Final Fantasy XVI (16)

I would not say its standard. Something is off about the implementation. I am 3 hours in and its rather offputting. I will say, I think the camera negatively contributes to the motion blur. It autocorrects in rather intrusive ways.... I suggest to not turn the camera during combat manually but to switch targets during fights. The framerate is all over the place when aiming for 60. Going to try quality mode now for a bit.

I find the game of thrones comparisons rather lazy in general in terms of story. However not-Hodor is well definitely inspired in not the most positive of ways... I really don't like these badly done gentle giant tropes. Hopefully he develops a bit (well not in a Mice and Man kind off way).

Break into the depot and steal it.

Then burn it down.

Really didn't expect to pull off a parry on the Fafnir's spin cycle.

It’s a callback to FFI-III It works within the context of the Yoshitaka Amano art because everything he draws looks like that, but it does stick out in this comparatively subdued and realistic iteration.

Damn this game is good, just about to leave home base again after a certain thing pops up there (very insignificant spoiler but it indicates how far along. Somewhere in the region of 4+ hours after the demo ended.

Really enjoying myself, loving the combat and the options it gives you, especially once you've trashed a certain building.

Ralph Ineson as Cid is excellent, as are all the voice cast really but he certainly stands out.

As for being inspired by Game of Thrones, the game even has

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This person is a bit better at the combat than I am haha. No spoilers btw.

Not to start with but after Clive gets a bit further in you can definitely see the similarities.

I just want to know if Cid can throw a kettle over a pub.

If it was an electric kettle, definitely.

A little easter egg in that fight for FF14 fans - the voice of the dragoon in 16 plays another well-known dragoon in 14.

Hmm, I’m not having much issues with the perfect or precision dodges. I usually dodge right before the attack hits me, any earlier and it’s a regular fat dodge.

The parries I’m not so sure on, since I only seem to execute them on accident. My instincts are to dodge, so I’m not even going for the parry attempt.

Players of this game, what the general feeling so far? I am a Final Fantasy dude, but as I dont have one of those shiny new consoles, I must live vicariously through you.

From what I've read on here so far, it seems pretty different game. As a relic from the past constantly yelling about how great FF6,7 and 8 are, how are FF traditionalists taking to it? Does it feel like Final Fantasy?

It feels different. I wouldn’t call myself a traditionalist per se. I tend to accept and enjoy that the series reinvents itself with each new entry, and I don’t miss turn based combat or anything of the sort.
But this does feel different. I don’t think I’ve logged on as many hours as most in this thread so it could change as I get further into it, but the game is exceedingly linear, even compared to entries like FFX and XIII. It’s bits of story, walking around a hub and talking to people, then choosing a location on a map, walk through a linear location and battle for a few minutes, then more story and hubwork.

The story’s interesting, the combat’s great, but it’s paced sort of like The Last of Us, where it’s more of a television show with occasional gameplay.

It’s high quality stuff, but I’m not sure how I feel about it yet.

I still can't get over the fact that people like XV when you needed to see a movie, an anime series and 4 DLC's in order to tell a somewhat cohesive story within the game.