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Any reason to think Final Fantasy XV won't disappoint?
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FrostuTheNinja
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Dude, this game was made to break hearts.
Once again, just because this game is not doing a turn based system does not mean that the next FF won't use it or at least some new variation of turn-based. Additionally, Ito hasn't done an FF in some time so there's the chance he could be doing XVI. And he's the guy that invented most of the battle systems used in FF.
You haven't played some of the older games then I take it? Because there were sci-fi elements in a lot of those such as VI, VII, VIII, and XII with the various technologies they displayed. The modern look with part of XV is a bit new, but appears to be unique to the city the main character hails from.
At this point I'm tired of games that fall flat in one portion of them or another. What I mean is, I'm tired of games having decent gameplay but terrible stories - or good stories and terrible gameplay. Is it wrong to want all pillars of a game to support it equally?
RPGCrazied
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It already has by not releasing on PS3/360. Sure I'll buy it, but when the PS4 is much cheaper than $400, so I got more years to wait, when I already waited years for it to come out on PS3.
I'd actually say that my expectations have went down considerably given the current state of squareenix.
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
Just looking at it spells disappointment for me. And the fact that the character design is done by Nomura once again.
I'm usually fine with good gameplay + music (and good aesthetics matters too I guess) and that makes a game "good enough" for me. Actually might even make a game great. But the truly exceptional ones are good all-around so I'd like for this game to be that good.
I find the latter to be the more frustrating of the two myself. I can deal with a bad or mediocre story if the game is fun to play, but sometimes if the gameplay is just really bad I just feel the need to go and watch the story on Youtube.
It really is tiresome to see games that fall flat in one of those areas. Feels like we don't get too many that manage to capture both these days.
Apparently yes.
Dark Octave
Banned
FF hasn't been turn based since FFX. It's gone for good.
What if XVI ends up worse? What are you going to do then? Are you going to wait for XVII? Did you ever think about that?! That's right. Didn't think so.
I sort of wonder if we'll ever get to some ridiculous number for FF, though I sort of expect SE to bankrupt or another crash before we get that far.
Perfect Cha0s
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It may not live up to the hype, but I think at worst it will be a very solid game with very fun combat. Like Verendus said, they've had enough pre-production time and Nomura and his team has a clear enough vision of what they want the game to be that this game should be able to avoid the biggest troubles XIII faced.
I have faith in Nomura that he won't ship a game that plays poorly, and I have faith in Nojima+Nomura to create a story that is, at the very least, understandable. Shimomura has never made an OST that I didn't think was brilliant, and what I've heard of XV seems to continue that trend.
It should be a very noticeable improvement over Squares past-gen output. I do think a lot of people will write it off simply because of association at this point, though.
I have faith in Nomura that he won't ship a game that plays poorly, and I have faith in Nojima+Nomura to create a story that is, at the very least, understandable. Shimomura has never made an OST that I didn't think was brilliant, and what I've heard of XV seems to continue that trend.
It should be a very noticeable improvement over Squares past-gen output. I do think a lot of people will write it off simply because of association at this point, though.
biggersmaller
Banned
The trailer looks good. If it were made by anyone else / called something else - I would be hopeful.
Extra Sauce
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It looks like a button masher.
It could dissapoint, but I think most will be happy with anything that's better than XIII.
Personally I welcome the action-oriented combat. The teleporting and weapon changing all looks really fun. Like many have said ill be happy with a cool world and fun combat. If the story is awesome then that's just the cherry on top.
Personally I welcome the action-oriented combat. The teleporting and weapon changing all looks really fun. Like many have said ill be happy with a cool world and fun combat. If the story is awesome then that's just the cherry on top.
You're thinking of XIV.
There are some linear segments but it has an open world too.
I'm not too worried about side content considering recent Nomura games as well as it being a mainline FF game (needs a bunch of side content) but I just want to know what they'll have.
computers putin'
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The only thing I worried about really is the story and the characters. I'm don't need either to be out of this world good, just not terrible and distracting like XIII. Oh, and a stronger narrative too, no more of leaving all the important details out of the story and putting them is some log you have to read in the menu like XIII.
Perfect Cha0s
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Looking at KH2: Final Mix, the side content should be pretty fantastic, too.
This is one thing for me.
The idea of an Int. Version. Nomura has hit it out of the park with KH1, 2 and BBS Final Mixs. I only hope XV's is half as good.
Perfect Cha0s
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ULTROS!
People seem to like me because I am polite and I am rarely late. I like to eat ice cream and I really enjoy a nice pair of slacks.
The most common problems of the FF nowadays are the existence of annoying/useless characters and the story can be a hit or miss to the people, so I'm expecting this.
1 on 1 vs Gilgamesh.
Dude who can use multiple weapons vs dude who can use multiple weapons.
This would become my GOTF. Seriously I have a stupid smile just thinking about it.
I think it'll be good. They sent out a sacrificial lamb (ff13) and hopefully learned how NOT to make an rpg. Whether it'll match expectations is another thing all together. The game has lived in people's imaginations for so long, reality may disappoint, no matter how great it actually is.
Fortunately, FFXIV is not like this.
That would be interesting
I like the way you think.
You chose the flyest of the keyblade wielders.
ULTROS!
People seem to like me because I am polite and I am rarely late. I like to eat ice cream and I really enjoy a nice pair of slacks.
I don't think this applies to MMOs (and I've never played an FF MMO).
The vanilla FFXIV was terrible due to the overall structure... How did ARR change though? Does it have a good story and presumably good NPCs?
That's the next-gen version though. Did they actually say they scrapped all the assets from Versus when they started XV? They were still making a current-gen version until last year.
I still think this is mostly the game they've been developing since 2006, but upgraded to new hardware with the original version cancelled. Then again, we never got to play Versus, so we have no idea how good or bad that might've been.
Final Fantasy Type 0 - Co Director for XV
Kingdom Hearts BBS and 3D - Co Director for XV.