MrWayne said:
Maybe one look is not enough? Octopath Traveler is sprite based but it's not a 2D game, it's more like a 3D game painted in 2D sprites. It also takes heavily use of modern effects like Depth of field, dynamic lightning, particle effects, etc.. Probably a lot of work went into tweaking the UE4 to create this unique art style. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jKOJsoVcro Trails of Cold Steel II is basically a Vita port with higher resolution, it looks even mediocre for a PS360 game. Yeah it's fully 3D but that's not really an achievement in 2018(or 2014 when it first released), the models in this game have a really low polygon count, the environment has a very low level of detail and the animations are atrocious. So far that was only the graphics. octopath traveler got localised in 6 different languages, Trails of cold Steel only in japanese and english.Square Enix also made an fantastic, almost 4 h long, orchestral soundtrack for OT. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdxbRJx4JFk And last but not least, the marketing budget for OT was probably a lot higher than the one for TocS2. One could argue that neither of those two are AA and that's fair( i would personally count them as AA) but what you're saying is kinda outlandish. |
No, sorry, what you're saying is kind of outlandish. For one thing, you can't count the marketing budget in determining whether a game is mid-tier/AAA. Otherwise, every single Pokemon game would have to be considered AAA, which is clearly not the case.
Honestly, it baffles me that I even have to convince someone that Trails of Cold Steel has a higher budget than what looks like an upscaled-to-hd SNES game...That goes without saying. It's really not that complicated.
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