Final Fantasy XV - General News Thread

[Guitar (pseudo)God]

Not going to lie, it's super disappointing that the leaker who bashed the game turned out to be right after all.

I guess the only thing you can be happy with is that the second leaker said the game had good progress afterwards. Still...

The second leaker was way more positive about the game. And his description of it (appropriate caveats as necessary) made it sound damn cool to me.
https://boards.fireden.net/v/thread/346221413

 

[TheOneWhoIsTornApart]

Not going to lie, it's super disappointing that the leaker who bashed the game turned out to be right after all.

I guess the only thing you can be happy with is that the second leaker said the game had good progress afterwards. Still...

Why would you look at the leaks in the first place?. It seems completely crazy to me to look at something like that.

 

[wmlk]

The second leaker was way more positive about the game. And his description of it (appropriate caveats as necessary) made it sound damn cool to me.
https://boards.fireden.net/v/thread/346221413

Yeah, you can still have hope that the story works well while playing the game. It just sucks knowing it.

Why would you look at the leaks in the first place?. It seems completely crazy to me to look at something like that.

I was accidentally spoiled the entire thing when I was looking for just one part. It was my mistake, but I think it sucks knowing that a game you've been long anticipating has been spoiled.

I'm just hoping I forget it somehow lol.

 

[DrBretto]

Why would you look at the leaks in the first place?. It seems completely crazy to me to look at something like that.

I'm totally with you, but the leaks get blasted all over the place. It's super easy to run into them accidentally.

 

[TheOneWhoIsTornApart]

Yeah, you can still have hope that the story works well while playing the game. It just sucks knowing it.



I was accidentally spoiled the entire thing when I was looking for just one part. It was my mistake, but I think it sucks knowing that a game you've been long anticipating has been spoiled.

I'm just hoping I forget it somehow lol.

That sucks man. I haven't seen them thankfully but how much of the game would you say was spoiled for you?. Is it possible that there is a lot more of the game that you don't know about?.

 

[DrBretto]

That sucks man. I haven't seen them thankfully but how much of the game would you say was spoiled for you?. Is it possible that there is a lot more of the game that you don't know about?.

The spoilers are a few context-free factoids. I honestly barely feel spoiled and I HATE spoilers.

 

[wmlk]

That sucks man. I haven't seen them thankfully but how much of the game would you say was spoiled for you?. Is it possible that there is a lot more of the game that you don't know about?.

It was just a basic synopsis. Like, 10 points of the story and that's it. However, each of those points are presumably the key moments in the game from what is sounds like.

The story synopsis is very short and so it's easy to get spoiled.

Previously, we were saying that it was fake since he left out a few characters entirely, as well a a few other events that we knew about from interviews.

EDIT: For those who haven't seen the spoilers, I'm not saying it's good or bad. It can be either one really, so there's no reason for this to be a downer. It's all down to the execution. You can make a synopsis for any story and make it sound terrible. For me though, I'm always going to look for those key moments in the story now that I know about them when I play the game, and that's a situation you never want to be in.

 

[DrBretto]

Will somebody tell the dummies on NeoGaf that they're all slitting their wrists over the wrong leaks before someone jumps off a bridge? My account is still awaiting activation.

 

[wmlk]

Will somebody tell the dummies on NeoGaf that they're all slitting their wrists over the wrong leaks before someone jumps off a bridge? My account is still awaiting activation.

Lol right now the people who are actually being reasonable are making story synopses for popular games. This was my favourite one for FFXII (Vaan in particular:

FF XII leaks:
- Boy wants to be a sky pirate
- does nothing
- does nothing at the ending

 

[DrBretto]

Lol right now the people who are actually being reasonable are making story synopses for popular games. This was my favourite one for FFXII (Vaan in particular:

FF XII leaks:
- Boy wants to be a sky pirate
- does nothing
- does nothing at the ending

Ha! I saw one for FFVI, but I was only skimming. It's funny, that's the same method I was trying to use when talking people off the ledge the first time the leaks showed up, lol.

 

[AverageAfro]

This makes me sad. It also irks me that they're an hour of sync.

 

[BladeRunner]

Colored chocobos make me so happy!

 

[SonOfEtro]

The full gameplay video, in English, clocking in at around 53 minutes.

 

[Koozek]

Just saw this new preview about the first three chapters from videogamer.com:

Full disclosure: hating Final Fantasy is something of a trademark of mine. I think FFVII is, to be elegant about it, a bag of wank for tossers. This will probably be a source of ire to some of you: why was I, a confirmed hater and loser, sent to preview Final Fantasy XV, a game from a series I clearly know nothing about? Well, one (1) because nobody else in the office likes Final Fantasy either, and two (2) I do know about and have played Final Fantasy games, I just don't like them (I actually really liked X-2, the comparative metaphor being that it's more a tupperware of wank than an entire bag of it, so take that how you will). But with all this in mind, I don't know what it means for lifelong fans when I say that I really, really enjoyed the preview of Final Fantasy XV.

[...]

It may not have escaped your notice that the things I enjoyed most are also the biggest changes from traditional Final Fantasy games, which may mean to you that Square has fucked it, but it's not that the preview didn't still feel like Final Fantasy. To me it absolutely did. It had weirdly theatrical dialogue, gravity defying hairstyles, the big swords that are basically just planks of metal you need two hands to swing at someone. It was campy but in that fun way (a journalist with a Noo York accent used the word 'capische'; I met a suspicious purple haired stranger who was actually called Suspicious Stranger in the subtitles). It had that Final Fantasy colour pallette – you know the one, the slightly keyed up primaries with hints of green and orange that makes you think 'Any minute now we're going to run into a long lost childhood friend/get in a fight/find a giant ostrich-chicken hybrid'. What was hinted at was Final Fantasy, but one that'll be faster, slicker, highly detailed and with more freedom than the linear stories of old – or the illusion of it, at least. I'm actually excited for a Final Fantasy game now. My heart grew three sizes.​

 

[TheOneWhoIsTornApart]

That new video has me hyped as fuck. I loved everything I saw in it. I absolutely love the menu music too. Glad to see more outfits for the characters as well.

 

[ChingleeTribal]

I gave in!

The game is like a dream come true!
The only negatives is performance issues and poppins.

 

[TheOneWhoIsTornApart]

I gave in!

The game is like a dream come true!
The only negatives is performance issues and poppins.

Those issues will be fixed by release.

 

[Rogue-Tomato]

I gave in!

The game is like a dream come true!
The only negatives is performance issues and poppins.

Yup. I really cannot wait now.

 

[SonOfEtro]

I'm glad they're not submitting to the Day One Patch plague. They're not compromising!

 

[Noctisfan]

The spoilers are a few context-free factoids. I honestly barely feel spoiled and I HATE spoilers.

Indicators and accurate never the less. I'm at loss of words right now.