The Last Wizard
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FFXV Hands-On Impressions
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Well, she's been one of the most pessimistic posters in every FFXV thread, even more since TGS 2014
Don't ban me pls 
Well, she's been one of the most pessimistic posters in every FFXV thread, even more since TGS 2014
Don't ban me pls
You won't be banned
Just reconditioned
The nature of the project is going to have people go crazy from the most cynical to the most blindly optimistic.
I think the truth of the matter is in between.
Despite the impressions, and my personal reservations, the game is going to do decently well i think in regards to reception. Outside of Cindy, which i think is non defensible and unacceptable for a female character in 2016, and barring technical issues, this game will be seen as a decent return to form, if not hitting anywhere near the crazy expectations built up for a new numbered FF game and the Versus project.
I think it will be seen as a good breath of fresh air after the lightning series,and that's what this series needs right now.
I think the truth of the matter is in between.
Despite the impressions, and my personal reservations, the game is going to do decently well i think in regards to reception. Outside of Cindy, which i think is non defensible and unacceptable for a female character in 2016, and barring technical issues, this game will be seen as a decent return to form, if not hitting anywhere near the crazy expectations built up for a new numbered FF game and the Versus project.
I think it will be seen as a good breath of fresh air after the lightning series,and that's what this series needs right now.
Well, she's been one of the most pessimistic posters in every FFXV thread, even more since TGS 2014
Don't ban me pls
Nah no ban just re-education
Completely different teams. Tabata says they don't even interact in general.
SE luckily has realized that they can't just empty staff working on games to work on other games and expect to get much finished.
Gaf Illuminati, holding Gaf Gold all to yourselves.
Vincent Grayson
Member
Oh, don't worry. Plenty of idiots will happily shit up the OT without buying the game. You don't need to buy to participate.
Perfect Cha0s
Member
What would I do for a FFXVI with the art direction of Ghost of a Tale. I mean seriously, the art style in that game puts most AAA title's to shame, and yes, that includes XV for me.
There is a misunderstanding with the word Art Direction in here lately.
In those screen shots you show as an example of great art direction, all i see is realistically rendered caves. The only thing that has art direction in there is the character design. Well the caves have a direction too. "Make them realistic" that's all. It's shallow as an art direction tbh.
The negativity is fine, we're all just sharing impressions that may end up being the complete opposite to our final opinions on the game. As long as it doesn't derail the OT into "the IQ is shit" and "Versus was so much better", it's fine.
We should probably have a Downgrade thread for the game when it comes out, so we can all talk about the shit IQ in there. It is quite bad, and it's definitely worth talking about, but imo it's not worth filling the OT with it. Just like we get PC Performance threads so the OT isn't all specs talk. It's not that discussing PC Performance isn't important, but it can get in the way of discussing the actual game, so it's good to have a different thread. Even for the people invested in discussing performance, it helps them get the information they need much faster.
We should probably have a Downgrade thread for the game when it comes out, so we can all talk about the shit IQ in there. It is quite bad, and it's definitely worth talking about, but imo it's not worth filling the OT with it. Just like we get PC Performance threads so the OT isn't all specs talk. It's not that discussing PC Performance isn't important, but it can get in the way of discussing the actual game, so it's good to have a different thread. Even for the people invested in discussing performance, it helps them get the information they need much faster.
Yeah, that sounds good.
Uh... what is happening with these graphics? :-O The environments look worse that FF XIV in many places. Ouch.
Personally, I am comfortable that many of these graphical issues will be solved. The build we are seeing is now essentially three weeks old (and maybe even more than a month) and we know SE and Tabata have been working since then to tighten everything. So we are going to see three months worth of polish on the disc alone and maybe an additional month more if there is a day one patch.
Napalm_Frank
Member
I'm curious how much can be achieved in 3 months. That's really not very much time in software development.
The fact that the hunt log can't even hold more than 1 quest at once leads me to believe that they weren't very forward thinking in their original designs. Put the cart before the horse and now they've backed themselves into all sorts of design corners with really simple scenarios they didn't even consider.
The fact that they ever developed more than a small piece of the game on anything more than actual PS4 hardware blows my mind. They should never, ever need to downgrade their performance, because their dev boxes should have been real PS4 machines. Not perfect, super-powered PCs that nowhere near match their target platform.
Did they really think they could just "optimize it later"? I can't believe that. They should have seen the performance problems as the assets were being added to the world in the first place.
Yeah, that quest hunt thing epitomizes not understanding the value of people's time. Don't do open world shit and block off the ability to multi task. So many other games got this right a long time ago. I guess it's mitigated if you can just warp back to the quest giver or something, otherwise...goddamn.
At least they didn't delay the game
From the video, the Quests screen has more than 2 quests marked as accepted so you have multiple quests active at least. Were you able to have multiple Hunts active in FF12? Been a while...
That's good, but I meant the hunts specifically. It sounds like once you're in a hunt it actually alters the enviornment/spawns special enemies. Or something. I don't know.
ZombiePlatypus
Member
Yeah I dunno. Maybe it's just a bad capture? Hopefully it'll look better in motion. I say let the game have all the delays it needs. It's clearly not vaporware at this point.
Yeah that's how it was in FF12, you only had one hunt active at once because accepting it spawned the special enemy you were supposed to hunt.
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
Kagari regarding Dragon Ball/threads: Favorite character Gohan is made into a joke
Kagari regarding Versus/XV/threads: Favorite character Stella is erased
Salt is understandable.
XV looks hype, though. I'm a bit worried that the story will be sparsely told... as all non-Witcher 3 modern games seem wont to do. The graphics don't even look that bad to a CONSOLE PEASANT like me.
Kagari regarding Versus/XV/threads: Favorite character Stella is erased
Salt is understandable.
XV looks hype, though. I'm a bit worried that the story will be sparsely told... as all non-Witcher 3 modern games seem wont to do. The graphics don't even look that bad to a CONSOLE PEASANT like me.
Blame Toriyama for that, that and it just being generally hilarious.
TheRealTalker
Banned
I am glad they delayed the game to have the patch on the disc rather then it being a update
also lol at the Kagari thing
tough times Kagari, tough times
also lol at the Kagari thing
tough times Kagari, tough times
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
I do blame Toriyama. Gohan is myfavorite character too.second
Toriyama just plays it fast and loose!
ZombiePlatypus
Member
This.
If they nail the narrative, story, pacing, and give me a compelling plot and cast, there's a lot I can overlook in terms of potential drawbacks.
semiconscious
Gold Member
why oh why can't i be this positive when it comes to just about anything?
dont you always have a smiley face at the end? you always sound so positive
...Yeah, I was hoping we'd see more of the narrative by now too. Maybe at TGS.
You can fast travel back to the car which will I think mitigate much of the backtracking (since you'll probably leave the car at the town and use chocobos to go into the wild).
I am also in favor of a FFXV graphics thread. I believe the same was done for The Witcher 3 and it seemed to have worked okay.
vainglorious
Member
Well, it looks like some set pieces like Luna vs Leviathan are somewhat in tact from the 2013 E3 trailer. And the world map looks huuuge and we've only seen a fraction of it so I'm desperately holding out hope that they are withholding a lot from us.
But I'm not optimistic. I would not be surprised if the narrative structure was; opening events -> fetch quests to collect swords of past kings from tombs -> mid-game event like the plague of stars or something -> quests to stop plague of stars -> end game events. And we're just stuck with gratuitous Cidney ass shots in between.
Napalm_Frank
Member
Well if my memory serves FFXII had pretty sparsely told story compared to most other titles in the series and people seem to love it (not me doe ).
MGSV vibes definately if they already have shown most of the narrative stuff. Well, I don't think it's possible to be as bad since MGSV literally showed almost every cutscene in the game pre release.
).MGSV vibes definately if they already have shown most of the narrative stuff. Well, I don't think it's possible to be as bad since MGSV literally showed almost every cutscene in the game pre release.
Yeah, no thanks.
Well if my memory serves FFXII had pretty sparsely told story compared to most other titles in the series and people seem to love it (not me doe
Me neither! That story was a complete borefest.
The Last One
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Well if my memory serves FFXII had pretty sparsely told story compared to most other titles in the series and people seem to love it (not me doe
MGSV vibes definately if they already have shown most of the narrative stuff. Well, I don't think it's possible to be as bad since MGSV literally showed almost every cutscene in the game pre release.
The problem with FF XII is the second half where the story is insanely sparcely told. The first half is almost perfect.
Nope,it needs to be done at this point.
Apart from technical polish,they shouldn't bother fiddling with the core of the game anymore.
Yep. The last FF I gave a shit about.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
If this bombs, they need to get on their hands and knees and beg the Gooch to return.
In my dreams he comes back someday and knocks it out of the park, like Steve Jobs returning to Apple or George Miller returning to Mad Max.
DXLelouch153
Banned
that humanoid purple guys a flan?
no, that's a Ronin. One of the party members did do a "scan" on a flan nearby though