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Relentlessboredomm posted:I’m trying to not touch the demo and just wait for the full release but it’s becoming more and more difficult to resist. Fuckkk I’m hyped for this one. It’s just the opening ~2 hours and then part of another early main mission so it won’t really spoil much if you play it now
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RatHat posted:It’s just the opening ~2 hours and then part of another early main mission so it won’t really spoil much if you play it now Oh I’m not worried about spoilers, i just know i wont want to stop so I’m trying to hold out.
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Jun 14, 2023 00:14
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I was on the fence about this but the demo won me over. Very fun.
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Relentlessboredomm posted:I’m trying to not touch the demo and just wait for the full release but it’s becoming more and more difficult to resist. Fuckkk I’m hyped for this one. There's not a lot of reason to avoid it since it starts at the very beginning anyways and you pick up in the full version exactly where the demo ends.
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Jun 14, 2023 00:17
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biceps crimes posted:i think this might be the greatest demo ever? like holy poo poo. talk about putting your hooks in somebody and convincing them to buy it I think this is the first time in my life that I finished a game demo, the "please buy the full version!" screen came up, and my response was immediately "don't mind if I do".
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Jun 14, 2023 00:19
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Honestly, I understand the impulse to hold back, since I almost did too. I thought I might want to save the demo for closer to release so the wait would be less agonizing once I finished it and couldn't play more, but now that I've played it I'll say it finds a good place to stop. I'm interested in more, but the demo feels relatively self-contained.
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Jun 14, 2023 00:20
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Has anyone played the demo via remote play? Is this a game that requires precise inputs? I would love to not move my PS5 if possible.
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Jun 14, 2023 00:24
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The game said that rewards from battle vary based on performance. If I got nothing from the morbol or dragoon fights except gil and experience, does that mean I am terrible at video games or do they just not give you anything because you're about to lose it all?
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Jun 14, 2023 00:27
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SirSamVimes posted:The game said that rewards from battle vary based on performance. If I got nothing from the morbol or dragoon fights except gil and experience, does that mean I am terrible at video games or do they just not give you anything because you're about to lose it all? Considering I got like two gil from all the random pickups, I expect nothing carries over
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Jun 14, 2023 00:29
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While this is gonna be a day 1 buy for me, I'm not a fan of the post-X FF trend of the sidequests all just being "hunt this mark". In world where The Witcher 3 came out and then every other AAA developer realised they should put some personality and dialogue and a little variation in sidequests, just monster hunting seems kinda eh. Even FF7R had some stuff that wasn't just a monster hunt.
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Jun 14, 2023 00:41
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bewilderment posted:While this is gonna be a day 1 buy for me, I'm not a fan of the post-X FF trend of the sidequests all just being "hunt this mark". “That’s right,” adds Maehiro. “We didn’t want to have something like an NPC telling you ‘Go and slay three monsters… Thanks!’ We have grown tired of such side quests, so we wanted a good reason for each side quest that was implemented. We wanted them to tell the player more about the game’s world and characters. I’m confident that players won’t be bored by them.”
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Jun 14, 2023 00:44
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i'll hunt any monster for any reason. i don't care
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bewilderment posted:While this is gonna be a day 1 buy for me, I'm not a fan of the post-X FF trend of the sidequests all just being "hunt this mark". I would feel the same if the combat wasn’t awesome like it seems to be in ff16. Now I’m like hell yeah more fights! I thought the combat in Witcher 3 was rear end so I’m glad that game had variety.
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Jun 14, 2023 00:57
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Concurred posted:i'll hunt any monster for any reason. i don't care I won't, because I respect wildlife. With the Blight happening, all life is precious. My Clive will only kill humans and constructs. Speaking of this, I like how the Active Time Lore for goblins is basically sympathetic towards them and mentions them being forced into human lands by the Blight. Feel bad for those little guys just chilling in a swamp, only to be brutally slaughtered by some humans 3x their size (except for the big one anyway).
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Jun 14, 2023 01:02
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There are non-hunt sidequests too.
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Jun 14, 2023 01:05
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There should be a sidequest to get toys and treats for Torgal.
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Ytlaya posted:I won't, because I respect wildlife. With the Blight happening, all life is precious. My Clive will only kill humans and constructs. Helps that there's a lot of stuff in the game that pretty clearly indicates very early on that Rosaria are not, actually, "the good guys," they're just where Clive is from - they are, after all, a slaveowning society, and the active time lore is pretty up front that all the realms are just engaged in Machiavellian realpolitik for their perceived survival.
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Jun 14, 2023 01:15
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Battle Pigeon posted:I hope that everyone's predictions about Torgal being the Fenrir Eikon isn't true, because it would more fun if somehow he was the Fenrir Dominant instead. Dog summoning Big Dog I mean, if he was the dominant he would also turn into the eikon.
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Relentlessboredomm posted:Oh I’m not worried about spoilers, i just know i wont want to stop so I’m trying to hold out. Lol this is what happened to me. I went from “I’m sure I’ll like this game but I’m not losing my mind over it” to “gently caress I need to play more RIGHT NOW”
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Jun 14, 2023 01:20
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Re: the demo eikon battle, personally I'd give it top marks for visuals, sound and music. As for the gameplay, it is a bit simple but I'd say it's deliberately so, because A) its introducing a new style of gameplay at you really fast and B) if it was any more complex the whole sequence would probably get a lot less cinematic.
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Jun 14, 2023 01:26
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Ibblebibble posted:Re: the demo eikon battle, personally I'd give it top marks for visuals, sound and music. As for the gameplay, it is a bit simple but I'd say it's deliberately so, because A) its introducing a new style of gameplay at you really fast and B) if it was any more complex the whole sequence would probably get a lot less cinematic. I know the two sisters fight and think the final fight had some XIV mechanics, I got pretty excited recognizing them. But yeah I agree, any more tools and I think it would have been a bit much.
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Jun 14, 2023 01:30
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Consummate Professional posted:I know the two sisters fight and think the final fight had some XIV mechanics, I got pretty excited recognizing them. But yeah I agree, any more tools and I think it would have been a bit much. Oh I was talking about Ifrit vs Phoenix lol
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Has anyone tried changing the control scheme? I haven't yet, but I think I might want to. The default one doesn't seem very practical for things like "charging magic while using the sword" (or vice versa). And I kept mistakenly using circle instead of R1 for trying to dodge.
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Jun 14, 2023 03:14
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The amount of times I've hit circle instead of R1 to dodge.....
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Cardboard Fox posted:The amount of times I've hit circle instead of R1 to dodge..... You can change your control scheme, made it wayyyy easier. i think it's layout B
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Cardboard Fox posted:Demo is surprisingly good. Gave me a very GoT meets AoT vibe in a way. One thing to look for is when an Eikon has blue eyes, their dominant is in control. When their eyes are red there is nobody (?) at the wheel.
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Concurred posted:You can change your control scheme, made it wayyyy easier. i think it's layout B Yeah, plus the thing I mentioned about how certain mechanics are extremely awkward with the default control scheme. There's not really any good way to "charge a magic attack while doing a sword combo" with the default scheme. You'd have to do something weird like press triangle with your index finger. Nelson Mandingo posted:One thing to look for is when an Eikon has blue eyes, their dominant is in control. When their eyes are red there is nobody (?) at the wheel. When their eyes are red, Torgal is at the wheel. FF16's equivalent of the "Sephiroth killing Aerith" scene will be the pivotal scene where Torgal pushes Cid off a cliff.
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Is there any way to resize HUD text? My eyes aren't as good as they used to be and enemy name text in particular is kinda hard to read sometimes mid-fight.
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Harrow posted:Lol this is what happened to me. I went from “I’m sure I’ll like this game but I’m not losing my mind over it” to “gently caress I need to play more RIGHT NOW” I like how they hit you with the cliffhanger goes "Don't worry we got a more in-depth combo demo here." Then you play that and THEY HIT YOU WITH ANOTHER CLIFFHANGER
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ImpAtom posted:It'll be nice to get the Torgal minion in FFXIV. guess we just have to hope that the studio behind FFXIV is interested in collaborating with FFXVI's team
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I just did the demo (the first part not the Eikonic Challenge part, since I wanted to do it with the English VAs and it's easier to experiment with its fewer/simpler abilities/enemies) for a second time and tried the other control schemes. I like C. B has dodge on circle which is nice, but having the Eikon switch thing on (IIRC) square felt kind of weird. C is nice because it's similar to A, but magic on L1 makes it *way* easier to do stuff like magic burst combos. I also *finally* pulled off a deliberate parry against the dragoon guy. Parries are interesting in this and different from in most games I've played. It seems like you actually want the animation of your sword swing to intercept the enemy's animation (rather than the more common "press attack as the enemy's attack connects"), so you can't really "reactively" parry like in most other games with a parry mechanic. You have to actually do the attack pretty early (which is why it's such a high risk thing, since if you fail you're absolutely getting hit). Ytlaya fucked around with this message at 05:41 on Jun 14, 2023 |
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The game has parries??? Also I'm gonna try out control scheme C later, thanks for being a guinea pig.
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Ibblebibble posted:The game has parries??? There are many parries.
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It's called a parry but personally I'd describe it as being able to clash and deflect with your own attacks rather than a dedicated parry move. I haven't played the eikonic challenge thing yet but I think one of titan's abilities is more like that.
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I think the Titan block does a counterattack if you do a perfect block? I'll need to double check.
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Yeah, you can do a chain of 3 titan punch counterattacks if you attack immediately after a perfect block.
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Yeah you have access to seven different ways to evade/counter attacks in the second demo: Dodge, parry, charged magic, Titan's block, and then Phoenix's Heatwave, Garuda's Rook's Gambit, and Titan's Raging Fists.
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Cartridgeblowers posted:Has anyone played the demo via remote play? Is this a game that requires precise inputs? I would love to not move my PS5 if possible. I played it on remote play and had a fun time. However, my pc is on the same wired LAN as the PS5, so no wireless connections were involved. Your mileage may very.
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Terper posted:Yeah you have access to seven different ways to evade/counter attacks in the second demo: Dodge, parry, charged magic, Titan's block, and then Phoenix's Heatwave, Garuda's Rook's Gambit, and Titan's Raging Fists. I was dumb and didn't realise that the skill tree and unlocking new skills/functions was in the second demo 
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