Psycho_Mantis
Banned
I see lots of beaches and a seaside town.....
awwwwww yis
awwwwww yis
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FINAL FANTASY XV World Map
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pillowtalk
Member
Looks as dead as the ff8 world map. But I'm sure it'll have more colors in-game.
Stereogatari
Banned
Fair enough, I didn't notice that. Sounds very promising indeed
This game is going to be huge.
Honey Bunny
Member
Oh baby
Digital-Hero
Member
Didn't know a topographic map was supposed to be alive.
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Deleted member 20920
Unconfirmed Member
Like others have said, they removed most of what's in the map to showcase how large it it (by having the party walk around the area). The parts which were shown in the trailer is only a part of the Duscae region, which in itself is less than 1/10 of the whole world. We haven't seen enough of the game to say that the traversal or the world is boring and plain.
CosmicGroinPull
Member
Yeah sorry I barely even remember what 9 was about apart from it having some old-school charm, lol.
I know.. wtf people :/
Dark_castle
Junior Member
What do you mean one giant globe? The world map we see here is basically one giant globe with regions seamlessly connected together (kinda like the old Final Fantasy) rather than by transitions via separate loading screens.
Cave Johnson
Member
lol the entire world isn't 'brown'...it's just a basic topographic map.
The USA has no vegetation!
LOOK AT THE SIZE OF THAT DESERT! Puts the Sahara to shame I tell you. How do you guys find water over there?
The last time this ended deadly...
We filter it out from the giant ocean of mud our island is in the middle of.
MissDeviling
Member
I hope we can travel by sea too. Would be cool to find caves that wouldn't be accessible otherwise.
A lot of people are praying for this game to be good
FF6 and FF7 were revolutionary. FF8 and 9 were very good, 10 was revolutionary, 12 not so much, 13 was a letdown and now 15 is more likely to be revolutionary than not, statistically speaking.
The question is : What happens if the game plays as good as it looks?
An obvious one is that Square will make money, but what about the impact to the japanese game industry? Substantial or negligible?
FF6 and FF7 were revolutionary. FF8 and 9 were very good, 10 was revolutionary, 12 not so much, 13 was a letdown and now 15 is more likely to be revolutionary than not, statistically speaking.
The question is : What happens if the game plays as good as it looks?
An obvious one is that Square will make money, but what about the impact to the japanese game industry? Substantial or negligible?
Shining Sunshine
Banned
I mean like FF7. So that square is a 2d representation of what it will be ingame, which is a 3D globe world?
KoopaTheCasual
Junior Member
Since the world on foot/car will likely be zones, I think a way to make airship travel work is to have the "airship world" completely connected, but have transitions between disembarking. That way, the world map can render scaled down assets, while you're flying overhead, while still making it seem like the world is one connected entity.
That's my reasonable "best-case scenario" anyway.
That's my reasonable "best-case scenario" anyway.
kitschbeam
Member
Noctis beach club edition confirmed.
Wasn't FF12 the first Final Fantasy to recieve a 40 score from Famitsu? And given the crazy install base, didn't it sell almost 1,5 mil in the first week in Japan? Then why is 12 "not so much" when you're talking about sales and impact?
Dark_castle
Junior Member
Hard to explain. Imagine FFVII world map, but rather than a top-down perspective, the world is presented in a 1:1 scale, third person view.
Basically yeah, this map shows how all the locales are connected with relation to one another. The difference between old FFs and FFXV's world is that in say FFVII, your character is a giant on the world, shrinking when going into town area or dungeon (with loading screen transition), whereas in FFXV, your character size remains constant while going between towns, fields and dungeon areas, with seamless transition.
threelights
Member
That's what they did in Type-0, works amazingly well.
That being said, we don't actually know if it will be divided into zones yet.
OmegaDL50
Member
So like Dragon Quest VIII, which had a very large world map with towns that scaled with the player even when you were outside of them.
Dark_castle
Junior Member
Most likely, yeah.
I fear that controllable airship is gone though. Maybe we could seize control of enemy airship for brief period of time like we seen in E3 2013.
Shadow_FFVI
Member
Considering that dull light blue area is freaking Accordo, I wouldn´t judge anything by how it looks on the world map.
We need gold chocobos in FFXV.
Shadow_FFVI
Member
Or a rideable Fat Chocobo that can carry all 4 party members at the same time!
MagnaderAlpha
Member
Whoa, wait, are you hinting at this being a slice of the entire world of FFXV? I'd die if that was the case!
Nah, I have no idea. I'm just wondering why everyone's assuming this is the world map.
threelights
Member
I think people are assuming it's the world map because in the image you have mountains, some sort of canyons, islands, a volcano, and a place that is clearly missing stuff (which is assumed to be the cities), and some weird formations as well.
Where we're going, we don't need roads.
TheContact
Member
Lots of mountains, wonder if that is explorable
Beelzebubs
Member
Let's get a Black Chocobo and find out!
What do you mean "classic"?
This isn't a world map where you walk to your destination, like in Final Fantasy IX and the games before it.
beach episode!
Hmm, needs more waterfallsIs the bit in the paler blue bay this city?
Maintenance
Member
They had to make a way for you to leave the car.
It is time for plot.
It's way, way too massive to be just Duscae.
We can see the area from the 10 minute footage here. You spread out a little, and it really is 10% of the total landmass.
I'll eat a hat if I'm wrong since I jumped the gun, but I wasn't the only one who thought this.
MagnaderAlpha
Member
Six points of interest via speculation:
1. 5 major cities
2. Smaller settlements/towns scattered around the countryside. There even seems to be one that's sort've "twin cities" facing each other from across a canyon.
3. Few loan structures that are considerably large in size. Could be a tower, fortress, or that monolith crystal shard seen in the trailer.
4. Could this "C" shaped island be FFXV's take on Crescent Island, thus inducting it into the same club with Crescent-shaped areas(FFI's Crescent Lake, FFV's Crescent Island).
5. Could this be Lucis or someplace different entirely. Whatever it is, it's massive, and seems to be(from the part broken and falling into the ocean), ruined/in disrepair. Or, given the walls surrounding it, could this be the stronghold of Niflheim?
6. Final Fantasy volcano area(gotta have one of those). Likely home to lots of fire elemental monsters like Bombs, Red Dragons, and Ifrit.
Floating cars homie.
Haha.
Anyone remember that show M.A.S.K. With the car that had the tires that turned sideways and it could go over water. I want dat.
GreenMakoEyes
Member
no way SE would reveal the full world map this early.. I think SE won't show the entire world map in general.
I've been waiting for something like this. Looks like a great start, although 3. is probably the adamantoise from the trailer
Scrooge McDuck
Member
It's not one giant globe on that map; i's not even a whole continent. And in the final game, I feel that it's highly unlikely that if you keep going west you'd come back from the east.
