Such a good OST. FF15's been decent so far, but man. I can still listen to "Blinded by Light" (ho ho ho ho) on repeat.
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Final Fantasy XV |OT| There and back again.
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Just finished the main game and wanted to give some preliminary thoughts.
Firstly, I'd like to call out Ray Down again for spoiling the ending of this game in this thread as a reply to someone's innocuous post about FFX-2. You wouldn't think reading a post about that game would involve spoiling this one but there you go.
Anyways, I thought the graphics, music, and presentation were all top-notch. I appreciated there was lots of incentivization in doing the side content as things like using the chocobo, exploring, fishing, etc. all resulted in experience in different areas. While the combat was somewhat inconsistent for me, I liked it more than I thought going in. It is relatively simple but there is still some depth, especially as you utilise more of the Ascension grid. The other qualm I have would be that there are less fantastical environments than some other FF games, but I get they were going for something different.
I'll write more spoilery thoughts later on. Hope everyone else is enjoying the game.
Firstly, I'd like to call out Ray Down again for spoiling the ending of this game in this thread as a reply to someone's innocuous post about FFX-2. You wouldn't think reading a post about that game would involve spoiling this one but there you go.
Anyways, I thought the graphics, music, and presentation were all top-notch. I appreciated there was lots of incentivization in doing the side content as things like using the chocobo, exploring, fishing, etc. all resulted in experience in different areas. While the combat was somewhat inconsistent for me, I liked it more than I thought going in. It is relatively simple but there is still some depth, especially as you utilise more of the Ascension grid. The other qualm I have would be that there are less fantastical environments than some other FF games, but I get they were going for something different.
I'll write more spoilery thoughts later on. Hope everyone else is enjoying the game.
Look! The Pie!
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Man, I'm getting wrecked in
I'm 5 levels above the recommended level but might have to come back later. I'm really enjoying how the dungeons in this game are an actual challenge, something that's been missing from the later entries in the series (sans FFXII, which had awesome dungeons IMO, and not counting the MMOs as I haven't played them).
Edit: Just found the unexpected
. Ahaha I love this fucking game.
Daurell Caverns. These Hecteyes and Necromancers are burning through my Elixirs like crazy.
Edit: Just found the unexpected
fishing spot
Oracle Ascension Coins can be traded later in Altissia. The rest I'm not sure, thogh the Debased ones can be crafted into Experience magic.
For Armriger Chain just press L1+R1 during the Armriger. It's rather buggy and the game sometimes won't allow you to use it. Try to stand still before.
NoctisVsStar
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That's the same one, I didn't resort to the summon tho that's why I kept getting rekt lol press L1+R1 before the armiger bar depletes
gray_fox224
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How on god's earth do you earn gil in this game?
Man these sidequests are so thoughtlessly designed.
Mind the Trap:
-It's a lvl 10 mission, but it asks you to fight two lvl 34 coeurls, the hardest enemy in the game and one I struggle to beat at lvl 39
-The mission premise is the guy can't deliver goods as traps are in the way, but in fact there is a main road to his destination, and the traps are in an irrelevant side-area to said road. Makes no sense at all.
-To find the traps you just wander around a mini-map circle with no indication at all of where they are.
The game wasn't playtested at all, was it?
Don't even get me started on the Coeurls. I've beaten at lvl 72 enemy at lvl 38, but three or more coeurls at lvl 30 is absolutely impossible for me even now. Horribly designed enemy.
Mind the Trap:
-It's a lvl 10 mission, but it asks you to fight two lvl 34 coeurls, the hardest enemy in the game and one I struggle to beat at lvl 39
-The mission premise is the guy can't deliver goods as traps are in the way, but in fact there is a main road to his destination, and the traps are in an irrelevant side-area to said road. Makes no sense at all.
-To find the traps you just wander around a mini-map circle with no indication at all of where they are.
The game wasn't playtested at all, was it?
Don't even get me started on the Coeurls. I've beaten at lvl 72 enemy at lvl 38, but three or more coeurls at lvl 30 is absolutely impossible for me even now. Horribly designed enemy.
Charlouie Jonesman
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Quests and selling treasure items.
Conkerkid11
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So... Does the story try and get the player to care about it at some point? Not that far into the game, but I'm
I just can't sympathize with any of the characters when the game can't be bothered to explain to me what's happening. And I'm also supposed to believe the empire put up this massive blockade, and there's just some road to the side of it with a flight of stairs and an entire route leading around it? The hell's going on in this game? All logic going out the window?
Why are they taking a car to Noctis' wedding in the first place? I was gonna ask if they don't have any airplanes or whatever in this universe, and now there's spaceships and shit.
Doesn't help that the English VA is terrible.
heading back to Crown City now.
Why are they taking a car to Noctis' wedding in the first place? I was gonna ask if they don't have any airplanes or whatever in this universe, and now there's spaceships and shit.
Doesn't help that the English VA is terrible.
Dusk Golem
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Edit: oops, wrong thread. XD;
Coeurls are shit I agree, but I didn't need to fight them there. That's definitely not part of the quest.
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
DELETED WRONG THREAD I'M SORRY
Edit: I'm really really sorry to anyone who read this before I took it down
Edit: I'm really really sorry to anyone who read this before I took it down
Ah, okay. It didn't matter anyways. I realized that coins give you Exp. on your magic casts, so I redid the fight without getting a summon. (The Shuriken ain't so disappointing after all) Now I guess im getting ready to get 250k+ exp o_o
Edit: Certainly not reading that post above mine, just in case...
The game explains very clearly what's happening.
Your kingdom got attacked. Your father got killed. You are trying to back and see what's going on.
They are taking the car because Lucis doesn't seem to have airships of their own. Niflheim is the only nation to have airships. Lucian citizens move by ground vehicles.
They are taking the car because Lucis doesn't seem to have airships of their own. Niflheim is the only nation to have airships. Lucian citizens move by ground vehicles.
Seraphis Cain
bad gameplay lol
Holy shit, Sol, this isn't the spoiler thread.
I hear there's an accessory that automatically does it for you. Are you currently wearing it?
Conkerkid11
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So long as that's all I'm supposed to understand, I guess that's fine. But I couldn't care less about Noctis being as angsty as he is right now, considering I don't know the context of any of this.
Fortinbras
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I thought I was crazy but a buddy noticed it too: Why is the Skyrim theme playing during a certain boss fight?
Edit:
https://youtu.be/RBUcBbPTXro?t=4m36s
Boss spoiler!
Edit:
https://youtu.be/RBUcBbPTXro?t=4m36s
Boss spoiler!
The game has narrative issues. This is not one of them, however.
You are the Prince of Lucis, you are on your way to your wedding with your best bros. Along the way you find out your nation has been attacked by the Empire of Niflheim, your father was killed. You go back and see what happened.
The context for this particular part of the story is actually very clear.
Oh well...How did you know about Versatel or whatever is name is since it's not in the game according to that awful spoilery post ? ;_;
Conkerkid11
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Sounds like Pirates of the Caribbean.
Thankfully I skimmed through it, and immediately decided it'd be advisable for me to not read it...
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
Where do I get that double up on exp? Not at the gas station right? I am about to pick up my repaired Regalia.
Well shit. Another interesting plot point to add on the wasted pile.
Lights and Waves
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Honestly the decision to make Kingsglaive into its own film really ruined this games storytelling. It really relies on you to watch that film to give a shit about half these characters.
YankeeDonB
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The quest you get when you enter is quite explicitly LV 50 though...
Goblins are just monsters that scale to your level, I believe. Why there aren't regular mobs that are like level 45 in that dungeon is he confusing bit.
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
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Robobandit
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Your quest log tells you the quest for that place is recommended lv 50.. now you know why
Sioul
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No, I just did that dungeon today. I'm level 60 and goblins are still at lvl 7. Also, damn carts.
Starting to understand that I'll never fully get the combat system.
Just fough the
and it was a mess. The lock on was ballshit crazy, couldn't see shit because the enemy was big, absolutely no telling on attacks and the worst of that, when I tried to run I instead attack the enemy because they share the same button.
Sometimes I enjoy the combat, sometimes it absolutely drive me nuts.
Just fough the
robot at Duscae¡s border
Sometimes I enjoy the combat, sometimes it absolutely drive me nuts.
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Lmao
Conkerkid11
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I haven't fought anything in hours. If the next 50 hours or whatever this game has going for it is going to stress walking/driving as much as this, I'm out.
Game kind of feels like an ad for the movie.
Honestly surprised there isn't some banner on the pause screen allowing you to click and purchase the movie from PSN.
Reminds me of Ratchet and Clank, but actually worse, because they just play random clips from the movie that don't fit in at all and don't really explain what's going on in them until sometime after they've already played.
Game kind of feels like an ad for the movie.
Honestly surprised there isn't some banner on the pause screen allowing you to click and purchase the movie from PSN.
PshycoNinja
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Thank you all for playing! Glad the ending is getting near universal praise on here.
only whatever you got since your last save
GwyndolinCinder
Member
The best is when youve done the walk, drive,pick up hunt, walk, drive,chocobo dash, arrive at location..... immediately here summon music!
Like do you want me to play game or nah
I think that
it only hit me how insanely massive of a 1:1 world the Leide/Duscae/Cleigne regions are when doing the
dungeon, getting to a high vantage point and seeing
off in the distance practically on the horizon.
Especially coming off XIII with its plethora of scale issues.
2nd half blue-balls aside, versus world map, yadda yadda
Rock of Ravatogh
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Especially coming off XIII with its plethora of scale issues.
So I'm at chapter 10 and well, obviously that is the rest of the world map. I don't understand how that's all they managed to create in those 3-4 years...
Their engine must be more complicated to work with than I thought.
I agree that the world is big and feels big though
It's just so empty and with large inaccessible areas on top of that.
Their engine must be more complicated to work with than I thought.
I agree that the world is big and feels big though
It's just so empty and with large inaccessible areas on top of that.
Conkerkid11
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Not enjoying combat against ranged units. I feel like they've all got some damage aura around them or something. Fought some level 17 giant mechs, and just took arbitrary damage over time for being near them without them needing to even shoot at me.
Like if Dark Souls threw some dudes at you with machine guns. Was enjoying reading the attacks of enemies and dodging parrying, being able to take no damage during a fight.
This is a mess though.
Like if Dark Souls threw some dudes at you with machine guns. Was enjoying reading the attacks of enemies and dodging parrying, being able to take no damage during a fight.
This is a mess though.
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