I mean, he's not wrong

I mean, he's not wrong.

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Yuji Naka is coping about the fact that the game is shit and everybody shat on it.

He's coping, but he's right.
Squeenix doesn't give two fucks about vidya or vidya fans.

You're saying even honorable japanese vidya companies are only in it for the money? Blasphemy. Say it ain't so!

Yuji 'Punished "Venom"' Naka, a man denied his Wonderworld

SE has a long history of making very corporate decisions

>Squeenix
>Honorable
>Japanese
Lol

He's full of shit. The problems with that game were on a fundamental level.

I wouldn't be surprised if both of them are at fault. Given the sheer number of flops Sqeenix has been putting out I wouldn't be surprised if there is something fundamentally wrong with the company. On the other hand Naka doesn't have a great track record either.

Having to buy the novel to understand wtf is going on at all... Was the first red flag. Shame too cause design wise I like this Balan character.

He's a washup that nobody wantd to deal with anymore, and now he's proving everybody who hates him right by being an even bigger asshat.

What are these posts? I see them everywhere. These fakey disingenuous posts that sound like some woman who think's she's doing activism on Yea Forums to own the 'chuds.

Hourly seethe thread.

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There's even a word for it. Scar-gasm or something like that, I forget.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: sqenix could have given naka full creative control for the entirety of the project with literally no oversight from them, given him a totally unlimited budget to use as he saw fit and full access to the final fantasy dev team and balan's big day out STILL would have fucking sucked dick. It was fundamentally flawed from conception and no amount of money or support would have ever made it even remotely good.

>it's everyone's fault but mine

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>throwing Ohshima under the bus after publicly shittalking Yasuhara awhile back
he really fucking hates his co-workers

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All jokes aside how bad really is the game? Like can there be any enjoyment?

>unfinished

The biggest problem with Balan is its retarded core gameplay mechanic where you can only use 1 ability at a time, I don't see how any amount of polishing could've fixed that.

The different worlds are pretty nice visually, and the dance sequences are fun in a "what the fuck am I watching lmfao" kind of way, but it's not worth suffering through infuriatingly dumb gameplay mechanics and repetitive QTEs for that. Just play A Hat in Time instead if you want a colorful G-rated platformer.

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not really
I played the game for shit and giggles and it's just boring and uninspiring, with godawful art design

It didn't feel unfinished though, it just felt really really bad, like how the hell would more time make the core gameplay any better?

Pot calling the Kettle Black for 500 Alex

>Now every shit videogame won't be considered shit, just "unfinished"
I fucking hate Cyberpunk for giving birth to this cancerous excuse

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BIDEO GAMES ARE DEAD
MOBILE GAMES ARE THE FUTURE

It's boring and not fun to play casually, but if you're looking at it through the lens of "what the hell were they thinking & how did this go wrong" it's fascinating. Like Sonic '06 except not as punishingly difficult.

To be fair Wonderworld had enough stuff that was so obviously rushed (Costumes that do almost nothing, every QTE collectible sequence having the exact same cutscene) that it certainly feels like it wasn't finished in time and they just threw shit together last minute.

release the nakacut

People have been using that as an excuse since Daikatana, it's nothing new.

Games like Cyberpunk, Stalker, Kingdom Come etc. had cool but overly ambitious design goals that couldn't be done on their time and budget and resulted in tons of cut content and bugs. They're legit unfinished. Balan, on the other hand, is a pretty competent and polished version of a bunch of shitty, inane design decisions.

Not wrong but doesn't excuse the atrocity he looked over. It's pretty obvious that the guy's trying to find excuses.

Isn't he the douchebag who spoke scheming things in Japanese around people he didn't think understood Jap?

squeenix has a history of releasing unfinished and fucked games so I'm gonna believe him.

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Pure cope and trying to shift the blame. We know that "you can only do 1 action which is mapped to every button on the controller, because muh simplicity" was Yuji Naka's retarded idea, he fucking bragged about that himself, and it's such a fundamental problem with the game that no amount of "finishing" can fix it, you'd have to rebuild every level from scratch.

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Why is every western worshiping nip insufferable.

This is why people should judge games ENTIRELY on their launch version, not "oh it will be patched/fixed later", it gives these companies an excuse to release unfinished products and expect buyers to just accept that "as the way things are now" and a proper game will be done when they get around to it. ALWAYS judge a game on what is sold day 1, that is what they decided what was acceptable to the consumer, that is what they should be judged on. Patches should not be necessary to make a game "acceptable".

Everything wrong with Balan Wonderworld was his idea. More time in the oven wouldn't have made it any less shit. Squeenix made the right choice with cutting their losses.

Balan Wonderworld is a fundamentally shit game, there’s literally nothing that could have been done to fix it. Naka is a faggot who’s trying to blame everyone else for his failings.

What about patches that add extra content?

There are several popular games like Minecraft and Dwarf Fortress where the "launch" version sucked massive dick.

Slippery slope. On paper, it may sound like a good thing, but its like blood on the water, big companies will see how much of that they can get away with, like stuff that could have been in the finished product, but just delay it and release it later. Would have to be a significant period of time between release and when the new content is finished to make it not seem like something that was planned, but got delayed.

>do not care about games and game fans
he's just a salty bitch programmer who failed as a creative lead

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And none of those games were released by huge ass billion dollar studios and were essential "betas" in those states.

>SMRPG
>Mischief Makers
>Xenogears
>Front Mission
>Chrono Trigger/Cross (lol just buy more DS copies and the shitty steam/mobile port)
>All the westernshit they bought and butchered

No Man's Sky was an infamous disaster at release, but was eventually updated into a fairly decent game. The first two STALKER games were released in a completely broken state, but patches and fan mods made them cult classics anyway. Hell, FO76 eventually became playable, even though it still sucks cock.

Who keeps searching for picture related?

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>SMRPG
Nintendos fault
>Mischief Makers
No one cares
>Xenogears
Is a fucking mess like its dev team as evident by the shitshow sequels
>Front Mission
Multiple games/remakes were announced
>Chrono Trigger/Cross
Can’t replicate the dream team so why bother?
>westernshit
It’s the Western studio’s faults for pitching them garbage they couldn’t deliver on in the first place

SquareShit has ALWAYS been shit

I'd argue both parties are at fault. Square keeps copyright of characters, music and stories they'll never ever use and Nintendo is too stingy to pay up whatever they're asking for all those rights.

It's not that simple. Not everything is in black and white.

I disagree.

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I guess when you're retired it doesn't matter, you can burn all the bridges

>I guess when you're retarded it doesn't matter
ftfy

Sure. The person who shamelessly blackmailed/pressured Sega to buy him a Ferrari while throwing a tantrum and taking credit for something he didn't do is totally looking out for his fans.

this

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Him being on the team for another 6 months wasn't going to change shit, and the demo should prove that.

If that's the case then Elden Ring is a piece of shit game that can't even run properly.

user. Square Enix has been behind the literal bottom of the barrel worst reviewed games of the year for almost 5 fucking years in a row. They currently hold the 2022 spot, the 2021 spot, the 2019 spot and the 2018 spot. You can count the amount of teams worth giving a shit about at the company on one hand and the upper management is notoriously retarded and shit to work with.