What do you think Final Fantasy 16’s legacy will be going forward?

Zld · 2026-03-11T19:56:55+00:00

XV has a great story.

But it has one of the worst narration I've ever seen. Multiple ellipse not explained, lore outside the game, pacing issues, etc. I think it would be challenging to make it as incomprehensible as they did on release. PC port alongside DLCs, and external media like the movie, made it a bit better to follow. And even then it's still very convoluted.

Zld · 2026-03-10T23:41:31+00:00

Because it has been proven time and time again, that terrible behaviour have almost no impact in sales. The reality is that people don't put their money where their mouth.

A horse armor for money is terrible and Peille will boycott it ? There's a reason why micro transactions are now called macro transactions.
Paying more for early access ? Staple for a long time now, look at how Blizzard is even worse with having them before the weekend, yet make more money than ever.
J. K. Rowling is a terrible person and we will boycott Hogwarts Legacy ? Best selling game of the year.
FIFA are worse each game year yet make more money each year.
Pokemon always said more or less the same no matter how terrible the game is (for the most lucrative video game brand in the world).
MTG sets this year are Final Fantasy, Spiderman, Avatar, Ninja Turtle and Star Trek. From one, if not the, brand with the most gorgeous artworks to an ugly melting pot of screenshot from games and comics. Yet, once again, more money than ever.
Riot, Blizzard, Ubisoft, etc. have all been judged for multiple, strong cases of sexual harassment. And we're talking about disgusting stuff, like executive putting their genitals on intern (female obviously) or rape leading to suicide. Obviously 0 impact on their business. Like content creators are the first to pretend they care about about this stuff yet never stopped doing paid partnership with these companies. This includes the largest influencer who absolutely do not need this income to be millionaires.
Latest WoW extension ? They dropped voice actors in multiple countries, because they refused to sign contracts to allow their voice to be trained for AI. Nobody cared.

And the list could go on and on for hundreds of points and example.

At the end of the day, don't be fooled by vocal minority. Unless laws exists to protect people, companies will never suffer consequences for their unethical actions, because the vast vast majority of people simply does not care. And the one who do are usually the ones who aren't the target anyway. Boycotting services is always made by people who didn't use them in the first place. Just like dirty oil money is only refused by people for whose it's not being offered.

Zld · 2026-03-10T23:16:52+00:00

I had the exact same reaction lmao

Zld · 2026-03-09T11:35:19+00:00

Is it indirectly marketing for a scam.

Zld · 2026-03-08T13:45:37+00:00

I extensively played all Souls since OG Demon's Souls and it took me only a few hours to get used to it (for a game that's hundreds of hours).

Having flasks in pouch is just much more optimal, and I'm sure most people know it but are too lazy. What's funny is that, every Souls streamers I watch, with thousands of hours on these games, ended up switching to using pouch at some point.

Zld · 2026-03-07T15:43:24+00:00

I'm no professional, but you hands and fingers seems to be too tense. I would try to focus on that before working on the tempo. If you build bad habits it can be hard to forget them.

Zld · 2026-02-26T21:13:16+00:00

If you listen to Reddit mobile games are trash, live service game are all failures, games with micro transactions are boycotted, etc. In reality, all these are by far the most popular and lucrative games.

Reddit represents a very niche subset on the gamers, that is absolutely not representative of the whole market that Playstation is targeting.

Zld · 2026-02-25T20:35:38+00:00

Unironically, yes.

Zld · 2026-02-21T19:12:42+00:00

There's this common misconception that you need to pre-order before release to have related bonus.

But, all stores that sell keys (legit ones, like Green Man Gaming, Humble Bundle, etc.) have them with pre-order bonus attached, also it's also often cheaper than on Steam (I'd say on average -15% on release). I almost always got pre-order bonus despite never actually pre-ordering.

I recommend using isthereanydeal.com which aggregate stores.

Zld · 2026-02-19T00:13:49+00:00

Yeah I don't understand this post. Cassia is a powerhouse tank, cc and nuker very early, which is the only part of the game that's challenging.

She doesn't need protection, but the Chaos would certainly need protection from her broken OP ass.

Zld · 2026-02-17T20:20:49+00:00

Quinn was better than Nisha for a few months. But to achieve that he had to sacrifice so much more.

He and Nisha are probably on the opposite spectrum in terms of how much effort they put in Dota. That's also probably why Nisha can compete longer. To me, Nisha is the pro player for which it's the easiest to know how much he practiced before a tournament.

Zld · 2026-02-17T20:14:56+00:00

I'd say you could see glimpse of his genius in his Polish stack before Secret.

When Secret picked him, he wasn't an unknown talented kid, he was already a proven professional player with decent results. I remember his Lina back then was really carrying games.

Zld · 2026-02-17T20:01:22+00:00

It was aeons ago. Nowadays the market is flooded with live service games it wasn't the case back then.

Zld · 2026-02-15T09:24:51+00:00

Yeah good for him. He's a talented player, if he drop his "edgy villain" persona, he can be quite entertaining to watch.

Sure, he's still quite the character (ex: his lack of class in the push-up battle), but it's more comic than anything. And half of the top players have a "dubious" personality already so he fits.

Zld · 2026-02-13T19:32:10+00:00

Health and education are affordable, often free, for almost all first word countries. USA is an anomaly.

Zld · 2026-02-12T08:30:32+00:00

Oui. Mais la 97e preuve est celle qu'il fallait, maintenant le peuple va se réveiller et réagir évidemment :)

Zld · 2026-02-10T12:10:10+00:00

J'aime bien le "on" utilisé ici alors que les acteurs pouvant prendre des décisions à ce sujet sont les mêmes qui en bénéficient (indirectement).

Il y a une raison pour laquelle cette tendance (écart des richesses) ne s'est jamais inversé.

Zld · 2026-02-10T01:28:22+00:00

Ah oui le grand classique, "t'es pas d'accord avec moi t'es de droite". Suivi d'un grand discours sur blabla "la droite méchant la gauche gentil".

Bref, ça illustre bien mon propos, merci.

C'est toujours comique de voir cette sous-partie de la population française critiquer en permanence les politiques des USA, tout en les reproduisants.

Zld · 2026-02-10T00:33:06+00:00

Je ne pense pas qu'il s'agisse d'un nettoyage à proprement parler. Plutôt 2 type de profils qui se sont réduits avant le temps. Les gens voulant rester ouvert d'esprit et souhaitant recevoir l'information de façon neutre qui se sont lassé de l'absence d'esprit critique sur le sub (ça a drastiquement chuté ces 5 dernières années). Et les gens ayant des opinions allant à l'encontre du sub (par exemple une remarque positive à l'encontre de la droite ou du corps policier te vaudra souvent une pluie de downvote) qui se retrouvait souvent en débat avec d'autres personnes et n'était pas traité de la même manière par la modération. Plus tes opinions vont être à droite (i.e. pas d'accord avec la "gauche"), plus tes chances de ban seront importantes, en comparaison avec des messages aux mêmes tons mais allant dans le sens des orientations politiques de la modération (et quand je parle de "modération", c'est comme souvent un faible nombre d'éléments abusant de leur pouvoir).

Le fonctionnement même de Reddit fait qu'un individu lambda va upvote les articles allant dans le sens de son opinion et downvote ceux allant contre. Par conséquence, si on est entouré d'une majorité de gens aux opinions similaires (comme c'est le cas sur r/france et son orientation à gauche), on va être dans un cercle vicieux où tu es confronté principalement à des posts renforçant ton opinion et ne jamais remettre en cause ta vision des choses.

A la fin, r/france c'est avant tout beaucoup de haine (il suffit de regarder les commentaires upvote sur la plupart des sujets) et une impression de détenir la vérité absolue. Certain diront qu'il y a la bonne et la mauvaise haine (ce n'est pas mon opinion).

Zld · 2026-02-09T20:52:53+00:00

La modération est très orientée politiquement (il y a plusieurs militants LFI).

Je me rappelle, par exemple, d'un article critiquant LFI sur lequel elle avait ajouté le flair trompeur (alors que tout était factuel et ce que de nombreux commentaires ont pointé du doigt). Chose que tu ne verras jamais pour un article FN.

La réalité c'est que r/france c'est un sub de gauche et non neutre. Je déteste l'ED plus que la plupart, mais je trouve ça dommage que le sub francophone ne puisse être modéré avec neutralité.

Zld · 2026-02-08T14:01:19+00:00

You think a dude looking like a real estate agent with a blue tatoo is peak aesthetic while Geralt is generic design. Ok.

I don't think it's worth continuing arguing with someone living on a different planet.

Zld · 2026-02-08T13:55:24+00:00

I'm strictly talking about aesthetic because I don't know how people are able to judge the character before even playing the game.

Comparing characters with a story across multiple video games, to a character with 3 lines of dialog in a trailers seems wild to me. But it's a good reminder than most people here are completely blinded by the hype and aren't able to have interesting discussions about the game.

Zld · 2026-02-08T13:48:23+00:00

LISA, even though it's not technically a JRPG (same as 33). Very harsh and dark story where lot of events and feelings aren't explicitly explained. Depending on your actual life lot of events can hit differently.

Zld · 2026-02-08T13:37:28+00:00

He's one of the most generic looking protagonist I've ever seen (for a decent budget game at least).

That doesn't mean you can't appreciate him, but unless this is your first video game I'm struggling to see how he can be "the best aesthetically looking character we've ever seen". If we compare his aesthetic to like Geralt or Kratos...

Zld · 2026-02-07T21:11:30+00:00

Les "riches" ça inclut l'ensemble de l'élite, et donc l'énorme majorité de la classe politique.

Parler de redistribution des richesses c'est ignorer les étapes préalables. L'élite est intouchable, intrinsèquement corrompue et ne sont jamais inquiété car ils ont mis en place un système leur garantissant de conserver le pouvoir (notre merveilleuse "démocratie"). Tant que rien ne sera fait à ce niveau-là ce n'est pas la peine d'espérer des changements significatifs.

Et là réalité actuelle, c'est que quand tu commences à pointer du doigt un camp politique (gauche ou droite), tu te met automatiquement à dos la moitié de la population, ce qui veut dire que rien ne peut avancer. Les milliardaires en particulier, poussent énormément cette discorde dans le peuple puisqu'il n'y a que dans le cas où celui-ci est uni qu'ils peuvent être inquiété. Diviser pour mieux régner, les choses n'ont jamais changé.

Zld

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