>preview said FF16 will be the most divisive FF16 in history even including spinoffs

>preview said FF16 will be the most divisive FF16 in history even including spinoffs
>previews unanimously said there is practically no RPG elements and that the "sidequests" the devs claimed wouldn't be fetch quests are in fact generic fetch quests
>most previews say they can barely get a grasp on things and that the pacing is very rushed, even with the datalog popups
>the previews all said it remains to be seen if the game can pull off anything special meaning if the rest of the game is the same as what they played it'll be mid
>all previews said the phoenix part dragged on too long and was very automated
>the leaks have now been 100% confirmed

it's ogre...

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  1. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    It's over

  2. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >no link

    typical Barry (Forspoken shill) shitpost. Makes claims but never produces evidence to back them up

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >he didn't read the previews

  3. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    ruh roh

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >game can only be done on PS5 guys!
      >framedrops and stutters

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        SOURCE?

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          this post:

          ruh roh

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            No, I mean for the webm.

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              homosexual.

  4. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >not even ff16 devs could keep track of ff16 story
    lol its so fricking over

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Unironically linking a piece from Kotaku. You know what to do.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Thats a direct quote from the devs moron

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          read the fricking interview you colossal embarrassing moron

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >gets banned from FF16 events
      >makes shit up to make FF16 look bad

      Kotaku are a bunch of dumb fricks

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Did they actually get banned? They do seem to have an odd hateboner for the game.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          They got blacklisted by Square Enix yes, they were crying about it some time ago.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          The game looks like shit and it's clear that Square and nobody working there has any idea what Final Fantasy is (and hasn't for a long time) beyond an increasingly irrelevant branding for games nobody would ever care about otherwise.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        That quote is straight from the devs not a kotaku made up quote

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          >That quote is straight from the devs

          except this is the quote about the story from the devs, not the fake Kotaku news posted.

          Barry is just posting the fake anti-XVI news because the XVI devs literally called XV's story "incomplete"

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            Seems like a different quote. Like how this quote is exclusive to the other one?

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            Remember in ff15 where a major plot point of the story was that the prince and his entourage wanted to go to some megacity to see lunafreya's wedding dress.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            He shit talked 15 really fricking hard lmao.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            He shit talked 15 really fricking hard lmao.

            hes not been taking it well

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              What compels a man to such homosexualtry ?

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              Jaygames sounds like a b***h
              probably takes it up the ass

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                Erotic asphyxiation most likely too.

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              What abour Bazztek is that the same guy

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                yes

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Didn't they burn bridges with Nintendo as well? Who else have they pissed off? Can't just be those two.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Kotaku are a bunch of dumb fricks
        And a bunch of beta cucks too.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Clive has Jill and Cid and Torga merry band
      >Cid is gonna hit the bullet
      >Benedickta is a prostitute sleeping around with Hugo and Barnabas, maybe Cid too
      The party dynamic is gonna sucks dick, isn't it? I miss the time when we had a 6-7 supporting characters in the party going around the world doing goofy stuffs.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Well only Jill and Cid are likely to be real allies. Maybe Benedikta, though I could see that going either way. Hugo, Barnabas, and Dion are likely going to be enemies more than allies. Clive and Hugo certainly don't seem to care from each other given the end of the Ambition trailer.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          People already complained that 15 had only 4 homies in the party, now with an unattractive femmc and a doggo...

          Cid doesn't really count.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            I don't remember seeing anybody complain that XV only had 4 party members.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          I see endgame being Clive, Jill, Dion, and Benedikta v Joshua and Barnabas
          I think Hugo bites it early. Lots of IVisms in the game, Dion being the ebil-to-party dragoon is in line, final party would match the Cecil/Kain/Rosa/Rydia, we probably meet another person later in the game that either fills another ebil slot or Edge's slot (Levithan?)

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        You mean DQXI?

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          Anything before FFX I suppose

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >gets banned from FF16 events
      >makes shit up to make FF16 look bad

      Kotaku are a bunch of dumb fricks

      >That quote is straight from the devs

      except this is the quote about the story from the devs, not the fake Kotaku news posted.

      Barry is just posting the fake anti-XVI news because the XVI devs literally called XV's story "incomplete"

      the interview is in fact real and came from polygon, not kotaku. You guys are so fricking defensive lmao.

  5. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Is the ff14 sub money that good that they can just release flop after flop?

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      ff14 makes barely anything

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      square makes most of their money from Japan only mobile games, the funny thing is that the mobile games aren't even doing well and die within a year. They just chain release them and farm money from morons that don't check the publisher in advance

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        SE is still one of the richest third party game devs in the world, despite pumping out nothing but hot garbage

  6. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Personally i`m on the fence. I like the art design but i don`t like the realistic graphical style. It just doesn`t look right for Final Fantasy. I feel very little of the FF identity remains.

    Regular combat looks meh but eikon battles, story, characters, setting and themes look good. Don`t really care about the FPS thing. All and all i think this one is the closest we are going to get at this point to getting something on the vein of a tactics main entry so i guess i am somewhat willing to compromise and give it a chance but i`m not particularly exited.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >is the closest we are going to get at this point to getting something on the vein of a tactics main entry
      >tactics: thunderstorms in random battles make the enemy take increased lightning damage/increase its strength
      >ff16: lightning doesn't exist, elements don't exist, that's too much of an rpg thing, your "fire" phoenix attack is identical to hitting with a sword because we hate rpg mechanics
      It's not remotely comparable to tactics in even any single way anon
      It's gonna suck, because they're trying to take a 3 decade long rpg series and remove all the rpg from it to cater to people who have not been playing it for the last 3 decades, because squenix is staffed entirely by clowns

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        >It's not remotely comparable to tactics in even any single way anon
        >It's gonna suck
        huh?

  7. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Heavily inspired by famous mexican telenovela with dragons also knows as game of thrones.

  8. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >preview
    >previews
    >the previews
    >all previews
    post links then. you got nothing and you know it, all previews are sucking off the game
    >the leaks have now been 100% confirmed
    point me to where they confirmed Dion being gay, i'll wait

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      finaland
      kindafunny
      polygon
      Maximilian dood
      etc

      >point
      SA banned it because he's gay

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        >check the first site, finaland
        >entire preview is just the dude straight up gushing about the game
        woah you got me

        >SA banned it because he's gay
        no proof

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          https://www.siliconera.com/preview-final-fantasy-xvi/
          Dion may be gay, but there's probably another reason for the ban.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            For obvious reasons I'm sure he raised concern when JRPGS depicted Christianity in a poor light ffor deecades, right?

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            >all white cast
            >no blacks
            >Muslims depicted as oppressive fanatical religious extremists
            I can tell this will be Ganker's GOTY

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            >raised some concern
            I fricking hate these whinging little pussies so fricking much I hope this game succeeds just to piss them off

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              I just love how their justification for including nogs is that "it's not real life, it's fantasy" and then they just can't help themselves and have to go around being like "well what's the natural real life counterpart for this totally fictional race and/or country with a totally fictional religion and language"
              ignoring totally and completely the fact they are called "crusaders" and that the aristocracy in England around the first crusade spoke French, not English.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            Siliconera still on the same old bullshit I see. Should have never been allowed to talk about rpgs after their interview with Murayama about Eiyuden Chronicle

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          So you're moronic
          >says ff16 music was meh and unmemorable and that he'd prefer mizuta or even sakamoto over soken, and said that with ff15 and 13 he was always humming turns that got stuck in his head but with ff16 there was nothing
          >he said he was disappointed that its not structured like FF12 and is instead like stranger of paradises shitty map
          >he said it doesn't feel like FF
          >Said ff16 will be the most divisive ff

          >FINAL FANTASY XVI is, in my opinion, going to be the most divisive FF game ever, even counting the spin-offs. I think it's going to be binary: you're going to love it or you're going to hate it, there is not going to be any middleground. I think the purist fans are going to hate on the game and it's going to appeal a lot more to a new generation that's ready for a story that's written in fire ink. These changes that I have seen are indeed very confusing, but maybe it is a necessary sacrifice to attract a new audience, to renew itself to find a new glory. But be careful not to get burned, because this was just the beginning.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Well nothing about dion is confirmed yet, but it would track with the game being banned in saudi arabia

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Dion is probably gay, but it's more likely to be scenes like picrel that gets it banned there more than anything

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        There is a arab faction in the game and they go in a quite literal jihad

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Most of the journalist previews that have been listed on metacritic are extremely positive. OP is just a giant lying homosexual.

      >https://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-5/final-fantasy-xvi

  9. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    ?t=405
    >that seamless transition from battle music back to overworld music
    It's so simple but I love it every time it happens.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Soken said he did 215 tracks for the game in a 4gamer interview, a lot of them are motif spins
      soundtrack is gonna be so fricking kino

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      I still think the combat looks a little stiff, or that the enemies look stiff as frick when they are getting hit.
      Still can't wait.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Haven't seen the extended gameplay of this one but every clip of combat I've seen it looks like those mobile CG ads with PS8 graphics kek. I think it's the UI at fault.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      AAAAHHHH IM SO HYPPEEEEEE

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >taking all that time juggling basic ass dogs
      Hard pass

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        he literally killed them in 1 hit

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        enemies were tankier in the demo so more combos could be shown

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Looks good, if only the other party members were playable...

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      What is with the useless text flying on screen? What purpose is it? Also, if I ever get around to playing this, I will 100% pick the summon which has the least amount of particle garbage flying around, it looks legit awful.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Soken did that trick in FF14 a lot too

      These two would seamlessly swap in and out during combat

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Where exactly is the fun in spamming the same move for minutes against a boss like this? There's no strategy, you just spam the same move and hope the boss dies fast.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Because they made a FF that's less of an RPG than nu-asscreed with no weapon variety and somehow even fewer movesets

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        So true. I miss when FF had strategy instead of being such casual trash that even women could guaranteed to complete it.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        >There's no strategy, you just spam the same move
        This is the "strategy" for 90% of JRPGs nowadays.

  10. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    ESLgay here, I can barely listen through the dialogues with the English VAs, I am having Xenoblade flashbacks and god that series sucks with the VAs. Im so used to the Hollywood VAs from FF7R.
    I wonder what "western" population they are targeting, certainly not the Americans.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      I was just playing FF7 intergrade yesterday and the VAs are pretty kino

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        I hope they keep the same cast for Rebirth.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      I was just playing FF7 intergrade yesterday and the VAs are pretty kino

      >moronic anime grunts during dialogs and cutscenes
      >kino

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Doesn't Clive grunt a lot in the one of the previews too? C'mon man.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          Grunting in combat is significantly less moronic than grunting mid convo

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      1. You are ESL so your opinion is less important.
      2. They fit the setting
      3. GoT and Elden Ring both of which are massively popular have these kinds of accents. Most people who can understand English usually like these accents because they sound like ye olde timey.

      Xenoblade is weeb anime slop so the accents are out of place there albeit charming.

  11. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Reminder that reviewers loved Tales of Arise and that game is irredeemable dogshit. Not saying this game will be good but imagine listening to these morons.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Funny enough, this game does remind of of ToA but no controllable party members. I spent a good 100hrs on ToA but I have to admit its hot garabge, no repayable values.

  12. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    What are the XVI leaks?

  13. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Final Fantasy XVI feels like a breath of fresh air after the buggy disaster that was XV

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      those enemy jumps and swings are so kingdom hearts I almost can't believe that shit made it into final fantasy

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        You know what I fricking hate the most, they purposely made those soldiers to be this weird robots with weird animations when they were just regular ass human soldiers in Versus.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          No those are completely different enemies

          Imperial Rifleman are the soldiers as they were since Versus
          The Magitek Troopers are a completely different set of soldiers and are weird robotic movement

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            >guns
            >wearing chainmail
            lol, lmao even

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              yes? problem? they were like that since versus
              niflheim = dresses medieval fantasy but uses modern weaponry and technology
              lucis = dresses modern clothes and suits but uses magic swords and fantasy weapons and magic

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                >yes? problem?
                yes, it looks stupid and goofy
                idgaf about versus homie, how does it being the same somehow make it better? still dumb as shit.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                nope it looks based and interesting

                ff16 is generic and boring

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >uses a mod glitch not something in the actual game
      XVI kun have a nice day

      https://www.youtube.com/live/JeOCvUnQ_kc?feature=share&t=9453

      ?t=1046

      ?t=1025

      ?t=270

      ?t=12155
      https://www.youtube.com/live/L9yJaDADW-k?feature=share&t=10696

      ?t=2607

      ?t=8608

      ?t=2048

      ?t=735
      https://youtu.be/JIy9OcB7oJk?t=1157
      https://youtu.be/XI-rLrT8-tI?t=3194

      And oh look still the same on PC version too
      https://youtu.be/F20fk7flXbE?t=761
      https://youtu.be/1nVj8gMf-aA?t=823
      https://youtu.be/IWEuby7LkRM?t=6251
      https://youtu.be/caCUAVBlg_A?t=1507

      Dumb fricking yoshitpiss troon

      Meanwhile Gematsu said they had a glitch in FF16 where the water around the malboro all turned black and shit was fricked and he had to reset his demo and the build he played was AFTER the game went gold so that is final build

      those enemy jumps and swings are so kingdom hearts I almost can't believe that shit made it into final fantasy

      the combat designers and animators on xv are literally kh2 devs

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous
        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          cope
          cope

          here comes the XV autist melty

          cope xvi-kun

          >ps4 version
          >mod
          ?

          >literal no indication its ps4 version

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            >literal no indication its a pc version

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              >he didn't look at the vids which debunk him since it never happened in any of those
              cope

              Imagine being psyop'd by the biggest XV shiteater alive.

              >skippable cutscene
              >same as unskipable cuck cutscene in 7r and 16
              So you're moronic
              The HP bar and hud literally isnt on the cutscene overlay you moron so no
              it didnt cuck you out of any meter or action like 7r and 16 do which have their hud overlayed on the cutscene
              meanwhile ff7r and ff16 do nothing but cuck you EVERY FRICKING BOSS
              post that happening against behemoth, post it against cerberus, post it against melusine, post it again ma-x angelus, post it against loqi, etc
              oh wait it literally doesn't happen in any fight
              Also you can literally skip that Ardyn cutscene while you can't skip any cuckscene in 7R or 16.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous
              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                kek

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                how do you think he stores all of his giant copypastes that no one ever bothers to read? Hes gotta have thousands of them at this point.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                He stored them all in one big folder along with his porn, which is how he fricked up last week.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                xvi-kun having another melty

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                Barry!

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous
              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                Barry!

                I hope my son isn't giving you any trouble Ganker

                Such a troublesome boy, ever since his father left to buy a pack of crocodile meat and never came back, he's been spending days in his room yelling very loud unsolicited, opinions about XIV and XVI.

                Is my little boy going to be okay, Ganker?

                >XVI-kun still in denial over the leak

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                Other than Dion being gay, which is a non-issue because I can beat the gay out of him, I don't really see anything bad about the leak.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                That "mom" character needs to be NTR'd.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                I would NTR Barry if he wasn't a shitskin
                I don't stick my dick in poo

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                Kek. I'd kill myself if I got so shaken over flopspoken not having hitstop that I posted my fetish shit.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                >barry faps to troony porn
                >he also faps to incest
                man this homie fricking stacks up his mental illness.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                What site is that? asking for a friend

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                kek

                how do you think he stores all of his giant copypastes that no one ever bothers to read? Hes gotta have thousands of them at this point.

                More like you can't read

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous
              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                What vids? People have footage of the glitch from before the PC version even existed.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Mar 2017
                >Dec 2016
                >Sep 2017
                >PC Release: 2018
                oh dear...

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                >38 views

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        >ps4 version
        >mod
        ?

  14. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    How’s the magic in this game looking? I heard there’s no weaknesses of whatever, which is kind of annoying, but does it at least seem more playable than whatever FFXV was trying to do?

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      The real question is hows magic compared to other ff games, except for 15 which is insignificant in the equation. I don't really care if its better than 15, which is hot trash, but it must be better than the classics such as 7 9 and 10.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      The real question is hows magic compared to other ff games, except for 15 which is insignificant in the equation. I don't really care if its better than 15, which is hot trash, but it must be better than the classics such as 7 9 and 10.

      it's Tactics magic, no idea if we will see ultimate spells like Meteor or Holy

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        I don't play Tactics butdid they get anyone working on the previous mainline ff except for the MMO staff to work on this? I forgot.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      They keep saying theres no magic vulnerability, but in the state of play you constantly see 'Eikonic Vulnerability' appear in that list on the right, and it pops up when clive is using Shiva abilities on Ifrit, aka ice on fire, so maybe its just specific abilities or something? Not a clue.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        maybe there's only elemental weaknesses versus Eikons, or they're hitting a weak point like Ifrit's horns with an ability

  15. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Dion is a brainwashed Joshua post time skip
    Phoenix v Bahamut eikon battle are his personalities battling for control

  16. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Would RPG fans even like FF16?
    Imagine all those nerds that don't like high action games, especially those that aren't good at them. Would they feel betrayed that they're basically having to learn a completely different genre of gaming for Final Fantasy, or did 7 and 15 prepare them enough for this kind of game?

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Imagine all those nerds that don't like high action games
      I like action games, I like games with high difficulty. But I liked FF (excl FF13) because it was FF. Now it's just some wrinkly sad homosexual having a midlife crisis and dressing in teenager clothes.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Now it's just some wrinkly sad homosexual having a midlife crisis and dressing in teenager clothes
        That's sad to hear anon. I hope you get better.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          >20 shill tomes of allegan homosexualry have been deposited in your purse

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Imagine your favorite childhood pizza place that you ate at for 15 years is replaced by McDonalds. You go in and it's the same guy who owns it and he says he always hated pizza and just wanted to buy a McDonalds. Then he sells you half of a bun with ketchup and a slice of processed cheese.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Then he sells you half of a bun with ketchup and a slice of processed cheese.

  17. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    The homies in a line gameplay is played out

  18. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Anyone that says they aren't fricking is delusional

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      who the frick is Susie?

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Jill's adult VA

  19. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    What preview you baiting homosexual

  20. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    I pre ordered since there’s no Black folk in it but I’m starting to get a bit nervous now.

  21. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >buying post squaresoft slop

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Squaresoft wasn't slop
      Daily reminder that Square went down for a reason. They strayed further and further away from their shit tier god for years before the merger saved their moronic ass, and even then they continued with that same crap that lead them near bankruptcy and wow, what a shocker; it's culminating again and biting them in the ass. Stupid homosexuals never learn. Maybe stop buying their "games" and play fricking Angry Birds or something. Goddamn mobile games have more gameplay than Final Fantasy.
      Concept artwork and original soundtracks aren't gameplay, and Final Fantasy has nothing else of note. Other than fapbait, I suppose, and even then that's getting pretty lazy considering the amateur state of the teams they employ to do official and in-game rendering.
      Have some fricking standards for yourself.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        holy contrarian, next you'll tell me that Dark Souls are the only real RPGs in existence
        or maybe you are a Thesdagay, that would be even funnier

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          What the frick do either of those have to do with Square's incompetence? We can talk about Dark Souls if you want, I'll come over to your house.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        SS was moronic and FF is coomer shit yes but this is still moronic

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Kinda ironic Square fell off because Sakaguchi was trying to make a movie out of a video game, which is what most snoys games and modern FF been doing, game movies

  22. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    unanimously said there is practically no RPG elements
    Never been a problem before. Hell, Final Fantasy's entire identity was born from taking an established, albeit streamlined RPG formula and making it even more accessible and less engaging, removing the Player from the Role and boths impact on the game itself. Rendering them primarily as formalities to pretend the game is more than a visual novel with really bad writing.
    >tl;dr
    Why is this all of a sudden, 35 years later, an issue?

  23. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Barry has become so neurotic. Is this his final push?

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      what do you think it would take for Bazzy to KyoAni the Square Enix offices

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      He's butt blasted that Yoshida slammed FF15 and the Forspoken dlc came out today and there hasn't been a single thread about it

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        I've been sort of getting the sense that there's some in-company feuds in SE. Ordinarily the Japanese tend to be too passive to directly criticize the work of a coworker.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          Most of the people in charge of that game are no longer in the company, so it's free real estate to shit on it.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Yoshida openly shit talking FFXV
        Boy, Tabata and his goons must be quite something.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Yoshida openly shit talking FFXV
        Boy, Tabata and his goons must be quite something.

        I've been sort of getting the sense that there's some in-company feuds in SE. Ordinarily the Japanese tend to be too passive to directly criticize the work of a coworker.

        FF16 is unfinished for having no playable party or hidden dungeons or minigames

        And FF16 is selling like shit so yoshitpisss glass house is about to shatter over him

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Even the promise of Forspoken DLC this week isn't enough to keep his spirits up
      He's absolutely traumatised

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      you might even call it his final fantasy

  24. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    https://www.siliconera.com/preview-final-fantasy-xvi/
    >While Final Fantasy XVI tries to make itself distinct enough from earlier entries in the series by being more “adult” in the way that character curse and have sex and there’s gore and blood and all of the hallmarks consumers quantify as being mature and worthy of attention, it felt oddly surface level. Like an homage to Western prestige television like Game of Thrones, without the meat of what made Game of Thrones interesting to begin with; which was the tension and drama between houses, and complexly written characters. (The developers have gone on record to say that there are fans of the show on the team, though Localization Direction Michael-Christopher Koji Fox did state that these would be mostly outward similarities, which is probably true.) Final Fantasy XVI could absolutely have this, but what I played leaves me feeling somewhat skeptical, especially concerning several major female characters introduced in the early hours of the game.
    So much for muh mature Final Fantasy lmao

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      I don't get what you are going for here posting an interview from a gay who couldn't even keep the countries straight and spent 50% of his article making vague complaints about female characters and supposedly racist depictions of sandBlack folk when the Iron Kingdom isn't even brown people.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >but what I played leaves me feeling somewhat skeptical, especially concerning several major female characters introduced in the early hours of the game.
      all you accomplished by posting that shit is make yourself look moronic

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Yeah it's going to be another case of juvenile Jap trash

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Isn't that what every FF purist want? They will be happy with XVI then.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          It's missing the jap rpg element. The game is supposed to cater to western zoomers with GOT goyslop

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          They won't

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            It's missing the jap rpg element. The game is supposed to cater to western zoomers with GOT goyslop

            Called it >>
            lmao

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      "I am mad an attractive woman fricks an attractive dude in this videogame"
      ftfy, absolutely saved your word count.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        >especially concerning several major female characters introduced in the early hours of the game.
        let me guess, they were offended that a woman was attractive.

        I would guess that a large part of Benedikta's characterization basically just boils down to sex for benefits

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          Women like that exist though so what's his issue?

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            sexual liberty is only okay when we say it is
            no I don't know what puritanism is why do you ask

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >especially concerning several major female characters introduced in the early hours of the game.
      let me guess, they were offended that a woman was attractive.

  25. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    The least ambitious final fantasy. I can't believe I lived long enough to see the debut trailer for a new mainline final fantasy and wasn't blown away by the cgi in any way whatsoever.
    Even Witcher 3's cgi trailer mogs the shit out of anything they've released to promote this game. What a disaster. FF is now definitively downgraded to a AA franchise

  26. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    I hope the game is shit just to disprove the people sucking it dryly

    It doesnt even look great or innovative.

  27. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    gonna fap to benedikta again

  28. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    God-tier cinematic, which still looks objectively miles better than the recent FFXVI cinematics.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      squeenix cinematics used to blow my mind as a kid

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        i still get mad when i remember all the scrapped CGI for Versus XIII

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          Romantic, intimate, and consensual sex with Jill.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            >Jill looks like Stella
            HE CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THIS

            NOMURA

            NOOOOOMUUUUURAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          that scrapped versus cg would have been scrapped even if versus did come out
          any 2006-2009 versus cg was deleted by 2010 when the entire visual design snd character designs were changed

          Romantic, intimate, and consensual sex with Jill.

          >Jill looks like Stella
          HE CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THIS

          NOMURA

          NOOOOOMUUUUURAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

          That's 2013 xv stella aka proto luna
          Not your literal who who looks nothing like them

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      the peak of the franchise. We'll never get a game this kino from SE again

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >oh my heckin FFX
      killed the series

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Black person it’s probably their best

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          Anything after X killed the series

          reddit

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Anything after X killed the series

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >the recent FFXVI cinematics
      we haven't seen any CGI from XVI yet what are you talking about

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      I think FFX cinematics lacked in direction and camera movement. Probably the worst of the bunch. Some shit like Sin attacking is terrible compared to any eidolon fmv from IX.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        ?t=444
        forgot the link. Just terrible direction.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        I think it depends on people taste but FF used to incite the fantasy feelings that no other series can replicate, especially the shot where Auron appeared. FFIX is another series with amazing art direction, prob my top 3.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          Yeah, FFVIII is also top notch in atmosphere, art direction, music, backgrounds, fmv, everything but the actual game. Kinda mind blowing how great it is in some aspect and some bad in others. Still, manages to be so good in some stuff that I cant even hate it.
          FF7 got overrated and the people overreacted so much towards the overrating that I think its now underrated. Great game.
          FF4, 6, tactics also all great.

          God how I loved FF. Its never coming back. I enjoyed BD1.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            yeah I enjoyed the series that I loved getting raped for 20 years too

  29. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Barrythread

  30. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Joshua is gonna be the Sarah here right?
    Literal mcguffin shit

  31. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    What's the origin of it's ogre?

  32. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    barry give it up.
    you lost.

    now die in piece june 22

  33. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Does Japan even gets ESG moeny to sustain itself like the Western game companies?

  34. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    to me it seems like there's some kind of dull filter over the game, objects seem out of focus and almost "distant" looking even though they're up close. anyone else see it?

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Is this what doomtrannies have stooped down to now? Jesus.

  35. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    I mean, how the frick is this even remptely Final Fantasy anymore? It looks and plays like a DMC spinoff, do you consider Bayonetta or MGR Final Fantasy? They're abandoning their roots to cater to a completely foreign audience.

  36. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    FF died after 12

  37. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    It is kinda insane how kotaku realized how acting like buttholes made them be blacklisted by every company so now they are trying to be the most disingenuous they can with every article to baid clicks.
    Seeing journalism evolve to this type of media that is constantly fighting and trying to make its readers mad is incredible.

  38. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    the "RPG elements" in FF have always (or at least for long enough) been completely frivolous and unnecessary. there is no reason for the characters to level up instead of just calibrating the difficulty curve normally. there is no added depth or anything, it's there for no reason at all.
    the combat was turn-based but without tactical depth, and so it had no reason to be turn-based. absolutely nothing of value was lost, and yet nostalgiagays will shit their pants because they dared to change something. who cares if it's for the better, how dare you do it differently!

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      This is true, stat grinders are their own genre now and are typically sandboxes that just add some vague context to stat grinding, Kenshi, Zomboid, etc...

  39. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Nobody cares about this game

    • 10 months ago
      saucy

      I care!

  40. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Square Enix flew a handful of influencers out to live cushy lives, eat 5-star food, sleep at luxury hotels and get paid a boatload to play and write puff-pieces about FF16.
    And of course they're going to do it, or else they won't be invited back next time.

    Shouldn't this be the biggest red flag imaginable that these people's opinions are bought and paid for?
    I'm not shocked the average normalgay falls for this, but I'm kinda surprised Ganker is eating it up too.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      This thread is just shills regurgitating shit while screaming "Barry!" at the top of their lungs because they're moronic. I like to believe that they're a small loud minority and that the actual Ganker user sees through this shit.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        This, we know Ganker is never wrong, remember ER,GoW,RE4,Zelda...

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          1 rupee has been been deposited into your account.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            Why did you get mad, i agree with you 😉

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          >This, we know Ganker is never wrong, remember ER,GoW,RE4,Zelda...

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            Glad you're here, Lightning. It turns out FF16 will probably sell as well as your last game!

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              I dont have stocks at SE so i really dont care lmao.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          >we know Ganker is never wrong, remember ER,GoW,RE4,Zelda...

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          >ER,GoW,RE4,Zelda
          All these games that will outsell FFXVI?

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            No, anon. Just showcasing how Ganker is great at point failures. They never miss.

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              I don't remember Ganker saying those games would score low tho??

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                Nta but you've got to be joking. The usual script is always about the games being a bomb or disaster. Dont you remember fricking Shazam? lol

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                You're arguing with an Indian man Anon. It doesn't matter what you say.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                Thanks lad, I was about to respond seriously to the post above yours.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous
              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                What, i hate ps, i just know ff16 will bomb next week.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          >Ganker is never wrong, remember ER,GoW,RE4,Zelda...
          Anon i dont want to start any discourse, but at this point i wonder what Ganker even got right. But doesnt matter because in one month after 16 releases people will either go to Starfield or Spiderman threads to shitpost.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            Ganker is always right and wrong at the same time because the entire range of opinions get posted here
            Idiots read a thread where people have a different view to them, get mad, then attribute that opinion to the entire website

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              Nah, at some point it was that way, more balanced. It's been some years that all the logic changed to complete contrarianism and focus on being negative. With every new game you'll have 80% being negative and 20% of the usual people who will defend them. And you know that, this is why threads for upcoming or new games are a shitshow, they attract more attention so more shitposters.

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              I would never say that Ganker is always right or wrong because there is a clear side to where anons always go to.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            >Anon i dont want to start any discourse, but at this point i wonder what Ganker even got right
            tortanic until tor flipped it around. they were right about cyberpunk for the wrong reasons (remember when anons believed it would have no day/night cycle?) and even that managed to flip its perception and can get some comfy threads going on.
            forspoken and redfall were pretty spot on at least, not even normalgays liked those

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          GoW is fricking absolute garbage, if you're talking about Ganker thinking it's gonna fail or something, then yeah they're moronic for that one
          But GoW is one of the worst games i've ever played.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            It's 90+ on metacritics though. Wonder how XVI will score.

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              >It's 90+ on metacritics
              Wow a game that appeals to the lowest commmon denominator scored high? how is that surprising?
              XVI might actually reach 90+ because they're doing the exact same thing.

              Why do you c**ts who obviously know jackshit about anything always tries way too hard to sound smart.

              >always tries way too hard to sound smart.
              Fricking where? everything i said is simple basic observations, your iq has to be a single digit to think what i said is trying to sound smart.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                >XVI might actually reach 90+ because they're doing the exact same thing
                I doubt it. Even the best FF games can only manage to score in the low 90s range.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                tbf even the best games period back then only reached high 90s. the whole perfect score bit is relatively new and used to be exceedingly rare, particularly in comparison to how often we've gotten Final Fantasy games.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                and it will be considered one of the best
                >high production values
                >walk and talk segments
                >tries to be mature and dark just like my favorite hbo show or snk
                >simple combat
                >not much exploration
                it's absolutely made for journos and normalgays.

                just because games like totk or elden ring scored high doesn't mean these people actually like the things these games do, if it weren't for the nintendo or fromsoft bonus these games would've been shat on by these people.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                Yeah anon, you're supee smart for not liking popular things. Oh golly gee wiz, I wish I was more like you, anon.

  41. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    It seems like it may be common for the Dominants to infuse the at least some of the soldiers with their powers, and it isn't initially exclusive to Clive. That or this is just setting for a "skill" be used by an NPC but it's interesting that they'd make an animation for that if that's the case.

  42. 10 months ago
    Anonymous
  43. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    With the way they described the lock-on system, it really makes me feel like they may intend for the game to be played with it off

  44. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    If any of you were expecting a good game after the dumpster fire that was FFXV, then I am sorry for your special needs. You should know by now that Square's head is too far up their own sphincter to care about quality or feedback. You'll enjoy Forspoken 2: Gay Knight Boogaloo, and you'll like it!

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >tf2Black person is moronic
      shocker

  45. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >game isn't about 4 niggles in a row
    dropped

  46. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    I don't care about your transexual agenda.

  47. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    This is either going to be an amazing, revolutionary game or a complete disaster. There is no in between.

  48. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    I swear you people have developed Stockholm syndrome for SE. These people haven't made a good game since FF12 yet here you are cheering for a DmC clone with a last-seasons-GOT story.

    Can't you people feel the wrongness of it in your bones?
    Or do you not care anymore? Do you just consume slop and not think?

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      CONSUME PRODUCT, GAIJIN

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >NOOO YOU ARE INTERESTED IN THIS GAME THAT MEANS YOU'RE A GOYSLOP CONSOOMER
      Grow up.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        you have developed Stockholm syndrome for these threads

        >IP has not increased
        SIR, THE NEEDFUL

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      you have developed Stockholm syndrome for these threads

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        >NOOO YOU ARE INTERESTED IN THIS GAME THAT MEANS YOU'RE A GOYSLOP CONSOOMER
        Grow up.

        Cope Yoshitpiss troons

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          Can't even keep up the facade for more than one post.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          and his true colors are revealed
          don't you have a ZIV thread to police?

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            >I swear you people have developed Stockholm syndrome for SE. These people haven't made a good game since FF12 yet here you are cheering for a DmC clone with a last-seasons-GOT story.
            >
            >Can't you people feel the wrongness of it in your bones?
            >Or do you not care anymore? Do you just consume slop and not think?
            >
            >IP did not increase

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              >IP did not increase
              IP did not increase

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                le heckin 80 IPs, grim
                IP did not increase

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Or maybe it is just you who dont like their games anymore, anon. It is not a big mistery, you can move on.
      Thinking there is a huge conspiracy or brainwash because people still enjoy their games is just copium.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Traditional FF has been dead for twenty fricking years, at least I can get a cool DMC game out of this

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      There's only a handful of ff16 schizos that are constantly on the defensive about this game, all the old school ff fans have moved on

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        The FF16 schizos also have a burning hatred for prior FF games and fans too. FF14 was the worst thing that could've happened to FF.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          That reminds me way more of 13 and 13 Versus than it does of 14

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          The only animosity I see out of FF14 threads towards the rest of the FF franchise is directed at Barry (and by extension XV in order to antagonize him) since he has spent half a decade pissing and shitting himself about "Yoshitpiss" and "ZIVtroons" in their threads

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            XIV players are painfully aware that most of the team supposed to work on their game is working on XVI and it kinda shows. Patches have been pretty bare bones, patch cycles have grown longer and longer. Only good thing about XVI is that the devs can get their grimdark GoT wank out of their system and XIV can remain in line with games like IX and VI, tone wise.

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              The issues XIV is having have nothing to do with XVI and more to do with either a new game or 7.0 taking up a massive amount of dev time. Both are plausible, as XVII has probably already started preproduction and the very least, Ito is doing something, and Matsuno has been teasing a new game (though that might be more bait than anything)
              Considering XVI has been wrapped up for almost an entire year at this point using it as a scapegoat is bizarre, but CB3 being stretched thin is clear enough. Sucks to have to carry the company on your back all the time.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                *at the very least

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                Wasn't one of the main XVI dudes quotes recently saying he can't wait to get back to working on XIV again?

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          I don't know why everyone was shitting on the UI of Elden Ring but XVI has a really ugly UI.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        The FF16 schizos also have a burning hatred for prior FF games and fans too. FF14 was the worst thing that could've happened to FF.

        what the frick is this fanfiction you are spinning?

  49. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    WHY DO YOU STILL BUY THESE GAMES PLEASE DONT DO IT SE ISNT GOOD STOP RIGHT NOW NOOOOO

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      They are unironically like this.
      I wonder what changed, maybe "SE is going bankrupt next week" lost its momentum.

  50. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    I'm excited for the game, but people need a reality check. FF has never had good writing. It's always been melodramatic anime trash. The reason the PS games are remembered so fondly is because the dialogue wasn't voice acted so the absurdly stupid shit being said wasn't heard aloud. Second is that the extended trailer way back for XVI had terrible writing from the word go. Cid and the Bird Lady yelling nonsense at each other before Clive kept shooting GRAARGH FRICK during the boss fight was hilarious. The game will probably be fun and hopefully worth the adventure. But I don't understand why a single person thinks it's going to be well written. None of the FFs are.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      You're wrong tho, FF always had good stories, this is just revisionism that started in the 7th gen were people started pretending that gears of war had a good narrative.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        I wonder what comes on those guy's heads when they say that a franchise famous for their characters and narrative doesnt have good stories.
        Most franchises dream that fans still kept obsessed about their plots or characters of their old games for more than 25 years.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          I cant stop thinking how it is just contrarianism.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Final Fantasy Tactics is written better than any western game
      >Cid and the Bird Lady yelling nonsense at each other before Clive kept shooting GRAARGH FRICK during the boss fight was hilarious.
      Point to the nonsense, please. And try to not sound too moronic when you do it.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Final Fantasy Tactics
        Love that game. I'm also clearly discussing the mainline titles, moron.
        >Point to the nonsense please
        You've got YouTube. Go watch it.

        The dialogue might have been cringe but the story itself of XIII (the most underrated FF) was actually a well written and epic adventure.

        I liked the ideas XIII was trying to explore, but they dropped the ball in the end. Hope hyping himself up to be a murderer for half the game was worth it, though. I've liked all the mainline titles. I just never put them on a pedestal for being exemplary works of literature, so this sudden expectation for XVI to raise the bar is just funny to see.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          to the nonsense please
          >You've got YouTube. Go watch it.
          No I've seen it, I want you to point out exactly what is "nonsense" you spineless cretin.
          And, if you are talking about only mainline, XII exists and is nearly as good as Tactics.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            >y-you spineless cretin!
            >'spineless cretin'
            I can see what you look like, virgin. The dialogue in particular was "GRRAARGH FRICK" and "FRICKING DOG" and Bird Lady having Cid in the palm of her hand to kill before nonchalantly exiting the room to allow Clive to save him and fight her henchmen. moronic shit that the previews are now unanimously saying is moronic. But FF has always been moronic. Endearingly so. Like Squall traveling with his band of thirsty bawds and/or Sazh having a baby chocoholic in his afro. I'm not shitting on XVI itself. I'm asking where you overdefensive XVI homosexuals have come from.
            >XII exists
            My favorite one.
            >Nearly as good as tactics
            I'd say better.

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              >and Bird Lady having Cid in the palm of her hand to kill before nonchalantly exiting the room to allow Clive to save him and fight her henchmen.
              Benedikta doesn't want to kill Cid (or Clive, probably, if her conversation with him before is evident at all). Cid outright saves her from Clive at the end of the Ifrit fight. You are complaining about something we have no context for, the entire conversation they have makes reference to things we haven't seen. We don't know who the Dominant is, we don't know where she took the people from Lostwing, we don't know why Cid and Clive are there and we don't know why Benedikta is just hanging out in a castle in the middle of Sanbreque. Do you see the issue here? If it's nonsense it's probably because it's a verticle slice of a story with a lot of players and preexisting character relations.
              >moronic shit that the previews are now unanimously saying is moronic.
              What? Please provide your source on this, I've seen nothing but praise outside of some tards getting asshurt over the lack of Blacks and sex.
              >calling you a moron for acting like a moron is now "overdefensive"
              No matter how much you repeat it it doesn't make it true. Someone telling you you are wrong and you immediately aping out about it tells more about you than anyone else.
              >The dialogue in particular was "GRRAARGH FRICK" and "FRICKING DOG
              Okay so frick bad lmao. What a great example. Truly the peak of dialogue criticism, one might even call "frick" nonsensical. I too got up and left the theatre during Wolf of Wall Street because they said frick one too many times.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Comparing the grim tone currently being advertised of XVI to Wolf of Wall Street
                Bro what

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                So because it's not fantasy.....it doesn't count? Okay, I'm sorry, frick was still the most spoken curse in Game of Thrones in the first two seasons, so there, there's your fantasy comparison since we MUST have a fantasy comparison for our dialogue criticism.

                This guy[...]
                Look at all that seethe. He's invested. I'm just waiting for the cringe anime kino.

                Nice non-argument homosexual, and have fun trying to point to where in that post I said the story was a masterpiece. Oh wait, you can't, because it didn't happen. Try to make your next post not so asshurt and moronic, xo.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                >
                >because it's not fantasy it doesn't count?
                Because XVI is being presented as a dark and grim adventure. Wolf is a jocular comedy. They're completely different properties. Apples, oranges.
                >rest of this post
                Much abloobloo over nothing.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                >>rest of this post
                >Much abloobloo over nothing.
                >if I don't address it nobody will see that I got btfo'd
                lmao, lol even

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                Address what? Your impotent seething and histrionic defense over a game that isn't out yet? I did address it. I said "seethe." May you continue to do so. I will be enjoying the demo then the full game in June.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                Lmao, whatever helps you cope, homosexual. Must be hard living life as a moron, not that I'd know. Say sorry to your mom for me.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Lmao, whatever helps you cope, homosexual. Must be hard living life as a moron, not that I'd know. Say sorry to your mom for me.
                Lmao.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                I mean, why don't you address the anon's criticism of your criticism? Benedikta was literally being choked by the dog's fangs, what the frick do you think she's suppose to say? Just "Ugh, baka dog-senpai, don't bite me, bwaka, bwaka" ?

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                I did. I said the footage of Clive screaming FRICK followed by Benedikta screaming FRICKING DOG following the footage of letting Cid live despite obviously attempting to kill him were hilarious. He then asked I elaborate on YouTube footage everybody can see. What's the problem? I can't say that a new FF billing itself as a mature drama while also having a dog doing somersaults around a giraffe woman's neck isn't inherently ludicrous? I'm still looking forward to the game. You guys just lose your shit over the slightest criticism. I criticized the writing and silly dialogue seen thus far. Visuals, combat, the lore codex thing, Clive and Cid themselves... I haven't said anything about those. Because I like them. But EIKONS FORBID I make a joke against dialogue in a preview that was overwhelmingly met by mostly lukewarm reception. It was the State of Play trailer that turned the hype around. And I'm under no delusions that FFX, had it not been voice acted, would never have birthed the HA HA HA memes. And no, I'm not criticizing that scene either. Just reiterating my initial point that the nostalgia remains mostly intact because actors weren't sounding this silly shit aloud during the golden era.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                >I said the footage of Clive screaming FRICK followed by Benedikta screaming FRICKING DOG following the footage of letting Cid live despite obviously attempting to kill him were hilarious.
                What's "hilarious" about this entire sequence? What? You want every antagonist to just jump and stabs the protagonists in the jugular and the story just ends? You know what drama is don't you?
                >I can't say that a new FF billing itself as a mature drama while also having a dog doing somersaults around a giraffe woman's neck isn't inherently ludicrous?
                So, to you "mature drama" have to be realistic?

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                >What's hilarious about this entire sequence?
                What I wrote.
                >So, to you "mature drama" have to be realistic?
                Oh god, are you one of those "ESL shills" I hear so much about?

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                >What I wrote.
                There's literally nothing hilarious about it.
                >Oh god, are you one of those "ESL shills" I hear so much about?
                Then, why don't you elaborate what the hell do you even mean with your stupid buzzword? What do you consider "mature drama"? And why does a "mature drama" to you, could not have a "dog doing somersaults around a giraffe woman's neck".

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                >There is literally nothing hilarious about dogs doing circles around a woman's throat and throwing her into a building while the two opponents hurl f bombs back and forth
                I suppose this is high drama if you watch anime. I like FF, so it's patently absurd, but I enjoy FF for that very reason.
                >mature drama
                >buzzword
                >my first use was "game is being advertised as a mature drama"
                Its first trailer involves blood being spilled over a kid's face before he's supposedly murdered, following a time leap wherein his brother is now branded, enslaved, and on a quest for revenge. The tone hasn't changed in any of the marketing since then and Game of Thrones has been cited as a direct influence. Is this hard for you to grasp? Is "buzzword" the word you default to when that mushy little brain of yours encounters words it can't parse?
                >And why does a "mature drama" to you, could not have a "dog doing somersaults around a giraffe woman's neck".
                Lmao.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                nta but all of this and more happens in shit like Parasyte and it doesn't conflict with how "mature" the manga is at all
                I don't really see what point you are trying to make

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                >point you are trying to make
                Voice acting has revealed that FF dialogue has always been bad and anons shouldn't get so defensive when this is pointed out. FF games are by and large still fun adventures. Subsequent posts involve rebutting anons who purposefully misconstrue my original point while swearing their fealty to a game none of us have played.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                >two opponents hurl f bombs back and forth
                Why the lie.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Its first trailer involves blood being spilled over a kid's face before he's supposedly murdered, following a time leap wherein his brother is now branded, enslaved, and on a quest for revenge. The tone hasn't changed in any of the marketing since then and Game of Thrones has been cited as a direct influence. Is this hard for you to grasp?
                What's your point you dumb Black person. Just because it has mature themes, it can't have a dog biting a women's neck, who's already in her half eikon form? Somehow this stops it from being mature? Are you dumb? You dumb moron.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                The dog doesn't bite her long neck is looooong though. It literally uses her throat like a fricking gay poledancer on May.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                >What's your point?
                That Final Fantasy has always been moronic and that's part of the appeal. Cue the morons such as (You)rself getting bent out of shape faced with the knowledge that XVI will also be moronic. Stop being so whiny and moronic.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                >a story with mature themes cannot have over the top elements
                >why because it's unrealistic?
                >huh, dumb esl!
                >again why
                >y-you just can't
                >why
                >huh stop being whiny and moronic
                Nice non-argument, homosexual. Don't know why I even bothered arguing with a moron on Ganker.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Makes up conversation in his head to console himself
                The inner machinations of an ESL are truly wondrous. I said the game was advertised as a mature drama and your fixation on that phrasing ever since has been a sight to behold. Are you insecure about the media you like? I watch Always Sunny in Philadelphia. There's some free ammo for you, little guy.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                A game advertised as mature drama can't have over the top elements?

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                I never said it couldn't. I spoke very specifically about the scene I was making fun of and quoted it directly (FRICKING DOG) and you told me it wasn't funny. Because you're the funny police and your word is law! But if the previews are correct, and the Game of Thrones influence is earnest, and the trailers aren't hiding any lighter moments of levity and XVI is indeed a mostly grim story that takes itself seriously... Then yeah, Torgal doing backflips and swinging around Ben's neck like a corkscrew is just going to remain funny to me.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      The dialogue might have been cringe but the story itself of XIII (the most underrated FF) was actually a well written and epic adventure.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        >XIII
        >the most underrated FF
        I absolutely refuse to let Ganker try to revise this history, XIII I s complete fricking garbage.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          >FF13
          >Good
          No. Tired of zoom zooms pretending its good because they want to frick Lightening

          Keep coping homosexuals, it was just trendy at the time to hate on the game and you cling to that to this day

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            Absolute fricking horseshit Black person. There are a frickton of problems with XIII
            >game starts en media res and absolutely innundates you with jargonthat you have to pause the game and read through a shitty data log in order to make heads or tails of
            >mis of the main cast are unlikable c**ts and morons except for the token Black
            >game is PAINFULLY fricking linear and mo, being on the run is not enough of an excuse to jsutif the entire game having shitty structure
            >you're not even allowed to customize your party at all until the only nonlinear section of the game which is 80 percent of the way through and the only "cohent" available then is shitty optional kill quests
            >the leveling system pretends to offer choices like the Sphere Grid but in reality is also completely linear since the story hard caps your progression and youre never forced to make any sort of choices developing your characters anyway
            >tons of small dumb shit like OCDE BLUE NO CODE PURPLE NO ACTUALLY CODE WHITE that are too numerous to name individually
            >the fact that pretty much nothing the party did even mattered because in the end they did exactly what the villain wanted and got LITERALLY Deus ex machina'd out at the end
            Frick XIII sucked. And frick you for trying to trick people into thinking it doesn't.

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              It had plenty of bad points, but it also had a bunch of good ones. The ost was actually very good, the environment design was quite nice even in the linear areas but especially on pulse, it looks better than most environments in games released today still somehow. The battle system was a reasonable foundation, it had many flaws that realistically should have been addressed in sequels but weren't really. They addressed leader switching and also crystarium having actual choice, but not stuff like the inability to command characters to move like say in grandia so you don't just get clapped by unavoidable aoes. 13 was one of the worst final fantasies from 1-13, but from 13 onwards it still remains the best mainline final fantasy (its either 13 or 13-2). If squenix went back to putting out a game like ff13 every couple of years they'd be legitimately 100x better than the state of the ip currently lol

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              I think the funniest thing in the game for me was when they realize the whole trip to Pulse was completely pointless and the villain himself has to come down to get the party back on track.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                Superpope is one of the few things I actually liked about XIII, he doesn't have a tragic bishie backstory he's just an evil robot god that wants to die and escape having to pamper and serve humanity for all eternity. Fun, purely evil villain which is something the series hadn't had since like FFV and Exdeath.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        >FF13
        >Good
        No. Tired of zoom zooms pretending its good because they want to frick Lightening

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          Anon, no one wants to frick Lightning.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      You post just sounded like peak early 7th xenophobia for jap games. Protip: MOST writing is awful east and west. FF actually had okay plots when you look past the hokey translations

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      The melodrama is part of the appeal, anon. They're a bit like fairy tales and old school disney movies, they don't need (and shouldn't have) have realistic mature dialogue, they need whatever sets the right tone and atmosphere.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        >The melodrama is part of the appeal, anon.
        I know. I like them for that very reason. My point is wondering where all of these new XVI zealots have come from acting like this is going to be a deep and compelling narrative. It's going to be more anime angst about fighting crystals and evil puppeteers working evil in the background.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          >y point is wondering where all of these new XVI zealots have come from acting like this is going to be a deep and compelling narrative.
          Can you greentext the part where any person say this on the thread?
          Or are you just angry because people want to see the story, so you act like people are dickrinding. Are they not allowed to be curious about a game's narrative?

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            Anon, this thread is filled with angry virgins complaining about previews saying negative things about the pacing of the story. They've played it. You haven't. I'm fully expecting to enjoy Clive fighting an under civilization and killing whoever was responsible for cursing humanity with eikons. I just want to know why you're crying so much about it.

            Got it, you're just mad because people are curious about the plot so you larped an entire scenario and starded a trash discussion about how every FF actually has bad narrative.

            >XVI zealots have come from acting like this is going to be a deep and compelling narrative. It's going to be more anime angst about fighting crystals and evil puppeteers working evil in the background.
            You could boil down Book of the New Sun to angsty sex with evil puppeteering aliens in the working evil in the background and that wouldn't stop it from being one of the most complex and well-written fantasy stories in existence.
            The writer for XVI is unproven and nothing has been shown to pull the trigger on the game being awful, angsty or otherwise. I don't see why you are so torn up over people being interested in the story of a Final Fantasy game, you still have people in the fanbase championing X to this day despite it being an extremely simplistic vanilla love story with le heckin sad ending.

            Ditto.

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              >They've played it.
              They've been PAID to play it, and write puff-pieces about it.

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              Which previews are you talking about? because kotaku is literally clickbaiting with every article they can because they realized how the only format to drive engagement up is by doing hate articles.
              I read all the articles, and if there is problems about 16 that people commented on, it was about lighting issues or lack of any sidequests at the start.
              Not a single comment on the narrative of the game, so i wonder if you just read a random greentext ant took it as a fact.
              And no, kotaku did not play the game. This is the point, they stole and copied articles of other journos who actually played the game.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          Got it, you're just mad because people are curious about the plot so you larped an entire scenario and starded a trash discussion about how every FF actually has bad narrative.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          >XVI zealots have come from acting like this is going to be a deep and compelling narrative. It's going to be more anime angst about fighting crystals and evil puppeteers working evil in the background.
          You could boil down Book of the New Sun to angsty sex with evil puppeteering aliens in the working evil in the background and that wouldn't stop it from being one of the most complex and well-written fantasy stories in existence.
          The writer for XVI is unproven and nothing has been shown to pull the trigger on the game being awful, angsty or otherwise. I don't see why you are so torn up over people being interested in the story of a Final Fantasy game, you still have people in the fanbase championing X to this day despite it being an extremely simplistic vanilla love story with le heckin sad ending.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          I think that people who can only praise a game by talking shit about previous entries is moronic, but what you're doing is just as stupid. At the end of the day you're just bothered by interest in FF16 so you started a silly point about how they shouldnt be interested because all the franchise has bad stories.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            >Bothered by interest in FF16
            My PS5 is primed and ready and the emo anime adventure of a former slave turned super saiyan fireball wielding badass is my most anticipated game of the year. I'm not shitting on XVI lmao. I love Final Fantasy. All of them (mainline). I think you morons who are so adamant about XVI being a masterpiece before it's even out just need to chill. I remember when XV was still VersusXIII and getting its dick sucked every day on Ganker. I had the same opinion then, got shit on by the same type of crybabies, and lo and behold, XV was... all right. Fun for a playthrough. But not the masterpiece so many deluded themselves into saying it would be.

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              But this is what i dont get it, can you link me a single post on this thread saying the story will be a complete masterpiece?
              You're acting like wanting to see the story is already this. Literally no fun or interest allowed.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                Ganker just became a place that if you're positive about things you're either a tendie,snoy,xbot or a marketing guy. You cannot like videogames in this place

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                This guy

                >and Bird Lady having Cid in the palm of her hand to kill before nonchalantly exiting the room to allow Clive to save him and fight her henchmen.
                Benedikta doesn't want to kill Cid (or Clive, probably, if her conversation with him before is evident at all). Cid outright saves her from Clive at the end of the Ifrit fight. You are complaining about something we have no context for, the entire conversation they have makes reference to things we haven't seen. We don't know who the Dominant is, we don't know where she took the people from Lostwing, we don't know why Cid and Clive are there and we don't know why Benedikta is just hanging out in a castle in the middle of Sanbreque. Do you see the issue here? If it's nonsense it's probably because it's a verticle slice of a story with a lot of players and preexisting character relations.
                >moronic shit that the previews are now unanimously saying is moronic.
                What? Please provide your source on this, I've seen nothing but praise outside of some tards getting asshurt over the lack of Blacks and sex.
                >calling you a moron for acting like a moron is now "overdefensive"
                No matter how much you repeat it it doesn't make it true. Someone telling you you are wrong and you immediately aping out about it tells more about you than anyone else.
                >The dialogue in particular was "GRRAARGH FRICK" and "FRICKING DOG
                Okay so frick bad lmao. What a great example. Truly the peak of dialogue criticism, one might even call "frick" nonsensical. I too got up and left the theatre during Wolf of Wall Street because they said frick one too many times.

                Look at all that seethe. He's invested. I'm just waiting for the cringe anime kino.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                The other guy is also moronic, starts argument with a "virgin", he's stupid to take a person like that seriously.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          FF has had plenty of good writing (FFX's story is kino as frick metaphysics), just not dialogue. It seems like FF16 will have neither.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          Damn why are you even here if you clearly don't like the game, holy shit

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            >you clearly don't like the game
            It isn't out yet. Do you like it? How's it end?

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Holy shit this. First it starts with Cid and her talking in circles "You betrayed me!", "Nu-uh, you betrayed yourself", "Damn you!" , "Is that really what you think?" Like what the frick does that even mean?
      And then both have a Dragon Ball Z powerup cutscene fight where the Hero just stands on the sidelines like Krillin and watches as Cid gets smashed into a statue, and what happens next? The chick just fricks off and leaves you to her henchmen, but completely ignores Cid whos just laying there and couldve been finished off right then and there but nah frick it.

      And afterwards Hero goes to Cid whos all like "I have to catch my breath" and then proceeds to the rooftop no problem and basically soloes blonde chick by himself, wow! If it was that easy why didnt they fight like that in the first place? Why artificially pad out the shitty drama? It's like there's a complete disconnect between gameplay and atmosphere. They are just aping Game of Thrones aesthetic, but you never see GoT characters zip zooming around like DBZ characters for good reason. The flashy combat with all its sparkles and effects just doesn't mesh well with the dark and gritty tone it so desperately wants to emulate. It's all so moronic.

  51. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Is there any way to turn down the particle effects at all?

    It looking fricking atrocious

  52. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Am I the only one starting to see patterns in these threads?
    >any criticism or non-positive opinion is Barry
    >anyone who talks about XIV is a doomer and need to pray to Yoshi for forgiveness
    >pointing out that the game looks like a PS3 game rarely receives any direct counter arguments but is quickly buried and overlooked
    >those who call out shills are also Barry
    >bringing up the paid YouTube previews is frowned upon
    >pointing out that advertising in these threads blew up the 22nd of this month is laughed at as a conspiracy theory
    >bringing up trailer views is negative because they don't mean anything - unless it's positive for FF16 in which case its confirmation of success
    >if all else fails just scream Barry

    I can't believe we have to stomach another fricking month of these crap threads.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >another month
      You think it'll be over when the game releases? That's when we get the Second Wave and at least another month of shilling.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      You can also add "talking about older FFs is ignored, and if compared to FF16, frowned upon".

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >all the positive opinions are deranged cultists while all of the detractors are cool and smart people
      This seems like an unbiased opinion to me for sure fellas

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        I'm more impressed by the fact you actually read those pastas.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        It's a post complaining about shills and you're expecting applause?

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Its like they became what they feared the most, now if you talk negatively about anything in an FF game you just have some terminal thread-watcher call you Barry

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      the yoshi-P cultists have never had to deal with actual FF fans so theyre always coping

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Yeah, actual FF fans that calls FFXV a masterpiece. That says FFX's summons is not important to the story.

  53. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >*is quietly the best FF in your path*

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      That was such a fun game. I loved monster hunting.

  54. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    never have any faith in squenix, they don't deserve it and have proven they are actively moronic consistently.
    until they manage to not be moronic consistently nobody should trust anything they say

  55. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    YoshitPiss has always been a hack.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      How much you wanna bet Yoshitpiss commits seppuku when this shit flops, then 14 crashes and burns without him, and takes the whole company to insolvency.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        YoshitPiss has always been a hack.

        FF wont die, tendie, as much as you wish

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        XIV would be in a much better place without YoBlack person P. Man ruins everything he touches.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          Yeah, cause it was such a smash hit under Tanaka that nips branded it Chinal Chontajii 14.

  56. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    wow thank god we have such immersive and interactive fast 2deep5me gameplay

  57. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    This game isn't j- drama tier anymore? they copied HBO shows lol

  58. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    woah a modern SE game where the polished PR material was all fake as frick?

  59. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    demo after the sony thing today bros

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      I would bet on the 12th, not today.

  60. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    It's not an RPG, it's a devil may cry game with political intrigue, graphic gay sex, and dire wolves.

  61. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Do people enjoy doomposting for hours? Is it my other fellow millennials not aging well?

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Well, the entire board is this with new games, so probably yes. But remember your average 40-50 year old that is jaded as frick? imagine as time goes on and this happens with people who grew up with vidya and visit these boards. Nightmare.

  62. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    braindead cinematic DMC with same old hallway level design. Big yikes.

  63. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    YOU homosexualS
    this is the FF game I have been waiting for all my life and half of you are attacking it and saying it sucks and the game is not even out yet

    this is the first FF in a very long time that doesn't have kids or cute shit in it. It is made for a mature audience and it is inspired by Game of Thrones. This game will be amazing and I will laugh at all you homosexuals here who said it was going to suck. it will be GAME OF THE YEAR and I will make a thread here and laugh at all of you when it happens I already took a picture of this thread with the comments that attack the game!

  64. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >people are shitposting about how elemental weaknesses don’t exist in the game (they do) and how RPG elements don’t exist (they do) instead of addressing the shit that actually matters
    Anyone else concerned about the lack of hit reactions on large enemies/bosses? I know that you can basically play around with small enemies to your heart’s content but I’m getting pretty tired of break mechanics if they’re not going to be implemented in an actually interesting way.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >elemental weaknesses don’t exist in the game (they do)
      confirmed by the devs they don't

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Anyone else concerned about the lack of hit reactions on large enemies/bosses?
      I don't think this is really a problem with the way the dodges and parries are implemented. With non-humanoids you are going to have Titan's block/parry to keep up the flow, and the nat parry still works on some (?). Perfect dodges are able to be used sequentially and counters seem like a good way to play. Will have to actually get my hands on it to see for certain, but a lack of hit reactions are only annoying when you don't have a good ways to counter them/continue "playing", as the fight stops feeling like a back and forth and starts feeling more simon-says-y.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Personally speaking, as someone who’s played shit like Tales of Arise, I’m getting pretty sick of perfect dodging being used as a substitute for in-depth defensive options but the fact that this game does have a parry does raise some hopes for it, even if it needs to be seen how well its implemented. I’m more concerned about the enemy attack patterns and types because an action game is only half as good as its enemies.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          It has been said that the dodge is only as useful as the user, it can't be used in succession if it isn't a perfect dodge (or precision in the action feed). Also, I feel that especially in high level gameplay the parries are going to be much more useful for keeping you close and in the action, Titan's specifically allows you a massive counter window that eats the stagger bar and Phoenix's projectile parry does the same. The dodge seems more like a nudge, or crutch, probably more useful for the battles with big AoEs than anything. The only counter option from a perfect dodge is another dodge or a charged shot, which just seems very low in utility and effectiveness in comparison.
          The only info I've seen on the enemy design was someone musing about the humanoid enemies being more fun to fight, which imho is a given. Apparently the dragoon fight from the opening section is fantastic. I reckon as the player fills out the ability tree more readily the enemies will start getting more complex, especially with the hunts.

  65. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    With Flopspoken and FF15 shitting the bed, I can't see how Barry doesn't realize that his shit taste runs contrary to everything that is actually good and fun.

  66. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    SSSSLLLUUURRRRRPPPPPPP

  67. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    https://www.polygon.com/23729201/final-fantasy-16-active-time-lore-naoki-yoshida
    This is the real article for the coping shills

  68. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    barrybrosssss take me home

  69. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    This will still be the best game SE releases this year and you know it.
    unless OT2 ends up being incredible

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Not a high bar. You've got Forspoken at the very bottom and uuuuuhhh some other shit.

  70. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    As someone that's a longtime Square fan, it's sad that I'm only interested in this game because of the Capcom-style gameplay. Nothing else about the game seems captivating so far. No charm to the world or characters, or even care about being an actual RPG like SaGa or DQ.
    It'll be a good game but FF will still be dead to me. Kind of a shame, really.

  71. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >damn these physics are so heckin goofy I guess all of the maturity of Berserk just doesn't count now

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >damn I wish I could read but manga are the only things I can follow so I'll just miss the point entirely and seethe

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        what's ur favorite fantasy book anon I'll point out some goofy shit from it

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          I haven't read fantasy since I was a young teenager, but to your question: The Bartimaeus Trilogy. Very kino.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            unfortunately I'm not in the business of dunking on YA books but I'm sure they are fantastic, anon

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              I typically avoid fantasy novels because their prose is more often than not total dogshit, but if there are ones you'd recommend I'm open to suggestions. I like the idea of hunkering down with a good fantastical adventure. I just haven't found one.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                NTA but I hear The Kingkiller Chronicle is pretty good, but fair warning its (real) women that have told me this. I meant to get around to reading it too see exactly what it is that they love about it, for research purposes.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                I'll check it out, thanks.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                if at all possible don't listen to

                NTA but I hear The Kingkiller Chronicle is pretty good, but fair warning its (real) women that have told me this. I meant to get around to reading it too see exactly what it is that they love about it, for research purposes.

                , Brandon Sanderson should be shot and his body thrown into a fricking ditch
                if you are a major prosegay the only books I can really recommend are Gene Wolfe's stuff, that and obvious choices like Lord of the Rings which I am assuming you've already read and/or don't have interest in. you are right in that fantasy is pretty much devoid of good prose, but imho that's only because the bar of entry for fantasy novels is pretty much the lowest of the low.
                if you are willing to put up with bearable prose, Michael Moorwiener's stuff is another 80s classic that has more than enough worth in it to be "good", but I mean that in a specifically fantasy sense and not in a literature sense.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                oh sorry no wait Kingkiller isn't by Sanderson, that's the cuck books
                either way avoid it, it's also unfinished iirc and the main character is literally just Kirito from SAO but a cuck instead of a gigahomie chad.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Brandon Sanderson should be shot and his body thrown into a fricking ditch
                Elaborate so I don't waste my time with them
                >Michael Moorwiener
                Will second this, enjoyed the Dancers at the End of Time stories.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Elaborate so I don't waste my time with them
                McDonalds of fantasy, awful prose, awful characters, awful plot, it somehow reminds me of the Dragon Age/Elder Scrolls games in that it's completely and utterly unremarkable and drab and yet everyone seems to care about it for some reason
                this can be applied to literally every book he's ever written
                pic related is the cuck passage from the Kingkiller books, not related to Sanderson but it's worth demoing before subjecting yourself to 3/4ths of a book just to have to watch any goodwill undone in seconds

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                Kek that explains why the femoids loved it. Thanks for delivering anon.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                oh sorry no wait Kingkiller isn't by Sanderson, that's the cuck books
                either way avoid it, it's also unfinished iirc and the main character is literally just Kirito from SAO but a cuck instead of a gigahomie chad.

                >Brandon Sanderson should be shot and his body thrown into a fricking ditch
                Elaborate so I don't waste my time with them
                >Michael Moorwiener
                Will second this, enjoyed the Dancers at the End of Time stories.

                Thank you both. I'll give both Gene Wolf and Moorwiener (More... wiener? Sounds like a Pynchon character) a look.

  72. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Does the pro-YoshiP crowd honestly think anything in this game will even be as good as this scene? I feel like they’re huffing copium honestly. Not that I think this scene is that great anyway. Its not even in my top 5 FF moments. But FF XIV gays only played 14 and nothing else, so I guess its fair to ask

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >R-R-Remember us... T__T
      This is one of the worst scenes ever. Some moronic "muh ancient race" homosexual who is on maximum cope because his race was sorted out by nature (in the end the whole race was too dumb) is killing millions over millions just because he want his friends back. ;_;

      Do I need to be depressed or a social outcast to like stories like this?

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        This. I guess when you're drip fed the story over years then feelings can be manipulated better, but when you look at the chain of events logically and in a shorter time-frame, it's fricking moronic.

  73. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    ?t=127
    The lack of Japanese lip sync and even Yoshida insisting that the britbong voiceover is the way the game is meant to be experienced is a dealbreaker. People like to say that FF has been a shadow of its former self for a long time but with XVI it truly feels like FF is dead for good.

  74. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >it's the voice acting meltdown Black person again

  75. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    One thing that's interesting is how it seems like this game is the one who's going for a linear and closed spaces focused zones.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      People believed the game was going to be open because it is the mmo team, but it's not the case.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      I'm seriously seeing a scenario where Rebirth is the game focused on open zones.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Would make sense, games are releasing close to each other but would be really different.

  76. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    That anon just reeks of insecurity

  77. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Tabata is currently sucking wiener on the streets of Tokyo to make ends meet. His wife left him for a Black man and he's legally not allowed to see his daughter.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Sounds like some Yakuza sub story.

  78. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    ZODIARK TRAAAAAANCE!!!!! PLEEEEAAAAAASE!

  79. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Another bazzkek pants shitting session. Hold on, let me grab some wine and cookie.

  80. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    What leaks?

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Leak my balls

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      the january Ganker story and game detail leak has been 100% correct

  81. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    what about our boy, Terry Goodkind?

  82. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    here comes the XV autist melty

  83. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Lmao they're actually trying to make
    >Sonyshit, Japan =O

    When it drops and its just Square trying to ape shit like God of War Rangarok I'll laugh at all the Capkuck cope

  84. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Tick-tock, less than a month left before Barry ropes.

  85. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    this game has zero hype around it.
    Outside of the mmo, FF series feels like only NA boomers that somehow still play games at 30+ gaf about it.

  86. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >areas are linear
    >combat is monotonous
    >cutscene quality falls off quick
    >empty open fields
    Scheiße spiele tbh

  87. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    I wouldn't listen to the words of a compulsive liar trying to drag down another game because it's currently stealing the limelight from his favorite "N SYNCs BACK ALRIGHT" flavored dildo.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >autist is clearly pressing TWO buttons with R1+O on easy mode and wait mode and still gets hit taking damage while having wait mode on and using one of the strongest base game regular weapons in the game Durandal with elemental advantage against one of the weakest grunt mob enemies in the entire game while having a full 5 member party

      Meanwhile FF7R is one button action and has a mode that requires no buttons to win

      ?t=554

      >Kitase: This is one button action.

      Also FF16 is literally a one button action game

  88. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    >a game that has no need for certain design elements is "objectively incomplete"
    This is like saying not having swappable party members or no turn based combat is "objectively incomplete". I guess FFXV really is "objectively incomplete" to you.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >he's still on damage control
      >y'see its a good thing yoshiP made ff16 a visual novel with no music and only one color pixel squares and no combat system or story because that is what Yoshi-P wanted so that means its not unfinished compared to other FF games content wise!?
      holy fricking cope

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        >ysee, ff16 doesnt have minecraft creative mode so its incomplete despite there being no need for it at all
        holy cope, i hope you're bracing yourself for the inevitable success of the game

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          FF16 is incompetent becoming it has no party, someone evert ff has had

          no ff has mincecraft creative mode you strawmanning frick

          xv has party commands, wait mode and a functions party as well as character swap

          ff16 has no party and is thus unfinished

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Hey, it's you definition, not mine. You're the one who defined a game not having a mechanic from previous entries being "objectively unfinished". Don't shoot the messenger. You've shot yourself in the foot, dummy.

  89. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    >tendie hiding behind 15

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >tendie-kun still here

      A Japanese guy is still running a petition to have versus xiii released. please sign it.

      https://www.change.org/p/square-enix-reboot-final-fantasy-versus?redirect_reason=not-identified

      Based. Barry will forever seethe. No one likes his game. Not even the japs.

      that is so unbelievably autistic it's almost based

      >nobody cares
      >Been at that same amount for over 5 years
      stellagay on suicide watch

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Been at that same amount for over 5 years
        ?

  90. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    A Japanese guy is still running a petition to have versus xiii released. please sign it.

    https://www.change.org/p/square-enix-reboot-final-fantasy-versus?redirect_reason=not-identified

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Based. Barry will forever seethe. No one likes his game. Not even the japs.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        I unironically enjoyed XV for what it is to be honest. Then again my taste is weird. But hearing about what could have been and all the unused assets on XV made me realise its true potential.

        that is so unbelievably autistic it's almost based

        It is. I just want the promised Romeo and Juliet.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      that is so unbelievably autistic it's almost based

  91. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    He makes a good point here, I can imagine the Hideaway not being directly walkable as it's supposed to be a, well, hideaway, but I have to wonder if the other areas are going to be connected or if it's going to be solely fast travel, like is it possible to go walking from a large area into a dungeon or a large area into a town.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Yeah, I suspected it'll be like this. Pretty disappointed. At least just give us a loading screen or transitional screen like the camera panning up or something. Having it opening the map menu everytime you reached the border is pretty stupid. I really, REALLY hope that it's just the Hideaway but the interview seems to suggest otherwise.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        My cope right now is that the Hideaway on the map is obviously separated from the rest of the map and in the middle of the "deadlands" or whatever.
        I wish someone had asked them real questions and not moronic eceleb shit.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      All areas on the world map have direct connections like lostwing is apart of the Sanbreque zone (an example not confirmed) and you reach it by going through the Greatwoods dungeon you don't have a teleport to take you there if the explanation given by Cid in the preview footage is anything to go by. I'm assuming the hideaway is basically a separate zone which is why it functions the way it does. Doesn't make sense imo to open the world map literally every time the player exits a part of the zone especially when fast travel has seemingly no cost and can be done anywhere in a zone.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >like is it possible to go walking from a large area into a dungeon or a large area into a town.

      They literally show this in the PAX footage.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Mate, they literally didn't.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          ?t=1864

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            Mate that's not what I would consider a "big town". Also, what we're talking about is the transition between the big areas. Like if were to go from the Dhalmekian territory to Rosaria or Sanbreque's, kinda stuff. But I do notice some "gates" at every border. I guess the debate is still open. I really hoped that the guy from the article asked the devs about it.

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              One of the articles said it was like FFXIV with the blue dot area border/gate indicators.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                >One of the articles said it was like FFXIV with the blue dot area border/gate indicators.
                I don't play XIV. Can you elaborate or show example.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                NTA but basically when you reach the border of a zone they connect to a neighboring one but not completely there's like an invisible gap (loading screen transition) separating each zone in XIV. They visualize it using blue dots (if the zone can be accessed at that time) and when the player crosses those dots they load into another zone. It doesn't open a world map or anything.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                I see. I guess I'll just have to wait for the game's release. Having two conflicting articles isn't really helping, but thanks for explaining.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                Exactly the same as it is in FF XII.

                ?t=464

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          Nta but they've said in other interviews that zones do contain towns and some dungeons and side quests are connected directly to the open zones. We can literally see Clive in Martha's rest and its apart of Three Reeds not a separate instance. I think the worry is more can I go from Three Reeds to the bordering Dhalmekian zone without going into the world map and selecting a location. I'm guessing no since how do you reach that zone to begin with? You don't get the teleport spots automatically so I'm assuming it's similar to XIV where you 'attune' or unlock the tp points.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            There is that scene in the boat in that one trailer, could have like small travel cinematics that cart you to the new area and from then on it's just a point on the map? Like you take a boat to the Crystalline Dominion or some shit and then you spend that section of the game working outwards from that point, picking up the towns and stuff in the explorable area and if you ever want to go back you just teleport to the CD main plaza again.

  92. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    >*Reverse chokeholds you*

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >*teleports behind you*

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        >*Grabbing thin air, seeing blurry images as he slowly loses consciousness*

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          *teleports behind you*

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            >*still squirming*

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              *teleports behind you*

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                >*still struggling*

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                *teleports behind you*

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                >*still writhing in pain*

  93. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Imagine being psyop'd by the biggest XV shiteater alive.

  94. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    i think it will be very polished because it will also be very simple, no playable party, very linear, no elemental damage or weakness, a more simple dmc combat which is already very simple

    Also those fricking inspirations for the game are awful
    >SnK GoW GoT
    i guarantee you the character dynamic will be the absolute worst, and we are gonna have a garbage generic revenge is le bad story.

  95. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    I sure am excited for another circus like FF XV

    Maybe this one will finally put Final Fantasy to rest to Square cant rape it anymore with their moronation

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >another circus like FF XV
      not gonna happen see

      i think it will be very polished because it will also be very simple, no playable party, very linear, no elemental damage or weakness, a more simple dmc combat which is already very simple

      Also those fricking inspirations for the game are awful
      >SnK GoW GoT
      i guarantee you the character dynamic will be the absolute worst, and we are gonna have a garbage generic revenge is le bad story.

      it's trying to appeal to the very lowest common denominator, so it will 100% be a success.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Oh wow, you're so cool, anon. You sound so smart too!

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          You don't have be smart to see it, just don't be a blind fanboy, just read every interview, and see how hard they're trying to appeal to Westerners
          >Linear and "cinematic"
          >Braindead combat, already started with xv but still
          >GoW GoT SnK garbage stories that appeal to Westerners

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            >linear and cinematic
            This is "appealing to Westerners"? So um, isn't this like, every FF after VI?
            >Braindead combat, already started with xv but still
            Instead of what? Spamming the same abilities over and over again, but in turns?
            >GoW GoT SnK garbage stories that appeal to Westerners
            These are "garbage"?

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              >This is "appealing to Westerners"?
              Yes like every fricking modern sony game
              >So um, isn't this like, every FF after VI?
              Cutscenes aren't walking segments where you do nothing for hours but holding the stick forward
              see FF7R
              >Spamming the same abilities over and over again,
              We both know that you used your brain far more than what we are getting with ffxvi which will be completely braindead
              >These are "garbage"?
              Yes, they're shitty generic stories that pioritize muh message over logic with shitty character dynamics

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                Why do you c**ts who obviously know jackshit about anything always tries way too hard to sound smart.

  96. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Dont call me, XVI-kun.

    It is I, Kagari. The true Final Fantasy fan. You Bazztek are a fake fan. No doxxing or rape threats will change that.

  97. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    This is interesting, I don't think Sakimoto would work at all for the type of game XVI is.
    All that said, I can't believe a French MTL review is the most levelheaded take on the game I can find.

  98. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Congrats on finally getting a (You) from dreambon, barry. Forspoken still flopped so hard it killed an entire studio

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Dreamboum is literally on suicide watch

  99. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    I hope my son isn't giving you any trouble Ganker

    Such a troublesome boy, ever since his father left to buy a pack of crocodile meat and never came back, he's been spending days in his room yelling very loud unsolicited, opinions about XIV and XVI.

    Is my little boy going to be okay, Ganker?

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >"Are ya winnin, s-OH MY GOSH! Where are your pants?!?!?! Why is there an image of me having sex with this Nathan fellow on your monitor?

      You've got some explaining to do, mister."

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        It truly is over.

  100. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    I really wish these threads weren't like this.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      welcome to Ganker

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      We can only hope Barry actually does kill himself at some point. It's amazing how even with other shitposters, just Barry being absent when he's asleep or shitting up Twitter instead markedly improves the quality of threads.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        He didn't kill himself when Forspoken massively flopped so I doubt he'll do it any time soon. At best, you can expect him to cope by somehow assuming the ff15 team helped with ff16 in some way even though they were busy with Flopspoken.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      when has there ever been a good ff thread

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      It's a battle of autism. I fricking hate this moronic fanbase. I've been playing ToTK for these past few days, being all happy and having fun. Going back here, reading these dumb frickery just pisses the frick out of me. Don't know why I even bothered coming back to this shithole. It's not even fun to talk about vidya, especially FF over here nor everywhere else. It's constant tribalistic bullshit. Don't these people ever get tired of being angry 24/7?

  101. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    It's so funny to me that 90% of what we've seen of Garuda is just a complete rip of Sirene down to her attacks and yet every single moron journo and homosexual in this thread is screaming and ripping their hair out about muh western muh Game of Thrones
    fricking poser homosexuals

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Not entirely their fault innit, Yoshida keeps bringing up GoT influences.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Yes, it is their fault, they've got no right to be crybabies when their entire internalized vision of Japanese culture boils down to feminized men and sanitized bloodless media.
        Yoshida entertaining their moronation does nothing to erase it.

  102. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    https://twitter.com/stephentotilo/status/1660763593355194371
    >Story? I'm skeptical
    >The script is dense with cliches... "War is coming, my boy. We must make ready."
    >Weak one-liners: "I think we made it angry!" "I’d rather we made it die."
    >And lots of: "Frick frick frick frick"
    So this... is the power of an M-rated Final Fantasy

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Who's this? I've never heard of him

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Someone that actually got the misfortune of actually playing the game in person

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Former kotaku editor in chief lmao. It's the gaming journo equivalent of early life section.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >>The script is dense with cliches... "War is coming, my boy. We must make ready."
      how is this a......cliche?

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        I'm glad I'm not the only one confused by that, it makes him seem like he's trying way too hard.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        How is it not, you inbred, actively coping moron?

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          How is it cliche'd? A normal ass line about an obviously older person reminding a younger person a war is coming, is a cliche? Are you dumb? Is "I love you" a cliche too you fricking nonce.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            >AAVE
            Didn't read.

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              You obviously did, you dumb Black person.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          How is one character telling another character that the country needs to be prepared for war an "overused phrase or opinion". Like, are they just supposed to not address the coming war because it triggers your autism? Something that frickin vague doesn't constitute a "cliche", that's like saying a character breathing a sigh of relief is a "cliche". That isn't how cliches work.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >he's right behind me isn't he

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >>Weak one-liners: "I think we made it angry!" "I’d rather we made it die."
      see but you have to read this in Ralph Ineson's accent to make it true to life
      something like OHRD REATHER E MAKE EIT DIE

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      literally who

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Ex-Kotaku Editor-in-Chief
      So his word is basically worthless.

  103. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    This game has got to have the most rabid emotionally unstable fanboys I've seen in quite a while. Watching these homosexuals lash out at people who entertain the very idea that FF16 might have a few sour notes like some deranged religious fundamentalists is already better entertainment that whatever Yoshida was able to put into FF16.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      okay so you weren't in the Elden Ring threads

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        >the most rabid emotionally unstable fanboys I've seen in quite a while
        This claim could be immediately disproven the moment you enter any totk threads.

        >deflecting

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          >moronic
          Glad you're so mad people are hyped for a game lol

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >the most rabid emotionally unstable fanboys I've seen in quite a while
      This claim could be immediately disproven the moment you enter any totk threads.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      How is it not, you inbred, actively coping moron?

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      So, you can't point out moronic criticms at all, and just accept whatever bullshit, wholesale? Care to entertain us why, "War is coming my boy" is "cliche'd"?

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        "War is coming, my boy" is a cliche writing for a fantasy game because it is an overused phrase that shows a lack of originality and creativity. It is a common example of the **prophecy** trope, which is when the story foretells the protagonist's actions, usually as a hero who rises up to vanquish evil1. Some readers actually say they hate this trope because it tells you what's going to happen before it has unfolded1. It also implies that the protagonist is a **chosen one** or a **surprise royal**, which are other cliches that appear frequently in fantasy stories123. A better way to write this sentence would be to avoid using vague and predictable words like "war" and "boy", and instead use more specific and descriptive language that reveals something about the character, the setting, or the conflict.

        Source: Conversation with Bing, 24/05/2023
        (1) 13 Overused Clichés to Avoid in Your Fantasy Novel - HobbyLark. https://hobbylark.com/writing/cliches-to-avoid-in-your-fantasy-novel.
        (2) How To Avoid Cliches In Fantasy Writing - Richie Billing. https://richiebilling.com/fantasy-writing/how-to-avoid-fantasy-tropes-cliches.
        (3) Top 10 Most Overused Cliches In Fantasy - Brad Peirson. http://www.bradpeirson.com/top-10-most-overused-cliches-in-fantasy/.
        (4) Top 51 Fantasy Clichés to Avoid? (Revitalize Your Writing). https://www.purpleshelfclub.com/fantasy-cliches-to-avoid/.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          homie really just used AI

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            AI is smarter than your average AAVE FF16 homosexual and that was a pretty accurate answer. I'm not gonna waste energy googling why your shit game sucks for the sake of an argument in a soon to be autosaged thread.

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              >and that was a pretty accurate answer.
              That wasn't even close to accurate, prophecy and chosen one narratives have nothing to do with "war is coming". Jesus did you even read it before posting?

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              homie really just defended using AI because he's too fricking stupid to write his own argument, holy shit you can't make this up

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              >it's accurate because it pulls info from some random hobbyist sites
              >indian/paki using AI to help his shitty argument
              kek, you really can't make this shit up.
              >throws in "y-you're black" for muh kewl Ganker cred
              look in the mirror for once. lmao.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                the links to these sites don't even have anything to do with the "war" line, it hallucinated the prophecy and chosen one cliche instead and the links only talk about that.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          I would argue that the line "War is coming, my boy. We must make ready" is not a cliché for the following reasons:

          Context: The line is set in a fantasy setting, where conflicts and wars are often central to the storyline. In this context, it is natural for characters to discuss the impending war and the need to prepare for it. Therefore, the line directly addresses the situation at hand, emphasizing the urgency and the necessity for action.

          Emotional Connection: The phrase "my boy" adds a personal touch to the line, establishing a relationship between the speaker and the recipient. It implies a mentorship or a parental figure advising a younger character. This creates an emotional connection and adds depth to the characters involved, making the line more meaningful and relatable.

          Foreshadowing: The line serves as a foreshadowing device, hinting at an upcoming conflict that will shape the narrative. Foreshadowing is a common technique used in storytelling to build tension and anticipation, creating a sense of excitement for the audience. In this case, it prepares players for the challenges and adventures that lie ahead in the game.

          Tone and Style: The language used in the line reflects the fantasy setting and adds a sense of gravitas. The choice of words, such as "war" and "make ready," contributes to the overall atmosphere and helps establish the genre. By maintaining a consistent tone and style throughout the script, we can immerse players in the fantasy world and enhance their gaming experience.

          Character Development: Depending on the context and the characters involved, this line can contribute to their development. It can showcase a mentor figure imparting wisdom, a leader rallying their troops, or a parent preparing their child for the harsh realities of the world. Through this line, we can explore the motivations, fears, and growth of the characters, making it more than just a cliché.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            You obviously did, you dumb Black person.

            >and that was a pretty accurate answer.
            That wasn't even close to accurate, prophecy and chosen one narratives have nothing to do with "war is coming". Jesus did you even read it before posting?

            homie really just defended using AI because he's too fricking stupid to write his own argument, holy shit you can't make this up

            >it's accurate because it pulls info from some random hobbyist sites
            >indian/paki using AI to help his shitty argument
            kek, you really can't make this shit up.
            >throws in "y-you're black" for muh kewl Ganker cred
            look in the mirror for once. lmao.

            All me and I'm trans, btw.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            In the end, moronic FF16 Black person ran to ChatGPT for help right after crying tears from about it earlier, lmao.

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              that's not the point at all, I posted this to illustrate that AI can shit out a bunch of pargaraphs for whatever argument you want it to defend, so it shouldn't be used to "prove" anything. I'm glad you found this convincing though.

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              >In the end, moronic FF16 Black person ran to ChatGPT
              Isn't that what you literally did?

  104. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    I can't wait for this game to bomb bros. I can't wait for the cope.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      I can see that. It'll still be dozens of times better than any other Squeenix game out this year.

  105. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    I see some of you attacking FF15 when it was that gayget NOMURA who fricked the game during development and the SE executives removed him and told Tabata to save the game

    Tabata did just that, he saved FF15 and instead of congratulating him they screwed him over and fired him

    RIP Tabata, now he makes shit mobile games

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      good riddance

  106. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Final Fantasy is completely dead until some higher up gets a bug up his ass about what the seris should be. Considering every game since FF13 has had the exact same problems (style over substance, overdesigned bullshit, focus on effects and graphics, confusing and nonsensical plots, dull and unmemorable characters) the problem doesn't seem to be the result of one person or even a small group. It's a much larger problem that likely starts at the top.

  107. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    facial animations suck

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      They didn't even try, even in important emotional cutscenes. The NPC ones just look unacceptably atrocious.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        they went for an anime look you idiot. they did not make the character look real.......what don't you understand

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          the characters in xenoblade 3 emote way better than this

          SE is just a washed up as frick company kept afloat by their mobile games and sony's welfare cheques

  108. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Of course it's a xeBlack person

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      CUM
      >BUUUUUURRRRRR
      CUM IS LOW
      >BURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

  109. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Do I need a PS5 to play this or will my 4slim handle it

  110. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    another successful thread of absolutely nothing being accomplished
    I can't wait till June 22nd

  111. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    looks like Yoshi P is a little b***h that has to copy Tabata

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >hack copying a hack
      That's like being a hack squared.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

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