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Ibblebibble posted:Yeah Levi's the most obvious missing classic elemental eikon in this game (maybe Alexander too I guess) and water vs fire is natural big bad stuff. Maybe he's got something to do with Valisthea's outer seas being untraversible if I remembered an old interview correctly. I wonder, with the reveal that basically 90% of the story scenes in the trailers are from the demo chapter, how coy they have been about how much of the setting we'll see in the game.
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I am looking forward to this energy showing up here in the sidequest titles and journal entries
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Ibblebibble posted:My own wild speculation on top of this: the emperor is trying to make an artificial Eikon from Fallen technology which he dubs Alexander. The Legacy of the Crystals...
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Jun 16, 2023 01:13
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I guess you could replay chapters in FF7R too, but it's kinda neat how the DMC-style level structure dovetails with the repeatable dungeon design this team has a lot of experience with from FF14
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Jun 16, 2023 08:22
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Sir Biggs Tyler and Sir Wedge Wade
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Jun 16, 2023 19:15
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How many archaisms are we gonna hear like in FF14... anyone going to be "in their cups"
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Bugblatter posted:They confirmed a lot of elements in the battle are pre-rendered, including the distant armies. They did a great job mixing them in though, yeah. Going back to their roots... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naV0q2fWq2Q&t=168s
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Jun 17, 2023 19:12
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There is literally no shortage of turn-based RPGs. Square itself, alone, has released multiple turn-based RPGs in the past 12 months! It's just that the big cinematic mainline series game with the hundreds of millions of development budget is unlikely to be one
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Bongo Bill posted:Isn't multilingual lip sync in games basically a solved problem? A bit pricey, but doable? RatHat posted:Ghost of Tsushima used AI generated lip sync for the Japanese dub and it was pretty awful, so maybe not
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I think Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk also did the "script was primarily written in English" workflow Edit: actually it was originally written in Polish and then translated into English, but the English was the primary voice language, so kinda similar CharlieFoxtrot fucked around with this message at 06:40 on Jun 18, 2023 |
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Jun 18, 2023 06:37
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CharlestheHammer posted:I mean it has but both Ring and 16 directly point to it and it did bring that stuff back from the more marketable kid friendly medieval fantasy This does have me wondering what the 8-year-old me who was completely enthralled by FF4 would think about this somewhat grimdark opening lol
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Mordiceius posted:I AM A BIG loving MORON AND I JUST WANT TO PLAY FINAL FANTASY XVI I am traveling for up to a month starting on June 23, and I think 1. how unfortunate the timing, and 2. the slightly elevated chance that I could die or be incapacitated before getting to play FFXVI lol
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I thought directly applying vacuum to electronics is bad and that's why you use compressed air to blow instead of suck
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There are always crystals (with a Legacy) There are almost always summons There is almost always an evil empire There is almost always a precursor civilization And as Yoship has said himself "if you don't put chocobos and moogles in the game the fans will kill you"
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Terper posted:People like to speculate that it means the publisher has low confidence in the title or whatever, but Yeah probably better concentrate everything in the weeks running up to the release, I remember people were posting "wow there hasn't been much marketing for this game, is it dead" and it turns out they saved all the giant murals, arena livestreams, and partnerships with the UK government for the last week lol
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Jun 20, 2023 20:36
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:Yes, the embargo is tomorrow at 16:00 CEST. It's also 100% standard for games to have embargoes, it doesn't signify anything. And for what it's worth, Square sent out review copies WELL in advance to give reviewers plenty of time to play the game. This isn't them trying to sneak a turd past the keeper. Yeah this seems better than, like Bethesda's policy of withholding advance copies to reviewers but not to friendly influencers and sponcon
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Oh that reminds me that the thing that has always tied the franchise together for me has been the music lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23JJCCidDXM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkoahLVuKnM ff13 really dropping the ball for a mainline imo CharlieFoxtrot fucked around with this message at 21:10 on Jun 20, 2023 |
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Mean Baby posted:The battle theme for XIII is top tier. Also the chocobo theme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDwAN90MKTo The victory fanfare is confirmed in XVI but I dunno if there's a place for the jaunty chocotheme...
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Ghost of Tsushima got one too...
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thebardyspoon posted:When you say basic is it like the FF7 Remake a bit where the sidequests generally consist of walking around the environment, getting a bit of dialogue, sometimes killing some stuff? Cause I think I'm fine with that, it's just good to get general expectations set. I mean, CDPR has done pretty interesting things with their sidequests in Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk. Initial things that seem like simple fetch quests flipping over and revealing a whole chain of other stuff, things that feature NPCs with a lot of their own story and and which interlink with other side characters' stories, things that make use of minigames in interesting ways.
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Two obvious things that I completely missed while playing the demo: You can weave magic bursts in between every hit of a combo and not just the last; And there is a lock on button lol
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I keep accidentally using all my potions because I'm spamming buttons when I think I'm in torgal mode lol
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runaway dog posted:lol I keep trying to tell my friend who is currently whining about his amazon copy not coming for another 3 hours that the demo is 3 hours long and saves transfer I was surprised about how seamless it was, I accidentally buttoned through the notice for it and then it was like "yeah just hit continue and jump back in where you left off"
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ImpAtom posted:Yep. That is the entire system. Even the best weapon in the game is like that. Kinda makes sense to me both from an FF14 "gear ilvl is simply linear progression" and clover/platinum "ability customization is the important thing" perspective
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JBP posted:Nah I needed a monster mane for +2 and not to +1 a bought weapon. Making the weapon at the blacksmith at +1 cost me the mane, so I didn't have it for +2. Until/unless the game opens up I am just spending minimal time with the gear stuff because I am assuming everything is basically obsolete after every quest chain. I'm there to read the flavor text mostly lol
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I just got to Martha's Rest. How many hours would you say it is before the next "chapter break"? I have a chunk of time to play this and then I will have to put it down for a month so I'm hoping to end at a spot that makes sense (thanks in advance to Active Time Lore lol)
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I am going to continue only getting parries by accident when mashing out combos, i still repeatedly dodge laughably early or late for the huge telegraphed attacks lol
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I thought there was another thread to discuss story spoilers?
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Paul Zuvella posted:I’ve played like 4 hours of game, why would I go to the spoiler thread for literally anything Sorry, your post was clearly marked in terms of timetable, just getting confused by other posts where the entire post is blacked out or they're using vague markers, already clicked on something by accident that i kinda regret, also people not necessarily agreeing on how to number the eikon fights lol
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lmao I cannot seem to get this combat timing down at all, facing these big enemies with the spinny sword attacks I have gotten hit 19 out of 20 times even when i do nothing but wait for the attack to dodge lmao
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OK I have gotten to the point where it makes very clear that this is from the narrative designers of FF14. (three eikons unlocked) Another Meanwhile... scene after a big narrative threshold lol Really enjoying things so far and would keep on playing if I could... Also unlocked enough of the kit (including upgrading some of the basics I've forgotten about lol) to feel better about things, I guess I'll see how much of that I will be able to pick back up in a month.
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ImpAtom posted:Final Fantasy XIII was bad because it never slowed down and let you explore the world. 
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I will admit, the first time I faced a Bomb, and I didn't really see any of the things I associate with Bombs, was kinda a letdown. SOPFFO handled them perfectly, and I'm not talking about you being able to suplex them, though that was also nice
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Mainwaring posted:Bombs absolutely do a self destruct attack, which is the main thing I associate with them. susan b buffering posted:Last night when I first encountered Bombs one detonated and killed me so I'm gonna have to give these Bombs an A+. Hmm okay, maybe its part of me continuing to be overwhelmed with combat and all the particle effects but I didn't really notice that or just thought it was their normal death animation. To clarify, the thing I associate with Bombs is not just self destruct, but that they will react to your attacks by getting bigger to warn you they're going to blow up
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I wonder if they were more conservative about that kinda chatter after seeing backlash to it in things like Horizon and God of War lol
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JBP posted:I play them for the stories and I like both, but the combat is always very brain in low power or off mode. Which imo is fine. I really enjoyed DQ11 but I didn't finish it because I was bored of the combat. Returned to FFX and FF12 recently and didn't get that far through either because the combat was boring. quoting this post so I can remember where to go back to as I catch up, since I had to travel for a month right after the game came out lol. Really enjoying it, though is the thread consensus still that the game is babytown frolics in terms of difficulty, my memory of the discussion back then was a bunch of people talking about how they never died, meanwhile I have died on basically every major boss fight in the game at least once lol, something about the dodge timing is just not clicking with me Edit: I think the other thing is, what is people's bread and butter attack pattern, i keep trying to do the magic burst combo but i can't get that timing either lol, are people weaving in abilities and stuff too, i had been saving that for staggers but i guess it's better to keep them on cooldown? Also I don't think I've loathed a villain in the Final Fantasy series as much as Clive's Mom lmao CharlieFoxtrot fucked around with this message at 08:16 on Jul 30, 2023 |
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"Vivian Ninetales" is my favorite character
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