Glad to see someone who loved FF8, that was my favorite as well. I am excited as you are buddy!

Just be patient, eventually you'll be able to play this on your xbox and join the 200 xbox gamers that will buy this game or maybe by that time it'll ''free'' on gamepass.

Just buy a PS5, my man!

I play my SX all the time, but if you can afford both, you win, it's all video games and you will enjoy a good game no matter what box is running it.

I recommend a Switch as well because BotW 2 will be epic.

You'll just have to get a ps5. I gotta get an Xbox for starfield, fallout stalker etc.

Let's not act like ms doesn't have any 3rd party exclusives. You sound like a bitter little child

I 100% agree with your comment...exactly the way I feel.

I did enjoy 13s combat once it opened up, but the story was a stupid unfollowable mess.

From what I read yesterday it's an easy mode thing. Some bs about trying to welcome us still salty fans that want turn based. It doesn't sound seem like a good answer.

https://www.truetrophies.co...

I will skip the rings thing .

I'm still on the fence for both SF6 and Tekken 8 although the more I see the more likely I am to cave. But the multiple season passes I know that will come make me think twice though.

Still playing BotW after all those years?
Better try TotK ;)

I’m not sure that’s entirely accurate.

According to this article:

https://twistedvoxel.com/pr...

“According to the tech presentation (thanks Reddit user Chroma_9) conducted by the Final Fantasy XVI development team 4 years ago, preliminary testing for the project was conducted using Unreal Engine 4 and the real-time visualization software Marmoset Toolbag during its initial stages. However, it was found that the engine was unable to deliver the finer details that the studio had envisioned. Therefore, the development team decided to use the Final Fantasy XIV engine, and further develop it to allow rendering in a PBR environment. A full-time programmer was assigned the task of handling environments and shader work.”

“Based on the translated highlights from the presentation, the goal of the enhanced FFXIV engine is to be able to mass produce high quality assets “as efficiently and as smoothly as possible, with as little work as possible. It takes about a week of development to model a costume to completion for each character model. The presentation also outlines the software used by the development team for cloth and other materials. According to the presentation, the character models in FFXVI have roughly 100,000 polygons each.

The Square Enix staff member who delivered the presentation goes by the name of Mr. Nanjo, and he joined Naoki Yoshida’s development unit back in 2017. Based on these findings, it can be inferred that he has a key role in the development of Final Fantasy XVI’s engine.

The enhanced FFXIV engine made it easier to develop lower poly models for each region of the game by utilizing a team-wide library that can be sorted by character races and regions. The development team’s goals were to provide a library of textures that were easy to improve and revise, and to utilize the latest tools and techniques in order to improve efficiency and to account for the skill gap across different artists.”

Unless I’m reading that wrong it looks like they started with testing UE4, but then developed a different engine?

He speaks very candidly about how he doesn't like that Final Fantasy is seen in this way, that people seem to be holding them to a very specific checklist of things that they believe represent FF and that these expectations limit them as developers. They want people to think of FF as an RPG, in any form, and end the stigma of JRPG, which they felt was a derogatory and limiting term.