Final Fantasy XV - General News Thread

[Lulcielid]

Warning: TV Tropes might make you lose hours of your life.

I can confirm it's true, lol.

 

[Omegataco]

From what I read on /r/FFXV (where this impression was posted), in Platinum Demo the auto-aim casting worked only if you hard locked the enemy, in the current build you can auto-aim with just the soft lock.

Nope, it worked with both lock-on types in Platinum also.

 

[Nova]

I think Lulc is referring to auto soft lock where you you don't even need to press L1/R1 to lock on, just like weapons.

 

[Storm]

https://twitter.com/r_kane1/status/785247182102237184

now the teasing begins.

this reminds me i should be avoiding internet in a few weeks.

 

[TheOneWhoIsTornApart]

https://twitter.com/r_kane1/status/785247182102237184

now the teasing begins.

this reminds me i should be avoiding internet in a few weeks.

Oh man. That is great to hear. I am so excited. 49 more days guys. We can do it.

 

[Bionicle8563]

Hmm, how long do you guys think until the actual review copies get sent out? I know that apparently Pre-Review copies are floating around, but do you guys thing that would happen right after going Gold or like right after certification from MS/Sony? Mainly cause I just wanna see the guys from Easy Allies try it out in its more complete form. Hopefully then Kyle can be all smug about how good the game is (If these names do not make any sense to you, please do check them out, they are quite entertaining to watch)

 

[Omegataco]

I trust these reviewers not to let anything leak (except for IGN), but I definitely don't trust randos who get the game early from retailers that break street embargo or via other means. I'm sure the FFXV team will tweet out when they go gold and from that point onward it's 100% blackout time for me.

 

[Bionicle8563]

Oh yeah, that's why I watch them. They never leak anything except for their impressions of the game. They are pretty much the most objective group of reviewers I've found and their work is fun to watch.

 

[Slaintimez]

https://twitter.com/r_kane1/status/785247182102237184

now the teasing begins.

this reminds me i should be avoiding internet in a few weeks.

Who is this guy? Some sort of insider?

 

[Storm]

i think he just have friends from the media which played the game already.

 

[Lulcielid]

They are pretty much the most objective group of reviewers I've found and their work is fun to watch.

I agree that they are (most of the times) good reviewers, the most objective, that's a bit debatable for me.

 

[Slaintimez]

Head-to-head comparision of August and October builds.

 

[Storm]

would be totally different with a player with less skill, that shows how far the battle system can go if you master it, it's smooth and fast.

 

[Slaintimez]

would be totally different with a player with less skill, that shows how far the battle system can go if you master it.

Its looks cool and all but i think its speed up footage, correct me if im wrong, didn't play PD for a while.

 

[DrBretto]

Its looks cool and all but i think its speed up footage, correct me if im wrong, didn't play PD for a while.

That's not sped up

 

[Storm]

Its looks cool and all but i think its speed up footage, correct me if im wrong, didn't play PD for a while.

hm doesn't seem so, at least based on the iron giant movements... he commented about his video here

https://www.reddit.com/r/FFXV/comments/56s1oc/sweet_combos_in_the_platinum_demo_ff_xv_hype/

"I wanted to maintain the flow of the battle. Playing defensively imo reduces that momentum owing to the sluggish and often long lasting attack strings of this boss. The intention was to make it look more like dmc than dark souls. Thanks btw"

 

[Sgtsarge]

YongYea from Youtube is doing a 60 day countdown retrospective to FFXV, as a way to reminisce on how we got to this point. Good way of counting down the days. Crazy to think how long ago it was since the days of Versus XIII. FFXIII being announced on Xbox 360 was 8 years ago as well!

 

[Paperchampion23]

So a tech demo happened today:

If you look from the demo you can see 2 interesting things. At 2:50, you can see that when he summons Titan, it says Summon ID: 3, Have: 7 in the bottom right corner. Either meaning there are 7 summons in the game, and we may or may not get more, who knows.

Next, at 2:02, this happened http://imgur.com/a/FAETj

Look in the middle/bottom right corner. Those are coordinates. Did we just get an actual map size? There are area coordinate vs world coordinates. Does anybody know how to get a sense of scale with that?

 

[Koozek]

Its looks cool and all but i think its speed up footage, correct me if im wrong, didn't play PD for a while.

It's not, but I guess that proves their point We had several videos like this on GAF in the PD thread from folks who knew every nuance and trick.

 

[Koozek]

So a tech demo happened today:

If you look from the demo you can see 2 interesting things. At 2:50, you can see that when he summons Titan, it says Summon ID: 3, Have: 7 in the bottom right corner. Either meaning there are 7 summons in the game, and we may or may not get more, who knows.

Next, at 2:02, this happened http://imgur.com/a/FAETj

Look in the middle/bottom right corner. Those are coordinates. Did we just get an actual map size? There are area coordinate vs world coordinates. Does anybody know how to get a sense of scale with that?

That's from 3 months ago. In-depth thread with slides/papers/videos:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1253451