Final Fantasy XV SPOILER THREAD

My problem with the campfire scene is it felt too...obvious? Like -insert sad scene here- or something. I think Luna wasn't handled well and I think the bros weren't handled well. In the end, I liked the execution and presentation of Luna's goodbye to Noctis over Noctis' goodbye to the bros.

I've complained about this before, but my problem with Noctis, Gladio, Ignis, and Prompto is that they felt way too similar. Their "differences" weren't very nuanced. When I play any other Final Fantasy, like VI or VII, each of those characters feel like an interesting and unique person. With the bros, they all felt like the same person split into 4.



Promto felt different from the others. Fun loving and predictable that he actually lust and openly ask about female characters.

He spent ten years monster hunting around Hammerhead to try and get some.... ahem!

Lol... I really want to know what happened to Promto damnit!

Gladio was a dick head for part of the game and Ignis is blind now but sees better then Promto because he seems more useful in battle.


The Bros, should have gotten more character attention in game. I could say the same for all characters in this game honestly.
 
Doing post game stuff now. But, was running around close to an empire base when a magitek ship triggers a small cutscene and Aranea jumps out and joins the party. She then says something and quickly leaves the party. Anyone knows what that's about. Thought I was gonna be able to party with her for a bit, but nah lol.
 
Doing post game stuff now. But, was running around close to an empire base when a magitek ship triggers a small cutscene and Aranea jumps out and joins the party. She then says something and quickly leaves the party. Anyone knows what that's about. Thought I was gonna be able to party with her for a bit, but nah lol.

Yeah, it is really weird how she leaves the army and still has a ship. It happens occasionally and she will help you finish a hard battle before leaving. It happened against Iron Giants for me.
 
Promto felt different from the others. Fun loving and predictable that he actually lust and openly ask about female characters.

He spent ten years monster hunting around Hammerhead to try and get some.... ahem!

Lol... I really want to know what happened to Promto damnit!

Gladio was a dick head for part of the game and Ignis is blind now but sees better then Promto because he seems more useful in battle.


The Bros, should have gotten more character attention in game. I could say the same for all characters in this game honestly.
Dead and alone just like the little pervert deserves.
 
Yeah, it is really weird how she leaves the army and still has a ship. It happens occasionally and she will help you finish a hard battle before leaving. It happened against Iron Giants for me.

Ahh OK, can't remember what I was fighting at the time but was just finishing up when she dropped in. Would've been cool to fight with her again. Thanks!
 
Dead and alone just like the little pervert deserves.

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Did I miss a scene? And really? Wondering if he has a chance with Cidny makes him a pervert? Makes him human in my book.
Being a little horndog who can't decide between two women and who treats them like a piece of meat to be decided on made him an annoying little pervert. Just another piece of the awful treatment of women in XV.
 
Did I miss a scene? And really? Wondering if he has a chance with Cidny makes him a pervert? Makes him human in my book.

Well, to be perfectly honest, he seemed to be overly excited about every pretty female that crossed his path. Cindy, Aranea, even Iris.
 
What's the best 999 AP skill to get? I have like 1200+ AP just waiting to be used, don't know if I should go for a 999 skill, the 333 third accessory skills for the rest of the group, or something differently entirely.
 
Being a little horndog who can't decide between two women and who treats them like a piece of meat to be decided on made him an annoying little pervert. Just another piece of the awful treatment of women in XV.

It's a very human thing of him to do for someone his age, but I understand your disapproval. I thought it wasn't that big a deal, based on the reasonable assumption that neither would give him the time of day to begin with. Speaking of which, this reminds me of how people actually wanted banter of all of the guys perving on Cindy, rather than it just being Prompto, their reason being that it'd be unrealistic for them to not comment on her appearance at all.
 
It's a very human thing of him to do for someone his age, but I understand your disapproval. I thought it wasn't that big a deal, based on the reasonable assumption that neither would give him the time of day to begin with. Speaking of which, this reminds me of how people actually wanted banter of all of the guys perving on Cindy, rather than it just being Prompto, their reason being that it'd be unrealistic for them to not comment on her appearance at all.
I get that it's something someone his age might do. That doesn't mean you have to include the behavior and put it into your game without any real kind of pushback against its normalization. It's just such an eyeroll worthy sequence that comes off as a total cherry on top of the stupidity that is the whole game's cast of women.

But you're right that they wouldn't give him the time of day anyways. So whatever I guess.
I see that your tired shitposts in defense of this game continue.

Keep up the good work. It's a great look for you.
 
Feeling attraction for someone is now treating them like a piece of meat? Do you have an example of the dialogue where that happens exactly? It's perfectly reasonable to want to invest on someone you feel physically attracted to, doesn't mean you don't see them as human beings. Hell do you even see how people speak IRL? Girls "objectify" guys all the time too in casual conversation, I don't know in what alternative reality you live in but this is how perfectly normal and reasonable people interact.
 
I get that it's something someone his age might do. That doesn't mean you have to include the behavior and put it into your game without any real kind of pushback against its normalization. It's just such an eyeroll worthy sequence that comes off as a total cherry on top of the stupidity that is the whole game's cast of women.

But you're right that they wouldn't give him the time of day anyways. So whatever I guess.

I see that your tired shitposts in defense of this game continue.

Keep up the good work. It's a great look for you.

And I see your tired shitposts condemning this game continue as well.

I just find it amusing that you're so offended a young man might actually be really interested in attractive women. It's a shocking concept.

I, too, think Cindy's design is dumb. But one of the biggest, most badass, well-designed characters is a female. You conveniently seem to ignore this.

It's obvious you despise the game. That's your right. But why are you even here? Just to shit all over it because others are enjoying it? You do you, I suppose.
 
Just finished, damn those feels. I'm feeling incredible somber seeing everything at stake and the way it all ended. The campfire scene... fuck me. Legit felt like I was about to tear up.
 
It's not like Prompto talks about how much he wants to fuck them. It's like the most innocent infatuation.

Seriously. Does he ever even commment on their physical appearance in a creepy way? He seems to like Cindy being peppy and a huge car nut. Don't recall what specifically he says about Aranea but it seems he's just crushing on them. Completely blown out of proportion to call him a "little horndog" lmao
 
Seriously. Does he ever even commment on their physical appearance in a creepy way? He seems to like Cindy being peppy and a huge car nut. Don't recall what specifically he says about Aranea but it seems he's just crushing on them. Completely blown out of proportion to call him a "little horndog" lmao

It's nonsensical.
 
Seriously. Does he ever even commment on their physical appearance in a creepy way? He seems to like Cindy being peppy and a huge car nut. Don't recall what specifically he says about Aranea but it seems he's just crushing on them. Completely blown out of proportion to call him a "little horndog" lmao

I think he's attracted to how badass she is actually. Fucking pervert.
 
And I see your tired shitposts condemning this game continue as well.

I just find it amusing that you're so offended a young man might actually be really interested in attractive women. It's a shocking concept.

I, too, think Cindy's design is dumb. But one of the biggest, most badass, well-designed characters is a female. You conveniently seem to ignore this.

It's obvious you despise the game. That's your right. But why are you even here? Just to shit all over it because others are enjoying it? You do you, I suppose.
Aranea is great and has the honor of being the only female character with anything that resembles a coherent character arc. Still subject to the game's ridiculous treatment of women.

Of course, because Square Enix never lets us have nice things, I have to complain too. It's relatively minor in comparison to Luna and Cindy's treatment, but compounded with those issues it's still enough to grate. When you're fighting alongside Aranea, she will sometimes ask "Mind if I finish this one off?", to which Ignis replies something along the lines of, "I would hate to force a lady to bloody her own hands". Fuck off with your m'lady bullshit, Iggy. Aranea is ten times more badass than you, and a thousand times cooler. Fact. Then there's Prompto, who--because, as Square Enix would constantly like to remind us, these characters are very heterosexual and not at all gay, ever, because they love boobs--promptly (heh) declares that he is now torn between Aranea and Cindy, and cannot possibly decide which of them he'd rather bang. I have a third option for you, Prompto: how about we stop talking about women like they're pieces of meat? That'll get you further ahead with the ladies, I promise you.
From our very own Pashmilla.
 
Have to say that the best bros in the franchise is still Sabin Cyan and Gau. Three different personalities that have great moments of understanding each other. I feel Tabata might of had that in mind since he holds ff6 in such high regard. I can see where gladio character was meant to be coming from but it wasn't well presented. Brotherhood episodes really should have been incorporated in the main game.
 
Prompto is the kind of character that confuses infatuation with love, something a very large number of people have a problem with. He ate hopeless type. That doesn't make him a perv (he never talks about anything sexual) and it sure as hell doesn't make the game misogynistic.
 
Prompto didn't come off like a pig or anything...but it did bug me that I had to listen to conversations of him deciding between Aranea and Cindy. More of just an issue that I'd rather hear different conversation.
Prompto is the kind of character that confuses infatuation with love, something a very large number of people have a problem with. He ate hopeless type. That doesn't make him a perv (he never talks about anything sexual) and it sure as hell doesn't make the game misogynistic.
Agreed
 
Aranea is great and has the honor of being the only female character with anything that resembles a coherent character arc. Still subject to the game's ridiculous treatment of women.


From our very own Pashmilla.

Except again he doesn't talk about them like they're pieces of meat unless just talking about women now is considered treating them like pieces of meat. Look, Cindy's problematic design and camera angles ogling her are legitimate criticisms. Aranea's slightly sexually charged dialogue in a few instances and cleavage, okay. But Prompto's innocent crushes on them? Sorry, try again.
 
Prompto is the kind of character that confuses infatuation with love, something a very large number of people have a problem with. That doesn't make him a perv (he never talks about anything sexual) and it sure as hell doesn't make the game misogynistic.

Exactly. He never states anything sexual or makes ANY remarks about Cindy's boobs or rear. He never, EVER comes off as a pervert.
 
I'm pretty sure, the gang comments on Aranea suit, at some point. And not in a "the suits looks so cool, she looks like a Dragoon from FFXIV" type of comment.
 
I'm pretty sure, the gang comments on Aranea suit, at some point. And not in a "the suits looks so cool, she looks like a Dragoon from FFXIV" type of comment.
Pretty sure they talk about the suit as a "that suit was weird" type way. No way I hell are they talking about anything, considering Cindy.
 
I get that it's something someone his age might do. That doesn't mean you have to include the behavior and put it into your game without any real kind of pushback against its normalization. It's just such an eyeroll worthy sequence when it comes off, a total cherry on top of the stupidity that is the whole game's cast of women.

But you're right that they wouldn't give him the time of day anyways. So whatever I guess.

Yea true, it'd be like someone saying that Cindy's attire is okay because she chooses to wear that, completely ignoring the fact that she was created by male developers. At the end of the day, no one forced them to put that dialogue in there. And it certainly does stand out more concerning the roles of most of the women in the game, that I can't deny.

But as I said before, at the very least, I couldn't see them giving him the time of day; it would've been far more problematic if the two women were actually interested in him, because it'd look even more dickish of him to try deciding between the two of them. A scenario where a guy that's never had a girlfriend is pining over attractive women he'll likely never get? It's a pretty relatable thing. Also slightly helped that also his friends couldn't see it happening either, or hell, even see him end up with a girl anytime soon in general. And that it is goofy, harmless little Prompto, rather than some suave casanova contemplating which girl he wants to fuck or something. (But then again, you could easily play devil's advocate and argue that this is where it all starts lol)

Anyways, I don't really have any huge issue with it, compared to other things in this game at least. We've all perved out and have felt attraction before, both men and women, and what he said was relatively innocuous. (Plus as people have already pointed out, he's more attracted to Aranea being a badass if anything) I will say though that the short banter could've been "improved" by like, I dunno, having one or two of the guys directly chide him for it. (I could definitely see Ignis doing this) That way you get at least some "pushback against its normalization".

Though I suppose you'd much rather prefer it didn't exist at all to begin with, which is a fair stance as well.

Prompto is the kind of character that confuses infatuation with love, something a very large number of people have a problem with. He ate hopeless type. That doesn't make him a perv (he never talks about anything sexual) and it sure as hell doesn't make the game misogynistic.

Completely agree.
 
Except again he doesn't talk about them like they're pieces of meat unless just talking about women now is considered treating them like pieces of meat. Look, Cindy's problematic design and camera angles ogling her are legitimate criticisms. Aranea's slightly sexually charged dialogue in a few instances and cleavage, okay. But Prompto's innocent crushes on them? Sorry, try again.
There's a distinct conversation in the car where he expresses that he can't decide between the two. It's a stupid exchange that belies what a superficial interest he has in them.
Exactly. He never states anything sexual or makes ANY remarks about Cindy's boobs or rear. He never, EVER comes off as a pervert.
Ah yes, because I'm sure the developers never intended for anyone to think that the characters are attracted to her pornstar design that they shove in your face.
 
Pretty sure they talk about the suit as a "that suit was weird" type way. No way I hell are they talking about anything, considering Cindy.

No, it was more like "No wonder you like her (referring to Prompto), have you seen that suit?" is paraphrasing, but I'm sure it wasn't because it was weird.
 
I took Prompto's superficial interest as part of his character. He's supposed to be this kind of fickle loser who doesn't understand the difference between love and infatuation. The gang even pokes fun at him for it.
 
There's a distinct conversation in the car where he expresses that he can't decide between the two. It's a stupid exchange that belies what a superficial interest he has in them.

Ah yes, because I'm sure the developers never intended for anyone to think that the characters are attracted to her pornstar design that they shove in your face.

Just don't play the game. Problem solved.
 
There's a distinct conversation in the car where he expresses that he can't decide between the two. It's a stupid exchange that belies what a superficial interest he has in them.

A guy who is easily infatuated with women can't seem to decide which of the two highly capable women in their field he is more infatuated with, and is constantly berated by his fellow men whenever he talks about either.

Yeah, totally misogynistic! /s
 
I am 25 and I recently couldn't decide between two women who I am attracted to and had to talk to my friends. Deciding is not objectifying. It's deciding which one would you want to take things forwards with because both seem attractive physically and mentally. I was not in a committed relation with either of them and not deciding instead would be a bad thing instead. I don't know what world you live in but to think that having such confusion, thoughts.. no matter the age... is ridiculous is a very naive way of thinking..


In case of Prompto he was infatuated with both of them and kept talking about his infatuation back and forth...BECAUSE of which the guys were annoyed and called him out...but you weren't going to mention that now were you when you made that broad claim that the game is misogynistic ?? Lol
 
It's not like Prompto talks about how much he wants to fuck them. It's like the most innocent infatuation.

I do think it's more infatuation than perversion. Of course it's still a form of objectifying, but that's a controversial topic on its own. The fact is this game readily promotes the male gaze and hyper-heterosexuality without acknowledging it in the serious context of the rest of the world, so it can seem like a blind spot, which is true of a lot of games (and anime-influenced games), too. But it never takes it too far, imo. Prompto is just more sensitive to the opposite sex and expresses it, albeit pathetically, maybe, and evocative of the harmful misogynist culture/mentality that forms the basis of a lot of toxic guys out there. But I think Prompto is more innocent than that.

Though let's not forget, he did sniff a letter with a 'girl's' scent (OMG!) in order to stay motivated to get fit, lol.
 
Regarding the corpses at the end, I get that Noct would be affected by seeing Luna, Regis, and Ravus hanging there...but Nyx? I might be wrong, but didn't Nyx have -zero- interaction with Noct in Kingsglaive, or at any point while he was alive?

I guess we're supposed to assume it's Ardyn showing off the corpses of people that opposed him, but Nyx being there seems like somewhat of a stretch other than trying to tie Kingsglaive into the game.
 
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