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Final Fantasy XV |OT| There and back again.
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Kwansu Dudes
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Man, going from the epic Harry Gregson-Williams esque music to the menu prelude is a total mood killer haha
Ahh, okay. Have fun!
DirgeExtinction
Member
It's odd they didn't do that, but they seem to have done a collab with the CW's Arrowverse.
Or at least done commercials promoting both.
professa_k
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i been wondering
did you find multiple frogs in vesperwoods? or if they are not exclusive to vesperwood, and could be all over the world's watery areas, which includes dungeons as well.. .
Via Purifico
Banned
Better yet *reaches town* "oh wow they have cup noodle outside Insomnia? yes!" 😂😂
ivanthebearable
Member
Oh dang I didn't even see those nodes. That helps a ton! Thank you!
Lion Heart
Banned
I was going to bed after a YouTube sesh and as I am closing the browser I see a thumbnail titled FF15 ending....just fml.
DarkLordMalik
Member
Hahaha, TBH some people would consider it a blessing than a bug
Kenzodielocke
Banned
Can I sell every valuable?
Via Purifico
Banned
I wouldn't recommend it as some of those go for upgrades for your weapons.
I had to play one hour more. So I can see where the combat system is going and I think I'm ultimately going to enjoy it, but it feels chaotic in group encounters this early. It's easy to get distracted or turned around from the enemy you were attacking. Feels like the encounters get away from me quickly and I end up whaling away on whatever's closest.
But in my fumbling around, I got an accurate bit of dialogue...
Promto: "That was embarrassing"
Noctis: "I know"
But in my fumbling around, I got an accurate bit of dialogue...
Promto: "That was embarrassing"
Noctis: "I know"
minameissteve
Banned
His mannerisms in front of Prompto had me laughing. I'm loving Ardyn so far.
The Sum of Zero
Member
Been dodging tornadoes all night but I finally got home to it.
Kenzodielocke
Banned
Ah okay, will keep them for now then.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I came into this game blind and I'm cracking up at the product placement.
Just played for a good 7 1/2 hours straight.
Thoughts:
Characters:
Gosh I fucking love Prompto he is a national treasure.
Noctis when he actually talks is a very good character, funny, cocky, a bit of a asshole, immature, great.
Ignis and Glad is okay.they haven't shined yet for me.
Story:
The fact they keep throwing Kingsglaive scenes into the game just shows how much a cash in the movie is. It now makes sense why they removed the attack on Lucius portions of the game we saw in early previews, they scrapped it in favor for Kingsglaive. That was an extremely bad decision. They took out one of the coolest looking scenes in favor for a bad movie that didn't even do a good job explaining it's story.
So far there is so much backstory that needs to be explained and so many cool things they could have done but didn't. It's just disappointing how much they scrapped from this game. (So far from what I've seen.)
World:
It does some things right and a lot of things wrong. It's step up from Lightning Returns, and I keep comparing the Overworld to what Xenoblade Chronicles X should had been.( But I mean that in the bare minimum sense.)
The amount of fetch quests are boring, the world is too huge with very little things worth exploring. I actually don't want to bother exploring ever since Chapter 3 because I feel like I won't find anything useful. The parts of the world with great areas to explore and great quests to take are too far from in-between. Again I feel like we got the bare minimum, but it's an acceptable level and I'll respect it for that, it's a beautiful world on every level and that shouldn't be ignored.
Combat:
I love everything, no complaints. Really nothing, if I do have a complaint is that I haven't mastered the combat yet. HOWEVER...
EXP/AP
Just no. Everything about this rubs me the wrong way, I hate having to go to camps, the game essentially forces you to spend time eating/getting the exp boost to even progress nicely in the game. It's choosing between a long path or a much harder medium long path. While AP is easy to farm I feel like a majority of it's skills should have been learned via level up or simply there from the start (I have to spend 99 AP in order to have my Str stat to increase according to my level? WTF?) I feel like I'm stuck choosing between hotels and camps, I wish the two could just be combined into one. Why must we separate the two?
Overall:
This game has had some very weird decisions made for it which in my opinion were pretty bad and sets the game back.
But the characters are fun, the combat is great, and there are a lot of things I actually care to collect and farm for such as music and car cosmetics. But I cannot excuse the how messy the story is right now, if I could easily explain the mess the story is in it's basically Final Fantasy 12 kingdom conflict meets 13 lack of explanation/lack of potential. I'm only in mid chapter 3 and still have a lot of things to explore and do, but overall this game is sitting at a solid 8.7/10 right now and there is probably nothing that the game can do to increase that number, only decrease it. The game is a step up from Final Fantasy 13 and has a love for the fans. But the game NEEDED another year in order to reach perfection. (Assuming they filled in the holes in the story, added a ton of quality of life improvements, and filled the empty space of the world with more content.)
Thoughts:
Characters:
Gosh I fucking love Prompto he is a national treasure.
Noctis when he actually talks is a very good character, funny, cocky, a bit of a asshole, immature, great.
Ignis and Glad is okay.they haven't shined yet for me.
Story:
The fact they keep throwing Kingsglaive scenes into the game just shows how much a cash in the movie is. It now makes sense why they removed the attack on Lucius portions of the game we saw in early previews, they scrapped it in favor for Kingsglaive. That was an extremely bad decision. They took out one of the coolest looking scenes in favor for a bad movie that didn't even do a good job explaining it's story.
So far there is so much backstory that needs to be explained and so many cool things they could have done but didn't. It's just disappointing how much they scrapped from this game. (So far from what I've seen.)
World:
It does some things right and a lot of things wrong. It's step up from Lightning Returns, and I keep comparing the Overworld to what Xenoblade Chronicles X should had been.( But I mean that in the bare minimum sense.)
The amount of fetch quests are boring, the world is too huge with very little things worth exploring. I actually don't want to bother exploring ever since Chapter 3 because I feel like I won't find anything useful. The parts of the world with great areas to explore and great quests to take are too far from in-between. Again I feel like we got the bare minimum, but it's an acceptable level and I'll respect it for that, it's a beautiful world on every level and that shouldn't be ignored.
Combat:
I love everything, no complaints. Really nothing, if I do have a complaint is that I haven't mastered the combat yet. HOWEVER...
EXP/AP
Just no. Everything about this rubs me the wrong way, I hate having to go to camps, the game essentially forces you to spend time eating/getting the exp boost to even progress nicely in the game. It's choosing between a long path or a much harder medium long path. While AP is easy to farm I feel like a majority of it's skills should have been learned via level up or simply there from the start (I have to spend 99 AP in order to have my Str stat to increase according to my level? WTF?) I feel like I'm stuck choosing between hotels and camps, I wish the two could just be combined into one. Why must we separate the two?
Overall:
This game has had some very weird decisions made for it which in my opinion were pretty bad and sets the game back.
But the characters are fun, the combat is great, and there are a lot of things I actually care to collect and farm for such as music and car cosmetics. But I cannot excuse the how messy the story is right now, if I could easily explain the mess the story is in it's basically Final Fantasy 12 kingdom conflict meets 13 lack of explanation/lack of potential. I'm only in mid chapter 3 and still have a lot of things to explore and do, but overall this game is sitting at a solid 8.7/10 right now and there is probably nothing that the game can do to increase that number, only decrease it. The game is a step up from Final Fantasy 13 and has a love for the fans. But the game NEEDED another year in order to reach perfection. (Assuming they filled in the holes in the story, added a ton of quality of life improvements, and filled the empty space of the world with more content.)
DarkLordMalik
Member
Keep atleast one of them.
I'm loving the combat, despite being really animation heavy, once I starting to learn the mechanics of blocking, using my friend's abilities and attacking things are going pretty smooth with the bounties. Compared to say Witcher 3 where the animations took away from the fun of it especially in group fights, this is a lot less frustrating even if the targeting is wonky in large fights
I actually don't mind him lol, I also want those sweet pics. I haven't seen anybody else has this bug so I'm unsure of what to do.Hahaha, TBH some people would consider it a blessing than a bug
I have a question for Wait Mode users; when I am locked on to an enemy and I enter into wait mode, is there a way to actually disengage the lock on so I can actually move my camera freely? Being able to disengage lock on to turn the camera to a warp point would be such a QoL godsend for me.
Seven Force
Banned
Rounding the road into Galdin Quay with Fisherman's Horizon playing is an FF experience I didn't know I wanted until it happened by chance.
ChosenPredator
Banned
I have an unhealthy obsession of doing everything else before touching my main quest stuff, i need to stop doing that
on a side note haven't played final fantasy in years (since the one with the dude name tidus) this is my fav final fantasy of all time so far.
on a side note haven't played final fantasy in years (since the one with the dude name tidus) this is my fav final fantasy of all time so far.
brandonh83
Banned
I think the VA is very good by FF standards.
As I predicted Cindy is pretty awful though from her design to her amusingly thick southern accent. Could have just did without her altogether, though hardly some major issue. Everything about her is just incredibly forced.
As I predicted Cindy is pretty awful though from her design to her amusingly thick southern accent. Could have just did without her altogether, though hardly some major issue. Everything about her is just incredibly forced.
Schadenfreude
Member
Thanks, man. I was having trouble with this one too.
Brian_FETO
Banned
I've been listening to the FF7 channel
The first time the battle music kicked in I, for a split second, thought I was entering a battle. Lol
The radio is such a cool feature
The first time the battle music kicked in I, for a split second, thought I was entering a battle. Lol
The radio is such a cool feature
This annoys me too lol
especially because she's not really all that important to the story or the world. its just an NPC that could have been replaced by cid entirely to fix the car
FF8 Blue fields and FF4 main theme work so well for general driving too.
n0razi
Member
Level 5 and the parrying stuff makes no sense to me...
- Why does it seem like the BLOCK! prompt shows up randomly? Sometimes it flashes before I get attacked and not others
- When BLOCK pops up, am I supposed to hit Block as the prompt shows up or anytime during the prompt? Am I supposed to press it once, rapidly, or hold it?
- Is there any reason to hold block rather than going for a Parry or Dodging?
- There is an upgrade that lets you parry for no MP loss with correct timing. Does the timing on that differ than the timing of a normal parry?
Basically, how the hell do you fight in this game lol?
- Why does it seem like the BLOCK! prompt shows up randomly? Sometimes it flashes before I get attacked and not others
- When BLOCK pops up, am I supposed to hit Block as the prompt shows up or anytime during the prompt? Am I supposed to press it once, rapidly, or hold it?
- Is there any reason to hold block rather than going for a Parry or Dodging?
- There is an upgrade that lets you parry for no MP loss with correct timing. Does the timing on that differ than the timing of a normal parry?
Basically, how the hell do you fight in this game lol?
So there are no missable side quests right? Guide didn't mention missable side quests but just making sure.
Looking at the guide I missed a Tour with Promto even though I did set up camp at the required one. Weird. Hope those aren't missable.
The Block/Parry is for specific attacks that each enemy has, not just any attack. And the No MP upgrade is related to the Warp dodge. The dodge and block are different things. You can just hold down the button to dodge at any time (so long as you're not stuck in an attack or whatever) and that upgrade requires actual timing for no MP loss.
As for block, I just hold the button down, same as dodge. Works for me.
Looking at the guide I missed a Tour with Promto even though I did set up camp at the required one. Weird. Hope those aren't missable.
The Block/Parry is for specific attacks that each enemy has, not just any attack. And the No MP upgrade is related to the Warp dodge. The dodge and block are different things. You can just hold down the button to dodge at any time (so long as you're not stuck in an attack or whatever) and that upgrade requires actual timing for no MP loss.
As for block, I just hold the button down, same as dodge. Works for me.
brandonh83
Banned
I'm from Kentucky and have a southern accent myself, and hers is just insane. Yeah, I've heard people with thick accents like that so it isn't unrealistic per se, but they went with the absolute thickest accent for her.
I agree, the Voice Acting is very good. A huge step up from most Japanese voice acted games (which usually have anime voice actors who tend to be a little more cartoony.) This game strikes a nice balance between realism and fantasy in it's voice acting.I have to give them props for having such a large spectrum of accents, even though some of them are stereotypical it's still entertaining.
Shout out to Noctis voice actor stepping up his game since early Duscae demo voice lines. Absolute perfection, he nailed it in the end.
Well I love this, and it's going to be the first FF I beat (but not the last, I'm going to finally go back and finish the ones I've tried my hand at before after this).
I suck at combat since I feel like I don't know how to move the left stick properly to a) consistently hit enemies without flying by and b) make effective combos, but other than that I adore it. 4.5 hours in, just hit chapter 3. Can't wait to dive back in tomorrow.
I suck at combat since I feel like I don't know how to move the left stick properly to a) consistently hit enemies without flying by and b) make effective combos, but other than that I adore it. 4.5 hours in, just hit chapter 3. Can't wait to dive back in tomorrow.
It's a 0 out of 10 if Crazy Chocobo isn't in the game though.
brandonh83
Banned
Episode Duscae was my last hands on with the game, and the improvements in every single facet are absolutely ridiculous.
to be fair, all these guys are supposed to be super exaggerated based on media though. Ignis is super british, Gladio is super macho and his voice doesn't even sound much like a normal person ect
I really love the dub to this game, dont even care about the japanese dub heh
I think hers is more "as hella Texas as you can FUCKING get, lady."
i haven't actually checked the camera settings because I keep forgetting but the most problematic for me is that the camera doesn't adjust to behind Noct as you do Left Trigger+Attack moves. Pretty awkward.
Incendiary
Banned
Finished the first chapter tonight and I'm really loving the game so far. Prompto is the best by far - I get non-stop giggles from ordering him to take pictures in the middle of battle and him doing stylish dodge rolls just to snap a bad photo of a tree. It's great.
Also I'm never going to fast travel anywhere because I love just being able to cruise to old Final Fantasy tunes.
Still haven't gotten the hang of combat, but I'm doing alright enough I think. Very fun, and I'm already way more engaged in this than I ever was for FFXIII. Good show.
Also I'm never going to fast travel anywhere because I love just being able to cruise to old Final Fantasy tunes.
Still haven't gotten the hang of combat, but I'm doing alright enough I think. Very fun, and I'm already way more engaged in this than I ever was for FFXIII. Good show.
One quibble, the reporter dude was horrible. The rest have been quite fine, bros are doing a good job.
Square2015
Member
So at the midnight launch last night only 35 people were in line at my gamestop. There were just 100 pre-orders that's the same as the FFX|X-2 HD (which bombed) a few years ago.
I'm concerned FFXV may not break 1m in its debut week here in North America (it won't in Japan, may do half), that would be a tragedy and not bode well for overall sales.
I'm concerned FFXV may not break 1m in its debut week here in North America (it won't in Japan, may do half), that would be a tragedy and not bode well for overall sales.
DarkLordMalik
Member
Nice to see you here Ishida. Can't wait to hear your thoughts on the endingI'm 11 hours in, and I haven't even reached Lestallum yet.
This game is so addictive!
It is VERY good!
Midnight launches are a thing of the past with digital. I wouldn't worry much about it.
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