• Hey Guest. Check out your NeoGAF Wrapped 2025 results here!

Final Fantasy XV - 50 min video

PSY・S;214342926 said:
Do monsters only appear on the road at night?
Click to expand...

I actually don't know! I'm just making an educated guess that if night time is truly meant to be as dark and foreboding as they've been saying (stronger monsters, etc) it would only make sense to not trivialize that by being able to sidestep most of all that by driving anywhere you want, hence big-ass monsters you have to take care of to proceed being literal road blocks at night.

That, and the footage specifically shows the Iron Giant being encountered at night, and being lv30 with creepy-ass music.

My gut instinct would be that having to get out of the car every few miles to fight would go against that 'cohesive experience of a road trip' during the daytime, but obviously none of us can exactly say for sure without access to the game. Maybe ask people who played at Gamescom?

Granted, in the way that it's being described in the other quote, that you're pretty much locked out of just getting back in the car and driving back the other way, would still be a niggling issue even if encounters on the road only happened at night.
 
Blackleg-sanji1 said:
Mmm idk the combat may not work for some people(even tho from the preview thread haven't seen a preview complain about combat or complain about anything really aside from the car). I think it's going to mixed alil but not in a bad way mixed.
Click to expand...

I'm expecting deus ex level reviews, which is pretty good. I just don't expect the press to go lower than that.
 
dragonzdogma said:
In the beginning the player shows the entire map right, it's honestly not as big as imagined. It's like 10 duscae regions?
Don't quote me on this,lol.
Click to expand...

Too late, bro! I'm quoting you! :P

Are we sure the map we've seen isn't just for the first beginning chapters of the game?

Speaking of map size... You have to wonder (in terms of Polish / bugs / performance etc) how about the areas we haven't seen and how they handle.
 
PSY・S;214343295 said:
I wonder if only stronger monsters force you out of the car. If only daemons force you out and they only appear at night then that part might not be so bad.
Click to expand...

I just want a button that makes the drive a loading screen.
 
Falk said:
I actually don't know! I'm just making an educated guess that if night time is truly meant to be as dark and foreboding as they've been saying (stronger monsters, etc) it would only make sense to not trivialize that by being able to sidestep most of all that by driving anywhere you want, hence big-ass monsters you have to take care of to proceed being literal road blocks at night.

That, and the footage specifically shows the Iron Giant being encountered at night, and being lv30 with creepy-ass music.

My gut instinct would be that having to get out of the car every few miles to fight would go against that 'cohesive experience of a road trip' during the daytime, but obviously none of us can exactly say for sure without access to the game. Maybe ask people who played at Gamescom?

Granted, in the way that it's being described in the other quote, that you're pretty much locked out of just getting back in the car and driving back the other way, would still be a niggling issue even if encounters on the road only happened at night.
Click to expand...

Yeah. I wouldn't have much of a problem with it if it was limited to night hours. But the nights do become longer as the story progresses, right? It could be worse later on. Edit: And if I could actually drive away.
 
dragonzdogma said:
This a dinosaur image of the "entire" map tho.
How does it compare to the actual map shown in this 50 n vid?
Click to expand...

4IBi2GV.png
Click to expand...
z4DYfaW.jpg
Click to expand...

What you saw in the 50 minute video is only the top portion of the world map.
 
dragonzdogma said:
This a dinosaur image of the "entire" map tho.
How does it compare to the actual map shown in this 50 n vid?
Click to expand...

It's not the whole map. It's just one island out of the whole map. There are many other locations that aren't in that island.

Here's a video that showcases many locations not pictured in the map. Altissia for one is a large scale city. As is Tenebrae(though I believe Altissia is quite a bit bigger).

https://youtu.be/CzIsbgDt5oM
 
dragonzdogma said:
In the beginning the player shows the entire map right, it's honestly not as big as imagined. It's like 10 duscae regions?
Don't quote me on this,lol.
Click to expand...

Sorry, have to quote you. ;)

The map at the beginning of the gameplay vid was just the three regions Leide (desert), Duscae and Cleigne (foresty and swampy area). You travel in these three regions within the 5 first hours of the game. This is a 50+ game. ;) The much bigger part of the world lies still ahead.
They've said that about 50-60% of the world (regions and cities) are still completely unknown to us.
They've also said that the world gets more fantastical as we progress in the story which is getting me personally really excited. I hope that Tenebrae isn't going to be the only and the most fantastical place in the game. :)
 
Tyaren said:
Sorry, have to quote you. ;)

The map at the beginning of the gameplay vid was just the three regions Leide (desert), Duscae and Cleigne (foresty and swampy area). You travel in these three regions within the 5 first hours of the game. This is a 50+ game. ;) The much bigger part of the world lies still ahead.
They've said that about 50-60% of the world (regions and cities) are still completely unknown to us.
They've also said that the world gets more fantastical as we progress in the story which is getting me personally really excited. I hope that Tenebrae isn't going to be the only and the most fantastical place in the game. :)
Click to expand...
Just what I want to hear.

I hope that's true for the story, too. The best FFs have always started out with a pedestrian military squabble and unfolded into something weirder and metaphysical.
 
It'd definitely be interesting for the reality part of it to slowly drop away as more fantastical elements happen.

Regarding reviews, if the game is good I could see it in the 80s. 90s would be astonishing for me really but I just can't see it happening.
 
The car does sound annoying. Nobody would willingly design it that way. I'm guessing speed is to help with loading (flying doesn't have same problem due to being far enough in the sky to hide loading with lower tier assets maybe?). And black screen is just them shooting themselves in the foot with their own animations and having too many awkward problems with it and possible things like other cars passing by, yada yada... all in all, band aid solutions to the fact that the game is underbaked.


Shucks, at least the part I actually care about (on foot stuff) seems fine, but tempering my expections has been doing wonders.
 
Koozek said:
GameSpot:
I'm interested in the challenges you faced as someone who came into the project part of the way through. It started with Nomura-san at the helm, then you came in and you have your own style. What were the difficulties you faced picking up someone else's work and did you feel like you may not have been able to express what you wanted fully?

Tabata:
When I took over the project I felt that because we'd already made a promise to the fanbase out there with Versus XIII, it was really Square Enix's responsibility to deliver on that project. There was no doubt in my mind when I took over the project that we needed to do this. We don't [think someone should trace around another creative vision]. That's not a good way of doing it because, obviously, two [different] people can't share the same vision.

When I started approaching what to keep in and what to take out, I started thinking [about] everything that we'd already presented to the world with Versus XIII that would work within my new vision of Final Fantasy XV[, all that] was kept with no problem. Anything that would have been difficult to keep in there or couldn't, I cut out. I really tried to make the best use of all the original elements from Verus within Final Fantasy XV. It was a really challenging way to approach it but I think in the end it was the best way and worthwhile.​
Click to expand...

Setsu00 said:
Despite everything what I wrote previously about FFXV, I honestly appreciate this attempt to deliver Versus XIII. I just don't think he succeeded with this plan worked out. In the end, it looks like everything they salvaged from Versus XIII into XV were its four main characters, the car, the general premise of a roadtrip and the actionized combat. It would have been better to just scrap Versus XIII entirely if they didn't want to pour anymore money into Nomura's project, honestly. They are not doing themselves a favor by burdening themselves with Versus XIII's hype and materials and FFXV is creatively compromised as a result of that.
Click to expand...

I'd agree. I've been down on Tabata for a long time because we obviously knew he was changing a lot of things behind the scenes, but at the same time was trying to keep the allusion of the Versus project still around. Even so i really like his honesty here in the final few months before release.

Cause it is true, nobody is going to share the same vision by default even if they try as hard as they can to make things similar or take some elements and make them feel similar.

And i also agree with you that they should have just let Tabata make another game entirely and should have shuffled Nomura away to work on KH3 and FF7R much earlier than having him on the project for continuities sake and then dropping him after it was re-revealed at E3, which felt like a dick move.

Regardless of what Tabata says, i know that the higher ups definitely did not let him(or Nomura) officially cancel the FFVersus project because of how it would have looked for the company. And putting Tabata in the role of making a game that was not his into a game he felt happy with shipping, even if all of those previous assets were not his, felt like something untenable and may not work out even though we can see he gave it his best shot.

He deserved to make a game he wanted to make from scratch, even if it would have taken more time to come up with a concept for it and implement it into actual code. And i hope they allow him to do that at some point after this game is complete
 
Hentailover said:
The car does sound annoying. Nobody would willingly design it that way. I'm guessing speed is to help with loading (flying doesn't have same problem due to being far enough in the sky to hide loading with lower tier assets maybe?). And black screen is just them shooting themselves in the foot with their own animations and having too many awkward problems with it and possible things like other cars passing by, yada yada... all in all, band aid solutions to the fact that the game is underbaked.


Shucks, at least the part I actually care about (on foot stuff) seems fine, but tempering my expections has been doing wonders.
Click to expand...

Is the black screen only when parking while on the main roads? Because there is no black screen when parking here at that beach resort Galdin Quay:
https://youtu.be/E9HQbSTxvXI?t=24m55s
 
Tyaren said:
No wonder it was there. Gladiolus and Prompto wouldn't have been able to get outside the car since it stopped right next to the crash barrier on their side. I doubt the AI is able to let them move over to the other side to use Ignis' and Noctis' car exits.
Click to expand...
In gtav the npc just clip above the fence.
 
benzy said:
Older Noct designed by Naora.

http://jpgames.de/2016/08/final-fantasy-xv-neues-charakter-design-nicht-von-nomura/
Click to expand...

Lol, I thought you meant an "older design", not Old Noctis' design. I really like it, wished it was the main one.


What a surprise, another one of my favorite FFXV designs turns out not to be by Nomura.

tumblr_o9k8swFu8N1tajyw2o1_r1_500.jpg



If Ferrari just would show a bit of restraint when it comes to female designs (Cidney and partly Aranea, too), I would say get him on board as the main character designer for future FFs. Get Naora to work alongside him.
 
The older design, while nice, just highlights another one of the issues with keeping the younger design of Noctis. The older one looks literally nothing like him.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

Happy 27th To Final Fantasy VIII
2 3
111
784
Rentahamster replied
Final Fantasy Games Now On GOG
6
409
paolo11 replied
  • Poll
Final Fantasy XVI
LTTP  2 3 4
154
4K
paolo11 replied
Game Pass adds Disco Elysium: The Final Cut, Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, Final Fantasy IV,
News 
5
96
Darsxx82 replied
  • Locked
Final Fantasy XV Remaster RUMOR
Rumor  2
56
6K
CyberCali replied
Top Bottom