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Final Fantasy XVI: The Rising Tide Preview - DLC dose of Leviathan - Game Informer

Game Informer: "We spoke to Final Fantasy XVI producer Naoki Yoshida and DLC director Takeo Kujiraoka about the upcoming Leviathan DLC."

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jznrpg237d ago

I’ll jump back in later for these when they make a complete edition someday.

Harkins1721235d ago

Probably be on PC this summer. Already played it on PS5. But imma wait for a sale on PC to play it again in the future.

TwoPicklesGood235d ago

Ffxvi was so disappointing with how easy combat was. I can literally press one button to win nearly every single fight including bosses.

Shane Kim235d ago

It becomes harder when you run new game+ but it shouldn't be locked behind that. Loved the game otherwise.

shinoff2183234d ago

You shouldn't have to run through a whole game again for that.

CrimsonWing69235d ago

I feel with many games you can just press a button to win most fights.

EternalTitan235d ago

Its not even an RPG, no minigames no customization. Terrible.

shinoff2183234d ago (Edited 234d ago )

No elemental damage, that's basic rpg sh there. It had alot missing. The was jrpg lite as fk. Sqaure you can keep your ff dmc hybrid.

Glad they did a much better job in rebirth. Miles better.

Harkins1721235d ago

Doubtful. That would be super boring to play that way anyways.

SeTTriP231d ago (Edited 231d ago )

The design was intentional for ff16 why make a competing jrpg when you have rebirth just around the corner?

They had wiggle room to try something new

Charlieboy333235d ago

You must have set it to auto dodge and stuff then. Even then, 'one button' LOL

MrNinosan235d ago

Without handicap rings, in Normal difficulty, you did not.

shinoff2183234d ago

Yea you still can. Switch it up a little but but for the most part sqaure sqaure sqaure.

MrNinosan234d ago

@shinoff2183
No, almost not a single boss can be mashed to death by spamming 1 button without rings.
I've played through the game 4 times. First 2 to get Platinum, then again to just enjoy the ride.

Then a 4th time to see how far I get with spamming 1 button. That wasn't far at all.

Let me know how far you actually get by just spamming square without the rings, and I'll call out your lies if necessary.

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CrimsonWing69235d ago

Omega was maybe the boss fight in the entire game. I’m hoping this will blow it out of the water.

EternalTitan235d ago

I guess the one 16 fan will get this.

MrNinosan235d ago

And you are the Redfall fan?

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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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