Final Fantasy XV - General News Thread

[stolas]

wow, that's interesting...I wonder if it's accidental or will have any purpose later. Maybe a long lost cousin? ;D

I doubt it, She was one of the few NPC glaives that wasn't in the Chapter 14 revamp. They also updated the NPC glaives Gustco's face to match Libertus' face but again different hair + facial tattoos and Sadda now has glasses. If anything it's an easter egg/ reference and reutilizing assets. Luna's face Kingsglaive version might get added as a DLC for character creation like they did with Nyx, Libertus and Sonitus.

 

[Dorothy95]

I doubt it, She was one of the few NPC glaives that wasn't in the Chapter 14 revamp. They also updated the NPC glaives Gustco's face to match Libertus' face but again different hair + facial tattoos and Sadda now has glasses. If anything it's an easter egg/ reference and reutilizing assets. If anything that Luna face version might get added as a DLC for character creation like they did with Nyx, Libertus and Sonitus.

well yeah ._. after all, I doubt they will add something that important as Luna's relative for multiplayer dlc T_T

 

[Dorothy95]

btw guys, do you know from where this came from? it's very hq so it seems like almost kingsglaive...

http://imgur.com/LfsB8d6

 

[LeonBlade]

btw guys, do you know from where this came from? it's very hq so it seems like almost kingsglaive...

http://imgur.com/LfsB8d6

Pretty sure it's a press release image.

 

[wmlk]

btw guys, do you know from where this came from? it's very hq so it seems like almost kingsglaive...

http://imgur.com/LfsB8d6

Jump Festa 2015 trailer (from December 2014).

 

[Vallen]

btw guys, do you know from where this came from? it's very hq so it seems like almost kingsglaive...

http://imgur.com/LfsB8d6

At 2:27 (you gotta be very good at pausing)

Also at 0:15 in this one

EDIT: ninja'd lol

 

[wmlk]

At 2:27 (you gotta be very good at pausing)

It doesn't show that still in this trailer, since it actually happens before everyone draws their weapons.

It's from 0:20 here.

 

[47D]

Sigh, so many great cutscenes, lost to time.

 

[Nova]

A good amount of the scene stuff in that footage is technically still there, just framed differently.

 

[Vallen]

It seems my posts about random observations actually got some level of discussion, so I'm glad! I'll hold off on Part 4 until the next time it's super dead on here \(^.^)/

 

[47D]

Ya know something, Pre-Invasion Insomnia isn't that hard to create at this point, Square has already set the foundation:

Of course, I still would love the Insomnia map to be bigger than what we currently have, but honestly the Royal Edition map is big enough to make a Pre-Invasion version of it.

All Square has to do is tweak the current Royal Edition map slightly [ take out all the destroyed buildings, and add the day and night cycle ], and then all that's left is to copy and past a bunch of NPC's and cars onto the map, and it's done.

The real problem isn't making the map, but rather how to implement it.

A lot of you think there should be a prologue to the game, taking place in Insomnia. But the problem with this idea is how the game's Opening is set up.

It's pretty clear the Car Pushing scene is suppose to be the Opening of the game, since we hear both the theme song and the game title, and the dialogue during this scene is re-used in the ending credits. It would make the Car Pushing Opening feel completely out of place if we have to do through a two hour prologue first.

[Although, I guess Kingdom Hearts II pulled off a four hour prologue, so why can't FFXV do the same?]

 

[Bazztek]

btw guys, do you know from where this came from? it's very hq so it seems like almost kingsglaive...

http://imgur.com/LfsB8d6

It's from the Jump Festa '15 trailer from December 2014.

 

[Vallen]

A lot of you think there should be a prologue to the game, taking place in Insomnia. But the problem with this idea is how the game's Opening is set up. It's pretty clear the Car Pushing scene is suppose to be the Opening of the game, since we hear both the theme song and the game title, and the dialogue during this scene is re-used in the ending credits.

I was thinking they could insert either a 30minute CG cutscene of the invasion when the bros go to sleep after doing Dino's quest. Or alternatively they could end chapter 1 there and insert a new chapter 2 that would be a playable Nyx or Regis in Insomnia.

 

[Lord_Ham_Mork]

Ya know something, Pre-Invasion Insomnia isn't that hard to create at this point, Square has already set the foundation:

Of course, I still would love the Insomnia map to be bigger than what we currently have, but honestly the Royal Edition map is big enough to make a Pre-Invasion version of it.

All Square has to do is tweak the current Royal Edition map slightly [ take out all the destroyed buildings, and add the day and night cycle ], and then all that's left is to copy and past a bunch of NPC's and cars onto the map, and it's done.

The real problem isn't making the map, but rather how to implement it.

A lot of you think there should be a prologue to the game, taking place in Insomnia. But the problem with this idea is how the game's Opening is set up.

It's pretty clear the Car Pushing scene is suppose to be the Opening of the game, since we hear both the theme song and the game title, and the dialogue during this scene is re-used in the ending credits. It would make the Car Pushing Opening feel completely out of place if we have to do through a two hour prologue first.

[Although, I guess Kingdom Hearts II pulled off a four hour prologue, so why can't FFXV do the same?]

I guess the pre-prologue scene should happen after you talk to Cid in Chapter 2, with the bros sitting in a campfire feeling lonely/sad and starting a flashback where every single one see their family and friends for last time (the idea i had could be rescued, but the tutorial doesn't fit any longer). So we have a better feel of mourning from the Bros before they go active to reunite the royal weapons and procede to have fun.

Then once you have Umbra you can travel to Past Insomnia to do little side quests or the FFXIV Festival.

 

[Lord_Ham_Mork]

I was thinking they could insert either a 30minute CG cutscene of the invasion when the bros go to sleep after doing Dino's quest. Or alternatively they could end chapter 1 there and insert a new chapter 2 that would be a playable Nyx or Regis in Insomnia.

I would be the first one to buy a playable Kingsglaive. But If SE do this, people will have no reason to buy/see the movie and that would be shooting at their feet.

I also don't think that much time should be dedicated in a single cutscene, it kills the pace (the longest cutscene in the game is the ending+credits and it's only 15 minutes long).

The best thing i can think of is seeing the last day at Insomnia from Noctis perspective and meeting all characters that appear at the movie.
But it's still hard to place it in the game in a way it fits the narrative and i don't have the feeling of my idea being the best solution.

Edit:
One of the things i once though it would improve the relationship of Noctis and Luna would be having the posibility to read 3 or 4 pages of Luna's diary every time Umbra gives it to Noct, hearing a voice over from her and him to emphatise emotion and making it more comfortable to look.

In those messages we could read entries of them as kids and other of them as adults. Being one of them a message telling how much she liked when her mother played the piano, with an answer from Noctis saying he will learn and play for her.

Then, once chapter 12 is improved (let's hope it happens) you go inside Tenebrae and Noctis comments to Ignis there's a piano.
In this scene we can see how Ignis starts playing has trouble with the two hands because of the lack of visual aid, so Noctis sits at his side and plays half of the keyboard.
While the music plays, Noctis tells why he asked Iggie to teach him and how much he practiced to play for Luna at the wedding.
While they play we can se through a window reflection how Luna is looking the scene(like it happened in Omen trailer) but when Noctis looks there, there's nothing.

I think the song that should be played here is Noctis theme (the post game menu song), this way we can have even more feels when we see them together in the logo.

Damn, i touched my own feelings with this );

 

[Dorothy95]

Why not just make "Parting Ways" into cgi short movie/cutscene or make it playabe? Sure, there's no fighting or action, but it won't differ from many quests that we already have in game like go there, bring this, talk with that npc etc. And we would see a lot of Insomnia, plus Noctis' apartment :>

 

[Loganight]

Man I don't know, I wanna explore pre-invasion Insomnia as much as the rest of you but there is just no place for it in the main game. Tagging it on to any current parts of the game just wouldn't really work imo. I could see it as a seperate DLC maybe (like how Episode Prompto allowed us to finally explore the snowy region of Niflheim) but that's about it.

 

[Dorothy95]

Man I don't know, I wanna explore pre-invasion Insomnia as much as the rest of you but there is just no place for it in the main game. Tagging it on to any current parts of the game just wouldn't really work imo. I could see it as a seperate DLC maybe (like how Episode Prompto allowed us to finally explore the snowy region of Niflheim) but that's about it.

well,yeah....it would work only as a separate, big dlc. BUT I think that since they have probably most of Insomnia untouched modelled they will use it eventually. It would be such a waste not to do it!

 

[Storm]

Man I don't know, I wanna explore pre-invasion Insomnia as much as the rest of you but there is just no place for it in the main game. Tagging it on to any current parts of the game just wouldn't really work imo. I could see it as a seperate DLC maybe (like how Episode Prompto allowed us to finally explore the snowy region of Niflheim) but that's about it.

playable flashbacks
umbra memory travel

 

[Loganight]

flashbacks
umbra memory travel

Yeah sure that's how it could work mechanically but nowhere in the game's story would it be a good idea to tag on an hour long section in non-destroyed Insomnia. It would negate what they were going for with the intro to the game and it would feel weighty at the end of chapter 1 like some have suggested.