Final Fantasy XVI producer Naoki Yoshida has stated DLC is now something under consideration at Square Enix as the company looks to support its latest title after launch. Prior to last month's release, Yoshida described the experience as a "one-off game" that would only be built upon if "players around the world want to see more of" Clive and the world of Valisthea. The change in tune suggests Yoshida has heard fans' cries for more, then.
In a recent interview with GamerBraves, Yoshida explained: "As you know, going into Final Fantasy XVI, the one thing we wanted to create was a full complete story, something that you can enjoy from beginning to end, 100 per cent without any DLC, and I think we were able to do that. But now we understand we're getting feedback from players that have played the game, and lots of players want to see more, and we know that and understand that. For us, we're taking that and then thinking about our options moving forward. So hopefully in the future, we can have something that we can give to you all."
DLC has become more common for the Final Fantasy series over the past few entries, with the Final Fantasy XV story stretched across four expansions and then Final Fantasy VII Remake receiving further plot treatment in new content focused on Yuffie. However, since Square Enix has only just gotten around to considering DLC, it's going to be quite some time before we actually see it should any extra content be given the green light.
In our Final Fantasy 16 PS5 review, we awarded the game a 9/10 and called it the series' proper return to form. "It's pretty much the pinnacle of cinematic spectacle in modern games, and its often gripping, emotional story is only matched by its fantastic combat system. While its overall quality does dip outside of the main plot, this is still a must-play action RPG, and the best single-player Final Fantasy in over a decade."
Would you be up for more Final Fantasy XVI? Let us know in the comments below.
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Do not play with my emotions. I need this.
I think this has been the plan the whole time. As great as the game is, it feels unfinished.
This DLC better have some cactuars and tonberries...
Yes more FF16 please
If all they did was add Hunts I would totally buy. The best part of the game.
Haven’t finished the game yet, but knowing me, I’d love more. Then when it releases like all DLC I’ll buy it and then get to it like a year after that.
YES!, Day 1... not even done yet and can see so many story points that can be used as a basis for Story DLC.
World and characters are amazing... Expand!
Give us Leviathan!
Nah, games take so long to make nowadays, crack on with FF17 unless you can do both in tandem.
If DLC comes out within the next 12 months then it was definitely in the making well before today.
(first) Sales target hit? 🤔 This seems like what would really trigger DLC. Sales + People actually playing the game through = potential for more sales because people are loving it and thus willing to pay 😁
@L_Bosch unfinished ? Do tell please, I finished it up 100%, and it feels pretty damn complete all threads tied up, everybody got their ending, Combat is brilliant,.fast,.responsive
What exactly was unfinished about it in your opinion ?
It's become one of my Top 3 Final Fantasy games as much as I'd rather Square just start making FF XVII I won't complain if we get more XVI content I'd happily buy it ^__^. Maybe add a good superboss XVI doesn't really have one and they really should be mandatory in a Square RPG KH III had a meh one at launch with Dark Inferno but added one of if not the best JRPG superboss ever in Yozora in it's DLC so I'm sure the team could knock it out of the park Gilgamesh maybe🤔
Yes please, will always take more FF16 content
More Final Fantasy XVI in any form please ! 😋 I'm only about halfway through but I want more.
As much as I love FF16 (and I really do!), the enemy variety and true sense of exploration really underwhelmed me. Would really love a new continent/island to explore filled with all kinds of classic FF monsters: new hunt board, more trials.... and some actual fun sidequests please!
There really is unanswered questions as far as what certain characters were doing before they met Clive and during times when they weren’t with Clive or fighting Clive, we could have DLC regarding controlling those characters and putting their pieces to the story together.
Or even a DLC regarding Leviathian the Lost Eikon (i still think that medicine girl might be Leviathian, they showed her way too many times to just be some random girl who saved spoiler not going to say their name lol)
@Uromastryx
Like I said, it's a great game. But it feels like half a final fantasy game. It's quite stripped down, I assume in an effort to appeal to wider audience, and as a result it's greatly simplified. Side quests are simplified, on-screen quest markers make it that we don't need to think about where to go next, weapons are a case of "the new one is stronger than the previous one", elemental weaknesses are almost completely omitted, there are absolutely no logic puzzles, the bestiary is incomplete, we can only control and outfit a single character... Still a great game though.
While I’m on board, and know what was said, I feel like this was planned. Yes, it’s a good idea to make a game that feels complete without it…but how many AAA games nowadays get zero dlc.
That said-thank you for not having to buy dlc to get story that should have been included in the first place.
I'm just about to finish it and I'd love dlc best game I've played this year don't want it to end.
Lol I know they said they felt like they told a complete story and didn't want to end up like XV with like 5 story dlcs but I don't think they fleshed out certain characters as much as they could have
So please give me a prequel expansion featuring Cid, Benedikta, Hugo, and Barnabas!
100% it will be the lost eikon story. Will need to be set prior to the events of this story of course, but it could be good. I'd also love the option to change members during battle. Do what they did with FF15. create smaller stories for Cid, Jill, Joshua and then make those playable. They all have different skills to Clive, so it would add variety, heck even just give us an Eikon Vs Eikon playground and let us have customised battles so we can play with all the eikons.
Give me a Jill playable chapter and Torgal chapter. I'd be very happy if you did.
I find it a little weird that the narrative is so coy about something as important as the missing Dominant of Water and the missing Eikon (called 'Leviathan the Lost' exactly once in a throwaway line), and yet apparently no additional storyline was planned for that. I mean, if they didn't plan to go into that topic at length, at least a couple lore entries would have been nice.
Similarly, it's weird that in the entirety of Valisthea there wasn't even a single NPC belonging to Jill's northern tribe. Not even a minor sidequest to kind of address that part of the setting - nothing.
And to be clear these things are weird because of how detailed everything else about the game's lore is and how obvious it is that the devs cared about that aspect, especially with stuff like the chronological history map. If the game felt slapdash narratively I wouldn't even point these out.
Let’s count the ways this game does NOT count as a FF game. No dungeons, just hallways of arenas. No custom party members. No collectibles. No upgrade system, no optional content not tied to a side quest. Limited monsters. Have killed more chocobos than any other FF game.
I can only wear 3 items of jewelry, can only use swords, included rings of accessibility to make game not act like an action game.
So many missed opportunities of extra content. Castles, ruins, mines, caves, leviathan all missing. Hell, even abandoned cities can’t be looked at except from a distance.
Dumb characters, intelligence wise. An entire continent that believes in suicide as part of a normal religion. Which begs the question of why even reproduce? So many things wrong with Devil May Fantasy 16.
I love how fans think they decide what makes a FF game and what doesn't. What did you do to contribute to making this game?
They did say if the game was received well they'd do it and the game has been received very well so yeah I'm for it
Yeah... right.
I am afraid it's way too obvious 5 "years" got carved out of the game to be sold as dlc.
Just go ahead and add them. Also, i gather leviathan was cut out for this purpose too.
i'd be down for dlc, i love the game so far, i love what they did with the dlc with 15.
@KaijuKaiser It depends if they are doing it properly with the core team or not. A lot of DLC is farmed out to more junior staff while the core senior team works on a new game. That's part of why there is so much bad DLC. (look at 90% of Ubisoft's DLC as a prime example) If they are going to do that i'd rather they didn't do it at all.
@Splat
Obviously people are going to have opinions. And the fans contribute by forking over gil.
@KaijuKaiser Clearly, it’s not a real FF game, belongs more in the FF Crystal or other useless FF games. This is just a linear adventure in some world that happens to have giant yellow birds. Killing the same 10 monsters over and again is not entertaining.
The only chocobos you kill in this game come in 3 varieties. Yellow, featherless and undead. In fact every creature has an undead variety, no creativity in design.
It’s like they concentrated so hard on the action aspect, they ignored the fantasy. This is a small step above any action game. Not an rpg.
DLC of Gav and Uncle Byron going on a tavern crawl. I think that would be a better adventure that Clive's.
@L_Bosch Demo was free. It showed what the game would be. I don't feel sorry for anyone that bought it expecting something different.
Maybe a DLC filling in the time skips with alternative player character.
I dropped the game at 20hrs and sold it 😳💔 no regrets haha
@Splat
I didn't realise we were talking about not liking the game.
I love the game, yet I also think it doesn't feel like a Final Fantasy.
So much for the game being so perfect, it would never need a post launch patch.
Hell yes GIVE IT TO ME!
@Splat God damn these are some butthurt people over 16 lol
Ha. Just like "no day one patch", they're moving the posts... (again???)
Leviathan was ALWAYS planned as DLC.
Removed - disrespecting others; user is banned
@Uromastryx Really? You didn't feel like something was missing after that Cid development? The game didn't cover the aftermath and what happened after except in the mention in character conversation. We are dropped in on a completely different situation for Clive from where it was just minutes before.
Also, surely you noticed someones daughter showing up and a map lady that Clive knew but were never shown before in the story. There were developments in the dominion and free City that weren't covered and involved in these characters. Not to mention the mentioned and missing leviathan.
So, yes. It's 100% incomplete. They jumped a part of the story to cut on development time. "Time skip" was a cop out for this. There were serious developments in this time skip. Much more than from the prelude to the start of the game.
@Cordyceps Your take is people that have never made a video game in their life should determine what the game should be. It's a Final Fantasy game at the end of the day. No rant on Twitter is going to change that.
DLC would be very welcome in my world. My favourite game I’ve played this year and overall one of my favourite Final Fantasy’s.
@L_Bosch OK fair enough, yeah side quests really lacked, there was a few hidden gems though,
Yeah only time I reacted to elemental advantage when I noticed Bahamuts beam shredding people 🤣
@Nem yes there was mentions of this and that and other things sure I'm.not gonna disagree , probably cut it to make deadlines and or dlc, but Clive was complete we saw the end,.but yeah the 5 year jump will probably be dlc,.its not crappy business sadly every game does this now, leave Windows open for sequel/dlc if said game is successful
So anyway as an overall, yes the much larger perspective it was " unfinished"
Still a stellar game
In a perfect world I'd make the Clive have a playable party but I know the game isn't designed so that being said...
I personally don't even want story (unless it's about giving Jill more to do other than Clive's love interest and support system after her mini arc was done)
So please for the love of shiva give the game RPG depth, make elements on the eikons actually matter when choosing eikons (give me a better reason to experiment other than "this looks cooler" with the exception of garuda really).
Make the world have material drops to enhance and tailor your accessories and weapons to a build more unique to the player like more crit and element affinity, and let accessories have more than one trait slot (for a price of course), so I can truly make Clive my own other than superficial tweaks.
Put them in hard side dungeons too to give me a reason to explore the world other than hunts.
They don't even need to be big (I don't need much) just a worth while reason to look around.
The combat is a great foundation but that's what it feels like a foundation, now build on it.
Hell bring in leviathan the lost if you want another lore eikon, add the water element too.
(But no more cutscenes in-between boss fights and no qtes too).
I'd rather a overhaul with deeper mechanics and more boss fights then extra story personally.
Final fantasy to me is a RPG first, and while the combat is fun there is definitely more SE and creative business unit 3 can do.
Because by the end I was just doing the same thing over and over, so when it came to final fantasy mode I was burnt out, I had no drive to do it all over again just remixed.
I'd actually buy the game back if they did this (I sold the game after a week 🤣)
And the score would definitely improve it would go from a 7.5 to a 8.5/9 depending of the improvement.
But if all the dlc is, is more hunts with the same battle mechanics and more extra story I'll most likely pass, I can't do the same stuff over and over mindlessly 🤣.
Not everything needs DLC!
I need tonberries in this game! Was gutted they were missing! So hope the DLC has the missing enemies that were staple to the series
@KaijuKaiser Sad for Push Square sites but at least they are the minority.
@KaijuKaiser I have zero issues with anyone not liking the game. The it's not a Final Fantasy game stuff is ridiculous. It's like saying the last two God of War games aren't God of War games.
I rather see FF17 or if you want to something atleast make it good sized expansion not some crappy DLC with stuff that is useless.
@KaijuKaiser exactly I agree, every game is repetitive but when people are aware and mention it it’s because the game loop is tiresome, Elden ring you you just press dodge and 3 attack buttons but has build variety to keep it fresh and makes you want to experiment, which was my point I made earlier.
So if they tweak the combat with stuff like the suggestions I made earlier and make it an actual rpg with deeper mechanics it would go a long way keeping it fresher.
The same combat can stay the same as it’s well done, just add more to it.
P.s to people complaining that, people say it’s not a final fantasy game.
Save yourself the annoyance, to THEM it doesn’t feel like final fantasy.
They are welcome to that opinion as much as you are to say it is a final fantasy game.
Final fantasy constantly changes and switches which similar elements and threads it keeps which is a blessing and a curse.
Because of this the draw back is depending on who you ask final fantasy can mean very different things.
To some it’s the themes and core settings, crystals eikons /summons/chocobos/Cid (lol)etc.
To other is the fact that final fantasy is an rpg, with parties and classes.
To others it could simply be turn based jrpgs
If the someone sides more with the later that won’t feel like a final fantasy game to them.
Are they wrong or their statements incorrect?
I don’t believe so, no more than the next person that feels it’s very final fantasy.
It feels like final fantasy to me, but I wouldn’t turn around and say someone is wrong if it doesn’t feel that way to them.
@Splat No, my take is no sakaguchi, Not a final fantasy. Don't put words in my mouth.
Pointing out a fact is not an endorsement of whatever fact I pointed out
I loved the game, and I'd be up to some DLC. I felt the ending was weird. If some aspects of the last part of the story were fleshed out, I'd be more than happy to buy it.
@KaijuKaiser it could be a friendly tonberry who runs a colosseum or a brothel or something... Or he just shows up to kill someone, like in FFXIII. I just miss him. He hasn't called in ages. He reads my messages, but he doesn't reply. I think he's seeing someone else.
If some of those things are in I might get the DLC even though I'm not a fan of the practice.
New marketing tactic: say your highly anticipated game won't have DLC, then announce DLC plans when it inevitably sells well.
Hogwarts Legacy, FF16, who's next?
@Orpheus79V Do your research please, Yoshi P said word for word, if the game is well liked and fans want more of the game they will consider said DLC.
I’d welcome some DLC!!
A DLC about Barnabas and his quest would be nice. He could fight Leviathan.
Dropping FFXVI DLC would be truly Eikonic. 💁🏽♂️
Since we can't do gifs you'll have to use your imagination here. In my best Captain Picard voice: Make it so
I would love a DLC to play as Dion. He was my favourite character. Failing that though, Leviathan the lost has to be it.
Hope it comes with an actual ending.
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