@someoneproud: As far as FFXVI goes, I'm hopeful for the story, but much less for the gameplay.
Story-wise, the trailers seem to imply a much larger focus on politics and nations at war. Final Fantasy has always been far superior narratively when they choose to do that.
I'm much less optimistic on the gameplay front. What they've shown looks like a generic-as-fuck action game, which tracks pretty strongly with the direction the series has been headed for awhile now. Unfortunately, Square kind of seems to suck at that. It almost always ends up with them making spectacle at the cost of compelling gameplay concepts. People are losing their shit over the scenes of the summons fighting each other like kanji, but I'll bet dollars to donuts that underneath all of that the gameplay will boil down to "mash square to punch."
I got way more interested on the combat once I found out Ryota Suzuki is the combat designer. Dude has Dragons Dogma and DMC 5 under his belt (list also includes some of the best fighting games ever made).
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