You can craft magic, in combination with Rare Coins and a few other items, as "Experimagic", which gives additional XP when you cast (I believe per cast, though I'm not sure). It's fairly significant.
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Final Fantasy XV |OT| There and back again.
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MissCauthon
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Bah figures, i had 0 on me. Thank you.
Android18a
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Protip: Carry a few Repair Kits with you at all times, you never know when you'll come across someone broken down on the map and you'll make easy-easy-easy EXP and cash from it.
GwyndolinCinder
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Er tag your spoilers guys, you gonna make someone lose their shit with an actual spoiler.
Disagree Guy
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I mentioned this yesterday and got shot down like 'well you shouldn't be here if you don't wanna get spoiled'
Nothing that's just what happens sometimes. Only against Daemons so far though for me. It is kinda neat
I've been trying to go into this game mostly blind to avoid spoilers, and am avoiding reading much of this thread to limit spoilers, but can anyone answer these questions?
1) Does the combat get more complex and interesting as you go? Currently at Chapter 2 it's a little too simple for my taste, though I imagine there are more mechanics that unlock as you go (outside of the abilities in the skill tree).
2) Are there any buildings or indoor areas in the game outside of dungeons? So far it feels like MGSV in that it's mostly a few small buildings with no larger structures (such as a military base or whatever)
3) Do the areas get more fantastical as the game progresses or do they remain mostly realistic throughout?
1) Does the combat get more complex and interesting as you go? Currently at Chapter 2 it's a little too simple for my taste, though I imagine there are more mechanics that unlock as you go (outside of the abilities in the skill tree).
2) Are there any buildings or indoor areas in the game outside of dungeons? So far it feels like MGSV in that it's mostly a few small buildings with no larger structures (such as a military base or whatever)
3) Do the areas get more fantastical as the game progresses or do they remain mostly realistic throughout?
Aztechnology
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That was preemptive of me too. Like after 15 minutes. I thought maybe he'd settle into the voice as it went on. Nope. It only got worse. I just don't get it, seems like if he just talked normally like the other characters he would be fine. He's forcing something unnatural, just like I feel ignis is in the game (switched to Japanese now that I've finished the first chapter). It just grates on me.
toastyToast
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After doing that sidequest where you need to disarm the bear traps, if I see anyone complain about games having detective vision I'm slapping the shit out of them
Tag the spoiler wtf man!?
It's probably also due to the fact that the rewards for exploring and the exploration itself is very good that it feels worth it. You have areas and dungeons spread across that you could completely miss but if you take your time to explore and go through them you get rewarded appropriately rather than just XP or a minor item.
GwyndolinCinder
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Well that's because people are just talking about basic already know events from kingsglaive, reveal trailers etc. what's tagged above is a genuine spoiler.I mentioned this yesterday and got shot down like 'well you shouldn't be here if you don't wanna get spoiled'
Sgt. Kabukiman
Banned
Chapter 6 spoilers:
What was up with that CG dream cutscene? It was really jarring all of a sudden even though it looked quite beautiful. I know it's not from Kingsglaive like the intro stuff so are there actually other CG cutscenes in the game?
I thought the same for 5 minutes then I realised that it's much easier to see them and very obvious when it's dusk or dawn due to the lighting. Noon time it's very difficult to see as they blend in with the shadows and night...well you can't see shit St night anyways.
I didn't mind it at all.
There are 1-2 more apart from that.
Not really, its fun though but not really complex
Well you mean like a house? yes there are a few buildings you can enter.
There are also a few dungeons that wont look like a cave if thats your question. A big strength of the game is the variety in dungeons it has and each one feels unique.
EDIT: I totally forgot a part of the game which you could consider "indoor"
I think that one will please you.Well I remember one moment in a dungeon which gave me goosebumps. Dont want to spoil more but it was pretty fantastical to me while staying somewhat realistic (not really physically possible though)
Imp the Dimp
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The ending of chapter 5 might be the most miserable attempt at tragedy I've ever seen in a video game beating even disc 1 ending of Lost Odyssey. Laughable really.
orthodoxy1095
Banned
Chapter 9's ending.
Well that was a thing.
Well that was a thing.
I think the way they continue to act like that tragedy is something to be "avenged" is even worse.
Relaxed Muscle
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You gonna have to explain that one, there's nothing innovative about how the open world is designed that wasn't done 100 times before.
Is basically "My first open world" design, that companies already had to deal with.
For me an open world has to be, not only beautiful, but fun to explore and traverse with a compelling world that surrounds it. XV is just beautiful, it falls short in any other aspect for me.
XANDER CAGE
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I've hit a point where every quest objective is a 5+ minute "drive" away and seeing as how I appear to have run out of conversations for the crew to have this is becoming deathly boring. The game might as well have a "check your phone" tooltip
So this glitch just happened to me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nda7uZ2T5r0
I'm not even mad. I wanted to learn that enemy's moveset anyways.
If it's not a new location, you can just fast travel to the nearest outpost/parking point. You can also fast travel to some side content markers like hunts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nda7uZ2T5r0
I'm not even mad. I wanted to learn that enemy's moveset anyways.
If it's not a new location, you can just fast travel to the nearest outpost/parking point. You can also fast travel to some side content markers like hunts.
guybrushfreeman
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Are there even that many conversations to begin with? My hours of driving around have been almost totally silent. It was little disappointing really
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or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
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Relaxed Muscle
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Seems, that some chapters adds a few, but not as much as I hoped for.
orthodoxy1095
Banned
I'm kind of laughing how the AI is failing here in Chapter 10.
I walked ahead of Iggy too far, so Gladio made some bitch-ass smarmy remark telling me to wait for him. Okay, fine. But I look behind me and Gladio is like a mile behind the three of us and I'm merely like fifteen feet in front of him lol.
Man Gladio has gone to shit in these last ten minutes.
Man Gladio has gone to shit in these last ten minutes.
Disagree Guy
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I use those opportunities to contemplate what the hell I am doing with my life while listening to beautiful Sakaguchi era FF soundtracks
Yeah, I've gotten to that point as well.
It gets immensely tiring. Especially when you also consider that the side quests don't even offer any interesting dialogue at all. The same NPCs are like "I have another task for you to do!"
By the later quests Noctis doesn't even respond with an okay, you just go off to do it...
Man Lightning Returns had more effort put into the side quests than this!
Vincent Grayson
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Between the driving sections that make the world feel much larger, and the design that guides the gameplay (the rhythm of food, exploration/questing/combat, and ending the days by resting), the compelling day/night cycle and how it affects gameplay, and all the little touches that come together as a group of characters move around the world, I feel like it's doing a lot that most open world games don't.
It feels fresh and exciting to me in a way open world hasn't for a very long time.
Good Guy Gone Bad
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I mentally blocked out all scenes with him in it. It was a very poor performance considering how well some of the other voice work was. Very jarring.
XANDER CAGE
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The size is definitely impressive - more than any other open world game I've played recently, the scale feels realistic - but I'm starting to find that to be a detriment.
guybrushfreeman
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I love the classic FF soundtracks for the car. It was a great idea, however the fact the game doesn't have it's own unique driving theme is also really disappointing. It would be great to have a theme or melody to associate with the games road tripping considering it's such a major element.
orthodoxy1095
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As much as I tend to not like the so called "Ubisoft maps," XV is actually showing the exact reason why most open world maps are so densely packed.
Hentailover
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It's things like these that make me realize how different my prespective is on open world games. I actually like long boring travel, and I get annoyed when game throws too many "things to do (C)" on my way.
Artificially riddled with activities maps reek of fakeness to me, I like my concentrated detail to be concentrated within places where it makes sense, like towns.
My favorite rockstar game is RDR, where most of the time you just trott along the empty area.
And I don't use fast travel in Open World games anymore. I like having to think realistically about quests, not just" well I teleport across the world, get it done, and tp back". I like when actual distance of the world, and maybe even annoying to traverse terrain on the way are part of my experience and something I have to consider and plan around...
And I understand that I am the weirdo here, and as a result can be easily pleased with pretty looking empty sandboxes >_>
Disagree Guy
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Imagine if you knew someone who spoke like him in real life?
He'd stick out like a sore thumb. That should be the benchmark of voice over work - could this person exist in the real world if that is the intended art style.
yes.
guybrushfreeman
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Sometimes I feel it's in a weird middle place. Too big to explore freely but then when you need to get somewhere it ends up being too far away. Sometimes I'm spending more time on travel then activities (up to 5 minutes drive, 1 minute fight/pick up object, warp back).
GwyndolinCinder
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Yup literally doing that most times I reply to a post, trying to grind hunt levels is so frustrating
orthodoxy1095
Banned
I think this is actually the issue.
Game has a massive scale to the map, great. But if you're going to have large scale to your maps, the quests need to be appropriately scaled too. It shouldn't be taking me 30 seconds to five minutes to complete a quest that it took me seven minutes to drive to. It's like they took the open-world map of most games, increased it by a scale of two, but then left all the same kind of goofy-ass short quests that fit better on a city-scale map than this one.
toastyToast
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Seriously? lmao
Reminds me of Stan from season 2 of True Detective.
Tangentially it took me a full minute to remember that True Detective was called True Detective. Somehow the name Stan came to me instantly though
XANDER CAGE
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Yeah, exactly - although that being said, I feel like the massive scale here wouldn't be as big a deal if you had true manual control over the car (which would be more engaging) or if it at least went faster. Seriously, Ignis, nobody follows the speed limit on desert highways!
Nah, I understand what you're getting at - I love the scale of the world on paper, and I love big worlds in games, but long travel needs something to stay engaging. A five minute or more drive to a quest objective would be no problem in a game with, I dunno, a fun driving system, or a robust survival system, or any other number of things. Long journeys aren't a problem if they feel like they're still part of the game, it's just that there's a whole lot of absolute nothing going on in FFXV's road trips.
Like, I'm the kind of guy who turns off quest markers and never uses fast travel in most RPGs, but this aspect of FFXV is boring me to tears.
GTR R35_Supra RZ
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Menu beat is soo, soo gud. My 8.1 surround sound approves!
Question, can "Stand By Me" be purchased in any of the shops?
Question, can "Stand By Me" be purchased in any of the shops?
orthodoxy1095
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Absolutely true. It's not great design that the traversal system feels so boring that I might as well let the game take auto control and post on GAF while I wait to get to an objective.
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