Are you interested in FF XVI?

[SieyaM]

The problem that often accompanies action RPGs is that you fall into a pattern of doge roll then attack with whatever your strongest weapon/combo is. If they are going to play up elemental weaknesses and such then great that might change things around or it might turn into spam whatever weakness the enemy has while also dodge rolling. Also I wouldn't count on an actual gritty dark story, because Yoshi-P is on the project he will likely say that any character that has any meaning must have at least 1 fake death because they might be popular so we can't have any stakes for the main party.

[Renalt]

Short answer - no.

Long answer - NNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

FF15 did me so wrong that I have no interest in 16 till it has come out for at least one full year. I'll wait for the Royal Edition when that comes out for like $5 in my store.

[RitsukoSonoda]

while i am apprehensive about the lack of a party shown thus far (not sure why they would need clives name in the UI if hes the only party member tho) the game looks solid.
If the older FFs are a loveletter to D&D, I am not opposed to this solo campaign.

also orcs?? in a mainline FF outside of xi? neat

IMO I liked the Yagudo of FFXI more than the Ixtal of FFXIV as the "bird" beastmen race. Kinda miss the Quadav too.

[TaleraRistain]

while i am apprehensive about the lack of a party shown thus far (not sure why they would need clives name in the UI if hes the only party member tho) the game looks solid.
If the older FFs are a loveletter to D&D, I am not opposed to this solo campaign.

also orcs?? in a mainline FF outside of xi? neat

Yeah I'm reserving judgment on the no party thing until we have something confirmed one way or the other because the very early looks at XIII and XV after it was rebranded to XV looked like they were solo campaigns, too. It's very possible we still have a party and they're just being coy about it again.

[hagare]

Yeah, that one was often called Final Fantasy Cutscenes when it first came out.

Do you like JRPGs in general? If so, then IX may be a better choice. It came out after VII and VIII had turned to a more modern setting as a love letter to the original I through VI and their semi-medieval/steampunkish settings.

IV and VI are other classics of the series.

If you enjoy strategy or tactical gameplay, there's Final Fantasy Tactics for straight strategy and Final Fantasy XII that has a system that uses turn based but with a twist in the Gambit system. XII might also seem familiar. When it first came out, everyone said it was like an MMO and I didn't understand because I hadn't played XI. It wasn't like traditional MMOs. Then I played XIV and I understood. It's like a Final Fantasy MMO, and those are entirely their own beasts. That one also has great world building and a storyline that focuses heavily on political intrigue.

good time to try 9 with all the remake rumor

oh right. How old is clive gonna be?
Are we finally getting another MC older than 20 years old?

[TaleraRistain]

good time to try 9 with all the remake rumor

oh right. How old is clive gonna be?
Are we finally getting another MC older than 20 years old?

I really really really really don't want a remake. That was Sakaguchi's final masterpiece (yes he was credited after that but he wasn't as involved). They need to just leave it alone. They don't need to reimagine it. They can put a fresh coat of paint on it for another generation console port, but it doesn't need anymore than that.

Absolutely recommend JRPG fans play it, though. It's a love letter to the genre.

LOL you edited on me

From the first trailer, it looks like there's a time gap where he gets all grizzled. He looks at least 16 or 17 in the first part of it.

[hagare]

I really really really really don't want a remake. That was Sakaguchi's final masterpiece (yes he was credited after that but he wasn't as involved). They need to just leave it alone. They don't need to reimagine it. They can put a fresh coat of paint on it for another generation console port, but it doesn't need anymore than that.

Absolutely recommend JRPG fans play it, though. It's a love letter to the genre.

LOL you edited on me

From the first trailer, it looks like there's a time gap where he gets all grizzled. He looks at least 16 or 17 in the first part of it.

it was either remake, or remaster. You know how rumors are.
as for clive, I'm hoping he's at least as old as Cloud, our last above 20 FF MC.
He looks way too grizzled to be under 20. Then again, war does crazy stuff.
After the time skip of course. From the trailer, pre-time skip he seems to be a knight for the Phoenix dominant's family.

[Tsukino]

??
This was a thing in RPGs predating Final Fantasy 1.

I didn't say it didn't exist at all, I said that it set it apart, was part of its identity. Of course the earliest computer RPGs were mostly dungeon crawlers where you created a whole party, even including things like The Black Onyx in Japan, but around the time of the first Final Fantasy, the most popular and well known RPGs in Japan like Dragon Quest and Ys had a single character. I didn't mean to say it was unique, just that it was "the popular RPG series where you control a party." Maybe the way I wrote it made it sound more intentional than coincidental, but I hope that makes sense.

[TaleraRistain]

it was either remake, or remaster. You know how rumors are.
as for clive, I'm hoping he's at least as old as Cloud, our last above 20 FF MC.
He looks way too grizzled to be under 20. Then again, war does crazy stuff.
After the time skip of course. From the trailer, pre-time skip he seems to be a knight for the Phoenix dominant's family.

Pre time skip he's the older son who was apparently supposed to inherit the Phoenix Dominant but his little brother ended up inheriting it, so he's the Shield (ie protector) of his little brother at that point. Something happens to turn him into Mr Grizzly from the first trailer after some amount of time skip. Could be 5 years, could be 10, can't really tell. He has a mark on his face like the others he's with, and he's with a group hunting Dominants for some reason. Or at least they're targeting Shiva's Dominant. The way his face changes from the younger version to the older (you see it really well in the first trailer at the end), I'd guess 10 years and he goes from 16 to 26. He could be early 20s but he looks closer to late 20s to me. We'll find out, I'm sure.

I would not be surprised if he's older. Basch was supposed to be the main character of XII, after all, and XII folks are involved in this.

[hagare]

Pre time skip he's the older son who was apparently supposed to inherit the Phoenix Dominant but his little brother ended up inheriting it, so he's the Shield (ie protector) of his little brother at that point. Something happens to turn him into Mr Grizzly from the first trailer after some amount of time skip. Could be 5 years, could be 10, can't really tell. He has a mark on his face like the others he's with, and he's with a group hunting Dominants for some reason. Or at least they're targeting Shiva's Dominant. The way his face changes from the younger version to the older (you see it really well in the first trailer at the end), I'd guess 10 years and he goes from 16 to 26. He could be early 20s but he looks closer to late 20s to me. We'll find out, I'm sure.

I would not be surprised if he's older. Basch was supposed to be the main character of XII, after all, and XII folks are involved in this.

Interesting.