Thread 718847891

How do you fix Final Fantasy XVI?

>>718847891 (OP)
>we're putting eikons at the center of this FF
>only 8 of them + 1 DLC
Retards.

>take the EPIC CINEMATICS AND QTE portion of the budget and put it toward gameplay and just make the story 10% of what it is because it's already braindead simple
>more cute girls and less ugly angry whores
>get rid of the weird fag subplot that has no bearing on the plot
>cut the number of main characters by two-thirds and focus more on them.
>intermission quest bullshit is completely optional, there's 80% less of it and it's more fleshed out instead of MMO quest tier

There’s a scene in the game where Joshua protects Clive from Ultima by seemingly absorbing him, which led me to believe that the game was gonna end with Clive facing an Ultima possessed Joshua and actually having to kill him. This feels like it would have made thematic sense for an ending but they just kinda drop it.

>>718847891 (OP)
Make it so that Joshua doesn't age due to phoenix rebirth shenanigans.

>>718847891 (OP)
>not making an open world where huge factions of soldiers come at you and you would be able to transform into a summon and wipe the field with your powers.
Why ?

go back to teenage angst themes instead of chasing whats popular

>>718847891 (OP)
By getting rid of all the bad things

How did we get so far from what made FF unique in the first place? There isn't even a single black mage robe in the game.

i kinda dont like the "ifrit garuda shiva bahamut" things

if it is for old ff fans - do more eidolons and make then fun, not the old shit

if it is for new fans - do a good game. from first time i saw anything about ff16 it was "ifrit and phoenix" and i wa oh wow ifrit yea, how not fun and not entertaining this could be.

anyway i havent played the game

>>718847891 (OP)
Go with the original idea of Clive, Joshua and Dion being the protagonists instead of just Clive

>>718847891 (OP)
>integrate DLC into main game, it's clearly cut content
>decrease enemy HP bloat across the board
>remove stagger bar, or whatever the japs are calling it this week
>completely revamp eikonic abilities;
>>abilties available through having to equip eikons should just become default/base actions (I should not have to equip Titan to be able to block) or enhance already available default/base actions (Shiva's dodge enhances the default dodge)
>>eikonic attacks can still be assigned to the shortcuts as they already are, just add a couple more to compensate for no longer cycling through equipped eikons
>all eikonic "equipment" (Titan's fists, Garuda's claws, etc.) should be weapons, no idea how the guy the worked on DMC did NOT make that happen
>make accessories actually fucking DO something, reducing my a 90 second cooldown by 5% is worth fucking nothing
Plus >>718851802
Alot of the changes are things that just should've been done to start with. Despite all this, it's one of the best games to come out in a while. It's up there with Jack's game as one of the best recent PS2 (two) games.

>>718852963
It unironically makes me want a a XVI-2. There's a solid foundation, just make the these changes and it'll fuck so hard.

>>718847891 (OP)
Kill every FF troon.

>>718852963
This and make Jill and Joshua playable

>>718847891 (OP)
Realistically you add a score bar into the main game instead of removing it so casuals don't feel stressed.
The players are trained to optimize for staggers and damage bursts because they get shown their total damage score after the stagger ends. This ends up leading to most players spamming ultimates when possible instead of trying out the different combos available between all the eikon skills like they would if they tried to score well in arcade mode.
I don't know for sure if this would improve it but maybe show the actual damage/cooldown values for each skill when modified by accessories so that people can get a clearer idea of how useful each accessory might actually be. For example the cooldown percentage values look too small and random to be useful even though there are specific thresholds set so that you can chain certain skills more easily with eachother if you have accessories equipped and upgraded.

>>718847891 (OP)
By putting Clive and Jack in Kingdom Hearts 4.

>>718847891 (OP)
Eject Ultima

>>718847891 (OP)
Bring Benedicta back and with a thirst for tall muscular studs.

>>718847891 (OP)
You don't. Meiteon was right.

>>718847891 (OP)
Cut the bloat, the overanimations, make an actual fluid action combat instead of half assing it, review dialogues to flow more naturally, cut the pathos and stoic breaks and make the performances more believable, increase the general speed of the game, give more weapon variety etc.
I think the blueprint is alright but it kinda falls flat by wanting to be too cinematic for game mechanics that have no business being cinematic and instead the general feel is just clunky.

>>718847891 (OP)
I'm really mad because the game isn't flawed from the start and at the core. If they increased difficulty, added variety builds it would already improve it as fuck. Though the story is also far from perfect - went too quickly from revenge toa generic saving poor people quest that drags most of the time.

I still can't get over how hard SoP raped and gaped this thing

>>718847891 (OP)
Literally just copy the combat system of Rebirth line for line so there could be an actual party. Also hire someone who isn't lazy and retarded to do the side quests.

>>718847891 (OP)
There's nothing to fix.
It's 10/10 high fantasy kino.

>>718852963
great points

>>718847891 (OP)
The game would be fine if it had expedition 33 style battle mechanics. It failed because its a button masher in place of an rpg. Final fantasy is an rpg genre and these stupid fucking japs need to remember that and stop trying this mass public appeal bullshit.

>>718856918
Rebirth sold 2x LESS than XVI btw

>>718858585
>sales fagging as if that has anything at all to do with mechanics
Even if that were the case it's itrelevant to the fact that Rebirth's combat is leagues better.

>>718859271
I found XVI's much smoother personally
sounds like a skill issue on your part

>>718859436
>skill issue
Nigger XVI's combat is babbytier, that's precosely its problem.

>>718860079
post your Ultimaniac and Kairos clears then

>>718860161
>dlc
Yeah I didn't buy that shit, the base game was mid enough. Hilarious you're arguing one of the easiest games of the gen, a game with nearly a 25% platinum rate on psn profiles, is hard though.

>>718847891 (OP)
I liked it just fine but I fucking despise Clive's ugly fucking outfit that he gets from his dad's old closet, at least let me put on the old imperial clothes or something

>>718847891 (OP)
Add MP and/or get rid of stagger. The current gameplay is like xiv where you fill time until you dump all your cooldowns into a burst window

>>718860946
I don't mind stagger systems. I do mind that there is zero depth to XVIs combat system around it though. It might as well be Veilguard.