KeyChainDude
Member
Those are two different cities.
Altissia: Kingdom of the huge Waterfalls
Insomnia: Noctis kingdom with all the modern stuff and gothic night vibe.
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Those are two different cities.
Altissia: Kingdom of the huge Waterfalls
Insomnia: Noctis kingdom with all the modern stuff and gothic night vibe.
That could be the only city in the game for all I care, as long as they let me explore it to a detailed degree I'll be happy!
Wish I could find that concept art/piece of Noctis fighting what looks like a dragon while hanging on the building.
I swear M-Night posted it.
PeakPointMatrix
Member
The most I've been interested in anything Final Fantasy in 10 years. Can't wait!
Late January then. Thanks
No. Insomnia is Noctis' home and it's the city based off of Tokyo.
A more relevant question would be: will we be able to explore insomnia? After they cut the original beginning in insomnia with Noctis going to the party to meet Stella, I am genuinely worried that we wont be able to re-create the epic 2006 trailer ourselves....
Altissia is the capital of Accordo a country in XV
Insomnia is the capital of Lucis Noctis home country.
DiipuSurotu
Banned
Altissia (based on Venice) -> capital of Accordo
Insomnia (based on Tokyo) -> capital of Lucis
Insomnia (based on Tokyo) -> capital of Lucis
LouisaFerre
Member
Dude those are some of the most interesting things I've heard about this game.
Excitement rising.
Excitement rising.
Weren't the earlier battle demos in Insomnia? Cutting the party scene doesn't mean you can't explore the city.
KeyChainDude
Member
Oh I'm pretty sure we will, I believe the game will begin there in the first place. Just hope they didn't tamper with the events that happen there too much.
Garrett Hawke
Member
I mean I'll believe it when I see it but so much of what they're saying about this game sounds amazing. I just can't shake the feeling that it's going to be either very bad or very short/small.
NoctisVsStar
Member
Aerial combat should be fun in certain circumstances and enemy specific scenarios.
We also have concept art of different districts of Insomnia and footage of a Lucis parking lot from the 2013 trailer.
But no one knows for sure. The way the story seems to be laid out makes it seem we won't explore it in the beginning at least.
I hope you are right, but the newest videos (TGS trailer and the one after that) all seems to indicate that the invasion happens when we (the players) are outside the city - with the player being told what has happened over radio (jump festa trailer) or by you friends (audio at the end of the demo) ...
TDLink
Member
My hopes is that you can just explore everything you see in that image...but somehow I doubt that will be the case. I am pessimistic that they will match or exceed something like NLA in Xenoblade X.
Icyflamez96
Member
I vaguely remember them saying that all of Altissa was explorable a while ago.
Whatever that ends up really meaning
I imagine the beginning bit we will be in Insomnia and be able to explore before the boys shove off.
NoctisVsStar
Member
let's focus on this month my lord.
Nah i dont believe this, it will be decent sized imo.
I will be fine with only exploring 1/4 of this glorious map.
too much water and waterfall in there , so there is nothing wrong if they find it hard to make most of it exploreable.
I can see maps/areas like this fully explorable on in games like gravity rush where you can fly any time anywhere and it's not a big deal if a fall off a waterfall by mistake.
The Last One
Member
Dude, be excited first for the January ATR. They will make some magic there =p
Darryl M R
Member
Wait so is the next demo in march or does the game drop in march? I'm confused, trying to read on mobile right now
NoctisVsStar
Member
March is when they'll have some sort of information blowout which includes the release date of the game and maybe a second demo.
There's gonna be a big press blowout in March apparently. We do have another Active Time Report this month though (date not confirmed).
The Last One
Member
The particles will be something else. Can't wait.
Man, they will have to work pretty hard to make Altissia live up to the concept art and cg they've shown. I really don't want a handful of tiny districts connected by halls or loading screens and then having the bulk of the city as a fancy skybox. I want to explore the whole thing. I want to jump in my boat and cruise the canals and waterways and feel like I'm actually inside this amazing looking city. I want to take a wrong a turn and plummet down a waterfall and find a secret entrance to a bonus dungeon on one of the bridge supports. I want to warp my way to the top of the tallest building and jump off into the water. I just want to be able to feel like I'm inside the location and not locked behind invisible walls and only able to look at it from a distance.
Go_Ly_Dow
Member
I know which piece you're talking about, but can't seem to find it.
True, show me the magic.
Unless FFXV has a staff bigger than every other AAA game ever made, prepare to be disappointed.
Nice CGI.
Bigger than LOTR Online or Daggerfall? Hahaha. Good luck with that.
That (silly) speculation put the game at 1200km2, which is ~50% larger than Just Cause 2-3 but 190x smaller than Daggerfall. Yeah.
The game would be enormous anyway, in fact i think 1200km2 (3x the size of Xenoblade X) would be too big for what the game seems to do (IF that's true... and it probably isn't). It would be just empty spaces to travel with your car. 1/10 of that (around the size of TW3) would already be great, in fact it would possibly be better.
NLA isn't that big, i doubt these cities will be smaller.
You can't do that.
Give War A Chance
Member
I am excited to play this game in 2017!
LouisaFerre
Member
The two combat options sounds to me like it's going to affect the automation of inputs or things like that, so they can keep around the contextual one button action system while proving a more traditional ARPG control scheme for players that would prefer that.
Given that they want to impart a sense of road trip adventure, large open spaces (without necessarily to much to do) is actually fundamental for them to achieve their aim.
artsi
Member
lol, that would be a damn short road trip.
Considering they're traveling highway speeds the world has to be huge to give the feeling of an adventure.
W3 is fine when you're running around with a horse around villages, but traveling from nation to nation? It won't be enough.
NoctisVsStar
Member
This is good a more challenging mode for those who prefer it! or it could simply be the holding and pressing attack button mechanic.
Kenzodielocke
Banned
One day, games will be able to achieve that. One day.
Holy cruaaapp! Are they telling us that we will able to walk around and explore all of this!?? It looks like a beautiful cityscape painting from the 18th century.This is going to be the best JRPG!