@blue__jest If I remember right, they originally considered new york for the hub but went with LA due to how much of a nightmare going through the high buildings in new york would be on a skell.
@blissfulspring_ If we make a comparion to another game in terms of development, Monolithsoft pulled the same thing the devs of expedition 33 did with a small core team but for a much longer game and in a shorter amount of development years (though the launch release had alot of technical issues)
@blissfulspring_ Also In all fairness Monolithsoft was stretched extremely thin during XC2s development with them also working on BOTW. They basically had 40 people the core team working on a 60+ hour story with 100+ hours worth of content in 3 years max (maybe less than that).
@rfx_96@blissfulspring_@MarghRoark I cant fault the director much considering that XC2 development was brutal across the board. Monolithsoft went through harsh growing pains during mid 2010s (even the og XCX had major development issues).The silver lining is that they realised quick and took measures to address it
@PetersonGunner1@spcrashworks I probably would say Zacian-C is more like the strongest steel type than fairy since it doesn’t use its fairy coverage as much offensively and prefers to utilise behemoth blade as its main STAB. Xerneus on the other hand heavily utilises its fairy typing in its play style.
@GaspavelliGames@Noxyfied I also adore how the writers still respected his intelligence as he could have easily been a dumb brute. He may not be the bright all the time but they really played into Reyns strengths of reading peoples emotions extremely well with Shulk, Fiora, Sharla, Melia and even Tyrea
@Biggest_Bigshot@FutureSightHQ_ At least Defiant is a great ability that screws over intimidate + more solid stats to make No retreat more lethal. Scolopede on the other hand is a new level of depressing.
@EndlesbianNow That guy would have a hearf attack from me saying that Pyra/Mythra and Malos are a brilliant localised names that links to their origins to the trinity processor’s greek naming scheme which makes them far better than their JP names being out of place with the cores naming scheme
@kiwitalkz@Attackdabacklog GTA is more closer to how Minecraft functions where that series only has one main game and only tetris outsold it. Neither approach is incorrect and I don’t think Nintendo would be hurt that much if their big game released in the same month as GTA their both evergreen by nature
@kiwitalkz@Attackdabacklog I wouldn’t say either are milked but rather that Mario/Pokemon and GTA are valued differently with the former being platformer/rpgs operates on them having multiple games for the genre’s design. GTA’s open world sandbox design can function with extending the life of a few games.
@Whisper35218370 At the very least mega evolution makes an attempt to build off the original Pokemon via a tailored buffs. Im not saying regionals are bad as there are cases that do go a unique direction but its are better suited in cases where it takes a spin with a mon that’s already solid
@Whisper35218370 Even Samurott example falls flat when it has an almost identical stat spread but has a better ability, better signature move and a more useful type combo, there’s no reason to ever touch og form. If say Meganium got a regional than more than likely the og is left with nothing.
@Gmaniacalt@FrostedYukio@CEOOfMercedes They still have voiced dialogue in the battles alongside post battle quotes, the VAs would return to do those at least and XC1 already set the precedent of bringing the voice cast back for the heart to hearts. Plus wasn’t there something about Kosmos VA coming back for something.
@FrostedYukio@CEOOfMercedes Either way they still need to bring the XC2 voice cast anyway for the combat dialogue interactions with the new blades so who knows what they’ll do while they’re around.
@FrostedYukio@CEOOfMercedes I mean they could still redo parts of the game like at most they only need to touch up the main story cutscenes and adjust the sound mix. Even then Dromarchs voice was solid to begin with so they could leave his voice untouched. If not then it is what it is.
@EndlesbianNow Also be nice if Debuffs were good again as well. For real I think the tanks in 3 are good on paper but the whole aggro system needs a rework for tanks to work well otherwise they might as well use XC1s design and make the tanks have strong burst damage to keep up with the dps.