Poll of the Day > How does Final Fantasy XVI look even less interesting than XIV or XV?

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Like how many games are they going to try this "single player controlled character with action combat and a tales of 4-5 warring nations and political intrigue but we have eidolons and crystals" thing?

Because you generally dislike action games and are pretty inevitably going to be disinterested by any upcoming one.

I like some action games, but I'll agree that I continue to get more and more bored with FF's decision to become an expensive, identity-less WRPG clone while rooting out every JRPG element in their past. I thought FF15 would be the first I didn't play (apart from the MMOs, which I have zero interest in) but I ended up with it anyways (present). I won't buy 16 unless the reviews are surprisingly good AND I see some other good reasons to get a PS5.

If 14 wasn't such a success I'd predict 16 would bomb hard (the nostalgia is gone), but as is...it's seems like this is what they are. Past time to move on if you were a fan of their old stuff only.

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I can't stand action games where you hit an enemy and 30+ separate damage numbers fly out of them like you used to beat coins out of arcade games. Just makes the game look like it's banking hard on ADHD people. It might be silly to dislike a game purely because of that but I do, along with Diablo looter gameplay which I'm sure this will have.

Cruddy_horse posted...

I can't stand action games where you hit an enemy and 30+ separate damage numbers fly out of them like you used to beat coins out of arcade games. Just makes the game look like it's banking hard on ADHD people. It might be silly to dislike a game purely because of that but I do, along with Diablo looter gameplay which I'm sure this will have.

I kind of agree, it does get a bit annoying. Thankfully Kingdom Hearts did not do this.

A lot of games have the option to configure which damage numbers show up, if that's an issue.

Cruddy_horse posted...

I can't stand action games where you hit an enemy and 30+ separate damage numbers fly out of them

I like information, but it's all useless if it's too small to read or too much to comprehend. FF15 was bad with that: I often wasn't really sure what the results of my attacks were. Did I hit a weakness? What did light orange instead of light yellow mean again? Did that hurt it or not?

Not easily knowing those basic things was REALLY a turnoff. Then again, for 15 in particular maybe it was by design: once you figured out that warping was brokenly effective there was no need to pay attention to any of it anyways.

And now it looks like Star Ocean 6 will be the next RPG to use ridiculously small, illegible font. Do they honestly not try these out on TVs at all? I shouldn't have to sit 5' away from a 55" screen with my 20/20 vision.

So, don't play it.

Indeed I won't.

wpot posted...

Indeed I won't.

I was talking to TC.

Well, it applied to me as well. :)

wpot posted...

If 14 wasn't such a success I'd predict 16 would bomb hard (the nostalgia is gone), but as is...it's seems like this is what they are. Past time to move on if you were a fan of their old stuff only.

LR was the last game I played. Well I Played the beginning of VII:R and XV but they are not the same.

xyz posted...

Maybe someday you'll make a topic about do something you are excited about

Read the Anime thread.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/9/3/AAZknmAADzKZ.jpg

Cruddy_horse posted...

I can't stand action games where you hit an enemy and 30+ separate damage numbers fly out of them like you used to beat coins out of arcade games. Just makes the game look like it's banking hard on ADHD people. It might be silly to dislike a game purely because of that but I do, along with Diablo looter gameplay which I'm sure this will have.

Feels like a mobile game. They do this with their gacha. For some reason Youtube has been trying to push their new gacha at me and I have zero idea why as it's not related to anything I regularly view on the platform. I had the same issues with VII:R as well. What is the purpose of the attack skill if it does nothing? Just remove the attack skill.
ZangsBeard posted...

So, don't play it.

If I ever got a PS5 it would be in 2030+. I don't even have a PS4 and knowing Square Enix they will launch the game on Epic for a steam release in 2035.