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Interesting, what kind of changes? Other than the destruction of course lol. I'm really curious how big the city is going to be... I'm hoping it's their original vision for it, as it was going to be before time constraints forced them to scrap it from the game.
Before this project finally comes to an end, after more than a decade... I'd like to see a full fledged Insomnia in-game.
Before this project finally comes to an end, after more than a decade... I'd like to see a full fledged Insomnia in-game.
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considering Adagium is one of Lucis dark secrets thats probably why the invasion was never mentioned, they tried to hide or cover everything about it as much as possible.
if the true story of what happened would come out it would shake the trust of the people, meaning the dinasty they followed for millenia was built in treason, that the gods allowed a murderer to be the worlds savior.
Inconsistecies aside I simply love the added layer on the story. Now Adagium story can be told.
if the true story of what happened would come out it would shake the trust of the people, meaning the dinasty they followed for millenia was built in treason, that the gods allowed a murderer to be the worlds savior.
Inconsistecies aside I simply love the added layer on the story. Now Adagium story can be told.
My bet is a Verse 2 against Bahamuth.
He's teased in the trailer and being "Dawn of the Future" about a second timeline, i can see a what if of Ardyn defeating the gods.
He's teased in the trailer and being "Dawn of the Future" about a second timeline, i can see a what if of Ardyn defeating the gods.
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A fight with Nyx would be pretty epic, and a good way to put to use that character model which already exists of him but I don't think he's even alive at that point is he? Certainly not old enough to fight anyway. Hmm... I wonder. Maybe it'll be a blast to the past where we have an opportunity to fight against Somnus & Gilgamesh and if we win we get a little cutscene showing us how different things could've been if Ardyn had become king.
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Who knows for sure, but whatever alternative content Episode: Ardyn may have had, it may have been taken out to be put into the novel that was announced along with the cancelled DLC.
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Looks like SE is restructuring again.
http://www.hd.square-enix.com/eng/news/pdf/19q3Outline.pdf
According to that it says they are reorganizing and consoliding the 11 Business Divisions into 4 Business Units as of FY2020/3.
I wonder if this has anything to do with the DLC cancellation since the 3 DLC that were cancelled would have fallen into a FY2020 timeframe.
http://www.hd.square-enix.com/eng/news/pdf/19q3Outline.pdf
According to that it says they are reorganizing and consoliding the 11 Business Divisions into 4 Business Units as of FY2020/3.
I wonder if this has anything to do with the DLC cancellation since the 3 DLC that were cancelled would have fallen into a FY2020 timeframe.
Looks like SE is restructuring again.
http://www.hd.square-enix.com/eng/news/pdf/19q3Outline.pdf
According to that it says they are reorganizing and consoliding the 11 Business Divisions into 4 Business Units as of FY2020/3.
I wonder if this has anything to do with the DLC cancellation since the 3 DLC that were cancelled would have fallen into a FY2020 timeframe.
http://www.hd.square-enix.com/eng/news/pdf/19q3Outline.pdf
According to that it says they are reorganizing and consoliding the 11 Business Divisions into 4 Business Units as of FY2020/3.
I wonder if this has anything to do with the DLC cancellation since the 3 DLC that were cancelled would have fallen into a FY2020 timeframe.
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Looks like SE is restructuring again.
http://www.hd.square-enix.com/eng/news/pdf/19q3Outline.pdf
According to that it says they are reorganizing and consoliding the 11 Business Divisions into 4 Business Units as of FY2020/3.
I wonder if this has anything to do with the DLC cancellation since the 3 DLC that were cancelled would have fallen into a FY2020 timeframe.
http://www.hd.square-enix.com/eng/news/pdf/19q3Outline.pdf
According to that it says they are reorganizing and consoliding the 11 Business Divisions into 4 Business Units as of FY2020/3.
I wonder if this has anything to do with the DLC cancellation since the 3 DLC that were cancelled would have fallen into a FY2020 timeframe.
It makes me more hopeful for what we're gonna receive next month.
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Looks like SE is restructuring again.
http://www.hd.square-enix.com/eng/news/pdf/19q3Outline.pdf
According to that it says they are reorganizing and consoliding the 11 Business Divisions into 4 Business Units as of FY2020/3.
I wonder if this has anything to do with the DLC cancellation since the 3 DLC that were cancelled would have fallen into a FY2020 timeframe.
http://www.hd.square-enix.com/eng/news/pdf/19q3Outline.pdf
According to that it says they are reorganizing and consoliding the 11 Business Divisions into 4 Business Units as of FY2020/3.
I wonder if this has anything to do with the DLC cancellation since the 3 DLC that were cancelled would have fallen into a FY2020 timeframe.
Looks like SE is restructuring again.
http://www.hd.square-enix.com/eng/news/pdf/19q3Outline.pdf
According to that it says they are reorganizing and consoliding the 11 Business Divisions into 4 Business Units as of FY2020/3.
I wonder if this has anything to do with the DLC cancellation since the 3 DLC that were cancelled would have fallen into a FY2020 timeframe.
http://www.hd.square-enix.com/eng/news/pdf/19q3Outline.pdf
According to that it says they are reorganizing and consoliding the 11 Business Divisions into 4 Business Units as of FY2020/3.
I wonder if this has anything to do with the DLC cancellation since the 3 DLC that were cancelled would have fallen into a FY2020 timeframe.
They've had a very large number of departments/divisions ever since the Enix merger in 2003. Back in the Production Department days they had 10 (eight from Square, two from Enix), then that expanded to 11 Business Divisions following the 2013 restructuring.
This scaling back does makes sense as they've transitioned from developing everything completely in-house to outsourcing AA or less vital games to external studios while keeping larger or more significant projects in-house. They've also started creating second-party studios (Tokyo RPG Factory, Studio Istolia, Luminous Productions) which handle projects separate from their established IPs.
So, actually, consolidating the current structure into a more manageable unit could work in the company's favour. If they handle it right.
Goodness knows how it'll affect in-development projects.
Just speculating here but it seems Ardyn has a Summoning Meter instead of a Armiger one that will, presumably, let you play as Ifrit when it's fully charged. I mean there's a moment in the video where you can see the techniques available during that mode and all of them belong to Ifrit, and there's a completely new moveset on the side of the screen so... maaaaybe.
I hope I'm right because that would be pretty epic.
I hope I'm right because that would be pretty epic.
The funny thing is, if the treachery wasn't a secret, it probably wouldn't have done as much damage.
Like, Somnus' closest real-life parallel would probably be King David, whose successor was born to a woman he had taken from her husband by intentionally sending said husband off on a suicide mission. And that's in the official records!
Of course, the problem with Ardyn is that his existence is better hidden for reasons other than Somnus' reputation. If Ardyn had actually died, though, Somnus being honest about what happened almost certainly would have been better in the long run.
EDIT: Waaaaaaaait a second. I might have figured Somnus out!
So, for most of the episode, Somnus is cold and pragmatic. He does whatever he thinks he has to, without letting inconvenient emotions or empathy get in the way.
But then, when he confronts Ardyn, he changes completely. Instead of his usual cold, rational mask, he smirks and struts and makes wild false accusations in front of as big an audience as he could muster, attacks his brother as if he'd been waiting for the opportunity for ages, calls the murdered Oracle "foolish woman," and teams up with his shield to continue slashing at Ardyn even after Ardyn turns his back to them.
...and, once the witnesses are gone, Somnus' expressions go pensive and blank again.
What if Somnus wanted his people to think that his rewriting of history was the result of him being a terrible person, so that no one would ever have any reason to consider that Ardyn might have been hidden because he was still dangerous? That'd certainly explain how different he seems in that scene.
Like, Somnus' closest real-life parallel would probably be King David, whose successor was born to a woman he had taken from her husband by intentionally sending said husband off on a suicide mission. And that's in the official records!
Of course, the problem with Ardyn is that his existence is better hidden for reasons other than Somnus' reputation. If Ardyn had actually died, though, Somnus being honest about what happened almost certainly would have been better in the long run.
EDIT: Waaaaaaaait a second. I might have figured Somnus out!
So, for most of the episode, Somnus is cold and pragmatic. He does whatever he thinks he has to, without letting inconvenient emotions or empathy get in the way.
But then, when he confronts Ardyn, he changes completely. Instead of his usual cold, rational mask, he smirks and struts and makes wild false accusations in front of as big an audience as he could muster, attacks his brother as if he'd been waiting for the opportunity for ages, calls the murdered Oracle "foolish woman," and teams up with his shield to continue slashing at Ardyn even after Ardyn turns his back to them.
...and, once the witnesses are gone, Somnus' expressions go pensive and blank again.
What if Somnus wanted his people to think that his rewriting of history was the result of him being a terrible person, so that no one would ever have any reason to consider that Ardyn might have been hidden because he was still dangerous? That'd certainly explain how different he seems in that scene.
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There's some new screens floating around that showcase a bit more:
https://gematsu.com/2019/02/final-fantasy-xv-dlc-episode-ardyn-first-details-screenshots
https://gematsu.com/2019/02/final-fantasy-xv-dlc-episode-ardyn-first-details-screenshots
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Something interesting to point out is that we can see people using the teleportation Caelum powers to fight against Ifrit while Ardyn is wearing his white outfit.
I have no clue to what are they're doing in a Niffleheim base.
Aside from that, i could swear Somnus is dubbed by Ray Chase. This could mean that he recorded things before his last work as Noctis ( he stated that his last day at the job was with his couple doing the FFXIV collab). Opening the possibility to have more cutscenes introduced in the game.
I have no clue to what are they're doing in a Niffleheim base.
Aside from that, i could swear Somnus is dubbed by Ray Chase. This could mean that he recorded things before his last work as Noctis ( he stated that his last day at the job was with his couple doing the FFXIV collab). Opening the possibility to have more cutscenes introduced in the game.
Not sure why, what appear to be, Regis' Glaives are there but the dialogue (which is kinda hard to hear) during that scene has Ardyn asking Ifrit for his blessing to gain his power so the context for the fight is that it's Ifrit's trial. It also seems like they're using Ifrit's original model for that fight before they updated it to have the Starscourge on it in chapter 14 which makes sense since it looks like when Ifrit is holding Ardyn in his hand he starts to corrupt him. So that raises the interesting question of whether or not Ifrit actually willingly joined Ardyn. The game has always been really vague about the circumstances of their partnership so it should be cool to have that cleared up. It'll also be cool if we finally get to hear Ifrit talk, at least before he's turned into a daemon.
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