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Final Fantasy XV TGS 2014 Trailer | Lord Nomura giveth us His only Son so we may live

Has anyone shopped Noctis and the rest of the crew in this gif yet?

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Also, linear does not equal bad or automatically terrible. FFX is my favorite Final Fantasy. I just don't think FFXV will play that differently (compared to if the areas were a lot smaller) because of how open some of these areas are, those areas sorta tie into the road trip theme and story more than gameplay depth.
 
That doesn't look like Final Fantasy at all. If you told me the name of the game was something else, I'll probably believe you.

Oh well, it still looks great.
 
Crossing Eden said:
Think they did. They mentioned Luna, and then a date, and then we see the woman who looks like an older version of Namine' >.>
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It may not be a name change. We still don't know the full nature of their relationship--he may not know her real name.
 
Vire said:
It's not about thinking outside the box, it's about presenting a universe that feels cohesive and makes logical sense.

In past Final Fantasy games, vehicles and environments were just as over the top and fantastical as the monsters that resided in the area. There was a logical consistency to everything. Of course I could accept a flying magical airship because everything else in the universe was grounded in that same sort of logic.

The mishmash of real world technology and environments combined with the absolutely ludicrous monster design doesn't "work" for me. It's a very jarring juxtaposition that seems incredibly random.
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I dunno. Feels like an odd critique considering you could say the same about VII and VIII.

Whatever. You're entitled to your opinion. I personally think the mish-mash of modern, future, and fantastical elements has become quintessential FF.
 
Ra1den said:
I have to completely disagree with this. The world is clearly technologically advanced, hence the car and modern looking cities we've seen in the past.

How does this preclude "natural looking areas" from existing? Of course there will always be natural areas, regardless of how modern a setting is.
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Except that's another problem I have, the technology is incredibly advanced with super crazy looking airships and all sorts of other fanciful stuff shown in the E3 trailer from two years back.

And then you have a regular car that looks like it came directly from the times we live in.

Even when you just limit yourself to looking at the technology in the universe, it's at odds with each other.
 
Love that it is such a bro-fest. I can tell I'm gonna love this game, despite the expectations being way too high. The aesthetic is just incredible. If I can love XIII, I can love this.
 
Graphics are incredible by far the best looking game ever. that said story does not seem very interesting so far and the gameplay looks a bit clunky. but presentation wise this game outclasses everything. if the story and gameplay do turn out good this could be a greatest game of all time contender.
 
blankempathy said:
I miss the adventure. Massive plots with amazing places to visit. This trailer looks so generic. Cant believe people are hyped just because it looks pretty. Its like ffxiii or more recently killzone, infamous ss, and destiny all over again. Hey we are driving on the road. Oh look we are on a grassy field killing some monsters. Oh hey we are back on the road. Now we are in the woods. Back on the road again. Lets explore this cave. But hey it looks pretty so this is obviously goty material. Ugh. Nothing about this trailer says big epic adventure. It looks boring.
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You gathered all of this from a 2 minute trailer? They clearly wanted to showcase the roadtrip aspect of this game and that's what this trailer did. Look at the HUGE monster at the beginning and throughout the trailer. I have no doubt there will be tons of adventure.
 
Mr. RPG said:
XV looks drastically different than the pre-XIII age. Is this a joke post?
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Joke post? I mean I guess if you didn't read what I said which was that I feel FF games have all had the quality of taking place in dreamlike unrealistic fantasy worlds. Which I feel is a perfect viewpoint on what fantasy means.

Not that they look the same or feature similar worlds. I didn't say that.
 
The trailer feels more light and fun, they're really pushing the brotherhood road trip aspect with this angle. Although I miss the gloom and doom tragedy we were originally promised, it's extremely easy to frame a trailer around a particular vibe that may not be totally indicative of the final product.
 
I really wanna know how that stuff works where he slashes that boar thing charging at him.

The animations and the way they set up before hand seem way too perfect and scripted for something that can naturally happen at any moment.

I wonder how its triggered.
 
Vire said:
Except that's another problem I have, the technology is incredibly advanced with super crazy looking airships and all sorts of other fanciful stuff shown in the E3 trailer from two years back.

And then you have a regular car that looks like it came directly from the times we live in.

Even when you just limit yourself to looking at the technology in the universe, it's at odds with each other.
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What do you want, a flying car?

Noctis could very well be one of those guys in technology fantasies that likes retro stuff. Either that or they need something less advanced because they aren't supposed to be detected.
 
Well, I guess I'm not much of a Final Fantasy fan. But still, this doesn't seem to have any of the things I ever liked about Final Fantasy in it. I guess it is nice that there's lots of character interaction and the combat seems interesting. Kind of realistic and stuff. But it's all just a team of guys it looks like... that's not very exciting to me.

I think playing Lightning Returns would probably be more exciting and interesting to me than playing Final Fantasy XV. I'm not a big fan of Lightning, but she's not that bad. I think I would rather play as her than a team of four guys.

I guess other people's excitement for this game is how I feel about Tales of Zestiria. I can't wait for Tales of Zestiria. I would buy it on Steam, but I just don't feel excited for this game at all.
 
So many questions though:
  • Is Noctis running away from home to see Stella? Or does he just not want to be prince anymroe?
  • If so, I wonder if the ships hovering the city were looking for Noctis (& if that's the city where he lives or where Stella lives...could be either, him leaving that night or getting there).
  • What's an Astral Shard?
  • I wonder what the empires were negotiating during the radio broadcast.
  • Who are the guards that the guys are fighting on the roads (guards from Noctis' empire or Stella's)?
  • Who is Luna?
  • How much will environment play a role in this game (ref: red flares in the cave provided lighting for the guys to fight it seems)?

Just some things to think about/discuss.
 
Pilgrimzero said:
You know what I miss most about Final Fantasy? The FANTASY. It's a sci-fi series now.

And I get it's been that way since like 7 (6 more steampunk), I just miss when it was swords and sorcery instead of guns and cars. 9 brought it back though

And guys in plate mail with assault rifles, really?

Guess I'll just going to go play FF4 and relive the glory days.

I don't know, I've been pretty burned on FF since 12 and that was due to game play. 13, well we know whats wrong with that.

I hope I'm wrong and 15 is awesome but Square seems incapable of making good choices anymore.
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Shame on them for thinking outside the box for the "fantasy" concept? Seriously, Swords and Sorcery is like the definition of tons of Games in this era of gaming, like really, all the WRPGs for example.

I don't get it, we hardly ever get realistic-fantasy games, people just want the same medieval setting over and over again.
 
Dawg said:
Looks amazing except for the car driving in the intro.

That looks cheap as hell to me.
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Glad I'm not the only one. I'm trying to put my emotions to the side and see this for what it is—the whole thing looks like a PS3 remaster hardly fit for current-gen consoles. I'm pretty disappointed with the graphics. For shame.

The music though, the music.....
 
braves01 said:
You're going to have find the ultimate suspension and ultimate tires if you want to offroad in that thing.
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It's a videogame. If they want that car to go elsewhere, they can. But after Destiny, Titanfall, Watch_Dogs, I refuse to give a shit if the progression is just another overlong stroll (or drive) through a hallway with some nice set-dressing. Again, I want to know exactly what they're promising here.
 
Pyramidbread said:
XIV is a fully fantasy world, XIII wasnt, XII was, XI also was, so was X, and so on.
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This! The world is as fantasy as classic FFs, it's just a more modern era of that sort of fantasy world. Hell, if it goes out of it's way to include classic monsters in their classic(original) looks(especially Goblins, which haven't used the classic looks since FFV, while FFVI and onward all used different, more modern designs like Nomura's hip hop goblins of Goblin Island in FFVI, or those strange Gremlin-looking things in FFXI, yet FFXV uses classic early series Goblins), it's pretty apparent they are going for the fantasy feel.

I might also go on a limb to say, if you rewind the history of this world hundreds of years back, FFXV's world might actually have looked like FFI-FFV's worlds. Out of all the modern-futuristic FF games, it seems the most to have been an evolution of that classic FF world of the old NES/SNES games. Hell, time warp into the past and their might've just been some Black Mages and White Mages roaming around, going on adventures. At least that's the feeling I get with everything we've seen so far.
 
That music.

That combat.

That countryside.

Honestly looks even cooler to me than the E3 trailers from last year.

Hype tempered by Nomura stepping back for KH3 though
 
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