What went wrong?

>Game of Thrones but even worse
>scaling
>plot over gameplay
>"le cinematic storytelling" meme
>no team
>boring grimdark world
>shitty flashy action combat

It felt really underbaked at various parts.
I did all the side quests and it was painful. The main story is just the best way the play. More over the game was WAY too afraid of you struggling so they over tuned it into being easy and not letting you play hard mode until you finish the game once and if you were me who 100%'d everything I didn't want to do a 2nd playthrough just because the side quests were fucking exhausting and boring to do.
But some of the side quests actually have some pretty neat and important lore and emotional beats so you'd have to figure which are worth doing and which aren't

There's also kind of no fucking point in making the world semi-open world because there's NOTHING do there except for the Hunts. The hunts are fun and worth it but that's all there is to do.

Nothing, it was a decent game. But I felt like I was playing a worse version of Granblue Relink.
That game was so good.

>>717891553
oh and you also need a mod to make the game not piss easy make sure to download basic difficulty mod.

>>717890498 (OP)
Hollywood pretentiousness and gay porn scenes. Next question.

>>717891601
I second this.
Playing the game in it's default difficulty is not worth it. get a mod that unlocks the highest difficulty by default for your first playthrough

>>717890498 (OP)
Its pretty good up until you get to Woloed

>>717890498 (OP)
They made a shitty action game instead of an RPG.

>>717890498 (OP)
Sales wise, from multiple sources, the game made back it's budget by THREE TIMES... but as a game, it has deeply rooted issues both as a Hack n Slash and an RPG game.

As a hack n Slash, it is weigh down by it's RPG mechanics, equipments cannot significanty change the characer too much, having enemies with severely inflated healths and limited movesets, the environment design is far too large for it, the NPCs quests or dialogue differences requires too much investments to get an ending for it, despite having five/seven Eikons with a variety of unique moves, the developers decided to lock them behind cooldowns and limited buttons rather than incorporating it into the moveset.
As an RPG, it is weigh down by it's Hack n Slash mechanics, equipments cannot significantly change the character too much, there are not enough enemy variety to compensate for the limited movesets, the environment is far too linear for any meaningful explorations, the NPCs quest or dialogue differences is not significant enough, even with the whole Eikon vairety, this game is entirely a Clive game with the teammates being there and they don't get to help or involve in combat as much because it would pose too much vairability if they do.

At the same time... it is a contentor as the most well written game in the franchise, the voice acting is genuinely convincing, the theatrics and choreography is very well done and the character designs is well thought out.

There is alot of things that went wrong with this game and alot of things that went right with this game, many game's fault have reason to why it's like that, and this one is like two siblings born to the same body despite being polar opposites... but there are potential surgeries to seperate them, but it would never address the main issue itself.

>>717890498 (OP)
Too drastic a shift of genre for a mainline.
If they made it a side-title, people would've been likely fine with it. If FF Tactics was released as FF8 back in the day, people likely would've been pissed.

The MMO FFs saw the same anger, really.

>>717890498 (OP)
It was pretty boring. I never got past the introduction to the hideout.

>>717890498 (OP)
Gameplay is kinda dull. Cooldowns on so many abilities feel lame in an action game, lot of Eikon abilities are just boring and not unique and you are restricted to too few equipped at a time. Stagger bar makes enemies really easy to defeat and really samey, that along with too easy dodging and too much slow down. The edgy tone doesn't work for Final Fantasy. The characters are mostly dull aside from a few like Cid and Benedikta who are underused and killed too soon. Focusing the plot all on Ultima and this boring as shit is dumb, the initial bearer stuff isn't great but was more interesting than that. Terrible ending. Kaiju bosses are cool but they peak with Bahamut and it's all downhill from there.

>>717890498 (OP)

>>717890498 (OP)
It insists upon itself

>>717890498 (OP)
Remove everything outside the linear levels and turn it into a proper hack and slash since that was clearly what the devs originally wanted.
You can call it Final Fantasy Attack on Eikon or something if putting a mainline number there gives you an aneurism because muh rpg elements.

>>717890498 (OP)
Too afraid to commit to being a real action game.

>>717890498 (OP)
nothing really, it was pretty good, the Ifrit sections were sick. it could've been much better if they didnt have everything on 3 minute cooldown and mashing dodge didnt make you invincible. they should've just used an MP system, even a Street Fighter style MP bar system where your moves cost 1, 2, or 3 bars would've been better than cooldown, especially if your normal attacks are going to do literally no damage and just fill the space between cooldowns. the other big problem was not being able to play as the other eikons, I wanted to do a Bahamut section so bad because hes my favorite summon. overall I enjoyed it way more than I thought I would but that was mainly due to the spectacle of the boss fights.

>>717890498 (OP)
Single player focus instead of party mechanics while also adding tonnes of filler for no real reward, and a cop out ending.
It starts hot and ends ice cold, and makes the entire journey feel like a waste of time

>>717897863
Mashing dodge isn't that good

The least ambitious Final Fantasy...

>>717890498 (OP)
Too safe
All the great final fantasies do some weird wacky shit, XVI was just XIV but single player and with better graphics

>>717890498 (OP)
It was over as soon as they introduced Ultima.

>>717890714
mostly true. the combat was great and carries it to 7/10

Do you think they thought they were smoking that deep philosophical shit with the whole lmao it was all alien :)))

>>717890498 (OP)
in my 70+ hour playthrough, it had literally 35 hours of cutscenes. This would be okay if the story was good, but it's not. It's a bunch of big spectacle scenes, but without proper connective threads to mesh it all together. Also, a realm reborn tier side quests in a tiny bland "open world".

The game is also ridiculously easy even on the NG+ "final fantasy" mode because it gives you check points in boss fights that fully replenishes all of your potions. The only challenge is doing the hard mode in the arcade, but the encounters are only unlocked after beating them in the NG+ mode.

I hate this faggot MMO director so deeply, and I hate the fanbois that gave him this much of an ego.

Too safe and clearly did not actually know what it wanted to be. Story was also bad, basically just endless misery porn culminating in a fuck you ending that slams the door shut on anything interesting ever happening in the setting again.

As an example of being tonacared to let the player fail, the writers went out of their way to include really good directions for every single sidequest then clearly this was too much for QA so they don't give you the option of turning quest markers off.
I think that bothered me more than the lack of fundamental RPG aspects

>>717899218
*too scared