Final fantasy XVI (Official Thread) ensure spoilers are wrapped in spoiler tag.

[Hopeofmypeople]

They said the main quest line (not counting side quest or optional stuff) is about 35 hours

So roughly 20-25, will be getting either way so can’t front.

 

[Khalil's_Black_Excellence]

I’m cool as long as people join you and participate in the story. I don’t need to actually control them in battle.

I'd rather control them than not. If there's games where you have other characters assist you throughout the majority of the game that you can't control, I'd rather they be other real people. I wonder why so many party RPGs don't have multiplayer options at times. I loved Secret of Mana for having that option.

So roughly 20-25, will be getting either way so can’t front.

How you get 20-25 when they said 35 hours? You figure they lying or something or you just super speed through games as fast as you can?

 

[Hopeofmypeople]

I'd rather control them than not. If there's games where you have other characters assist you throughout the majority of the game that you can't control, I'd rather they be other real people. I wonder why so many party RPGs don't have multiplayer options at times. I loved Secret of Mana for having that option.

How you get 20-25 when they said 35 hours? You figure they lying or something or you just super speed through games as fast as you can?

Usually when devs give a runtime a majority of the time it’s usually a few hours below what’s stated. So now when given a time I just scale down by 10. Like I said I am still getting the game and would be fronting if I said otherwise.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Usually when devs give a runtime a majority of the time it’s usually a few hours below what’s stated. So now when given a time I just scale down by 10. Like I said I am still getting the game and would be fronting if I said otherwise.

I kind of find this to be true sometimes also, but its usually for shorter games. Like if Capcom says Resident Evil is 15-20 hours, i know for a fact its gonna be 10-12.

This game, i can see it being around the length of a usual sony open world game, like horizon or tsushima which is around 30 hours

CDPR were pretty honest about Cyberpunk being 20 hours

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

#Dogset

 

[Hopeofmypeople]

#Dogset

The music in this game is just.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

The music in this game is just.

Breh…so far every single track I’ve heard from this game slaps

 

[Deafheaven]

Unless FS crushes buildings with Armored Core this is easy early contender for goty

 

[IIVI]

This is honestly great to hear.

At the end of the day, at the most central core of adventures and storytelling: the content people care most about in a game are the characters, not the gear/equipment/glamour.

 

[IIVI]

The music in this game is just.

I think it sounds similar to the first Ultima Weapon fight in FFXIV, I think it's a play off it:

 

[Youhadasparkwhenustarted]

'Final Fantasy XVI' wants to make you love action games

Devil May Cast Aeroga.

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It's funny reading this because when I saw gameplay for the first time earlier I though "this looks like Devil may Dogma"

This will probably be the first Final Fantasy I pass on since 7. So far it looks like a generic, shallow hack and slash. The game probably isn't made with my demographic in mind though so it's fine I suppose, we all grow out of everything at some point.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

It's funny reading this because when I saw gameplay for the first time earlier I though "this looks like Devil may Dogma"

This will probably be the first Final Fantasy I pass on since 7. So far it looks like a generic, shallow hack and slash. The game probably isn't made with my demographic in mind though so it's fine I suppose, we all grow out of everything at some point.

Final fantasy combat is always relatively shallow. I can’t think of many games in the series that require a high amount of strategy or skill

 

[Youhadasparkwhenustarted]

Final fantasy combat is always relatively shallow. I can’t think of many games in the series that require a high amount of strategy or skill

I didn't mean in regard to gameplay with that comment. With that said my interest in my battles always came from class and character building and not from the actual fights themselves, trying different spell+stat combinations and stuff has always been fun, but all of that has gotten significantly worse since FF12 anyways so no big loss there.

I suppose I'll see how I feel about this game once more footage drops, preferably from an area that's NOT cast in darkness. The other thing that always pulled me into FF was the amazing and unique art direction, and so far this FF caters really hard to a boring, medieval look. I'm just hoping the towns look great at least.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

I didn't mean in regard to gameplay with that comment. With that said my interest in my battles always came from class and character building and not from the actual fights themselves, trying different spell+stat combinations and stuff has always been fun, but all of that has gotten significantly worse since FF12 anyways so no big loss there.

I suppose I'll see how I feel about this game once more footage drops, preferably from an area that's NOT cast in darkness. The other thing that always pulled me into FF was the amazing and unique art direction, and so far this FF caters really hard to a boring, medieval look. I'm just hoping the town look great at least.

It’s all good if you’re not feeling it, i just never personally played final fantasy games really for its combat. I just grew accustom to the formula after years of turn based.

I think the only Final Fantasy where i actively loved the combat was XII