How many AAA/AA games have you bought this year?

[MrWayne]

Kalkano said:

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.

Well, Pokemon is AAA

I guess my other arguments are to indisputable to discuss them. your arguments are "one look" and "without saying"...ok