Thread 713026697 - /v/ [Archived: 925 hours ago]

Anonymous
6/18/2025, 10:38:46 PM No.713026697
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>185% more cutscenes
>somehow less story
why are japs like this
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Anonymous
6/18/2025, 10:39:45 PM No.713026775
nortubel has better design
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 10:39:54 PM No.713026784
>>713026697 (OP)
E33’s cutscenes are really 4 hours if you minus the relationship scenes at camp
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 10:40:36 PM No.713026845
>>713026697 (OP)
Because they aped the story of Game of Thrones for FF16 at least for the first half without understanding the culture, the context, the history and war that George R.R. Martin took inspiration from.
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Anonymous
6/18/2025, 10:43:23 PM No.713027053
FF XVI does a remarkable thing where probably 60% of the story could be cut. All the political intrigue and dialogue dumps we get in the first 2/3rds don't really matter at all.
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Anonymous
6/18/2025, 10:44:21 PM No.713027123
>>713026845
I never understood why people compared it with game of thrones
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Anonymous
6/18/2025, 10:45:17 PM No.713027208
>>713027123
people didn't, the devs did
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 10:46:10 PM No.713027272
FF XVI cutscenes are drawn out shit that nobody gives a fuck, I dont remember 99% of the story of the game, such a bland shit

FF XVI story is overcomplicated and has fluff for the sake of it, meanwhile expedition 33 has a very simple story that goes straight to the point
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Anonymous
6/18/2025, 10:47:53 PM No.713027402
>>713027123
Because the devs said it was inspired by Game of Thrones and they made the whole team watch the show.
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 10:49:04 PM No.713027487
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>>713027123
Because it's direct from the devs
https://www.pcgamer.com/in-an-act-of-auteur-megalomania-yoshi-p-made-the-final-fantasy-16-core-team-buy-and-watch-game-of-thrones/
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 10:49:23 PM No.713027509
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>>713026697 (OP)
The Japanese LOVE exposition.
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 10:50:15 PM No.713027575
> Final Fantasy 16 forces you to be a gross moid
> Expedition Claire let's us totally not trans /v/ totally not agp porn addicts to run around as girls
It's simple.
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Anonymous
6/18/2025, 10:50:16 PM No.713027576
>>713026697 (OP)
E33's cutscenes are 3 hours
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 10:50:33 PM No.713027597
>>713027053
Nothing in E33 matters except Verso's shitty family.
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 10:51:38 PM No.713027678
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she won
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 10:52:01 PM No.713027705
>>713026697 (OP)
Japs have a problem with exposition. They don't know how to be succinct. They don't know when to shut the fuck up. They keep describing every little fucking thing in detail, droning on and on. It causes what should be a simple conversation to turn into an hours long marathon. That's even before you get to the exaggerated emotional utterances of disbelief after every few sentences. EHHHH, NANIIIII, OOOOOH
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Anonymous
6/18/2025, 10:52:26 PM No.713027732
>>713027123
Because the devs thought saying fuck and having a character try to fuck in a hallway made them like game of thrones
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 10:53:01 PM No.713027779
>>713026697 (OP)
FF16:
>no niggers
>2 fags
>women are useless and just cock sleeves
>/v/ hates it
BG3:
>faggots galore
>game for libtards and normalfags
>/v/ loves it
I'm glad I don't like anything you retards like
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Anonymous
6/18/2025, 10:53:49 PM No.713027829
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>>713027575
Is this the fight you want to pick?
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 10:53:52 PM No.713027836
>>713027779
I hate both
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 10:55:07 PM No.713027924
>>713027779
They're both raw sewage.
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 10:56:54 PM No.713028069
>>713027779
It's not an either/ or.
I don't like how boring FF16 is and the missed potential, BG3 is irrelevant to me I've never played it, liking or hating BG3 doesn't change my perception of FF16.
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 10:58:29 PM No.713028181
>>713026697 (OP)
There were no blacks in FF16 compared ot E33, which makes the former the better game by default.
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 10:58:30 PM No.713028182
>>713027779
>no mention of gameplay
>only mentions idpol shit
>thinks his opinion is worth anything
You don't even like video games. Get the fuck off my board.
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Anonymous
6/18/2025, 10:58:33 PM No.713028187
>>713026697 (OP)
WHO THE FUCK TOLD JAPS THEY WRITE WELL
THE BEST JAP WRITING IS DARK SOULS BECAUSE THERE IS ALMOST NO WRITING

blah blah blah friendship crystals darkness chaos evil blah blah blah freindship
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Anonymous
6/18/2025, 10:58:58 PM No.713028218
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>>713027705
This
Brevity is the soul of wit, and I say that as a writefag who desperately needs to learn how to trim fat in my own stories.

Japs are second only to Koreans in how bad they confuse meaningful dialogue (that moves the scene forward or puts the lens onto something which the player didn't ALREADY fucking know) with inane, stupid babble.
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Anonymous
6/18/2025, 10:59:39 PM No.713028262
i watched a friend play through 40 minutes of the game in the 16 demo earlier today
she got to actually control a character for about 3 minutes total if you don't count the overly drawn out "combat" tutorial.
utter shit movie game.
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Anonymous
6/18/2025, 11:01:33 PM No.713028390
>>713026697 (OP)
>E33
>world is empty
>literally just a walking simulator outside of combat with barely anything to interact with at all
>story makes no sense
>party npcs constantly tell you how to feel about the story and characters
>combat is a shit show, tries to look flashy but the qte shit is simply just annoying
>the developer's idea of ramping up difficulty is to literally just make the enemies damage sponges, at no point does it get difficult just increasingly tedious to chew through these lifebars
Why do so many bland taste normies eat that shit up? It's really not good.
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 11:01:39 PM No.713028402
>>713028262
But there are no niggers and only 5 fags so that means it's a good game and you should like it! Doesn't /v/ only like games because of political opinions like I heard on resetera?!
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 11:02:03 PM No.713028440
>>713027272
It’s makes perfect sense if you read the Thousand Tomes and speak to Vivian, zoomer.
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 11:02:55 PM No.713028510
file
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how long to beat:
expedition 33: 27 hours
kh2: 29 hours

expedition 33 is basically dark souls/smt no story slop
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Anonymous
6/18/2025, 11:03:15 PM No.713028536
>>713027779
>hates fags
>uses 4chan
???? there are multiple dedicated degenerate boards why are you here
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Anonymous
6/18/2025, 11:03:47 PM No.713028580
>>713028510
Expedition 33 gave me feels.
FF16 also gave me feels but of another kind.
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Anonymous
6/18/2025, 11:04:32 PM No.713028632
>>713028510
How many hours is running through corridors?
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 11:05:04 PM No.713028680
>>713026697 (OP)
ff16 would be considered a masterpiece if it didn't have the sheer amount of nonsense filler and bloat it did, idk which retarded suits at squeenix keep pushing for it but they need to be ousted
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 11:05:24 PM No.713028706
>>713028580
It gave me feels because I also have a younger brother named Joshua that I have a close bond with. It’s a 10/10 game in my eyes.
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Anonymous
6/18/2025, 11:06:11 PM No.713028752
>>713028536
he is paid
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 11:06:21 PM No.713028764
>>713026697 (OP)
There is no way a game has 20 hours of cutscenes
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 11:06:25 PM No.713028768
>>713028510
>it's a game and not a movie so it has no story
You don't even know what the word slop means, you fucking tourist nigger.
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 11:06:58 PM No.713028809
>>713026697 (OP)
i would say most of the time when you're watching a movie or a TV show like GoT, you do actually have those moments where characters pause and take times in between their dialogue. for whatever reason, the Japanese crank this shit up at every possible moment - maybe it's part of the way they view and create media. but when you actually hear Japanese people talking, other people talking, and of course most media/movies, people are talking at a normal pace. when you watch a game like Expedition 33, the characters are talking pretty quickly and never stopping for those pauses unless it makes sense. now, if you play FFXVI, you'll notice that the characters do it every five seconds and it's very jarring and not interesting to watch. FFXVI had better visuals and cooler setpieces though.
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 11:07:46 PM No.713028856
>>713028580
E33 is like a collection of the cheapest tear jerkers, I felt nothing but apathy because the game was so blatant and obnoxious about it.
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 11:08:04 PM No.713028885
>>713028706
>It’s a 10/10 game in my eyes.
But all you mentioned was cutscenes.
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Anonymous
6/18/2025, 11:10:27 PM No.713029051
>>713028706
I get that, when Clive reunited with Joshua that was really touching and another scene I won't mention here.
But Exp 33 gave me feelings of loss in a different way, I wish people would be less confrontational about these games but everyone is so tribal it's almost impossible to have a level conversation/ discussion about these games.
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Anonymous
6/18/2025, 11:12:29 PM No.713029186
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>>713028706
>game is good because there's a character with the same name as my brother
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Anonymous
6/18/2025, 11:13:05 PM No.713029226
>>713029051
I like both. XVI was my GOTY for 2023 and E33 is my GOTY for this year. I’m not a “it’s perfect or shit” fag like the majority of people here, I’ve been playing vidya for over 30 years. I’ve played REALLY bad games, not games that /v/ claims are “awful” but are, at worst, mediocre like FFXIII or DmC.
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Anonymous
6/18/2025, 11:13:41 PM No.713029263
>>713029186
>>713028885
I never said that’s the only thing I liked.

We need to rangeban Indians and SEAmonkeys.
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Anonymous
6/18/2025, 11:14:02 PM No.713029292
>>713028182
Are you seriously going to act like BG3 has good gameplay, retard?
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Anonymous
6/18/2025, 11:14:37 PM No.713029330
>>713029292
Are you seriously going to act like I praised BG3 in my post you absolutely retarded ape nigger? Go the fuck back.
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Anonymous
6/18/2025, 11:14:48 PM No.713029340
>>713029226
I'm in agreement with you, there are some real fundamental problems with FF16 and missed potential but it's still a great experience that's worth playing through at least once, personally the Rising Tide DLC made the entire game worth the price alone it's so great.
Nice to have a conversation on here with a sane Anon for once.
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 11:15:22 PM No.713029386
>>713026697 (OP)
It's a bad comparison because while XVI's story is shitty, E33 has no story to speak of at all and the characters get zero development, hence the low amount of cutscenes. That's why it's just forgettable FOTM slop that's already being phased out of the conversation.
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Anonymous
6/18/2025, 11:15:38 PM No.713029406
>>713029263
But curiously that's the only thing you mentioned to give context as to why you consider it 10/10. Strange huh?
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Anonymous
6/18/2025, 11:16:39 PM No.713029475
>>713029386
>E33 has no story to speak of at all
You are out of your fucking mind dude.
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Anonymous
6/18/2025, 11:16:39 PM No.713029478
>>713026697 (OP)
XVI tried to hard to be like an Ivalice game, and failed miserably.
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Anonymous
6/18/2025, 11:17:03 PM No.713029508
>>713029406
I could list everything I - personally - loved about the game, and it would be met with greentext handwaving. I’ve been on here longer than you’ve been alive, I know your ilk and how you operate. It’s not worth it because you’re not interested in actual conversation.
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Anonymous
6/18/2025, 11:17:43 PM No.713029565
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>>713029330
>No I'm just bitching and crying because I'm NOT defending BG3!!
Nice try, retard. Troon out and kill yourself. I also play more fucking games than you, faggot.
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Anonymous
6/18/2025, 11:18:31 PM No.713029609
>>713029508
>I could list everything I - personally - loved about the game
You could, and you already did.
>I’ve been on here longer than you’ve been alive
This website didn't exist in 1989, champ.
>It’s not worth it because you’re not interested in actual conversation.
I've tried many, many times to get you blithering idiots to list anything you actually like about this pile of shit every time you praise it, and you can never give any reason besides "it's good".
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Anonymous
6/18/2025, 11:19:58 PM No.713029707
>>713029508
Let's start with the gameplay. The big focus is on the eikon abilities, but the eikon abilities are all on MMO style cooldowns. There's nothing you can do about the cooldowns, you just use them and do your one 4-hit filler combo in the meantime. Compare to SoP or FF7R where all your cool shit uses a resource, and you're rewarded with said resource for staying on the offensive and engaging with the enemy. That isn't the case in XVI, you just dump your skills and fuck around swinging your 4-hit toothpick filling the time. That's boring. What makes it worse is that there's only one character, with one weapon. So you can't even change up your filler playstyle.
Character progression is on rails which is something FFXIII rightfully got shit on for. You get a new eikon every like 10 hours of gameplay and once you do get it there's no way to get anything else. You're storygated out of further cool shit. Character levels not only don't matter at all, but the exp gain is scaled so it stalls out when you start matching enemy levels, preventing you from grinding up. Not that it would matter, because those levels gain you nothing.
Weapon crafting is completely pointless. Each dungeon/boss gives you a material you use to upgrade to the next sword, which just raises your damage by +5 (meaningless). There's literally no point to this system existing, and yet 90% of all treasure you find are materials for this system that has nothing to craft.
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Anonymous
6/18/2025, 11:20:10 PM No.713029718
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Im convinced Japanese people just cannot write good stories. Most of them are just
>le power of friendship and love!
It's such fucking immature writing. FFXVI had potential. I remember the intro cutscene in the beginning where it shows you all the different states at war and Benediktas relationship with Titan.

The game had the potential to be like Attack on Titan, where you had Titan Shifters but instead you had Eikon Shifters who could bring a whole country/state to its knees.

Instead, we got maybe 30% political intrigue and then Ultima appears and we have to kill a god with the power of love and friendship. The most cliche JRPG storyline ever.

WRPGs have better writing. There's no denying it at this point
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 11:20:59 PM No.713029781
>>713029508
>>713029707
There are moments in the game where you literally watch a 45 minute cutscene, regain control, walk five steps forward, and get thrust into another 45 minute cutscene. The moviegame bloat is unreal, complete with slow forced walk and talk segments, squeezing past narrow corridors, and 'hold the triggers to do thing' QTEs. There are over 20 HOURS of cutscenes in this game. And that's not including the stilted canned emote sidequest cutscenes you'll spend another 20 hours watching.
Sidequests are ripped straight out of FFXIV. They exist just to fill time and for nothing else. Listen to someone spend 10 minutes telling you how and why they need an object on the other side of the map. Walk over and pick it up. Go back. Bam, more crafting materials you can't use. Thrilling.
There is no exploration. There are four giant open world areas with nothing in them but MMO sidequests, and there are hallway dungeons. The hallway dungeons are also ripped straight from FFXIV with the same two trash packs -> mini boss -> two trash packs -> mini boss -> two trash packs -> final boss structure.
Eikon fights have spectacle, but that's all they have. Segments like the Phoenix fight at the start, or the Garuda fighting game segment, or the Phoenix vs Bahamut segment are all on rails and impossible to fail. They're cutscenes.
The only time the game is remotely challenging are in the chronostones (I think that's what they were called) where you have to use one specific eikon and fulfill challenges to keep your time up. The rest of the game you can sleep through. FF Mode isn't any better because you have all eikons out the gate and can just blast everything even more easily than in normal mode.
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Anonymous
6/18/2025, 11:22:00 PM No.713029848
>>713029508
>>713029781
Onto the story. The premise of the game is awesome. And then it gets rugpulled almost the instant the demo ends. Within five minutes of the demo ending you watch Clive regain his freedom, his girlfriend, get a new job. Even his dog inexplicably returns at that same moment. And then you play for another hour and find out that he didn't even kill Joshua (hilariously, this comes immediately after he has his big moment of accepting """the truth""" that he killed Joshua). In other words, nothing in the demo mattered. It amounts to nothing except for baiting the player. What makes it worse is that later on you find out that Joshua has a personal ninja cult who was there at Phoenix Gate the night of the attack, and they just didn't intervene. They didn't even attempt to save Joshua, they just literally did nothing until they appeared to yank his unconscious body away off screen. It's nonsense.
It's very clearly stitched together from several different drafts. You have shit like Ultima appearing in the demo wearing Joshua's face and robe. He then appears in the same guise leading Clive to Garuda. But then... Joshua isn't Ultima. Joshua is just Joshua and Ultima never appears wearing his guise again. It's never commented on, it's just obviously a draft in which Ultima used Phoenix to possess Joshua's corpse or something.
You spend the majority of the game's story dealing with Sanbreque and its political situation. Actually most of the cutscenes for the entire game's story are about it. So it must be important, right? Nope. It's just filler. Ultima is fucking around with Sanbreque trying to conquer a continent... that he already has control of. He's literally doing it for no reason. And once Olivier and Clive's mom die, nobody ever mentions the plotline again. It just vanishes, because it actually didn't matter.
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Anonymous
6/18/2025, 11:22:44 PM No.713029884
>>713029475
It's true. All it has is a predictable and lame plot twist that makes you not give a shit about anything that happened through the whole game.
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 11:23:01 PM No.713029908
>>713029508
>>713029848
There's a lot more I could get into with the story but this copypasta does a good job of detailing a lot of the stupid shit. >>712105683
The music has a handful of great tracks, but the majority of the soundtrack is bland, forgettable, cinematic trash. If you download the OST you'll see it has 8 discs. But listen to it, and you'll hear the same 5 or 6 songs. Over and over and over and over. There are songs on the OST that are LITERALLY the same song, but with slightly different mixing or intros. It also overuses the fuck out of the Prelude and the FF Main Theme, presumably because Soken thinks that's a shortcut to making it sound like Final Fantasy. Soken is probably one of the most misused aspects of the game. He was celebrated for doing shit like XIV's Alexander soundtrack, exciting rock beats and electronic shit. And then they told him to copy Skyrim or something. The only songs on the OST that sound like Soken are Do or Die and Titan Lost. And according to Soken he actually sneaked those songs into test builds and relied upon the praise for them from QA to make sure the higher ups wouldn't rip them out. Fucking unreal.

This is the third time I've posted this personal review, and this will probably be the third time the resident XVI shill shuts his fucking mouth and leaves the thread like a good little bitch.
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Anonymous
6/18/2025, 11:23:02 PM No.713029912
>>713027705
>>713028218
You have ADHD.
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Anonymous
6/18/2025, 11:24:01 PM No.713029971
>>713029565
>literally having no life and buying shitty games is an achievement
lmao and i thought no lifing cod 15 years ago was kinda sad. You're pathetic.
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Anonymous
6/18/2025, 11:24:14 PM No.713029991
>>713029848
>>713029908
damn how do you write so fast!!!
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Anonymous
6/18/2025, 11:24:32 PM No.713030013
>>713029508
>Doesn't know how to use em dashes
>Calls anyone else an Indian/SEAnigger
Every accusation is a confession. Hand and wall socket, now.
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Anonymous
6/18/2025, 11:25:15 PM No.713030052
>>713029565
I'm calling you a twitter tourist nigger because nothing in your post had anything to do with gameplay but you're trying to get people to like XVI because it's le based for having no niggers and only a slight smearing of fags. Both games are garbage, but you're not even talking about games. Kill yourself and get the fuck off my website.
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Anonymous
6/18/2025, 11:25:24 PM No.713030064
>>713030013
That’s not an em dash, dipshit.
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Anonymous
6/18/2025, 11:25:25 PM No.713030065
>>713029991
Pasta or autistic neckbeard. Your pick.
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 11:25:50 PM No.713030094
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>>713029908
Accurate and reasonable review.
If anyone gave a shit about 16 Im sure they would be seething
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 11:26:22 PM No.713030134
>>713029781
There's not a single 45 minute cutscene in the game.
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 11:26:28 PM No.713030143
>>713029991
I wrote it a few days ago when this retarded shill couldn't explain why he liked the game and smugly told me I couldn't explain why I dislike it. He has yet to respond so I'm just gonna keep reposting it every time he gets uppity.
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Anonymous
6/18/2025, 11:26:39 PM No.713030160
>>713030064
Exactly: you don't know when to use an em dash and when to use a regular dash.

Never graduated highschool? Read a book on your own? Still no hand nor wallsocket btw, white man.
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Anonymous
6/18/2025, 11:26:47 PM No.713030168
>>713026697 (OP)
Because characters spend hours talking about mundane shit while very slowly walking through the most mundane terrain.
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 11:27:23 PM No.713030215
>>713027123
They even hired some of the cast to do voice work
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 11:27:48 PM No.713030245
>>713030160
>improper colon use
Take your own advice, Rajesh.
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 11:27:57 PM No.713030259
>>713026697 (OP)
The voice acting in 16 is incredible, though. I'll gladly listen to these voice actors speak for 20 hours.
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 11:33:51 PM No.713030703
Tell me why you'd buy FF16 and not just watch it on YouTube, since the game is just a visual novel?
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 11:34:25 PM No.713030748
>>713029609
>>713029707
>>713029781
>>713029848
>>713029908
I personally liked the combat; it was snappy, controlled well, provided a myriad of options without becoming overwhelming or presenting the player with broken abilities that are staples in rotation. I found myself constantly changing loadouts, and then mixing and matching Eikonic abilities with skills to create unique combat flows. For those that are too poor to have a PS5, every time you get a trophy it takes a screenshot of your game when you've earned said trophy. Literally every trophy pic had a different loadout on the UI because I was constantly customizing my approach. It was addicting. Compare this to DMC5 where there are moves/weapons that are so OP that you don't need to use much else.

I loved the lore and how much care went into the writing. I am not the type of person to read all the books in Morrowind, or read all the emails in System Shock, but I found myself visiting Harpocrates after every main/side mission to read the backstory on characters/world events/places, and would consult with Vivian every time I returned to the hideout. These instances created what is (in my opinion) an excellent gameplay loop with great pacing: exploration, combat, cutscene, return to the hideout, speak to Vivian/Harpocrates, prep myself, then go back out for another mission or hunt.
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Anonymous
6/18/2025, 11:34:51 PM No.713030779
>>713028706
based fun haver
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 11:43:46 PM No.713031443
>>713030052
>get the fuck off my website
Post your DOB on your ID larping Indian shit skin faggot
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 11:44:48 PM No.713031521
>>713029971
>hurr durr you dont play games
>DOESN'T COUNT DOESN'T COUNT
Die fat fuck
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 11:47:10 PM No.713031698
>>713030748
I'm a professional musician of over 20 years now, and I've been a big fan of Uematsu since I played the FF8 demo that came with orders from Pizza Hut (remember those? they had THPS as well) at the age of 8. The music of 8 is why I went back and bought FF7 to begin with, and my admiration of his work spiraled from there. Soken is a great successor, far better suited for the title than Shimomura (though I enjoy her work as well). The latter makes great compositional works but rarely blends genres the way Uematsu or Soken do. Djent metal with techno during the Titan boss? Genius. It conveyed the emotions of the two combatants well. Angelic choirs during the Bahamut boss fight (which is up there with Sword Saint, Metal Gear REX, Sahelanthropus, Dark Falz, Monsoon, and Safer Sephiroth as one of the best boss fights I've ever played)? Another great choice. The music served as an extra emotion at times, a prominent force at others, and bard-like combat inspiration at others still. It was extremely well done, one of the only games I felt the need to buy the OST for (MGS1, Lost Odyssey, FFX, and FFIX being the others... I expect to buy Clair Obscur's OST as well).

The side quests themselves were "ok", but the characters involved within and the tales they told were excellent, the best I've seen since The Witcher 3. I actually *cared* about Eloise and Theo, I actually wanted to see Dorys find peace, I wanted to see Lu'bor become a competent leader. It's rare for me to become as interested in side characters as I am members of the main cast, but that happened here. It felt like a living world with intertwining conflicts where the unfortunate reality that not everyone can be happy and pleased with every outcome served as a constant reminder of the dower state of the world. Genesis the Sword of Damocles overhead at all times. But there's hope in some camps, and that's where interactions really shine.
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Anonymous
6/18/2025, 11:50:14 PM No.713031907
>>713031698
This isn't to say I don't have some complaints: I don't mind controlling Clive only because, after all, this is his story, but I would have liked to see the ability to issue commands to party members other than Torgal. Benedikta died too early IMO. The game is a bit too easy the first time through. I would have liked the option to equip different armor pieces, and would have liked elemental attributes to play a greater role in the combat. Otherwise, everything else I got is extremely nitpicky (what I assume are limitations of the engine used).
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Anonymous
6/18/2025, 11:53:11 PM No.713032116
>>713028510
>>713029386
>>713029386
>A GAME is criticized for having too much gameplay
Retard. That's why JRPG fans get mocked
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Anonymous
6/19/2025, 12:02:25 AM No.713032784
>>713030143
I wasn't the anon you're referring to, but hopefully this cools your ass:
>>713030748
>>713031698
>>713031907
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 12:07:48 AM No.713033178
>>713032116
Shill33 is already forgotten. It will never hold a candle to classics like FFVII, FFX, etc. Cope. Forgettable characters with no personality, forgettable story, predictable and lame plot twist.

Go spam more fake scores in review sites, Pajeet.
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 12:10:00 AM No.713033335
>>713027123
It's the whole multiple kingdoms and political betrayal plot
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 12:11:27 AM No.713033429
>>713030748
>>713031698
>>713031907
Go figure, anon whined about no responses here >>713030143 and did the same exact thing.
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Anonymous
6/19/2025, 12:12:24 AM No.713033502
when is ff16 going to get added to ps plus?
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 12:12:27 AM No.713033507
>>713026697 (OP)
they like to watch
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 12:14:05 AM No.713033636
ff16 is just super boring just like ff12 was. as shit as 13 and 15 were they were not as boring as 12 and 16.
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 12:15:58 AM No.713033802
>>713027779
who mentioned bg3 lol?
is nobody going to address that?
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 12:21:30 AM No.713034205
>>713029478
This wss really the issue. Its no secret yoshida idolizes matsuno, but unlike matsuno he has no real interest in war or history to draw inspiration from for an Ivalice story
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 12:23:19 AM No.713034361
>>713030748
The combat gives you a ton of eikon abilities that don't actually matter because none of them meaningfully change the way you fight. You dump all your stuff, you wiggle your toothpick until cooldowns are back up, and then you stagger and dump again. It's all flash and no substance. Too much flash as a matter of fact. Have you ever made the mistake of using Aerial Blast at all? You can not see SHIT.
>I loved the lore and how much care went into the writing.
There's so little care in the writing that all that great, important lore is never utilized and has to be slipped away in lore entries because otherwise you will never come across the information nor does it matter. And I've already covered how shoddy and half-assed the actual plot is.
>an excellent gameplay loop with great pacing: exploration, combat, cutscene, return to the hideout, speak to Vivian/Harpocrates, prep myself, then go back out for another mission or hunt.
Constantly returning to the Hideaway kills any sense of adventure the game might have. There's no progression, you're not going anywhere, because you're tied back to the Hideaway. It doesn't feel like you're traveling a strange land.
>>713033429
I was making dinner. Eat my ass, you stupid faggot.
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 12:32:06 AM No.713035059
>>713031698
>The music served as an extra emotion at times, a prominent force at others, and bard-like combat inspiration at others still. It was extremely well done
How? The vast majority of it is the same handful of songs that just melt into the background and never grab your attention. All with the Prelude or the FF Main Theme jammed in for no reason. The Prelude is supposed to mean something. But in XVI it's just jammed into over half the songs on the OST. And then you have shit like the FF Main Theme blaring in fucking Byron's theme for some reason.
>Soken is a great successor, far better suited for the title than Shimomura
I agree, but XVI does not make use of his talents. They jammed him into making a westoid cinematic Skyrim score.
>The side quests themselves were "ok"
Absolutely not, and this right here tells me that you're full of shit and just looking for reasons to praise the game, or at least not say anything negative about it. The sidequests in XVI are indefensible. Pure time wasting filler with a thousand text boxes too many and no interesting objectives and no fucking rewards. And the game is BLOATED with them. Half the fucking game's runtime are these shitty MMO quests.
>I actually wanted to see Dorys find peace, I wanted to see Lu'bor become a competent leader.
Did you care about these things more than you cared about seeing Jill or Otto or Gav? Because that's what you got. Characters like L'ubor got hours of main story focus while Jill was left on the wayside in a fucking sidequest.
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Anonymous
6/19/2025, 12:34:56 AM No.713035286
>>713030748
Fuck you mean “prep myself” the only things to buy in the game are potions and music tracks
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Anonymous
6/19/2025, 12:39:48 AM No.713035646
>>713035286
Excuse me, you also have to go add +1 damage to your weapon with the epic crafting material that dropped from the eikon you just fought.
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 12:43:25 AM No.713035908
>>713029912
it's literally the opposite, stupid fucking mongoloid
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 12:55:41 AM No.713036741
>>713035059
Jill had an entire arc, what did you feel dissatisfied about?
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Anonymous
6/19/2025, 12:59:17 AM No.713037001
>>713036741
The culmination of her whole story arc and vital information necessary for understanding the ending is in a shitty MMO sidequest where you walk to the waypoint, fight some trash enemies, walk to another waypoint, walk to another waypoint, etc. And it comes at the tail end of the game when you unlock the final dungeon and suddenly like 30 or 40 fucking quest markers appear to rape your map all at the same time. This after you already spent half the game clearing the map of a hundred other shitty time wasting quests. It's no wonder so many people think Clive died at the end and I don't blame them, because they saw that shit pop up and ignored it. But hey at least you got to spend a few extra hours checking on Martha in exchange right?
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Anonymous
6/19/2025, 12:59:37 AM No.713037030
>>713035286
Reading up on the upcoming mission, refilling potions, changing abilities, etc.
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 1:00:57 AM No.713037140
>>713037001
Your animosity toward this game is bizarre, to be honest.
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Anonymous
6/19/2025, 1:02:22 AM No.713037245
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md5: f51bb71b4f152f4c10313a12364699a0🔍
>>713029781
>>713029848
>>713029908
>>713030748
>>713031698
>>713031907
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 1:05:03 AM No.713037441
>>713027779
You can try to astroturf FF16 as some white and trad game but you aren’t gonna convince anyone of this if their IQ is higher than 5.

please please die in a fire faggot
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Anonymous
6/19/2025, 1:05:37 AM No.713037490
The Japanese cannot write dialogue because they cannot speak. They have entire conversations where nothing of substance is said, they repeat points that have already been made back and forth to each other multiple times, every sentence is bloated and devoid of meaning. Their way of talking is incredibly autistic.
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Anonymous
6/19/2025, 1:06:29 AM No.713037551
>>713027779
Nobody fucking mentioned BG3 you mindbroken SEfag.
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 1:07:17 AM No.713037604
>>713037140
I don't think it's bizarre at all. I've explained exactly why I feel the way I do. I was beyond excited for this game and then I got served a plate of shit.
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Anonymous
6/19/2025, 1:09:51 AM No.713037778
>>713037604
Sorry to hear that, I enjoyed it a great deal. I was beyond excited for Mafia 3 and it turned out to be mediocre, same with Lords of the Fallen (2023). The difference between us is I didn't let an electronic piece of media consume me and alter my mental state.
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 1:12:36 AM No.713037994
>>713037490
sou sou. soudesuneeee. ooooooh.
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 1:18:48 AM No.713038416
>>713028187
no its tactics ogre you dumb fuck
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 1:54:01 AM No.713040956
>>713037441
I dont give a fuck what you do, retard. I'm glad you dumb fucks dont like it. Means I'm superior because you fags like normalfag dogshit like BG3 and Elden Ring.