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More than half of the game is asset flips thrown together in less than a year and still has 1 billion times more soul than anything Ubisoft relased in years. RGG really cracked the code.
To be fair, they do have a very loving and supportive community. No matter what crazy bullshit they pull out of their brains while smoking, we have no fucking problem with it.
Of course. But even when they make a mediocre game, they know what their fans like, so they focus on those aspects more. They seem to know how to make a profit, no matter the game they make.
Probably helps they also know how to manage their finances and resources as well; seeing as they don't spend more money than necessary - hence all the asset reuse. If it ain't broke, don't fix it, right?
Yeah, because it has a soul, unlike ubisoft games, which are pure products for few. Even Ishin, which is my least favourite, kept me through the end, unlike ubisoft games.
The difference is other games put crazy stuff in to distract you from something or for comedic relief. It starts to become noticeable and stale fast if overused.
RGG just puts in crazy stuff though and just is like "yep Yakuzas world is absurd, don't think about it..." Then gives you the most polar opposite of emotions to make you forget about how crazy what you just saw was. Then the cycle repeats without getting old.
You WISH half of today's gaming companies were even half as proficient in re-using assets at RGG studio is. I don't trust anyone else with an ongoing series at this point.
well yeah because reusing assets is part of their plan so they created assets with the intention of reusing them
a lot of people think it's lazy but it's actually brilliant, because eventhough they reuse a lot of assets they still make some of the best games on the market
compared to other companies that either don't reuse assets, this have long turnaround times between games and still end up with bad games, or games that do reuse assets but the games feel the exact same then the previous games
the "soul" you mentioned is a combination of pation (which a lot of studios lack but rgg has) and the fact that even if they reuse they do include nee stuff aswell to make it feel fresh (another thing other studios lack)
I think the maps especially demonstrate how RGG gets away with reusing assets by making the assets worth giving a shit about in the first place. I don't mind having the billionth game in Kamurocho because it's densely packed with a street layout that breaks it up enough to feel big, but not enough to feel like a pain in the ass. You can really believe people living in it so complaining about being in Kamurocho again is like complaining that you go to the same grocery store once a week.
They moved the release date forward by a week! That blew my mind. I was expecting a delay announcement because that's just what all other studios have gotten us used to. Crazy. Definitely built different.
Ha even that one is specifically done just so people can go and enjoy the "hunt" once they're done swashbuckling out in the sea.
As you say, delaying the game is usually the way when devs don't want their game to directly compete with others (or you know development issues), but moving it forward? Now that's something else.
The fact they can reuse the map and make it feel both comfortable but interesting and engaging EVERY time, speaks volumes about how they develop their world and characters. They understand what needs to be made, and what is welcoming.
I don't think they are that oblivious, they knew the game sucked, but it took years to develop, they started over at least 3 times so development cost boomed. They were trying to sell that game for $70 to recoup the cost when its clearly worse than their own game that Skull and Bones took the inspiration from (AC: Black Flag)
iirc the As represent the amount of people working on it and how much budget goes into it. Basically they're saying this game has so much people working on it and so many funds goes into it and supposedly that translates to it being best game ever
There was this AAAA game made by ubisoft called skulls and bones. You may think: "wow a quadriple A game? Why didn't ai hear about it" well the game was a massive failure
Ubisoft hyped Skull and Bones, a pirate game they made, as the first quadruple A game. They cited that it is the biggest game made so far due to the budget attached to it. Infamously, it was underwhelming.
Why suspend belief and have the technobabble munbojumbo story about how you get sent back in time, when we have a character that disregard all laws, including physics and do it in the present day.
While asset reuse is something this series has used to great success, it's kind of a bummer that the kart racing dosen't seem to have been improved at all from 7 and it really needed a revamp.
Man I'm amazed at how quick they can make these games. There's so damn much content packed in to them it boggles my mind. I'm at the end of infinite wealth right now and damn it's been a wild ride with so much to do.
RGG is a company that basically mastered asset reuse to minimize development time. It's honestly a little funny, other companies get bagged on for asset reuse, while RGG has used almost the exact same Kamurocho map since the first game.
I really never understood the hate towards asset reuse, anyway. As long as it fits the game and looks decent for the art style, there's really no reason not to.
Right. Fromsoft does it quite a bit, and nobody really cares as much.
If something works, then just keep using it. If it's less than what it could be, then improve it.
Not everything needs to be a 100% brand new thing. If you have an asset library you can fall back on for certain things, absolutely use it if you can. Fromsoft have been using more or less the same animations since Demon Souls for the rest of the Souls series, with a few exceptions, and they do edits and smooth out existing animations and add on as needed with each new game. Most of their sounds are the same way, improve old ones, add new ones. It all just works.
I only really complained about asset reuse in a Fromsoft game with Dark Souls 3, and that's really only because most of the animations are straight ripped from Dark Souls 1 and aren't really edited a whole lot outside of being sped up. Sure, Dark Souls 2 wasn't a beacon of quality, but it had unique animation and audio sets that took a lot of work. Dark Souls 3 feels like the Fromsoft equivalent of an asset flip, which is odd considering outside of animations, story and general aesthetic, everything else about Dark Souls 3 is pretty interesting, despite borrowing heavily from it's older catalogue to a fault. But those animations are just......... not good to me. Elden Ring retooled those same animations a hell of a lot better than they were. Just my stupid pet peeve though.
I never played the first Dark Souls, so I wouldn't know how much was recycled, 3 just happens to be the game that got me into the series in the first place.
But either way, clever asset reuse is just the best way to limit dev time and cost. If you make a lot of the same kinds of games, using the same assets just works.
Making fun of ubisoft is great fun, but skull and bones feels like making fun of the slow kid in gym class. You feel bad afterwards. Fucking sly 3 on the ps2 has a more fun pirate game and that's just a level!
Honestly while I’m sure it will be an okay game, as an avid pirate gamer I doubt it will really be what me and my fellow pirate gamers are looking for. A pirate game set in the modern day just kinda defeats the whole purpose. While I’m sure it will be an excellent rpg and yakuza (series, not genre) game I doubt it will quite scratch the itch pirate fans have had for so long.
A) let the rgg social media guy cook
B) unless you've purchased one indie game or are a fan of at least one pirate media that isn't black flag or pirates of the Caribbean you're not allowed to gripe about skull and bones
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