OsirisBlack
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I will definitely be buying this on PS5 day 1 and PC the second it drops.
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Final Fantasy XVI official screenshots + Blog Post
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OsirisBlack
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For the people that loathe XV I always ask "Did you actually explore the combat system or just hold circle?" The game isn't a masterpiece (My favorites are still Tactics/6/14) But what did you hate exactly? The only thing I actually hated about the game was the random ass summon system. Once I got the combat locked in (beyond just holding circle) the story was decent and the dlc's only made it better.
Physiognomonics
Member
I just want characters that are not immature and annoying teenagers like in XV
SenjutsuSage
Banned
Sweet fucking jesus. I don't know where the fuck Square has been since the PS1 days, but this feels like they're fucking back in a big ass way, making the type of Final Fantasy game you have wanted, but they simply have not made in what feels like forever. This looks like it's getting the money and effort and overall planning deserving of a major franchise like Final Fantasy. I feel this game will put it back on the map in a bigger way. Very excited. I don't know how many of you have done it, but I encourage you to go to the website and read up on the underlying lore they've provided about the world and what's most important.
Fbh
Member
This one at least looks better with each showing.
XV had one big bullshit reveal trailer and then kept getting worse.
It also helps that it's a new project they could build from the ground up instead of being a team tasked with reviving the corpse of a failed Nomura project. And it doesn't have Nomura attached which already significantly raises the chances of the plot not being trash.
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SenjutsuSage
Banned
Necessary reading folks.
The world is called Valisthea.
In the world the most powerful creatures are known as Eikons (these are the powerful summons basically) and the people who posses the power to wield one are known as dominants. Think of them like Naruto having the 9 tailed demon fox inside of him, and you'll pretty much have a damn good idea of where they're probably taking this stuff. There may even be a crazy ass ritual to forcefully remove one from a dominant, which probably kills them.
The game has 6 different realms.
The Grand Duchy of Rosaria
The Holy Empire of Sanbreque
The Dhalmekian Republic
The Iron Kingdom
The Crystalline Dominion
The Kingdom of Waloed
https://na.finalfantasyxvi.com/world/
The world is called Valisthea.
In the world the most powerful creatures are known as Eikons (these are the powerful summons basically) and the people who posses the power to wield one are known as dominants. Think of them like Naruto having the 9 tailed demon fox inside of him, and you'll pretty much have a damn good idea of where they're probably taking this stuff. There may even be a crazy ass ritual to forcefully remove one from a dominant, which probably kills them.
The game has 6 different realms.
The Grand Duchy of Rosaria
The Holy Empire of Sanbreque
The Dhalmekian Republic
The Iron Kingdom
The Crystalline Dominion
The Kingdom of Waloed
https://na.finalfantasyxvi.com/world/
Joelenheimer
Member
Those Final Fantasy XIV earnings finally being put to use!
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Neofire
Member
Definitely will be getting day zero when it drops on the ps5.
OsirisBlack
Banned
I still buy certain collectors editions I just don’t open them.
Furball
Member
if TZA was the last thing he worked on then he probably on Kitase Division , Dungeon Encounter Credit show majority of TZA staff still on Division 1 include Hiroyuki Ito .
If the FF9 Remake rumour turn out to be true then maybe he part of that team .
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Shifty1897
Member
Fair enough, you've convinced me! Day one!
- Combat Director - Ryota Suzuki(DEVIL MAY CRY 5, Dragon’s Dogma and MARVEL VS. CAPCOM 2 (All published by CAPCOM))
I think it’s in good hands
Bitmap Frogs
Mr. Community
Why am I getting ff12 vibes. Is it the art? The setting?
No matter what, me likey. I'm a bit done with the cybermagical dystopia worlds that have been featured lately.
No matter what, me likey. I'm a bit done with the cybermagical dystopia worlds that have been featured lately.
Go_Ly_Dow
Member
Seems a bit more dark and gritty compared to FF12.
Bitmap Frogs
Mr. Community
Yeah, but even then...
I mean Minagawa is Art Director who was basically the Main Art Director for all the Ivalice series and while Maheiro never was the *big* guy (until the XIV reboot) he wrote on Tactics and Tactics Advance as well as Leading the Level Design in Vagrant Story and the Battle System in XII.
So, yeah. Not surprising. Both art and setting are made by long time veterans of the Ivalice setting. Would be weirder if it didn't remind you of 12.
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pleaseinsertdisctwo
Member
“Game has some big areas so it MUST be open world.”
Bitmap Frogs
Mr. Community
Oh, there it is! Nice knowledge of the inside workings of squeenix sir!
Hype level +10, I really liked Ivalice and the games set there (the ones I got to play, which aren't all sadly).
nominedomine
Banned
Necessary reading folks.
The world is called Valisthea.
In the world the most powerful creatures are known as Eikons (these are the powerful summons basically) and the people who posses the power to wield one are known as dominants. Think of them like Naruto having the 9 tailed demon fox inside of him, and you'll pretty much have a damn good idea of where they're probably taking this stuff. There may even be a crazy ass ritual to forcefully remove one from a dominant, which probably kills them.
The game has 6 different realms.
The Grand Duchy of Rosaria
The Holy Empire of Sanbreque
The Dhalmekian Republic
The Iron Kingdom
The Crystalline Dominion
The Kingdom of Waloed
https://na.finalfantasyxvi.com/world/
SenjutsuSage
Banned
Certainly does appear like that's the case.
SenjutsuSage
Banned
Ryu Kaiba
Member
YukiOnna
Member
Nah Dominants is cooler. I love lore specific terms.
Manji Uzuki
Member
It sucks that we need to wait another year but holy shit the game is looking good and the visuals have insanely improved since the first trailer.
Also I'm totally ok going the character action route knowing that DMC5 battle designer is working on this
Also I'm totally ok going the character action route knowing that DMC5 battle designer is working on this
Dynasty8
Member
I hated it a lot. I actually gave it a second playthrough once all the character DLCs were out as well. The combat was definitely one aspect that felt honestly braindead easy. You can also just spam items left and right. Summons were random and automatic wins. The gameplay itself felt clunky. But again, that was just one aspect.
The awkward story skips without explaining what happens between some of the chapters were very odd too. The story was disjointed and the character DLCs should have been a part of the main game...instead it was pay for these 2 hour quests to find out more about this character.
The world design had potential, but it felt limited. The other 2 continents should have also been more explorable and had more going for them instead of the rushed linear quests we got. The whole game was a giant disjointed mess, but it makes sense since Nomura was behind it.
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rapid32.5
Member
Who,name,what ?
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OsirisBlack
Banned
She reminds me of my ex, sweet and sexy on the outside and Garuda as fuck on the inside.She's fine AF
Pilgrimzero
Member
The story and setting. Mostly the story. Dead girlfriend syndrome aside, the fact that you had to watch a movie before hand to even get the whole of the plot.
I hear they fixed a lot of stuff with later patches etc but Id already beat it, not goign to go back to find the new story fluff they added to make the story somehow better.
As for combat system, could not care less. Franchise never should have moved out of turn base combat IMO. If I wanted to play a flashy combat game I'll go play Devil May Cry.
SenjutsuSage
Banned
Wait just a minute!!! Is that character with the scar/tattoo on his face switching between multiple Eikon powers mid combat!? Basically he's a grown up Clive, so a timeskip takes place during this game. Around level 12 you still appear to be young clive, but as you get to somewhere around level 18 or so, you now appear all grown up, have a strange tattoo on your face, and you now possess the ability to use the abilities of different eikons. The character description points out Clive is somehow blessed with the ability to use part of the Phoenix's fire despite his younger brother Joshua being the dominant for the Phoenix Eikon. As such, he appears to gain the ability to use the powers of numerous other eikons also.
That massive war seems to be a huge sequence/setpiece at the early sections of the game, giving you a taste of the full power of the eikons and more powerful dominants by the appearances of things.
Upper left you see what eikons Clive is using, lower right, where the circle button would be on that command wheel you spot eikon specific abilities.
In the trailer he appears to say "I unite the dominants ...that we may bring an end to the strife..."
I'm also getting some strong attack on titan vibes from this one as well.
Also, based on the trailer, it's possible that specific eikon's may not yet have a dominant or human host? Either that or they simply haven't shown us who their hosts are yet, but in the last trailer we saw
Phoenix is Joshua, Clive's younger brother.
Titan is Hugo.
Garuda is Benedikta
Ramuh = unknown
Shiva = unknown (trailers confirm there is a dominant for shiva)
Odin = unknown
Bahamut = unknown
Ifrit = unknown
As you can tell, I'm super excited about this game.
That massive war seems to be a huge sequence/setpiece at the early sections of the game, giving you a taste of the full power of the eikons and more powerful dominants by the appearances of things.
Upper left you see what eikons Clive is using, lower right, where the circle button would be on that command wheel you spot eikon specific abilities.
In the trailer he appears to say "I unite the dominants ...that we may bring an end to the strife..."
I'm also getting some strong attack on titan vibes from this one as well.
Also, based on the trailer, it's possible that specific eikon's may not yet have a dominant or human host? Either that or they simply haven't shown us who their hosts are yet, but in the last trailer we saw
Phoenix is Joshua, Clive's younger brother.
Titan is Hugo.
Garuda is Benedikta
Ramuh = unknown
Shiva = unknown (trailers confirm there is a dominant for shiva)
Odin = unknown
Bahamut = unknown
Ifrit = unknown
As you can tell, I'm super excited about this game.
Danjin44
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OsirisBlack
Banned
I am just as excitedWait just a minute!!! Is that character with the scar/tattoo on his face switching between multiple Eikon powers mid combat!? Basically he's a grown up Clive, so a timeskip takes place during this game. Around level 12 you still appear to be young clive, but as you get to somewhere around level 18 or so, you now appear all grown up, have a strange tattoo on your face, and you now possess the ability to use the abilities of different eikons. The character description points out Clive is somehow blessed with the ability to use part of the Phoenix's fire despite his younger brother Joshua being the dominant for the Phoenix Eikon. As such, he appears to gain the ability to use the powers of numerous other eikons also.
That massive war seems to be a huge sequence/setpiece at the early sections of the game, giving you a taste of the full power of the eikons and more powerful dominants by the appearances of things.
Upper left you see what eikons Clive is using, lower right, where the circle button would be on that command wheel you spot eikon specific abilities.
In the trailer he appears to say "I unite the dominants ...that we may bring an end to the strife..."
I'm also getting some strong attack on titan vibes from this one as well.
Also, based on the trailer, it's possible that specific eikon's may not yet have a dominant or human host? Either that or they simply haven't shown us who their hosts are yet, but in the last trailer we saw
Phoenix is Joshua, Clive's younger brother.
Titan is Hugo.
Garuda is Benedikta
Ramuh = unknown
Shiva = unknown (trailers confirm there is a dominant for shiva)
Odin = unknown
Bahamut = unknown
Ifrit = unknown
As you can tell, I'm super excited about this game.
Clive seems to be Ifrit (almost 100% on this one) which is why every time you see him fighting another Eikon its Ifrit vs that Eikon in the trailer.
I believe jill is Shiva. I have my reasons I also believe she dies early on, this game is giving me a heavy final fantasy tactics vibe story-wise.
The King of Sanbreque would get my vote for Ramuh. Either him or the guy in the chair next to him, the one that seems to be very dismissive of the entire dire situation being addressed in the throne room. Him being a Dominant would explain that attitude and hubris.
No clue at all about Odin and Bahamut. If you pay close attention when ifrit fires off that fireball at the huge rock creature it's not Titan, so there may be other Eikons as well.
OsirisBlack
Banned
LOL
yea NOPE.
Also this is the Eikon with no name.
its symbol is different than Titans which can be seen when Clive does Upheaval.
Two Eikons per element for some? Ifrit and Phoenix both fire.
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SenjutsuSage
Banned
This is legitimately now my most anticipated PS5 title, hands down. It's taking me back to my elementary and middle school days when I use to be excited for that monthly gamepro magazine to show up and games like final fantasy tactics 7, 8, 9 etc were just massive events for me.
It's making me wonder if Ifrit overwhelms Clive's body and somehow potentially ends up killing other dominants, possibly even harming his brother too.
Myths
Member
It’ll be one of those nuanced story related things where something becomes the exception to the rule.
yea NOPE.
Also this is the Eikon with no name.
its symbol is different than Titans which can be seen when Clive does Upheaval.
Two Eikons per element for some? Ifrit and Phoenix both fire.
GymWolf
Member
Just search for the witcher serial cast, i can't remember her name right now.
Go_Ly_Dow
Member
Same.
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Agree. The flat character models in particular stand out a lot due to this exact problem. Everything else looks lit, though.
Jinzo Prime
Member
At least its not fake French: l'cie, fal'cie, cie'tch, made FF13 hard to follow sometimes, but English derived terms are a lot easier to parse.
mortal
Gold Member
There isn't a definite yes or no at the moment.
stickkidsam
Member
Imagine if your dick had a little tongue coming out of the bottom.Mara is on the job!!!
Sensual...