Final Fantasy 16 was announced

[Neri]

Maybe I'm crazy but does the gray chocobo look like the shoebill that pops up around ShB? The beak designs of them look strikingly familiar

It's definitely the shoebill reincarnate.

[MeeDeggiThePunisher]

Was excited till we got to the gameplay. I like action RPGs, I just haven't enjoyed the combat in a FF game since FFX. (Besides the MMOs) If they hate turnbased so much why can't they make the combat like Tales of or Dragon Age?

[Anselmet]

I just want to know who the music composer is.


Sokken because the trailer music they used, AND because he is part of Yoshida's team so it would make sense for them to utilize Sokken?
Or is it Yoko Shimamura once again since she did splendidly in XV?

I'm not musically inclined, but I am more than certain that the trailer music was composed by Sokken at least. The type of instruments and how everything came together just screamed ffxiv music to me that it has to be. Now, another composer could be emulating him to tap into the ffxiv fanbase and have us all beckoned to ff16 as if it were a siron's song but I doubt.

I also doubt it was Shimamura. Not enough piano, not enough violin.

[usernameuwu]

I just hope it's good..if its another bad title after ff15 i fear the franchise might have lost its way..=(. last one i enjoyed was 13 and even that was a stretch after the time travel lore got hard to follow.

[ElazulHP]

I just hope it's good..if its another bad title after ff15 i fear the franchise might have lost its way..=(. last one i enjoyed was 13 and even that was a stretch after the time travel lore got hard to follow.

The single-player franchise lost it's the way a looooooong time ago already imo. The combat has gotten progressively worse every game since FF10. I remember back in 13 there was a meme going around where someone set up one of those wooden birds to play the one button combat for them. Really wish they would go back to turn based.

EDIT: I found it! LOL!!!

[Sailysium]

I hope they can make the combat a bit more grounded like FF7R. KH3 and FFXV loose and floaty combat has gotten old and uninteresting. That said there’s some DMC flavor in this. Might turn out a bit better constructed combat flow

[CodingSession]

It would be great if the battle system is like FF7R, but with (much) improved party members AI. I also welcome the return of medieval setting.

I have mixed feelings about Yoshi-P's involvement in this, though. On one hand, I'm glad he got the recognition he deserved. On the other hand, I'm worried that by dividing his attention to two big games, the quality of BOTH games would suffer. I can only hope he will prove me wrong.

[DamianFatale]

It would be great if the battle system is like FF7R, but with (much) improved party members AI. I also welcome the return of medieval setting.

I have mixed feelings about Yoshi-P's involvement in this, though. On one hand, I'm glad he got the recognition he deserved. On the other hand, I'm worried that by dividing his attention to two big games, the quality of BOTH games would suffer. I can only hope he will prove me wrong.

To be fair VII's remake party members are godsends compared to XV. I actually feel like they do stuff instead of acting all clunky.

[Vahlnir]

To be fair VII's remake party members are godsends compared to XV. I actually feel like they do stuff instead of acting all clunky.

Yeah, exactly. There was some micromanaging involved and a need to switch characters fairly regularly, but all of them worked well together when everything was done right. FF VII Remake was a fairly challenging game and I think that is something the franchise needed...a challenge. Having a combat system with some actual depth made it that much more enjoyable.

Every time I jumped into battle while playing FF XV I never really knew what everyone else was doing and would occasionally initiate a team move of some kind. The combat system wasn't necessarily bad in my opinion, but it could have been better. A LOT better, really.

[Shougun]

Looks cool. I like action style combat to be honest (as a general statement), just hope they've found a way to ensure it doesn't loose much breadth with it (like some games employ slow-mo or whatever to let you switch it up, Witcher 3 sort of stuff- I just mean I hope it's not like "here is an attack button and 2 spells and that's all we can give you cause buttons" and you end up pressing one button non-stop and that's that).

I've no idea what they intend and am just getting into the info they've released (or maybe I've already hit the wall lol), but some day I hope they rip Bethesda's reigns away from neat open worlds. Kind of get that vibe with this game, may have been just because of the first skimming glance. FFXIV is both pretty open (well open-ish) and achieves great story (especially with ShB) so I believe SE has it in them to make the visually most spectacular open world game. Just have to be careful not to go too Ubisoft and turn it into a thousand meaningless tickboxes on the map. Also please continue with mod support, I was ecstatic they started it with FFXV and hope they empower and continue that with this game. Mod support can be an incredible boon to games, and so I hope they do their best to get a powerful kit to the players (if this isn't open world it's less important but I still think it's a cool thing to do). Of course there will be nude mods.. don't say like in FFXV 'please be mature' I guarantee you people wont be lol.

Anyway, open or not hope SE makes a successful and interesting game and wish them the best.

Good luck and best wishes FFXVI team