Board 8 > Final Fantasy XVI Trailer

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JonThePenguin posted...

Was; he passed away back in September.

https://youtu.be/UnyBJJI2eqs

andylt posted...

For those just arriving that don't want to read 200 posts, here's the new XVI news:
https://twitter.com/mitsukianatoshi/status/1532490551379087377

Not even XIV has sex so this is a huge win for gamers.

It doesn't seem to be well known that Clive is 15.

Mewtwo59 posted...

It doesn't seem to be well known that Clive is 15.

That's a grandpa in anime years

andylt posted...

I like CT but not for its character art, so sure!

And yeah I know people rave about the music but nothing I've heard has grabbed me, especially the main theme. TBF the only DQ I've actually played is a demo of XI, and I know even fans think the music there is meh, so maybe that one's unfair.

Sugiyama was like 85 by DQXI and he's a hardcore conservative boomer that refused to put orchestral music in the Western release.

DQ's music great overall because Sugiyama has an unique style that matches well with Toriyama's art and the general aesthetic of the game. You can generally instantly tell what track is Sugiyama's unlike most JRPG OSTs that all have similar Jpop/prog rock feel to them.

I think the bigger issue with DQXI is that the game took me 90 hours and there's like 10 songs. Okay that's an exaggeration but you definitely hear the same songs again and again and again and it's more noticeable than other JRPGs for some reason.

I also admit that by FFXII, I was heavily into anime for a few years. Persona 3 came out right at the time to be everything I was looking for while XII just...wasn't. Then P4 came and fucking forget it. Persona/T has been my go-to franchise since.

Ys, Takes, Dragon Quest, Atelier, Yakuza: these also got me through the last 10-15 years. FF is not "for me" like it used to be, and that probably has more to do with the anime overload I like.

So, it does seem odd that I would respond more to Eternigyts (Hold R2 to Hold Hands) than XVI.

No. Eternights won't be better. There's no way in hell. It is just more "my type" of game these days

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/v47ikl/i_cant_wait_for_the_ffxiv_x_ffxvi_collab_event/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x

skullbone posted...

I think the bigger issue with DQXI is that the game took me 90 hours and there's like 10 songs. Okay that's an exaggeration but you definitely hear the same songs again and again and again and it's more noticeable than other JRPGs for some reason.

Yeah and half of those songs were recycled from previous games. It's mostly him being old, though he's been phoning it in for some time now. I daresay he spent a week max on DQXI's OST.

DQ music isn't very good, but DQ11's still a pretty fun game!

Leonhart4 posted...

One of the best things FFVIII did was allowing you to swap all your Junctions without having to reassign anything

I junction Auto-Atk and don't look back

I should reply 8 sometime. I haven't played it since I had a ps2 lol.

Cavedweller2000 posted...

I junction Auto-Atk and don't look back

Auto Junctions don't have a clue what to do with Element Atk and Def, so I never use that.

The claim that you have to lose menuing when going for action isn't quite right. Just because FFXV did it wrong. FF7R and Stranger of Paradise have more than enough menuing.

Leonhart4 posted...

Auto Junctions don't have a clue what to do with Element Atk and Def, so I never use that.

I tend to just remove Elem attack

pjbasis posted...

Might be shallow but FF was the only jrpg that doesn't go for straight anime graphical styles. Not that I dislike how those particular franchises look, but it was one of the draws for me.

FF was always based in D&D style western RPGs, ironically

BK_Sheikah00 posted...

The claim that you have to lose menuing when going for action isn't quite right. Just because FFXV did it wrong. FF7R and Stranger of Paradise have more than enough menuing.

7R's menuing sucks, that stupid weapon sphere grid is a huge waste of time. When I played INTERmission I set that on auto and never looked back. The materia stuff is fine, it just needs the ability to save loadouts or something with all the party switching going on.

Yeah, Remake's menus aren't well laid out.

The weapon sphere grid was pointless and clunky, yeah. Very strange system.

Weapon upgrades in FF7R would largely be fine if you could swap between weapons with a trigger. Having to go through the BWIIIING animation every time felt like an insane oversight.

https://twitter.com/finalfantasyxvi/status/1533471455882661888

Holy shit those are GORGEOUS.

Everything so far has been a cinematic or a screen blur action, so I'm genuinely amazed by those vistas.

Top of the line visuals is one of the few things you can still count on in a mainline FF, so I wasn't ever worried about that.

My only real problem with XV's visuals was how boring and samey the dungeons looked, they didn't take advantage of the modern setting at all. Hopefully this will improve on that front.

Great graphics sure but not necessarily great art style & environmental design

luckily it has both of those too

FFXV used so many stock assets from the company they farmed out to that one of the bosses in the game was a generic dragon that said company used to advertise it's software.

FFXV's character and world design was abysmal

can't make any real conclusions based on those screen shots. they look fine but they don't really suggest scale/scope at all.

andylt posted...

they didn't take advantage of the modern setting at all.

A million times this. Can't believe insomnia was barely playable.

https://twitter.com/NightSkyPrince_/status/1533535919562702850

Finally got the last Aglaia armor piece I was missing (legs). Just need one more P4 run on Tuesday and Ill have all the gear pieces for DRG from the current (non-savage) raids.

Also got around to Ruby Weapon; if I can push through the rest of that line tomorrow Ill be up to date with all the trial/raid storylines on the Source (unless the tribes unlock some that I dont know about; the only one Ive finished is Ixal and theyre crafting-focused). Just in time for 6.15.

Wrong topic but makes sense you'd mix them lol

Oops <_<

https://novacrystallis.com/2022/06/casting-libra-on-final-fantasy-xvi-part-1-the-world-and-its-makers/

User SaveEstelle talks some more about Final Fantasy XVI

Bumping this to the top of my recent posts so I don't forget to come back to it later.