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Final Fantasy XVI Full World World Map Revealed

Square Enix has updated the official Final Fantasy XVI website with information on the characters and world. There is now a clean look at the world map.

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Harkins17211462d ago

Please take ur time with the game. Story, exploration, music all in one please. Don't want a rushed game like XV with great music. Gameplay looks promising so far.

roadkillers1462d ago

I would never call FFXV rushed. The most fan praised FF games were dropping a year or two after the previous

Harkins17211461d ago

Entire sections of the game were in fact rushed. They started development over for next gen in 2011/2012. They had little man power working on features not needed in game like Iris moogle doll instead of being able to explore Shivas area. Cut sections from the game. You most certainly can take forever on a game and have parts feel rushed.

AnnaDea1462d ago

Before the reveal, the leaker said that this game has been in development for some years already, so the rumored 2021 release is not that far-fetched after all.

Class_Viceroy1461d ago

Huh? They took like 7 years between 13 and 15 releases. You can say you didn’t like parts of 15, but using the word rushed is kind of silly. They put a lot of heart and soul and time into each game. Doesn’t always pan out into a total success, but I appreciate the fact they don’t “rush” this series like an Assassin’s Creed for example.

Harkins17211461d ago

Doesn't not mean they actively developed a game for that amount of time. XV has less heart and soul for skipping and rushing over important parts of the game. Sure it has nice parts but the overall product is crap compared to others. On top of Tabata straight up lying of said game being 50hrs just for the main story. Comrades was unnecessary, did not need multi-player. What we need was a proper 2nd half of the game.

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notachance1462d ago

we got world map already?
doesn't that mean the development is already quite far ahead

DragonWarrior191462d ago

I would guess so, seeing as they already have english localization and that's something they do very far down the line. Plus we got gameplay in the reveal as well. I'm still skeptical on the 2021 release window but that's just me being an old cynical adult. Yoshi-p has a great track record and time management record though.

Spenok1461d ago

Yes, not to mention Yoshi-P (one of the producers) has said the exact same thing.

spwittbold1462d ago

Literally looks like "Earth," with various parts either stretched or swuished. America....Europe....Africa... Russia....South America.

Spenok1461d ago

Eh, I can KIND of see it, but you're stretching the comparison yourself.

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Offense Is The Best Defense: In Admiration Of Final Fantasy XVI’s Combat System

Shaz from GL: "FFXVI contentiously rid the series' turn-based origins in favour of character-action. The result? A spectacularly fun system that rewards offense."

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New Proton Experimental Update Fixes Low FPS For Final Fantasy 16 and More

Proton Experimental got a new update yesterday that improves Final Fantasy 16, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, and more.

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Lexreborn221d ago

So much hassle people had for FF16 performance on PS5 to hit PC and still be barely playable. FF16 is hitting the crysis “can it run it” for PCs.

And now I’m genuinely wondering is it because the devs failed to properly design the game or is it because it is over ambitious.

Hofstaderman21d ago (Edited 21d ago )

Too many variances in the PC ecosystem. They can attempt to optimize to a point but ultimately, as it is in most cases, individuals will have to tweak settings to get their rig to run the game at its subjective best. Me personally, I enjoy a no fuss console experience but must admit I'm getting into the simplistic steam deck tweaks.

Michiel198921d ago

that's just nonsense, square is just bad at ports and have been for years. Japanese ports were notorious for it a good while, but it has gotten better but still nothing to write home about. Take FF7R pt1 for example, at launch on pc there were frequent random fps drops for no reason and a guy, a single guy got a patch out within 2 days that fixed it, if that doesn't say enough about their incompetency with pc ports then idk.

DustMan21d ago

I don't know how people are getting such poor performance. It ran well for me +60fps at 1440p dlss balanced, all high settings. I'm on a i7-8700, 32gb ram, and 3080, so a pretty old setup. I get very few stutters, and it's buttery smooth if i cut the shadows down to medium settings. cut scenes have been modded to run at 60fps.

It's sitting at "mostly positive reviews' on steam. With most of the complaints coming from those with said poor performance. By absolutely no means is this a perfect / great port, but it's not god awful. Seems like it's a hardware issue on the customers end, and issues with the port itself.

Inverno21d ago

This is talking about proton tho. It's expected for games to run poorly because they aren't natively running on Linux. I will agree however that Square has a history of putting out horribly running games on PC.

Hofstaderman21d ago

The game was optimized specifically for the PS5 and even so it makes that console creak....wonder how the Pro will handle it....

88320d ago

Hoping very much that it gets some "Pro Enhanced" attention.

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Final Fantasy 16 PC Review | Everyone Gaming

As a lifelong Final Fantasy fan, I’ve fought against seemingly impossible odds and collected more Phoenix Downs than I’d like to admit. In fact, I think I have spent more time as Cloud and Squall than I have as myself. Not that it wasn’t expected, but the PC port kind of came from nowhere. Square Enix announced a Final Fantasy 16 PC port that mirrors the PlayStation 5 version. Naturally, as a series veteran, my excitement levels were through the roof.

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