Final Fantasy XV - General News Thread

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Rezon

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I wonder how people in Europe will get to play it.
It's still pretty silly to me to release a game like this WITH the actual game, instead of a month before or something like that.
Like, will anyone even play it before they finish XV?
 

Lulcielid

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So I only found out about A Kings Tale today, the side scrolling 2D game where you play as King Regis. I missed it at E3. I wonder how long it will be? I kind of feel that I should play that first because it's set 30 years prior to the main game.
A Kings Tale is just a bed story from Regis to Kid Noctis, I doub it will be very relevant.
 
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Chocobocoholic

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I believe it's a gamestop preorder exclusive. Gamestop and one other retailer. I forgot. I don't know that we'll all be able to play it.
I'll get it because I've preordered the deluxe edition from GAME in the UK and they've got the exclusive DLC.

EDIT: Ah if it's just a bedtime story then I won't bother playing it first. I will however be watching Kingsglaive before I play to build up anticipation!
 
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Rin

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Do you happen to know the source?
I can't see the image for some reason, but I'm pretty sure it's Twitter user strhess138's creation.

On another topic, every year CEDEC (Computer Entertainment Developers Conference) takes place during the summer in Japan, and this August, Square Enix's back with more FFXV-related presentations. Some of you might remember the Episode Duscae AI presentation from last year.

All presentations this year are in English, and they allow photography and sharing of information on SNS. Since this is a conference for engineers, programmers, and others who hold technical positions, expect the content to be specialized and not aimed at a general audience. SE usually upload the slides after the conference is over.

1) Optimization of AAA-title development: the case of Final Fantasy XV
2) Final Fantasy XV – Character and environment workflow
3) Level meta AI control system in Final Fantasy XV (the full game, not Episode Duscae)
4) Structure of backend, asset build systems that support Final Fantasy XV development + collection and visualization of gameplay log(s)

There's an English website, but I can't find English web pages for the presentations at the moment: http://cedec.cesa.or.jp/2016/koubo/en/
 
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DrBretto

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I'm hype already! Give game!
Only two digits on the countdown now! lol.

99 days to go though. Ugh. KILLING ME. Not even just because I want to play, but just because there have been SO many arguments and so many unanswered questions that just can't be answered until the game comes out. This is the age of google. I don't know how to handle "wondering" things anymore!
 

Rin

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Is there any English articles that refer to the existence of "Cie'th" or something like in XV?
One Famitsu article said that "At night time, dangerous monsters called "シガイ" start to wander about the field."
シガイ means Cie'th in XIII. maybe reusing the phrase, but I want to know how those dangerous monsters called in English ver.
Oh, interesting, I'll have to look this up somehow. Thanks for bringing this fact to our attention!
 

DrBretto

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Did we ever get official word on which engine they are using now, BTW?

When the GI feature started, during their "first impressions" stuff, one of them started to break the news that this was no longer running on the Luminous engine, and Baldie Mccaught-in-a-lie ruined any chance of discussion about it by being too proud to admit he didn't know what they were talking about it, so he brushed it off as old news.

That's the only source of this I've seen. Has there been any official word on what engine they're using? Is it still an off-shoot of Luminous or something totally different? Was the first guy as full of crap as the second guy?
 

Bionicle8563

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IIFRC The last time they talked about the Engine it seems like they are using a heavily modified version of Luminous along side Umbra (for lighting I think). The main reason why their version of Luminous heavily edited being that they probably won't continue using it so they didn't mind picking it apart and putting it back together. But I mean the last time they talked about this stuff was like a year~ish ago, so I could be completely wrong and talking out of my arse.
 

DrBretto

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IIFRC The last time they talked about the Engine it seems like they are using a heavily modified version of Luminous along side Umbra (for lighting I think). The main reason why their version of Luminous heavily edited being that they probably won't continue using it so they didn't mind picking it apart and putting it back together. But I mean the last time they talked about this stuff was like a year~ish ago, so I could be completely wrong and talking out of my arse.
See, that's sort of what I was thinking, that GI misunderstood the Umbra thing and thought it was using a different engine entirely. I just haven't seen much discussion about it since that GI thing. Generally that'd mean there was nothing real to talk about, but I figured if anyone would know, it'd be someone here.