Discussion Astrobot hype-train!

[Yurinka]

Also they didn’t have to pay for voice acting.

Well, even if there isn't normal voice acting with proper sentences, as you can hear here they make cute noises, so there's somewhat minor voice acting.

Well...

Yes, he already said before that the game was designed for flat tvs and that wouldn't fit well in VR because unlike Rescue Mission hasn't been designed for VR and to make a proper VR version would require many changes.

I assume they made it for PS5 and depending on its sales performance they'll decide if they make a (2D tvs) sequel, a PC port, etc.

Who knows, they may also make a separate VR game in the future. But seems that as of now aren't interested on adapting it to PSVR2 because now after the restructuring they are more strict with the profitability of their projects and sustainability of their teams.

 

[On Demand]

Everything that can be felt through touch is haptic feedback. The vibration provided by the Dualsense is finer grained than what you get with the DS4, both in terms of vibration modes and positioning, dismissing it as "regular vibrations" is just as foolish.

Don’t be dense. No it is not just vibrations.

Regular vibration does not have different levels of frequency response replicating real world material textures. Rumble can not do that. It just rumbles.

Haptic feedback in the DualSense operates more like a transducer. A speaker cone.

Or better yet….A subwoofer.

 

[Bryank75]

The "65 people" team would just the lead dev team at Team Asobi. This does not include internal and external support teams, people from marketing, PR, QA, localization, audio, publishing, legal, IT, executives etc.

As an example, Astro's Playroom had 742 people (533 professional roles, 209 thanks) in its game credits, being only 40+ of them from Team Asobi.

But yes, pretty likely don't even need 2M copies to be profitable.

So you're saying it's actually 69...

 

[Yurinka]

So you're saying it's actually 69...

I'm saying that when counting the entire team of the game and not only the Team Asobi members the team will have several hundreds of people, like in Astro's Playroom.

 

[Dick Jones]

So you're saying it's actually 69...

 

[arvfab]

There were Live Service Extraction Shooters in 1994?

Uhhhh no.

No, people actually had taste back then.

 

[Petekilla]

Well...

It will sell like on PC. If Rift Apart and SackBoy bombed, this will too.

 

[Petekilla]

Hype died a few seconds ago. My wife wanted to make me a gift after a pretty bad personal time we had. I let her cancel the pre-order.

Because the game might be coming to PC? If that’s the case, then you got issues. Lol

 

[arvfab]

Because the game might be coming to PC? If that’s the case, then you got issues. Lol

Nah, I've got a huge backlog, so I can wait until Sony solves their issues. Multiplatform development always means cut corners somewhere, as could be seen in all of recent SIE releases.

 

[Bryank75]

I'm saying that when counting the entire team of the game and not only the Team Asobi members the team will have several hundreds of people, like in Astro's Playroom.

It was just a silly joke I was making bro.

 

[Brood Intern]

My daughter has watched a full playthrough of Astro’s Playroom on YouTube 10 times now. She’d watch it every day if I let her.

No other game has had this sort of impact on her, and this is after introducing her to Mario, Kirby, etc.

I’m really happy Astro Bot is releasing. PlayStation could have lifelong fans in Astro if they keep making the games.

 

[Sircaw]

My daughter has watched a full playthrough of Astro’s Playroom on YouTube 10 times now. She’d watch it every day if I let her.

No other game has had this sort of impact on her, and this is after introducing her to Mario, Kirby, etc.

I’m really happy Astro Bot is releasing. PlayStation could have lifelong fans in Astro if they keep making the games.

I see your diabolical plan.

"It's a present for our daughter, my love!"

"Why are you constantly playing it then and not her?"

"I am teaching her the ropes; it's what good dads do."

 

[rofif]

We polish got it so cheap! The cheapest physical Astro I could find is only 77$ ! (that's with code for free shipping lol).

Didn't give a fuck, still pre-ordered

 

[Sircaw]

We polish got it so cheap! The cheapest physical Astro I could find is only 77$ ! (that's with code for free shipping lol).

Didn't give a fuck, still pre-ordered

We will be counting on your skank arse to provide some sexy screenshots.

 

[Dick Jones]

Hype died a few seconds ago. My wife wanted to make me a gift after a pretty bad personal time we had. I let her cancel the pre-order.

Birthday BJs over Birthday presents.

 

[Kokoloko]

Im there Day 1

 

[rofif]

We will be counting on your skank arse to provide some sexy screenshots.

I am lo-fi nowadays. Got into floppy disk cameras and I take real pictures now!
honestly, it's so freaking cool
640x480 is cool as fuck

 

[Bryank75]

This is literally everyone treating Astro Bot like it's some special piece of art...



Jump on the heads of slow ass enemies, jump over expanding fire rings, wait for floating platforms, watch Nathan Drake Minion character giggle. It's dreck.

 

[Johnic]

None of you have my permission to be excited about this game. I don't know when a physical copy gets here so it might be even a month.

So I demand the mods to start enforcing the "no hype" rule until I get my game.

That is all.

 

[Sircaw]

None of you have my permission to be excited about this game. I don't know when a physical copy gets here so it might be even a month.

So I demand the mods to start enforcing the "no hype" rule until I get my game.

That is all.

Sing it with me @Johnic