Like, I said: Nomura. Neku is like that in The Workd Ends With You, which I'm playing right now. If they remade VIII, Squall would come off the same way. It's just a trope of his.
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Like, I said: Nomura. Neku is like that in The Workd Ends With You, which I'm playing right now. If they remade VIII, Squall would come off the same way. It's just a trope of his.
i got roasted on this website for saying his design looks cool
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Better than his younger version for sure! But I think its mostly just alright.
Really? I like him better than many (most?) FF MCs. I think I only prefer OG Squall, Cloud and older Noctis tbh. If we're more liberal when choosing a protag, I could include Balthier and Celes above him, but he'd be around that tier.i got roasted on this website for saying his design looks cool
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His hair looks like a wig in the key art and we've yet to get a good in-game glimpse at him, but him being a bit older, bigger and wearing red (only Terra does beyond Clive) and a cape differentiates him from the most recent MCs, who went for more modern, younger and hip vibes.
The younger design I don't really like, but I think it's mostly the hairstyle. Otherwise, he looks cool and has a nice streamlined aesthetic, if he could just lose the Karen bang and be more like, idk, Kazuya.
Jesus, this is bad. It's even worse given that FF characters are barely allowed to really emote in general. I think the last time they were allowed to get "ugly" with the facial/muscle deformation and the last time the cast had unique features was like....FFX.
i got roasted on this website for saying his design looks cool
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He looks fantastic imo.
Comp has done a pretty good job of making people forget how much of a goof Cloud is even before the lifestream event.
i got roasted on this website for saying his design looks cool
sitll believe it
I think I do like his older design. I like the fact that we will be able to change gear sets, we might see some FFXIV or Tactics Ogre inspired designs.
Obviously GoT vibe. That's fine to the extent that some dark political fantasy could be an interesting addition to FF. Hope it's a LOT less rapey and infanticidy than GoT though. Just too much, got perverse.
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I have a gut feeling that we are getting a cinematic Final Fantasy again, where there is a lot of dialogue in and out of cutscenes. They will be more realtime but I think we will get some fixed camera angles again more. XV had cutscenes but a significant bulk was dynamic dialogue during traversal.
I want both in XVI.
I want both in XVI.
Yeah my bad, I know they didn't say.
I thought the start of the trailer he had a different gear than the red one, probably wrong here ,made me think maybe there might be we will have different gears, I sure hope we do.
i got roasted on this website for saying his design looks cool
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I find him almost indistinguishable from Gabriel Belmont
I find him almost indistinguishable from Gabriel Belmont
LMFAO!!! Wow this is a throwback.
I'm hoping Clive is sort of like Spike Spiegel. Someone who can either be cool, chill, silly, etc depending on the situation he's given to react to.
And part of the reason I bring Spike up is because he is someone who, like presumably Clive, had been through some SHIT yet it didn't turn him into a walking edge conduit because literally no one is going to be like that. He's was a fluid, dynamic adult with an undercurrent of bitterness about his past.
And part of the reason I bring Spike up is because he is someone who, like presumably Clive, had been through some SHIT yet it didn't turn him into a walking edge conduit because literally no one is going to be like that. He's was a fluid, dynamic adult with an undercurrent of bitterness about his past.
I hope Clive isn't just stoic. That would be disappointing.
Edit: Also being almost avatar like for the player either. I know it works for XIV but its not going to work for XVI.
Edit: Also being almost avatar like for the player either. I know it works for XIV but its not going to work for XVI.
This would legitimately put me off the game. I remember, after having only watched the trailer once, thinking that maybe the MC would be mute (since we only get narration moments and just a couple of in-game dialogue bits that may or may not be his), which contributed to me feeling initially cold along with a few other things.
I really don't think that's happening, though. And I could imagine Yoshida, Takai and the rest being eager to have a voiced, fully established MC after working on XIV for so long.
You know cause it's by the FFXIV team so seems some people think the game might just take what works from there and just apply it on FFXVI.
I'm starting to doubt the MC was speaking in the trailer after reading about unvoiced MC.
"I am Joshua's shield."
It's either someone was speaking as 1st person instead of him or maybe it's an alien taking control of him.
My point was you don't even need to entertain the possibility they would, since there isn't one. A mainline SP FF will never have an unvoiced lead again. It's ridiculous to even suggest as much (not that you did.)
Oh, yeah. Like I guess it's fair to say nothing is impossible (the same way noone could have foreseen a mainline being a MMO before XI), but yeah, there's no way they're going that route for a SP one.
There's just so much baggage that comes with the series, its stories and MCs for them to ditch having an established protagonist, especially now with more grounded, realistic games (which would make things more jarring). Take a look at what people talk more with regards to the older games: characters and their relationships, even more so than the plot or the lore themselves. Like people still talk about Cloud (even before the remake), Squall, Zidane... and they're a huge part of what makes spin-offs succesful. The main draw, really.
I've never been big on insert characters/silent MCs; I think a written, defined character is always better. And that's still role-playing to me. The difference is you've been assigned a role rather than making up your own, and hopefully it's a character you can empathize with and relate to.
But yeah, this I feel is just one of those things that comes with being a AAA franchise. It's like when people dream about a new mainline game that's 2D. Yeah, they could do that, but chances are the catch would be it's really just a stop-gap between the last and next mainline games (and at that point if may as well just be a side game). Because a 2D FF would be cheap to produce and sometimes that's great (the industry would benefit from a lot more of it!), but it would also be limited in its appeal. When you have an established franchise that can actually put up big numbers, you tend to want to make a big investment in hopes of a big return. You wouldn't be doing that with a 2D FF.
High fidelity graphics, voice acting, and honestly at this point, yeah, combat that's a little more visceral and involved than a turn-based system; these are things any mainline FF simply must do now because ultimately SE isn't just competing with other RPGs for RPG fans money and attention. They have a big media brand that has to try to capture as many people as possible while hopefully maintaining it's identity and artistic integrity.
Oh, man, they turn me off big time. Like I can live with them being in certain genres and I think stuff like Dark Souls/Bloodbone might be the only one where I kinda prefer it due to how the story is told, but yeah, nothing beats an established character for me. If you want to go down the customization route, however, I'm also partial to how Mass Effect handled it. But when it's a realistic game or one where the story is a big deal and the MC just doesn't speak... I'm out or at least not nearly as enthralled as I'd otherwise be.
And yeah, for better or worse, this is where we're at: insane AAA production values and a more realistic approach, and mainline FFs won't dial it down. Which is why I've always wanted them to put out a new IP that's a bit cheaper that mimics the PSX style (or really just use spin-offs/other lesser known series they have).
Yeah, I'm always hoping to see more mid-tier stuff from them that's riding on less. They're getting back into that territory with stuff like NieR and SaGa, so that's really encouraging.
Mass Effect is good shout too. I love Mass Effect. With that or Dragon Age or Witcher, I think you have a good middle ground because you sort of have these semi-defined characters that will only ever react to a given situation in a limited number of ways. That's another dynamic between the player and the lead character as well. The MC isn't silent, but not strictly defined either. A friend and I like to describe it more as you directing in this scenario.
At this point I just want to see more main characters, whether there's a party or not.
We only got to properly see Clive, Joshua and Jill, and two of them have very vanilla designs as they're kids. Seeing Clive's glow-up, can't wait to see the others' post-timeskip designs.
Basically I want the XVI equivalent of this, which was very hype Stella's further downgrade aside:
We only got to properly see Clive, Joshua and Jill, and two of them have very vanilla designs as they're kids. Seeing Clive's glow-up, can't wait to see the others' post-timeskip designs.
Basically I want the XVI equivalent of this, which was very hype Stella's further downgrade aside:
I feel like that Ghost of Tsushima announcement would've been the type of thing to show at a Sony event if it was happening in the next week or two so...yeah. Maybe I'm wrong but it feels like our watch for a new trailer will continue for a while.
I feel like that Ghost of Tsushima announcement would've been the type of thing to show at a Sony event if it was happening in the next week or two so...yeah. Maybe I'm wrong but it feels like our watch for a new trailer will continue for a while.
This sucks lol
I feel like that Ghost of Tsushima announcement would've been the type of thing to show at a Sony event if it was happening in the next week or two so...yeah. Maybe I'm wrong but it feels like our watch for a new trailer will continue for a while.
Square/Sony, please...
I still stand by that the compilation shit (especially advent children) was the worst thing to happen to the FF franchise
not only did it Stain's Cloud and Sephiroth's characters (cloud was saved in the remake but Sephiroth sadly wasn't) it also gave us oil tycoon Barrett
I don't mind Clive's look, looks better than anyone in XV and XIII.
Hopefully the chars that get showcased for 16 end up being involved and fleshed out.
None of this chars amounted to anything :(At this point I just want to see more main characters, whether there's a party or not.
We only got to properly see Clive, Joshua and Jill, and two of them have very vanilla designs as they're kids. Seeing Clive's glow-up, can't wait to see the others' post-timeskip designs.
Basically I want the XVI equivalent of this, which was very hype Stella's further downgrade aside:
Hopefully the chars that get showcased for 16 end up being involved and fleshed out.
i honestly don't think any main character aside from clive and joshua were shown
hell, i didn't think jill would be a big character but apparently she is since has art
Yeah I assume aside from maybe the people talking in that one room no one there is big enough to matter outside of the prologue.
the dragoon showing up looking cool only to be dead in the next scene is peak Yoshi P treatment of dragoons
To be fair it just looks like a mook and they call out dragoons as just a regiment of the imperials. Prolly not a named or important char. Estineien was also treated pretty well tbf
On one hand, sure, but on the other that is exactly the kind of announcement Sony announced prior to their E3 conferences when they still held those.I feel like that Ghost of Tsushima announcement would've been the type of thing to show at a Sony event if it was happening in the next week or two so...yeah. Maybe I'm wrong but it feels like our watch for a new trailer will continue for a while.
Yep.
SoP being soon would make sense in fact, because thats where they could show off some of the stuff with the new expansion.
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