The Final Fantasy Mega Thread - Now playing FFXV

FFX still looks amazing imo

and btw FF8 sucks

Namon said:

This actually has me a bit hyped now. Looks really good.

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Random SOLDIER side character, no.
Aerith is haunted, no.
Cloud has Sephrioth invisible friend, no.
Extra Bike/Parachute missions, not sure.

Extra Turk boss battles, hell yes!
Don Corneo, nailed it!

Summons in Midgar, erm OK?
Priesdent Shinra Hologram, OH GOD WHY.

Lanx said:

The English VA's i'm pretty sure are the same guys from advent children and all associated spin offs.

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They tried with the original VA's but ended up scrapping that whole idea, and went with all new VA's for the remake, probably too make them sound younger overall would be my guess, cause Advent Children is sometime after 7(like 10 years I think?).

It's literally playable FF7 AC... but well I don't know what I expected exactly...

Chris said:

Random SOLDIER side character, no.
Aerith is haunted, no.
Cloud has Sephrioth invisible friend, no.
Extra Bike/Parachute missions, not sure.

Extra Turk boss battles, hell yes!
Don Corneo, nailed it!

Summons in Midgar, erm OK?
Priesdent Shinra Hologram, OH GOD WHY.

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All your no's should be hell yes. Give me more SOLDIER backstory with a new character. Build on the Aerith stuff (although I don't think she's "haunted"). Cloud being influenced/hallucinating interactions with Sephrioth? Yes...help explain Cloud's story more for the idiots who didn't get it in the original. Gotta hand feed them.

Chris said:

Random SOLDIER side character, no.
Aerith is haunted, no.
Cloud has Sephrioth invisible friend, no.
Extra Bike/Parachute missions, not sure.

Extra Turk boss battles, hell yes!
Don Corneo, nailed it!

Summons in Midgar, erm OK?
Priesdent Shinra Hologram, OH GOD WHY.

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Well they have to have all that. It's a full game in Midgar. The part that could be done in a few hours if you knew what you were doing and took around 6-8 the first time exploring every part for the first time is now a full length Final Fantasy game. So 40-80 hours? They have to pad the story and expand on it. Including back story and additional characters, probably both playable protagonists as well as new bosses. Probably also have more of an inpact when most of them die in the collapse since you've been around them more other than a few short sequences.

MaxmimillianDood explained that after talking with the devs. Their intention is basically to put everything you experienced in 7 into the game, only updated. Then add a whole lot of stuff on top of that.

I've been wondering about skills though. Summons in Midgar, I understand that. Summons were a huge part in 7. You can't have a full length game without them. However, with the "end" of the game, you leave Midgar to find the open world (if they do that). Does it start fresh? Or do you start at the level with the skills you got at the end of the first part? Just really curious how the flow of that will be. Will it be FF 7 part 2 or FF 7-2? If I am level 99 from grinding, do I start part 2 at level 99? Does it scale me back to 1 but with slightly more HP / magic damage than people who rushed the first part?

That said, the game looks fantastic. Can't wait.

So depressing being stuck in midgar for 40 hours.

I agree it "looks" amazing - I still don't like the battle "system" - but I am an admitting grumpy old man that wants his turn based games back!

Also they are the worst terrorists ever attacking their own home. I never got that.

Xadion said:

So depressing being stuck in midgar for 40 hours.

I agree it "looks" amazing - I still don't like the battle "system" - but I am an admitting grumpy old man that wants his turn based games back!

Also they are the worst terrorists ever attacking their own home. I never got that.

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Classical mode is for you .... heh very interesting seeing it in action with the recent video they released, basically auto-movement/basic attacks(it seems like), but you have that menu control..

I think the nice thing though, is now that the basic's are built for the overall game, basic combat/spells etc etc. The rest of the game will probably be released pretty fast, but like they said, they'll announce release dates when they are ready which is fine..

I think the Aerith being haunted has always been implied(same with Cloud really though)..

Yeah, the classic mode thing really is a change that I am glad to see and I will deff now be a buy from me vs a hard pass.

The haunting thing is dumb... but I guess it's everyone that can see them based on the new vid? It's most likely some dumb stuff based on the mad mojo in midgar from the energy stuff etc. Ahh whatever time will tell.

I am not overly excited to spend 40 hours in midgar - but I am excited to let cloud die in fights vs sepheroth as it should be hehe

Oh, yeah, golden saucer should be fun expanded

I wasn't sold on the active combat until I saw the gameplay reveals at E3, but classic mode should pretty much appease any and all old school people. It's pretty incredible imo how they put the combat together as a whole. I can't find a real flaw with the options they're giving players on how they want it to go.

Lanx said:

wow jfc, installing a ssd for ffxv is like night and day, it's AT LEAST a 50% improvement, it felt like 2min loading times, w/ the ssd it was like 40s.

i was just gonna get a 500gb and be done w/ it but fucking ffxv takes up 80gb alone, heh, just get a 1tb i guess.

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Another option is getting a hybrid ssd like the Firecuda. 2TB for $75 and the performance of the SSD cache is not too far behind past initial loads.

The defensive properties of materia are going to be the crazy part of the remake.