Under the thrall of Square Enix, Platinum Games has delivered a true masterpiece of awfulness in Babylon’s Fall. This live service trash is really bad. Really, really bad.
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From what I heard Platinum had a game almost completed before Square told them to scrap it and take it in an entirely different direction. Which would explain why they clearly didn’t give even half of a fuck
I remember when they first reveal a teaser trailer for Babylon’s fall. It was a completely different game back then. It looked like a fun game. Not whatever this is. Oh what could have been.
I still remember when Square showed this off and thought
“Ooh a new Platinum game!”
But the second I saw the words “live-service” any potential interest I had for the game died immediately. Seriously, first Avengers, then Outriders, now this? If Square couldn’t make a fun live-service that isn’t FF14 with Platinum fucking Games, then they never will.
I’ve noticed a pattern when it comes to Platinum games: their worst games tend to be the ones that just scream “the publisher was breathing down our necks.” And this one is no different. This game feels like Platinum Games wasn’t given enough time to give it proper polishing cause Square Enix just wanted them to shit it out as quickly as possible.
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Honestly, this one hurts a bit, since Platinum are one of my favorite developers. Still, bad live services must be punished. Especially with that comment about that sh1t being the future of Platinum…
I feel bad for Platinum. The only silver lining in this situation is that, according to what I’ve heard, they don’t have their name in the credits at all. Hopefully this won’t hurt their reputation too much in the long run.
Man. This hits hard after playing Wonderful 101, another Platinum game. That’s an EXPLOSION of color, so much so it’s genuinely impressive that the art style didn’t get boring. That’s not a perfect game, but uh, compared to this, it’s gold.
I wonder when Yoshi-P is finally gonna crack his spine for carrying this company so hard. Nowadays it feels like whenever they try online multiplayer without him at all goes to shit no matter what. It’s astonishing that FF14 receives so much praise (and deserves all of it) yet rest of the company refuse to take any lessons from it. They got the winning formula which they could iterate upon yet they still go dumpster diving into world of failed live services and rather make their own Anthem rather FF14: Platinum Games edition.
Squeenix is the baffling case of a company filled with passionate talent and run by leeches who haven’t ever purposefully made use of said talent
I’m starting to wonder if this game was so hated by the devs working on it, they intentionally made it bad to tank it and give the middle finger to management.
I remember when you read the Square Enix CEO’s message concerning NFTs and I’m honestly not surprised they published this not long afterwards. Maybe if enough “live service” games end up dead on arrival, as a lot of them are doing, game publishers will look for some other way to make all the money. Or they could double down, which wouldn’t surprise me.
I still remember the first trailer for this game, it looked like a great action packed, single player game, then someone or everyone at Square shat out there own brain and screamed LIVE SERVICE!
It’s only a shame that the corporate pillagers who decided to steer platinum toward live service games will certainly never suffer any consequences, and definitely receive exorbitant bonuses for this inevitable failure, while the fact of that failure will surely be used to justify however much harm those same corporate pillagers choose to inflict on them.
It’s good that this thing will fail, all the same.
You don’t go from Astral Chain to this mistake without heavy publisher meddling. I very much blame Square for their incessant need to make more Live service games without a person like Yoshi P who actually makes FFXIV a tolerable and even enjoyable experience.
That said this game is lukewarm at best, which is a shame considering the initial gameplay trailer somehow looked higher definition compared to…this?
Now that I think about it, Platinum sabotaging this game as a response to SEnix is a stretch, but it certainly feels like it.