Since the dawn of time this has been the case. People fighting over the game means the game is stuck on people's minds. This translates to sales. Controversy FTW.
If people's perceptions of a game are bad, why would they buy it? To ironically shit on it? Just because it's infamous?
It doesn't make sense and that's not the case precisely because of that. No one wants bad press when it comes to a demonstration of their game, that's preposterous. Look at how well that worked for BvS (another medium, I know): the bad word of mouth killed any option that movie had to achieve the 1 billion status, despite having the biggest superhero along with Spiderman and the most iconic one for the first time together.
The bad press thing is absurd in my opinion, ESPECIALLY regarding FF XV, with all the criticism (deserved and undeserved) that has plagued the FF series since XIII. I can assure you that, if Tabata knew the kind of reaction among fans and casual players this demonstration has had, he wouldn't be too happy.
That was a preview of what they're going to show today. It seemed to suck for me as well, at first, until you realize that's just one little part of it. When they show the full thing today, no one is going to care about the 2 minute preview. And with the whole damn world losing their shit over it, they'll ALL be watching. All, meaning the haters and the fans alike.
But, again, I'm merely referring to the MS demonstration. Both MS and Sony's conferences are, by far, the ones most people watch and talk about. And that demo was the first one they've ever shown in a live conference and the first one on MS as well.
Believe me when I say that most people that don't truly know the game who weren't impressed or hated what they saw won't probably watch the ATR or any other stream. The first impression has been pretty poor and even if most do watch the rest they might have in store, the live demo is the one that's going to stick out the most for most people, not the one they do in their own streamings.
The music was fine. It fit the trailer. That won't be the last trailer we ever get. It's a gameplay trailer. It's fine.
This is totally subjective I guess, but I don't think of generic, bland dubstep when I think of FF, especially when they have such a vast and high quality library in their own game.
But again, this is not something that I hated (and it's totally subjective!), just found it funny.
Their showcase for E3 hasn't started yet. Yesterday was preview stuff. We'll get the meat of it soon, and then criticisms will be valid. I'm not saying this is the beginning of their marketing. I'm saying we haven't seen what they have in store for E3 yet because it's all going down today and tomorrow.
Yeah, I agree with you. But we can criticise what they've done so far, in the most important parts for casual players and people around the world that can't attend the fair. The criticism is to their marketing approach during the arguably most viewed and usually meaty events; it was pretty nonsensical in my opinion (the demo, the trailer was alright, especially in terms of content).
It went as expected. It was just one little part of the demo. He didn't play it that poorly, either. Watch it again. Recommend the HD link upthread. It looked bad at first because there's no context and you don't know what's going on. When you see that it's just a small preview of the fight, there's nothing there to evaluate yet. Again, this part will be forgetten when they show the whole thing.
Then that's even worse. It looked bad and cringey to me, a guy that knows quite a bit about this game (ten years do that to you haha) and understood what was going on. Imagine the impression a guy who doesn't know much (or nothing) about this got: a couple of minutes long presentation of how the main character stumbles around the entire area and can't even avoid attacks of a giant arm. The whole time, the same, only a few attacks in the beginning and that's about it.
So, once again, a bad choice for a live demo; whether the actual full demo is good or not I don't care: for the spotlight of a couple of minutes you had there, it was a poor showing.
Yeah, I'm pretty excited to see the entirety of the Titan Trial demo and whatever thing they might show.
It might look like I'm losing my shit over this with all the long posts and what not lol. But seriously, I'm just surprised at how bad they've thought out their introduction to the gameplay in their first ever MS conference. Just that, I'm not too afraid about the game's quality, at least not more than I was during Uncovered.
