Final Fantasy XVI

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HylianMogget

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Wol said:
New FFT with a glorious Matsuno comeback.
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How about Final Fantasy: Vagrant Story 2? :monster:

But seriously, this sounds pretty interesting. Hope it's not disappointing. I agree that something turn-based would be cool, and a nice change of pace. Something Tactics-esque would certainly be nice, too, but they're already making that Triangle Strategy game for Switch, so I kind of doubt that this would be something similar.
 
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Very interesting. Thinking about it, IMO, it'd be cool if it was something akin to Crystal Chronicles, with a system that allows for both single player and co-op. They really seemed to have dropped the ball with the FF:CC remaster (a pity because couch co-op was a lot of fun back in the day... if you had the equipment for it), but I think an FF Souls-y ARPG that you could play through with friends would have a lot of appeal (see: the co-op in Souls/BB), especially since the way Souls ties co-op to invasions is a bit of an acquired taste (it's really special and adds a ton to the series, IMO, but I get why it's not for everyone).
 
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Strangelove said:
oh no is there a problem with the cc remaster. i wanted that since i never got to play the original
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From what I understand, you can't really play the whole game through with friends easily like you could (locally) in the original. Like, there's no multiplayer in the home town and only the host gets rewards/progress from beating a dungeon (edit: I think the others do get rewards, but as ForceStealer says below, not being able to progress together destroys the appeal of the multiplayer unless you only want runs with randoms), so everyone has to do it in their own file to progress (and you have to regroup for each run). And they got rid of local multiplayer. I'm not sure if they patched it, but at launch I think there was also wacky stuff like multiplayer being region locked and the game having its own friend code system. Can't speak to how they handled multiplayer gameplay (without the GBA and such), since the aforementioned stuff was such a turn off for me I never really looked into it.

Single player is probably fine, but that was never really the game's main draw. It just seems like they either misunderstood the appeal of the multiplayer or could not adapt it properly it for online. They probably would've been better off making a whole new entry than trying to modernize the GCN game. Everyone needing to progress in their own game is fine for Souls, since those games aren't really meant to be something you play through entirely in co-op, but, IMO, CC was more like a cozy adventure you can play through together.
 
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ForceStealer

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Strangelove said:
oh no is there a problem with the cc remaster. i wanted that since i never got to play the original
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Yes, they somehow remastered it by getting rid of the entire appeal. On most internet comments you'll see people saying they ruined it by not having couch co-op. That'd be cool and all but I understand that that could be pretty difficult without everyone having their own screens with GBAs. But to play over the internet seemed like the perfect solution to this since obviously everyone has their own screen which is why I was excited. However, you can't all be part of the same village and caravan. So you can only play single player with guests appearing in dungeons. If you and three friends wanted to actually play through the game, you have to play each dungeon 4 times while you each rotate who's the host, and only that host getting "credit" for it each time. And even then you still lose the appeal of everyone improving the same village with their work.

Completely baffling to me, how did they expect that anyone would have wanted to play it that way? It seems like the obvious setup would be for just one player to save the file locally and everyone connects to them. That works completely fine for something like Baldur's Gate or Civilization, but I guess those examples have only been around for 30 years. >_>
 
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FFShinra

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So much for this getting more info in early 2021. Or first half of 2021. Now it's a question of whether we here more about this in 2021 at all.

Sony is still mum about the next state of play, and you KNOW they told Square to hold it for their conference, whenever it is.
 
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