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I just realized it was up this morning, and I’m genuinely blown away. I was definitely feeling a little disappointed through most of the trailers (and also the Creative Business Unit III nonsense heh). They were feeling super generic, and a little hackneyed.

30-40 minutes in and holy crap. The english voice acting is amazing (though my friends pointed out, is it really a final fantasy game if the VA isn’t super cringe?), and they seemed to have put a LOT more effort in the mocap for lip syncing the english voice overs as well. It looks amazing, but that’s to be expected. And honestly I hadn’t been following the development much so I didn’t know this beforehand, but my immediate thought was how much like early Game of Thrones the cast of characters and setting was starting to feel like.

Anybody else have a chance to take a look, or care heh?

  • subq@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I’m not very impressed with performance on PS5. I also have a few concerns about gameplay mechanics. There is no excuse for a game to leave out customizable controls either. That being said, I will be picking up the full version on release. :) I think I’m looking forward to VII part 2 more than XVI though.

    • dragna@kbin.socialOP
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      1 year ago

      That’s actually not something I thought about, because I never change default controls, but that is kind of a big deal that’s something that should have been trivial for them to add in. It really should be automatic these days.

      I wasn’t too disappointed with the PS5 performance. The eikon battle was the first I really noticed any issues, but combat was smooth and looked great. The transition to gameplay from cutscene where a character starts to run was pretty jarring in a buggy silly way, but for the most part not much in the way of jankiness. I might also have extremely lowered expectations considering what we’ve been getting from big blockbuster games lately that this just feels good in comparison 😂

      • subq@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        It might be fine for most players…I play on a big screen 4k OLED so low res & fps are problematic. I’ve found that I usually have to play in performance mode to get fps to at least around 50fps (so it doesn’t look choppy) and anything under about 1500p looks blurry and/or jagged (note those are just thresholds, not the actual fps or res). At any rate, I will be playing it come release.