Have you ever played FF7R? Over half the filesize is 4k pre-rendered movies. Exclude those or compress them and you save a ton of space. XVI is all in-engine cutscenes so it's mostly textures.
>compress them
Decoding compressed formats takes CPU power that modern consoles can't spare for anything other than the actual engine and the assuredly-unoptimized console hypervisor. This has been an issue as early as Rare performing a miracle by getting the N64 to play MP3's, or the PS3 relying on the blu-ray/HDD to pass the buck re: uncompressed-everything. If you have a hacked PS3, you've absolutely how much wasted space is dedicated to uncompressed vids/PCM audio in Multiman, barely any games take an entire BD25 up, and MGS4 would've absolutely fit/ran on other systems if they compressed all it's bullshit. The initial PS3 didn't even ship with the ability to bitstream audio
Most publishers also don't wanna pay royalties to the most common codec companies either, and Epic owning/killing RAD threw a big wrench into the best solution, so expect more uncompressed shit
borderlands 3 and vermintide 2 are 90+gbs too, which sucks ass because i can only play em on 720p. there should be an option to download lower quality textures or cutscenes instead of forcing high res everything
XV was a stupidly gorgeous game when it came out. XVI seems to have tighter art direction albeit is less graphically intensive. Yoshi Poop is a very wise man.
wasn't it selectively gorgeous?
and also the hair was atrocious
Game still looks good today.
>XV was a stupidly gorgeous game when it came out
Yeah but many of its graphical elements were broken at launch and were never really fixed. Mipmapping, lightning, hair meshes and a few other details. Mipmapping and some weird lightning bugs (Galdin Quay!) can be fixed with mods, but the overall weirdness with hairs is still there.
It also runs like trash even on newer graphics cards.
Yeah, it had flaws, but overall the game still looked very nice. But the other anon is correct. "Selectively gorgeous" is a good way of putting it.
>XV was a stupidly gorgeous game when it came out
Yeah but many of its graphical elements were broken at launch and were never really fixed. Mipmapping, lightning, hair meshes and a few other details. Mipmapping and some weird lightning bugs (Galdin Quay!) can be fixed with mods, but the overall weirdness with hairs is still there.
It also runs like trash even on newer graphics cards.
>albeit is less graphically intensive.
No. The character models in XVI are just kinda okay but everything else looks pretty ridiculously good. The lighting and materials are top notch. when titan shows up it legit looks like it might as well be pre-rendered, same with the shit underground during the ifrit vs phoenix sequence.
The game is beautiful, but I don't think it's pushing the tech as hard as XV tried to. Demon's Souls is still PS5's prettiest game. But XVI is definitely more visually captivating. Some shots are absolutely stellar. When the camera slowed down on Titan's face after he blocked Shiva's icicles I was floored by the detail. Ifrit looks stupendous as well. But walking through the outdoors as Teen Clive or exploring the dungeon with Cid wasn't nearly as jaw dropping. Not that I'm complaining. I think the game looks great.
XVI is not that "heretofore unseen, unparalleled graphics"-tier, but it's more than serviceable to me.
And yeah, some of the moments do look good simply for the sheer scale and atmosphere.
Yeah, you can tell SE is playing it safe this time, especially with the accessories. It's reassuring to hear the game is a lot better than SE has marketed based on the leaks so far. Finally decided to get it after last night's drop.
It should be on the front page, if you scroll down to the "Demo" section it should be near the front
You can also just go to the FF XVI store page and click on the ellipses to get to the demo
Since the game will be available to play at midnight, will you be staying up for it?
I've got a weekend trip planned starting thursday, but I could try sleeping during the day on wednesday. I want to see where the story goes.
>all the people who actually cared about the story left as soon as the leak dropped >anons still try to pointlessly bait >seethe and spam gore when it doesn't work
Holy kek
I'm gonna play it straight anon
Square fans are the most autistic b***hes about spoilers ever
Everyone who cared left
You'd have better luck on twitter where they're still stupid enough to use it, everyone itt is a falseflagger including me
Preload is the 19th for me because I ordered from Aussie Eshop, so it unlocks at 10am on the 21st. Doing a half day of work to get some important stuff done, then can play until normal bed time. 🙂
One of many times that having an unlimited data cap has saved my ass.
What is with Ganker and /vg/'s lunatics and all of them having a fricking gore collection? Oddly enough it's Bazztek that doesn't have the stomach for it and he's the most deranged of the whole lot.
The funniest part about gore spam is that nobody who has been on this shithole for long enough gives a frick about it. It only makes them look more desperate.
Yeah for some reason all of these fricking idiots seem to believe they're still on 2006 to 2008 /b/ and anybody at all is particularly perturbed by gore dumps. You can't even try to say "well zoomers will be driven off by it!" because these kids were watching beheading videos and Mexican cartel torture on Liveleak before coming here.
They are to some extent, my issue with them is more that they seem to have crawled out of Encyclopedia Dramatica and Uncyclopedia as posting guides to Ganker.
PChads are the Taoists of gaming, literally just need to wait for things to become exclusive(also on PC). I'll give SQUEENIX 6 months until the PC release. Screenshot this.
What is it about this particular game that drove doomtrannies utterly insane? I don't remember the unhinged behavior for the other AAA releases this year.
It's primarily Bazztek, but he has a number of copycats floating around that also go mental whenever he does. Bazztek's own issue is that he believes Final Fantasy XV has had its rug pulled out from under it by Final Fantasy XIV and Final Fantasy XVI, and violently attacks the staff of either game and any game that shares staff with them by association. For him specifically the most recent deathblow that's sent him on a spree of getting banned was the demo releasing and being met positively. It seems so far that the only outspoken negative voices are people with a vendetta against the game's staff in some way (Bazztek goes here) or they're actually, genuinely stupid and played the game wrong.
But doomtrannies are extra autistic because >PS5 exclusive for at least a few months >the most hyped non-Nintendo exclusive in years >developed by XIV devs >game actually looks good, lots of positive word of mouth
I think the leaks are starting later? I dunno.
He said he had to work today yesterday, then he would play for a while, then he'd drop leaks.
He said it'd be 24-ish hrs after his last post.
That's all right, anon, it won't be for everyone. I personally loved the demo front to back and have played through it three times already. Hopefully you find some other vidya to enjoy. AC6? Starfield? Anything coming out you're looking forward to?
Ben is pretty chill. He talked about platinuming Re4r a couple of weeks ago and did the Elden Ring intro in Clive's voice because of the "arise you crownless kings" line in the trailer. He also went on the Giant Bomb and Easy Allies podcast and talked about how he listens to that shit weekly.
I listed to his appearance on the FPS podcast and he went on a tangent about Yiazmat in FF12 in the original release edition, he'd memorised the exact gambit setup he used and was listing it off. Dude is a tier one autist, I have no doubt he's been on Ganker at some point.
The voice actress deserves more love. I fricking hate English dubs in my jap games but if the VAs would just perform like she does I'd play in English more often
anyone here remembers when xiv jobs leaked and SE caught the leaker because they do some sort of image coding that identifies the source? you'd see some weird shapes if you lowered the cotrast or some shit. I forgot ho it was exactly.
Yeah that was pre-release screengrabs. XIV screenshots in general have a low-contrast identifier iirc, it's why if you're making porn with mods it's standard practice to *under no circumstances* use the screengrabs that FFXIV takes when you hit PrtSc.
oh yeah exactly.
When you think about it, it's not that hard to code a unique identifier for each build if you're smart about it.
Especially when it comes to the limited review copies or press-releases. >t. code monkey
>When you think about it, it's not that hard to code a unique identifier for each build if you're smart about it.
Until you just halve the screenshot resolution and then AI upscale it back to normal to frick any identifiers embedded in the original.
Yeah that was pre-release screengrabs. XIV screenshots in general have a low-contrast identifier iirc, it's why if you're making porn with mods it's standard practice to *under no circumstances* use the screengrabs that FFXIV takes when you hit PrtSc.
Leaker said it is a long kiss. But don't take my word for it, he said he will upload the scene later today.
Or just wait 'til you see it in the game lmao
>No black people >slavery > Women are evil in this > Evil woman gets wrecked by the MC, and her head chopped off and sent to her lover > One of the enemies you face is a gay guy, and I assume he goes insane because we kill his boyfriend. >lots of people dying and being crucified. >MC is an Incel and gets blue balled and cucked
I expect there will be considering the original leak said there was a gay sex scene.
The original leak has held up very well, remember how many people said the gay stuff was fake?
There's a scene of Dion's shitring enveloping that guy's member. It was confirmed and why the Saudis banned the game. Better have a nice day to avoid seeing it posted here
But... then why does it come on 2 discs? Triple-layer (100 GB) and quadruple-layer (128 GB) discs exist.
That's VIIR2 anon
Have you ever played FF7R? Over half the filesize is 4k pre-rendered movies. Exclude those or compress them and you save a ton of space. XVI is all in-engine cutscenes so it's mostly textures.
>wanting cutscenes to be compressed and full of shitty artifacts and crushed blacks
No thanks.
>wanting cutscenes
Final Fantasy's primary selling point has been its cutscenes for 25 years.
>Final Fantasy's selling point has been videos you could watch for free online
What
>compress them
Decoding compressed formats takes CPU power that modern consoles can't spare for anything other than the actual engine and the assuredly-unoptimized console hypervisor. This has been an issue as early as Rare performing a miracle by getting the N64 to play MP3's, or the PS3 relying on the blu-ray/HDD to pass the buck re: uncompressed-everything. If you have a hacked PS3, you've absolutely how much wasted space is dedicated to uncompressed vids/PCM audio in Multiman, barely any games take an entire BD25 up, and MGS4 would've absolutely fit/ran on other systems if they compressed all it's bullshit. The initial PS3 didn't even ship with the ability to bitstream audio
Most publishers also don't wanna pay royalties to the most common codec companies either, and Epic owning/killing RAD threw a big wrench into the best solution, so expect more uncompressed shit
>then why does it come on 2 discs
FFXVI is on one disc, dopey.
>90GB torrent
i'll have to get another 2tb nvme at this rate
don't worry you have 2 years until the pc version even comes out.
PC version comes out January 4th 2024
on steam?
proofs?
>preload is two days before
Lmao 1.000.000.000.000.000
PC versions are usually bigger than console versions. Iirc SoP on the piss4 was like 40 gigs and its 90 on steam
Less compression and generally padding with extra languages.
>padding with extra languages
borderlands 3 and vermintide 2 are 90+gbs too, which sucks ass because i can only play em on 720p. there should be an option to download lower quality textures or cutscenes instead of forcing high res everything
SoP on PS4 has lower-than-low assets across the board. PS5 version is double the filesize too.
7R2 will be 300 GB.
>24fps 900p Hollywood slop
>Tfw 2TB SSD
I've got 9TB in my pc and I still download repacks which let me install only english
Is that meant to be bad?
Sounds good. But wasn't it meant to get a patch?
300mb day 1 patch.
>90GBs of SOUL
I'm ready bros
still less than FFXV
XV was a stupidly gorgeous game when it came out. XVI seems to have tighter art direction albeit is less graphically intensive. Yoshi Poop is a very wise man.
>XV was a stupidly gorgeous game when it came out
lmao
only a square enix shill could say this shit
Game still looks good today.
Yeah, it had flaws, but overall the game still looked very nice. But the other anon is correct. "Selectively gorgeous" is a good way of putting it.
>Game still looks good today.
it didn't even look good when it was released
Yeah it did.
>XV was a stupidly gorgeous game when it came out
Yeah but many of its graphical elements were broken at launch and were never really fixed. Mipmapping, lightning, hair meshes and a few other details. Mipmapping and some weird lightning bugs (Galdin Quay!) can be fixed with mods, but the overall weirdness with hairs is still there.
It also runs like trash even on newer graphics cards.
wasn't it selectively gorgeous?
and also the hair was atrocious
XV was MGSV tier. Large as an ocean deep as the Mariana trench. I loved that game.
>Large as an ocean deep as the Mariana trench
I hope this is just talking about the graphics.
>albeit is less graphically intensive.
No. The character models in XVI are just kinda okay but everything else looks pretty ridiculously good. The lighting and materials are top notch. when titan shows up it legit looks like it might as well be pre-rendered, same with the shit underground during the ifrit vs phoenix sequence.
The game is beautiful, but I don't think it's pushing the tech as hard as XV tried to. Demon's Souls is still PS5's prettiest game. But XVI is definitely more visually captivating. Some shots are absolutely stellar. When the camera slowed down on Titan's face after he blocked Shiva's icicles I was floored by the detail. Ifrit looks stupendous as well. But walking through the outdoors as Teen Clive or exploring the dungeon with Cid wasn't nearly as jaw dropping. Not that I'm complaining. I think the game looks great.
XVI is not that "heretofore unseen, unparalleled graphics"-tier, but it's more than serviceable to me.
And yeah, some of the moments do look good simply for the sheer scale and atmosphere.
Yeah, you can tell SE is playing it safe this time, especially with the accessories. It's reassuring to hear the game is a lot better than SE has marketed based on the leaks so far. Finally decided to get it after last night's drop.
Pretty sure the protag's ass is like 100 MB of unoptimized ass polygons, so yeah.
Where the FRICK is the demo on PS5 store??? I can’t find it anywhere.
It should be on the front page, if you scroll down to the "Demo" section it should be near the front
You can also just go to the FF XVI store page and click on the ellipses to get to the demo
Starfieldbros we won again
I have 4tb on my PC and a 5tb external. How are people complaining about storage still?
Anons who are waiting for the game, don't click. This has spoilers.
that's a very big movie
Not really.
-a---- 1/20/2023 9:23 AM 74297042796 The Batman [www.atomixhq.xyz].mkv
Stop trying to ruin the game for people, homosexual.
lol, reddit might be more to your speed, bucko.
Posting intentional spoilers is against Ganker rules, moron.
>Posting intentional spoilers is against Ganker rules, moron.
NBA 2k is around 150gb. Yes. A basketball game.
and starfield is 125gb, pajeet
that's a proper rpg though, not an on-rails movie-game
nice spoilers gay
luckily I already knew
but that's still pathetic
imagine allowing people to enjoy themselves
oh no! Benedikta dies! I can't believe I got spoiled on something so unexpected...
Sometime in the next 20 years we’re going to see the first 1TB game download, I can’t wait to see the meltdowns from Ganker
by that time 10TB SSDs will be the norm
That's alot of fricking 0's. That's quite the ominous expectation for patches.
a PS5 can hold like 800+ GB, what's the deal? how many fricking games do you play?
Uh oh Barry melty
Ah yes, the subhuman arrived.
Fresh Discord raid!
Damn, doomposters dropping like flies, based jannies taking out the trash.
benedikta dies btw
whaaaaat!!!!!?!?!?! Wait.... don't tell me..... CLIVE DEFEATS HER IN A BOSS BATTLE
OH MY SCIENCE I JUST GOT SPOILERED
>jannies are banning doomposters
what the frick, did I teleport to a alternative galaxy?
Eh, I'll get the disk tomorrow so I don't mind
Since the game will be available to play at midnight, will you be staying up for it?
I've got a weekend trip planned starting thursday, but I could try sleeping during the day on wednesday. I want to see where the story goes.
What's the point of discs if you still need hefty installs?
>xvi-kun dumping gore because someone spoiled ff16
why are Yoshi-P cultists like this?
>all the people who actually cared about the story left as soon as the leak dropped
>anons still try to pointlessly bait
>seethe and spam gore when it doesn't work
Holy kek
I'm gonna play it straight anon
Square fans are the most autistic b***hes about spoilers ever
Everyone who cared left
You'd have better luck on twitter where they're still stupid enough to use it, everyone itt is a falseflagger including me
And I have 405.8GB of free space, whats your point?
Preload is the 19th for me because I ordered from Aussie Eshop, so it unlocks at 10am on the 21st. Doing a half day of work to get some important stuff done, then can play until normal bed time. 🙂
I just realized I called it an "Eshop" and nobody has called me out for being a "Tendie".
>doomies resorting to trying to ruin the game for people with spoilers because its all they have left
lul
lmoa even
tfw still on the fence if I'm going to get a PS5 just for ffxvi
im not very good at the eikon switching in the moment to create a flowing combo thing.
>foxxo and his discord buddies are posting gore now
interesting
One of many times that having an unlimited data cap has saved my ass.
What is with Ganker and /vg/'s lunatics and all of them having a fricking gore collection? Oddly enough it's Bazztek that doesn't have the stomach for it and he's the most deranged of the whole lot.
The funniest part about gore spam is that nobody who has been on this shithole for long enough gives a frick about it. It only makes them look more desperate.
Yeah for some reason all of these fricking idiots seem to believe they're still on 2006 to 2008 /b/ and anybody at all is particularly perturbed by gore dumps. You can't even try to say "well zoomers will be driven off by it!" because these kids were watching beheading videos and Mexican cartel torture on Liveleak before coming here.
they're not changays
They are to some extent, my issue with them is more that they seem to have crawled out of Encyclopedia Dramatica and Uncyclopedia as posting guides to Ganker.
>FF16
Cancer. Sorry, but not enough black characters in there. I'll boycott it. Who's with me?
PChads are the Taoists of gaming, literally just need to wait for things to become exclusive(also on PC). I'll give SQUEENIX 6 months until the PC release. Screenshot this.
I hope so. I don't understand why they just can't release pc version along side console version. Seems very archaic of Square.
le EPIC troll
you did it bro, this was so cool.
Those redditor snoys are on suicide watch now for SURE trollface.jpg
Games are 100+GB now, 90 is not shocking anymore
What is it about this particular game that drove doomtrannies utterly insane? I don't remember the unhinged behavior for the other AAA releases this year.
That they couldn't win pre-release, I guess?
Or that they felt so close to victory only to be cucked.
It's primarily Bazztek, but he has a number of copycats floating around that also go mental whenever he does. Bazztek's own issue is that he believes Final Fantasy XV has had its rug pulled out from under it by Final Fantasy XIV and Final Fantasy XVI, and violently attacks the staff of either game and any game that shares staff with them by association. For him specifically the most recent deathblow that's sent him on a spree of getting banned was the demo releasing and being met positively. It seems so far that the only outspoken negative voices are people with a vendetta against the game's staff in some way (Bazztek goes here) or they're actually, genuinely stupid and played the game wrong.
They were always this insane.
You don't do this shit all day long, for weeks--months on end, without having some screws loose
This happened with ER, RE4R, and TOTK
But doomtrannies are extra autistic because
>PS5 exclusive for at least a few months
>the most hyped non-Nintendo exclusive in years
>developed by XIV devs
>game actually looks good, lots of positive word of mouth
You weren't there in /wowg/ when ffxiv was growing and wow dying? He literally got so unhinged that /wowg/ probably went through 75 different jannies.
FF15 has 86GB, what the big deal?
So many hype but just one day
Did Yoshi P kill Margrace-kun or did I completely miss todays leaks?
I think the leaks are starting later? I dunno.
He said he had to work today yesterday, then he would play for a while, then he'd drop leaks.
He said it'd be 24-ish hrs after his last post.
I'm gonna dox him and get him fired for all the cancellable shit he wrote. So he can sit his ass down and play the fricking game
Margrace-kun killed himself immediately after finishing the game because he realized he would never play a game as good as FFXVI ever again.
He goes to work (no idea if he has any days off) then plays for 5 - 10 hours a day, posts around 4 hours from now every night.
two black guys were streaming the full game but they didn't get to where Margrace-kun is.
https://streamable.com/wa7lm4
Bahamut looks like shit, literally PS2 tier graphics
>sent an email and a DM to Square rep about the Black person that's been streaming FFXVI
>VODs got deleted after a couple hours
get fricked
thread hidden
zased
Won't lie. The demo was mid.
I got bored after the marlboro fight and stopped playing it shortly after, and here i am.
That's all right, anon, it won't be for everyone. I personally loved the demo front to back and have played through it three times already. Hopefully you find some other vidya to enjoy. AC6? Starfield? Anything coming out you're looking forward to?
plus the day 1 patch, yoshi p is a liar and a homosexual
Start the game from beginning or after where demo ended?
you can save from where the demo ended.
The demo literally is the beginning
My Trophies?
Ben is pretty chill. He talked about platinuming Re4r a couple of weeks ago and did the Elden Ring intro in Clive's voice because of the "arise you crownless kings" line in the trailer. He also went on the Giant Bomb and Easy Allies podcast and talked about how he listens to that shit weekly.
I listed to his appearance on the FPS podcast and he went on a tangent about Yiazmat in FF12 in the original release edition, he'd memorised the exact gambit setup he used and was listing it off. Dude is a tier one autist, I have no doubt he's been on Ganker at some point.
The voice actress deserves more love. I fricking hate English dubs in my jap games but if the VAs would just perform like she does I'd play in English more often
you can watch the full video here
Is there a video of them during the xvi launch celebration or doing interviews there? I want to see more Nina and the Ralph guy interviews
that's big but at least it won't get frick off huge updates constantly
>download 90gbs
>play and beat the game
>Uninstall
What's the problem?
anyone here remembers when xiv jobs leaked and SE caught the leaker because they do some sort of image coding that identifies the source? you'd see some weird shapes if you lowered the cotrast or some shit. I forgot ho it was exactly.
That was just the shit from the media pre-release play they invited people for, which had a simple low-contrast overlay on it.
BLUfever took them awhile to figure out, in comparison. Which is a shame since he was basically drumming up excitement for free.
oh yeah exactly.
When you think about it, it's not that hard to code a unique identifier for each build if you're smart about it.
Especially when it comes to the limited review copies or press-releases.
>t. code monkey
>When you think about it, it's not that hard to code a unique identifier for each build if you're smart about it.
Until you just halve the screenshot resolution and then AI upscale it back to normal to frick any identifiers embedded in the original.
Yeah that was pre-release screengrabs. XIV screenshots in general have a low-contrast identifier iirc, it's why if you're making porn with mods it's standard practice to *under no circumstances* use the screengrabs that FFXIV takes when you hit PrtSc.
How do you do the ora ora ora in the demo?
Parry an attack with raging fists
Its a skill that you can unlock. You can also use the skill to parry which lowers its cd by 50% really fun.
gay make out scene confirmed by the leaker
lmao
>Dion is gay as shit and he fricks his second in command. Lord Terence.
HAHAHAHAHAHA
Lesbian gay or dude gay?
two men
gay dudes
>ends up being nothing more than two males doing a quick kiss since it's a b***h to animate even just that
Leaker said it is a long kiss. But don't take my word for it, he said he will upload the scene later today.
Or just wait 'til you see it in the game lmao
>game starts at version 1 million
its 90% cutscenes
Do we know if this has woke gay stuff? I won't be buying it if it does.
you're good man. only sleepy gay stuff.
>No black people
>slavery
> Women are evil in this
> Evil woman gets wrecked by the MC, and her head chopped off and sent to her lover
> One of the enemies you face is a gay guy, and I assume he goes insane because we kill his boyfriend.
>lots of people dying and being crucified.
>MC is an Incel and gets blue balled and cucked
Hopefully there's no gay sex and just a simple kiss. Western degeneracy is creeping into literally everything.
I expect there will be considering the original leak said there was a gay sex scene.
The original leak has held up very well, remember how many people said the gay stuff was fake?
There's a scene of Dion's shitring enveloping that guy's member. It was confirmed and why the Saudis banned the game. Better have a nice day to avoid seeing it posted here
No thanks. I'm just gonna go play another game which doesn't support degeneracy.
apologizing for a day 1 patch is such autism
i'm glad there is one if there are issues wtf
Leaker is about to reveal more of the gay situation soon.