So let down with the choice of outfits. Loving everything else about the game but I'm not sure why they bothered even letting you change them if they weren't going to put in a decent variety.
Only 4 outfits (8 I guess if you count the no jacket ones) I've heard. Outside of the Deluxe DLC one and the Yakuza style jacket you have to buy a physical jacket to get.
'Obtain a Lucian tomato'. So I go to the shop and buy one.
Return to the quest guy, but it's saying I didn't buy one. Return to the shop and buy another. Nothing. Buy another. Nothing. What the FUCK is going on.
And why can't I manually drive the car during the day? And why does my 'friend' Ignis charge me money to drive?
Jesus Christ dude. Not for nothing: I didn't have to buy a tomato (I actually explored the world and had enough to complete multiple stages of Takka's quest line), you can't drive during the day because - surprise - you haven't progressed far enough in the story (Ignis says as much the first time you get the car) and the game is disincentivizing just fast traveling everywhere (you know, the reason you don't have the tomato's).
So, there's a lot to love with this game. But the side quests are really bad. I just did a couple more and they were barely even quests. Just run from A to B to C and back.
It sucks because I don't want to do any more of them, but the next main quest is lvl 19 and I'm only lvl 14. I really don't know what to do but forcing myself to do more of them is going to really sour me on the game.
If you have to watch the movie to make sense of this game, then that is a failure of epic proportions. That is a stunning, shocking failure of storytelling.
The fact that I did in fact watch that movie changes nothing, imo.
I just started chapter 13. Desperate, spoilery question:
I just escaped the train and drove into the city. Will I get another opportunity to get back to Lucis (through Umbra, I presume)? I used up pretty much all my healing items in the fight with Deathclaw. Hardly any gil left either. I need to go do some hunts, but the game keeps pushing me towards what seems to be the finale.
Well this game is incredible. So much to do lore to gather from the environment. So much exploration. I've been playing for 9 hours and still in chapter 1. I'm doing the scraps of mystery right now.
-Ignis yelling IVE GOT IT at random moments and freaking everyone out is hilarious every time.
- Prompto pictures is an awesome feature, I like it better than I thought I would.
- Takka is a weirdo.
- Listening to the FFIV soundtrack (my first FF) and driving around in FFXV was emotional.
I have no idea how people are so far, this game is going to take me forever to get through, I'm gonna be spending like a dozen hours in every chapter.
But I also don't understand the mindset of people who complain about games and that's like everyone. Games are just fun to me, all of them.
So I think Amazon fucked up the road trip dlc, because I got 4 sets of codes. I'll redeem 1 set when I get home and then probably give away the others here. And yeah I know you get three codes, I got four sets of three codes....
And yes, all of those emails have codes, and they all look different except for one of them.
So yeah... none of my 4 sets of code work... So I have no codes.. lol I have to email amazon and see whats up I'm sorry to everyone who wanted a code set.
Just finished Chapter 1. Man, this game is aggressively terrible in almost every way so far.
First of all, the story. Jesus Christ they fucked the pooch here. It makes no sense, and the presentation is all wrong. So... (Ch 1 ending spoilers)
The empire attacks during the treaty signing that we've heard almost nothing about (not enough context or worldbuilding at all), and we get these epic fucking cuts from Kingsglaive that are way out of place. It's like something from a different game. Then we cut to the morning... and the guys find out about this thing that happened literally two miles away - a literally apocalypic battle in their backyard... and they find out about it from the morning newspaper?!? Even if they couldn't hear it, if there was no ruckus outside... this is in a world with smartphones?!? So there's no way to make the reaction scene to this normal, and they don't.
But what do they do next. Call someone, right? No. They drive to the city, sneak up to a hill (where you can't see shit, was majorly disappointed), and once they've seen that the city is indeed fucked... they bust out the smartphones and start dialling!
Not only that, but this fucking Noct kid communicates with Luna through a book... delivered by a fucking DOG! I thought this was supposed to be a fantasy based in reality! Luna is just introduced in this random-ass cutscene walking down the road... there's no context at all. And after all of this action... you're sent back to wandering in the desert.
I absolutely couldn't have imagined how bad this would be. It's Frankenstein's monster, but the head is on the end of one leg and its cock is where its head should be.
That's just the story. The combat is messy and hard to read. Lock on is inconsistent. It all feels too loose for me... like you're not truly controlling the flow of the fight.
As for interacting with things, usually I have to press X two or three times before it will go through. The game just feels sloppy that way. Framerate is terrible, visuals are dull and inconsistent.
And as for the open world, it's awful so far. There's nothing interesting out there, it's just a bland desert. XCX is leagues ahead of this, but so is FF14. If there was anything interesting you don't really have enough camera control to enjoy it anyway. What's worse, though, is that you aren't given the tools to move through this huge world so you end up just running through the desert for blocks of 3-5 minutes at a time.
Why can't I drive the car manually? Why do none of the 'return to car' features ever work? Why is the map so inconsistent with when and where it shows markers? Why is there sometimes a marker out in the desert that signifies nothing and can't be interacted with?
I'm still not giving up, but it couldn't be going worse right now. There is not one single thing I could point to and say 'this game does this well'. Fuck, man... I spent 70 euros on this.
The story in this feels like you're walking into an in-progress conversation. The only reason I have even the slightest idea of some of the terms thrown about is from following the game over the years. I don't know why couldn't have some brief time in the beginning spending time in Insomnia and having the world of the game established.
Gonna spoiler everything out of safety. Chapter 1 spoilers:
Dude... he has a cellphone. And yet to communicate with his finance he has to write in a diary and get a dog... to deliver it... to wherever in the world Luna is... and this dog is able to find her and get it to her, and she can send it back...
Sorry, that's fucking tripe. That's codswallop placed in there for some bizarre sentimental reason.
The road to the city is less than two miles away! You drive there right after that cutscene. There is no way 20-storey demons could be rampaging about and they'd have no idea.
And the idea that no one would call Noct as it was happening is absurd, too. Shit, everyone in the hotel would be freaking out, the hotel would probably sound an alarm etc etc. War has broken out, people!
How is the Xbox One version? I have the PS4 version, but my Wife has a Xbox One in the living room and she is thinking of getting it, but have not heard how it runs/resolution etc.
I just started chapter 13. Desperate, spoilery question:
I just escaped the train and drove into the city. Will I get another opportunity to get back to Lucis (through Umbra, I presume)? I used up pretty much all my healing items in the fight with Deathclaw. Hardly any gil left either. I need to go do some hunts, but the game keeps pushing me towards what seems to be the finale.
Yeah the Tomato quest has to be glitched or something. I bought the tomato and the game wouldn't let me give it to Takka. And then the "give Takka the materials he asked for" message appeared minutes after and I was allowed to complete it.
The story in this feels like you're walking into an in-progress conversation. The only reason I have even the slightest idea of some of the terms thrown about is from following the game over the years. I don't know why couldn't have some brief time in the beginning spending time in Insomnia and having the world of the game established.
Perfect way to describe it and honestly I have no effing clue how they didn't do that. Would have been the simplest thing to add, you know, establish some backstory, but instead we get absolutely nothing.
So yeah... none of my 4 sets of code work... So I have no codes.. lol I have to email amazon and see whats up I'm sorry to everyone who wanted a code set.
I got a code for the NA version of the game (redeemed with a US PSN account) in a twitch giveaway.
Does anyone know if the NA version has french voice and/or subtitles ? (I want to share it with my sister who doesn't speak English fluently :] ).
I got a code for the NA version of the game (redeemed with a US PSN account) in a twitch giveaway.
Does anyone know if the NA version has french voice and/or subtitles ? (I want to share it with my sister who doesn't speak English fluently :] ).
It's people just shoved the disc into their PS4's (after first jamming it into their Wii U's and raging about why their discs didn't work) and ignored EVERYTHING that the game told them.
So yeah... none of my 4 sets of code work... So I have no codes.. lol I have to email amazon and see whats up I'm sorry to everyone who wanted a code set.
Keep playing the game. Or gnash your teeth and trade in the game because you haven't been showered in outfits in the first hour of playing.
It's people just shoved the disc into their PS4's (after first jamming it into their Wii U's and raging about why their discs didn't work) and ignored EVERYTHING that the game told them.
