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[Gamer_By_Proxy]

If Game Rant is like IGN, a perfect score means "highest recommendation" not that the game is perfect.

 

[Kvally]

If Game Rant is like IGN, a perfect score means "highest recommendation" not that the game is perfect.

Game Rant sucks ass.

 

[Myths]

On a side note, respect to the people who got it early and didn’t leak the game on a streaming site (or at least on a major mainstream platform).

 

[killatopak]

On a side note, respect to the people who got it early and didn’t leak the game on a streaming site (or at least on a major mainstream platform).

Shots fired Zelda bros

 

[Lokaum D+]

great review

 

[Northeastmonk]

On a side note, respect to the people who got it early and didn’t leak the game on a streaming site (or at least on a major mainstream platform).

The ending+boss is already on YouTube. Here I’m sitting behind a 9 hour timer.

 

[Madflavor]

Eurogamer gave FFXVI and Redfall the same score. Fucking clown world shit. They also had a 2nd person do a video review for the game that was much more positive. They need to get their shit together.

 

[ChiefDada]

I am going to get crucified for this, but yes, she is hot.

No you won't she's always been attractive. She plays down her looks often as a comedian but she can't fool wise men like you and me.

 

[FalsettoVibe]

Eurogamer gave FFXVI and Redfall the same score. Fucking clown world shit. They also had a 2nd person do a video review for the game that was much more positive. They need to get their shit together.

Wow. That's completely ridiculous.

 

[DownLikeBCPowder]

Haven't read any of these reviews in their entirety, but some of the excerpts sort of confirm my worry of "mostly action" with very subdued RPG elements. A sad day for a former RPG heavyweight series, but I've still got my copy on order and ready to see for myself tomorrow. Hopefully the other qualities redeem it as a package. I still expect this to be the best title overall since XII though I guess that doesn't say much considering what is in-between.

 

[dulleyes]

Welp, time to avoid all spoilers until I get a PS5.

Im just really happy we got a proper FF game that didnt release to middling reviews, but saddened that I wont be playing until anywhere from a month from now to the end of the year.

 

[dulleyes]

Is it though? This is a basic character action game, like god of war or devil may cry, it's more button mashing than anything, and sure as hell isn't a traditional final fantasy rpg.

Final Fantasy XVI review: action and RPG clash in uneven epic | Digital Trends

Final Fantasy XVI impresses with awe-inspiring action, but shallow RPG systems turn the time between big battles into an unrewarding chore.

www.digitaltrends.com

"Though Final Fantasy XVI is being positioned as an action-RPG, the latter half of that genre hybrid is severely overstated. "

I look at this, and go, yeah no kidding. Any actual fan of the RPG genre arguing in good faith, let alone the JRPG subgenre, would look at this game and deduce that in 30 seconds.

 

[cash_longfellow]

No, just someone who prefer his mainline Final Fantasy games to be actual RPGs rather than character action games.

Welp, I figured this one wouldn’t end well.

 

[Kvally]

No you won't she's always been attractive. She plays down her looks often as a comedian but she can't fool wise men like you and me.

 

[Dynasty8]

A 10 doesn't or shouldn't mean perfect. Let's be honest, there's no such thing as a perfect game. Someone will always be able to point out a flaw or two in any game.

The way I've always seen it with review scores is how highly the reviewer would recommend it based on their experience.

 

[EMR]

What a clowns.

 

[StealthGoblin]

I’ve read a lot of the reviews so far and I think I’ll regretfully be giving this a miss.

The summon battles aren’t interesting to me and it comes across as quite light on being an RPG with the quests coming in for quite strong criticism.

Overall not what I’d want from a Final Fantasy game,

First mainline (non online) one I’ve given a miss. The times they are a’ changing.

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

Eurogamer gave FFXVI and Redfall the same score. Fucking clown world shit. They also had a 2nd person do a video review for the game that was much more positive. They need to get their shit together.

Redfall is a very diverse game and understands ESG, DEI, etc from EG

So it gets a +40

 

[LordCBH]

What a clowns.

There is not a universe out there where Redfall deserves more than a 2/5. An absolute waste of the bandwidth I used to download it.

 

[Dr. Claus]

Welp, I figured this one wouldn’t end well.

I am 100% sold that he is an alt of Nautilus. Disappears from 2015 until recently where all he does is bitch about FFXVI? And around the time that I started to see Nautilus get publicly warned by mods.

 

[yazenov]

Eurogamer gave FFXVI and Redfall the same score. Fucking clown world shit. They also had a 2nd person do a video review for the game that was much more positive. They need to get their shit together.

We were expecting a biased review after their diversity "concerns" for a Final Fantasy game. Bunch of virtue-signaling clowns living in glass houses.

 

[64bitmodels]

People care about Metacritic. And on Metacritic it’s an 88. On Opencritic I can make a game review website right now and write a FFXVI review and it’ll have the same weight as other websites.

... that's a good thing.

 

[gow3isben]

FYI it needs to go up 60 spots on metacritic to reach 89 and has to drop 190 spots to go down to 87 so it probably is not going any lower than 88

 

[semiconscious]

I’ve read a lot of the reviews so far and I think I’ll regretfully be giving this a miss.

The summon battles aren’t interesting to me and it comes across as quite light on being an RPG with the quests coming in for quite strong criticism.

Overall not what I’d want from a Final Fantasy game,

First mainline (non online) one I’ve given a miss. The times they are a’ changing.

same. hell, just the idea of playing a 35-40 hour version of dmc did me in. no shame, mate...

 

[checkcola]

I thought it'd be an 88 and that's where its at right now. Of course, I don't have a PS5, so I got no skin in the game. But personally, hearing what has 'become' of mainline FF is a bit sad. Just doesn't sound like Final Fantasy to me.

 

[Katatonic]

Something tells me a lot of those low scores are gonna backfire.

 

[rofif]

Something tells me a lot of those low scores are gonna backfire.

what do you mean ?

 

[Gudji]

What a clowns.

Holy fucking shit I just can't.

 

[Go_Ly_Dow]

Eurogamer gave FFXVI and Redfall the same score. Fucking clown world shit. They also had a 2nd person do a video review for the game that was much more positive. They need to get their shit together.

What a clowns.

Shocking from VGC, Eurogamer and these other trash outlets.

 

[Katatonic]

what do you mean ?

Too many people, including streamers who played the demo know it's just not a 60/100 game. For an outlet as big as Eurogamer to rate it the same as Redfall is not a good look. Could end up having a Hogwart's Legacy effect.

 

[slade]

Well, the reviews pretty much signal the death knell for the sales potential of this game as well. It needed at least Zelda like reviews to generate really positive word of mouth.

 

[XesqueVara]

Eurogamer gave FFXVI and Redfall the same score. Fucking clown world shit. They also had a 2nd person do a video review for the game that was much more positive. They need to get their shit together.

U confusing with VGC, Eurogamer starting giving scores with Totk.

 

[GooseMan69]

Make the protagonist a woman or a POC and this is sitting at a 93 minimum.

 

[FoxMcChief]

What a clowns.

Ok, not going to lie, this made me smile.

 

[Luigi Mario]

Redfall is a very diverse game and understands ESG, DEI, etc from EG

So it gets a +40

Redfall is an interesting case, for two or three days the Metacritic score was actually at 63 only for it then settle at 56 a week after release.

 

[cash_longfellow]

I am 100% sold that he is an alt of Nautilus. Disappears from 2015 until recently where all he does is bitch about FFXVI? And around the time that I started to see Nautilus get publicly warned by mods.

The fact that Nautilus somehow saw your post about him and he at it, is absolutely amazing to me lmao!

 

[XesqueVara]

Game has a 88 score, great comeback of FFXV who had a 81.

 

[TheInfamousKira]

What a clowns.

Clearly Stock-Afro chick balances out the terrible game enough to let it stand toe to toe with a game that has good gameplay.

 

[GHound]

I see that there is a not-insignificant portion of game reviewers that continue to be insane and I should continue to disregard the aggregate scores that they influence as usual.

 

[Danjin44]

DAMN the wait is going to kill me! I hope my local EBgames doesn’t screw with my deluxe edition delay shipment tomorrow.

 

[rofif]

Too many people, including streamers who played the demo know it's just not a 60/100 game. For an outlet as big as Eurogamer to rate it the same as Redfall is not a good look. Could end up having a Hogwart's Legacy effect.

yeah for sure it's a great game.
I can't imagine it getting the same score as halo infinite... terrible game (I finished it).
So far this year in weird reviews:

Forspoken - Scored too low
Hogwards - scored just right
Redfall - scored too high. I think 6/10 is too much if they gave similar scores to forspoken
re4 remake - about right.

This judging by the demo is either a 9 or 10. No way it's an 8 or below. Forspoken is 7-8 for me and this is better than it.

 

[Lokaum D+]

Well, the reviews pretty much signal the death knell for the sales potential of this game as well. It needed at least Zelda like reviews to generate really positive word of mouth.

average FF16 hater in a nutshell

 

[Evil Calvin]

You createa New Zealand PSN account, buy New Zealand PSN cards for purchases and download it. Basically in the amount of time it would take now, you could just want another 9 hours without the headache.

If it was Xbox, you could just change the time zone and be done with it.

 

[kazuyamishima]

88/100 is extremely good, I expected the few 6 and 7/10.

But calling it a failure and that will have a low WoM on other sites….
Just wooow!!

 

[slade]

average FF16 hater in a nutshell

I hope I'm wrong. I hate turn based as much as any other action game fan.

 

[Perrott]

Eurogamer UK has given Final Fantasy XVI the same score as Aliens: Dark Descent, and a lower score than a fucking Story of Seasons farm sim.

These idiotic websites shouldn't be giving scores to games unless there's an editorial scoring criteria that sets in stone stuff like "if we gave Gollum an X score, then there's absolutely no fucking way in hell that you can give Starfield less than that".

What a shitshow, FFXVI deserved better, even if its not MC95+ material.

 

[Fools idol]

Looks like a winner to me. Preordered.

Stop pre ordering games!

BAN!!

 

[Danjin44]

Stop pre ordering games!

 

[Slothbeing1209]

I'm not even fan of FF series. But it's sad to see how meaningless shits affected a game reviews.
Hope it'll sell 20+ millions just for a slap in a face for those "gaming sites" just like Hogwart did.

 

[hemo memo]

What a clowns.

Wow. This is embarrassing.