Let's be frank. If the only good part of the series was the combat, it shouldn't have been brought back, regardless of what battle system it uses now.
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Multiple FFXVI interviews with Naoki Yoshida popping up
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Yo there's hunting in this game? Sweet
Hunting monsters has been some of the most fun part of later final fantasy games lirk XII and XV
Someone should make a game just about hunting monsters. I'd play this hypothetical "monster hunter" game
Hunting monsters has been some of the most fun part of later final fantasy games lirk XII and XV
Someone should make a game just about hunting monsters. I'd play this hypothetical "monster hunter" game
Ah-hem. Well, it could turn out to be a button masher, ti's just that, at the least, it's not classified as Profile 3 and it does look mechanically component.
I don't know if anyone's still looking for a reader's digest on this stuff, and I can't speak empirically about being the go-to for covering something as subjective as "the important things" from all these interviews. But I guess you're welcome to see for yourself if this helps:
A fresh round of interviews with Naoki Yoshida reveals dozens of tantalizing new Final Fantasy XVI details
A fresh round of interviews with Naoki Yoshida reveals dozens of tantalizing new Final Fantasy XVI details
The information on AI party members was exactly how I expected it to be and should ally the fears anyome thinking the game was just going to be Clive talking to himself throughout his entire journey except in towns or story cut-scenes. Temparay party members that come and go isn't new to FF. If anything makes me thing its gonna be like FFII. Anyone hoping for full controllable party with kind of battles system we saw in the trailers was fooling themselves though.
I just want this to bury this discussion once for all however.
I just want this to bury this discussion once for all however.
hey for all we know we've been robbed of some killer dialogue here
Dragon Quest is not my thing. I realize it's like JRPG comfort food for a lot of people, particularly in Japan for whom DQ is the RPG series, but for someone like me that grew up on FF, Suikoden, Chrono Trigger, Valkyrie Profile and Breath of Fire, the complete lack of any narrative or mechanical ambition or complexity at work in DQ is really hard to push through. The games really do feel so simplistic that they put me to sleep.
Persona was my bag before they went the whole "every game is 100 hours of mediocre visual novel stuff you need to play with a guide sewn to your right arm to get the most out of" route and then started recycling the exact same character tropes over and over again for the Social Links in each installment. And Hashino being a raging homophobe/transphobe alienated me even further. If we got a Persona game closer in structure to P1 or the P2s, with no Hashino, I'd be interested, but that's about it. I haven't finished a single one of the Social Link era games and I've bought all three of them (some twice).
As for Yakuza, we'll see what happens with Yakuza 8, now that the leadership at RGG Studio has changed quite markedly, who knows what the next mainline game is gonna be like. Nagoshi's original plans for the series may have left with him.
I wasn't just talking about the combat. One of the biggest, coolest elements of Valkyrie Profile was never knowing what kind of tragic story you'd be engaging with next, and what kind of party member you'd get out of it. The new game pretty clearly seems to be completely wasting the narrative and gameplay conceit of gathering Einherjar as well by turning them into nothing more than "stands" you summon to do a single attack while you mash Square six million times.
Like why even bother bringing such a specific niche franchise back if you're going to do nothing interesting with it? It feels weirdly mean-spirited.
Correct me if im wrong, but it sounds like FFXVI is structured a bit like The Witcher 3, no? Where the game divides areas of the game into different regions.
It's nuts isn't it, such an odd thing to get hung up on. At least try it before you dislike it. I don't control Sully or Elena(I know technically that one section on the ski) in Uncharted but I still get an amazing sense of camaraderie with them.
Just a usual case of I want something brand new but also exactly the same as before please thanks 🤦♂️
Can't wait for this, I appreciate they're not going near open world design, XVs world felt so small by the end, it really broke the illusion
Final Fantasy Explorers on the 3DS is like a chibi Monster Hunter-ish take on Final Fantasy.
Yeah, though I wouldn't expect quite the wealth or depth of side content. There will be side content but everything is pointing toward the main scenario being the primary focus here.
I haven't played much of The Witcher 3, so I'm only going by reputation, but the vibes I'm getting from this game are : Final Fantasy + DMC + God of War 2018 + The Witcher 3
I either completely forgot about that or missed that entirely. I would assume that he just wouldn't age at all, but you're right, he looks much younger when he's initially killed.
What could be called "implied travel." In a purely sandbox open world, because there are no load screens or interruptions, everything is 1:1.
That's why FFXV's world felt (to me, at least) like you were just driving around the outskirts of Lucis rather than a full world. In FFXII or FFXIV, there is implied distance that is not totally covered by every inch of land that you walk on. This gives the opportunity to "jump" to very different landscapes and include more variety as the party criss-crosses across the world.
In a perfect world I'm sure there would have been 3 major areas for XV. One surrounding Lucis (which we got), one surrounding Tenebrea (we get a train instead with a few pit stops), and one surrounding Niflheim (a corridor chapter). Then at the end we probably would have gotten the first area again but in the end state. XV always felt like 1/3 of a game and we all know why. Hopefully XVI redeems it.
The description reminds me of FFXV, which I don't care for. Whether the combat as-is is actually any good remains to be seen.
Personally I genuinely thought the way FF7R handled combat was not only flat out fantastic but should be a blueprint for the franchise even.
Yea I feel like both are open though and you can still eventually go every where you want to just with some loading screens
I consider the old FFs open worlds too that just aren't open from the beginning and they become more open as you progress until eventually you can go every where you want
Now if ff16 doesn't allow you to go back to zones you have already been to then that wouldn't be open that would be open linear or wide linear like last of us 2 where you can explore wide open areas but can't go back to them after you progress
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Wouldn't doubt we get something from Uematsu. He's done something for a majority of the FFs he wasn't a part of (with the exception of FFXIII). For FFXV, he did some music for Comrades and it was pretty good:
「ファイナルファンタジーXVI」吉田直樹プロデューサーインタビュー 振り切る代わりに超濃厚な体験を。吉田組がフルパワーで作るワンコンセプトの「FF」
スクウェア・エニックスから2023年夏に発売予定のプレイステーション 5「ファイナルファンタジーXVI」（以下、「FFXVI」）。先日公開された第二弾トレーラーでは「召喚獣大戦」というワードも飛び出し、大きな話題を呼んだ。game.watch.impress.co.jp
Can someone who is fluent in Japanese please transcribe this? Google translate is doing a terrible job.
Some interesting tidbits:
- action and story modes. Accessories that make the game easier (e.g. slowing down frames before an enemy attack lands), selecting story mode automatically puts them on whereas in action mode they are unequipped but sitting in the inventory. Also mentions a trigger that auto dodges, likely tied to an accessory as well
- Soken is not the only composer
- Photo mode
Choosing Hope
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A Clash of Swords
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Didn't he say that choosing to go full-on medieval was one of the responses to that, because modern single-player FF heavy leans towards more futuristic/sci-fi settings and that (FFXIII, FFXV, FFVIIR) resulting in a "samey" look for the series? He wants to tip the series back to show that FF can be more than just ONE setting/look or the other. It's not saying the more modern/futuristic FFs are bad, but there should be a balance and variety between installments to spice things up a bit instead of just leaning towards one side for multiple installments, then the other side for multiple installments.
So like FFI and FFV?No, definitely not just you. I mean, the trailers were hype and I'm a huge XIV fan but man... I already caught my first FF Tactics inspiration in FFXVI!
Totally reminds me of:
Goug Machine City
A mining town where mechanical weapons are crafted using techniques passed down from antiquity. —Description They say the ruins of a lost civilization lie buried beneath the streets of Goug, the Goug Machine City. Relics from the age of Saint Ajora, when airships numerous beyond counting filled...final-fantasy-tactics-the-war-of-the-lions.fandom.com
Isn't Kitase the head of the FF series?
Biggest takeaway for me here is that there will be two time skips. Clive in his teens, 20s and 30s
The implied travel conversation should be mentioning FFX as one that really got it right. At times it felt like corridors / on rails, but mostly it was an excellent implementation that gave the game a global feeling mentioned in these interviews.
Summary of Famitsu's interview
Yea like you can still go back to places you have already been later on to find secrets or things you missed, or things you couldn't even access the first time you were there
I define open by being able to go back to places you have already been, not by loading screens or no loading screens
That was just a few people figuring out ideas for the game. Full development didn't start until years later.
That is still a lot.
By the time this game is released the total development time will be surprisingly close to VsXIII+XV.
Right, however you define it the point is that it's possible to cordon off parts of the world and still give it an open feeling.
What's interesting to me is the discrepancy in these interviews talking about kids growing up with GTA to defend going away from turn based but not acknowledging how a truly open world goes hand in hand with that play style.
They started off with a handful of people forming a concept and then grew the team gradually. It took a long time to get things going and it was carefully planned before full development started.
Doesn't matter when full dev starts the early planning stages are part of the process, this is a 8 year project
Ff games went from 2-3 year projects to 8 years
I would be happy for them to scale back and release new ones more often, i like the old ones just as much as these and I woudlnt have to wait 8 years
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I felt like FFX zones were a bit too small to be analogous to what they're implying. I hope it's more the size of Witcher 3 or the Xenoblade games.
So did every project, this isn't exclusive to FF. AAA titles take years at this point. There's a reason why Activision has like 10 different teams working on CoD.
4Gamer makes it sound a bit different than Famitsu when it comes to the 4 areas:
Reading Famitsu I was imagining something like 4 White Orchard (Witcher 3) areas, but I don't think that's the right idea.
Maybe it's more like FFXIII with 4 Gran Pulse areas instead?
Reading Famitsu I was imagining something like 4 White Orchard (Witcher 3) areas, but I don't think that's the right idea.
Maybe it's more like FFXIII with 4 Gran Pulse areas instead?
I rather nothing be AAA and release sooner, the old games were just as good if not better and took less time
Exactly the line below it states they were 3 members excluding Yoshi-P at that time.
Yeah, interesting that Sakaguchi still has in mind that FF is about taking a new challenge.
I think Sakaguchi gave this same advice to all who asked him what makes a FF game yet some people in the fanbase just outright claim what is FF and what is not.
Or, you know, people enjoy party members they can control, rather than relying on an AI to make decisions.
Uncharted is an incredibly poor comparison to use considering y'know, it isn't an RPG, nor remotely similar in any way at all.
It's not a narrative reason for wanting control of party members, but a gameplay one. Many people enjoy using each member to get a variety of different play styles, abilities and strategies. Locking you to a single character reduces player agency and effectively locks strategy to what your single character can do, relying on AI to do the rest. It's somewhat acceptable if there is some sort of gambit system, but outright AI, just sucks, to be frank
It's a strange decision considering they have an excellent approach to this in one of their most recent games already (FFVII:Remake) which no doubt they'll be using going forward too
Why does he say yes it's like 13, then what he describes right after that is nothing like 13
XV's combat went through so many paradigm changes (not a FFXIII reference, surprisingly) that what they ended up with was very barebones and simplistic. I enjoyed it for what it was, but it was a lot of flash in the end without a lot of substance. No wonder Yoshida commented that SE just isn't good at action combat.
This franchise doesn't have a blueprint, it stopped having one besides reoccuring spells and people and it being an rpg , like a long time ago. I enjoy ff7r a great deal, it a really fun and cool way to do combat. But I can't say this reminds me of ffxv to me at all. If anything, this feels like dragon age, but with less npc control and dmc combat.
Holy shit! The details from this Famitsu interview are positively JUICY
The famitsu article highlights one interesting point I think is fairly contentious with the ethos of open world game design. That is, usually in open world games, the story serves the game, players are not beholden to it and the world is at the forefront for players to play within. A principle oft repeated, most recently by Todd and co. with Starfield.
Whereas Yoshida here is saying that the story through-line experience is the core of this game and what he wants/intends for players to experience and complete, which is why he's gone with open areas for levels, and with side activities to mostly flesh it out, but which instead are the stuff players are not beholden to.
I obviously prefer this as a person who enjoys a directed story and gameplay experience, but it's interesting to see how they've approach this.
This is what I wanted to hear.
From Dengeki interview.
I loved this part in VII Remake, where different skills excel at certain aspects (putting the enemy in pressured state, building stagger, increasing stagger multiplier, etc).
From Dengeki interview.
I loved this part in VII Remake, where different skills excel at certain aspects (putting the enemy in pressured state, building stagger, increasing stagger multiplier, etc).
Gotta say, I'm relieved they didn't go for an open world just because that's the default for most AAA games nowadays. Too many games seem to commit to an open world before pinning down why it's necessary, and end up having to pad it out with stuff to do. I'm sure 16 will have side content, but it's good to know it probably won't take the form of clearing out enemy encampments ad nauseam.
"It's a Malboro up ahead. I should use fire magic. Gotta make sure to avoid its breath though."