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Final Fantasy XV |OT| There and back again.

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Mussah92

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In chapter three how the hell do i
get to the waterfall lol, I'm just at the rest stop near the bridge....

Edit: found it now lol, I feel silly
 

Humdinger

Gold Member
Posted already?

Final Fantasy XV, which launched worldwide for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on Tuesday, November 29, has sold five million copies, Square Enix announced.

The number includes sales of both physical and digital copies.

Final Fantasy XV is the fastest selling title in the Final Fantasy series. In Japan, the game had the highest recorded first-day digital copies sold. And in Asia (excluding Japan), the game had the highest recorded amount of physical copies shipped and digital copies sold.
http://gematsu.com/2016/12/final-fa...top-five-million-fastest-selling-title-series
 

antitrop

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I wish I didn't feel rushed by the game. After just a few hunts appropriate for my level and a few side quests, and just the first two Royal Arms dungeons .. I am am level 22 and on chapter 3. Makes me sad.

I feel like if I want any kind of challenge I have to skip most side content and that's not what I want. I also don't want to nuke/one-shot everything.

No meeting halfway it seems.
I did shitloads of side content, was probably about your same level when I finished Chapter 3 and now I'm hitting a big difficulty spike in Chapter 7, so it's not like doing all the sidequests in Ch3 just lets you one-shot every enemy for the rest of the game.
 

Seraphis Cain

bad gameplay lol
Waiting alone won't do it, you need to complete quests.

After a few you'll get a call from Cid to let you know it's ready.

Wait, so...theoretically, what if you don't do any of the weapon upgrade quests until you've completed every other quest? Would you just be locked out of completing them?
 
In chapter three how the hell do i
get to the waterfall lol, I'm just at the rest stop near the bridge....

If I remember correctly there are a set of stairs that lead down to the ground off of the bridge. I just finished that quest and had a great time with it, enjoy!


It's my first time hopping back into the series since XII, I feel like a lot of people got the feeling that this was a reboot done right and the Final Fantasy name apparently still holds a lot of weight.
 
I'll o out on a limb and say it will be exactly as it is now: some loving it and some hating it.

We've had enough people finish to see the divisive opinion stays.

I'm fairly certain I'm going to enjoy the majority of this game. Basing this on the fact that almost everyone I've seen who's finished and feels overly negative toward it states they felt this way from the start or very early in the game while, so far, far I've loved every minute.

On chapter 8 and abosolute love this game. The cutscene transition and story can be off at times yet it's able to follow enough but the soundtrack, characters,combat, exploration, and the story deliver via dialog and world exploration is all fucking sublime!
 

Zakalwe

Banned
Wait, so...theoretically, what if you don't do any of the weapon upgrade quests until you've completed every other quest? Would you just be locked out of completing them?

I may be wrong then, or it might not be limited to quests alone (like engaging in X battles and stuff), but I'm fairly sure waiting alone won't do it.

Please can someone correct me if wrong?
 

theofficefan99

Junior Member
I have a spoilery question. Obviously answer with spoilers but I just want THIS QUESTION ANSWERED NOTHING FURTHER.
Is the game Chapter 0-Chapter 14, or Chapter 0-Chapter 15? Please just respond with "14" or "15", nothing else.
 
The
first summon at the end of chapter 5
was pretty fucking crazy. Reminded me of
Anima
which is my favourite cutscene in any game ever.
 

Zakalwe

Banned
Thanks for the answer, I will do some quests to see if that trigger the call.

See above, I might be wrong but I spent far less actual in game time doing quests than 20 nights of rest so it seems correct.

I seem to recall the message from Cid being something like "go actively do shit and when you've done enough I'll call you".

On chapter 8 and abosolute love this game. The cutscene transition and story can be off at times yet it's able to follow enough but the soundtrack, characters,combat, exploration, and the story deliver via dialog and world exploration is all fucking sublime!

Agreed. Not been pulled in to an RPG like this since X. :)

God I wish there ways a menu for when you talk to cid...like when you go to a shop buy stuff

Amen. Upgrading weapons is really clunky.
 

ebil

Member
I wish I didn't feel rushed by the game. After just a few hunts appropriate for my level and a few side quests, and just the first two Royal Arms dungeons .. I am am level 22 and on chapter 3. Makes me sad.

I feel like if I want any kind of challenge I have to skip most side content and that's not what I want. I also don't want to nuke/one-shot everything.

No meeting halfway it seems.
That's not going to happen. Leveling up absolutely makes things easier but you won't be running around one-shotting everything. My party is level 70 with some endgame gear and I don't think I can even one-shot level 25 monsters.

(Unless you use a lot of magic, of course. It's very overpowered.)
 

Seraphis Cain

bad gameplay lol
Man, the transition between Ch. 7 and Ch. 8 was the most "wait, hold on...what am I doing now?" thing I've seen in a while. :lol It felt like I'd missed a cutscene or something.
 
The impact of leveling up seems rather low too, doesn't it? I feel like command of the combat is by far the most important thing along with high damage gear. What does leveling up even do? It increases HP and MP and if you take the according perks, it increased Vit and Magic by 1 per level or am I missing something? The game has no manual so I can only guess.
 

supergiz

Member
One of Prompto's best pic's yet. Just me and my chocobo :)

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Bladenic

Member
Ugh I hate missing conversations. Chapter 4
driving behind Ardyn, the crew were having cool convos. I even stopped near the entrance to the Disc to let the current convo end, and as I drive forward Prompto starts saying something but it's too late :(

Finally making some story progress at least.
 

Skulldead

Member
i was complaining how easy i find the game, because so far I got like 5-6 real challenge hunt top, with all my confident i've try coeurl Hunt level 34 whit 5 of them (this is a rank 3). I already beat around that level other hunt with little to no problem....

got destroy.... i mean.... it was impossible to do anything... i got obliterate, all my party was dying in a fraction of second. Tell me other hunt later are like that ? because it was amazing ! I can't wait to upgrade enough to try it again.
 

Bladenic

Member
i was complaining how easy i find the game, because so far I got like 5-6 real challenge hunt top, with all my confident i've try coeurl Hunt level 34 whit 5 of them (this is a rank 3). I already beat around that level other hunt with little to no problem....

got destroy.... i mean.... it was impossible to do anything... i got obliterate, all my party was dying in a fraction of second. Tell me other hunt later are like that ? because it was amazing ! I can't wait to upgrade enough to try it again.

Couerls are crazy strong. I can still barely take on one lmao. Blaster is just too strong, it's still an area wide party kill basically
 
Wow, I know this game had a troubled development cycle. There are elements of that found in this game, but then there is also just straight up shitty directing.

Spoilers for the end of chapter 1:

Is that all they could think of when delivering the details of the King's death and Insomnia getting destroyed? Noct has come across the great revelation that his home city is destroyed and his father is dead, and it's all delivered through a damn newspaper? Not only that, but it all just happens with everyone completely relaxed in some boring waiting room?

That is just super lazy storytelling, not only emotionally, but logically as well. In a world where everyone has access to smartphones and the internet, they learn of this grave news from a newspaper? That makes no sense at all. To add insult to injury, they patched in a jumbled mess of scenes from Kingsglaive, and they add absolutely nothing to that scene. It feels more like an in game advertisement for the movie.

I am trying REALLY hard to like this game, but stuff like that is just...indefensible.
 

antitrop

Member
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK

I have to do an entire dungeon over again and I was so happy that it was almost over

Over-leveled my ass, I got destroyed by the boss several levels below me. Not being able to save in dungeons is fucking bullshit.
 

Zakalwe

Banned
The impact of leveling up seems rather low too, doesn't it? I feel like command of the combat is by far the most important thing along with high damage gear. What does leveling up even do? It increases HP and MP and if you take the according perks, it increased Vit and Magic by 1 per level or am I missing something? The game has no manual so I can only guess.

It feeds you AP which you can use to unlock things like stat increases relevant to your level.

See the Stats tab of the Ascention menu.

You can activate these at any point and they'll boost you based on your current level and continue to boost from that point on each time you gain a new level.
 

Frostman

Member
Can anyone tell me whether FF 15's OST is in-game? So you can listen too it while driving around. I'm going to assume no.
 

Stiler

Member
Something is wrong if you are only level 9 after 8 hours. I was close to 20 by that time and by 16 hours I was 35 and I didn't even do tons of side missions.

Imo you probably skipped on a lot of side missions, just talk to more people do hunts thst are your level. The game tells you how much XP/Gil you get out of each mission/hunt...do the ones that will benefit you the most but also consider your own level. Also change your weapons and buy new ones....you can take down enemies that are 3 level above yours relatively comfortably.


If you are using the Royal Arm then that consumes health with each hit. You also need to dodge and defend more because most likely you aren't doing it often. Also parry and use techniques whenever you can.

The other thing you need to consider is that damage number and speed aren't the only characteristics of a weapon. A piercing weapon like Pole might do more damage against a certain enemy than a sword and etc etc so you need to experiment and figure it out. When you are fighting tough enemies it all comes down to doong bonus damage via techniques, blindside (hitting from back after dodge rolling behind them) or stunning them and then attacking them.

I am the type of player that explores and takes my sweet time.

I am still in the first area exploring all I can.

I am still at the point right before you hear about what happens with your dad and have to go back, before I talk to that guy I am just going around exploring, doing Dave's dog tag quests, did the dungeon far up north, etc.

Also another thing I am confused about, the driving. For some reason the "manual" option is grayed out during the day and I can only do that at night, is this how its meant to be? Surely you should be able to choose yourself if you want to drive during the day.
 

Aters

Member
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK

I have to do an entire dungeon over again and I was so happy that it was almost over

Over-leveled my ass, I got destroyed by the boss several levels below me. Not being able to save in dungeons is fucking bullshit.

Dat old school JRPG philosophy. I hope it's at least better than FFXII.
 

Kalentan

Member
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK

I have to do an entire dungeon over again and I was so happy that it was almost over

Over-leveled my ass, I got destroyed by the boss several levels below me. Not being able to save in dungeons is fucking bullshit.

You can't save in dungeons? That's really dumb. Makes it more artificially harder.
 

Smo21

Member
Hey is there a way to turn off the in world quest markers? It's already on the mini map I don't need the big explanation point on screen like this
 

antitrop

Member
Dat old school JRPG philosophy. I hope it's at least better than FFXII.

When was the last time a Final Fantasy game didn't have pre-boss save points? I can't remember the last time I've lost so much progress in an FF game, had to be one of the NES ones.
 

theofficefan99

Junior Member
I guess I should rephrase my question so someone answers it lol.

But I'm just saying, please answer my question as simply as possible.

What is the number of the last chapter of the game? Obv mark with spoilers so others aren't spoiled
 
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