Board 8 > Final Fantasy XVI State of Play coming this Thursday(4/13)

(+) Yeah! (+)

https://twitter.com/PlayStation/status/1645894612693688320

Hmm...

time to shadow drop a demo

I haven't bought a PS5 yet - for the love of god announce a XVI-branded PS5 or even a bundle! (though would be nice to get the console earlier than June 22 so I can give Intergrade a runthrough...)

I feel like I don't need this, but I'll definitely be watching.

Time to state that play

"And we have some accessories you can equip if you're a bad at video games, too"

OK this hub music is somehow the most Soken track in the entire game so far. There is NO mistaking it.

The SNES style sprites for the party in the menus is really winning me over

*panic*

lZUNA DROP

So many arenas and fights that can be directly back ported into XIV lol.

Is it weird that I want to see someone who isn't good at this game play? Feels too button mashy to me. What happens when Clive gets hit?

I can't even imagine how much shit they must be keeping hidden behind the curtain if they're willing to show all this in promotional material

thank you for that Yoshi P

back to bed i go

Who the hell is Kenshi Yonezu....

https://youtu.be/dFlDRhvM4L0

OH

Ohmahgawd HYPE
They could probably screw it up at this point but I doubt it.

trailer was dope af

I'm still not really interested but I got to admit the menus are pretty clean

Eikon fights look wild

And Soken knocking it out of the park on the soundtrack

As soon as they got to that hub it was just

https://youtu.be/U5oKHoAHfVA

Bruh

Oh hey my favourite former vocaloid producer is working on my favourite game series.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HOz-9FzIDf0&pp=ygUKbWF0cnlvc2hrYQ

From Miku to to mega hits like Fireworks and Lemon...to FF.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-tKVN2mAKRI

It's a nice get.

The game looks gorgeous and I'm still excited for its release, but the combat seems to be a tad dissonant in that there are a lot of animations and attacks happening with disproportionately small damage in return.There's a lot of slashing happening and numbers popping off and I worry it'll just feel a little style over substance.

Yeah, I'm hoping they buffed the random enemy durability for these trailers, because they seemed to take too long to kill for what they were.

Watching the state of play again

FF16 basically feels like an offline FF14 in the same ways FF12 felt like an offline FF11

ZaziGuado posted...

The game looks gorgeous and I'm still excited for its release, but the combat seems to be a tad dissonant in that there are a lot of animations and attacks happening with disproportionately small damage in return.There's a lot of slashing happening and numbers popping off and I worry it'll just feel a little style over substance.

yeah this is where I'm at (except I'm not excited to play this game)

why even have numerical damage indicators in a game like this?

UshiromiyaEva posted...

Who the hell is Kenshi Yonezu....

surprises me that it's even possible to not know him at this point, he's only got at least 15 songs at over 100 million views on youtube. (highest over 800 million and that's before any other uploads or covers). definitely one of the most prolific japanese singer-songwriters around

colliding posted...

why even have numerical damage indicators in a game like this?

Series tradition, and also it's extremely common in ARPGs whether or not the info is all that useful from moment to moment.

UF8 posted...

surprises me that it's even possible to not know him at this point, he's only got at least 15 songs at over 100 million views on youtube. (highest over 800 million and that's before any other uploads or covers). definitely one of the most prolific japanese singer-songwriters around

To be fair I did know about a lot of his collaboration stuff and alias names/groups, but yeah didn't know his actual name. I would not consider myself to be musically knowledgeable, I love listening to music but only when it's connected to something, soundtracks and themes and the like. Can't remember the last time I bought...or even listened to a song that was just it's own thing with no multimedia connection at all, honestly.

And I think the damage numbers are actually adding to the issue some people are having about the excess flash in the trailers, I get why they have them but I can't imagine most people will keep them on, certainly not me.

ZaziGuado posted...

The game looks gorgeous and I'm still excited for its release, but the combat seems to be a tad dissonant in that there are a lot of animations and attacks happening with disproportionately small damage in return.There's a lot of slashing happening and numbers popping off and I worry it'll just feel a little style over substance.

It's a lot like how MMOs like 14 work, it's all about the damage sponges. 15 had that pretty often too.

7R had really well tuned damage values though, maybe a bit large on the HP bars but not too bad. So I hope they can tune these values to be more single-player focused like 7R.

There's also the fact that if you kill something in 4 hits you can't show of the sick 10 hit combo, so it could just be totally fake numbers that they used to show off the combat.

I do get a 7R feeling. There were even bosses getting put in stagger mode. The action looks more flexible, though. 7R some big focuses are tagging between characters and telling the others to use moves. Here the party members are purely AI and you're controlling one character with various powers.

https://www.thegamer.com/final-fantasy-xvi-16-versus-final-fantasy-xv-15/

User SaveEstelle's take

7R barely had AI, it was like 80% lead character. But maybe this is even more focused on the lead.

Yeah, you had to individually move them out of boss AOEs. It was kind of the minimum AI so that they weren't just sitting there while you're not controlling them.