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FFXVI - Am I crazy? (beehaw.org)
submitted 1 year ago by ursakhiin@beehaw.org to c/gaming@beehaw.org
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I've been playing Final Fantasy 16 for the last couple of weeks and feel really let down by the hype and reviews of this game.

While I enjoy the deviation of the combat the rest of the game feels very incomplete. The vocal animations are frequently off. The travel from area to area is just an overworld map to select travel from one small area to another. There are like 2 or 3 side quests at a time and a whole vendor that will send you to side quests in different areas, but his menu is always empty.

In general, the graphics are roughly the same as FFXIV. The animations and music seem ripped right out of 14 as well. And the combat and akin to the main series Kingdom Hearts games.

Overall I'm enjoying it, but these 7-9 out of 10 reviews that are calling it some massive achievement seem really undeserved.

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[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Welcome to AAA game reviews. Where every major studios games must receive a high score, or they won't get review copies for the next game from that studio. With rare exceptions.

[–] woodnote@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Exactly. I consider it basically payola these days. Every big-name review is gushing, falling over itself to expound on the innumerable virtues of every AAA release, and then once normal folks have played for a few weeks, the real story comes out. My partner played the demo and was shocked to be playing the same game as the one that was reviewed. Unless I'm so excited to play a game that I don't care if it's mediocre, I wait to buy until actual the real user reviews trickle out post-release.

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Wait till Starfield comes out. I guarantee it'll get 9 and 10s no matter what. Six months later will come the actual reviews.

Sometimes I look specifically for the 5-7 review scored games. That's were the fun games hide.