Seems everything including the character is prerendered in the top picture.
I figured, but I wanted to believe! The bottom pic looks kind of like ass and more what I would imagine a PS3-up-port to look like.
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Final Fantasy XV - Everything we know so far - [Up: Character artwork/descriptions]
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Seems everything including the character is prerendered in the top picture.
I figured, but I wanted to believe! The bottom pic looks kind of like ass and more what I would imagine a PS3-up-port to look like.
There changing engine to Luminous completely, not just for lighting now? Isn't it difficult/time consuming to just up and change like that?
Pre-rendered scenes as backdrops have a long history with FF, don't they?
It's been long since we had humor/comedy in a mainline FF actually... Like more than 10 years long.
He says the story is also simple because it involves the crystal.
=O so were the impressive parts of the trailer #teamcg all along?
It's been long since we had humor/comedy in a mainline FF actually... Like more than 10 years long.
Yea, I guess V, VI, IX have are the most comedic.
Exentryk
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Nice! Thanks for this summary! I feel OP needs a summary section from all the news articles, so information like this can be included. I'll get on it tomorrow.
Leviathan looking nice. Interested in seeing what their designs and encounters for Ifrit, Shiva, Bahamut, and probably Odin are this time around.
Well when piracy is brought in it as something that would harm console version sales, it brings up the questions of how many console players have a PC capable of adequately running the game at a level where they're "better off" pirating it, and whether it's better to totally neglect the PC market, or make a PC version and net some extra sales despite pirated copies floating around. I'm not claiming to know the answers to these questions and I don't feel like looking up the data to find out, but I don't think it's good to immediately jump to calling it a bad idea.
My general impression from your posts in this thread is that you think the game is better off from a financial perspective as exclusive to the PS4, but if they want to reach some particularly high sales numbers and convince the gaming industry and fanbase that the company and series is on its way back up, I think they (justifiably) feel one platform may not be enough and are considering all their options.
Well when piracy is brought in it as something that would harm console version sales, it brings up the questions of how many console players have a PC capable of adequately running the game at a level where they're "better off" pirating it, and whether it's better to totally neglect the PC market, or make a PC version and net some extra sales despite pirated copies floating around. I'm not claiming to know the answers to these questions and I don't feel like looking up the data to find out, but I don't think it's good to immediately jump to calling it a bad idea.
My general impression from your posts in this thread is that you think the game is better off from a financial perspective as exclusive to the PS4, but if they want to reach some particularly high sales numbers and convince the gaming industry and fanbase that the company and series is on its way back up, I think they (justifiably) feel one platform may not be enough and are considering all their options.
PlanetSmasher
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This info kind of gets me excited. The world map being a real thing on PS4 is amazing considering how lousy XIII and XIII-2 were for exploration.
I hope we get Bahamut as a summon this time around. I'm banking on him being Niflheim's summon, so he might be a plot device like he was in IX, XI, XII and XIV...but I hope we get him, if only because it would be awesome to do a gameplay sequence where you get to fly around on his back and shoot down airships. I hope there's a bunch of summons!
thats why I don't expect this game to come out anytime soon.
They are working with Luminous Studio team to make the game and Luminous engine simultaneously(since Luminous Studio is not complete yet)
Zoe
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His design has changed considerably. It's brown now.
PlanetSmasher
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Agreed. I think releasing FFs on PC would be quite the precedent. It marks for future installments also being available on PC but also the idea that SE is open to console platforming. Considering how they're developing XV and it's basically for the PC anyway and they're essentially optimizing it for the consoles, what they have on hand is the PC version. Multi-platform is going to be unbelievably easy compared to this current gen. Unless there is no audience on PC, they're not going to miss an opportunity to release it on the PC. LIke I said, there needs to be an audience and reasonable amount of sales that they're expecting.
You say that but in the boyband art it's blue. LOL.
CrimsonCrescendo
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A simple, non-convoluted Final Fantasy? Hard to imagine.
nelsonroyale
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Hmmm, so was the gameplay trailer all real time though? To be honest, I don't see the massive difference that Jett is talking about anyway. The bottom pic was taken in pretty tumultous motion, while the top was a fairly static scene, so bottom pic the details seem more skewed to me. Either way, in motion it all looked pretty good to me, although needs some polishing. Right now, environments and textures look ace, but the character modelling and detail could be improved, also effects.
Huh, that's interesting. Given the general tone of this game thus far, I have some trouble imagining much comedy though if done well I'll welcome it.
Particularly from Nomura.
SoraanTribal
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Damn, really? That's kind of disappointing. Hmm...
kenji_sama
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Noctis and Stella have same ability which sense others death, right? So is it relate to Noctis's eye color?
I'm wondering stella can change her eye color too.
I'm wondering stella can change her eye color too.
I don't. I'm tired of unrealistic hair color in Final Fantasy.
Viola of the Abyss
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Maybe you should come up with a series called "Final Reality" then? lol
Besides, you don't know if blue hair is unrealistic for a fantasy-based world. Especially since Noctis had a nice natural looking dark blue color. It didn't look like a dye job.
I don't know, it moved on and is trying different things? Each mainline entry is supposed to be different anyway and I can appreciate that. Especially after being burned out on the series for as long as I was. Sometimes something different is just what the doctor ordered for some. As for XV, it looks different yet again and all the more amazing for it.
Stone Ocean
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Yeah, you don't have to make his hair super gaudy to make him unique.
That's a sort of grizzled red hair, no?
Dark blue isn't gaudy. I wouldn't even call Lightning's pink gaudy either. They both fit their characters to a T.
DigitalDevilSummoner
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Take a look at people's comments about FF XIII. So many people just played some 10 or 15 hours. It's not a matter of whether or not your PC will be able to max out everything for a 100 hour gameplay, lot's of gamers are simply interested in finding out what the game is all about. The fanbase is grossly fragmented and not as loyal as you and me. FF is not elder scrolls either (which has solid roots in PC gaming).
This comment irks me. It's like saying a game shouldn't come to PC because it has no foundation on said platform. I think people sometimes vastly underestimate the PC market and how many people are willing to play games solely on PC. This year I bought more games on the PC than the PS3 just because I had a PC on hand that gave me a better experience. Yes, not many people have decked out PCs, however, for those who don't own a console or have one, they're going to invest in a game that's released for that platform.
obviously dyed his hair, the eyebrows are brown :b
I don't understand what's the world map supposed to be? Is it real time travelling with the card in 3D environments like in Final Fantasy XIV or is the world map akin something to Final Fantasy VIII were you see the map from a top perspective and can thus run to other parts of the world?
This post makes no sense to me.
You know how you build a userbase? By releasing games on that platform.
Yeah. I see it now. lol.
Perfect Cha0s
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It's akin to FFXII supposedly. I can't say much about what that entails, because I've never played very much of XII.
Zoe
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No. He basically said in a previous interview that it didn't look right anymore doing that kind of view.
I wonder how they solved the problem of the airship vs perspective.
DigitalDevilSummoner
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For the forth time: Stop pretending this is black or white, I am not saying people don't buy games on the PC. I am merely bringing up the very real risk of how many people will buy it on the PC VS the people who will potentially see it a better fit to pirate it.
@ Skilletor And you think it is a good idea to try and build a fanbase by risking your biggest name and biggest production ? Are you forgetting The Last Remnant ?
PlanetSmasher
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I'm willing to hazard a guess that airship flight paths and landing points will be preset. Especially if the whole world is at war, it's not likely you're going to have free flight or the ability to just land anywhere. It would solve the problem of perspective while still allowing you to control the airship and traverse the world in it.
The other option would be to make the AIRSHIP free flight with specific landing spots while keeping the world itself interconnected, similar to how Lost Odyssey did it.
Zoe
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Even with small ships, realistically you have to be really high above the ground. The problem was that objects on the ground became too small.
it became interesting again.
I'm not making this argument black and white. You're argument is that there is a serious risk of whether the title will succeed on the PC and if it's even a worthwhile venture, no? Piracy is an issue, yes. However, the fact still remains that there are other publishers out there who are willing to release titles on the PC despite having a 360 or PS3 version available and the threat of piracy on the PC. SE is no different. They publish Eidos games for the PC as well. If there is money to be made on it why wouldn't they release it on the PC. They're not stupid so they would take piracy into consideration and possibly find ways to minimize piracy. The risk involved in releasing title for the PC is about the same as almost any other multiplatform title.
Or they can do it like in Dragon Quest 8 but in larger scale while also havig a free controling airship with predetermined landing spots
PlanetSmasher
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That's how Lost Odyssey did it, yes. With your ship and airship, the world zoomed out all the way into an "old school" world map, while on-foot navigation was still an interconnected series of locales similar to FFXII.
Zoe
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I don't think that (old school) is the direction they want to go in though.
PlanetSmasher
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Yes, and releasing it on THREE platforms instead of two will help with that.
DigitalDevilSummoner
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Alright fair comment. Let's dissect things further: How many of those ports are as huge risks as a game that aims at far more than 5 million copies ?
Eidos' Tomb Raider doesn't exactly come close. Neither does Dark Souls. Of course the risk is nowhere near the same.
Already talked about. That's Pachter's way of thinking for Nintendo's IPs and it doesn't exactly have a tight grasp on reality.
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