BlazingDarkness
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It's amazing how much you can actually make out now the trailer is in HD :lol
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Final Fantasy XV Gameplay Analysis [GIF Heavy]
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It's amazing how much you can actually make out now the trailer is in HD :lol
jimmythepage
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like in kingdom hearts.
birthbysleep
Member
I miss the term "Ex-Arts".
Oh well, everything else is incredible.
Oh well, everything else is incredible.
Fighting the mob in the second picture was confirmed to be story related in the first trailer. However, you could see in the first picture thats it's day time AND the same place. I think it's safe to assume that you can backtrack (?) Also, day/night time is also there. I know it's been confirmed, but it's nice to see it in the trailer. ;p
Sorry if it was too obvious
Exentryk
Member
OP updated BlazingDarkness! Cheers!
About those party member assists, is it a button press to summon them for an assist, or do they automatically trigger given the right conditions?
If they are triggered by the press of a button, would one need a button each for the 2 party members? What happens if you summon them when no enemies are around. What does the mini cutscene show?
About those party member assists, is it a button press to summon them for an assist, or do they automatically trigger given the right conditions?
If they are triggered by the press of a button, would one need a button each for the 2 party members? What happens if you summon them when no enemies are around. What does the mini cutscene show?
Hmm, looking at the trailers again, specifically the announcement trailer, it seems there might be some form of climbing mechanics to the game, which I think could be considered a first for a mainline title.
Well, aside perhaps from LR I guess. Could we guess exploration and finding things like secrets would also be similar to KH potentially?
Well, aside perhaps from LR I guess. Could we guess exploration and finding things like secrets would also be similar to KH potentially?
Yeah, hopefully there are a lot of NPCs to talk to. Though in this case it might make sense given the attack that you might not encounter too many unless maybe it was people fleeing away.
Black Door
Banned
Now I remember what the combat in this game reminds me of: Flow motion. It's executed in almost the same manner, too.
Hey guys,
Just giving my 10 cents here, plz ignore if useless!
Most of the time, when watching the Trailer, I remembered of Crisis Core mechanics, where you had free movement of the character and selected most of the commands with the shoulder buttons.
The swords thingy resembles the materia seleciton system... you can cycle between them and hit the X button to perform selected action.
What if the swords are diferente attack styles and stuff?
Probably digging deeper into Crisis Core, we can figure out more about the mechanics!
Oh, btw, did someone play Type-0/Agito XIII?
The games started being developed almost at the same time... it would be Worth a shot to take a look at that as well!
Just giving my 10 cents here, plz ignore if useless!
Most of the time, when watching the Trailer, I remembered of Crisis Core mechanics, where you had free movement of the character and selected most of the commands with the shoulder buttons.
The swords thingy resembles the materia seleciton system... you can cycle between them and hit the X button to perform selected action.
What if the swords are diferente attack styles and stuff?
Probably digging deeper into Crisis Core, we can figure out more about the mechanics!
Oh, btw, did someone play Type-0/Agito XIII?
The games started being developed almost at the same time... it would be Worth a shot to take a look at that as well!
Exentryk
Member
Could you elaborate a little more on climbing mechanics? Maybe some screenshots or trailer time for when it happens?
I am pretty sure you'll be warping to secret locations. Those blue lock-ons are hard to see already
Haven't played KH3D. Might just pick up a 3DS to try this flowmotion, if it is similar.
Yes, the materia cycling of Crisis Core seems a good example to describe the weapon cycling. The difference can be the button required to cycle might be different. In CC, IIRC, you used the D-pad (left or right), while here it appears you only cycle to the right, so I am guessing R2. PSP didn't have access to L2 and R2.
Apart from that, the lock-on mechanic and dodge rolling is similar.
Zeroshift/teleport isn't at all the same as flowmotion.
Well, Nomura did talk about them testing some complex crowd AI for people populating the streets of the cities (like everyone going on and about their daily life, visiting shops and hanging around). I'd just assume that you won't be seeing people outdoors when there are monsters roaming around, hostile airforce in the air and a giant sea monster rising from the lake/sea nearby.
And yeah, the weapon-switch system works a bit like Crisis Core's materia system. Each weapon has different kinds of attacks and are probably good for different situations (i.e. the spear is good for closing in on enemies quickly by lunging at them, the big swords deal massive damage when an enemy is down but is bad against agile enemies etc.)
Though, it should only be available for Noctis (if they've still kept the ability to switch characters and they aren't just AI ones like in Kingdom Hearts), since he's the only one with access to more than one weapon type. The rest are more limited to their own special weapons.
Well, we see a huge map of the Venice-like city in the reveal trailer. Presumably you can zip around however you like there when it's not being attacked by a huge-ass Leviathan. And if Nomura's info about the size of the game still holds true (after the change from Versus to XV), the game is apparently so big that Nomura doubts anyone will do everything on their first playthrough. I'd assume that to mean that the game is pretty massive & open, at least in the old FF kind of way where you might be limited by the storyline how much freedom you have at first, but then the game opens up once you get an airship or far enough in the game.
Exentryk
Member
We haven't seen how the areas are linked yet. From the trailer, that city map looks really big, and you have airships shown on the map too. You can warp to them and run about on those airships. And it's all seamless too.
Would you be able to fly the airship out of the city into other areas seamlessly is yet to be seen.
aramanKain
Member
In these scenes the city is being attacked by an enemy force - you gonna walk around outside if it's going to hell?
These areas are probably very different outside of the combat situation this trailer takes place.
Northeastmonk
Gold Member
The weapon switching and warping to higher elevation looks a lot of fun.
^ There's one.
I think perhaps summons will appear as enemies on a grand God of War scale and then when you actually acquire them (after beating them) they're manifested as perhaps like a magic spell or something in battle. See this water that appears to shoot around the environment? I think this might be Leviathan in spell form. So in the world they appear as huge beasts and then in battle as elements. This is pure conjecture of course.
This post from the other thread made me look through the trailer and I noticed something.
Water spell definitely looks like Leviathan
BlazingDarkness might be right.
Does that mean we won't be able to summon some creatures? I hope they don't use them as a plot device like FFIX.
Exentryk
Member
Yes, it is Leviathan just attacking the city and Noctis is not using it as a spell. We're speculating if that is how it will work when Noctis acquires the summon.
Should be able to. Every summon would have a signature move (spell) that they perform when summoned, and at the same time letting Noctis carry on as usual with his normal attacks. Sounds pretty cool. Let's see how it turns out in actuality.
OldAsUrSock
Banned
Great analysis and awesome looking game.
Exentryk
Member
That was a favourite bit for a lot of people. Just seeing that as realtime and a part of gameplay just blew me away. o.o
This poster has me curious... release date?
Probably late 2014, definitely by the end of Q1 2015.
Jondoyle123
Neo Member
So what's the chances or this all being in the final game?
Because it looks amazing
Especially warping and the Leviathan
Because it looks amazing
Especially warping and the Leviathan
Exentryk
Member
15th Sept, 2014? Perhaps.
Probably 100%...the warping was one of Noctis' abilities from the beginning from the 2006 CG trailer and summons were confirmed a long time ago (plus it's a main FF so summon should be expected).
Jondoyle123
Neo Member
What about in terms of the gameplay?
Eg taking on the summon? Etc looks fucking insane would be pointless to change it
I guess that's a possibility.
It's been said before that you get summons after you beat them and I assume they're aiming to make the summon battles large scale judging from the Leviathan so I'm going to assume they're not going to change that.
Exentryk
Member
probably already talked about, but I thought it was interesting how the party members could be far away from you
in this image on the mini map you see two symbols on both sides of Noctis. The left one with gun is Prompto and right one is Gladiolus
I wonder if you will be able to call them to assist you when they are far away.
in this image on the mini map you see two symbols on both sides of Noctis. The left one with gun is Prompto and right one is Gladiolus
I wonder if you will be able to call them to assist you when they are far away.
Exentryk
Member
Yeah, they'll appear right next to you to assist when required. Notice the "Gladiolus Cover" gif in the OP, under "Party member assists". When the assist initiates, Gladiolus automatically appears next to Noct, even tho he was running in the background a second ago. Not sure if it works automatically (after certain conditions are met) or by a press of a button. I am hoping it'll be a press of a button.
Btw, do you have a higher quality version of the trailer? Those images look really sharp. Or is that just off the 1080p YT trailer?
davepoobond
you can't put a price on sparks
i absolutely love the way this looks.
my guess is that magic will be on a cooldown, depending on what level of spell you use, the longer the cooldown could be.
depending on the backend system, I'm sure that the cooldown or the magic can evolve to become better/spammable.
i'm also guessing that you restore your warp gauge by attacking with normal attacks otherwise magic will be too powerful once there's practically no cooldown. it seems like you absolutely need to use warp to avoid 99% of the damage you'd get otherwise.
i'm also guessing the weapon switching is similar to God of War and .hack GU, but way more fluid.
I am also hoping you level up your weapons in some fashion.
my guess is that magic will be on a cooldown, depending on what level of spell you use, the longer the cooldown could be.
depending on the backend system, I'm sure that the cooldown or the magic can evolve to become better/spammable.
i'm also guessing that you restore your warp gauge by attacking with normal attacks otherwise magic will be too powerful once there's practically no cooldown. it seems like you absolutely need to use warp to avoid 99% of the damage you'd get otherwise.
i'm also guessing the weapon switching is similar to God of War and .hack GU, but way more fluid.
I am also hoping you level up your weapons in some fashion.
September 15, 2592? Come on, man, even this game's development hell won't be that bad.
PLASTICA-MAN
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Guys I think you can go actually "plant swords" into the behemoth and then possibly this is what allowed him to set it on fire ? I dont think these are part of its visual design.THey are the same as his swords.
You can target different parts of the behemoth.See lock on in different parts.
I don't know why all of this teleportation using swords as a marking point, reminds me of the Shunshin No Jutsu of the Fourth Hokage Minato Namikaze Father of Naruto and the planting them on the beast to get instantaneous attacks on him, just like the fth Hokage fight against Killerbee.
it is the trailer on PSN store. I think its the highest quality one so far
here is download link
PSN trailer JP (mega)
unfortunately they don't have one for gameplay trailer.