Finally. After over a year of waiting, FINAL FANTASY XVI is now confirmed to be releasing on PC on September 17. If you want to see how well it will work with Proton on Desktop Linux or Steam Deck, there's a demo available right now too.
More about it:
The first fully fledged Action RPG in the mainline Final Fantasy series.
An epic dark fantasy world where the fate of the land is decided by the mighty Eikons and the Dominants who wield them. This is the tale of Clive Rosfield, a warrior granted the title “First Shield of Rosaria” and sworn to protect his younger brother Joshua, the dominant of the Phoenix. Before long, Clive will be caught up in a great tragedy and swear revenge on the Dark Eikon Ifrit, a mysterious entity that brings calamity in its wake.
Titanic Clashes - When rival Dominants come head to head, epic battles between their Eikons ensue!
Eikonic Action - Clive utilizes the powers of multiple Eikons in breakneck battle!
Check out the PC trailer below:
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I'm so far behind on FINAL FANTASY it's crazy at this point, so it's probably something I will end up getting to in a good few years time. Are you excited to see it finally see a PC release?
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ElectricPrism Aug 19
From searching the net
Sooooo this __was__ a PS5 Console Exclusive that is now coming to Steam/PC 2024, Sep 17?
Previously I would be put off by Square Enix with their EGS exclusive missteps. (Still haven't bought most of those games years after coming to Steam __late__)
Next check is DRM. Which on checking the Steam page I see it has { Denuvo Anti-tamper } -- that was enough to stop me from buying Resident Evil 4 despite having a 97% 91k score.
That video thumbnail is terrible advertising.
We'll see how this shapes up, my hype-o-meter is around 50% at "Yeah maybe" like that moving you know you have to go to the cinema to see and you're hopes are meh -__-
IGN - 2022, Nov 7 The highly anticipated Final Fantasy XVI has seemingly been confirmed to be an exclusive PlayStation 5 game for at least six months.
Sooooo this __was__ a PS5 Console Exclusive that is now coming to Steam/PC 2024, Sep 17?
Previously I would be put off by Square Enix with their EGS exclusive missteps. (Still haven't bought most of those games years after coming to Steam __late__)
Next check is DRM. Which on checking the Steam page I see it has { Denuvo Anti-tamper } -- that was enough to stop me from buying Resident Evil 4 despite having a 97% 91k score.
That video thumbnail is terrible advertising.
We'll see how this shapes up, my hype-o-meter is around 50% at "Yeah maybe" like that moving you know you have to go to the cinema to see and you're hopes are meh -__-
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I mean, a lot of these big devs that do console exclusivity at some point will have to maximize their profits... Not even surprised if it has DRM; what can we expect?
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Personally, I don't think there has been a good Final Fantasy since X-2, and that was only fun because it piggybacked on the world created by X. Hard pass.
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This makes no sense. Why not September 16?Most game release happen on Tuesday/Thursday and it's been this way for a long time now
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Looks like they were serious when a financial report from SE talked about ending exclusivities, no EGS timed exclusivity for this one.
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performance problems and huge visual glitches on a ryzen 7 5800x and a rx7800xt
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kaktuspalme Aug 20
I'm so far behind on FINAL FANTASY it's crazy at this point.
It doesn't matter. They are not related to each other. Just pick one, that appeals to you if you are into those games.
Personally I played FF XVI on PS5. It's a good game but for me personally behind every most older FF games I played so far.
My preference so far: X > IX > VII > VI > XVI > I > II
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I'm so far behind on FINAL FANTASY it's crazy at this point, ...
My number of played FF games is still ..... 0! And this has denuvNO, so guess the total will remain like that for a while longer.
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hardpenguin Aug 20
I'm so far behind on FINAL FANTASY it's crazy at this pointSame, I am gonna play X next but not in a hurry. Also still haven't played 2 and 3.
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Personally, I don't think there has been a good Final Fantasy since X-2, and that was only fun because it piggybacked on the world created by X. Hard pass.
I agree with this as well (12 being the one for me though), After finally deciding to give 15 a chance; all my hopes for final fantasy as the series i knew in love are gone.
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Personally, I don't think there has been a good Final Fantasy since X-2, and that was only fun because it piggybacked on the world created by X. Hard pass.
14, although an MMORPG is probably the best Final Fantasy ever, and in the top 10 jrpgs of all time. It's that good. And nowadays, you can play around 95% of the main story content completely alone. Only some bosses require human companions, the rest can be completely done with AI NPCs.
About this game, I tried the demo on steam deck. It... Runs. You can get some stable 30fps most of the time. But the cutscenes... God, the cutscenes are awful, the stuttering is so bad that audio goes desynced from the image every time.
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It's broken graphically. In the settings it lists my monitors resolution (3440x1440) but in-game it has black bars on the side and only displays at 16:9. Lots of discussion posts on steam about the same thing.
How on earth did that get past testing?
Last edited by Jarmer on 20 August 2024 at 1:36 pm UTC
How on earth did that get past testing?
Last edited by Jarmer on 20 August 2024 at 1:36 pm UTC
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I'm so far behind on FINAL FANTASY it's crazy at this point.
It doesn't matter. They are not related to each other. Just pick one, that appeals to you if you are into those games.
Personally I played FF XVI on PS5. It's a good game but for me personally behind every most older FF games I played so far.
My preference so far: X > IX > VII > VI > XVI > I > II
Are they not related at all? If I never played any, I don't have to play I, II, III or whatever, and I can just pick up whichever one I happen to own?
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Caldathras Aug 20
I'm so far behind on FINAL FANTASY it's crazy at this point, ...
My number of played FF games is still ..... 0! And this has denuvNO, so guess the total will remain like that for a while longer.
Same here.
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ElectricPrism Aug 20
I mean, a lot of these big devs that do console exclusivity at some point will have to maximize their profits... Not even surprised if it has DRM; what can we expect?
They make their choice. We make our choice. And for me when there's one of those obnoxious DRM that's designed to make the game not work under all these conditions they can expect me to skip the whole thing and buy and play something else like Factorio.
What's worse than a game that everyone wants to pirate so you need to add DRM?
A game that nobody wants to pirate and then you cannibalize your own sales by putting off your customers with obnoxious DRM.
The days of being beggars are over, there are so many things to play, I bet each of us has massive backlogs.
I totally get the occasional gamer caving to DRM and being like "Well.. okay.. this time..."
I'm just saying for me personally DRM and obnoxious launchers kills the boner like 60-80% of the time.
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You know it's kind of funny too, I recently heard Ubisoft is going out of business -- can you imagine all those games with the launcher bundled suddenly not working? Businesses and people are going to learn the hard way with the coming going out of business wave that being generally shitty to customers, not respecting your customers and making your business hostile to people of other political views or beliefs, is going to have consequences.
RIP Bed Bath & Beyond in the USA.
RIP Ubisoft.
It's really not hard to fuck up multi-million dollar machines, a few missteps and ** poof ** -- all gone.
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kaktuspalme Aug 21
I'm so far behind on FINAL FANTASY it's crazy at this point.
It doesn't matter. They are not related to each other. Just pick one, that appeals to you if you are into those games.
Personally I played FF XVI on PS5. It's a good game but for me personally behind every most older FF games I played so far.
My preference so far: X > IX > VII > VI > XVI > I > II
Are they not related at all? If I never played any, I don't have to play I, II, III or whatever, and I can just pick up whichever one I happen to own?
Yes. They have some recurring elements. But the storys don't relate to each other and the games are quite different to each other. Only within the numbers they are related. Like X-2 or the different XIII.
Personally I think X is the best of them all and I think it's also the best to recommend. It IMHO still feels modern. While those below X are very nice games as well, but are maybe bit outdated from a gameplay perspective for some people.
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