Topic: Bravely Default II (Nintendo Switch)

@komodo182 I guess you can choose to grind by running into lots of enemies, and lower the encounter rate by avoiding them on field instead. I hadn’t really thought of it that way.

But things like adjusting the encounter rate made Bravely Default special for me.

@JoeDiddley It was very useful in the previous games, I agree.

@komodo182 I didn’t feed back on the demo myself but I trust the final game will be at least very good and hopefully great.

@JoeDiddley I imagine it will be. It might be a game that I actually buy at full price.

Hopefully the news is that it will be released before the end of 2020.

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2020/10/square_enix_will_sh...

That's about a 50/50 gamble ... Hopefully it will, of course!

My guess is it's a December release date if it's still coming in 2020. Otherwise it has probably been pushed into early 2021.

@Tyranexx I'm hoping for a December release date.

Do we think we’re going to get the news promised by the end of this week? If not I get the feeling we won’t be playing this until 2021.

No news yet eh?

26th February ... I think we all thought it'd be next year now? Anyway, it's good to have a date for it!

I wonder if S-E will offer a collectors edition for Bravely Default II?

I'll have to keep an eye on the S-E online store.

Meh, I'm not feeling anything from this at all. It doesn't feel like it has the same quaint charm the first game had, and it doesn't seem like it's done anything new with the gameplay or story at all.

Unless it somehow gets a 90% on metacritic, I'll probably just skip it. I still haven't played Octopath after all!

@BruceCM Can't wait

They’ve posted the video regarding changes made based on feedback:

Most of my worries were addressed. I genuinely like how they’ve kind of overcomplicated the turn order. At first I was hoping for something akin to FFX’s turn order gauge but having it like this gives you a rough idea but without letting you know so much that you’re totally in control of the battle.

Personally I felt the camera was too far back in the town section and they didn’t address that, maybe it wasn’t a common enough complaint. Also would’ve liked to be able to turn encounters off again but that’s not a major thing to me, it does feel like a step back in that regard though.

I’m still excited for this, I loved the first 2 games and want to see the series grow.

I just preordered it

Why are all the comments stuck live? If you miss the news even just an hour or two my comments (and a lot of other people's comments that are interesting) do not get any notice! It's like talking into an empty room after the party is over! Very frustrating! 🤔

The old internet wasn't like that when comments first started! I wonder if it's a phone thing. Dad think's it's because people get some kind of buzz on their phones so the yall rush at the same time and it winds up being too busy. I am thinking more and more so I didn't used to believe that but the shift to this crap.

Youtube is HEAVILY this way where everyone comments at the exact same hour! The few comments that are late get no replies or thumbs! 🤢

@Olddantrucker what?

Thanks for sharing that video; I genuinely forgot they were going to upload that today. They've addressed many of the issues I had with the demo (difficulty, encounter rate - sorta, menu text) and also seem to have changed some of the lighting. I thought it was too glimmery on some armor, for example.

@komodo182 I JUST had it happen again with AOC videos. I posted about a Korok Puzzle thingy in the background within a few hours of the video so got several thumbs up. The video owner didn't even noticed going on and on about Urbosa and her 'style'. About 16 thumbs up I got and yet I posted other things which I got zero replies! Mostly a day or so late on the videos.