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what a fucking mess
obviously the amateurish FFXV marketing team drop the news right on the 2nd anniversary because they thought it was worth for a present.
silence is always bad news for SQ, it was true for Versus, it was true for these canned DLCs and its probably true for FFVIIR.
the way this project was handled was embarassing, to think they managed to make something good (yet unfulfilled) from this is a miracle.
at least the alternate ending idea is done for good, and we're still getting Ep Ardyn which was going to be the most relevant anyway, losing playable Luna sucks though.
obviously the amateurish FFXV marketing team drop the news right on the 2nd anniversary because they thought it was worth for a present.
silence is always bad news for SQ, it was true for Versus, it was true for these canned DLCs and its probably true for FFVIIR.
the way this project was handled was embarassing, to think they managed to make something good (yet unfulfilled) from this is a miracle.
at least the alternate ending idea is done for good, and we're still getting Ep Ardyn which was going to be the most relevant anyway, losing playable Luna sucks though.
Yeah, man, I'm glad that Episode: Ardyn was spared, but I'm still very bitter that they cancelled Aranea's Episode... Also, to summarize a few things during your absence, NoxFleuret told us that Sylva told him that pre-destroyed Insomnia in Ardyn's Episode will have some exploration in it, in addition to fights with QTEs, as well there being allocations for Aranea's Episode, and play the first five opening minutes of Aranea's Episode after you beat Ardyn's Episode before being notified to pay for it, which won't happen now, with Episode: Aranea being on Episode: Ardyn's menu, and there was a prompt to purchase the prologue animation as well.
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don't think i've ever seen this one. stella entering a building...this one with the aquarium i guess
seems like the party in which noctis and stella meet was a treaty signing one - probably for important people to watch it "live". somehow i never realised that xD
https://www.mognetcentral.com/threads/final-fantasy-xv-general-news-thread.3288/page-837
There was some artwork in the artbook that is Visual Works concept art showin
And at that time Luna still had the white Roen party dress and wore her hair down too, which is reflected in this artwork here of her (despite her design being basically identical to 2013 Stella's at the time)
You can see in the previs here that in early CG tests with Nyx and Luna that Luna still had the white Roen dress and wore her hair down, this stuff was created sometime between October 2013 and 2015.
And at that time Luna still had the white Roen party dress and wore her hair down too, which is reflected in this artwork here of her (despite her design being basically identical to 2013 Stella's at the time)
You can see in the previs here that in early CG tests with Nyx and Luna that Luna still had the white Roen dress and wore her hair down, this stuff was created sometime between October 2013 and 2015.
There is a reason why he was taken off XV to begin with.
cool shot of clarus from old trailer. i will never understand why they changed his design....
It looks like even in mid 2015 according to the date "150728", or 28th of July 2015 here from when they were doing mocap for Kingsglaive that Clarus still had the old hair/beard/face but in the outfit current Clarus has, then sometime after that they changed his face/hair/beard completely.
yeah...i really wanted to play the invasion and feel the dark atmosphere/tension, but then again theres the royaln edition with the expanded Insomnia and I didnt played the game over 1 year long.
So I will start the game to the beginn after Episode Ardyn is there.
Actually in the Dawn Trailer theres one frame you get to see this here:
This pic is so sad and at the same time just shocking. Now we know that the man was Caligo (and not Regis as some of us were thinking that, like me xD).
In the final game we captured Caligo in a Niflheim base but than he escaped. I always found that pretty strange, because the whole mission was useless and didnt made any sense. Did Noct and the others wanted to capture him, because he killed Jared or something?
Perhaps in the original story Caligo talked to Noct or someone else or just remembered how he attacked Luna ect.
So I will start the game to the beginn after Episode Ardyn is there.
Actually in the Dawn Trailer theres one frame you get to see this here:
This pic is so sad and at the same time just shocking. Now we know that the man was Caligo (and not Regis as some of us were thinking that, like me xD).
In the final game we captured Caligo in a Niflheim base but than he escaped. I always found that pretty strange, because the whole mission was useless and didnt made any sense. Did Noct and the others wanted to capture him, because he killed Jared or something?
Perhaps in the original story Caligo talked to Noct or someone else or just remembered how he attacked Luna ect.
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I highly doubt Glauca was supposed to be Clarus. There is another face that we see in the 2013 CG faces that we never saw again, people often mistook this face for Cor but it ain't.
Here's Cor's face just for comparison.
Something common I've seen people say is that this unknown man could have been the original Drautos, before they had a mocap actor facial scanned for his face. I can see where they are coming from too, though I'm not sure if the character of Drautos in particular was ever a part of FFXV prior to Kingsglaive becoming a thing. So if this unknown man was supposed to be Drautos, we'll probably never know.
The only character with short dark brown hair with blueish eyes we ever saw prior to XV was the Driver from the 2011 Versus trailer, the one heard saying "Noctis Ouji" repeatedly in the trailer, who Nomura had confirmed was originally voiced by Hiroki Touchi, but that Hiroki Touchi later became Cor's voice actor by 2013 and Nomura said that the Driver now had a different VA. Maybe the unknown man from 2013 CG face renders was a modified version of this man, who BTW is also wearing Roen clothes, as indicated by the Roen skull on his vest.
I always thought it was odd that this supposed innocuous man was shown almost as much times in this scene as Noctis was, and this is pretty baseless on my part here but what if this dude was Glauca, or an original incarnation of "Drautos"?
After Noctis mentions that the Niflheim ships heading to the Citadel look as if it's gonna be taken over the Driver looks at Noctis then shifts his gaze in the opposite direction and purses his lips and "swallows" his lips, and then laughs Noctis's comments off, in terms of body language what he did on his mouth is a sign of hiding the truth, or suppressing information, sort of like how crossing your arms means someone is being defensive. If this man was actually Glauca, wouldn't he know about the incoming invasion and intentions of Niflheim? And when Noctis made that comment the body language the gives off falls more inline with someone hiding or suppressing the truth, as if he does know the truth and is purposely trying to hide it from Noctis by laughing it off.
This man also waves to some Lucis royal guards we can see standing by the gate, at first I thought they were saluting because Noctis was in the car, but what if they were saluting because this Driver was actually himself someone in Lucis upper military? He's driving Noctis around so back in 2011 people assumed he must be low on the ranking and just a driver, but Cor drove Regis around and he is general of the Crownsguard, and even in Kingsglaive Drautos drives around Noctis's car, so what if this guy was someone important within the Lucis military given that he is the one driving Noctis around?
I wonder if Drautos being the one driving around Noctis's car is in anyway a nod, assuming the 2011 Driver was the original "Drautos". Even during this scene Drautos is hiding information and pretending to be ignorant about what's really going on to Nyx.
And in the 2011 trailer when driving off the Royal Guards salute the driver as a show of respect.
These guards from the 2011 trailer are still used as we see them a lot in Kingsglaive and they even made a whole named character as one.
And in Kingsglaive there's also this scene where a Niflheim person is talking off to that Royal Guard who when Drautos comes in the scene fixes his posture and stands up straight as a sign of respect.
It's not really much to go off of but at the very least I think they are nods.
Here's Cor's face just for comparison.
Something common I've seen people say is that this unknown man could have been the original Drautos, before they had a mocap actor facial scanned for his face. I can see where they are coming from too, though I'm not sure if the character of Drautos in particular was ever a part of FFXV prior to Kingsglaive becoming a thing. So if this unknown man was supposed to be Drautos, we'll probably never know.
The only character with short dark brown hair with blueish eyes we ever saw prior to XV was the Driver from the 2011 Versus trailer, the one heard saying "Noctis Ouji" repeatedly in the trailer, who Nomura had confirmed was originally voiced by Hiroki Touchi, but that Hiroki Touchi later became Cor's voice actor by 2013 and Nomura said that the Driver now had a different VA. Maybe the unknown man from 2013 CG face renders was a modified version of this man, who BTW is also wearing Roen clothes, as indicated by the Roen skull on his vest.
I always thought it was odd that this supposed innocuous man was shown almost as much times in this scene as Noctis was, and this is pretty baseless on my part here but what if this dude was Glauca, or an original incarnation of "Drautos"?
After Noctis mentions that the Niflheim ships heading to the Citadel look as if it's gonna be taken over the Driver looks at Noctis then shifts his gaze in the opposite direction and purses his lips and "swallows" his lips, and then laughs Noctis's comments off, in terms of body language what he did on his mouth is a sign of hiding the truth, or suppressing information, sort of like how crossing your arms means someone is being defensive. If this man was actually Glauca, wouldn't he know about the incoming invasion and intentions of Niflheim? And when Noctis made that comment the body language the gives off falls more inline with someone hiding or suppressing the truth, as if he does know the truth and is purposely trying to hide it from Noctis by laughing it off.
This man also waves to some Lucis royal guards we can see standing by the gate, at first I thought they were saluting because Noctis was in the car, but what if they were saluting because this Driver was actually himself someone in Lucis upper military? He's driving Noctis around so back in 2011 people assumed he must be low on the ranking and just a driver, but Cor drove Regis around and he is general of the Crownsguard, and even in Kingsglaive Drautos drives around Noctis's car, so what if this guy was someone important within the Lucis military given that he is the one driving Noctis around?
I wonder if Drautos being the one driving around Noctis's car is in anyway a nod, assuming the 2011 Driver was the original "Drautos". Even during this scene Drautos is hiding information and pretending to be ignorant about what's really going on to Nyx.
And in the 2011 trailer when driving off the Royal Guards salute the driver as a show of respect.
These guards from the 2011 trailer are still used as we see them a lot in Kingsglaive and they even made a whole named character as one.
And in Kingsglaive there's also this scene where a Niflheim person is talking off to that Royal Guard who when Drautos comes in the scene fixes his posture and stands up straight as a sign of respect.
It's not really much to go off of but at the very least I think they are nods.
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I highly doubt Glauca was supposed to be Clarus. There is another face that we see in the 2013 CG faces that we never saw again, people often mistook this face for Cor but it ain't.
Here's Cor's face just for comparison.
Something common I've seen people say is that this unknown man could have been the original Drautos, before they had a mocap actor facial scanned for his face. I can see where they are coming from too, though I'm not sure if the character of Drautos in particular was ever a part of FFXV prior to Kingsglaive becoming a thing. So if this unknown man was supposed to be Drautos, we'll probably never know.
Here's Cor's face just for comparison.
Something common I've seen people say is that this unknown man could have been the original Drautos, before they had a mocap actor facial scanned for his face. I can see where they are coming from too, though I'm not sure if the character of Drautos in particular was ever a part of FFXV prior to Kingsglaive becoming a thing. So if this unknown man was supposed to be Drautos, we'll probably never know.
I've read articles about how Final Fantasy VII and X changed from their original concepts, but XV's changes happened publicly. It does feel like expectations have been hurt. A lot of these old ideas were more interesting than what we ended up with.
Hoping that Clarus appears in Episode Ardyn. All they need to do is drop in a carbon copy Gladiolus enemy NPC, with his model altered a little bit!
All that's left then is to see Ignis's father...
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I highly doubt Glauca was supposed to be Clarus. There is another face that we see in the 2013 CG faces that we never saw again, people often mistook this face for Cor but it ain't.
Here's Cor's face just for comparison.
Something common I've seen people say is that this unknown man could have been the original Drautos, before they had a mocap actor facial scanned for his face. I can see where they are coming from too, though I'm not sure if the character of Drautos in particular was ever a part of FFXV prior to Kingsglaive becoming a thing. So if this unknown man was supposed to be Drautos, we'll probably never know.
The only character with short dark brown hair with blueish eyes we ever saw prior to XV was the Driver from the 2011 Versus trailer, the one heard saying "Noctis Ouji" repeatedly in the trailer, who Nomura had confirmed was originally voiced by Hiroki Touchi, but that Hiroki Touchi later became Cor's voice actor by 2013 and Nomura said that the Driver now had a different VA. Maybe the unknown man from 2013 CG face renders was a modified version of this man, who BTW is also wearing Roen clothes, as indicated by the Roen skull on his vest.
I always thought it was odd that this supposed innocuous man was shown almost as much times in this scene as Noctis was, and this is pretty baseless on my part here but what if this dude was Glauca, or an original incarnation of "Drautos"?
After Noctis mentions that the Niflheim ships heading to the Citadel look as if it's gonna be taken over the Driver looks at Noctis then shifts his gaze in the opposite direction and purses his lips and "swallows" his lips, and then laughs Noctis's comments off, in terms of body language what he did on his mouth is a sign of hiding the truth, or suppressing information, sort of like how crossing your arms means someone is being defensive. If this man was actually Glauca, wouldn't he know about the incoming invasion and intentions of Niflheim? And when Noctis made that comment the body language the gives off falls more inline with someone hiding or suppressing the truth, as if he does know the truth and is purposely trying to hide it from Noctis by laughing it off.
This man also waves to some Lucis royal guards we can see standing by the gate, at first I thought they were saluting because Noctis was in the car, but what if they were saluting because this Driver was actually himself someone in Lucis upper military? He's driving Noctis around so back in 2011 people assumed he must be low on the ranking and just a driver, but Cor drove Regis around and he is general of the Crownsguard, and even in Kingsglaive Drautos drives around Noctis's car, so what if this guy was someone important within the Lucis military given that he is the one driving Noctis around?
I wonder if Drautos being the one driving around Noctis's car is in anyway a nod, assuming the 2011 Driver was the original "Drautos". Even during this scene Drautos is hiding information and pretending to be ignorant about what's really going on to Nyx.
And in the 2011 trailer when driving off the Royal Guards salute the driver as a show of respect.
These guards from the 2011 trailer are still used as we see them a lot in Kingsglaive and they even made a whole named character as one.
And in Kingsglaive there's also this scene where a Niflheim person is talking off to that Royal Guard who when Drautos comes in the scene fixes his posture and stands up straight as a sign of respect.
It's not really much to go off of but at the very least I think they are nods.
Here's Cor's face just for comparison.
Something common I've seen people say is that this unknown man could have been the original Drautos, before they had a mocap actor facial scanned for his face. I can see where they are coming from too, though I'm not sure if the character of Drautos in particular was ever a part of FFXV prior to Kingsglaive becoming a thing. So if this unknown man was supposed to be Drautos, we'll probably never know.
The only character with short dark brown hair with blueish eyes we ever saw prior to XV was the Driver from the 2011 Versus trailer, the one heard saying "Noctis Ouji" repeatedly in the trailer, who Nomura had confirmed was originally voiced by Hiroki Touchi, but that Hiroki Touchi later became Cor's voice actor by 2013 and Nomura said that the Driver now had a different VA. Maybe the unknown man from 2013 CG face renders was a modified version of this man, who BTW is also wearing Roen clothes, as indicated by the Roen skull on his vest.
I always thought it was odd that this supposed innocuous man was shown almost as much times in this scene as Noctis was, and this is pretty baseless on my part here but what if this dude was Glauca, or an original incarnation of "Drautos"?
After Noctis mentions that the Niflheim ships heading to the Citadel look as if it's gonna be taken over the Driver looks at Noctis then shifts his gaze in the opposite direction and purses his lips and "swallows" his lips, and then laughs Noctis's comments off, in terms of body language what he did on his mouth is a sign of hiding the truth, or suppressing information, sort of like how crossing your arms means someone is being defensive. If this man was actually Glauca, wouldn't he know about the incoming invasion and intentions of Niflheim? And when Noctis made that comment the body language the gives off falls more inline with someone hiding or suppressing the truth, as if he does know the truth and is purposely trying to hide it from Noctis by laughing it off.
This man also waves to some Lucis royal guards we can see standing by the gate, at first I thought they were saluting because Noctis was in the car, but what if they were saluting because this Driver was actually himself someone in Lucis upper military? He's driving Noctis around so back in 2011 people assumed he must be low on the ranking and just a driver, but Cor drove Regis around and he is general of the Crownsguard, and even in Kingsglaive Drautos drives around Noctis's car, so what if this guy was someone important within the Lucis military given that he is the one driving Noctis around?
I wonder if Drautos being the one driving around Noctis's car is in anyway a nod, assuming the 2011 Driver was the original "Drautos". Even during this scene Drautos is hiding information and pretending to be ignorant about what's really going on to Nyx.
And in the 2011 trailer when driving off the Royal Guards salute the driver as a show of respect.
These guards from the 2011 trailer are still used as we see them a lot in Kingsglaive and they even made a whole named character as one.
And in Kingsglaive there's also this scene where a Niflheim person is talking off to that Royal Guard who when Drautos comes in the scene fixes his posture and stands up straight as a sign of respect.
It's not really much to go off of but at the very least I think they are nods.
How much of Insomnia do you think we can explore in Episode Ardyn?! I hope it is something similar to the expanded Insomnia in the Royal Pack dlc.
There's a bunch of a nice places in that city, I really want to see something similar to the concepts of Kingsglave: FFXV in that episode.
There's a bunch of a nice places in that city, I really want to see something similar to the concepts of Kingsglave: FFXV in that episode.
Reception for the FFXIII trilogy had nothing to do with them not doing multiple releases for FFXV though, ditto for VII Remake which is going for multiple parts.
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