Askherserenity
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I'm excited for you all to read my review.
My copy just came in, can you just post the review up now for me? Thanks, Mr. Press Sneak.
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Final Fantasy XV Impressions: Mark All Spoilers
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My copy just came in, can you just post the review up now for me? Thanks, Mr. Press Sneak.
About 10 hours until the digital preload unlocks... only 28GB of 52 downloaded after 12 hours so far. Go PS4! You must make it in time! (It won't make it...)
While it says there's enough data to start already, I'm always wary of starting a game if the whole thing isn't downloaded for fear of hitting an in-game wall or missing a cutscene or something.
Looking forward to the review thread. Also looking forward to the reveal of Final Fantasy 16, lol. It has been 10 years since the reveal of a new mainline final fantasy... that's incredible. (I'm not counting the FFXIV reveal in 2009 as it's an MMO, and even then that's still 7 years ago.)
A thunderstorm raged last night while my PS4 was in rest mode downloading the game. Usually I'd turn it off and unplug it as we commonly get power outages. This time I rolled the dice... woke up this morning and found out my dice roll was good.
Hard luck, friend.
While it says there's enough data to start already, I'm always wary of starting a game if the whole thing isn't downloaded for fear of hitting an in-game wall or missing a cutscene or something.
Looking forward to the review thread. Also looking forward to the reveal of Final Fantasy 16, lol. It has been 10 years since the reveal of a new mainline final fantasy... that's incredible. (I'm not counting the FFXIV reveal in 2009 as it's an MMO, and even then that's still 7 years ago.)
I left it on standby and went to take a bath. Afterwards I went to check how the download was coming along and the console was turned off. Tried turning it on and it never got past the blue booting light and now it won't even boot up safe mode.
10 years. 10 long years.
A thunderstorm raged last night while my PS4 was in rest mode downloading the game. Usually I'd turn it off and unplug it as we commonly get power outages. This time I rolled the dice... woke up this morning and found out my dice roll was good.
Hard luck, friend.
Cow1337killr
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Im predicting a solid 80.
From what i've played it deserves slightly higher.
From what i've played it deserves slightly higher.
Pixel Samurai
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YMMV but my suggestion is to play the story missions while you're on-level and then return to side quest later...you're going to be bored in story chapters for awhile.
Oh shit, that is terrible news. I ended up hating Xenoblade X. Just a boring, pointless game with beautiful visuals.
It seems like so much of what was shown even just a couple years ago didn't make the cut here. Like they had to take a chainsaw to the experience just to ship the game.
Is there even anything in there that looks different from the open countryside they've been showing? I'm getting concerned that it's just a one note experience with no variety.
SargerusBR
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It's a sign for you to get a PROI left it on standby and went to take a bath. Afterwards I went to check how the download was coming along and the console was turned off. Tried turning it on and it never got past the blue booting light and now it won't even boot up safe mode.
10 years. 10 long years.
I'm sorry
GinoFelino
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Obligatory Somemenjustwanttowatchtheworldburn
If you like/love XCX -> you'll love this.
If you hate XCX -> you might like this
It's different enough that you could still really like this game if you hated XCX, but it doesn't bode well.
Dangansona
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One last impression question before the beginning of the end. Did anyone mess around with wait mode?
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If FFXIII can score 83, the sky's the limit.
Holundrian
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Because reviews are way harsher nowadays compared to before XV released.
ChoppedandScrewed
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I left it on standby and went to take a bath. Afterwards I went to check how the download was coming along and the console was turned off. Tried turning it on and it never got past the blue booting light and now it won't even boot up safe mode.
10 years. 10 long years.
This happened to me with another game as well. Try unplugging it from the power and holding down the power button for 30 seconds before plugging it back in and turning it on.
It's different from safe mode and it was the only way I could get my PS4 to turn back on after the crash. Sorry if this is common knowledge, but I didn't know about this until recently.
This game reminds me of FFXIII and Xenoblade Chronicles. Both the good parts and the bad.
Story so far is dumb. Characters aren't very interesting (visually and personality-wise). Dialogue is painful at times. The combat is weird, kind of a mixed bag.
The music is alright though. It is a very chill relaxing RPG game. A contrast to FFXIII where you're constantly on the run. Again, its a good thing sometimes but can also be quite boring.
Story so far is dumb. Characters aren't very interesting (visually and personality-wise). Dialogue is painful at times. The combat is weird, kind of a mixed bag.
The music is alright though. It is a very chill relaxing RPG game. A contrast to FFXIII where you're constantly on the run. Again, its a good thing sometimes but can also be quite boring.
guybrushfreeman
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Is there any way to tell good sidequests from pointless ones? After 5 totally pointless ones in a row I feel like never taking another one again. Most of them hardly even have two lines of dialogue in them
MindGamingMantis
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So what you're saying is this is the jrpg mgsv. I can't take another mgsv. I might jump out my window if it's that bad.
ãInaba Residentã
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GinoFelino
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People really need to stop thinking about reviews this way
No. The MGS V comparison is bullshit.
No, don't say this to me
I hated so much of XCX, and I really wanted to love it. I love open world RPGs, after all. But I can't even imagine FFXV being that bad. On a narrative level at least, there's no way they could fail to vastly surpass that game, surely. And I don't know if you get to fly in FFXV (don't spoil please) but it was the flight module that ruined XCX entirely so there's a good chance that FFXV will avoid that issue.
And people are saying that the battle system in FFXV is good, whereas in XCX it was appalling... surely this game must be better than that one.
Agreed.
Fuck.
Praying for good reviews. Praying for not being like the shit that is XCX and more like XC.
With all the negativity surrounding this project and the FF brand since FFXIII, yeah, I wouldn't be surprised.
Sure. XIII reviewed a decade ago. Scores were different then and the franchise was in a different place then.
Askherserenity
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How big will the freak outs in the review thread be? Legendary thread coming up?
GinoFelino
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No, don't say this to me
I hated so much of XCX, and I really wanted to love it. I love open world RPGs, after all. But I can't even imagine FFXV being that bad. On a narrative level at least, there's no way they could fail to vastly surpass that game, surely. And I don't know if you get to fly in FFXV (don't spoil please) but it was the flight module that ruined XCX entirely so there's a good chance that FFXV will avoid that issue.
And people are saying that the battle system in FFXV is good, whereas in XCX it was appalling... surely this game must be better than that one.
Agreed.
Don't despair guys, I also said:
It depends on why you hated XCX.
At least XB X was fun
, sorry!A lot didn't make the cut, I really laughed about your "Like they had to take a chainsaw to the experience just to ship the game." because hats pretty much how the game feels.
And no, if you've seen the starting area and Duscae you have seen mostly everything (visually), there aren't really other areas that look much different. And if you've been following the game then you'll most likely have seen most of what it has to offer minus a few set pieces ... imho pretty dissapointing.
brandonh83
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Good morning.
I'm somewhere in the middle, so I'll likely like this game.
The good thing is, that I'm 40+ hours into XCX and still don't have my skell... I'm trying to finish that series of BS missions now. The structure of that game is such shit.
What's great, is that XV would be long over by that much play time... I'd be into the optional side stuff if I kept playing that long. So that is pretty great.
Western RPGs and JRPGs have different metrics by western reviewers. It's why Western RPGs can score highly despite often having a house sized list of technical issues, bugs, glitches, etc. if a JRPG has even a few technical issues, -2 automatically
ZeroMaverick
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How about this? Someone sum it up for me. Yes...or no?
Howdy
Dangansona
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Maybe.
KZXcellent
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guybrushfreeman
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Holundrian
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Some serious math involved in scoring.
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