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  1. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >/pol/tard memes
    Go back.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Isn't stop the count a very popular phrase on the internet

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Born from the 2020 election. Nobody here wants to hear political horseshit

        [...]

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          >2020

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Ganker is /misc/ you onions homosexual newbie

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            >onions
            What the frick? I meant onions

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              >onions again
              I didn't type that, what is this bullshit?

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                kek of course someone who says

                Ganker is /misc/ you onions homosexual newbie

                is a moronic newbie KWAB

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Born from the 2020 election. Nobody here wants to hear political horseshit
      [...]

      >do I fit in yet?
      Frick off, tourist.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >trying to prevent ideas from spreading
      Someone is scared

  2. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >It all comes tumbling down

  3. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    kek xbots and tendies care more about 16s metacritic score than actual FF fans. you gays need to get laid

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >He cared enough to come into the thread to let people know how much he doesnt care
      curious

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >dude, this game will be a 11/10
      >FFbros, we got a GOTY on our hands

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >>dude, this game will be a 11/10
        and it is

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        This, just funny that shills said this would be GotY and a 9.5 minimum and then it releases and we get this.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Only truth has been spoken

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >xbots
      >even existing in 2023
      They never had and never will have the level of brand loyalty displayed by the other 2

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Who gives a frick about brand loyalty in this day and age when PC is the best platform? It’s asinine.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >actual FF fans
      They aren't buying it.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        but I did

  4. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Wasn't Square doing damage control because of the low pre orders by stating that they expected the game to have good sales in the long run by word of mouth instead of hype?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      yes and after that a convenient leaker shows up here and started doing daily threads spoiling the story.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous
    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Frick I love that blond Asian trans pornstar!

  5. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >score is still free falling

    Nice """""GOTY"""" you guys have.

  6. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    OH NO NO

  7. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    remove the +30 gay lobby bonus and you get the real score

  8. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I just found 6 million negative reviews at 3 am goyim.
    what now?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      6 gorillions negative reviews in such short amount of time isn't logistically possible. No server could handle all those requests.

  9. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >it keeps going down
    OHHHHHHHH NO NO NO NO NO THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING MMO MAN SAVE ME

  10. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I don't give a shit about FF16. I'm just glad the shill campaign has ended so this board doesn't have 7 FF16 threads singing its praises every nanosecond.

  11. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA BARRY DID THIS AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

  12. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Hyped up to "destroy" TotK's chances of winning GotY
    >Likely won't even win best RPG category

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      jesus christ the dick riding is craaazy

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >try to make clickbait thumbnails
        >Clive doesn't have any expressions
        Must be hard shilling something this soulless

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Dude is probably calling a suicide hotline right now

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        let me guess, it's a Black person making those videos?

  13. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    kinda reminds me of SMTV
    >game comes out
    >87 metacritic
    >some negative reviews about the story
    >people are mad as hell, how could such a hyped game possibly be that flawed?
    >reviews single out the story as bad
    >months later
    >drops do 83
    >months later most people agree it's a very flawed game in hindsight and the story is truly shit
    FFXVI
    >starts at 88
    >some negative reviews about the story ..
    >months later....

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      I wish V's honeymoon period lasted that long. /smtg/ hit the denial phase like 2 weeks after release and by the next month was really starting to lose it.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        I need a quick rundown of this. I never cared for JRPGs but it feels like fricking star wars now, the most loyal fans are such extreme autists that hate their own favorite games? as a Halo Chad myself I understand the feeling, but it's still bizarre to see

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          If you mean the specifics of SMTV in particular
          >story and characters are very underwhelming and feel borderline incomplete, feels like a cheap derivation of the 3rd game in the series
          >combat feels great at first, but the more you dig into it the more the boss fights all feel identical, your level is the most important stat of all, SMT which was known for not really being a grinding series and skill/strategy playing a far bigger role than your level now demanded grinding from you, etc.
          But for this sentiment in particular
          >the most loyal fans are such extreme autists that hate their own favorite games?
          Extreme love can turn to extreme hate very fast if it feels like that love has been betrayed. Ex-Blizzard fans loathe that company more than anyone else could possibly hope to, for example.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            >combat feels great at first, but
            Yet they were somehow fine with IV which never feels good. Everything you said about V’s combat is untrue btw

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Smtv was a great game so I'm going to buy ffxvi I guess.
      Couldn't care less about story Black folk.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      V wasn't bad but definitely way worse than original IV.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        No way can anyone think that. IV is a real drag to play and almost nothing happens in the story that has a giant presence
        >go here
        >now go here

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          IV has become massively popular over the years as it was so many people's first SMT game and a lot of the flaws have been glossed over. Granted this is mostly in the west as the recent anniversary polls showed Japan really does not care for IV.

  14. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I'm not even a FF fan but how in the frick is 87 a bad score? You expected it to beat a Zelda game or some shit? DQXI was a fricking miracle and you shouldn't expect nu-Square to make a masterpiece, 87 is damn amazing for a modern Square title

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >You expected it to beat a Zelda game or some shit?
      It wasn't even that long ago that Zelda was the smaller series

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Yep, FFXV shrunk the brand hard.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          15 was just the shit nugget on top of the vomit cake, FF hasn’t been good in over 20 years

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          by selling more in less time than any ff in history?

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            It sold 5 million on launch due to preorders. It was extremely overhyped and touted as the franchise's "return to form". Then it came out and everyone found out it's actually a complete turd, tanked the sales so hard it was selling in the bargain bin for $20 a month after release.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Zelda has been huge since LTTP

        sold 1.5m more units than ff6

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      it is abysmal for a long awaited AAA title, the score on these games starts at 80 by default

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >You expected it to beat a Zelda game
      After 16 mainline games and 15 spinoff titles, yes I expect them to make a good game

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Normal reaction to uppity FFgays praising this game and predicting a 95+ despite the game not even releasing yet.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      games have really shit critics because they don't play many games they are mostly not experts, and because they don't finish games they take a lot of guess, so real scores for good games are from 90-100 for good games, anything below is made up shit or bad.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      DQ is a Horii game. Don't put these games together with FF garbage.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      DQ wasn't a miracle. this is a series of games with 11 games 10 of which are good and 4 could be considered masterpieces.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        V, VIII, XI, ?

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          III

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        How can every mainline DQ be good and nu FF be so shitty? Can't Square bring some people from DQ to help with FF?

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          DQ has the same team while FF constantly rebounds between different teams, of which the last three mainline releases before XVI all had some sort of catastrophic development cycle.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          DQ has the same team while FF constantly rebounds between different teams, of which the last three mainline releases before XVI all had some sort of catastrophic development cycle.

          DQ outsourced every game up until IX lol

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            The leads stay in place though and they clearly know how to whip their teams into shape. Similar to how Sakurai has jumped between multiple different teams for games but they all have a very distinct Sakurai feel.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            They weren't outsourced. DQ had nothing to do with Square before the merger actually, it was published by Enix. I think DQVIII is the first DQ game under Square. The core team always stayed the same and the first 5 games were developed by Chunsoft

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              >it was published by Enix.
              Correct, because they were a publishing company.
              they were not a video game developer.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          what holds DQ together is yuji horii, who writes the story for all the games and decides the game design in advance. the games are always developed by different people, only him and a few more people stay the same.

          let's be honest, FF has a harder job than DQ. FF has to reinvent itself with every game, DQ can refine, polish, build on what already worked. Its still impressive that DQ has so many amazing games, but the thing is that they know what makes DQ fun and can repeat that. FF has to come up with a new way of "being fun" with every game. i am a huge DQ fan and consider it the best video game series by sheer quality, but it's not as ambitious as FF.

          For instance, a great DQ story has a certain structure that FF cannot use. A good DQ story focuses on a simple theme, usually inspired by fairy tale stories, and does everything it can in its power to draw the player in and make him feel involved with the theme and move emotionally /surprise him in some way. DQ11's story was built around the transition from act 1 to act 2, in act 1 you were built up as the hope for everyone and the ultimate legendary hero who has to fix everything, but you end up losing at the end of act 1. the game tries to make you feel involved with the story by making you feel guilty for not living up to the expectations of being a luminary everyone had for you, and you try to desperately make things right. it's a very interesting way to make you feel like a JRPG hero and get you truly involved with the adventure and characters around you. but FF cannot copy that because at its core it's just a very classic story extremely well done.

          FF has to be original and ambitious. the perfect FF is as strange and dreamy as FF8, as innovative in storytelling as FF7, have set pieces as spectacular as FFVI (or FFXVI) etc.

          A good FF cannot be good in the same way DQ is good.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      This is probably the most expensive game to launch this year, except for Starshart. And it launched with no bugs, no DLC plotholes in 100% complete state so we know they're not deducting scores for that.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >And it launched with no bugs
        Are ps5s catching on fire a feature?

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        No it's just getting pointes deducted for not having Black folk in it. It'd unironically be 90+ if not for that nonsense.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      You havent been payong attention to XVI threads. They genuinely believed this game was going to be best final fantasy yet and would blow every other game this year out of the water. There's a reason we've been trying to tell them to temper their expectations. Theyve been straight up delusional about it.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >You expected it to beat a Zelda game or some shit?
      with the amount of shilling unironically yes.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Yes. XIV fans are that delusional about their MMO man.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      All big hyped franchise always get at least a 90 no matter how shitty the actual game is, FF16 would have a higher score if FF15 didn't make FF become a B series and the journo didn't decide to go on some moral crusade about how it's terrible that FF16 doesn't have any Black person in it

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous
        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous
          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            I can't believe The Legend of Zelda CDi is better than Final Fantasy XVI

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              >XVI got fricking SQUADALLAH'd
              its over

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Sonic Mania got a 90+ after like 15 years of Sonic being a laughinstock. FFXV has nothing to do with this. Sometimes things are pretty damn simple, you just need to make a great game. The only games that get an actual developer/publisher/franchise bonus are those movie games like God of War. I mean they are barely even video games but still have a 95 metascore

  15. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Same score as Tales of Arise while having 30 times more budget

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      lower score than Xenoblade 3 while having 30x the budget and 2x development time

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        xenoblade 3 is a truly awful game. the story was so bad it basically made me stop playing jrpgs

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Filtered cringe b***hlet

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            if you thought that story was good, have fun at your bar mitzvah next year

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            Xenogays are so cute when they get worked up

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              Kiss me on my hot mouth then coward

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                I would if I could, but that would be gay and that's not christian

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          based, people give Monolith way too much credit for the bare minimum

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      ToA doesn't deserve an 87 at all either. I'm completely convinced most journos played it for 10-15 hours and called it a day. The game gets so fricking bad as it goes on.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        do you honestly think journos actually finish any of the games they review? there’s a reason frontloading all the good shit in the first few hours is an industry trend

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          any single player game over 40 hours is not being finished.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >The game gets so fricking bad as it goes on.
        So does XVI.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Arise was also a shit game.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Better combat system funny enough.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Then FF16 must be real fricking dire considering how Arise is one of the most shallow action games I’ve ever played.

  16. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >keeps on winning

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >flops and gets forgotten in a month
      Not a win, buddy.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      soi fi slop
      no thanks

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Flopped slop and dropped. winning.

  17. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Obligatory

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Barry won...

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Barry won...

      What did he win?

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >has to cling to oc

        wow bro its only 2 points higher than xv yet tons of reviews are rating both either the same score or only 1 point difference and plenty of people are still criticising ff16

        Just so you know FF15 MC was 86 when reviews first went up
        So FF16 isnt guaranteed to stay 87 it'll probably drop even more by a months time

        Too bad ff16 is losing in sales...

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          >pc vs console
          try again kek

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          You're telling me base 16 is better than 15 with two years of performance patches, story additions and gameplay improvements? That's wild.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          >Just so you know FF15 MC was 86 when reviews first went up
          No it wasn't. I distinctly remember it being a point lower than Xenoblade X because it was my prime shitposting tool

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            It was 86 for the day before release and dropped to 85 on release then settled around 84 by early December.

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              OH NO NO NO HAHAHAHA HOW WILL HE WRIGGLE HIS WAY OUT OF THIS ONE

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              that's what I said
              it objectively was 86
              ff16 already dropped from 88 to 87 1 day after release
              people are still adding reviews

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                And XVI was higher before release, higher after release, and will probably settle higher. It was literally 86 for half a day before release and 84 on the day of release. It dropped to 82 in mid December and 81 in late January

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                ff16 is dropping fast
                also most outlets giving ff16 a 10 didn't even exist on metacritic or didn't give reviews with a number or didn't do reviews at all back in 2016

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Cope

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              >34th best PS4 game of 2016
              Wow what an honour!

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                2016 was a banger year. Such high quality releases such as...uh... Uncharted 4. And others.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          >29 critics
          Kek

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            >pc version (patched shit releasing 2 years after the base edition)
            >29 reviews
            >still lower

            thank goodness we can ignore the XIV expansion metacritic scores now.

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              >b-but what about this other game
              FF16 thread. FF16 won.

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              Kek I'd love to see the videos on XIVs expansions and how they're disappointments. You can find plenty of them on XV

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            >already coping
            so xiv expansion scores dont count

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          >pc version (patched shit releasing 2 years after the base edition)
          >29 reviews
          >still lower

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            Even in your biggest mental gymnastics cope you STILL can't make XV win. You're fricking pathetic Barry. Off yourself already you miserable cuckold.

            >this desperate cope

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Even in your biggest mental gymnastics cope you STILL can't make XV win. You're fricking pathetic Barry. Off yourself already you miserable cuckold.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Bazza I know you can't undo the countless hours and money spent on VPNs so you could argue over metacritic scores but you're not going to win this battle.
          Cling to your sales because that's all you have left at this point.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            Will you damage control Edge and jim stealing giving 16 a negative review?

            >b-but what about this other game
            FF16 thread. FF16 won.

            >xvi cultists cannot keep their argument straight

            if low reviewer number doesn't count then none of the ff14 xpacs count

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              Will you damage control when FF16 settles on a higher score than FF15? It already started off on a much better foot.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                15 is higher and sold better

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >15 is higher
                where?

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              >Jim sterling
              Dudes completely lost his mind to agp insanity, watch any of his latest vids and it's pure cumbrained nonsense about sucking wieners and his "breasts". You think throwing your lot in with this dude helps your case?

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              >jim stealing
              a jimquisition popped up in my feed and it turns out he trooned out
              I fricking cackled

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          >version that released 1.5 years after the initial console release with patches and fixes
          >STILL lower than the base release of ff16
          hahahahahhhahahaaahahahahahahahahahhhahahaaahahahahahahahahahhhahahaaahahahahahahahahahhhahahaaahahahahahahahahahhhahahaaahahahahahahahahahhhahahaaahahahahahahahahahhhahahaaahahahahahahahahahhhahahaaahahahahahahahahahhhahahaaahahahaha

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            >hahaha my masterpiece of a game is 2 points higher than the horrible disgusting game I'm offended by
            Interesting

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              *with 5x the reviews

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                What do you think that contributes to the argument? Makes the score more accurate? Well okay we're absolutely sure it's just 2 points higher then, good

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                6 points*

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                That was an undercooked incomplete version. Good thing they fixed it. I wonder if they'll fix 16 by changing every character to someone likeable

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Good thing we're evaluating the release state of one game against another despite having one third the development time! :^)

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >we
                Who's we? I'm clearly not doing that. I don't know why it's important for you to compare to a game that doesn't even exist anymore.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Good thing we're evaluating the release state of one game against another
                You MMOtards really like this argument and I never see you applying it to your favorite game

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Damn that's crazy considering ARR is a different game

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                2

                >inb4 hurr they had to add shit
                yeah like every ff did in their internal version

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Its going to tie with FF15 and Barry will have a field day on his twitter posting pictures of waifus and jerking off to them

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            xv is better yes we know

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        your moms anal virginity

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        open critic is just a dogshit clone to a already dogshit website (rotten tomatos

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Barry is so mentally ill that I can't help but root for him sometimes, kind of like Chris-chan. Most fanbases have just shrugged him off when he decides to shit up their threads but FF fans have become totally obsessed with him.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      The people that spend months arguing with Barry about XVI don't even own a fricking PS5. It's ridiculous.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Thats 90% of the people saying its going to be GOTY
        Probably just a bunch of homosexuals from the FF14 general salivating on Yoshis wiener

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          this so much
          this game is only hyped here on this site, the last bastion for the mentally ill ff cultists

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >muh 1 week long exclusivity deal
        Really we're still pretending that matters

  18. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Review bombed by homosexual feminist gay journos for not having enough African Americans in its medieval European setting. Pathetic worms

  19. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    you guys love to shit on game journalists but every time a big game comes out the metacritic score seems to be the most important thing about it
    Inb4 >it's just shitposting bro
    I know some of you guys definitely take this seriously considering how irony poisoned this board is

  20. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Another 6/10 cus muh Black folk no diversity!!
    >It’s also weird and uncomfortable (given how the game’s cast is solely white European, despite many of the villages clearly being based on African and Middle Eastern architecture) how much of the early plot revolves around slavery, and Clive’s incredibly slow realisation that maybe it might be a bad idea.
    https://metro.co.uk/2023/06/22/final-fantasy-16-review-a-song-of-blizzara-and-fira-18993975/

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Stop noticing the agenda goy

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      These morons don't seem to understand that Africa is a continent not a country. Not the whole continent is Black folk, it's divided by a huge desert that is almost impossible to go across without dying. All the Black folk are on the South while the north is were all the arb sand Black folk live, those are their countries, those are not Black person countries.

  21. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    NOOOOOOOO IT WENT DOWN

  22. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    The game sucks for FF fans, all the main characters are effectively the hulk cause they turn into the summons. I wanted the summons to be gods you get help from, in this they are just the human characters that transform.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Yeah its just a weird direction all around
      The magic is gone for summons / eikons, they don't feel special anymore when you know they're controlled by humans with titan powers. Its a fricking AoT rip off

  23. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    How is this a bad score?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Modern reviews range from 78 to 96 unless your game is literally broken unplayable mess. 87 is like a 6/10 at most.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      because snoys and onion drinking streamers overhyped the shit out of this game as being a genre defining titles. It had to score atleast 90. Instead it barely scored over diablo 4

  24. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >also on PC
    bwuh?

  25. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    So people are mad that ff gays were hoping their game would be amazing? that they had the audacity to hope it would be a goty contender?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      it's inevitably fun to see a wienery fanbase get some comeuppance

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      It's not a GOTY but journos are deducting points for gay political reasons. Eurogamer gave it 3/5 purely because it didn't have black people.

  26. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Substract 10 points from the homosexual bonus and you get the real score

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Nah. It got +10 points for having gays and troony aliens in it, both cancel eachother out.

  27. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    pandering to GoW gays was the worst thing they could have done. This game would've been absolutely KINO as frick if turn based or even a FF tactics (even the map is like it). Just killing off everybody ala GoT amidst all the QTEs and scripted battles is peak soulless and a goddamn tranwreck. These characters deserved better.

  28. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    So its fricking more linear than 13 ever has been

    FFs

  29. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >same score nier automata floated down to with even dumber reviews
    Why am I supposed to believe this is bad

  30. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    It's funny seeing the people crying barry now are crying to themselves after seeing the reviews

  31. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Oh, no... Who could have seen this coming after Square has only made shittier games for at least two decades now?

  32. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >same score as the PS4 version of 7R with 360p textures
    >2 points lower then the fixed PS5 version of 7R
    Ohnononononononooooooo

  33. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

  34. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    can anybody share a link to a good longplay? i want to make my own opinion rather than relying on journos
    >buy it
    i'll play it on pc

  35. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I for one am glad that single player Final Fantasy entries are steadily improving!
    Some helpful statistics from Opencritic...
    FFXV: 81 average score, 74% critics recommend
    FFXVI: 89 average score, 94% critics recommend
    Wow! It's a good time to be a Final Fantasy fan!

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Your 7 looks a little crooked there, bro

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Your reading comprehension is looking a little crooked buddy

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >FFXV: 81 average score, 74% critics recommend
      >FFXVI: 89 average score, 94% critics recommend
      There's a mistake here, did you mean to say
      >FF7Remake: 89 average score
      or
      >FF16: 87 average score

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Are you also having trouble reading?

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          >ummm actually that's the correct nitpicked score from the aggregator that agrees with me
          LMAO

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            Egg on your face

  36. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I feel bad for zoomers, they'll never get to see an FF game be completely mindblowing and game-changing
    I feel like that's who the Barry memers are. People who simply wished for that to happen

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Zoomers
      >Playing Final Fantasy
      kek, ok gramps

  37. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Final Fantasy XVI is a messy game that sometimes delivers and sometimes does not. The new combat system only becomes good after many hours and the fetch quests are an insult.

    >By its end, the game is reusing plot points from multiple older Final Fantasy games and the whole idea of being something new and different gets lost in a muddle of poor storytelling and an overlong running time.

    Is over

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      is that the eurogamer one?

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        one is some brazilian site and the other is metro

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          ah, for a moment I thought it was gamerants, the falco dude was highly weary about not being turnbased

  38. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Hopefully Yoshi-P can show those Luminous folks how it's done now that they've been absorbed.

  39. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >It's still higher than XVs peak before it settled at 81
    Lmao

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >b-b-b-but it's slightly better than the TORtanic that we shitposted about for years
      The fricking state of Yoshi's pee drinkers

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Boiling

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          You'd want to boil it before drinking I imagine

  40. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I don't get why it's so controversial to admit both statements are true.
    >Barry is a deranged schizomaniac who would jump in front of a hail of bullets for Tabata and shits up the board into oblivion
    >CBU3 has a cult fanbase that has a more unhealthy parasocial worship of its leads than Kojimagays at their peak and is convinced that anyone that isn't like them must surely be a malicious troll

  41. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Final Fantasy is probably the biggest fall from grace along with RE between 4 and 7

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      this is FF's RE7 tho. a notable recovery from the past garbage.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >this is FF's RE7 tho. a notable recovery from the past garbage.
        That statement is moronic on 2 levels. FF7R is FF's RE2R, a notable recovery from the past garbage. This is FF's RE: Resistance, an genre hopping abomination that has no reason to exist

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      RE has 100% rebounded.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Final Fantasy is probably the biggest fall from grace
      not really. it just happened that we got bad games in a row in a well known phase where square was having problems with development.
      Nowadays the franchise is alive and well as always, unless you are moronic of course.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >game that everyon agrees is ridiculous and dumb
        >remaster of an 11-year-old game that reuses music from even older games
        >time ghost 7
        >old games, now with more widescreen
        >FF of thrones
        >mobileshit

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Nowadays the franchise is alive and well as always
        >posts pure slop
        LMAO

  42. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    You morons literally have no excuse
    https://twitter.com/auuo/status/1671764838618656769

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      That auuo guy is a legit yoshipee shill and not a real fan of the franchise
      No one should even listen to him

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >that auuo guy is just a shill

  43. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Final Fantasy is healing

  44. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I just don't understand why everyone kept saying the combat was DMC? Visually it looks cool sometimes but in terms of actual gameplay it's nothing like DMC at all. I'm completely baffled why that one game journo called it "just a really long DMC game."

    As for the story, it's so Game of Thrones inspired that I really like I should just rewatch that instead.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >As for the story, it's so Game of Thrones inspired that I really like I should just rewatch that instead.
      I'm so fricking tired of FF-secondaries spouting this moronic Black personlicious take like it's deep or insightful or correct. Yoshi-P is a Matsuno fanboy and the entire game is trying to ape Matsuno.

      Matsuno and GRRM have a common influence - actual fricking medieval history.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Hey, man, everyone knows GRRM invented medieval intrigue.
        Even that famous game Crusader Kings II is absolutely based on his work in Game of Thrones. I heard the Dothraki inspired the nomadic Mongol hordes who invade around mid game.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Game of Thrones is directly cited as a major influence by Yoshi-P.
        https://www.eurogamer.net/final-fantasy-16-has-me-questioning-the-essence-of-the-series
        >"As I've grown older, I've found that I like my fantasy based more in reality," said Yoshida, when I asked about these influences. "We wanted to create something that really resonated with a lot of people. And when we saw how Game of Thrones, and before that the Song of Ice and Fire series, has really resonated with players, we knew that this was something that we wanted to do as well. When we first started creating the game, we had our core team of about 30 members very early on buy the blu-ray boxset of Game of Thrones and required everyone to watch it, because we wanted this type of feel.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          NOOOOO THAT CAN'T BE REAL. BARRY MUST HAVE DOCTORED THIS ARTICLE!!!!

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          see

          TIL Josh Strife Hayes is actually based.

          he could say that he eats shit every day for breakfast and XIVgays would go "he never said he eats literal shit, he means it metaphorically, he would never say that, he's just cracking a joke, even if he did is it really a big deal, you know studies are showing that a tablespoon of shit a day is good for you, I also eat shit, why aren't you eating shit too?"

  45. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Barry won

  46. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I'm surprised it isn't higher since journos love "press x to cool" action-slop. Combat seems to be universally praised among journos at least.

  47. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Sony loses again

  48. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Did people think this was genuinely going to be punching into Zelda/Mario/Rockstar levels?

    9/10 average I'd believe, which is about where it is right now but some of you all were posting shit no Final Fantasy was ever achieving.

  49. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >expecting anything other than mediocrity from Yoshis peepee

  50. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    FF15.......home.....

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >he has to resort to posting FF15 webms
      That's how you know it's over...

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >xvi-kun digging through his shitpost folder to dump old and debunked xv webms
      cope tard

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        looks like shit

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      I've always been put off by how awkwardly Noctis moves, he's really jerky and jittery whenever he moves or dodges

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >has to cling to oc

      wow bro its only 2 points higher than xv yet tons of reviews are rating both either the same score or only 1 point difference and plenty of people are still criticising ff16

      Just so you know FF15 MC was 86 when reviews first went up
      So FF16 isnt guaranteed to stay 87 it'll probably drop even more by a months time

      Too bad ff16 is losing in sales...

      It's fricking OVER for you Barry-Kun. Take your L and move on with your pathetic life. I'd hate to see you still being this butthurt over your precious FFXV when FFXVII rolls around in 2031.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >FF17
        >existing after the disastrous failure of 16
        Hahahahahahahahahahaha

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Why is Clive fricking a dude? Thats gay. Is this what FFsisters beat their meat to?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Now post one of the adamantoise fight

  51. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    >ff16 took 2x longer to make than xv and had longer deb time than xv had even including all dlc stuff
    just to be clear, you're claiming that ff16 took 20 years to make? that it started development in 2003?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >you're claiming that ff16 took 20 years to make? that it started development in 2003?

      Yes

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >could have had god-tier nomura kino in Versus XIII
      >project was pissed and shit on by Tabatard and it release as an unfinished hackjob that had to have story patched in because they forgot to add it in the first place
      forever mad

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      lmfao

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      lmfao

      >could have had god-tier nomura kino in Versus XIII
      >project was pissed and shit on by Tabatard and it release as an unfinished hackjob that had to have story patched in because they forgot to add it in the first place
      forever mad

      >you're claiming that ff16 took 20 years to make? that it started development in 2003?

      Yes

      xv only had 3.5 years of actual development which the Japanese va confirmed
      ff16 started before ff15 even released and had 2x the actual dev time
      versus isnt xv anymore than ff14 1.0 counts as ff14 shadowbringers dev

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >xv only had 3.5 years of actual development which the Japanese va confirmed
        >ff16 started before ff15 even released and had 2x the actual dev time
        source for both of these claims? they fricked around for 6.5 years and only worked for 3.5?

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          google it cbf linking

  52. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    >ff16 took 2x longer to make than xv
    Barry is a living parody of what a fanboy is.

  53. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Reminder, these threads wouldn't be that big of a deal if homosexuals (and certain YouTube egays) didn't hype the game up and proclaim it's GotY. Next time shut the frick and be humble before release.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Lmao so basically you admit you're petty homosexuals that can't stand people loving a game. So much so that for this instance now you stand with reviewers despite decades of shitting on them for their awful takes

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Nah, you Black folk praised the game way too much despite it not even being released yet. And EVERYONE could read the leakthreads and how the story went off the rails after Ultima showed up.

  54. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Willing to bet it settles at 84 once people see what a travesty the story is.

  55. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    XVI is better than the majority of XV reviews, same with XIV expansions

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      it isnt actually
      nobody likes 14

      [...]
      >It was
      >it was 86 then 84 then around 4 months later was 81
      It was 82 by mid December

      It was 86 the day the went up and dropped by day 2
      stop coping
      we're on frick day 2 of ff16 now and it's dropping

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        You sure sound butthurt bud

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        So you're saying it was at 81 on day 2 now? That it dropped 5 points in a single day because of how shit it was,

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          xv is better than 16 same way dmc4se is better than dmc4

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >nobody likes 14
        I think you mean 15. Did you get your roman numerals mixed up?

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          nobody likes 14

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            I'm still mad that NT was a complete failure
            fricking christ, I just want a Dissidia 012 sequel

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            FF15's glory period is over my man, it's time to come to terms with the fact that we're in 2023

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              nobody likes 14

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >a poll from years ago competing with a poll from the last year
                it's over, FF15 is forgotten...

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            Zenos is so trash

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            Zenos is the best thing about the game.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >nobody likes 14
        its one of the most successful MMOs on the market and it's due another fanfest/expansion
        hell, if nobody liked it, you wouldn't have yoshicultists to cry about

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          it isn't
          stop falling for pr
          the cult just shills it because its their hangout spout

  56. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    >It was
    >it was 86 then 84 then around 4 months later was 81
    It was 82 by mid December

  57. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I was worried, but it's good to know the new ff game is better than its predecessor in every single way. Baby steps, but progress nonetheless.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      It's predecessor is FF7R, Yoshi's pee drinker

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Cope however you like dumb dumb

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        regardless, thank frick its better than XV

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Eh the world and the characters look so fricking bland I'm not actually sure it is
          >but muh combat
          I don't care, I play FF for the setting and the characters and they suck ass here. If I played FF for combat I wouldn't last until 16

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          it isn't
          Its made by xv and forspoken devs

          *with 5x the reviews

          so ff14 xpacs don't count

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            So forspoken isn't worse than xv because Luminous worked on it?

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              Forspoken is better than ff16

              [...]

              It's fricking OVER for you Barry-Kun. Take your L and move on with your pathetic life. I'd hate to see you still being this butthurt over your precious FFXV when FFXVII rolls around in 2031.

              >xvi-kuns entire gotcha is shooping an image so it looks like Clive is having gay sex

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            >Its made by xv and forspoken devs
            wait, if that's true, shouldn't Barry adore XVI?

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              Please don't point it out, you'll break his brain.
              Sorta like when he started boasting about Forspoken having KH2 devs on it, even though he shat on KH2 for 5 years.
              Or when he had no idea if he was supposed to support Crisis Core Reunion or not because it was Tabby's game being remade without him.

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              he does
              but xiv cultists like

              Please don't point it out, you'll break his brain.
              Sorta like when he started boasting about Forspoken having KH2 devs on it, even though he shat on KH2 for 5 years.
              Or when he had no idea if he was supposed to support Crisis Core Reunion or not because it was Tabby's game being remade without him.

              are mindbroken

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Admission that you adore FF16? Well shit, that's a breakthrough

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              >teams have been autobalanced

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            >it isn't
            >Its made by xv and forspoken devs
            lmao, the bot got caught in a logical loop

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        And it's better than FF7R. Cope all you want about XVI but at least it has an ending. Also doesn't waste the best theme in the entire series on some who gives a shit fake out fight.

  58. 11 months ago
    Barry

    It could've been 100 across the board. Ain't no one playing on this dead ass system.

  59. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    JUST

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      I own both systems and will enjoy both games

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >meanwhile, mfw as someone who enjoys both

        holy mother of cope tier replies out of the woodwork

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          >people that play and enjoy video games are just COPING!
          Pot meet kettle.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >meanwhile, mfw as someone who enjoys both

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Most of us enjoy both, it's just shitposting.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Can I emulate XC3 at 60fps yet?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      given how X3 runs on Switch and is about as impressive as a Wii game, this is embarrassing for XVI

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >given how X3 runs on Switch and is about as impressive as a Wii game, this is embarrassing for XVI
        The standards for switch games are lower.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >A real-time battle system rpg with large open zone environments and 7 active battle members on the field at all times running on a console two generations behind its contemporaries isn't impressive because...It isn't, ok!

  60. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    The IGN Japan review is going to drop it later, they put out a video preview of them playing and they just complain about the game constantly

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      They are going to rate it mid or low. Its not an RPG, its inferior devil may cry with less weapons.

  61. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    action bros...

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      NONONONONO I THOUGH 4 homieS IN A ROW WAS DEAD!!!!!!!??????

  62. 11 months ago
    The cooler Barry

    Now that the dust has settled, what went wrong?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      MMO devs can't make good games and MMO players don't deserve them. Making FF11 a numbered title was the biggest mistake FF made, making MMOtards believe they belong here

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Nothing. The press was always going to hate it because Yoshi-P refuses to do the ESG shuffle. The legacy fans were going to hate it because it's trying to jettison the last vestiges of turn-based gameplay. The Japanese were going to hate it because it's too violent and explicitly sexual for mainstream appeal. And Barry was going to hate it because it's not FFXV.

      It's a game trying to fit in the middle of millions of people's expectations simultaneously and, while it's good, you can't get 10/10 by doing that. Unironically it probably would have reviewed better if it wasn't FF.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >muh brave pee man refuses to do ESG
        Shut the frick up, he made an ENG only game with no JP lipsynch and shoved gays into it. He did more for the globohomosexual agenda than anyone else before him
        >but muh blacks!!
        Whatever

  63. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    >ff16 took 2x longer
    yeah they've been working on it since 2003 right? lol

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >wiki
      holy hell you're moronic

      guess ff14 took 18 years to make and is still unfinished

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >mmo
        ok, kid

  64. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Well this game is now in an area where it will be lucky to just be nominated for GotY.

  65. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    The most schizo thing about this game is that it was directed by The Last Remnant guy lmao

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Oh frick I can see it
      The direction feels disjointed like in Last Remnant

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Capcom is doing well because in the last decade they've brought in a lot of younger, fresh new people into their development haul. Why's Sqaure clinging on to devs who have fricked up in the past or made mid shit?

  66. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    wtf, it keeps going down!

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      https://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-5/final-fantasy-xvi
      Why lie?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      https://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-5/final-fantasy-xvi
      Why lie?

      wait a second...

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        we are so fricking back

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        8.8chads!! we're back baby!!

  67. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Oh but I thought the MMO team is the only one that understands FF?

  68. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Sorry chudcels, no diversity no GOTY 🙂

  69. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    AIIEEEEEE SAVE ME YOSHIDA-SAN

  70. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >also on PC
    NEVER EVER

  71. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Its over for Barry

  72. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Is this the last mainline final fantasy?
    Same score as tales of arise
    Worse than Xenoblade 3, despite 3 times the budget and the marketing
    Prologue is the best part and then everything falls apart

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      We are not getting Final Fantasy 17 after this fricking disastrous game

      Just wait a couple of weeks, people will realize how shitty this game really is

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >just two more weeks you guys I promise everyone will stop loving it please just believe me
        >*huffs lethal dose of copium*

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >3 times

      more like 20x times

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      The worst thing is this time they actually targeted the western audience so they can't say
      >uguuu our quirky jap sensibilities were misunderstood
      They got exactly the score they deserved from exactly the audience they were aiming for

  73. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    i saying this MANY time... im sading for FINAL FANTASY... MOVIE gameing killing FINAL FANTASY.... im sorry to mans who loving FINAL FANTASY MOVIE... i HOPING YOU enjoying the MOVIE FANTSAY... HAVING FUN NOW... NO CARING WHAT STUPID JURNALIST SAYING ABOUT GAME.... HAVING FUN NOW.... ENJOYING IT AT LAST!!!!!!

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Final fantasy was always movie games you dumb arab moron

  74. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      At least it can't drop lower

  75. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Also On: PC

  76. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I can never understand how you utter homosexuals can give a shit about reviews. Like, there's a billion things wrong with the game you could be going on about but instead you just go "NUMBER BAD, NUMBER BAD". It's gonna get like an 80 something. This is objectively a good score despite the fact that it's a shit game, because the number is fricking meaningless. But instead of, you know, talking about how bad the fricking game is, you just jerk off over these fricking reviews. Some pathetic review-b***h wrote an article that said "this game would be perfect if it had fewer white people in it, 8 out of 10" and you're right there, lapping it up.
    The game plays like Devil May Cry if it was made for and by people with brain damage, and the plot has fricking aliens show up 80% of the way through for no fricking reason, and it's padded to frick with MMO fetch quests. It fricking sucks. On an objective rating scale it'd get like a 5/10 at most and that would just be because the combat's alright sometimes. There's so much to criticize and instead I see like 50 threads where some stupid homosexual is hooting like a moronic chimp because the magic number it got is lower than the magic number some other piece of shit got.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      unironically, reviews matter a ton for AAA games. they don't matter for niche shit because, let's take etrian odyssey, you like dungeon crawlers? you're gonna like etrian odyssey. regardless of what the reviews say. but with an AAA game it's different. AAA games are made to appeal to EVERYONE and be good for everyone, so the reviews actually say a lot about their quality

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        No they don't, every AAA game gets at least an 80 unless it's genuinely unplayable due to technical issues. Then it gets a 70. And where in the 80-100 range a AAA game gets is based mainly on how much influence the company that made it has, and how many boxes it ticks on the "what reviewers care about" checklist, which currently includes basically nothing to do with game quality.
        Every EA sports game gets above an 80 despite the fact that those have never been good and have been functionally identical outside of roster updates for the past 15 years.
        God of War got like a 95 despite the fact that it has dull combat and a story that is, yet again, "frick you, gods".
        It's all meaningless. The only information you can glean is that if a game gets under 80 it has to be essentially non-functional.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      It's a PS5 timed exclusive. Of course most people posting about it won't even play it. At most they'll watch it on YT.

  77. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    What did Eurogamer mean by this? Was this really enough to claim the game is a 6/10?

  78. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    We won 14 bros, it's about as good as our game

  79. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Barry won and you all are too afraid to admit it. It's an action game with no RPG elements.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Barry like 15 which is slop, so he's about as big a troon as the 14slop fans

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Somebody with shit taste like Barry can still get lucky & be right. Barry won.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Final fantasy has ditched rpg elements ages ago, get with the times grandpa

  80. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    HOLY SHIT

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      holy frick, how did we let this happen XVI-bros? IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE OUR TIME!

  81. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >ff is OVERRRRRR
    it's probably older than you are it ain't going anywhere

  82. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    FFXV took 12 fricking years from pre production to finish. Will they fix XVI?

  83. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Schizo cultist worshipping Yoshit P like a God of FF, when he's just a shit hack that just copies everyone else
    >GoT HBO gay sex Final Fantasy Gayorzea

    Literally the worst Final Fantasy and the last Final Final Fantasy, which a shit game FF16 is

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      You still haven't answered for your obsession for scat. When did it start? Were you dropped on your head as a baby?

  84. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    ---ACK!

  85. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    idgi

  86. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    TIL Josh Strife Hayes is actually based.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Who and who? Stop posting your fricking tweets on Ganker or I will hurt you in real life.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      He is an anti-WoW guy at heart and that means taking down WoW's descendants as well

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Ginger "I can't clear savage" Prime

      In all seriousness, he's mad because he can't endlessly grind to get power and flex on lowbies. That's his entire schtick and why he hates modern MMOs.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      ah, the guy that "quit" xiv for good, but still mentions it on his no xiv videos to cheat the algorithm and now owns a defunct youtube channel, as diffident as his stand up comedy career

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        As most grifters do, I don't get how people like Josh when he criticizes specific communities and games so laser focused but can't talk about the many issues and bad practices of FFXIV.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          because he has the moral ceiling of "having played a myriad of mmos for 60 minutes"

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Why does it say he's a got stunt double

  87. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >against all odds the best single player Final Fantasy in the last two decades was a fricking Nioh-em-up whose high concept sounds like a drunken elevator pitch

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Its because Jack carried the game honestly.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      SoP falls off hard after you beat the game. It's not even close to the level of polish that Nioh 1 or 2 have. Frick even Wo Long is better.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >play the game expecting dumbass meme shenanigans
      >get that
      >game evolves to generate actual hype and pathos through Jack's actions to free the world from the tyranny of its abusive precursors by creating the heroes of legend himself by becoming the story's villain
      finishing the final DLC fricking awoke something in me man...too bad people will never experience it

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >finishing the final DLC fricking awoke something in me man...
        Did you finally decide your correct gender?

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Yes, I'm Jack

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Let me get this straight. 88 game bad, 72 game good?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Mythos.. your Logos is evolving. Repent and merge our Gnosis to revive the crystals and.. <insert le ancient greek word babble>

      i don't give a FRICK who you are *punches Ulitma*

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        I mean that's not far from what happened

  88. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I'd joke about it being THE final fantasy like Sakaguchi's game in 1987 but even if it bombs Square will probably never go bankrupt at this point

  89. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >grrrr I hate ff14. time to obsess over the user base

  90. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I CLAPPED

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Yikes

  91. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    y'all think we can start gatekeeping videogames again and call games like XVI moviegames instead? So we can have a real differentiation between actual games focused on gameplay and movie games with a focus on cinematics?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      We already do that and no one gives a shit. Zoomers love movie games

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Shut the frick up cringe b***h

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Make me b***h moron

        We already do that and no one gives a shit. Zoomers love movie games

        no but I'm saying we do it like a collective and we just officially call it something else. We have to fight back now. we have to gatekeep again

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Movie game: nu-GoW, Last of Us, Metal Gear 4, Cringedom Hearts 3, Final Fantasy XVI

      Game: Elden Ring, Zelda BoTW 1-2, Super Mario Odyssey, Fortnite, Minecraft

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Metal Gear 4
        Every MGS has been a movie game. I'd even argue that MGS1 was the first movie game.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Only nu-GoW and TLOU are actual moviegames, the rest just have lots of cutscenes. In all honesty, MGS4 has great gameplay

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Yeah I wouldn't consider MGS4 a moviegame even though it does have an absurd amount of cutscenes, mainly because there's a crapton of gameplay and there's a ton of replay value, plus it had a multiplayer mode.

  92. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    The legacy of Noctis' game....

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      I wanted to forget...

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Kino

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        I can't tell if its chink shovelware or an official SE made game

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >hiding in a cuck bunker
        befitting this character

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      I wanted to forget...

      LMAO, so this is what FFXV is all about

  93. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Barrychads…it feels so good

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      It doesn't. Barry won but I'm not proud or happy of it & neither should Barry. Final Fantasy is dead.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        And final fantasy should STAY dead until Squernic pulls their head out of their ass and make it at least partially an RPG again

  94. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Don't worry Barry, a real man will take care of her while you are off having totally platonic road trips with your bros

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Why are FFgays obsessed with cuckold stuff?

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        The whole world is obsessed with it, have you not read a single piece of literature?

  95. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    LMAO THIS IS A 10/10 GAME IN JAPAN?!
    YOU GUYS TOLD ME JAPAN WAS THE ONLY COUNTRY STILL MAKING GOOD GAMES

  96. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    It's back to 88 we're back

  97. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I like the game and characters but god dammit the story pacing is shit
    >aight, let's go back to Rosaria
    >but first let's save this guy to build a bridge
    >now let's go shoot the shit with an innkeeper
    >okay now let's go talk to a priest
    >damn look at all these sad dead guys
    >btw Clive
    >yes Jill?
    >did you know racism bad?
    >whoa...
    >ok let's go to back Rosaria
    >*get to another town*
    >almost t--
    >OMG
    >???
    >Are you Clive Rosfield
    >Y-you too...
    >Wanna stop by for tea?
    >V×V
    Holy fricking shit the main story beats are good but they are DRAGGING some of this shit the frick out

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      racism about what? there is only 2 races in this game whites and sandBlack folk. He means the Eikons?

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Cid is Martin Luther King and he wants bearers to be judged by the conduct of their character and not the scribbly tattoos on their faces. That's why he saves Cid and creates the Hideaway. The Hideaway is its own underground railroad. This wouldn't be so annoying if the story didn't make it a focal point (so far) with all the nuance of a Saturday morning cartoon on the Disney Channel. It ACTIVELY makes the story worse. Cid is cool. Clive is cool. Gav and other characters are great. Dion's introduction is fricking fantastic. But the racism allegory shit is just rote and boring. I'm sure it will randomly be abandoned eventually when the space aliens with villain pussy show up, but right now? It's just fricking tedious.

  98. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Ctrl+F
    >Barry
    >28 results
    >troony
    >1 result
    Damn, he really is the final fantasy fans boogie man

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      It's only a boogeyman if he doesn't exist

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Maybe, but people will imitate him since its incredibly easy to get (You)'s.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      xiv Black folk are keeping barry alive
      you dont like this mediocre dogshit game? you are barry now
      all weebs are Black folk

  99. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Why are japs so moronic? You can be inspired by Game of Thrones without completely ripping it off, but japs seemingly can't pull that off

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >completely ripping it off,
      Just admit you are a moron already

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Japs can't write for shit. That's why their best games are symbolic or ambiguous in their story.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >…it truly was a Final Fantasy, available now on PlayStation 5

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Imagine watching and reading got and this is your conclusion "SWEARING AND SEX IS MATURE!"
      Japs are so socially moronic

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      The GoT stuff only lasts for like the prologue. It quickly goes into over the top FF stuff which is why some reviewers are panning it.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      honestly should've stuck to their own story tellings, who is the one writing this shit again?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      the pinnacle of nip writing is being deriving supernatural power from the bonds of friendship
      they are convinced this is Shakespearian

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      They did do it before, both Game of Thrones's backstory and Final Fantasy Tactics are inspired by the War of the Roses.
      The problem is they just thought "Game of Thrones" rather than "Let's research real world historical wars for inspiration"

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      It's not ripping off GoT at all. Within 3 hours of starting the game It's back to FF hijinks. Unless you want to claim XII copier GoT, too, you homosexual.

  100. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    the story beats are typical FF tripe
    >the crystals everyone depends on are acktually killing us all in some magical climate catastrophe
    >ayy lmaos want their fricking planet back
    >the evil magitek empire
    >the villain for most of the story gets dumpstered for some cosmic horror without a personality
    >muh hopeful open ending
    it has GoT window-dressing, but at it's core is straight Final Fantasy

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >ayy lmao larps as a chick to get fricked in the bussy
      Classic Final Fantasy XIV storytelling.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >straight
      kek

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Why do people keep posting this clearly fake screenshot? Also why do people think Clive is going to frick the wind woman? I was waiting for it and it never happened and cid sent Hugo her head in a box.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Nature of the israelite to be lie.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          The cutscene happens, that is Ultima a male alien appearing as Bern (MtF) and getting fricked by Barnabas, he then changes in to Hugo and also Barnabas’ mother in the same cutscene.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous
    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >it has GoT window-dressing, but at it's core is straight Final Fantasy
      And that's a good thing

  101. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Game launched with horrible performance
    >No blacks
    These two points are the things pulling the game down for reviewers, and only one of them is an actual issue (which should be remedies for the PC release).

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >People bash the performance
      >Meanwhile TOTK got a free pass on the fricking 15 to 30 fps
      Fricking Industry is a joke.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        the Switch is about a powerful as a fisher price drawing tablet, people are gonna cut any game some slack for being made for that fricking toy

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Hardware limitations ended in the PS3/360 era. There are no excuses for a 2023 game to run worse than 720p 60fps for a handheld exclusive, nor are there excuses for a console exclusive to run worse than 1080p 60fps.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            >Hardware limitations ended in the PS3/360 era.
            too bad the switch never left the PS3/360 era

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              I agree, but that also means they aren't held to limitations lower than a 2006 console.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            >Hardware limitations ended in the PS3/360 era
            do stupid people actually believe this?

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        I personally shit on TotK for the same reason despite being a good game, and I'm not giving FF16 a pass in kind. But TotK getting a frickload of 10/10's despite it is blatantly idiotic.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        People always b***h about TotK running like shit but I've barely encountered any FPS drops aside from when using Link's hand a couple times. I have the second Switch model

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        I personally shit on TotK for the same reason despite being a good game, and I'm not giving FF16 a pass in kind. But TotK getting a frickload of 10/10's despite it is blatantly idiotic.

        People expect better performance from a next gen expensive console than from a 2 gens behind portable wearing a console skin, they literally cannot be held to the same standards, it's like complaining about the DS being weaker than a PS3

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Games are designed AFTER hardware exists, not before, moron. Devs are capable to making 1080p 60fps games on the Switch if they wanted to.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          >from a next gen expensive console
          It's not that powerful, PS5 is as good as a 1070.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Framerate issues go away if you emulate TotK. The PC version of XVI isn't out yet and the game still has performance issues on PS5.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >game is mediocre and soulless
      our response yoshitp sisters?!

  102. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Please buy my game... i'll give you cultist all my tears as a thank you.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      kys Yoshi

  103. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    It's back to 88 lol.
    Opencritic is now at 89 tho

  104. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    OH NO NO NO NO IT'S BACK UP

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      THEY'RE STEALING THE ELECTION AGAIN

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      b-barrybros? w-what do we do now?

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Why is he like this?

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          what is the context?

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            Done game journalist was playing the very start of the game with the easy mode rings on and a Xbox fan boy posted a video of it saying how easy it was.

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              >cant harrass devs for easy mode and be upset you got easy mode
              did the journo complain that it was easy?

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Pretty much, when they begged for easy mode

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                name of the journo?

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                https://twitter.com/andreapichinini/status/1671525705279062018?s=46

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          He is Barry

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            Too young to be him
            He's admitted to being at least 35

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              he is an abos from australia

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >cultist gets excited from 87 to 88

      Hahahahahahahahahaha, this is really sad and pathetic now.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      NOW THE GAME IS SAVED
      THANK YOU YOSHI P FOR GIVING US ANOTHER MEDIOCRE GAMING EXPERIENCE

  105. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >the exact same soulless FFXIV writing that's too afraid to have the characters act like fricking characters
    Clive and Cid are the only redeeming qualities so far

  106. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    i love shitting on yoship cultists but im going to play this game when it comes to pc 🙂

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Same, I'm just shitting on the game right now because I don't have a PS5 and I'm salty

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        I don't have a PS5 because I'm not black and know to wisely spend my money on something better like a good PC

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Same, I'm just shitting on the game right now because I don't have a PS5 and I'm salty

      We can pirate it, and its moral to pirate it because its not even an RPG

  107. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    wheres the first social media post celebrating the huge launch and copies sold?!

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      they probably sold 500k copies
      that's pretty good for a timed exclusive

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Half of those are PS5 bundles, this game sold at best 200k

        My local store has 1 shelf with all the copies there, this game sold like dog shit

        What a fitting end to Final Fantasy

  108. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >caring about metacritic on release day
    It most likely won't stay at 87-88. I bet on 85

  109. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    It's so weird getting called yoship cultist by all you schizos when I haven't played a day of ff14 in my life, but hey, whatever helps you sleep at night.

  110. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >square dead
    >atlus dead
    genshingods we are the best jrpg ever

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Genshin is chinese

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        don be racist mr yoshi

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >chinkshit impact
      good goy

  111. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    No

  112. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    you people are mentally ill, why are you so invested in a game you have no involvement whatsoever

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Ganker is a pc board and nobody can play it for around 2 years

  113. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    It is interesting how today the fanboys are 10 or nothing. As if a 6/7 point game isn't good. Sony fanboys above all are the stupidest.

  114. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    No one in this thread has played the game

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      I’m playing it now and loving it

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      I want to play it, but I don't want a piss five

  115. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    ayyy
    here it comes, boyos

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >selling a PS5 exclusive to your majority PC playerbase
      whoops

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        yeah, they fricked up
        i'm watching a playthrough on youtube and will buy it regardless

        >game shills for it's self

        And everyone clapped

        welcome to franchises, moron

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Not the same frick face cultist

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >PC players ask about a PC release
        >"Oh, uhh...we don't know about that, anyway go buy a PS5"
        wonder how much sony paid them

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        The majority of them bought a PS5 dumbass

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          XIV JP players are mostly console gays, right?
          Then we already know that yoshida didn't actually want to appeal the west. They wanted to sell more consoles to the west.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            Honestly from all the ffxiv fan I know like 5 of them bought a ps5 for ffxvi and ff7 rebirth so it’s kind of is working. They also talk about their being lines for people trying to buy FFXVI.

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              if I were single and with no kids, i'd be playing XVI this very instant
              but alas, can't afford to waste money on something that its only use is play vydia

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Don’t waste $75 on a 35 hour game which 17 hours are cutscenes. The rest is just button mashing in hallways.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Don’t waste $75 on a 35 hour game which 17 hours are cutscenes. The rest is just button mashing in hallways.

                Also none of your actions change the game at all, it’s not an RPG and you will get the same story and ending no matter how many time you press square.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >anon finally pays attention to his first JRPG just to get mad at it
                it's gotta be hard being so upset all the time, anon

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                This is not a JRPG, or even an ARPG. Its a shitty action game that plays like an MMO of DMC.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Don’t waste $75 on a 35 hour game which 17 hours are cutscenes. The rest is just button mashing in hallways.

                thanks for the advice, but i'm not following it
                though i have the feeling you knew that while posting

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                You said you weren’t going to waste money on the game and I said it was a good idea and gave you reasons that would support your decision. I didn’t really give any advice for you to follow. Just shared a 17 hour video of the cutscenes so you could watch it if you wanted to know how bad it is.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                I though it was implied, but I meant "i'm not buying a PS5"
                If the game was multiplat, i'd be playing it on my PC right now

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            XVI was made specifically to appeal to western GoTgays.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >game shills for it's self

      And everyone clapped

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >yoshi congratulating himself
      kek

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        he's actually congratulating the dev team
        he only put money and the face for PR

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        worse, yoshi telling his subordinate to go online to praise his game

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        it's what he does best, and the mindless masses will consume and worship

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Japanese Todd Howard.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      jesus that's desperate. Sales must be REALLY bad

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        nah, we won't get a forspoken collab anytime soon

  116. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Soon Ryza 3 will have a better score than FF 16.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >only 107 fan ratings
      >Not thousands

      Lol nobody played this game

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Enough to know if the game is good or no, not like Final Gaytasy.

  117. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Decent score

  118. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Never thought I'd see the day where a Kotaku review was actually based

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      but the kotaku review was positive?

  119. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Man I cant wait for the cultists to drink the koolaid

  120. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    oh no no no.. bros we JUST FOUND 500 MORE REVIEWS

  121. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    reminder that a lot of the bad reviews are held back by an embargo, it's going to go lower in the following days and weeks

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >reminder that a lot of the bad reviews are held back by an embargo
      how does that work?

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        They give a separate embargo for reviews above 8/10 and for those below it, yes it's fricked up but it's pretty common for AAA releases
        If you're wondering why there are bad reviews if that's the case, those sites either dont have an agreement with SE or dont care about being put on a blacklist

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          but there are a bunch of sub 8 reviews on meta at the moment
          that's why I ask, how does that work?

  122. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Cool, I'll buy it when it comes out on pc and goes on sale for $15 lmao. FF15 sold way more copies and went to bargain bin prices in no time. This will be the same.

  123. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >I know the truth now...
    >You are not Ifrit...
    >I AM
    This game has some pacing issues but but when it's kino it is fricking KINO

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Then you beat up evil Clive and unlock limit break, it was really fun

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Clive's tragic backstory is probs the best part of the game

  124. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I know for a fact after playing this game that the only haters are them dumb Black folk, trannies, misunderstood gaygets and game journals. game deserves way more

  125. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    it's not that good

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      You're not that good either and yet here you are suffering us your miserable existence. Off yourself.

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