2015-04-17, 06:50 AM
Justin Wrote:Also, making the entire cast of smash all together simultaneously is a lot easier to test and design than throwing in extras long after the fact.
Only if you're an idiot and don't design your code to allow additions later.
Kunagisa Wrote:I think Mario Kart 8 really just...lacked content. Maybe this is unpopular opinion, but it feels really empty in terms of features, like it offers less than previous installments. That being said, characters are a lot more intricate than stages. With a stage, you pretty much have the base assets available to you that are globally used on all stages, just need to make the quirks and scenery. You don't have to worry about balancing, because it's a stage. There's not a lot that can mess up if you're using the assets already present, so play testing and bug fixing aren't too intensive. With a character, you have to actually balance it properly with the rest of the cast, make a lot of assets from scratch that are required for their unique mechanics, and playtest for a lot of potential bugs due to new mechanics added to the game. You have to test how their mechanics function with all the other characters. Overall I feel like a lot more work has to go into creating a smash character than creating a stage in MK8.
Most, if not all of the assets in the new DLC MK8 tracks are new.
Obviously a lot more work doesn't go in to making a smash character, otherwise it wouldn't only take roughly 1.5 months to make a character based on what was in the base game, where both the base MK8 game and first DLC pack suggested a track takes about a month. If development time is really so related to final DLC pricing, I'm still waiting to hear why the characters aren't £2 or less.
Quote:This is a money printing game akin to CoD and such. That is why the DLC costs so little
So you think the problem is the smash audience are idiots who will willingly massively overpay for things, like the CoD audience?
Fair enough.
edit: And Roy as an upcoming DLC character. Disappointing if only because it means we can't have more awkward zombie comics where Roy is continuely left out.