What do you hope to see?

[Fox]

I'd like no levelling system at all, and have it replaced by something else. That won't happen of course, but levelling systems are conceptually flawed, I have various beefs with pretty much all of them.

Something along the lines of the Sphere Grid or Lilium Orb from Xillia would probably be the best I could realistically hope for.

[Fynn]

I'd like no levelling system at all, and have it replaced by something else. That won't happen of course, but levelling systems are conceptually flawed, I have various beefs with pretty much all of them.

Something along the lines of the Sphere Grid or Lilium Orb from Xillia would probably be the best I could realistically hope for.

I never thought I'd see someone express this opinion

[Fox]

I never thought I'd see someone express this opinion

Well, they're just the ultimate in false progression and achievement, you know? You get stronger, but you still need enemies to pose a challenge, so you have to scale them up as well. It causes huge balance issues because you have to try and match enemy strength in any given part of the game with player strength (which can very greatly depending on if they've been grinding or doing sidequests), and at the end of the day you're still just doing the same thing as at the start but with bigger numbers. And it's kinda weird where swinging a sword does 10 times more damage at the end of the game than at the start; that's a ridiculous increase for someone who was supposed to be efficient at sword swinging from the beginning!

Systems like the Sphere Grid are a little better as they offer you some choice into which numbers you make bigger - it doesn't all just happen in a completely linear and pre-determined fashion - and they also tie abilities into it.

But most of the time: bleh XD

[Del Murder]

So do you anticipate XVI will be "One of those Final Fantasy games they used to make". And what would it take to make it a FF like that?

Fantastical whimsy.

[black orb]

>>> Cars..

[DanielCLFFF13]

PC logo.
CO-OP support.
Switching party member.
But this is my opinion

[Loony BoB]

Dreamworld: Great, enjoyable plot direction and story in general.
Realistically: Great, enjoyable character dialogue and characters in general.
Also: More than one villain, both/all of which are interesting and there from the start. None of this surprise final boss bullcrap.
And definitely: A big world with fantastic areas within it. I know it's a fantasy based on reality, but I really do want to see some "natural" wonders.

[black orb]

>>> I want this to be the main music theme of the game. It would be awesome..

[Lone Wolf Leonhart]

I hope to see a snapshot of Yoshitaka Amano, Hironobu Sakaguchi, Nobuo Uematsu, Yoshinori Katasi, and Hiroyuki Ito as an easter egg after the end credits with a sign that says, "We're back, bitches! FFXVI 2017"

That reminds me that a new Developer's Office would be really cool:

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[Depression Moon]

Wait a minute, that was really in four?

[Del Murder]

Wait a minute, that was really in four?

And this kind of stuff is exactly what FF is missing. 10 years from now will people still be discovering things about FFXIII? Nope, no one will care about FFXIII in 10 years. Hopefully XV has some hidden gems like this that aren't shoved down your throat through datalogs or mission markers.

[Loony BoB]

Wait a minute, that was really in four?

And this kind of stuff is exactly what FF is missing. 10 years from now will people still be discovering things about FFXIII? Nope, no one will care about FFXIII in 10 years.

If you think that FFIV has some unachievable level of care from the masses that FFXIII is incapable of achieving, I believe you are mistaken. You can read into that in two different ways, mind you...

[Del Murder]

What I mean is, many years later people still discover easter eggs they missed in the old FF games but XIII was so limited and literal in scope and design that it's hard to have missed anything. XV is supposed to be open world so I expect there will be tons of side activities to discover for years to come.

[chionos]

We can hope.







Del's 100% correct about FFXIII, btw.

[Del Murder]

I'm hoping to see an open world, meaning the whole world and not just one region or city. One of the great things in FF is exploring the world via airship and chocobo and visiting several diverse locations.

I don't need seamless transition over the whole damn map. I'd prefer traveling over far distances to more contained areas than having free range over an area of smaller scope.