r/FFXVI

Going through my annual playthrough of this game and gosh I just love it so much. BUT! There are things that I wish they would have done differently to make it even better. Obviously I’m no game dev so this is just a fun little list I came up with of things I did miss in the game and that definitely lent to some of the valid criticisms. Below are some of my ideas and would love to hear what others think and what you wish they would have implemented:

—I really can’t think of any story changes or anything major

—ELEMENTS! You have access to all the elements and they don’t mean anything. It would have been really interesting having weaknesses and immunities and what not. Imagine Clive only having the Phoenix abilities early game and comes across a fire bomb—you’d really have to think about strategy. I don’t think anything crazy but why have us change elements if they don’t mean anything.

—Status conditions! They didn’t need to be crazy but they could have gone the route of FFXV and implemented confusion, toad, petrify, and poison at least. Would have made some of the mob and boss encounters more interesting

—Torgal, Joshua, and Jill should have had more party involvement. I don’t necessarily think they should have been playable, but I think having them have visible stats, armor and weapons to equip. Especially when they become permanent. Realistically they could have had it be like how XV was or even the sync system from Rebirth, but that’s probably asking too much.

—speaking of Torgal, the finest hound I’ve ever seen, I think his lore and connection to Fenrir should have been expanded upon. I think that Fenrir should have been an Eikon or close to it and added Fenrir to the ability tree. Maybe even have just 2 sub abilities linked to Shiva’s circle as he is Shiva’s partner.

—a few more secrets to come upon while exploring. Finding something off the beaten path other than just 2gil. Maybe another dungeon akin to Sage Spire. But these are being greedy a little bit maybe haha

And that’s basically it? Maybe that is a lot but I feel it would take it over the edge and make it many people’s favs. Otherwise I’m so content with what we got this was just fun to talk about :)

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I genuinely think a lot of the criticism around FF16 became exaggerated after launch.

People act like it’s a terrible Final Fantasy just because it focused more on action combat, but the game gave us:

one of the best OSTs in the series

insane boss fights

an actually mature story

arguably the best voice acting in FF history

Is it perfect? No.

But sometimes it feels like people judge FF16 more harshly just because it tried something different.

Curious if opinions have changed over time or if people still feel the same.

I'm heavily considering double dipping on the PC version since I loved it so much on the PS5 years ago, but I remember the Digital Foundry video covering the PC port noting that if you used DLSS/FSR or some kind of upscaling, the cutscenes rendered at the resolution before upscaling kicked in.

So if you're at 4K and use DLSS performance, the cutscenes rendered at 1080p instead of 4K. Has this been fixed? I can't find any information about it anywhere.

Hey everyone, I recently started the game and the game started of absolutely awesome but the freezes and stutters in areas, in combats and transitions from cutscenes to gameplay absolutely take the enjoyment out of it. I have a 5070 TI and intel Ultra 9 CPU so I dont think those are the problems. Is this a known issue at all and are there any fixes?

I made the first pieces of this project two years ago when I started making chiptune covers of FFXVI music in Furnace... After a long, long time, I can finally report that my fangame is live on itch!

This is my first ever dev project and my first solo project. There are a few things that I simply don't have the skillset to realize the way I imagined them, but I'm very happy with how this turned out. I learned so much in the process of making this, and I hope you all enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making it.

PS: if people are interested, at some point I can post the SNES chiptune soundtrack I made as well :)

My first play through and am I just missing something? Do I just suck now? Maybe I'm just too old or maybe I'm just too stuck in retro games or something, but I find this game really challenging. Specifically the Bahamut battle. It's the first time I got a game over in this game.

Maybe my twitch gaming skills are finally gone. I had the same thing with Black Ops Cold War Zombies until I finally got used to it, but even that is still challenging. Maybe I've finally hit that wall where modern games are just too much for me now or gaming these days is of a different style for me. I guess I'm too far removed.

I recently played Lunar SSS Remastered and that game really brought me back to a better simpler time. I really enjoyed that. I fired up the pixel remaster of FFIV and loved that too.

Any way, I really love FFXVI but NG+ FF mode kinda seems really daunting to me now and sorta makes me want to stop playing. I love a good challenge but I think I'm just past my prime now. Any way, I think is my yelling at the clouds moment.

Thanks for reading.

Does anyone know a solution for the crashes? After every boss and cinematic, the game just crashes randomly and I gotta play it all over again. I am enjoying the game, it's great and nice story, but the constant crashes are exhausting.

I made some research and I've found nothing that works, so this is my last hope.

https://preview.redd.it/l1660ajx0y1h1.png?width=720&format=png&auto=webp&s=81b51b1cebdcb2b5537e158de26ee3a9ebcd44e4

Was about to fight bahamut and just now saw you can mix eikons abilities.
average player discovering pictos and lumina for the first time on clair obscur e33 ahh moment