Probably like FF15 lol
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Iām still trying to figure out why I dislike FF15 so much. I feel like I should just be able to vibe with all that ~content~ theyāve made, but I canāt. I think itās because all the boys like each other. If there was more conflict thereād be more of an incentive to push them into new locations to see what they do.
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xvās battle system is ass. if i practiced a bit more, iād probably pick it up, but i hear the story is lackluster, which makes me not want to go back to it any time soon. totally fine with the idea of a very homo roadtrip game tho.
thinking ab this now and iāll just air it out instead of stewing to myself:
maybe itās because i canāt play anymore but one thing thatās always bothered me ab xiv is the boo boo baby shit centrist politics. fuck the plotline for yotsuyu in stormblood too.
i was more aggravated by that than anything lyse did.
of course, that would be the second time, ( that i know of ) when there couldāve been a poc as a central character that gets
sidelined by some blonde haired blue-eyed ā savior '.
still p irked ab the changes that were made to the sultana at the last minute.
seeing how incredibly homogeneous xvi is and reading yoshi-pās rambling ā explanation ā for why, all the while talking ab
ā bucking tradition ā
is also hilarious.
wouldnāt want to actually do anything to quell the chuds + pple who consume media uncritically /s
really not willing to give se any more money than i have to for the foreseeable future. it was fun to be an actual final fantasy punk while it lasted. this isnāt even to be written off as some bitter aging gamer who has to watch a beloved franchise inevitably change. itās just funny that no one ever talks about it. at least, not that iāve ever seen.
just memes and catpple jokes.
the same pple who try to sell you ab how ā oppressed ā they are despite always somehow always being able to afford the financial commitment. a ā community ā that is a lot more insular than pple care to mention, with holdovers from communities that were known to be toxic af.
i donāt really swallow the ā wholesomeness ā of xiv or anyone who tries to push it.
thatās enough venting for one post.
yoshi-p seems to be a real clown after further investigation, however
sometimes, i think to myself: ā i fucking hate videogames ā
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yeah I just cannot get excited for a game that seems to be taking the XV/VIIR battle system and rolling with it. the deciding factor in me not playing those games was how much I did not want to deal with that mess.
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oh, wow, if i had actually kept up with this properly, i wouldāve seen yāall talking ab the very things i was just griping ab. gotta stop reading really bad video game forums. itās like a compulsion to see the worst of the internet for max psychic damage or something
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Iāll be the voice in the wilderness and say I loved 15. The battle system probably sucks, in fact basically everything about the game sucks, but I couldnāt stop until I more or less 100%ed it. Itās just so weird that I couldnāt help but love its balls-out bananas chutzpah. Every single decision, every plot point, every new layer of the combat system, you ask yourself, why would they do it this way? Out of all the possible ways? Against a backdrop of a dudes rock road trip, I dunno. Itās magic.
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yeah iām not like hating on it because i feel like the trailers have barely showed anything but a guy running around outside but it really does look like the most conservative possible mainline installment you could make after 15. when they showed the cast of characters at the pax panel i could barely tell them apart. like even by ff standards they are some indiscernable white people. also the protagonist looking like the generic guy on the ff14 box is lame. at least they managed to make that guy interesting!!!
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some of the music in the trailers is quite good, imo
i dig the prelude variation and the manic violin stuff at 3:05
dunno if the game will be any good (and iāve never played 14), but iām enjoying what iāve played of 15 so far at least
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FF XV was swell almost completely due to vibes and the lack of random battles. I dug the battle system as a way to press buttons in a vaguely action way, I donāt recall if there was much in the way of strategy to them though.
XVI seems to lack said vibes and without something notable to replace them Iām not exactly sure what that leaves behind?
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xv gave me gladio at least. the doujin created from him alone makes the game worth it.
anyway, the trailers for xvi look a lot better than what was being shown at pax.
iām honestly a little confused now.
they picked weird things to showcase.
i think a lot of pple made fun of him looking like the xiv guy initially. pple are still upset ab xv having a male dominated cast but what gets me is like. . .at least in xv their designs are better. i can still relate to the characters in xv. theyāre very likable. i am disappointed ab the design choices being made with xvi is all.
it just seems very boiler plate considering the stuff weāve gotten in the past.
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yeah soken is amazing with music, his songs are the highlight of ffxiv for me and the main reason I wanted to play xvi but every time they say something new about it I wanna play less. at least xiv is in its ffiv fanservice storyline so I can be pandered to
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Clive Rosefield
Clive Staples Rosefield
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June 22nd.
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The demo is out on PS5! Iām downloading it now.
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Alright, so the demo is straight-up the first few hours of the game. I just played for about an hour. Watched a bunch of cutscenes, saw the world map, did a little mini-area, fought some lil guys, a midboss, and a boss.
I have to say, this game made a VERY strong first impression! Itās great so far! My expectations were low from the trailers but manā¦ Actually playing it is a whole other story.
This is the best Final Fantasy action combat theyāve ever done, by a mile (at least, of the ones Iāve played). Itās not, like, FROMsoft level, but it actually feels good to control. The actions your character can take are limited in a good way (you can actually intentionally control the action rather than just mash buttons until things happen). And the combat can actually be visually parsed and makes sense (low bar I know, but FFXV did NOT clear this for me, lol). Youāre not constantly pausing to scroll through all your magic spells like in FF7R. You can pause to use items but you donāt have to ā you can map them to the D-pad. In the combat I played through, I did everything in real time. I canāt believe it, I actually like this battle system!
So far the writing is pretty good! It does feel very, very Game of Thrones so far, but itās well-executed and there is a bit of fun Final Fantasy color mixed in there (first boss fight is a Morbol).
Absolutely gorgeous game, too. Very pleasing architecture and interesting looking spaces rendered in extremely high fidelity. The money is all up there on the screen, itās wild! I think this is the most next-gen feeling game Iāve played on the PS5.
Music is great, sort of carries forward the style of FFXIV though so far itās taking itself much more seriously. Really the whole game is very serious so far, not a lot of levity. Well, the plot is, at least. All the items have fun little descriptions that are very goofy and legit amusing. Similar voice to the silly item descriptions in FFXIV actually. It works!
Menus are really pretty, well-animated, and feel great to navigate. Thereās a lot of extra pizazz that didnāt need to be there, like little 16 bit pixel portraits of all party members, that sort of thing.
At first I had no fucking idea what was going on in this game. The intro scenes are VERY in medias res to the point that I felt absolutely unmooredā¦ But then it flashbacks to what seems to be the main narrative and things become much, much easier to follow.
One feature I wasnāt sure about at first but Iāve come to appreciate: During cutscenes, you can press the center touchscreen button thingy to pause and get a little concept web with relevant characters, places, and ideas on it. You can select one to get a brief paragraph or two of lore explanation. Itās really useful at times, and everything is written concisely and engagingly enough that I actually like reading through it. Iām really not the type of guy to enjoy going through lore stuff so thatās a high compliment.
Iām getting pretty jazzed about this game, I have to say! My orientation toward it just went from āeh, see what people think, maybe get it when itās on sale in a few yearsā to āfuck, Iām pre-ordering this.ā
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Oh yeah also there is SO much cursing in this Final Fantasy game. Itās hilarious. A dude is screaming āOH FUCK FUCK FUCKā before getting crushed to death by Titan. lmao. Itās trying to be edgy but at least itās funny.
Iāll give it some credit though, itās not going full-on annoying, cutesy, ālook at us weāre swearing now!!ā And itās not twitter-brained either. Like, thereās a lot of cursing but it generally feels pretty natural, like itās written in ways that people actually do curse IRL. Itās not like Deathloopās dialogueā¦ Nobody is calling anything āfuckcrustableā or whatever.
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Mildly optimistic hearing your analysis of the combat but still a little worried boss encounters will just end up being bullet sponges without any real strategy or skill involved. I get worried whenever a combat system features a bunch of particle effects and numbers flying around everywhere.
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The mid-boss I fought felt like it was appropriately balanced, but the actual boss definitely felt like a bit of a damage sponge. It went on a little too long (though maybe if I were better at the combat it would have gone quicker). They did try to switch it up and keep it interesting by mixing in little simple QTEs on occasion. QTEs are nobodyās favorite thing, but it seemed to me (at least so far) like there are only two kinds of QTE (attack and dodge), and each of those always uses the same button. So at least youāre not stuck frantically glancing at your controller to remember which button is triangle. And they did result in pretty fun to watch little action cutscenes.