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The Final Fantasy Mega Thread - Now playing FFXV
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Rezz
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I enjoyed the game quite a bit (haven't done much postgame stuff, however. Hurray holidays) though I would completely concur with just about all the major complaints. Jump+"Do" is a stupid idea in every game ever. The story fails pretty hard to get you to care about the majority of characters, except the party and Cindy/Cid/Iris. Everyone else is "eh, ok" at best.
Liked the game, and if they add quality content I'm on board. But if it's FF13-2 "content" I'm going to pass.
The Emperor being basically a huge bait and switch was pretty lame, and Ravus as well. Giant Wasps (not the little killer ones that get one-shotted by a warp strike) being by far the most annoying enemies in the game, with couerls when you first come across them a close second, was pretty dumb. The disjointed nature of... well, the vast majority of the game, was pretty lame as well. Good thing the combat and general gameplay were pretty awesome, and the AP system was fairly neat as well. I did get a little misty eyed at the final post credits scene with Noctis saying he was totally ready to die, right up until he got back together with his buds. The road trip vibe with some friends was extremely well done. If the game had been written that way from the get-go it would have been stellar, and not have the incredibly ham-fisted romance plot as well as the "evil empire that is already dying and corrupt and falls apart all on its own" actually get mildly fleshed out a bit before Resident Fantasy.
Liked the game, and if they add quality content I'm on board. But if it's FF13-2 "content" I'm going to pass.
Kreugen
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Nm on original post. "Intentionally ambiguous" just means bad writing.
I'll go with:
I'll go with:
Thanks a bunch for being a great guy and using your unique and unexplained power to stall Ifrit's demon plague. Now sit tight for a few thousand years until this crystal powers up enough to poop out someone who can kill you.
PS: You're totally going to go insane. But thanks for reals. If it's any consolation, the True King you're so jealous of is going to burn to ash right along with you, ending your entire lineage.
PS: You're totally going to go insane. But thanks for reals. If it's any consolation, the True King you're so jealous of is going to burn to ash right along with you, ending your entire lineage.
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Xalara
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Someone managed to take the info from FFXIII, the leaks from that one staff member, and the notes scattered around the game world to properly summarize the story: My Interpretation of the Final Fantasy XV Story (MASSIVE SPOILERS) • /r/FFXV
So basically, the cuts really hurt the story. On the bright side the story they were attempting to tell was good unlike FFXIII?
Edit: I think I'll just ignore the story now that I've finished it and stick to the awesome road trip.
So basically, the cuts really hurt the story. On the bright side the story they were attempting to tell was good unlike FFXIII?
Edit: I think I'll just ignore the story now that I've finished it and stick to the awesome road trip.
Lenas
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Dalien
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Just finished it last night myself and was thinking the same thing. Most of CH13 felt like playing a shitty version of Arkham Asylum.
Warped back to Lucis and I'm just gonna pretend the second half of the game never happened. Fuck the wedding, fuck being king, fuck all that, from now on this game is just going to be bros on a road trip doing hunts and dungeons.
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Ritley
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Chapter 14 is actually pretty good, too bad it doesn't make sense at all since they cut out all story leading up to it
Dalien
Registered Hodor
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I don't disagree, the story is actually pretty good the problem is it's not in the actual game. Instead you have to go find complied posts on Reddit from the strategy guide, 4chan leaks, and people who found notes/radios all over the game to make sense of it all.
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Crone
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Made a big deal a little while back about wanting this game on release to play with you guys, and wife ended up getting it for me for Christmas.
Guess I'll be doing some of this over the next week or so while I'm still on break!
Hope not disappointed.
Guess I'll be doing some of this over the next week or so while I'm still on break!
Hope not disappointed.
Xalara
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Made a big deal a little while back about wanting this game on release to play with you guys, and wife ended up getting it for me for Christmas.
Guess I'll be doing some of this over the next week or so while I'm still on break!
Hope not disappointed.
Two things you need to know. The first is that there's a bunch of hidden stuff in combat, you don't need to know it to finish the game but look up a guide to learn some of the more intricate parts since it'll make combat more fun (namely, use control scheme B or C so you can better block and attack). The second thing you need to know is that Chapter 9 is where the open world ends. You can go back to the open world at any point after that at camps.
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Kriptini
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Have been super hyped for this game but wasn't able to afford it when it came out. Got it as a Christmas present and I'm at Chapter 5 now.
This game is really good when it's good but I echo the criticisms people have about the camera and sidequests. But the biggest disappointment for me is the lack of focus on the narrative. I watched Kingsglaive multiple times up to the release of the game, and when I first saw the scene where King Regis addresses Noct on the steps before he leaves it was very emotionally powerful and I was just left with this "Holy shit" feeling as I watched the subtext crawl across Regis's face. But since then there haven't been any good narrative storytelling moments. Dialogue is kept short and terse between all the characters, or innocuous. The events of Chapter 4 were barely explained, too.
This game is really good when it's good but I echo the criticisms people have about the camera and sidequests. But the biggest disappointment for me is the lack of focus on the narrative. I watched Kingsglaive multiple times up to the release of the game, and when I first saw the scene where King Regis addresses Noct on the steps before he leaves it was very emotionally powerful and I was just left with this "Holy shit" feeling as I watched the subtext crawl across Regis's face. But since then there haven't been any good narrative storytelling moments. Dialogue is kept short and terse between all the characters, or innocuous. The events of Chapter 4 were barely explained, too.
Kriptini
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Also, XV has some really bad bugs. When I was running around Duscae on a chocobo, I ran past this Coeurl, and I had been running past him for like 10 minutes to a quest destination before I realized that combat never broke so I couldn't interact with anything and I couldn't get back on my chocobo. So I had to run all the way back to the coeurl (even with warping it took like 15 minutes), reengage it, then disengage it to get combat to break.
Another time I was wielding one of the HP drain weapons and my HP dropped to danger right as I destroyed a Magitek Armor. Combat ended, my HP started regenning, then the Armor exploded and outright killed me. Then the game froze on the Game Over screen.
Another time I was wielding one of the HP drain weapons and my HP dropped to danger right as I destroyed a Magitek Armor. Combat ended, my HP started regenning, then the Armor exploded and outright killed me. Then the game froze on the Game Over screen.
Malakriss
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I haven't seen any of these rare bugs that pop up in 100+ hours of playing. The game does auto-save at reasonable places and you can manually save in most places if they do.
Also, you do have a couple seconds to Phoenix Down Noctis if his max health hits zero too.
Also, you do have a couple seconds to Phoenix Down Noctis if his max health hits zero too.