Lol, what are you on about? FF15 was a solid game, despite the later half being rushed. FF7 Remake was amazing. And FF16 looks like it could be the best entry in the series since the glory days of the franchise. (Not just because of trailers, but because of the team working on it.)
FF15 was a rush from start to finish, you could literally see parts played out which made no sense in the context of the story and parts that we’re just missing.
Like Prompto just suddenly telling the gang he has a barcode to get through the door revealing he was born as a clone for Niflheim's magitek infantry…like where the f*** did that come from? The game has a bunch of these moments
Luna was so undeveloped for being the main characters love interest. The big bad was underdeveloped. Most of the characters were.
I had an absolute blast with ff15 until the very final portion of it. When I look at the footage from ff16, it seems less ambitious than 15 which is a major sticking point for me.
FF16 definitely looks like a return to form but FF14 is a return of the glory days.. once you get past ARR, it's one of the best gaming stories ever told for me with some amazing character development. Emet-Selch is the best antagonist in the series since Sephiroth.
FF15 and solid game do not belong in the same sentence, that game was the Duke Nukem Forever of the Final Fantasy franchise. It was a hodge podge of incomplete ideas despite having good bones to make a good FF game.
While I highly enjoyed FF15, it's definitely a highly flawed game. Game design choices are baffling in some parts.
I think the most fair criticism to levy against modern FF games is that they don't have any soul remaining and they don't resemble the genre that made it popular in the first place.
My biggest complaint would be that the vast majority of side missions/content were 2000’s MMO level garbage.
The only other I could think if is that is was pretty easy to tell some locations in the game received a lot more love and graphical polish than others (not surprising given the somewhat troubled development)
But overall it was quite good, both amazing or average seem too far of the on the ends of the spectrum to me for what I would call it
The gameplay was respectful to the original. The story was also great like the original but added a lot of enjoyable nuance. The actors were great. I’d give a 9.2.
I'm stoked that you enjoyed it, but it was a step backwards from FF15 in terms of character control. The removal of the jump ability makes it feel like a downgrade from 15.
I liked the story and the direction they are going. I still want and originally thought remake was gonna be just boosted graphics. Far as what we got it was good but not top 10 good imo maybe not even 20. I've also been gaming for 30 years.
It didn't feel very final fantasy to me at all. Seemed like an action game etc
I do, and always will, prefer turn-based to real-time battles, but the hybrid gameplay that they come up with was absolutely brilliant.
The game was a 10/10 for me, but you have to remember that there’s going to be 3 parts to this and put all together I think this really could rival the original.
I mean that’s not something an “average” game could do, in my humble opinion.
Good job a completely different team is in charge of it then isn't it? A very very good team. Also, the remake scored 89. So it categorically wasn't average.
Fully agreed. FF15 is so called Kusoge ("crap game") in Japan, and FF7 Remake is a Disney version of the original, but includes bad pacing, filler episode anime storyline and worse music. Since FFXII (a fantastic game itself) and FFXIV (great story and music) the series has been dead to me. I really wanted my money back after both FFXV and FF7R.
FFXVI on the other hand is made by some of the best storytellers left at Square Enix (DQ team and Nier team being the others), so I'm quite hopeful.
I agree which really sucks because before ff was my favorite series since a kid playing ff1 on nes. It sucks to see what it's turned into. It doesn't even feel like a role playing game.
He never directly said it because he's under contract, he hinted by asking "Why is it like a PC version is releasing 6 months later?".
If you watch the video in the article that Sony posted on Twitter, it says "Final Fantasy XVI anticipated summer 2023. PS5 exclusive for 6 months.", what more do you need?
Yeah it's definitely coming to PC. A six month wait would be perfect as it would make a nice Christmas present for PC gamers. It's either, he's not supposed to talk about it or it's gonna be more than six months.
It's not clear in text, but if you watch the video he was being light hearted and joking when giving this line. It's clear that he's under a contract but I wouldn't read this as harshly as it seems in text, as he clearly was not being a dick about it when it was said.
That being said. It's totes coming to PC in six months.
While it will look amazing on PC I wouldn't want it. It's using Unreal Engine 4, and that engine is a shit storm on PC. Devs cannot get it working smoothly, as pointed out many times on Digital Foundry. I just wish they would abandon UE4 on PC and look for better options like ID Tech 7 from id Software/Bethesda maybe they can try to license it from them.
id Tech 7 is made for FPS specifically. It would require significant modifications to fit FF, and not many have work experience with it. Frostbite and Anthem wasn't such a good idea, yeah?
FF15 was bad. FF7Remake was average. Not much will be lost if they don't bring FF16 to PC.
being exclusive for at least 6 months is not the same as it isn't coming to another platform.
"isnt coming to pc ... its exclusive to ps5 for 6 months"
Well so much for the "Sony didn't cut a deal, it's not coming to Xbox due to sales" defense.