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FINAL FANTASY XV World Map
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MagnaderAlpha
Member
I'm guessing, given Accordo's use of lots of tiny white blocks equaling buildings, the other ares where you see a collective of white blocks are also towns/cities. The ones where you see larger white blocks could be things like fortresses, temples or castles.
Generally, I like the shape of the landmass. It has that FF-vibe to it. I even spot a volcano a stone-throw away from Accordo(could it be FFXV's contribution to the Gurgu/Gulug type setting, and could that be Ifrit's abode in this world?) .
Generally, I like the shape of the landmass. It has that FF-vibe to it. I even spot a volcano a stone-throw away from Accordo(could it be FFXV's contribution to the Gurgu/Gulug type setting, and could that be Ifrit's abode in this world?) .
TheJollyCorner
Member
I'm believing it was just sarcasm, but still worth hammering home. :}
Okay, I'm with you. Hope down.
dragonzdogma
Member
Oh yeah, I heard that they made the designers climb mountains.
KoopaTheCasual
Junior Member
Been in this hype cycle since 2006, lol. Just exercising measures to retain my sanity. I know the game will be great, but if I can manage to keep my hype in check, it'll impress me that much more
Next information dump, I'll probably go on blackout. And then only come back to play the demo before release.
Vincent Grayson
Member
I don't know if I can handle another year+ wait on this
crooked spin
Member
I think that's the genius of couching the story in the "roadtrip" idea -- if you just want to get the next place fast all you have to do is drive the car straight there, no "boring" exploration necessary.
Been in this hype cycle since 2006, lol. Just exercising measures to retain my sanity. I know the game will be great, but if I can manage to keep my hype in check, it'll impress me that much more
Next information dump, I'll probably go on blackout. And then only come back to play the demo before release.
I don't think I can resist the E32015 trailer, but I will go blackout before release to escape story spoilers.
Final Fantasy cities have always been like this, though.
It's just that the world map itself is at a higher scale, making everything else seem small in comparison. We'll have to wait and see if it's for better or worse.
(I seriously hope it is not like Essex..... i spent two months there on a statistics seminar and it nearly drove me to suicide).
threelights
Member
A lot more details are apparent now.
The place right above the bottom right part in the first image looks like the first area in FFXII. Interesting.
They deactivated events and replaced monsters for the purposes of the video (walking/exploring).
The place right above the bottom right part in the first image looks like the first area in FFXII. Interesting.
And yet again, another one who doesn't know.
They deactivated events and replaced monsters for the purposes of the video (walking/exploring).
SuperAngelo64
Banned
Finally! I've missed the world map!
I don't think we've had a proper once since IX (unless XI and XIV count since they're MMOs)
I don't think we've had a proper once since IX (unless XI and XIV count since they're MMOs)
FantasticMrFoxdie
Mumber
nice work! so hyped for this now ten years in the making
So this? I'd imagine so
I hope not, it makes the world map look small'ish.
The city is huge though, if you zoom in Noctis would be just a speck.
Extrapolate that to the terrain map...
KoopaTheCasual
Junior Member
Take into consideration that everything you see in that city render, from the big hall to the rest of the structures in the background would have to all fit on that small strip of land at the top of the round depression.
That means the whole of the "Kingdom" only takes up a little piece of land. If anything, that makes the map seem in-feasibly huge. Even on current gen.
Maybe. It depends on how the map comes together. Like, is it all 1:1 represented for when we move around in the game? Or is it just a general map to give us an idea of what the world looks like?
TheWorthyEdge
Member
So this? I'd imagine so
You get to explore that city right....?
crooked spin
Member
Hopefully at this point they're only showing us finalized assets.
Size of the map seems pretty reasonable to me.
demosthenes
Member
I don't know if I can handle another year+ wait on this
Go play some video games.
Yea, if you can fully explore the city and it isn't just a couple of hallways, this game is going to be impossibly massive... to the point where the decade-long dev cycle almost is justified.
Its not about if its finalized or not yet. Its how that map is actually used. And how open-world the game actually is throughout.
If its all 1:1 to how we'll experience it in-game and completely open, it will be pretty fricking massive obviously.
If its just a general map to show the layout of the world, but each area we go to will be a much smaller or limited slice of that(like, can we explore that ENTIRE city?), then the size of the map is kind of irrelevant.
omnislayer
Member
It hasn't been a decade, they announced it in 2006 but im pretty sure they didn't start developing it until 2009 at the earliest.
This game was in preproduction for most of that decade.
it surreal to think that I was actually impressed by the E3 graphics, but after having seen the latest demonstrations and trailers I must say it looks really unimpressive.
threelights
Member
I'm pretty sure it's not the entire city that will be explorable (just take a few moments to see how much stuff is in there, it's really huge). If there are to be 5 cities like this one and everyone of them has that much stuff... This will easily be the biggest game ever created (which probably won't be happening).
Tabata said to consider development starting in 2012.
Tabata said to consider development starting in 2012.
My apologies. I assumed it was in development since 2006.
I'm really hoping it's a full globe too. Though since they seemed keen on doing sequels, they may purposefully make it so you can't leave the continent so they can add other landmasses later Elder Scrolls DLC style.
Is a world map in the game? Or is that just the clay model that they planned with and then scanned to start the actual map in the game?
Because the tech demo video makes it look like that's what they based the land mass on, and then the land mass is to scale thing that's fleshed out with world fleshing-out tools (vegetation, procedural stuff, etc).
Because the tech demo video makes it look like that's what they based the land mass on, and then the land mass is to scale thing that's fleshed out with world fleshing-out tools (vegetation, procedural stuff, etc).
It being a full globe to me gave the older games an extra sense of "scope" that I liked.
Games that took place in a "region" always seemed "smaller" to me, even if the actual area was the same or bigger.
It's like in GTA where it is quite obvious that you are only in one small piece of the world, even if it wraps around at the edges, but in FF7 for instance its like you can explore THE WHOLE WORLD, it seems bigger.
Been in this hype cycle since 2006, lol. Just exercising measures to retain my sanity. I know the game will be great, but if I can manage to keep my hype in check, it'll impress me that much more
Next information dump, I'll probably go on blackout. And then only come back to play the demo before release.
I did a RTTP FFXIII earlier in the week, because my hype DEFINITELY blinded me at release. I won't let that happen again.
Eh, the mansion segment still looks amazing, but I'm not sure if that's in-game or not.
threelights
Member
E3 video has actual in-game stuff from the build at that time, so yeah, that was actual gameplay.
I remember seeing this months ago. Frankly it doesn't seem as huge as the previous world maps from the series. That's understandable considering we have an open world on our hands, though it doesn't really even feel like an entire world. Seems just one bigass continent is playable, not an entire planet. =/
take a screenshot of Noctis face in the E3-trailer and do the same with the TGS-trailer: miles of difference.
Stereogatari
Banned
Didn't we find this out last month?
Not that I'm denying that reposts are good for people who missed it the first time, but just saying.
Not that I'm denying that reposts are good for people who missed it the first time, but just saying.
Shining Sunshine
Banned
Is it not going to be one giant globe? =(
Yeah, we did.
We didn't have anything of nearly this quality. No point bumping a thread that hasn't had updates for about a week.
We couldn't surmise that there would be 11 towns or so from the old one.
Tiny globe worlds are weird.
You've obviously never Chocobo Hot and Cold'd the hell out of the FF IX map.