FFXV copies out in the wild (street date broken in Peru, possibly elsewhere)
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Darkstorne
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His info has always been hit and miss though. I still remember that E3 where Sony announced FF7-R, Shenmue 3, and The Last Guardian, and he was specifically telling people they were fools to be getting themselves hyped for TLG again.
I know he responds afterwards with "I deliberately lie about some things so I can't be traced", but that seems insanely convenient, and honestly doesn't even make much sense. He may well work for Sony, but it looks like he has as much insider knowledge to their games as the rest of us do.
Jesus christ ROFL. GAF is truly the gift that keeps on giving. Always getting a good laugh around here.
I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
I have faith.
On Monday morning, we're getting a big photo of Verendus' copy of the game, next to his TV showing the last leg of the game. His impressions will turn out to be accurate. The game will be sublime, and will not only revive the FF brand, but jRPGs and Japanese console gaming in general. Also, a recount will reveal that Hillary Clinton won the presidency. Jschreier will be sobbing into his cheerios and Falk will breathe a sigh of relief knowing he didn't send a True Insider to the purgatory of perma.
On Monday morning, we're getting a big photo of Verendus' copy of the game, next to his TV showing the last leg of the game. His impressions will turn out to be accurate. The game will be sublime, and will not only revive the FF brand, but jRPGs and Japanese console gaming in general. Also, a recount will reveal that Hillary Clinton won the presidency. Jschreier will be sobbing into his cheerios and Falk will breathe a sigh of relief knowing he didn't send a True Insider to the purgatory of perma.
It will be a good game most likely not the second coming of Christ.
Ala1995ginobiko
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What if he is a Square employee?
FF7R, FF12HD, FF13vs to FFXV, all the DQ, I am Setsuna, World of Final Fantasy
Just saying
birthbysleep
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I dont know how i will stop myself from entering the spoiler thread...I won't receive my copy until December 1st...its going to be so hard.
Go on...
Regarding Verendus, did he leak DQ11 being a ps4 and 3ds game? Because I doubt no one saw that coming.
Aztechnology
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This thread is an amazing hot mess lol.
The Emperor
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now this thread enters next chapter...
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
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Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
Thank fuck the game ended up being god tier 😂
artsi
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He's talked a lot about non-Square games though.
While Sony would know plenty about both them, and SE's games.
Could be he's also full of it like people are saying, but if he's legit insider I'd bet he's with Sony.
So Verendus just ran away. Welp.
lol "Edición Día Uno"
Did they just import it from Peru?
Back to topic, the game is out in UAE
hopefully 2 days it's out in KSA.
lol "Edición Día Uno"
Did they just import it from Peru?
PowderedToast
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for those with the game, could we see the reversible cover? thanks
oh,how cute.
step up your game
You're legit tempting me to do that tomorrow. I work for a petroleum company lmao
Lovely Salsa
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Who the hell would drive a porsche in egypt? UAE I could easily understand but I would need body guards in egypt
aspiegamer
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Is there any way you can do it on a CRT display? That'd be pretty miserable!
It seems so? If you had a hookup (and the money) you could get a copy anywhere in the world in 2 days. Why is their shade of blue on the packaging more awesome? Boo.
He's not alluding to Verendus having responded to the PM he sent, if that's what you're thinking. Verendus hasn't read it; it was sent two minutes after he was last online.
YankeeDonB
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Yeah, there's a middle ground between "spoil me rotten" and "unplugging Internet," and most of us in this thread are somewhere in it.
Eh, I didn't mean to turn this into a continuation of the saga. Just stating my opinion here.
If you weren't aware, disclaimer that I worked on the soundtrack of the game, so take what I say with that perspective in mind for better or worse. Experience with the game speaking, vs shilling for a product, yadda yadda yadda.
I've been saying for a while that I personally think the game is going to sink or swim on launch day based on technical performance. I think what we ended up with is a really, really solid JRPG that does many things few dared prior. It's an open world with its own very distinct style of combat. It's an open world which delivers a lot of Final Fantasy nostalgia yet has a somewhat new perspective on it all with the road trip framework. I think one thing that the early previews failed to capture is, when you're handed control after the first Hammerhead cutscenes, the feeling of 'holy shit, I can actually do anything I want!' since a lot of them were on timers and a lot chose to speed as fast through the main quest as possible. I think it didn't sink in for many people how much there is to do right off the bat until that one street-date-breaker stream where the guy was just running around in Chapter 1 for three hours and the stream chat was yelling at him to get on with the story. Regardless of how the narrative structure changes or doesn't change later in the game, that freedom to explore is something that I found to be an extremely new experience for the franchise, and doesn't quite dilute the story itself in an 'open world' Skyrim/Fallout manner if you intend to just beeline for the main quest.
On combat, stemming from the main character's powers, namely A) being able to summon weapons at will, meaning character action game style combos (though not necessarily the twitch-action combat of character action) and B) being able to warp to any weapon he throws, meaning a lot of possibilities for strategic placement and aerial combat. These two are what I feel were the most important carryovers from Versus XIII, and tie into both the narrative and the basic gameplay. Which actually brings me to my next point - virtually everything that went into the game is based on the core concept of building on a user experience. There's one way to design games - to build assets, game design documents, etc and then seeing how it fits together. There's another way to design games - asking yourself 'what do we want the players to experience?' and then evaluating every single facet of development against that goal. Everything in the game is geared towards delivering that core concept of a road trip experience, framed against the backdrop of 'reclaiming your throne', and I feel that it's resulted in something that's greater than the sum of its parts holistically, if you forgive the overly poetic description.
On music, maybe I'll hold off on directly commenting on this since it was what I was directly involved in (lol) but I'll just summarize to say I feel what's in the game includes a ton of what I feel is the very best work from Yoko Shimomura as well as everyone else involved, from the arrangers, to performers, to the technical implementation and engineering.
My biggest worry honestly was how the game would hold up on a technical level. As I mentioned earlier in the thread, I still fully expect the game to spawn all manner of hilariously meme-able glitches on social media etc what with a 7(?) digit install base, but I'm also pretty confident at this point that it's not going to be e.g. where you're needing to reset your console often just to get rid of purple water or sequence-breaking boss despawns or whatever. Fixing an open world game is probably an infinite task, but considering how much better the Judgment Disc performs than e.g. the Gamescom footage, it feels that in large part that my worry here has disappeared over the last few months.
Street date is broken, but I'm still upholding NDA for very obvious reasons, so a lot of the above isn't exactly information that isn't already available to public (heck, I'm actually skimming what I write over a few times to make sure I'm not saying anything I shouldn't be saying yet) - I'll participate in the discussion of any streams just because I'm also interested in what people think of the game, but it's a little hard for me to answer any questions pertaining to our involvement in the game right now.
Since this is the internet, and we're coming hot off the heels of a question of whether a certain other someone was blowing a lot of hot air, I should also say you're going to have to excuse me for declining on showing direct proof that I've worked on the game (until release date or someone leaks the credit roll, I guess, heh
), so I'll just link this for now.And remember, I'm one person with one opinion. My advice would be to also go read what other people are saying about the game, especially neutral outlets. I realize that this is becoming a more and more dangerous endeavor while avoiding spoilers since the game *is* out there and spoilers *are* being posted so sticking with some GAF threads may be the best, such as this and the inevitable review OT.
Lifejumper
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I remember Verendus pming me early impressions of order 1866. He gave it a 9/10.... I hope people dont preorder because of the impressions. Judge the footage available.
Audioboxer
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I dunno what anyone would even want to spoil? Do people really care that much about the story? After the last few FF releases (minus the MMO) the story in these games has been utter trash. The whole of the 13 universe was the biggest pile of trash ever. Unless 15 is going back to the PS1 era on the story telling front, but modernising it, count me uninterested.
If we're talking about spoiling side content, bosses, nods to other FF games and so forth, then yeah, I'm hyped and you have to be daft to spoil those kind of surprises. Considering how badly this project has been handled I have next to zero confidence in Square to put out a story that is anything other than serviceable at best. I have resigned myself to that though and my hype for this game is solely based around gameplay, side content and nods to other FF games.
I think there's enough footage out there from previews and the Judgment Disc that you can form your own opinion of that. ;p
DarkLordMalik
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The Order 1886 was praised to the high heavens by every insider and even those who had an early copy were delusioned in believing it was a good game.
YankeeDonB
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Wow, Falk's notoriously tight lips loosening. We're truly in the home stretch.
Appreciate the impressions, and to reiterate Schreier's point, Verendus' trolling about how much he liked the game doesn't automatically equate to "game is crap." Folks are often stuck in this partisan binary. Imagine this - Verendus was lying, but the game is even better than he suggested! Or not. The truth will out.
Gratia Mundi sounds ripped straight out of LoM, so I'll go with that. I hope it's that.
yea the person playing it said it tanks in Altissia.
Audioboxer
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Dat extreme wish for Sony at that point in the generation to finally put out a good 1st party game. I think we can all, even big Playstation fans like myself, admit Sony has had one hell of a rough 1st party ride the last few years. The on-going problems with PD and GT are still causing absolute mayhem whilst Forza's timely output makes PD look terrible. MS may lack in 1st party diversity but what they are putting out on average is coming in as far more polished and well received than Sony.
Of course the last 12 months has seen some of the heavy hitters finally surface, such as the likes of UC4, and yes, waiting on quality is always the best pay off. I hope TLG is next to add another notch of 1st party quality. Sure, while we are in this topic, FF15 as well, but it's not 1st party.
Still, to go back to my original point, 1st party output has been strained on the PS4, and 3rd parties coupled with a more powerful system than the Xbox really carried the PS4 in stretches. I really hope GoW4 and Days Gone don't end up being like 2019 titles. I'm fairly confident Horizon will make its current date, but alas, I wouldn't be surprised if it got delayed again later into 2017.
I understand making games isn't easy, but some of these studios, Square included, have really been choking and struggling for a while.
From what we've all heard so far, I'd say that it sounds like a combination of a whole bunch of different games she's worked on. It's definitely not content to be stylistically stagnant.
the game is available now in Riyadh and Jeddah (saudi arabia)
https://twitter.com/TIAMAT1/status/800318574804029440
https://twitter.com/TIAMAT1/status/800318574804029440
First BvS now this.
Based on the locations and such I'm sure it does, I just don't really like Yoko's KH work. I enjoy almost everything else she does, but it's like when Sakuraba does Star Ocean/Valkyrie vs Tales.
The soundtrack does do a lot of different flavors.
I'm sure it be great.
If it means anything I don't really like her KH work either but I'm in love with XV's soundtrack. I've really been thinking about buying it.
Mister Megative
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Shut it all down. GAF has peaked with this. It's never going to get any better. It can't. Let's go out on a high note and step into the darkness together.
Shit, worried about the framerate in Altissia :C
I hope it's just there and not "everything after the preview chapters runs like shit". Though I guess Edge would've mentioned that if it was the case. Ther clearly weren't shy to criticize the game when they thought they should.
This is beautiful.
I hope it's just there and not "everything after the preview chapters runs like shit". Though I guess Edge would've mentioned that if it was the case. Ther clearly weren't shy to criticize the game when they thought they should.
This is beautiful.
Bloodborne was our ray of shining hope in the darkness. We all were holding "contact" positions, waiting for something good--and this game was the lone great exclusive the PS4 had, for quite some time. Things are definitely changing now though. Many of Sony's promises were of games far off in the distance. Hype sells more consoles, so I can see why people bought it.
Now we have two long awaited, overhyped titles coming. Hopefully Final Fantasy XV and Last Guardian are solid games. I am confident they will at least be decently good. Opinion will vary, though.
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