Final Fantasy 16 was announced

[Jirah]

My gripes so far is the locations are bland. This is Final Fantasy! Wheres the magnificent vistas and exotic locales?? the combat looks like DMC which last I recall FF is a RPG game not whatever the hell Nier was which isnt a bad thing in general but i dont play mario games for a FPS experience ya know.

This is all i can gather from face value with so little to go off of idk why people are hyped

[MagiusNecros]

Looks like a smoke and mirror trailer and seems to just be Final Fantasy: Ifrit may Cry starring Emo Thancred.

[Kiurai]

Admittedly we barely know anything this seems like a teaser trailer to me. The doomsaying I've seen about this game and it's relation to XIV seem understandable but Abit much imo We have to know more before making any real judgement calls. We don't even see any other party members lol!

[MikkoAkure]

My gripes so far is the locations are bland. This is Final Fantasy! Wheres the magnificent vistas and exotic locales?? the combat looks like DMC which last I recall FF is a RPG game not whatever the hell Nier was which isnt a bad thing in general but i dont play mario games for a FPS experience ya know.

This is all i can gather from face value with so little to go off of idk why people are hyped

It’s an odd choice they went with, considering Yoshi-P went and added exotic-looking locations to ARR and wanted the game to look more “Final Fantasy” after 1.0 was just “bland medieval land”. I hope we at least get some beast people or something since chocobos and summons alone can’t carry the feeling. I know he wanted to push “machinery” to the side, but I hope more fantastic elements show up to warrant the use of a numbered FF title.

Final Fantasy has mostly done away with turn-based combat for a long time though. Depending on what your opinion of “turn-based” is, we haven’t had a true turn-based FF since FFIII (ATB started in FFIV) or FFXI (or FFXII if you’re an MMO-exclusionary purist) except some cases like FFX going more traditional in the middle of all that and whatever FFXIII was.

You don’t need turn-based combat to be an RPG. The game you’re on the forums for is an MMORPG and doesn’t have turn-based combat, unless you consider the global cooldown as “turns”. And there’s other series like Diablo, Borderlands, Elder Scrolls, Witcher, Ys, Tales of, etc. which all can’t be considered anything but an RPG and don’t have turn-based combat.

[odintius]

Going to reserve judgement for now on the combat system not much to go on with button bashing should saved the combat part for another trailer and stuck with
just cinematics for this trailer. IMO

[Sathona]

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.

you are correct, if you compare early shots of FF7 Remake trailer to the final product ull notice that a lot of the visuals and the characters look a lot better, XVI doesnt even have an announcement date we probably wont play it b4 2022.
Also lets be real its a fact Streams/YT/videos dont make justice for any games visuals.

[Sathona]

My gripes so far is the locations are bland. This is Final Fantasy! Wheres the magnificent vistas and exotic locales?? the combat looks like DMC which last I recall FF is a RPG game not whatever the hell Nier was which isnt a bad thing in general but i dont play mario games for a FPS experience ya know.

This is all i can gather from face value with so little to go off of idk why people are hyped

Ryota Suzuki is working on the XVI combat system who also happens to have done DmC 5s combat, ofc theres going to be similarities.
As to why im personally hyped is cause its action combat from Ryota himself and the fact that if they learned from FF7R and XV then it wont be too bad.
i get why people like the strategic turn based aspect but i hate sitting there waiting for turns etc plus i dont feel like it defines Final Fantasy in any way besides some nostalgia.

[Payadopa]

Can someone explain to me what the difference between director and producer is in regards to developing videogame? I mean, isn't a employee's job to 'produce' something? I honestly have no idea. haha

[Xatsh]

I always thought of it as the producer was in charge of the money making decisions and timelines. Aka production targets, timelines, which idea get cut due to time and budgetary constants.

Director decides what actual game elements and such are being designed. More of the creative side of things.

[DynnDiablos]

More details have been revealed. The game has been in development since 2018. They have a huge FFXVI Event planned for 2021. It definitely is further along than people assume, especially since voice recording in English has already begun and we did see gameplay. I am just happy it going to the Heavensward/medieval fantasy vibe.