Final Fantasy XVI is a time flop. It sold well, but its fanbase is dead, and people don't even remember it anymore. It was a generic, melodramatic Western pandering shitfest. It was a corporate project (it was also shilled by its producer YoshiP) that represented how you can play it safe to make sure your game sells.
There are games (such as FFVII, FFIX, FFX, FFXI etc.) that can be considered timeless successes because not only were they successful, but they still have a sizable fanbase, and people still remember them as one of the masterpieces of the medium. FFXVI has none of these things.
People reference the number of support it gets (which only started picking up I called them out on their shilling), but that doesn't mean it's not a time flop. It's a very small number of MMObese XIV drones being paid to artificially create an impression that the game still has a fanbase after it released. Just look at the Unique Posters to Posts ratio in every thread. It will be wildly unbalanced, especially in comparison to games with an actual legacy (Persona, SMT, etc) which have a far more balanced ratio while also having a greater volume of posts. Not to mention the threads are /vg/ tier shitposting and some OPs are made by blatant Square Enix CBU3 employees. Any negative opinion or fact about the game will be met with confused mumbling from the few that still defend this trash. Not even the people that were paid to keep threads up care about defending anymore, it's that soulless and pointless.
The bottom line is that FFXVI has no cultural legacy whatsoever, even in comparison to other bad FFs like XIII or VIII, and is sustained entirely by dishonest support.
dood what about all the gas stations and one small city that's actually part of the map that isn't a separately loaded area also don't forget about all the 3-4 small forgettable dungeons
Benjamin Wood
based time traveler
Nolan Foster
imagine defending any aspect of XIII or XV zoomers are all fucking retarded I swear lol
Camden Reed
I don't know how anyone could like that map.
Parker Diaz
It's called shit taste.
Caleb Moore
OP was salty enough to make a second thread
Hunter Gutierrez
that's bazzy for you
Jack Peterson
This your first Barry thread?
Alexander Mitchell
XV SUCKS ASS DID YOU KNOW THAT PRESSING X IS A GRENADE LMAO
Are you high, or just plain stupid? Final Fantasy XVI isn't even out yet!!
Adam Richardson
a single-target spell with a casting time? grenade
Jeremiah Reed
a healing item? a grenade
Noah Morgan
Gilgamesh's goofy dialogue? grenade
Jeremiah Jenkins
The time Bazza doxxed a woman and threatened to rape her? grenade
Christian Gutierrez
FFXV should have been a musical
Jose Myers
post cp and gorn to kill threads? Best believe that's a grenade
Jaxson Jenkins
>it sold well It's not out yet
Ryan Thomas
ff16 is a downgrade from 7r, which was already miles below ff15 in production value. It's pretty obvious they don't have high ambitious or hopes for this game hence the much lower budget.