FF XVI Demo is out

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Older Clive looks fine

Somebody at Square Enix always seems to tell producers that the main character needs to be pretty. It's the only reason Vaan exists

They probably compromised by giving the young Clive section more of that traditional boyband look

Older Clive just looks cool
It's a problem with all japanese (and tbh asian) media. They are stuck in a rut of only allowing "ikemen" character designs (basically boy band type faces) because the old guard believes it's the only thing that will sell.
 

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Xbox fanatics, because they are absolute pieces of shit, are spoiling the game on social media.

Can this fandom die quickly? These people are toxic, deranged lunatics.
 
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Xbox fanatics, because they are absolute pieces of shit, are spoiling the game on social media.

Can this fandom die quickly? These people are toxic, deranged lunatics.
I deleted twitter and it was the best decision I ever made. Doomscrolling only made me incredibly depressed at the state of the world.
 
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Played, got killed by the tentacle flower in the swamp. Plays well, but Am not impressed by the performance. A game targeting a single platform unoptimised like this? Nope - waiting for signs of otherwise.

Do like the grounded story in a fantasy setting, but don’t like the boy band haircuts - but I understand that’s a FF shtick so ok.

The performance is the deciding factor between early buy or wait for sale
It is at least 2 patches away from even last media demo 2 months ago. The game is on 1.04 or 1.05 right now.
Didn't you see these news? WTF...
 
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Xbox fanatics, because they are absolute pieces of shit, are spoiling the game on social media.

Can this fandom die quickly? These people are toxic, deranged lunatics.
Garbage community. They do that for years.
 
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Yoshi-p and the dev team doing a livestream now, some FAQ's on the feedback they've gotten from the demo

-Framedrops: They're going to be patching the game to improve performance
-Motion blur: looking into adding an option to reduce or turn it off
-Button bindings: Looking into adding options to increase rebinding options
-Game is too dark: Play in HDR or turn up your brightness (lol)
-There's too many cutscenes!: Deal with it lol
-The gameplay is boring: Get gud, stop button mashing
-No minimap because they thought it would make players focus too much on watching it
-Switch lock-on-targets by repeatedly pressing the lock-on button, the tooltips didn't do a good job explaining it
 

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-Framedrops: They're going to be patching the game to improve performance
-Motion blur: looking into adding an option to reduce or turn it off
-Button bindings: Looking into adding options to increase rebinding options
-Game is too dark: Play in HDR or turn up your brightness (lol)
-There's too many cutscenes!: Deal with it lol
-The gameplay is boring: Get gud, stop button mashing
-No minimap because they thought it would make players focus too much on watching it
-Switch lock-on-targets by repeatedly pressing the lock-on button, the tooltips didn't do a good job explaining it
-Framedrops: we don't even know the extent of it. we played old old build.
-Motion blur: it should be one or at least lower it.
-Button bindings: Must have option to all action games, no brainer.
-Game is too dark: what? didn't see a problem. in some instances maybe more picture clarity would be welcome..
-There's too many cutscenes!: great
-The gameplay is boring: WTF? wait, what?
-No minimap - it is not open world.
 
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-Framedrops: we don't even know the extent of it. we played old old build.
-Motion blur: it should be one or at least lower it.
-Button bindings: Must have option to all action games, no brainer.
-Game is too dark: what? didn't see a problem. in some instances maybe more picture clarity would be welcome..
-There's too many cutscenes!: great
-The gameplay is boring: WTF? wait, what?
-No minimap - it is not open world.
It sounds like the demo is close to what we're getting in the final game. I think a lot of people were complaining about the Benedikta section being too dark. Like I said these were a series of responses to the feedback they got from the demo.
 

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Yoshi-p and the dev team doing a livestream now, some FAQ's on the feedback they've gotten from the demo

-Framedrops: They're going to be patching the game to improve performance
-Motion blur: looking into adding an option to reduce or turn it off
-Button bindings: Looking into adding options to increase rebinding options
-Game is too dark: Play in HDR or turn up your brightness (lol)
-There's too many cutscenes!: Deal with it lol
-The gameplay is boring: Get gud, stop button mashing
-No minimap because they thought it would make players focus too much on watching it
-Switch lock-on-targets by repeatedly pressing the lock-on button, the tooltips didn't do a good job explaining it
The HDR is marvelous btw
 
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Ok, more stuff from livestream. Sounds like there will be a day 1(day 0) patch after all.

-Fixes a couple of bugs (sounds like they caught a rare crash and a bug that blocked game progress)
-Fixes some typos
-Performance optimizations (HECK YEAH)

*edit* seems more like a hotfix than anything substantial

Patch will go out on 6/20, 300 mb. They apologized because they didn't want to do a day 1 patch
 
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Where it’s at.
It sounds like the demo is close to what we're getting in the final game. I think a lot of people were complaining about the Benedikta section being too dark. Like I said these were a series of responses to the feedback they got from the demo.
It always blows my mind how few people ever bother to just calibrate their TVs. Go buy an HD Essentials Blu-Ray for $10 and make your life better, people!
 

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Lol lack of diversity in an obvious medieval European setting. The entitlement of the woke
Nah, that’s a silly remark. It could have diversity, it’s a fantasy gaming, it doesn’t need to be geographically or historically accurate, there are monsters and fire birds.
THAT SAID:
Devs should have the freedom to include whatever characters they want to include.
The mistake these people ALWAYS make is expecting American, Japanese and European white and male developers to put diverse characters on their games. They’re not doing it. And what’s worse, if they do it, it’s in a stereotypical way. The solution to this problem is not forcing develoeprs to put these characters but to the people that fall into the diverse categories to start developing games. That’s the main reason you have lots of these in movies and shows now, these people are the creators now.
It’s the only viable solution.
I guarantee it that the game would have diverse characters if the developers were diverse, but alas, they’re Japanese. It is what it is.
That said, I’m there day two because I’m paying for swift concert tickets this month 😂
 
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Played the demo last night to completion, found it excellent once it got going.

Vicious stuff.

Can't wait to play the full game. Wonder where the story is going tbh.
I felt like this is exactly how FF 15 should've been. I also felt some vibes of Versus 13 in this. I really enjoyed playing it. I just wish more developers did this with how long games are nowadays it could easily help boost sales before launch if people were able to play the games. Like how this demo helped.
 

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Go read the thread, it backfired massively. I expect it’ll get locked.
Edit: It just got locked.
I couldn't see the poll so I don't know how it was going. I'm glad it's locked. They'll have to find something else to sabotage the release.