Jangowuzhere
Banned
I've started thinking about Final Fantasy XV again. The most memorable part of this game would have to be the inciting incident in this game's story. Not because it's good or anything, but more the fact that EVERYTHING about it is completely wrong.
The opening hours of FFXV are actually pretty great. Honestly, it's one of the best openings to a game I've played in recent memory. You're driving to your wedding, your car breaks down, and now you gotta do oddjobs to pay for the repairs...that's it. It sounds lame, but it's actually nice slow opening that allows you to take in the world and bond with your buddies. It allows you to explore the game and its mechanics a bit before thrusting you into the world saving story. I was completely hooked on the game at this point.
Then...you get to this shit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJxnYiXDs2E&t=26m24s
Actually, before this horrible cutscene, you are overloaded with a bunch of CG nonsense from the spinoff movie Kingsglaive. The way the movie scenes are shoved into this game is so fucking amateur, why was this even needed? Anyway, this cutscene is what kicks off the story for this game. Noctis's father is slain and his home city is destroyed by an evil invading empire. This is a life changing event for our main character. How does Noctis learn all of this?
FROM A FUCKING NEWSPAPER!
This is just...insulting on so many levels. There are thousands of ways to directly involve the main character into this story, and they chose a goddamn newspaper!? At the top of my head: an assassination squad from Neflihem ambushes Noctis on his wedding trip. Noctis and his buds fight off the assassins and end up interrogating one of them for information. The assassin spills the beans that Noctis's home city is rubble and his father is dead. Nefihelm also wants Noctis to die, so they will keep pursuing him relentlessly until they finally kill him. This is cliche and basic, but it gets the job done. But no, instead, we learn all this information from a newspaper. The most impersonal and least interesting way to convey LIFE CHANGING information to a character. Noctis and his bros don't even look all that upset about it. The cinematography and the area this scene takes place in is so damn boring. They can't even get this shitty scene to have any ounce of realism or humanity. To top it off, this is a world that has modern technology similar to our reality. Why the heck are they getting this information from a print paper of all things? They have SMARTPHONES and the INTERNET. If the dev team is going to be lazy with its storytelling, they can at least be fricken consistent with the world they have established.
I know a lot of people were disappointed by the various plot elements later on, but honestly, I stopped caring at this point. I knew everything after the fact was going to be terrible. If they're going to cop out with this crappy opening, then the stuff that comes later wasn't going to be any better.
This game was a lot more interesting when it was simply just a road trip to a dude's wedding.
The opening hours of FFXV are actually pretty great. Honestly, it's one of the best openings to a game I've played in recent memory. You're driving to your wedding, your car breaks down, and now you gotta do oddjobs to pay for the repairs...that's it. It sounds lame, but it's actually nice slow opening that allows you to take in the world and bond with your buddies. It allows you to explore the game and its mechanics a bit before thrusting you into the world saving story. I was completely hooked on the game at this point.
Then...you get to this shit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJxnYiXDs2E&t=26m24s
Actually, before this horrible cutscene, you are overloaded with a bunch of CG nonsense from the spinoff movie Kingsglaive. The way the movie scenes are shoved into this game is so fucking amateur, why was this even needed? Anyway, this cutscene is what kicks off the story for this game. Noctis's father is slain and his home city is destroyed by an evil invading empire. This is a life changing event for our main character. How does Noctis learn all of this?
FROM A FUCKING NEWSPAPER!
This is just...insulting on so many levels. There are thousands of ways to directly involve the main character into this story, and they chose a goddamn newspaper!? At the top of my head: an assassination squad from Neflihem ambushes Noctis on his wedding trip. Noctis and his buds fight off the assassins and end up interrogating one of them for information. The assassin spills the beans that Noctis's home city is rubble and his father is dead. Nefihelm also wants Noctis to die, so they will keep pursuing him relentlessly until they finally kill him. This is cliche and basic, but it gets the job done. But no, instead, we learn all this information from a newspaper. The most impersonal and least interesting way to convey LIFE CHANGING information to a character. Noctis and his bros don't even look all that upset about it. The cinematography and the area this scene takes place in is so damn boring. They can't even get this shitty scene to have any ounce of realism or humanity. To top it off, this is a world that has modern technology similar to our reality. Why the heck are they getting this information from a print paper of all things? They have SMARTPHONES and the INTERNET. If the dev team is going to be lazy with its storytelling, they can at least be fricken consistent with the world they have established.
I know a lot of people were disappointed by the various plot elements later on, but honestly, I stopped caring at this point. I knew everything after the fact was going to be terrible. If they're going to cop out with this crappy opening, then the stuff that comes later wasn't going to be any better.
This game was a lot more interesting when it was simply just a road trip to a dude's wedding.