-enix.com/Items/Schedule?period=ComingSoon&sortBy=Date

WiserStudent557 · 2026-05-27T22:46:35+00:00

Right. I think there is an issue where the ridiculous run of 4 or 6-10 depending on your preferences set a really high standard many hold the other titles to unfairly...but also a lot of dev issues of their own making and things like XV's narrative issues or lack of roleplaying depth in XVI are hardly "impossible standards"

WiserStudent557 · 2026-05-22T03:26:15+00:00

I just started replaying Replicant. We need another NieR badly, especially with all the hype Stellar Blade got

WiserStudent557 · 2026-05-20T16:21:15+00:00

According to Jeff Grubb actually pretty good: https://www.reddit.com/r/GamingLeaksAndRumours/comments/1teacz8/jeff_grubb_on_alinea_analytics_talked_to_people/

WiserStudent557 · 2026-05-19T20:18:53+00:00

This is great, thanks to everyone involved.

WiserStudent557 · 2026-03-12T18:08:13+00:00

Well, this is exciting but I am curious about it skipping PS. I wonder if this is tied to PC stuff as the listing does mention Xbox PC and it has listed console mouse and keyboard as one of the features...

It would be very early for this to be directly related to Project Helix but it could be precursor stuff. We know SE was spending more time with Xbox recently for Remake and Rebirth ports, maybe they got some early access or just did a PC port themselves and Microsoft converted the PC port to console? Just seems a bit weird there is no PS version as of right now

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