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[remember_spinal]

During a recent Final Fantasy XIV livestream, Yoshi-P had some interesting things to say about the development of Final Fantasy XVI and how it will look and play on the PS5. The producer says that FF16 will essentially be a testament to the PlayStation 5's enthusiast-grade performance.

Yoshi-P also commented that the recent Final Fantasy XVI Revenge trailer was all in real-time: "It's all real-time rendering. No loading! It's become a game that is like 'look at the power of the PS5!" Yoshida-san said during the stream, as translated by Genki.

Read more: https://www.tweaktown.com/news/8989...he-playstation-5s-power-yoshi-says/index.html

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Nice to see Final Fantasy back to being that powerhouse franchise that shows off the power of a new Playstation console again. We kind of lost that the last two generations

 

[feynoob]

No loading!

I love that to be true though. I am sick of loading times.

Gonna have to plan on when to buy it. 2023 is very stacked.

 

[IFireflyl]

The title is misleading. They said there was no loading screen in the referenced trailer, not that there would be no loading screens at all.

 

[Damigos]

Diablo 4 and FFXVI in the same month..
I m gonna need lots of energy drinks

 

[remember_spinal]

The title is misleading. They said there was no loading screen in the referenced trailer, not that there would be no loading screens at all.

Why would there be loading in a trailer?

 

[Deerock71]

Oh, come on. If there's no loading screens, then it's not flexing the PS5's anything. If there were loading screens...whooooo doggie!

 

[March Climber]

First Harada now Yoshi-P. It's great to hear JP developers excited again about utilizing the power of new consoles.

 

[IFireflyl]

Why would there be loading in a trailer?

No idea. I'm just saying that you posted a title that isn't accurate to the source material. He specifically only referenced the trailer, not the rest of the game itself.

 

[a multicultural team of v]

I mean, he isn't going to say anything else.

It will be nice seeing quick cuts from one scene to a totally different scene with no delay though, like back in the cartridge or pre-rendered backgrounds age. It's nice that games generally have super quick load times on the PS5, but it's annoying that the transition and loading screens themselves take up so much time. I'm pretty sure fading in an out of the loading screens in Crisis Core on the PS5 take longer than the actual loading time.

 

[Klosshufvud]

Shame we couldn't get a proper FFXV PS5 remaster. That game was downgraded somewhat savagely for the PS4 console.

 

[March Climber]

Oh, come on. If there's no loading screens, then it's not flexing the PS5's anything. If there were loading screens...whooooo doggie!

The PS5 had an entire advertisement run about the power of their SSD and spoke of it with high confidence since the very first conference on it. Also people kept online making gifs about it(like this one):

It is a flex, just not the flex you were hoping for.

 

[mansoor1980]

the power of the SSD baby , even forpoken has blazing fast loading

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

They can use their magic tricks to mask... like a slow motion sequence or perform a magic that takes 3 seconds and mask load times.

Diablo 4 and FFXVI in the same month..
I m gonna need lots of energy drinks

Those drinks can give you heart arrhythmias.

 

[cormack12]

Got to just acknowledge how far the visuals have come as well. I was not impressed with the reveal. It did seem cross gen to me, but with each further release this is looking very tasty indeed.

 

[Celcius]

When they first showed the game it looked like a ps4 game. The game is certainly looking better but I hope they continue to polish it (I'm sure they will). No loading would be very welcome.

 

[Spukc]

fuck gameplay all i want is no loading times and battle passes

 

[Mister Wolf]

That's really not that special. Not after all the hoopla we've heard over these past years what faster data transfer rates can bring to game design. Ratchet and Clank to this day is the only game that showed anything slightly meaningful.

 

[The Cartographer]

Final Crevice XVI.

 

[remember_spinal]

That's really not that special. Not after all the hoopla we've heard over these past years what faster data transfer rates can bring to game design. Ratchet and Clank to this day is the only game that showed anything slightly meaningful.

There was no loading in returnal either

 

[FStubbs]

There was no loading in returnal either

Eh, there were no loading screens in FF VI on SNES either, not impressed yet

 

[Physiognomonics]

SE are actually doing something with the hardware even Sony first party devs don't bother to.

 

[Kenneth Haight]

 

[Astral Dog]

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Nice to see Final Fantasy back to being that powerhouse franchise that shows off the power of a new Playstation console again. We kind of lost that the last two generations

well, more or less. FFXIII took a long while to be released, but when it came out it was definetly one of the prettiest games of the generation.

unfortunately because of its mixed reception(and gamers favoring western titles) they went the lower budget route and lost that recognition.

FFXV for what it was, despite its downgrade looked very nice, alongside Kingdom Gearts 3 and FFVIIR. they just took too long.

i think a big part of FFXVI impact is being one of the first(!) 'real' next gen games released, two years later where even Sony and other western developers have been focusing on cross gen releases. its a big production for Square

 

[RCU005]

Gonna have to plan on when to buy it. 2023 is very stacked.

For me is in top of my list. Bought the PS5 for this game. I can’t wait to play it! I wish it released in March instead of June

 

[remember_spinal]

well, more or less. FFXIII took a long while to be released, but when it came out it was definetly one of the prettiest games of the generation.

unfortunately because of its mixed reception(and gamers favoring western titles) they went the lower budget route and lost that recognition.

FFXV for what it was, despite its downgrade looked very nice, alongside Kingdom Gearts 3 and FFVIIR. they just took too long.

i think a big part of FFXVI impact is being one of the first(!) 'real' next gen games released, two years later where even Sony and other western developers have been focusing on cross gen releases. its a big production for Square

And both those games came out in year 3 of the console cycle rather than year 2 which changes expectations a bit. Like you said, this generation got off to a slow start so XVI acts as a new generation show piece for the hardware

 

[Ansphn]

Putting that SSD to work. Only on PlayStation and PC (if you have 32gb ram)

 

[N0S]

Yoshi put Xbox in the no flex zone.

 

[SlimySnake]

Gow didn’t have loading either. Hate how the power of the ps5 just means no losing nowadays. Imagine being Mark cerny spending half a decade creating that io block only to have it relagated to loading.

 

[PlayedStation]

The action scenes with those huge monsters will be absolutely insane with no loading segments in between. Can't wait to see what comes of it.

 

[Physiognomonics]

Gow didn’t have loading either. Hate how the power of the ps5 just means no losing nowadays. Imagine being Mark cerny spending half a decade creating that io block only to have it relagated to loading.

Are you kidding me here? Gow is full of forced and slow actions that (don't) hide (well) the loadings. The slow pace design of the game is mostly caused by the necessity of constantly loading the next part. It's so awful in that game. It reeks of it. And don't forget the first loading.

 

[SlimySnake]

Are you kidding me here? Gow is full of forced and slow actions that (don't) hide (well) the loadings. The slow pace design of the game is mostly caused by the necessity of constantly loading the next part. It's so awful in that game. It reeks of it. And don't forget the first loading.

Of course, I know all that. The point is that loading is hardly a next gen feature. it can be masked. No one ever said LOADING and NEXT GEN in the same sentence before this gen. Next gen was always about pushing visuals, physics, destructions, enemy counts, AI. Who the fuck says we are going to flex the power of the PS5 and then ONLY lists LOADING. It's beyond fucking stupid.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

Gow didn’t have loading either. Hate how the power of the ps5 just means no losing nowadays. Imagine being Mark cerny spending half a decade creating that io block only to have it relagated to loading.

This gen is just beginning bro.

 

[remember_spinal]

Of course, I know all that. The point is that loading is hardly a next gen feature. it can be masked. No one ever said LOADING and NEXT GEN in the same sentence before this gen. Next gen was always about pushing visuals, physics, destructions, enemy counts, AI. Who the fuck says we are going to flex the power of the PS5 and then ONLY lists LOADING. It's beyond fucking stupid.

 

[ReBurn]

Gow didn’t have loading either. Hate how the power of the ps5 just means no losing nowadays. Imagine being Mark cerny spending half a decade creating that io block only to have it relagated to loading.

Isn't what that I/O block is for? To make things load faster?

 

[adamsapple]

Have they confirmed if this is 60 FPS, RT, or has multiple options ala Forspoken ?

 

[remember_spinal]

Have they confirmed if this is 60 FPS, RT, or has multiple options ala Forspoken ?

I have to say, so far Ray Tracing has been pretty overrated. It’s not worth the hit console games take in performance

 

[Go_Ly_Dow]

Graphics look great in the new trailer. If you pause it you can see great levels of detail in the environment art and the special effects and motion blue looks fantastic.

Guessing there'll be a 60fps mode given it's an action game and hopefully a 40fps mode too.

FF7 Rebirth should also look and perform well on PS5. With Integrade they greatly improved the graphics, locked it to 60fps and seemingly still had some headroom to push the visuals further. Still no confirmation whether or not Rebirth will use UE4 or UE5. It would have started dev on UE4.

 

[Klosshufvud]

Have they confirmed if this is 60 FPS, RT, or has multiple options ala Forspoken ?

No. They haven't said anything of the sort. Would be disappointing if they didn't manage a 60 fps here.

 

[Hugare]

The game will be divided in large chunks of land, so it'll be interesting to see how they will pull off the "no loading" thing

It wont be seamless

 

[cireza]

That's why the game is uglier than FF XV.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

That's why the game is uglier than FF XV.

Meh .FFXV is uglier not because of the graphics but because of everything else.

 

[Go_Ly_Dow]

The game will be divided in large chunks of land, so it'll be interesting to see how they will pull off the "no loading" thing

It wont be seamless

I'd guess each large zone/kingdom will be divided by caves, mountain paths, forests etc... similar to God of War but not as constrained as they don't have to cater to PS4.

 

[pleaseinsertdisctwo]

Who gives a fuck? The game is largely ugly and the dev team thinks they don’t need to use their in-house CG team for some CG cutscenes.

 

[remember_spinal]

Who gives a fuck? The game is largely ugly and the dev team thinks they don’t need to use their in-house CG team for some CG cutscenes.

CG cutscenes are over with. They break immersion

 

[Hugare]

I'd guess each large zone/kingdom will be divided by caves, mountain paths, forests etc... similar to God of War but not as constrained as they don't have to cater to PS4.

There are 5-6 kingdoms in the game, I think

Would be weird going from one kingdom to the next by cave or something. Wouldnt really give that sense of scale.

In GOW you go to each real by byfrost. Maybe they will do something similar here by airship?

I'm curious to see what they do with it

 

[Danjin44]

Who gives a fuck? The game is largely ugly

 

[Klosshufvud]

CG cutscenes are over with. They break immersion

Come on. FFXV had some splendid CG cutscenes, including its finale.

 

[Hendrick's]

CG cutscenes are over with. They break immersion

All cutscenes break immersion.

 

[remember_spinal]

All cutscenes break immersion.

No they don’t. Just the ones that depict the character you’re currently using now wearing different armor and holding different weapons

 

[Go_Ly_Dow]

There are 5-6 kingdoms in the game, I think

Would be weird going from one kingdom to the next by cave or something. Wouldnt really give that sense of scale.

In GOW you go to each real by byfrost. Maybe they will do something similar here by airship?

I'm curious to see what they do with it

Map for reference.