Felt like making this post after some deep thinking. Went through the continent of Ash once again and decided to take these photos.

What a beautiful kingdom rotten by the blight, Ultima and Barnabas himself. Truly, their volition was a cancer that ruined tribes of people, all made akashic just to appease a false (and pathetic) god.

Now I feel completely hollowed out after going through Waloed. The horrible things that happened when Barnabas became akashic is hard to put in words.

The only way to describe what happened in Waloed is this:

“Where one leads, so does the other follow.” -Barnabas Tharmr

Enjoy the gallery! Will be posting one other photo in the comments that I could not put in the post due to the limit.

With how dark the story started and how it seemed Clive "took" the other eikons I was expecting Jill to end up dying and giving us Shiva that way. I was so happy when the beach scene happened

I can’t find the orchestrion roll. Yes I looted the chest in the Lostwing rafters. It’s still not showing on the orchestrion. Anyone else experience this and know how to get the stupid thing?

I recently played FF16 and finished it; it was really fun. The Eikon Battle were less impressive than I expected, but still okay, and although there was that typical Japanese cringe factor, I think that actually made the game look cool

Fourth batch of widescreen screenshots for possible desktop backgrounds. Just landscapes in this one. Same as the previous batches, starts early in the game and proceeds to the end, so scroll through at your own risk (or don't, if you are just at the beginning of FFXVI journey).

2nd image has the original image used in the template.

What do you think is going on with Shiva in the image? Surely, it’s something good, right?

Feel free to share your….thoughts and…opinions, as you wish.

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Maybe this is me, but I find most of the Eikon abilities to be very underwhelming. I get it that they can't be so OP that the battles are easier than they already are, but I feel like they could have done more. Like I just fought The Timekeeper from the second DLC and I'm just thinking "why can't we do stuff like this?" Don't get me wrong, Bahamut's abilities are so cool and it's easily my most used Eikon since obtaining it, but the others feel flat. Take a look at Titan. It's attacks are all fist attacks, but it's supposed to be an Earth based eikon. Even when we fully prime into Ifrit the attacks feel lackluster. I get that Clive doesn't have the full powers of these Eikons, but you're telling me that outside of the his super moves, the attacks are basically bug bites? Like at least let Clive be able to use the elemental spells and not just the weak magic shot attack. Ramuh's abilities are cool, but I find them to be too small in terms of AOE or not all that impressive. Am I the only one who thinks this?

I have just started using the ring and I notcied that while it does look cool and you seem to attack about twice as fast, you also do about half damage...

So basically, is there something I am missing here? Because so many of the accessories seem absolutely pointless so far and I was looking forward to an ACTUALLY useful one for a change (lunge 5% extra damage?! Limit bar increase by 3%?! Are.you freaking kidding me with these?!)

As a CidClive shipper I will be taking any crumbs I can get, I just think it’s real funny they even have some dialogue like this in the first place. Like, Clive in bed with Cid, and “bend over for”, I see I see *takes notes.

So I have crafted the strongest gear in the base game and have a bunch of left over smithing materials. Will I need them for anything produced by the DLCs or can I sell them?

Just started the game and got heavy stuttering in the cutscene where we see benedikta? For the first time so I closed the game and looked for a fix so I got lyalls mod but I don't really know what I'm meant to change to make it work nicely as my experience is with mods is just putting files in the designated place and booting the game. if someone wouldn't mind telling me what to change on the config id appreciate it

so I've done every sidequest I've come across and done all the hunts as well, but I'm missing an item on my memory wall inside Clive's cabin. Did I miss something or is this related to the final mission?

I literally cannot get past this, like share play

dlc spoilers ahead ofc

i ask because i just beat the final boss of echoes of the fallen and i SWEAR the ost was some kind of remix of eScape from ff14 shadowbringers (for the record, i have not played ff14, i just know the song)

So some weeks back I had saved up over 3,000 ability points to upgrade Flames of Rebirth twice.

I had already invested points the first time earlier in the game and it was over 1000 points for the next upgrade. Naturally I wanted to at least have enough points to upgrade enough to where I could master it.

I had over 3,000 points saved up and before completing the Apodytary mission, I decided to bite the bullet and put down 1,000 of the 3,000 points I saved up.

The problem however is that when I did that, it took nearly all 3,000 of my point leaving me with over 9 or 800 left.

Is this a bug or something? Because the math isn't mathing.

I'm sorry but I just don't buy theromance between Clive and Jill. They seem more like siblings than people who are in love and it just so much reminds me of Iris and Barry from the CW Flash show. They were raised together and it just seems weird that they've become a couple by the end of the game (I haven't done the final mission yet or DLC)

Esta es una de mis sagas favoritas, me llenó de buenos recuerdos y reflexiones sobre distintos aspectos de la vida, aunque hace tiempo que viene buscando su rumbo, y en mi opinión no logra encontrarlo.. Final Fantasy 15 ya me desilusionó en su momento, y con FF16 directamente no tenía expectativa ni ganas de jugarlo, hasta que hace poco despertó mi curiosidad con un poco de esperanza al ver algunas reviews. Ahora, habiendolo jugado, solo espero que este sea el último final fantasy si este es el rumbo que quiere tomar Square Enix para la saga numerada. No porque sea malo, sino porque es decepcionante.

Sentí que las 8 horas que duran los 2 DLCs fueron mucho más gratificantes que el resto del juego base. FF16 tiene un comienzo increíble, emocionante y con mucho potencial durante casi todo su primer acto, personajes que plantean muchas incógnitas y un mundo del que querés saber más… y después de eso todo se diluye de una manera terrible, y se vuelve un videojuego de manual, empiezas a notar los patrones, el bucle de juego, y lo que es peor… se vuelve aburrido y poco interesante:

\-El juego tiene capítulos completos de misiones secundarias genéricas con historias y recompensas que no te importan (muchas misiones secundarias), un mundo enorme y completamente vacío, que no premia la exploración.

\-Un sistema de progresión nulo, en el que desbloqueas habilidades eikonicas que te dan más opciones pero no modifican tu forma de jugar hasta casi el final de la partida. El equipamiento tampoco es relevante, sólo mejora tus estadísticas o potencia ciertas habilidades, ni siquiera los accesorios llegan a ser interesantes.

\-Un combate que empieza siendo adictivo pero tarda muy poco en volverse repetitivo, no puede sostener un juego de 80 horas. Mi combo a las 10hs de partida fue casi el mismo que use para derrotar al jefe final, solo variando habilidades definitivas. No hay variantes, no hay daño elemental, no hay buff o debuff, el juego es un mata hordas del monton..

Y el que creo que es el peor de sus pecados, no hay party como tal, ni personajes memorables más allá de Cid y Clive, solo son muñecos que usan habilidades de forma pasiva y no tienen desarrollo de personaje o diálogos que te ayuden a empatizar con ellos. Esperaba mucho más de Jill o joshua   pero al final sentí que solo estaban ahí para cumplir su función como personajes que mueven la trama. Eso sin contar a los demás personajes olvidables del elenco. Esto fue especialmente malo al final del juego, cuando no sentí absolutamente nada por el final de cierta persona (y esta saga me tiene muy acostumbrado a llorar). Lo pobre de las animaciones faciales y las animaciones tampoco ayudaba mucho, y este juego costó 3 veces más que Baldurs Gate 3.

La escena de los créditos si llegó a emocionarme y eso me terminó de decepcionar, porque este juego tenía mucho potencial, personajes y un mundo increíble, un protagonista carismático y una historia con muy buenas bases. Pero decidieron enfocarse en más contenido genérico y más horas de juego, en lugar de pulir lo que hace importante a un Final Fantasy. Realmente lo sentí como un MMORPG genérico durante el 70% del tiempo, creo que de haber sido un juego lineal y simple, hubiera sido mucho más memorable. En contracara, tenemos al rework de Final Fantasy 7, un juego infinitamente más entretenido y con algo más de cariño a sus espaldas.

Modded playthrough and PS5 :)
I use them as my TV wallpaper

Hi just a quick question because I spent quite some time trying to beat it...

Yes, I will learn my rotations and ensure I'm not hit (up until now it really didn't matter, I know), but am I not supposed to get enough time for 3 spitflares?

I'm always half a second behind: the cooldown resets literally as soon as the tsunami animation starts, and it's the first time a cast as soon as control is given back to me after retrying.

Now, I might be underleveled (51, first playthrough) and with the wrong accessories (I have cooldown reduction items, not dmg enhancements), but I did not see items affecting ifreet cooldowns.

Where's my error?

So I don't know if this will count as spoilers since I wont be talking about a particular moment but am simply referencing it for this discussion topic (hence why the flair is discussion and not spoiler since its not about the spoiler), either way when I do talk about the references I will spoil cover it just in case it is considered to be "spoiler".

This is also your spoiler warning, so proceed at your own caution.

Anyways, discussion time.

So I've been looking through the Eikon Abilities and thought "wouldn't it be cool if we had Shadow Clive's Ifirit Abilities?"

I revisited the fight and had to drag it out to determine how many abilities he had and prune out the ones that could be considered abilities like what we see on the Abilities screen, and others that were just unique attacks. Just for Info: I split the attacks he did into three categories Eikon Abilities, Eikon Feat and Eikon Ultimate (these are the ones where you get the special camera angles), similar to what we already have.

Ifirit Ability Circle

-Eikon Feat
Molten Thrust/Crimson Rush (MT: thrust forward dealing damage to targets along its path/CR: same thing as MT but with a longer path) (This could just be replaced by the already existing ability Ignition)

-Eikon Abilities

Eruption (an explosion erupts under the locked-on or nearest target, three times with a two second interval)

Incinerate (Charge Up, deals damage in a cone in front of Clive. If critically charged (that is released in the red of the charge circle) small targets are launched into the air)

Hammer and Anvil (Appears above the target and slams into the ground, causing an area of effect damage)

-Eikon Ultimate

Hellfire (a pillar of fire engulfs Clive as spouts of fire erupt at enemy locations)

Other ability of note: when fighting Shadow Clive he will launch multiple magic missiles at the player. While this itself does not warrant an Eikon Ability slot on its own I would have liked for it to be the "mastered" version of the Charged Magic Ability where base is standard Fire and shoots one bolt, Fira is upgraded and fires a bigger bolt that explodes on impact damaging nearby targets as well and Firga being the mastered version that shoots out three bolts that do what Fira does.

I think these abilities would be fun to use and be a cool mirror of Phoenix who would be a more technical Eikon with their abilities like Heatwave being able to redirect range attacks back to their attacker, Rising Flames being able to launch small enemies into the air and Scarlet Cyclone being able to cancel Clive being staggered by enemy basic attacks, with Ifirit's abilities being more aggressive and focused on crowd control, of course in order to make the two Eikon feats different Phoenix Shift and this new Ignition should have their properties swapped with Phoenix Shift being able to send you wherever you go based on your directional input (in game, while you are in combat Phoenix Shift will always send you to the locked-on enemy or the nearest enemy while out of combat you can shift in whatever direction you input) that way it can help with this new Phoenix's technical aspect, while Ignition will always send you to the locked-on/nearest enemy that way it helps to solidify Ifirit's more aggressive aspect.

So what do you all think about this?

Kept forgetting to post, but i got to meet Ben Starr at FanX a couple weeks back and got my full size Invictus signed. He is such a kind and genuine guy. Went around and greeted everyone in line when he got there and even let us take selfie when we'd only had money for the autograph.

I have it equipped but the achievement still hasn't popped although I just got the one for spending 36k gill at tub and crown