Final Fantasy 16 was announced

[M0rrigan]

We need another love/romance themed ff...i hope this isnt another edgy boi title lol. i really didnt care for ff15 story.

FF15 in theory was a romance themed one, with Lunafreya, except they failed to deliver on the story. They rushed that game so hard that you had to play different titles, dlcs, watch a movie and an anime to see the actual story. And I fear FF16 might be on the same path. So much budget goes to flashy and cool graphics nowadays. I miss the old titles where you had a bigger team and members joining throughout the story, and picking who joined your battle party instead of a fixed "cast" of members with boring storylines, and from what we saw in the trailer, it's following the same path as well it seems, like a Noctis v2. They're focusing the main story on a boy and everything will be around him, just like FF15.

I hope I'm wrong but I learned my lesson for hyping about FF15 and I won't hype it again, especially since it's only for PS5 and it's gonna be overpriced on release.

[Sathona]

thats boring

glad im not the only one, it always end in a disaster anyway or overhype. I much prefered the XV Bros writing which was probably the best thing about XV than another relationship face rub, its already enough that if theres a tiny bit of it in XIV ppl somehow manage to magnify it as something huge

[Ayuhra]

I'm here for it. Can't wait to play it when it comes out in 2031

[Enla]

-snip-

The biggest issue with FFXV was the fact that it was in development hell for over 10 years, was originally intended to be part of the FFXIII trilogy that got scrapped, and for most of it's development time the people making it basically had no direction and only vague concepts to work with. (Like as in 20-25% of the work was even done by the time it switched to being FFXV) It wasn't until basically the last few years of it's production that they actually kicked into a proper development mindset and even then they were scrapping story ideas from the original script and basically seemed to just cobble stuff together. Tabata even apparently considered scrapping the story entirely in 2012 because it was such a mess.

All that to say that FFXV was a very special case where basically everything that could go wrong, did go wrong. So long as FFXVI doesn't decide to be monumentally wishy-washy with it's development, which is unlikely since Yoshi-P is on the project, it should at least be a decent time. I'm not expecting anything grand, FFXIII and FFXV both soured my opinion of the main line titles for this franchise, as does how they chopped up FF7 (which was a choice made back when SE was 100% on board with chopping up their games to get more money) but I would hope that with Yoshi-P's guidance it at least won't be a dumpster fire.

[Daniolaut]

I'll say this right now.

If the battle/damage text is "flying" text instead of traditional pop-up text, or no option to toggle it to pop-up battle text, (FFXIV is the ONLY Final Fantasy that uses flying battle text instead of pop-up battle text.)
or
There is random "you are here" bull $*&^ pop up black box text right in the middle of the screen like in this game, and no option to turn it off.....

I will not, will not, be buying FFXVI.

Of which FFXVI would then be the very first Final Fantasy I never buy.

Thank you for the insults and false accusations, I have been convinced to absolutely not purchase FFXVI. I will save my money, thank you again. Nor will I be discussing it further as to avoid publicizing the game positively or negatively.

[Hycinthus]

I don't like to admit it but I feel like this is the reason why we're getting less content around here.

“Sony opened its September 16 PlayStation 5 showcase with a trailer for Final Fantasy 16, confirming that the game is in development under Square Enix's Creative Business Unit III, which is the same branch of the company that maintains Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn and produces the expansions. This business division, headed up by Naoki "Yoshi-P" Yoshida, typically focuses on MMOs. This appears to be a glaring exception.”

https://www.inverse.com/gaming/final...iler-story/amp

[remiff]

I don't really prefer to comment on final fantasy 16 because it is undoubtedly too early to have an overall overview of the game,

but I find that graphically it was not up to the level of a next gen game,

and characters are not charismatic, it's the warrior of light with two different hairstyles.

[Vahlnir]

I don't really prefer to comment on final fantasy 16 because it is undoubtedly too early to have an overall overview of the game,

but I find that graphically it was not up to the level of a next gen game,

and characters are not charismatic, it's the warrior of light with two different hairstyles.

It was also shown on a PC which supposedly emulated a PS5's performance. Still though, I doubt the game is anywhere close to being done or polished. It's too early to tell a lot of things about FF 16 at this point.

[HeulGDarian]

Dmc 5 combat designer on ff16
Yoshi p on the wheels
ff14 Story writers
Sign me up. This game has the foundation of becoming the best final fantasy entry ,nigh the best game ever made.
SE pls give your team everything they need and want. This game needs to succeed.

[Nekaru_Infitima]

Is XVI part of XIV's universe, another shard, or just an alternative of XIV?

Because I watched the trailer just now and I swear I heard "eikon" "mother crystal" "summoned their eikon with crystals"