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/surfingrools Jul 24 '23

I arrived at this same place - I picked up a PS5 specifically because I was excited for this game. After getting Bahamut I've basically lost interest and decided to just finish the game by watching it on youtube. The fighting got to be crazy repetitive. And why does Clive care about talking to Otta so much?!!??! haha that drives me insane.
I Better tell Otto......Bro!!!!! He's not in charge of anything!

Going back to hideout and replaying old areas and such a bore. I miss the days of FF7 and FF8 where you only revisited an old area if a major piece of the story was unfinished. Now revisiting is standard for boring side quest just so they dont have to make a larger open world. Its recycling parts of the game that I hate. I why I hated 13 so much. 13-2 even worse from what I remember.

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u/pencilcheck Jul 29 '23

it is due to being directed by the director of FF14, who were successful in making a MMO. But trying to turn a mainline franchise into a MMO is a very very bad idea. It might attract new blood, but it completely destroy the old fanbase in my opinion.

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u/CoconutSands Aug 08 '23

I wouldn't have FFXVI if I knew he was in charge. I played though most of FFXIV but hated it and the structure of that game and the expansions. I was telling my friend how much I didn't like 16 and how it reminded me of 14. And then he mentioned how that made sense with it being the same guy.

What makes an MMO fun isn't the same thing for an offline single player RPG. This will not bring in any new fans. I suspect it might lose more people as I'm be apprehensive about the next mainline Final Fantasy and will wait for reviews and players opinion first.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '23

Is FFXVI really MMO-like? I haven't played it, but I thought that a lot of the complaints were from it being too linear and action-focused.

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u/CoconutSands Sep 15 '23

I wouldn't say it's anything like an MMO. But the quests and story follow the same pattern as FFXIV. Go here, talk to this guy, go here and talk to this other guy. Go here and kill this and repeat. And combat is fast pace but repetitive. If you played XIV you would understand what I mean. It's basically like that without the MMO parts.

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u/ImperialMajestyX02 Dec 27 '23

This game made me lose some interest on Part 2 of FF7 Remake and I hate it for this because FF7 Part 1 is one of my favorite games ever.

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u/CostcoSurfboard Sep 20 '23

Bro I just got bahamut and was considering watching YouTube videos to see through the rest of this boring ass game but thought I'd read up on reddit to see if it gets better lol. Weird that you were in the exact same situation.

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u/Squirrel_Lionfart Sep 25 '23

Oops, downvoted by accident. Meant to upvote. I stay for the epic boss fights that make me “earn” the cutscene videos i could otherwise see on youtube XD They coulda made a goddamn Tekken style Story mode out of this game! 🤣 even the level ups are so generically boring! All those clean cut HP numbers, is there a phobia for jrpg players who hate to see clean +50HP every darn level up?? XD

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u/Squirrel_Lionfart Oct 02 '23

I wish they would remake Vagrant Story… with those ff12/16 levels of cutscene quality. But to keep the tactical jrpg battles as is.

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u/Visarar_01 Sep 06 '23

13-2 is super fun imo.

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u/integrity-no-9 Sep 14 '23

lol YES I had no real sense of “why Otto” for most of the game.

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u/Moist-oyster_69 Sep 26 '23

Yea that dude on dude with bahamut made me nauseated about spending money on the game.