Final Fantasy 16 May Skip TGS 2021, But Story Is Finished And English VO Almost Done

@esqueejy: they've had pretty boys since 7 dude. you should be used to it by now lol

@illegal_peanut: Thank you for such a question and i feel i need to response :-)

I play jrpgs since the '90s and it rarely happens that the english ost is as good or as the original japanse voice actors performed.

Exceptions were Working Designs ports of PCEngineCD, SegaCD, Saturn and PS1 jrpgs and very few other companies afterwards(like Hudson Soft/Nihon Falcon back then too). Never "felt" a such attention to ports since.

The price of that passion toward the projects,sadly,resulted in high costs and at same time not expected salesnumbers and Working Desings had to close the doors after only few years. 😥

English voice overs tend to sound like kiddy cartoons with all that cringy high pitched kiddy voices or the actors are bored to death while recording and read the text in a such unmotivating manner completely out of touch of the situation in the game,its embarassing.

If there is a possibility,i would always turn the japanese ost "on" and use english subtitles

@illegal_peanut: English… For video games, anyways. It throws things off in movies, because of the whole lip-sync issue.

As far as video games go, I’ve just never understood the point of listening to something in a language I don’t understand, and having to take my focus off of cutscenes, to read subtitles (yes, I can read fast enough, but why do any reading at all, when I can listen to someone speak a language I understand). A good English voiceover sounds exactly like what you think the characters would sound like.

I’ve just always found it weird when people say things like, “The original Japanese voiceover is amazing.” What is amazing about something you can’t understand?

If I babbled incoherently, but did it with a lot of emotion, would people say that it was amazing? It’s the exact same thing. A language you don’t know is nothing but babbling.

Sorry for all this. This subject has actually been on my mind recently, and you just happened to ask the perfect question for me to finally get out what I’ve been thinking. I’m not saying anyone is wrong to think the original VO is better. I just don’t get it.

@tom_cat_01: A Final Fantasy game that looks too Final Fantasy....oh no, how dare they, what is wrong with them.

@tom_cat_01: Wouldn't be Final Fantasy without that stuff. Crystals, Espers/Aeons/Summons, you name it. People expect those to be in the games, and SquareEnix knows that too.

Anyway, we've only seen one trailer or so so far. Combat looks good to me, but really need to see more to get a more concrete idea about the game. I noticed the main character will earn powers from from Titan, Shiva, Ifrit, etc. and use them in battle. That reminds me of the way Mega Man uses powers, or the MCs in Scarlet Nexus use their allies' abilities.

Unclear if it's a solo game with no party members just yet, but if it is, I think that's an entirely new one for FF.

@DarkGothic: Final Fantasy hasn't been good since 9.

@DarkGothic: Which is sad because that's the last time we got a great turn-based/job system from the franchise. Well, World of FF too, but people forget that game exists even though it was quite good.

@adamsesslerrox: There's nothing definite at all when it comes to a FF game release date... I expect it won't release until holiday 2023 at the earliest.

@adamsesslerrox: This seems like a mix of Devil May Cry and FF... and a little dark souls thrown in..... so yeah I am in also.

@josefo: Wait, what? Tetsuya "fashionista-superzipper-leather-clad-over-the-top" Nomura is not involved?? This may mean that the game could have some actual character development. It definitely has my attention now.

The main character looks too much like Noctis though... Wish we could move away from the edgy teens into more mature-looking characters.

@tsunami2311: I could not have said it better myself. SE really should be bring back some turn based games. These action games don't feel the same and they usually don't balance things well in doing so.

I can recall in FF7 remake the system didn't work well without everyone having a healing spell because of the way the little ATG you get from attacking/ etc. You could do what you wanted when you wanted. At least until about mid game, didn't even finish it due to this bad design.

There is a good reason games back then were thought of by many to be just better than games today. They had much more time to focus on story, gameplay, and rpg mechanics. Mainly because they didn't have to waste so much time and money on making the graphics or action based system balanced, which i can imagine is like a rubic cube.

I have always said it is easier to make a turn based game than anything else. It is almost like SE doesn't even look at the sales for other titles that do have this in mind. There is a strong demand out there for this, if only they cared to see it. I ask every year why FF Tactics has not been remade, despite being a massive favorite by FF fans.

@Acheron18: .. yeah I'm sure it's logical to keep making the same type of game for over 20 years. I'm glad they're changing it up. Luckily for you you can choose between many great turn based FF's. FF is not dead. To you maybe.

@traptedmind: IDK, this is pretty far along, I would bet next year fall. Wondering if it would have came out earlier without the world wide pandemic.

@Thanatos2k: Entirely depends. If it's like animated TV shows then they tend to do the voice work first with concept art and storyboards THEN do animations. But i'm pretty sure they have the staff to do both at the same time to some extent.

@Thanatos2k: meh. ff has plenty of disjointed cutscenes with a ton of gameplay between filled with meaningless repetitive banter.

i agree it probably means the game is like 70-80% done but theres plenty chance to add new weapons and enemies and that fill space between start and objective

which is yayyy. it seems even if time is spent of remakes they still can do something new too. but i hope this will take place as gaming icon like ps12 ffs were.