Final Fantasy XV - General News Thread

[T.O.T]

So an update on the timed quest.

Should be fun. Always liked fighting these snakes.

 

[Jubileus]

I finished the timed quest.

Not as hard as Dread Behemoth but I exploited their weakness and did alright. Hard to keep track of all of them since all they attack at once xD

Got a total of 150K exp due to using expericast blizzaga.

 

[Nova]

https://gotypicks.blogspot.com

FFXV currently has a total of 8 GOTY awards (ironically the same total amount that Wind Waker got!)

This is without the several additional "RPG of the Year" Awards it received, which would technically make the award count higher when combining the two (ditto for the other awards on different categories in general).

In comparison, FFXII only had 2 GOTY awards in it's respective year, while FFXIII had absolutely none.

 

[T.O.T]

https://gotypicks.blogspot.com

FFXV currently has a total of 8 GOTY awards, ironically the same total amount that Wind Waker got!

 

[Lulcielid]

https://gotypicks.blogspot.com

FFXV currently has a total of 8 GOTY awards (ironically the same total amount that Wind Waker got!)

This is without the several additional "RPG of the Year" Awards it received, which would technically make the award count higher when combining the two.

In comparison, FFXII only had 2 GOTY awards in it's respective year, while FFXIII had absolutely none.

Great news for the franchise.

I find surprising Overwatch not taking the N1 spot though.

 

[Jubileus]

Fantastic that the game has won so many awards.

Question to those who played Overwatch: is it really that good of a game? I haven't played it so I don't know much about it.

However I have been coming across conversations where people are surprised FFXV beat it.

Is it really that good?

FFXV is flawed yes but it's still a great game. So Overwatch must be something else for people to be continually surprised by its loss?

 

[T.O.T]

Fantastic that the game has won so many awards.

Question to those who played Overwatch: is it really that good of a game? I haven't played it so I don't know much about it.

However I have been coming across conversations where people are surprised FFXV beat it.

Is it really that good?

FFXV is flawed yes but it's still a great game. So Overwatch must be something else for people to be continually surprised by its loss?

I have not touched Overwatch, but I have watched a close friend play it. Overwatch imo is a great game, but it is a multi-player only game. If you were to do rank matches, especially PC side, the toxicness only increases with the tiers. So your experience with Overwatch can end up being heavily impacted by the people you end up playing with.

 

[Nova]

The short version of the USG interview posted in the Versus XV thread, so i'll share the full version of it here.


http://www.usgamer.net/articles/haj...sformation-of-versus-xiii-to-final-fantasy-xv

Regarding Cor:

So while we kept Cor in the game, he takes on a different role than he did before, more of a mentor, if you will. So as a character, he's relatively the same. It's only his position and presentation in the game that changed between Versus XIII and XV."

Basically he's still the same character as before, right down to material, just repurposed as a guest party member.

Reason for party switch removal:

Tabata explains: "If rather than only controlling Noctis, users were able to control four or five characters-say, the four guys and then Cor, for example-it would be really hard to bring all five of those characters and the way that they feel to the same level of satisfaction as one character, given the time restrictions, budget limits, and so on.

On the state of the game:

"This was our first time developing a title for this cutting-edge hardware, for the PS4 and Xbox One. And because we are not gods, there were a lot of bugs that came up. We had to deal with those, and the optimization process proved to be pretty difficult. But all things considered, we were still able to release the FFXV that we had envisioned."

"It's not that users have an incomplete version of the game and that we're filling in the gaps now. Rather, we've already released the complete version of the game, and what we're doing is simply enhancing that experience for people, or providing different styles of play for characters. And again, this comes back to the point of Noct being the main character, the only playable character.

 

[T.O.T]

The short version of the USG interview posted in the Versus XV thread, so i'll share the full version of it here.
http://www.usgamer.net/articles/haj...sformation-of-versus-xiii-to-final-fantasy-xv

Thanks Nova. Anybody that has kept up with this project knows that while the Luminous Engine is a very powerful engine, it has also been very difficult to develop on. I feel Tabata touched on that yet again in this interview. I'd like to see the engine being used again on a future project once it does reach its maximum potential.

 

[Storm]

"I was actually working on a different console title at the time that I was moved over to rebrand Versus XIII to XV," he says. "Sadly, [that project] is sleeping with the fishes right now. It would be nice if we could resume the project someday, but...."

"Because the game [Versus XIII] itself was incomplete , there really wasn't a whole lot brought over, if I'm speaking honestly," he admits. "It's pretty difficult to compare apples and oranges in this case. You have something that was incomplete and never really fully formed. [Versus] was more an idea that an actual game, whereas what we've created here is a complete, finished product.

rekt

 

[T.O.T]

After Storm's recent post...I'll just leave this here to express how I feel:

 

[llazy77]

"I was actually working on a different console title at the time that I was moved over to rebrand Versus XIII to XV," he says. "Sadly, [that project] is sleeping with the fishes right now. It would be nice if we could resume the project someday, but...."

"Because the game [Versus XIII] itself was incomplete , there really wasn't a whole lot brought over, if I'm speaking honestly," he admits. "It's pretty difficult to compare apples and oranges in this case. You have something that was incomplete and never really fully formed. [Versus] was more an idea that an actual game, whereas what we've created here is a complete, finished product.

rekt

Tabatas game isnt complete tho.

 

[Hey Everyone]

Tabatas game isnt complete tho.

Versus XIII should have stayed Versus XIII.

XV should have just been it's own thing.

 

[Lulcielid]

Tabatas game isnt complete tho.

It has a beginning, a middle and an ending. Whether you find the story not satisfactory or not properly explained , it has no correlation with it being "incomplete".

 

[Hey Everyone]

It has a beginning, a middle and an ending. Whether you find the story not satisfactory or not properly explained , it has no correlation with it being incomplete.

You mean that very chopped up middle that needs DLC to fill it's holes, yeah it's incomplete as this

 

[Nova]

"I was actually working on a different console title at the time that I was moved over to rebrand Versus XIII to XV," he says. "Sadly, [that project] is sleeping with the fishes right now. It would be nice if we could resume the project someday, but...."

"Because the game [Versus XIII] itself was incomplete , there really wasn't a whole lot brought over, if I'm speaking honestly," he admits. "It's pretty difficult to compare apples and oranges in this case. You have something that was incomplete and never really fully formed. [Versus] was more an idea that an actual game, whereas what we've created here is a complete, finished product.

rekt

This truly sheds light to the possibility of them not having much material from Versus XIII to begin with while carrying over and revising elements from it.

If i had to interperate, i'd say that the overall game being the way it isn't necessarily due to being incomplete (even if the narrative holes may feel that way), but moreso that under time, budget, and actual existing material from Versus XIII, they had to manage with preserving what they had (while connecting dots, trimming, & revising some stuff here and there) in a certain amount of development time period in order to realize FFXV as a real standalone game.

It really all comes down to execution.

 

[Hey Everyone]

This truly sheds light to the possibility of them not having much material from Versus XIII to begin with while carrying over and revising elements from it.

If i had to interperate, i'd say that the overall game being the way it isn't necessairly due to being incomplete (even if the narrative holes may feel that way), but moreso that under time, budget, and actual material from Versus XIII, they had to manage with preserving what they had (while connecting dots & revising elements) in a certain amount of development time period in order to realize XV as a full game.

Well on paper(scripts, artwork, story) they had a lot of Versus material, but that's not the heavy lifting when it comes to creating games in terms of assets and actual game development, they barely had anything at all like 25% of Versus XIII with assets probably being scrapped.

 

[llazy77]

This truly sheds light to the possibility of them not having much material from Versus XIII to begin with while carrying over and revising elements from it.

Nope they had the entire story and script finished way back http://gematsu.com/2010/06/final-fantasy-versus-xiii-scenario-complete-confirms-dengeki
also Nomura saying it was going to be multiple games must means it was pretty meaty too.

 

[Hey Everyone]

Nope they had the entire story and script finished way back http://gematsu.com/2010/06/final-fantasy-versus-xiii-scenario-complete-confirms-dengeki
also Nomura saying it was going to be multiple games must means it was pretty meaty too.

Also Robert Ferrari said he got a script in 2011, but he never said when the changes were taking place but if I had to guess it was from 2012 and onwards, but what those changes were we don't know.

 

[T.O.T]

Nope they had the entire story and script finished way back http://gematsu.com/2010/06/final-fantasy-versus-xiii-scenario-complete-confirms-dengeki
also Nomura saying it was going to be multiple games must means it was pretty meaty too.

I'll take that with some salt considering how Nomura considered turning the project into a musical at some point. Also, a meaty thing means little to me if what meat is there is surrounded by a ton of fat.