I have no Idea how I survived those bombs when I did.
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Final Fantasy XV |OT2| For Jared!
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I have no Idea how I survived those bombs when I did.
Son Of Sparda
Member
I ask once more, which sealed dungeons are you guys talking about with the whole
thing?
Thus far, I've cleared two and they were just
Bloody Palace
Thus far, I've cleared two and they were just
full of empty rooms.
The full/trailer version is amazing as well. I don't want to think about how many times I've listened to it by now...
RedlineRonin
Member
I've wondered this also. I wonder if the season pass content will be substantial enough to get you much further? Like that whole online mp coop or whatever tabata talked about
Sgt. Kabukiman
Banned
Platforming dungeon spoilers:
WTF? A 2D section? This game is insane, I love it.
Ok, we in there:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSqsihozZRY
People are starting to release stylish combat videos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSqsihozZRY
People are starting to release stylish combat videos.
Conkerkid11
Member
So, I've been calling Apocalypsis Noctis basically the Pirates of the Caribbean theme this whole time, but it turns out even that's basically the Morrowind theme.
Man I really need to get airdance.
Ala1995ginobiko
Member
I feel bad for that Tomberry honestly
DarkLordMalik
Member
Nice. The Griffin section shows how janky the combat can get, still fun
BTW what was going on with the Tonberry combo? He was doing multiple strikes?
Anyone?
panama chief
Member
Just gonna leave this here....
Audioboxer
Member
Can all treasures in your inventory be sold? No other uses?
I've amassed a ton of stuff and I'm only in chapter 3. Haven't sold any of it.
I've amassed a ton of stuff and I'm only in chapter 3. Haven't sold any of it.
Trojita
Rapid Response Threadmaker
Finally started the game this past weekend.
Combat took a bit to get used to. They really need to change the R1 lockon to a static lock on. It's hidden that you can press R3 when pressing R1 and that will give you a "permanent" lock temporarily on the enemy selected. This is an unneeded hassle. The "permanent" lock on should also go to another enemy after the current enemy is dead.
I spent way too much time in chapter 1 roaming around thinking that I wouldn't be able to go back there once I got to the resort town.
Combat took a bit to get used to. They really need to change the R1 lockon to a static lock on. It's hidden that you can press R3 when pressing R1 and that will give you a "permanent" lock temporarily on the enemy selected. This is an unneeded hassle. The "permanent" lock on should also go to another enemy after the current enemy is dead.
I spent way too much time in chapter 1 roaming around thinking that I wouldn't be able to go back there once I got to the resort town.
panama chief
Member
Chapter 15 is
just you playing through the rest of the game. Not tied to the story in any way. The game ends with chapter 14.
The first few fights with bombs were fine because you had enough space to move around, but man the ones during the block puzzle, fuck those. I had to use quite a few phoenix downs. Whoever thought it was a good idea to put splitting bombs inside a very tight area (literally 3 or 4 cubes big) should be slapped. It was ridiculous, you'd get them low then they'd split into more, and eventually you physically couldn't move because there wasn't enough space due to all the bombs, lol.
Eventually Ramuh took pity on me, and I was much happier for it.
Nice. The Griffin section shows how janky the combat can get, still fun
BTW what was going on with the Tonberry combo? He was doing multiple strikes?
Yeah, that's just a bunch of strikes, to show that the move they used in the ATR is still in the game.
Just gonna leave this here....
LMAO
DarkLordMalik
Member
Poor Tonberry
Sgt. Kabukiman
Banned
Just gonna leave this here....
Somehow, it makes perfect sense.
Just gonna leave this here....
Would be funnier if it wasn't stamp sized. :/
Oh, that's what the song is. When I heard it, I literally said "This is like Pirates of the Carribean...wait, more like Elder Scrolls."
I've been waiting til I finished the game to look it up since I didn't want to spoil it for myself. Turns out I've already heard it!
DarkLordMalik
Member
Nose Master
Member
LTTP on commenting, but: +1 for not liking much about this game after beating it. It really felt like a poor clone of Witcher 3.
Battles are sloppy. I know about the different "combos" you can get by moving the stick, it doesn't matter. They slightly change your animation and hurtbox. Every single fight boiled down to abusing techniques / Regroup for i-frames, warping from max distance for damage, and going for blindsides. Nuking the party with quadcast if none of that worked. There's very awkward balance in the fights. Either you get one shot and bleed items if you get hit, or you take almost no damage. 100% style over substance. It's Witcher 3 minus all of the depth.
Open world is lazy. There's not a whole lot to do in it. The RNG of shinies quickly aren't even worth getting off of your chocobo for. The magic veins are always next to camps, so there's no reason to seek them out. The car is needlessly obtuse, and makes it a chore to get to where you need to go. Even if using parking spots and "fast" travel, the loading times negate most of the benefit. The sidequests all feel like they were automatically generated, and the traversal makes hunts a pain.
Plot is an awkward frankenstein monster of whatever they had left after edits. Whatever made even a bit of contextual sense.
This is overly negative, but this game was a complete disappointment to me. It had some decent moments, but they were few and far between.
I know I'm in the minority (on GAF) but I don't think this game will age particularly well. The honeymoon period is pretty strong with this one. Five years time, this will be held in a worse light than 13. It deserves to be, at least.
Battles are sloppy. I know about the different "combos" you can get by moving the stick, it doesn't matter. They slightly change your animation and hurtbox. Every single fight boiled down to abusing techniques / Regroup for i-frames, warping from max distance for damage, and going for blindsides. Nuking the party with quadcast if none of that worked. There's very awkward balance in the fights. Either you get one shot and bleed items if you get hit, or you take almost no damage. 100% style over substance. It's Witcher 3 minus all of the depth.
Open world is lazy. There's not a whole lot to do in it. The RNG of shinies quickly aren't even worth getting off of your chocobo for. The magic veins are always next to camps, so there's no reason to seek them out. The car is needlessly obtuse, and makes it a chore to get to where you need to go. Even if using parking spots and "fast" travel, the loading times negate most of the benefit. The sidequests all feel like they were automatically generated, and the traversal makes hunts a pain.
Plot is an awkward frankenstein monster of whatever they had left after edits. Whatever made even a bit of contextual sense.
This is overly negative, but this game was a complete disappointment to me. It had some decent moments, but they were few and far between.
I know I'm in the minority (on GAF) but I don't think this game will age particularly well. The honeymoon period is pretty strong with this one. Five years time, this will be held in a worse light than 13. It deserves to be, at least.
NoctisVsStar
Member
Overwhelm skill from Ignis
Audioboxer
Member
Customizing your car is more fun than playing FF13.
Staring at the FFXV disc is more fun than FF13
panama chief
Member
Looks just fine on mobile....
How 'bout the decals?
Ridiculous.
my name is ed
Banned
Game glitched last night erasing my completion of a quest. I had almost 40k in experience to use and I'm back down to 7k. Woe is me
Audioboxer
Member
<3
It's okay the glorious FF13 trilogy remaster for PS4 will be here soon.
By the way can anyone answer my question about treasures in inventory? Just sell them all?
I'm wondering this too. In one of the final chapters and haven't sold a single item all game; wondering if now is the time, lol.
Audioboxer
Member
LOL. I'll take that as my answer. I think quest stuff is kept to key items section.
But yeah, hunts tend to give me enough coin for everything I need.
Just managed to upgrade my engine blade. I'm playing blind so exploring everywhere for items. Picked up a needed item lying around in a town. Not sure if it's random spawning or not, but if going by past FF games items placed in areas tend to be set.
I sell some stuff available from certain monsters
Not sure if anyone else has come across this but I figured if anyone knows what to do about this, it's gaf.
You know how R1 moves the camera back around Notctis' head? Sometimes R1 will just not work and the camera will turn into this weird action-y / slowly panning view that doesn't respond to movements from your right thumbstick until you start violently moving the stick back and forth, at which point you'll regain control.
Does anyone else know what I'm talking about? I don't know what to do to fix it other than reset the game.
You know how R1 moves the camera back around Notctis' head? Sometimes R1 will just not work and the camera will turn into this weird action-y / slowly panning view that doesn't respond to movements from your right thumbstick until you start violently moving the stick back and forth, at which point you'll regain control.
Does anyone else know what I'm talking about? I don't know what to do to fix it other than reset the game.
Keep any form of currency (debased banknote, rare coin). You can use them to craft spells that will increase your experience yield in a battle dramatically.
Also some rare drops like helixhorn and griffon feather will complete quests but unfortunately there's no way to tell which are important.
Son Of Sparda
Member
You'll need few of them for Cid quests. Don't know which ones, sorry. The rest can be used to create powerful spells.
Garrett Hawke
Member
i'm still not over the florence mini album
if anything square deserves recognition for commissioning this
if anything square deserves recognition for commissioning this
Son Of Sparda
Member
They are post-game contents.
First, finish all dungeons. Then you'll see a question mark on map in the hunters HQ. Go there to get the key.
Just got through the Titan fight.
The fight itself actually wasn't nearly as bad as I was expecting, even though you are really just fighting one arm and foot. Camera could have been zoomed out a lot more, it was really hard to focus on both his arm and whatever the imperial dudes were doing.
Which is the real shitty thing, everything about Ardyn and driving here and the imperials showing up and the aftermath and how they number chapters is such a huge mess. With the exception of a couple things (Ardyn mostly, and how the party being who they are could not recognize someone in that position after being at war with their country for fucking years) I was more or less on board with the story, but after Ch. 4~5 I'm starting to understand how rough a ride I am in for. I was all happy and questing along and now just confused and want to go back.
That Ice dungeon was pretty awesome though.
Which is the real shitty thing, everything about Ardyn and driving here and the imperials showing up and the aftermath and how they number chapters is such a huge mess. With the exception of a couple things (Ardyn mostly, and how the party being who they are could not recognize someone in that position after being at war with their country for fucking years) I was more or less on board with the story, but after Ch. 4~5 I'm starting to understand how rough a ride I am in for. I was all happy and questing along and now just confused and want to go back.
That Ice dungeon was pretty awesome though.
TeddyShardik
Banned
I would have liked some elements from it but I really didn't like that one at all in its entirety. The game was not made with something like that in mind and to my frustration you feel that pretty obviously there, at least in the later parts.
PshycoNinja
Member
*grins*
With the exception of banknotes/coins, I usually keep 5 of each treasure just in case it can be used for a quest. Otherwise if it exceeds five of any one item, I will typically sell it.
So I just upgraded my sword to I think the final stage. Is
the best one-handed sword? If so I got it much earlier than I expected
Now that I have a handle on combat and actually used some AP in the right places I'm feeling much better about my ability to control the battlefield. Right now I'm hoarding AP and just kind of burning through side content while I wait for the patch and it's giving me the same vibe as an Elder Scrolls game where there's always something to do and most of it feels appropriately rewarding. I've seen Chapter 9 thrown around as the best place to stop and smell the roses so I'll probably push on a bit more before going full stop on the story and running side stuff until the patch comes. Any side stuff that's particularly noteworthy I should look into? I've kind of just been boosting my hunter rank.
It's nice playing a Final Fantasy I can really engage with. FFX was the last time I had a "can't put it down" experience with a final fantasy so it's nice to know Square still has it in them.
Ultima Blade
(Chapter 7)
Now that I have a handle on combat and actually used some AP in the right places I'm feeling much better about my ability to control the battlefield. Right now I'm hoarding AP and just kind of burning through side content while I wait for the patch and it's giving me the same vibe as an Elder Scrolls game where there's always something to do and most of it feels appropriately rewarding. I've seen Chapter 9 thrown around as the best place to stop and smell the roses so I'll probably push on a bit more before going full stop on the story and running side stuff until the patch comes. Any side stuff that's particularly noteworthy I should look into? I've kind of just been boosting my hunter rank.
It's nice playing a Final Fantasy I can really engage with. FFX was the last time I had a "can't put it down" experience with a final fantasy so it's nice to know Square still has it in them.
TeddyShardik
Banned
Huh...now that I beat the game I thought I'd listen in to the (imo horrible) German dub. First thing I see is that Cindy is called Cidney...wasn't that her name in all versions at some point? Vaguely rings a bell here.
Other than that it's the usual wooden delivery of lines. Nothing I've heard so far sounded like it was a conversation between actual human beings. So any fellow Germans, save yourself the load to title and back, it's not worth it.
Other than that it's the usual wooden delivery of lines. Nothing I've heard so far sounded like it was a conversation between actual human beings. So any fellow Germans, save yourself the load to title and back, it's not worth it.
tiebreaker
Member
I'm laughing too much at this.
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