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Your expectations for Final Fantasy XVI at E3
- Thread starter The Last One
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They're high:
- Feature a likable cast of characters on first impression
- Build on FFVII-R's combat
- Have at least a greater semblance of openness.
I don't expect XVI. I expect Square to show nothing but their western studios and Babylon's Fall
XVI should bring back something like Gambits system that lets us customize party A.I.
I don't think anything but that Ninja Theory Final Fantasy ARPG will be shown.
SE doesn't tend to pile on with their Final Fantasy branded announcements usually. I'm also assuming that FFXVI is super delayed.
I could MAYBE see an FF7R Part 2 teaser given the reports of that game being developed very smoothly.
SE doesn't tend to pile on with their Final Fantasy branded announcements usually. I'm also assuming that FFXVI is super delayed.
I could MAYBE see an FF7R Part 2 teaser given the reports of that game being developed very smoothly.
a short story trailer at the presentation and a slightly longer gameplay trailer at Sony's next thing
A party reveal. Cause if this is a single character game well... that character looks very boring lol
E3 specifically, or does this comprehend whatever Sony will do that falls into the now accepted "Summer period of game shows"?
Anyway I'm expecting a meaty trailer with updated graphics (people will still complain), confirmation or denial regarding party members, some town and/or world exploration and some cool cutscenes and setpieces bits. Ends with a 2022 release announcement, more to come this Fall for a dedicated showcase.
Anyway I'm expecting a meaty trailer with updated graphics (people will still complain), confirmation or denial regarding party members, some town and/or world exploration and some cool cutscenes and setpieces bits. Ends with a 2022 release announcement, more to come this Fall for a dedicated showcase.
I bet we'll see it, but it will be insubstantial/largely nothing new.
Final Fantasy Versus 14.
Thing is that a Sasliquid, who was vetted, said "I wouldn't expect any big Final Fantasy news" in the S-E Presents thread. That's why there's an increasing number of people thinking FF XVI won't be shown there. Whether it'll be shown elsewhere (SGF, a potential Sony stream...) is a whole different thing.
Then again, Nate said a week ago or so that XVI would have an E3 presence when asked and, in that same thread, Navtra said this (with Quinton backing up):
If all three users' info is up to date and accurate, S-E Presents won't be the place for XVI, but another event would do soon after (or earlier!).
Again though, plans can change, so I choose to be pessimistic just in case.
XVI should have, per Yoshida, some kind of option for people not too adept at playing action games. I don't know if it'll be an easy mode, an auto-combo kind of thing or whatever, but yeah.
I really don't think they'll have something like the Wait modes in XV or VII Remake, though. I expect command-based stuff to be kept to a minimum in XVI, if not gone altogether.
As for a Gambit system, that'd be great, but I'm not even too sure this will even have a party. Although we've seen guest members, so maybe you'll get more unique-looking ones (as opposed to this generic soldier) and they'll occasionally join Clive:
Like a rotating party of sorts. A Gambit system would make them more involved in battle if they end up not being playable.
If it's going to be there, I expect them to give us the release date if they are still on track to release this year. Though I think it will be delayed.
I don't think they've been aiming for that since COVID's effects were clear, honestly. Even if that Summer 2021 target they had before the pandemic were accurate (I tend to believe it), there's this.
This. I'm positive this game will keep a diverse party - hopefully, the new trailer will showcase more characters and gameplay!
They wouldn't release it this year if they could. Endwalker is the big 2021 release.
I wouldn't assume 7R is further ahead than XVI at all. We're definitely getting XVI before 7R Part 2 imo
Doesn't make sense with most of the lineup being under wraps and the length of the show. It's 40 minutes. If the Eidos game trailer is on the longer side, that's probably ~3mins. Let's be extremely generous and say the LIS3 stuff takes up a whole 10 mins. Let's add 3 more for the remasters. Let's round that out with 4-5 mins of Babylon's Fall.
We're not getting 20 minutes of the Souls thing lol
I forgot the Avengers DLC, but it's just DLC. There's at least 2-3 things in this they haven't mentioned and probably more since it's "mostly under wraps"
trailer similar to the last one so all in game/engine with gameplay sprinkled in and maaaaaybe a release window of a year like 2022 at the end
I think we're more likely to see more of it at Sony's next state of play as SE didn't even mention FFXVI in their E3 showcase announcement despite mentioning other games such as a reveal of an new Eidos game and Babylon's Fall. I'd love to be wrong though!
I dunno why people are so intent on this having a blowout this month. Yoshi-P said they would reveal more "later in the year" whereas Forspoken after their last tease said they would show more "very soon".
What has been shown of the game, it is more linear. The combat is heavily inspired by DMC, even to the point of having similar animations from those games and having the Battle Director of those games working on XVI. And hard to judge a cast of characters upon first blush. The original trailer barely told us anything about the game. Just scattered cutscenes and gameplay that hardly transition into one another.
IMHO, it was very generic and safe looking FF to me, and that doesn't excite me much. I think the combat can save it for me though.
Genuinely don't know how you can say what we saw looked more linear. It may very well be that way, but we literally saw 0 traversal lol
I can't believe it might not show up. I thought we were finally in the time of square enix showing things from their Japanese side. I'm not asking for it to launch this october. I just want to see it. Give us a story trailer, a new one. Give us a 5-10 minute exploration and combat gameplay. Then say the next showing is later on.
He never said "later in the year". He said this:
And I can't check the Forspoken video right now, but I mean, if it's at E3 of course it'd be "very soon", since that video was from late February. FF XVI only had a showing back in September, so it wouldn't make sense to say that when they were so far away from E3.
Not that this means that FF XVI is sure going to be shown next week, I'm not too optimistic.
It's not about what's further ahead in development. I just don't see them doing a full trailer or another teaser for FFXVI when that game is extremely likely delayed and not releasing this year. Especially when they're putting all their effort into FFXIV: Endwalker and giving it a November release.
That's why I think it's more likely there will be a FF7R Part 2 teaser than another FFXVI trailer. I don't think we'll see FFXVI again until the next major Playstation State of Play.
It's definitely possible it'll be here, they seem to have a ton of games to show this year over previous years.
I mean yeah, everything has been internally delayed. XVI never got a date at all, though. Nobody really even expected it this year. Just don't see why we would see 7R and not XVI.
Don't care about getting a release date, hope more games hold the date until they are sure or close to a firm date.
I just wanna see more characters at this point. Hoping that the MC isn't the only playable character, and we get to roll with a party.
Might be a dated jrpg concept but I always enjoy meeting new characters as you journey through the world, with some of them deciding to come along for the ride.
I just wanna see more characters at this point. Hoping that the MC isn't the only playable character, and we get to roll with a party.
Might be a dated jrpg concept but I always enjoy meeting new characters as you journey through the world, with some of them deciding to come along for the ride.
They're far more more likely to show XVI (which is five years ahead of VIIR2, dev-wise) or a trailer for Intergrade (out just days before the show) or even for one of those new VII mobile games than any kind of teaser for VIIR-2. It makes zero sense to get into that at all before XVI and Endwalker are out. They're gonna promote the stuff they've already announced because they've already announced it. And if you do too much in terms of announcements in the same franchise, you just get ahead of yourself, which seems like a lesson SE learned the hard way.
Yeah and, even if S-E doesn't change their ways, I'd expect all of the FF VII Remake parts to be announced a year or so before release. There's no reason to show them earlier, considering everybody knows they're coming (meaning no worry about a leak like with Part 1), they have a dedicated big team in place already and people know what type of game to expect.
I still think S-E has learnt the lesson, though, if XVI (I guess this might have been Yoshida's request) and Forspoken are anything to go by. EDIT: actually just remembered DQ XII.