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

[High quality poster]

Need this ASAP

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Need this ASAP

Big facts, more excited for this than SM2 & ToTK

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

 

[The Mad Titan]

It's white knuckle combat alright

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

As a developer, what were your first impressions of the power and technology of the PS5?

Hiroshi Takai: The two main things that struck me were the size of the memory and the speed of the SSD. I’ve worked with a lot of different hardware over the years, and many have failed to strike the right balance between the capabilities of the hardware and the size of the memory. However, the PS5 is different—it comes with enough memory installed to take full advantage of the hardware. As for the SSD, as we were building the game, I was simply blown away by how fast it was.

What other PS5 games have impressed you? From a developer’s point of view, how did you feel that they took advantage of the PS5’s capabilities?

I think God of War Ragnarok is a fantastic game. It’s a seamless experience from beginning to end, and paints a perfect picture of the relationship between a father and his son.

The Final Fantasy franchise is known for the quality of its graphics. Final Fantasy XVI was developed as a PS5 game first and foremost, so how did you take advantage of the power of the hardware when it came to the graphics and the gameplay?

Naturally, we wanted the graphics to be the best that they could be, so we put a lot of focus on the fine details of the character and environmental models, as well as the quality of the lighting and the shadows, to really make them shine. It’s really resource-intensive just to render these models on screen, and the lighting and shadow effects are then layered on top of that. We’re only able to do this thanks to the size of the PS5’s memory. Clive, the protagonist of FFXVI, can unleash a wide range of attacks, and the animations and effects for them can all fit in the memory, too. And the way that the game seamlessly flows between resource-intensive gameplay to equally intensive cutscenes and back again wouldn’t be possible if it wasn’t for the speed of the SSD.

 

[Black Mamba]

can’t fukking WAIT!!!

 

[Khalil's_Black_Excellence]

It's white knuckle combat alright

This your goofy ass alright. Yep, even has your CFN ID, lol!

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

This your goofy ass alright.

He would have a name like real dark phoenix

 

[Khalil's_Black_Excellence]

He would have a name like real dark phoenix

Yeah, that's his CFN ID/PSN ID, so yup, that's him. Plus, he posting the same stuff on twitter as he is on here, lol!

 

[The Mad Titan]

This your goofy ass alright. Yep, even has your CFN ID, lol!

I'm all over this site breh, that one of my few twitter handles.

 

[The Mad Titan]

Yeah, that's his CFN ID/PSN ID, so yup, that's him. Plus, he posting the same stuff on twitter as he is on here, lol!

You excited? I aint trying to hide breh, I have plenty of photos and twitter links up on the coli from myself

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

You excited? I aint trying to hide breh, I have plenty of photos and twitter links up on the coli from myself

So, you’re not Idris Elba

 

[The Mad Titan]

He would have a name like real dark phoenix

You really only joined in 2018 then I guess. That was my name here for years as well.

So, you’re not Idris Elba

Shocker

 

[Black Mamba]

I believe it has gone gold