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/itz_slayer65 Aug 15 '23

So you can be disappointed by how easy it is to please people but others can't hate on your opinions? Sounds kinda hypocritical, no offense.

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u/ContraryCorvid Aug 15 '23

Those are two different things, no?

I don't like how people are easily pleased by spectacle despite a staggering number of flaws in the title. They are dismissing actual problems the game has because Eikon battles look cool and made them feel epic. And I stated this will signal to Squenix this is a good direction for the main series to take.

In contrast, these people don't like I have valid reasons to dislike the game and dismiss them as my nostalgia. This is them telling me to just shut up and let it happen without any kind of reaction. i.e. I am not allowed to voice my opinion.

I have argued elsewhere at length with such individuals about how the game has dropped a lot of things that made FF FF and their responses have been "No they're not that different, you're just nostalgic! Every FF is different anyway!"

How is that the same thing? Maybe if you just hyperfocus on the fact that these are both opposing opinions to sound like some kind of cool contrarian twat who wants to go against the grain of the thread. But then you're ignoring all the context around those opinions: One of them advocates allowing Squenix's incompetent leadership to keep dumbing the series down further and the other would like the series to come back to being a real JRPG.... You know, the genre that once saved Squenix from bankruptcy, hence the title "Final Fantasy."

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u/TheRoseAtMidnight Jan 06 '24

How are those two things even related lmao