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I'll be doing all I can to tide me over, even KH3, and Comrades, and even runnign around the Insomnia Ruins if I have to. I have a decent amount of patience for things, I'm here excited that Episode: Ardyn takes place is taking place 2,000 years ago, and that Episode: Aranea is happening, and telling of the Niflheim empire's fall, those two Episodes are what I'm looking forward to the most, I will get Lunefreya's Episode, only to see what will happen, as I'm open to more content for her, as for Episode: Noctis, that's debate-table, as that's an alternate ending thing, but we'll see.
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Rewatching the panel, it is clear all the DLC episodes are geared towards the "alternate happy ending". Before they go into detail about them, there's a slide that states "The concept for the new DLC episodes is to realize a future everyone longed for". Episodes. Plural. So it's not only the 4th one.
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That's what I think as well, I think each of them will have a canon ending, and an alternate ending that can be unlocked after beating the canon ending, just like Episode: Ignis. I'd be fine with it if it was like that.
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I feel so represented by the audience at the panel though.
Happy ending picture is shown. No one claps.
Episode Ardyn is announced. Everyone cheers.
Episode Aranea is announced. Everyone cheers.
Episode Luna is announced. Everyone cheers.
They ask who the audience want to see? People shout "Regis". No one mentions "alternate ending".
Alternate ending episode is announced. Silence. Someone lets out a disappointing "oh".
Happy ending picture is shown. No one claps.
Episode Ardyn is announced. Everyone cheers.
Episode Aranea is announced. Everyone cheers.
Episode Luna is announced. Everyone cheers.
They ask who the audience want to see? People shout "Regis". No one mentions "alternate ending".
Alternate ending episode is announced. Silence. Someone lets out a disappointing "oh".
thinking about it, i think Ep Noctis will be about him trying to save Luna and Ardyn from their fate; especially after learning about Ardyn's past, i think he'll feel the need to save him from his "darkness" without killing him; maybe he'll destroy the crystal? lol
modders will... maybe lol
I'm really worried about them expanding the 2nd continent... it might not happen. RIP my dream of running around Cartanica 
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That could be the basis of Episode: Noctis, but we'll see, I know earlier I said happy endings are overrated, but I am curious about this, especially seeing that image, and I really feel bad for Ardyn, depending on how they handle them, it might not be so bad, as long as the endings are treated similarly like how Episode: Ignis did, by having a canon ending that ties into the main game, and an alternate ending you can unlock after beating the canon ending.
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I'm honestly fine with the alternate endings as long as they keep them as just that, alternate endings. I'm kinda happy that they're expanding upon that concept more though as it would've been a bit half-assed to leave it at "yeah Omen is a thing but we're not gonna touch upon that in any substantial way" or "Yeah happy Noct ending that we're not gonna do any explaining about." I'm thinking that at least Luna's DLC will be an extension of Episode Ignis to a degree with her pulling something off in the spirit world that allows Noctis to live there. Though I think the way they'll handle it is that they'll make the main path of that DLC tie in with the main game where nothing changes and the best she can do is rush to help with the 5 astral summon while the alternate one ties in with Verse 2 where he gets to live if they wanna make Episode Luna canon to any degree.
As for Ardyn I didn't see anything about an alternate ending (maybe he has one where everything ends in ruins) so his DLC seems to be strictly canon as far as I can tell. Episode Aranea seems to be FFXV from the Niff's perspective so it's also entirely canon and is probably gonna serve as our window into exploring gralea, tennebrae, and pretty much all the latter half areas that were severely watered down or straight up cut. Episode Noctis seems like it's entirely its own self contained timeline though and it seems to be implied that everyone survives due to Noctis handling things differently in key moments (I know not everyone likes him but this kinda ties into FF Peasant's theory about a stitch in time by Regis that replays everything until Noct does things right and saves everyone).
I'm also thinking this is their answer to the criticism that Ardyn wasn't as interesting of a fight compared to everything that came before so I'm fully expecting a balls to walls crazy fight fully utilizing everything the game has to offer that'll put even Verse 2 Iggy to shame. Overall though I'll be ok with all this alternate timeline stuff if Episode Ardyn, Episode Luna, and Episode Aranea can tie up all the loose ends by the time Episode Noctis happens. If I can get a fully fleshed out version of the main timeline before the final Episode ultimately just goes in a completely different direction with no canon story at all I'll be fine with it. If not then well shit, FFXV's story may permanently be doomed to be incomplete as hell.
As for Ardyn I didn't see anything about an alternate ending (maybe he has one where everything ends in ruins) so his DLC seems to be strictly canon as far as I can tell. Episode Aranea seems to be FFXV from the Niff's perspective so it's also entirely canon and is probably gonna serve as our window into exploring gralea, tennebrae, and pretty much all the latter half areas that were severely watered down or straight up cut. Episode Noctis seems like it's entirely its own self contained timeline though and it seems to be implied that everyone survives due to Noctis handling things differently in key moments (I know not everyone likes him but this kinda ties into FF Peasant's theory about a stitch in time by Regis that replays everything until Noct does things right and saves everyone).
I'm also thinking this is their answer to the criticism that Ardyn wasn't as interesting of a fight compared to everything that came before so I'm fully expecting a balls to walls crazy fight fully utilizing everything the game has to offer that'll put even Verse 2 Iggy to shame. Overall though I'll be ok with all this alternate timeline stuff if Episode Ardyn, Episode Luna, and Episode Aranea can tie up all the loose ends by the time Episode Noctis happens. If I can get a fully fleshed out version of the main timeline before the final Episode ultimately just goes in a completely different direction with no canon story at all I'll be fine with it. If not then well shit, FFXV's story may permanently be doomed to be incomplete as hell.
Same, stayed with this project for 10 years of development hell and so far a year and a half of post launch support. At this point I'm obligated by my investment of time to stick it out to the end. lol
To be honest the alternate timelines thing was already there from the start since the debut of Omen, it's not a concept that was recently crammed in so I feel like they had to expand on it to some degree.
To be honest the alternate timelines thing was already there from the start since the debut of Omen, it's not a concept that was recently crammed in so I feel like they had to expand on it to some degree.
Yeah, even though technically I got interested in FFXV after seeing the 2011 Versus XIII trailer back in 2011 or 2012, but still, I'm here to the end.
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