Board 8 > Yoshi-P with more Final Fantasy XVI details

(+) Yeah! (+)

New key information includes:

Protagonist Clive has an arsenal of powerful attacks and abilities based off traditional Final Fantasy summons, which can be cycled through in real-time, enabling powerful combination attacks. After Clive claims an Eikons (summons) power, he will be able to unlock its abilities in an ability tree through points earned in battle.

There will be times where the player controls an Eikon in real-time, battling other Eikons. Each Eikon vs. Eikon battle is unique. One may be reminiscent of a 3D shooter, while another may be more like a pro wrestling match, while a third may transform the entire arena into a battle field. Each will have slight differences in user interface as well.

Clive will be accompanied by one or more companions for most of his journey, who will participate in battle, as well as banter with Clive. These party members will be AI-controlled.

The wolf-pup from the first trailer is named Torgal. As for whether Torgal will eventually play a role in combat, Yoshida said to wait and see.

Creative Business Unit III chose a medieval fantasy style theme for Final Fantasy XVI becasue much of its core members, including Yoshida, simply enjoyed that style the most.

The game uses an independent area-based game design that can give players a better feel of a truly global scale, and is not open-world.

The game will be a complete experience at launch, and there are currently no plans for other tertiary content.

Players will follow the life of Clive through three stages: his teens, his 20s, and his 30s.

Final Fantasy XVI is currently fully playable from start to finish, but voice-overs in multiple languages still need to be recorded, and as it is a very action-oriented game, much play testing is required to fine-tune difficulty, put the final touches on cutscenes, and for full-scale debugging.

A third trailer is coming in the fall that will focus more on the world, lore and storyline

I'm a big fan of when a game lets you follow a character through different stages of thier life

ninkendo posted...

The game uses an independent area-based game design that can give players a better feel of a truly global scale, and is not open-world.

The game will be a complete experience at launch, and there are currently no plans for other tertiary content.

mmmm baby

ninkendo posted...

Clive will be accompanied by one or more companions for most of his journey, who will participate in battle, as well as banter with Clive. These party members will be AI-controlled.

This is what I was mostly worried about so, yay

I do appreciate his candidness when he talks about the development cycle of anything he's working on

You never get the sense he's trying to hide something

ninkendo posted...

Creative Business Unit III chose a medieval fantasy style theme for Final Fantasy XVI becasue much of its core members, including Yoshida, simply enjoyed that style the most.

meh

ninkendo posted...

The wolf-pup from the first trailer is named Torgal. As for whether Torgal will eventually play a role in combat, Yoshida said to wait and see.

Repede 2????

All very exciting stuff.

Seeing some talk that this game may be getting an M rating. Don't know if I buy that SE would let them do that, but if anybody over there would have the clout to pull it off if they wanted it it's Yoshida.

ninkendo posted...

I do appreciate his candidness when he talks about the development cycle of anything he's working on

You never get the sense he's trying to hide something

YoshiP will never lie to you on purpose

Not sure why so many people are opposed to a more traditional fantasy setting. When's the last time we got a mainline FF game with no crazy sci-fi elements? 12 maybe?

All sounds good to me. Gonna be pretty nice to follow Clive from treens to 30s.

not being able to control/switch to the other party members kind of sucks, not gonna lie

the combat basically sounds like the DMC3/DMC5 system anyway. Clive is all party members in one

for sure. I'm just against mainline FF going full solo real-time action game on principle at this point

edit: to clarify, my favorite part of FF has always been forming the party and managing their progression. I don't mind action games, but that's not why I play FF/rpg's in general

I'd rather have a robust battle system with one character than a half-baked one with multiple characters. FF7R split the difference pretty well but that's an outlier in terms of Squeenix action-RPGs tbh

HeroDelTiempo17 posted...

I'd rather have a robust battle system with one character than a half-baked one with multiple characters. FF7R split the difference pretty well but that's an outlier in terms of Squeenix action-RPGs tbh

Just don't make action RPGs tbh

I dunno, but I havent tried out there action attempts with the series yet. Ideally Id like to be able to use any of the main party members instead of just 1 though

Absolutely loving everything I'm hearing about this game