Final Fantasy XV TwitchCon Presentation Stream

I have never been so uncertain about an upcoming game as I am with Final Fantasy XV. From month to month, my hype has modulated with every bit of media that's been released, taking me from bated anticipation to casual disinterest and back to excitement again. Lately all seems very good, but who knows at this point?

I want to believe. Please let the game be good. Please don't do an MGSV with the story. I need Final Fantasy to be back.

Bolded is what I'm really worried about.
 
people like you deserve MONO

edit: seems to have been a problem with the Twitch stream itself; the little bit of Luna's Theme they played towards the end of the stream is also flipped (and can be verified against the Kingsglaive OST).

Guess whatever they had feeding interim music to the stream had cables crossed.
Honestly though, does it really matter with music? :P I mean, it's not a movie or game where the spatial panning has to match the visuals.
 
Bolded is what I'm really worried about.

I've said it before, but remember how with MGSV by the time it came out we had basically seen at least part of 95% of all the cutscenes in the game through the trailers. I don't get the vibe from FFXV at all.
 
GOTY, believeee it. People on gaf who have been saying this game will suck should get banned from buying it. Keep hating brehs.
I've been keeping track of some of the biggest haters' Metascore bets. My bookmarks never forget
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Like this:
78 and will be the death of this franchise.

Quote this post.

I will, I will
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Ohhh...I like this part:

What I played was an ambitious and tremendously entertaining combination of Western world design and Japanese character-building. If you ever wished that Final Fantasy and The Witcher could have a baby, it’d look a lot like FFXV.

Yes, I have wished for that, very much so!

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Let the hype flow through you:

New preview from today (thanks to Mognet's @Storm for posting it):

Final Fantasy XV Hands-On: I Couldn't Put It Down

After years of delay, Final Fantasy XV will finally see the light of day on November 29. And an extended hands-on demo with the $60 Final Fantasy XV has pulled off something I never expected — it's reinvigorated my interest in the title. I've gotten a chance to see what Final Fantasy XV has to offer beyond just pretty graphics, and beneath its shiny exterior beats the heart of a very ambitious role-playing game.

I got to take a deep dive into Final Fantasy XV at a Square Enix press event today (Oct. 5). Unlike FFXV’s E3 demo this past June, which was one enormous battle scene, I got to play from a combat tutorial all the way through Chapter III of this seemingly massive title. What I played was an ambitious and tremendously entertaining combination of Western world design and Japanese character-building. If you ever wished that Final Fantasy and The Witcher could have a baby, it’d look a lot like FFXV.​

GOTY for sure now, i can see it now
 

LOL. Ironically, my original post was longer and I wanted to post this image asking you if the Twitch rip isn't actually matching that setup (I'm no expert). The piano is panned left in the Twitch rip, no?

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Anyway, my point was this: does the absolute panning really matter as long as the relative panning is correct? I don't see a reason why there'd be a difference for the listener if everything would be mirrored (besides them being irritated because they're musicians themselves and are just used to it being the one way). Am I overlooking something? Teach me, Faruko-senpai.
 
Piano is in this weird position where for a LOT of material, given the choice people tend to pan according to player's perspective, or LH left and RH right, across a wide stereo spread.

This is opposed to e.g. the rest of an orchestral ensemble or big band where you always pan according to audience perspective, or stuff like drums in band repertoire where wars have broken out w.r.t audience perspective (HH right) vs drummer's perspective (HH left)

I prefer that piano convention as well, even if it's a bit of suspension of disbelief as to its position in an orchestra, because 1) people are really, REALLY used to hearing it that way from the vast majority of contemporary records out today and 2) it actually plays nice when mixing for orchestra, since LH left and RH right means the bass frequencies are concentrated towards the left, which then doesn't fight for the same space as strings bass frequencies on the right. Ditto treble on piano (right) vs highs on strings (left).

edit @ edit: it's not just so much musicians as it is people simply used to the sound of an orchestra generally being seated a certain way. Musicians playing in an orchestra obviously hear things very differently from an audience. (it's always a shit ton of percussion someone send help)

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*GOOD morning everyone*

Ah, yes good o'l FFXV thread, falk and his music shenanigans,insecure FF fans, awesome gifs,
dev glorification or damnation,Tyaren perfect positivity,Koozek broken promises ( he couldn't go on media black out),sad countdowns
and a bunch of random post to keep the FFXV discussions alive.

Everything is just the way it should be.
 
Piano is in this weird position where for a LOT of material, given the choice people tend to pan according to player's perspective, or LH left and RH right, across a wide stereo spread.

This is opposed to e.g. the rest of an orchestral ensemble or big band where you always pan according to audience perspective, or stuff like drums in band repertoire where wars have broken out w.r.t audience perspective (HH right) vs drummer's perspective (HH left)

I prefer that piano convention as well, even if it's a bit of suspension of disbelief as to its position in an orchestra, because 1) people are really, REALLY used to hearing it that way from the vast majority of contemporary records out today and 2) it actually plays nice when mixing for orchestra, since LH left and RH right means the bass frequencies are concentrated towards the left, which then doesn't fight for the same space as strings bass frequencies on the right. Ditto treble on piano (right) vs highs on strings (left).

edit @ edit: it's not just so much musicians as it is people simply used to the sound of an orchestra generally being seated a certain way. Musicians playing in an orchestra obviously hear things very differently from an audience. (it's always a shit ton of percussion someone send help)

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Interesting, thanks for the info!

Oh, and I meant that only musicians/people who know about that stuff even notice things like that when listening to the audio on speakers. I'm sure 99% of the normal folks listening would never notice any difference of the instruments' panning (at least not consciously). This is like most people having disgusting TV image factory settings without ever even noticing it. It's mind-blowing what some of my friends were playing on for years before I recalibrated it for them :D

LOL, that GIF reminds me of the Symphonic Odyssey Uematsu tribute concert in Cologne I attended a few years ago (or was it Symphonic Fantasies?). The part with the huge hammer was hilarious. I think, incidentally, it was during the King's Knight suite (the old Square game from Sakaguchi they remade as a mobile game in the FFXV universe), not sure, though.
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*GOOD morning everyone*

Ah, yes good o'l FFXV thread, falk and his music shenanigans,insecure FF fans, awesome gifs,
dev glorification or damnation,Tyaren perfect positivity,Koozek broken promises ( he couldn't go on media black out),sad countdowns
and a bunch of random post to keep the FFXV discussions alive.

Everything is just the way it should be.

Did you have to bring attention to that?
To be fair, I'm following these threads a lot less than in the past. Just skipping through pages here and there. When that other thread started the Versus discussion again I could only shake my head and stop reading. It's gotten so incredibly tiring and boring. The same old arguments for years now.
 
More impressions coming out, again thanks to Storm on Mognet:

http://www.redbrick.me/gaming/egx-hands-on-final-fantasy-xv/

All in all, my short time with the game did enough to make me do something I rarely ever do with a game anymore, pre-order. I saw enough in the time I was given and enjoyed the experience so intensely that I will be beyond surprised if the full game turns out to be anything short of amazing. Final Fantasy is a series that can be hard to just pick up and fully get into without knowing an encyclopedia of information, but that’s where I feel the strength of FFXV really lies, there is truly something here for everyone. There were a lot of big games on display at EGX, but few came even close to promising anything on the same scale as Final Fantasy XV.

That wasn't a cloud passing by. That was my hype boner blocking out the sun.
 
Let the hype flow through you:

New preview from today (thanks to Mognet's @Storm for posting it):

Final Fantasy XV Hands-On: I Couldn't Put It Down

After years of delay, Final Fantasy XV will finally see the light of day on November 29. And an extended hands-on demo with the $60 Final Fantasy XV has pulled off something I never expected — it's reinvigorated my interest in the title. I've gotten a chance to see what Final Fantasy XV has to offer beyond just pretty graphics, and beneath its shiny exterior beats the heart of a very ambitious role-playing game.

I got to take a deep dive into Final Fantasy XV at a Square Enix press event today (Oct. 5). Unlike FFXV’s E3 demo this past June, which was one enormous battle scene, I got to play from a combat tutorial all the way through Chapter III of this seemingly massive title. What I played was an ambitious and tremendously entertaining combination of Western world design and Japanese character-building. If you ever wished that Final Fantasy and The Witcher could have a baby, it’d look a lot like FFXV.​


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More impressions coming out, again thanks to Storm on Mognet:

http://www.redbrick.me/gaming/egx-hands-on-final-fantasy-xv/



That wasn't a cloud passing by. That was my hype boner blocking out the sun.

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It is useless to resist haters...let the XV hype flow through you.

But seriously...I have always felt people have under-estimated this title for a while now (since Duscae probably). It's incredibly ambitious yet unique in its identity in a way many AAA games aren't anymore. In the way the world is designed and in the fusion of its systems.

FF is coming back to the top. 90 + metacritic, GOTY awards etc.

Now I only hope they market it better than their shoddy efforts so far and WOM spreads like wildfire.

If nothing it will at least set enough goodwill for the VII remake to blow the series out wide again.
 
Lots of people (rightfully) worried about the embarassing marketing campaing of the game, but if these previews are an indication, i think it will end up selling many copies just by word of mouth, kinda like other JRPGs did in the last (Persona 4, Xenoblade), but on a bigger scale worhty of FF.
Because honestly it feels like anyone who tried the game in the last few months came out at least positively impressed by it.
 
So far the overwhelming majority of previews and hands-on reports in the last couple of months have been positive to very positive. I do only remember one or two that were less enthusiastic, but even they said the game made an okay to good impression. The game really seems to be turning out well. :)
 
Calm down guys. We all know previews can be misleeding and biased, especially when they are from a press event hold by the company. I'd say just wait for the review score. (For the record, I predicted 90+, GOTY contender back in March, down to 88 after the E3 disaster.)
 
Calm down guys. We all know previews can be misleeding and biased, especially when they are from a press event hold by the company. I'd say just wait for the review score. (For the record, I predicted 90+, GOTY contender back in March, down to 88 after the E3 disaster.)

Nah. Gonna hype it up. Because my prediction hasn't changed with the weather. I'm ok with it.
 
Calm down guys. We all know previews can be misleeding and biased, especially when they are from a press event hold by the company. I'd say just wait for the review score. (For the record, I predicted 90+, GOTY contender back in March, down to 88 after the E3 disaster.)
Screw that ppl have been screaming doom for years you damn right ppl are going to point to these previews
 
Let the hype flow through you:

New preview from today (thanks to Mognet's @Storm for posting it):

Final Fantasy XV Hands-On: I Couldn't Put It Down

After years of delay, Final Fantasy XV will finally see the light of day on November 29. And an extended hands-on demo with the $60 Final Fantasy XV has pulled off something I never expected — it's reinvigorated my interest in the title. I've gotten a chance to see what Final Fantasy XV has to offer beyond just pretty graphics, and beneath its shiny exterior beats the heart of a very ambitious role-playing game.

I got to take a deep dive into Final Fantasy XV at a Square Enix press event today (Oct. 5). Unlike FFXV’s E3 demo this past June, which was one enormous battle scene, I got to play from a combat tutorial all the way through Chapter III of this seemingly massive title. What I played was an ambitious and tremendously entertaining combination of Western world design and Japanese character-building. If you ever wished that Final Fantasy and The Witcher could have a baby, it’d look a lot like FFXV.​

More impressions coming out, again thanks to Storm on Mognet:

http://www.redbrick.me/gaming/egx-hands-on-final-fantasy-xv/

That wasn't a cloud passing by. That was my hype boner blocking out the sun.

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Calm down guys. We all know previews can be misleeding and biased, especially when they are from a press event hold by the company. I'd say just wait for the review score. (For the record, I predicted 90+, GOTY contender back in March, down to 88 after the E3 disaster.)

I don't think you're wrong, but I think everyone being positive about the previews was already buying it anyway, they're just glad to see that people are apparently enjoying it.

If anyone wasn't interested at all before and will buy now just because of the impressions, then I'll agree with you.
 
I don't think you're wrong, but I think everyone being positive about the previews was already buying it anyway, they're just glad to see that people are apparently enjoying it.

If anyone wasn't interested at all before and will buy now just because of the impressions, then I'll agree with you.

Basically this. It's just nice to hear some voices of reason backing us up from time to time. And we're gonna go ahead and enjoy it.
 
I don't think you're wrong, but I think everyone being positive about the previews was already buying it anyway, they're just glad to see that people are apparently enjoying it.

If anyone wasn't interested at all before and will buy now just because of the impressions, then I'll agree with you.

Nah I'm just saying it's still a little early to call out the haters.
 
Nah I'm just saying it's still a little early to call out the haters.

This, I will agree with. I am not doing my "I told you so" dance until the review thread. But do expect Gifs :P

Today, we're just enjoying some good ol' hype. It's put pep in my step.
 
Been watching this for the last few minutes.


As far as I know this is an area we haven't seen before. Some really cool looking monster designs and a much different environment from what we've seen thus far.

It's the same area they showed in the Twitch presentation
 
Nah, not that. It means it's time to beware of trophy list leaks and therefore more spoilers.
 
As if I wasn't looking forward to this game enough. Now people have to bring the Witcher into this. Brb sleeping until Nov 29.
 
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