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Sakaguchi chose violence during on-stage battles in the MMO Final Fantasy XIV’s latest Fan Festival took place in London over the weekend, running two days of panels with theMMO’s development team, its director Naoki ‘Yoshi-P’ Yoshida and legendary series creator Hironobu Sakaguchi. In-betweenannouncing a new job for expansion Dawntrail, revealing anecdotes from the early days ofFinal Fantasyand awholebunchof crossovers on the way, Yoshi-P and Sakaguchi found time to kick back with some very silly hijinks during the game’s boss battles....

As Final Fantasy XIV Fan Fest departs London, we look at the secret to the MMO’s second chance success One of the main road bumps in FFXIV’s development was the engine it was built on - Square Enix’s internally developed Crystal Tools. Crystal Tools was designed around requests thatthe studio’s own development teams had, such as “extensive use of character close-ups” and “stylized expressions.” But by trying to make an engine that would satisfy all of Square Enix’s developers, they ended up with something thatdidn’t really satisfy anyone....

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Yoshi-P remains a “huge” Blizzard fan Final Fantasy 14has crossed over with everything fromMonster HunterandNierto Yokai Watch andFall Guys. But there’s one video game crossover that remains at the top of director-producer Naoki Yoshida’s list:Diablo. That ambition hasn’t diminished in the three years since, with Yoshida reiterating at this weekend’sFinal FantasyFan Festival in London that Diablo is still the ‘collaboration of his dreams’. “I mentioned this in the past, but I’m a huge Blizzard fan,” Yoshida reaffirmed....

Just don’t ask him about it “Right now, what I really don’t want to be asked is, firstly: what is going to be the main story in 8.0. And, secondly: what are going to be the new jobs in 8.0?” Yoshida replied when asked what question he hoped never to be asked again at this weekend’sFinal FantasyFan Festival in London. Earlier that day, Yoshida had teased the first of two new jobs arriving with Dawntrail next year:the dual-wielding Viper....

Naoki Yoshida was “shocked” when he played the influential PC classic The director ofFinal Fantasy XIVhas said he’d love to channel the chaos and freedom of nineties MMO godparentUltima Onlineinto his own game - but it couldn’t be FF14 itself, as the unbridled chaos would ‘break’ its players. “Each MMO has its own kind of focus of appeal - and if we were just to implement that in XIV, as is, it wouldn’t really work,” Naoki Yoshida said when asked which MMOs he looked to for inspiration at this year’sFinal FantasyFan Festival in London....

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Stuck on today’s Wordle word for October 22? Read our hint or find the answer below! This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th December! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?Every day,Wordlepresents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses? All you have to help you in finding the Wordle answer are the contextual clues you gain from each guess - but often, that’s not enough....

I sleep Alan Wake 2is out in a little under a week, and Remedy have just announced its PC system requirements. Things I learned: I probably can’t play Alan Wake 2. The requirements were shared the traditional way, with an image you have to click to embiggen on X (formerly Twitter): Hey PC gamers! Here you have a full list of PC system requirements for Alan Wake 2.🔦#alanwakepic.twitter.com/7whRbJoVK5 The minimum requirements, needed to run the game on “Low” graphics at 1080p at 30fps, asks for a GeForce RTX2060 or Radeon RX 6600 with an Intel i5-7600K or AMD equivalent and 16GB of RAM....

That’s one way to play FF16 on PC, at least Final Fantasy XIVis once again dipping into the rest of the storied series in a new series of raids and quests for theMMO. Producer Naoki ‘Yoshi-P’ Yoshida revealed on-stage during the opening keynote at this weekend’s LondonFinal FantasyFan Festival that FF14 would receive a run of alliance raids to celebrate last year’s 20th anniversary ofFinal Fantasy XI, the first MMO instalment in the long-running franchise....

A crowning achievement Final Fantasy 14’s crossover withFall Guyslooks as gloriously chaotic as the original mean bean gauntlet - and it’s out very soon. The incoming minigame playable inside theMMOwill see 24 Warriors of Light race across Fall Guys courses given aFinal Fantasy-themed twist. The FallGuys crossover with Final Fantasy 14 wasrevealed earlier this year, landing as a minigame in FFXVI’s Gold Saucer during the MMO’s pre-Dawntrail6.5 series of patches while FF14-themed costumes make their way into themultiplayer party gamein return....

There’s a new limited job on the way to join Blue Mage, too Final Fantasy XIVhas revealed the first of two new jobs coming to theMMOin next year’s expansionDawntrail. The Viper is a fast-paced melee DPS armed with two swords that can transform,Bloodborne-style, into a single two-handed weapon. It’s brand new for theFinal Fantasyseries, too. Producer and director Naoki Yoshida - aka Yoshi-P - unveiled the new class during the opening of this weekend’s Final Fantasy Fan Festival in London, having announced Dawntrail at the game’s earlier event in Las Vegas over the summer....

Until he changed the track order, that is Final Fantasycreator Hironobu Sakaguchi originally turned down theroleplaying game’s now-iconic soundtrack by Nobuo Uematsu - until the legendary composer simply changed the track order, that is. Speaking during a Q&A session withFinal Fantasy XIVproducer and director Naoki Yoshida at this weekend’sFinal FantasyFan Festival in London, Sakaguchi said that he initially rejected Uematsu’s compositions for the first Final Fantasy. “I did something really terrible [to Uematsu],” Sakaguchi answered when asked for anecdotes about developing the early games in the seminal roleplaying series....