Final Fantasy XV - General News Thread

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Storm

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Defensiveness is inevitable when the first full-game preview comes from an outlet that described FFX's feature list as follows: "puzzles which involve little thought, but rely on systematic time-consuming trial and error, unbreakable animation sequences that initially impress, then subconsciously irritate; interminable FMV sequences immediately before unpredictably deadly boss encounters; infinite numbers of unavoidable, non-threatening random battles; an utterly linear room-by-room progression mechanism; and, in Tidus, perhaps the most irritating lead character Square has ever conceived, a squawking, petulant teen who it's near impossible to care for." They then went on to say that the voice acting "renders the pathos comedic, the comedy dead, and since emotion is meant to be the series' driving force, it butchers the whole game" and to describe the game as a whole as a "bloated false prophet come to steal away your time."


There's nothing disgusting about making excuses for the flaws perceived by a source who's almost objectively out of touch with the game's primary audience. It's only natural, really.
haha omg, this should be posted in other places...
 

Edda

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You DID, though. You just popped in here and said people here were "disgusting", and now you're weaseling out. What are you talking about? You're the one being defensive about the comments you made in the first place.

Edit: I wasn't even actually getting "heated" until you weaseled out again. Now you're just obnoxious.
Ok. I guess if you're heated now, I'm just going to ask you to calm down again. I put a post out, and the word I used was exaggerated beyond the original meaning, which I considered to have been alright since I had already decided that I would not name a particular person to begin with. You want to call me a coward for that? Fine. Maybe you think I'm talking out of my ass and that I'm desperately trying to cover up some misjudgement on my end. That's fine too. Doesn't change that naming anyone in relation to those comments would be detrimental to the community. I had long decided that I wasn't going to expand on those thoughts, which I haven't.
 

ChingleeTribal

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Mar 27, 2016
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I've managed to avoid almost all media for this game for the past 2 months and it seems full blown previews are rolling out now so I think it's a good a time as any for me to roll out.

I'll be keeping myself busy by modding and playing games, watch some anime that I have been asked ten times over to watch by friends and watch some LP's.

Stay well guys. I'll post a picture of my copy of the game on release day(or if God allows me to have the game earlier then a couple days before release xD)

Take care and have fun!
 

DrBretto

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Mar 18, 2016
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Ok. I guess if you're heated now, I'm just going to ask you to calm down again. I put a post out, and the word I used was exaggerated beyond the original meaning, which I considered to have been alright since I had already decided that I would not name a particular person to begin with. You want to call me a coward for that? Fine. Maybe you think I'm talking out of my ass and that I'm desperately trying to cover up some misjudgement on my end. That's fine too. Doesn't change that naming anyone in relation to those comments would be detrimental to the community. I had long decided that I wasn't going to expand on those thoughts, which I haven't.
Your post was detrimental to the community.

Next time, instead of being obnoxious, try "oh, sorry, I misjudged" or "worded it too strongly, it's not big deal" instead of weaseling out. I didn't call you a coward, either, i said you were being obnoxious, which you absolutely were.

And telling someone to calm down over the Internet is only ever going to piss them off more.
 

Edda

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Nov 5, 2016
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Your post was detrimental to the community.

Next time, instead of being obnoxious, try "oh, sorry, I misjudged" or "worded it too strongly, it's not big deal" instead of weaseling out. I didn't call you a coward, either, i said you were being obnoxious, which you absolutely were.

And telling someone to calm down over the Internet is only ever going to piss them off more.
You've already said a lot of things about me that would arguably only piss someone over the Internet even more. I was just asking for you to calm down because it seemed like you were insistent on the details of my post.

In any case, are you happy now? Can we move on?
 

Paperchampion23

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if i understood that right (in the france coverage) there's more than 200 secondary quests in the game.

they're showing new imsomnia scenes deleted from kingsglave?
Yup! I really want to know what they were saying when they were talking about the world map and concepts as well as what he had to say about framerate and insomnia while they were walking through Altissia.
 

Paperchampion23

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seems they sent an unfinished build to the harsher critical magazine to make last minute necessary changes to the game.

it was a bold move to send to them, i'll give them that.
It honestly gives them transparency and credibility. Every game has flaws. I'd rather be slightly disappointed now then be utterly shocked by a finished product the moment touch the game (No Mans Sky....). Its great that they do this. The fact that they got to that point in the game and they can say they didn't give him everything is amazing, and really interesting because I wonder how this is all going to play out.
 
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It honestly gives them transparency and credibility. Every game has flaws. I'd rather be slightly disappointed now then be utterly shocked by a finished product the moment touch the game (No Mans Sky....). Its great that they do this. The fact that they got to that point in the game and they can say they didn't give him everything is amazing, and really interesting because I wonder how this is all going to play out.
I'm cofused. The official FFXV twitter account says they didn't give Edge the full game. Are you saying that they gave Edge a build that's missing a few minor things or not the complete full game?.
 

DrBretto

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You've already said a lot of things about me that would arguably only piss someone over the Internet even more. I was just asking for you to calm down because it seemed like you were insistent on the details of my post.

In any case, are you happy now? Can we move on?
I swear to god...

Thank you for volunteering for the ignore list. Now I'll move on.


seems they sent an unfinished build to the harsher critical magazine to make last minute necessary changes to the game.

it was a bold move to send to them, i'll give them that.
Alternative crackpot theory!

The guy played 40 hours, right? And thinks he's at the end of the game, right?

This, from the afrojack trailer, looks like it may well be the section he's referring to:



Which, to me, looks a little bit like he's on his way back to Insomnia to reclaim his throne.

So, I've been of the mind that the game does NOT end with you reclaiming the throne. IMO, there have been many clues to this effect, though nothing concrete. Generally, these things start with a more "local" goal and expand to, basically you killing God of some kind by the end of it. My guess? The preview is only on the first half or 2/3 of the game, and this leads to the transition from young to old Noctis and crew.
 

Edda

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seems they sent an unfinished build to the harsher critical magazine to make last minute necessary changes to the game.

it was a bold move to send to them, i'll give them that.
That's been the way SE have been doing things with FFXV. This kind of transparency isn't something you usually see. They haven't shown much past the first third of the game, but it's quite a big sum to show, even if it is an RPG.
 
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