Final Fantasy XVI

[Tehdagah]

The game is on Playstation Plus.

 

[mediocrepoet]

The game is on Playstation Plus.

Yeah, but then you need to have a Playstation. Bad trade.

 

[DJOGamer PT]

only been able to play 20 minutes of the demo, which got me through to the courtyard tutorial fight
runs better than expected on my RX480 - 25/35 fps on average, 1080p, settings on Low
pixelization aside, looks fine even at such suboptimal settings

 

[Jinn]

The wait for a good difficulty mod begins.

 

[DJOGamer PT]

Nexus Mods added the game today.

 

[scytheavatar]

The wait for a good difficulty mod begins.

The game's difficulty was an issue, but no amount of difficulty tweaks is going to fix the game's shitty side quests. Or shitty RPG elements. Or bait and switch story.

 

[Jinn]

The game's difficulty was an issue, but no amount of difficulty tweaks is going to fix the game's shitty side quests. Or shitty RPG elements.

We'll see. A lot of the complaints about the sidequests sound like standard JRPG sidequest problems. I don't care much for that design, but if rewards actually start to matter due to adjusted difficulty, and they come with a little flavor world-building text, that's fine by me. They just need to supplement the core gameplay at that point to be worth doing for me. RPG elements: I guess we'll see how much of an impact they have once stat's and gear actually start to matter with increased difficulty.

Or bait and switch story.

Don't care. Story is subjective and I'll judge for myself whether the intended impact comes through or not.

 

[malx]

what the fuck happened to this series? since when was final fantasy a button mashing DMC clone for retards and niggers?

 

[Grauken]

The visuals are not doing it for me, this doesn't look like Final Fantasy

 

[Modron]

When was the last time a Final Fantasy looked like Final Fantasy?

 

[Grauken]

When was the last time a Final Fantasy looked like Final Fantasy?

9 probably

 

[Val the Moofia Boss]

When was the last time a Final Fantasy looked like Final Fantasy?

X and XII. I would also say XIII-2 as it moves away from the futuristic sci fi/modern urban city look of XIII-1 and looks more fantasy/wilderness like X.

 

[scytheavatar]

When was the last time a Final Fantasy looked like Final Fantasy?

X and XII. I would also say XIII-2 as it moves away from the futuristic sci fi/modern urban city look of XIII-1 and looks more fantasy/wilderness like X.

XII already was too westernized and doesn't look like FF game. XIII is the last single player FF game that looked like a FF game. That game had a lot of issues but the art direction was on point and way superior to what we got ever since.

XIV 2.0 did a great job capturing the FF spirit and it certainly looked like a FF game too.

 

[aweigh]

my mini-review:

really can't stress enough how mediocre the writing is. Codexers are always going on about muh bad writing and this is a perfect example: it's full of endless and clunky exposition, no one sounds natural, everything is predictable and you can easily notice the author *trying* to write dumbed down game of thrones for children.

and like i said, combined with the no-party and shit combat... oh man.

 

[aweigh]

by the way, take all of those "performance" numbers people are throwing out right now with a heavy grain of salt because the game runs fine during combat zones, i can get almost 200fps in the area i'm in right now, it's when you get inside a town or hub area or anything with many npcs that it will absolutely kill your frame rate.

and the cutscenes will also kill your gpu as well which is why they're locked to 30fps by default. if you're barely scratching 60 in a town area don't expect to run the cutscenes at 60 as well, just leave them at 30.

surprisingly it's not the CPU that's getting hammered, at least not in my case, in my case i'm seeing my GPU spike to maximum in the town and hub area.

 

[Grauken]

aweigh's autism is a beauty to behold (also useful)

 

[mediocrepoet]

When was the last time a Final Fantasy looked like Final Fantasy?

9 probably

IX or VI. Arguably parts of XIV.

If it doesn't have those iconic chibi sprites or isn't hearkening back to them, it doesn't look like Final Fantasy, imo, even though it may look like Vagrant Story or some other Square game.

 

[aweigh]

lmao never mind, future combat zones will tank the frame rate too.

what i ended up doing is i made a custom resolution of 1440p 100hz, and i'm using half-refresh v-sync to play it locked to 50fps, graphics on high and DLSS on 'balanced'.

NPC slider set to 'low' however.

best case scenario is they release a performance patch soon but chances of that happening are slim. For those that aren't aware, FF16 runs like SHIT and looks like SHIT on the ps5 console itself.

 

[Mortmal]

Running it in 4K on max settings with DLSS enabled on a 4070, I get no performance issues—80 FPS everywhere, except for cutscenes that lock at 30 FPS, which seems to happen to everyone. Combat is simple and action-packed, but that's not necessarily worse than the primitive turn-based combat we had for decades, with no grid, no Z-level, and no cover. It’s a very good-looking game, but the design itself hasn’t evolved in 40 years: get a quest in A, gather 3 items from B, and bring them back to A. Oh, the bridge is broken? Go find the carpenter. It’s RPG Maker-level design, to be honest. That said, as I mentioned, it looks great, isn’t woke, and the characters are attractive—probably designed with Japanese women in mind, like in every Final Fantasy, as it's full of hot guys, which I’m sure delights the fanbase.

 

[malx]

this game is an interactive movie from what i've seen, it's looks shit.

 

[Sentinel]

I get no performance issues—80 FPS everywhere

You are using framegen.

 

[Mortmal]

I get no performance issues—80 FPS everywhere

You are using framegen.

Thats what i said yes, is it something taboo on the codex too now ?

 

[Sentinel]

I get no performance issues—80 FPS everywhere

You are using framegen.

Thats what i said yes, is it something taboo on the codex too now ?

I missed the part of your post about frame-generation. My bad.

Anyway, post-frame gen FPS isn't your real FPS - you're dealing with increased input lag as a consequence. That's like saying you're running a game at 4K with DLSS on performance mode - in reality you're rendering it at 1080p or whatever the fuck.

 

[karoliner]

With Square nothing ever meets expectations.

 

[DJOGamer PT]

You should've stopped at FF7R
The moment you brought up FF15 was the moment you killed your review's bait potential
As it stands it feels like something Barry would write...