Board 8 > New Final Fantasy XVI trailer

(+) Yeah! (+)

This is mostly the Heavensward team, with the combat director form Devil May Cry.

Not sure WHICH Devil May Cry.

The soundtrack is what I'm looking forward to the most. Soken is the best composer working in games today.

UshiromiyaEva posted...

Soken is the best composer working in games today.

And to think he had some pretty modest roots too.

https://youtu.be/cOe-t1bElII

WhiteLens posted...

And to think he had some pretty modest roots too.

https://youtu.be/cOe-t1bElII

Oh my God the first couple seconds of that track.

https://youtu.be/HooEH0Wh4C0

THE GOAT NEVER LET'S A BEAT GO

Mewtwo59 posted...

It still feels like "Witcher 3 at home" to me. Not really getting the hype.

Forgot to comment on this, but has it really been so long since a Dragon Age or Ivalice game that people automatically equate fantasy with Witcher

This is not a new genre/style

What's cool is the music in the trailer sounds totally different from recent FFs, but it did have some of tbe old school Uematsu melodic sounds from the SNES

foolm0r0n posted...

What's cool is the music in the trailer sounds totally different from recent FFs

It's straight out of FF14 dude. That's not a bad thing though.

The track in the trailer iad efinitely reminiscent of Endcaller at the end of it.

colliding posted...

While I enjoy 7 remake's combat, nothing honestly matters in terms of character progression/build, and unless you're fighting a super boss you can pretty much do whatever.

7 Remake's combat is a lot more unpolished than FFXV's though

I don't know if I would call what XV has..."combat".

Just a bunch of wavy tube men flopping around.

FFVIIR's combat is fantastic. I don't care about characters needing to feel unique or whatever.

FFXV's is fun, too, but it rarely lives up to what it could be.

MZero posted...

7 Remake's combat is a lot more unpolished than FFXV's though

I suppose FFXV's combat must have been almost immobilized under all the polish, then

LeonhartFour posted...

FFVIIR's combat is fantastic. I don't care about characters needing to feel unique or whatever.

Characters feeling unique is a huge problem that FF7R solved, though! OG FF7's cast largely amounted to different skins for your materia builds, but Remake's approach gave everyone extremely clearly defined niches. (Except Cloud who's rightfully a jack of all trades and Yuffie who's just a god and will probably need to be toned down to not just be the best character by far in part 2.)

Trailer seemed cool to me. I'll follow Yoshi-P to the ends of the earth. Do you hear me? THE ENDS OF THE EARTH

UNTIL DEATH

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/5/1/AAeolZAADzeD.jpg

paperwarior posted...

I suppose FFXV's combat must have been almost immobilized under all the polish, then

Yeah that is what I mean by "too much polish," the mechanics of FFXV are a disaster but Noctis controls extremely smoothly. TOO smoothly because it would be unplayable otherwise. It was all they could do to polish all the edges off and get something decent.

FF7R has weight and heft to it. It's clunky and sorta obtuse but in a good way.

I rememeber liking the demo in the very first demo of XV a lot more than the final product. The Carbuncle Demo or something like that.

KamikazePotato posted...

Forgot to comment on this, but has it really been so long since a Dragon Age or Ivalice game that people automatically equate fantasy with Witcher

This is not a new genre/style

It's moreso that the gameplay is closer to Witcher than it is to Dragon Age or any of the Ivalice games. It being an action RPG is really all that's making me call it "Offbrand Witcher" rather than "Offbrand Dragon Age".

It doesn't really look like The Witcher to me other than being an action RPG. Barring a few setpiece bosses I don't usually think of The Witcher as similar to DMC.

Witcher gameplay is like the Assassin's Creed or Arkham combat we have at home.

If you guys want an action RPG comparison, Kingdom Hearts is right there!

FFXV's combat = worse Kingdom Hearts

This seems like FF meets DMC (because that's what it literally is).Again, it'll probably be extremely fun and the best entry in the series since X, but it's just not what I personally want from the series. Don't listen to me though, because I'm a literal crazy person who wants them to give a mainline entry to the Octopath/Bravely team. Or Yoko Taro.

UshiromiyaEva posted...

This is mostly the Heavensward team, with the combat director form Devil May Cry.

Not sure WHICH Devil May Cry.

Primarily DMC 5, which is by far my favorite so it's incredibly hype. He also helped on DMC 4 but wasn't quite as involved I don't think.

Also Dragon's Dogma!

colliding posted...

Don't listen to me though, because I'm a literal crazy person who wants them to give a mainline entry to the Octopath/Bravely team. Or Yoko Taro.

Hell, I wouldn't turn down either of those.

God no not the Octopath Team. I mean if you just mean mechanically then maybe, but I would like the FF games to at least have a story and characters.

I have some doubts about them even mechanically, but I still want to see that level of customization and turn-based combat in something different.

Ryota Suzuki is the combat director on FFXVI. I believe he was the lead combat director on Dragon's Dogma. He was one of the combat designers in DMC5, but not the overall combat director for it. I think he was the lead for one of the characters, maybe Nero? Can't find confirmation tho.

I definitely don't want Yoko Taro to do a mainline FF game unless 1) he wants to and 2) they let him go completely nuts and both of those happening on a blockbuster title seems unlikely.

They've been posting some character bios on the Twitter.

https://twitter.com/finalfantasyxvi?t=XmC0W82dVVAj1xafguWzMQ&s=09

The Heavensward really pops in this art.

There was stuff about XV that I really liked, which makes it an extra huge bummer that its so obviously not a finished game.

That's just straight up the WoL lmao

Could this world be a shard? I'd lose my mind if they pulled something like that. Also when the hell did everyone start calling WoL "Meteor Survivor"? >_>

UshiromiyaEva posted...

They've been posting some character bios on the Twitter.

https://twitter.com/finalfantasyxvi?t=XmC0W82dVVAj1xafguWzMQ&s=09

The Heavensward really pops in this art.

I thought that was Clive at first. Hopefully this game doesn't fall under the same trap that 14 did where most of the main cast has the same hair color.

I feel like the character designs are a bit bland so far. They don't really stand out compared to something like FFXIII or Nier Automata.