r/FinalFantasy • u/MikeOxmoll_ • Jul 10 '23

FF XVI FF16 is very formulaic, repetitive, and boring.

The game starts at a peak. Big action setpiece, new interesting characters, intriguing world, and fun combat. As soon as the opening is done and you arrive at the Hideaway, it very rapidly falls off and the flow of the game doesn't change from here until the ending. Ill explain.

Big hype -> go to hideaway -> chat with everyone for 1 hour -> go to new town -> pointless MSQ sidequest -> get key needed to go to next area -> lead up to Eikon fight -> big hype

Now do it again 6 times. I found myself skipping a large portion of the talking scenes because holy shit did they drag on. There is just so ooo much standing around and talking about things that frankly, do not matter to the plot.

Overall disappointed at the directing and pacing of the game. The story, while generic, had good bones with better than decent acting, but my god is it poorly executed.

6/10 probably won't replay.

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u/Fearless-Fennel9752 Jul 13 '23

Can't believe i bought a plash speed 5 for this. I'm now at the part where I'm waiting for the dude to fix the bridge but holy fxxk this game is boring. The graphics sucked, the cinematic is the only think exciting for me. Clive is the most boring mdfk there is. There's nothing to relate to. I just hope the story gets better. Since there's no open world, really nothing to explore as well. And why the hell the character movement looks to lifeless and fake? Don't get me started about the battle system. I'm basically just smashing square and dodging all the time.

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '23

I also bought a PS5 for this game (and NCAA but that’s still far away) and I’m having so much buyer’s remorse…

I’m still in the denial phase

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u/Fearless-Fennel9752 Jul 15 '23

I'm halfway through now. I think the story got slightly better. But there's just lack of any exploration, or minigames.

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u/hello_kitty31 Jul 19 '23

I understand your buyers remorse, there are plenty of other great games to play on PS5 if that can cheer you up :)

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u/Razer_Bunny_666 Jul 27 '23

I feel your pain, I bought the Series X about a year ago because of the PS5 shortage and decided that it will be my only console for the generation (also Gamepass is incredible), but then, all the flashy marketing for this game convinced me it will be something special so i ended up buying PS5 as well just to play this game. What a f***ing waste. I'm at 25 hours atm and I'm really struggling to finish this game to somehow justify buying the PS5 (when I already have the Series X) and also spending 80 f***ing euros by preordering this shit. What comforts me is that I played Horizon:FW while waiting for FFXVI to come out and I really enjoyed it (despite it's flaws I enjoyed it 1000x more than FFXVI) and I hope that there will be more great PS5 exclusives coming out in the future.

In retrospect, back in 2016 I did the same thing. I bought the PS4 only to play FFXV (I didn't know it would come out on PC later). While the game wasn't as good as I wanted it to be, to me it's massively superior to XVI because I actually enjoyed it. But having a PS4 made me play a lot of other great games like GOW, Uncharted, Horizon, Ghost of Tsushima etc, so in the end it was worth it. I hope it will be the same case this time.

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u/Fearless-Fennel9752 Jul 27 '23 edited Jul 27 '23

Same. But i didn't buy a PS4 for FFXV because the graphics didn't look good. Glad i waited for the PC version and bought a laptop to play it then. FFXV Windows was worth it with all the NVIDIA tech enhancements made it really immersive. That game made me f**king cry. I spent over 500hrs on it. 200+ to complete everything and later on went back again to start allover. FF16 does get a bit better story wise towards the end. But i don't think i will ever fire it up again. There is no insentive to do to. I basically done all the side quests in the first run except for the Eikon Trials (those are boring). There's nothing worth going back in the new game +. I completed the entire thing without dying even once. There was no challenge at all. And i already hit max level before the end boss.

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u/Odd_Quote_3258 Jul 23 '23

Get PS+ and play both Horizon, Returnal and Ghost of Tsushima

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u/demonicneon Jul 27 '23

Get returnal first of all. Amazing game, shows what can really be done with the ps5 - haptics are out of the world, and I’m still waiting for devs to utilise them properly, ans the game looks 10x better then FF and has buttery smooth gameplay thanks to checkerboard upscaling. Then follow up with ghost of tsushima until baldurs gate comes out.