Does FF16 use FF14’s Graphics Engine? Because I’m not a fan of the way it looks..

[Dalmacus]

Bad news no matter what lol. Maybe Unity next time

As someone who has dealt with unity before. Unity is horrible and that is even an understatement.

[Jonnycbad]

If I had to guess, it looks like a modified Crystal Tools engine. Certainly not Luminous Tools (FFXV) or Unreal 4 (FF7r). Seeing as how Yoshi P is the producer, it makes sense his team would use the engine he is most familiar with.

[Kewitt]

The charater models looks closer to FFXIV but the engine looked different then FFXIV.

[Packetdancer]

It's worth noting that the FFXVI trailer included a disclaimer that it was the PS5 engine running on a PC that was emulating a PS5 (i.e., it was quite possibly captured off of a dev kit rather than real hardware). Anything else aside, I'm guessing that running on actual hardware might improve the frame rate and fluidity of things.

[Aelin_Ashryver]

I like how it looked personally. Hoping the storyline is of a darker nature too

[sarehptar]

While I noticed that it had lost some of the realism and detail aspects of FF7R and FFXV (the dog in the trailer looked so cartoon-ish and same with some of the character models), I really don't think I will mind in the long run. Sacrificing story to push out a "prettier" game is what got mainstream FF into the hole its in right now anyway. I'd much rather have a game that just tells a coherent and compelling story over a game where all the budget went into graphics any day.

[Eriane_Elis]

They've been moving towards Unreal so it's likely unreal engine 4 or 5. 5 isn't a big change for updating base code but it provides a huge amount of improvements such as nanite.

[Ursa_Vonfiebryd]

I hope they end up reusing the FFXV engine again for something. Seems a huge waste to develop something for 10 years only to use it for one game. I'm on console so the quality differences are not as noticable but I have to agree with function over form as long as the entire thing doesn't look like dog poop. I do hope that we see Luminous Tools again someday. It looked amazing and performed solid (on console anyway).

[Burmecia]

FF16 looks effin amazing! I never got too bothered when videogames looked videogames and not movies!
I get such uncanny valley experiences from excess prettyness, so I am happy that I can trust JP developers make games which do not necessarily aim for maximum realistic visual fidelity. Stylization just always looked more pleasant to me.

[Packetdancer]

I hope they end up reusing the FFXV engine again for something. Seems a huge waste to develop something for 10 years only to use it for one game.

I feel like we had confirmation that Project Athia is being done on Luminous, or am I misremembering? At any rate, it's being done at Luminous Studio, by the team that wrote the Luminous Engine 2.0 (and built FFXV on top of it); even if FFXVI is done on Unreal, I'd be surprised if the Athia dev team wanted to swap away from the engine they wrote (and thus likely know best).