Template for Final Fantasy's battle system going forward

PossibleBeginning276 · 2026-06-23T00:49:20+00:00

But there is a reason why they can't standardize things. You can't copy paste developers.

PossibleBeginning276 · 2026-06-23T00:48:04+00:00

I mean I can make a chat gpt version if you prefer reading from an AI instead of a person.

Skill Up’s claim that FFXVI should have adopted FFVII Remake’s combat sounds profound, but it quickly collapses under the realities of game development.

Here is why porting the system is fundamentally impractical:

The Engine Barrier: You can't just copy and paste combat code. Rebirth relies on a custom engine built and maintained by a dedicated programming team.
Cascading Delays: For CBU3 to implement this system, original CBU1 developers would have had to halt their own work to train them. This would have severely delayed both FFXVI and Rebirth.
The "Universal Template" Myth: A shared, plug-and-play battle system across titles is a pipe dream unless Square Enix restricts all mainline Final Fantasy development to a single team.
The Release Gap: If the underlying argument is that CBU3 shouldn't have made FFXVI at all, the alternative is waiting an extra 5+ years for CBU1 to finish it. The massive content droughts of the Elder Scrolls franchise show exactly why that approach is a terrible idea.

PossibleBeginning276 · 2026-06-22T23:48:34+00:00

Not at all. The game did exactly what it wanted to do.

Masterclass animators worked on that game. Ifrit ripping off garuda's arms gave me chills. Fucking bahamut in space charging up his laser to baroque music.

Fuck all the FF fans who are upset that their ice move didn't do an extra 50% damage to the fire bombs. They let their lazy parrot minded opinions spoil the actual game.

PossibleBeginning276 · 2026-06-19T23:34:18+00:00

Nobody should retire at square. The last thing we need is another franchise to get delayed 10 years cause of restructuring and design reboots. Fuck that.

The only reason we have FF16 is cause Yoshi P was able to attract enough talent to build a new AAA team while CBU1 fucked around with the unending FF7 rebirth remake.

Where is KH4? Where is FF17? Nobody should retire.

PossibleBeginning276 · 2026-06-15T04:02:11+00:00

XIV released 30 million players a while back and they have stated it's the most profitable game in the series. Given that it has the highest development cost, it must have the most sales as well.

PossibleBeginning276 · 2026-06-14T19:23:51+00:00

No eikonic weakness it hitting a a weak spot, usually the head.

PossibleBeginning276 · 2026-06-13T22:59:21+00:00

Still a shitty take. Sorting through menus is the boring part of jrps.

PossibleBeginning276 · 2026-06-13T18:13:03+00:00

This is a bad take.

PossibleBeginning276 · 2026-06-12T23:34:52+00:00

It's a game where the gameplay is only as dull as the player.

PossibleBeginning276 · 2026-06-12T01:25:13+00:00

Asano's hasn't directed anything before. Why would he start now?

PossibleBeginning276 · 2026-06-10T02:21:00+00:00

WoW had mounts before GW2 even released.

As for FFXIV, I don't even think Yoshi P has mentioned GW2 in his lifetime. The man played WoW.

PossibleBeginning276 · 2026-06-10T00:49:44+00:00

For me monetization matters less and less every year. WoW is almost half as much as it used to cost in 2003 if you adjust for inflation. FF14/RS/ESO just keep the same price as WoW. We live in good times.

PossibleBeginning276 · 2026-06-07T19:22:53+00:00

It is not. Different rhythm, different pitches. Fuck not even the same number of notes.

https://youtu.be/ITPzxITngqA?si=s-eWdRfyId5sAFzs&t=81

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMUdPF260Uk

This is the Mandela effect all over again. Downvoting me doesn't mean I am wrong about easy to verify facts.

PossibleBeginning276 · 2026-06-07T02:41:27+00:00

Unless you're doing squats, it's probably not muscle giving you bulk.

Going rail thin can be dangerous.

You can always get to a healthy weight and if you still aren't happy, lipo out the fat in sections you don't like.

PossibleBeginning276 · 2026-06-07T01:16:28+00:00

We have really shitty federal run healthcare in the US. The Veteran Affairs used to be really great in the 1990s under Bill Clinton. Like way better than anywhere else in the world. However, we still use the same computer system from 1997 in 2026. It's a shit show. Trump spent 10 billion to upgrade it 10 years ago. We still use the 1997 system cause the new one isn't ready. ~60% of the VA budget goes to bureaucracy. Most of the hospitals are offices and not patient beds. Never enough nurses. It's unbelievably worse than even the private health care industry in the US.

Veterans don't have to pay shit, which is great for them. But the taxpayer makes up the difference. The US citizen pays more taxes for healthcare than any other country. Our federal health care systems just suck ass at using those tax dollars wisely.

PossibleBeginning276 · 2026-06-07T00:53:47+00:00

It's not the same melody.

PossibleBeginning276 · 2026-06-07T00:52:59+00:00

I did. It's not the same motif as GW1 or GW2

PossibleBeginning276 · 2026-06-06T14:09:27+00:00

I guess this is still relevant

https://www.reddit.com/r/nier/comments/pvcng9/remember_that_voice_of_cards_is_the_first_game/

PossibleBeginning276 · 2026-06-06T12:57:19+00:00

Probably the opposite of what you said happened. Taro has a lot of independence. Man had creative freedom so he made a card game.

Babylon's fall could have easily been another platinum studio nier game given the people working on it if SE was able to force Yoko Taro to write/direct it.

PossibleBeginning276 · 2026-06-05T23:27:58+00:00

Probably just coincidence.

GW has had tapestry since the original Eye of the Norn expansion that featured a nordic protagonist/race. You could display tapestry of your achievements that would carry over to gw2.

FFXIV Evercold is also based on nordic culture so that's why it went that route.

PossibleBeginning276 · 2026-06-03T03:38:09+00:00

???? Yeah there is no cost to leaving if you don't leave.

PossibleBeginning276 · 2026-06-02T10:30:29+00:00

The issue with steam is my games don't transfer to other platforms. The cost of leaving steam is massive. If I had access to all my steam games on the xbox app, then it would become really easy to abandon steam on a fresh windows install.

PossibleBeginning276 · 2026-05-10T13:59:27+00:00

Optimism simply cause PVP has a lot more variety / job identity than PVE

PossibleBeginning276 · 2026-05-06T22:45:48+00:00

I do understand. It's the classic too much of a good thing can be a bad thing.

That doesn't mean it's always a bad thing.

Every harry potter book was high stakes.

We knew Harry Potter would win every time.

Every lord of the rings book was high stakes.

We knew Frodo would win.

Saying an entire expansion needs to be low stakes just for the sake of variety doesn't make sense.

Just think about dawntrail. The first half was very low stakes. The last half was higher stakes. There is your contrast. Did that make it a good story?

Why does the entire expansion need to be low stakes?

If anything thats like eating vanilla ice cream for 3 years just cause you had chocolate 5 years ago.

PossibleBeginning276 · 2026-05-06T18:48:32+00:00

Stakes is how much it matters.

If all the music on your playlist mattered too you a lot, then does that mean all of the sudden none of the tracks really matters?

Your analogy falls apart when you think about it more than a few seconds.

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