"Rendering a frame in Kingsglaive takes between 30 and 100 hours!"
Oh, and I just wondered, could this be Cor's father or so?
How long until we can render this frame in 16 ms?
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KINGSGLAIVE: FINAL FANTASY XV Trailer Leaked
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How long until we can render this frame in 16 ms?
Yeah, maybe Nomura had in mind some kind of Midgar sized story arc for the Insomnia invasion. I always pictured it as a 2 hours setpiece, but maybe his intention was to make it a bigger portion of the game.
I used to think too hard on stuff like this, but knowing that Kingsglaive's been in the works since 2013 just makes everything I thought of not make sense anymore. It would have been dope if there was an entire game dedicated to moments like this, though. I think Insomnia's set piece would have been like 2 hours, with establishing events being an additional 2 hours.
Whatever the case, the 2011 opening CG was awesome. I don't think the rest of Versus and now XV is like that CG. There's too much fantasy going on at any given time compared to that scene.
Whenever Nomura talked about Versus and the story it always seemed like getting the crystal back was the end goal, and that the game would just be the invasion, us roadtripping to Niflheim, doing things along the way, eventually getting the crystal back then going back to Lucis, the end.
They mentioned that they condensed Versus and its sequels into a single game with XV in 2012, so maybe the Versus sequels was going to deal with the rapid aging of the king and the Plague of the Stars, and now that they condensed it all into one game it feels like going to Niflheim to get the crystal back and reclaiming Lucis is just one act of the game, with the rapid aging of the king and the Plague of the Stars being the overarching story for the later acts.
They also said that condensing the story into one game is one of the reasons for why they changed Stella's role into Luna's role and that resulted in the intro changing.
They mentioned that they condensed Versus and its sequels into a single game with XV in 2012, so maybe the Versus sequels was going to deal with the rapid aging of the king and the Plague of the Stars, and now that they condensed it all into one game it feels like going to Niflheim to get the crystal back and reclaiming Lucis is just one act of the game, with the rapid aging of the king and the Plague of the Stars being the overarching story for the later acts.
They also said that condensing the story into one game is one of the reasons for why they changed Stella's role into Luna's role and that resulted in the intro changing.
It's something done to get a different audience interested in the game itself. Based on the reactions in this thread, it's working. People who were interested in FFXV the game still are. They did facial capture for the key characters as well, and we know there's no actual person who looks like Luna or Ardyn.
Icyflamez96
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I'm more just not a fan of how different they look from eachother.
Astral Dog
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Something something marketeable,western,audience, Ubisoft, Skyrim.
Zoe
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There's an anime in addition to this movie.
Something something whitewashing yet again
DiipuSurotu
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Wait WHAT
I was initially disappointed too when it started to look like the Versus intro was no more. But now that we have Kingsglaive, I'm ok with it. I was mostly bummed with us possibly not seeing what happens in Insomnia in much detail, but with this movie I'll be satisfied with getting that epic intro, though details have changed. Even if it's not by us controlling Noctis through the invasion chaos, we still get to see shit going down.
The kings of Lucis succumb to rapid aging, it's been speculated for a while that
they would use the old Regis face as an "old man" Noctis face when he rapidly ages once he is king.
He even gets Regis's suit.
Insomnia takes a ton of influence from and IIRC some places are almost 1:1 replicas of Tokyo. So they kinda are.
Zoe
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They went from casting their main characters with people such as her:
Serah, Cloud
to him:
Regis
Insomnia being based on Tokyo doesn't make Lucis Tokyo, the characters still aren't Asian.
Noctis and Luna are the only characters in the entire game that you could even make an argument for as being "Asian", and even then they look mixed. Everyone else we've seen in the game looks Caucasian.
They went from casting their main characters with people such as her:
Serah, Cloud
to him:
Regis
The woman at the top was never cast as anyone in XV so I don't see what that has to do with anything regarding XV, also even Regis's original Nomura face design looked Caucasian, he looked almost exactly like Alan Rickman as Hans Gruber.
Zoe
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I disagree with you on Regis' old design not looking Asian.
And if this doesn't look like an Asian face to you, I don't know what to tell you.
R10Neymarfan
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Isn't the majority of the XV universe based off of western countries? I recall they sent the scout to Europe for inspiration?
Also the story is Shakespearean which is Anglo-English
Ha, perfect timing of Game Informer! New article is about modernizing the art of FFXV, with Prompto's redesign as an example:
An Inside Look At Modernizing The Art Of Final Fantasy/ Final Fantasy XV's Art Director On Shifting Away From Versus XIII
Thanks to @Nova_Crystallis!
His old clothes were so much better :/
An Inside Look At Modernizing The Art Of Final Fantasy/ Final Fantasy XV's Art Director On Shifting Away From Versus XIII
Thanks to @Nova_Crystallis!
His old clothes were so much better :/
PshycoNinja
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Night_Knight
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I forgot how good the old Prompto design was.
NoctisVsStar
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Indeed, he looks great now outside the clothes.
Is it really whitewashing if the rest of the game is based on a western aesthetic? Gothic sculptures, ornate stylings, etc.
I prefer the character designs of Kingsglaive because it fits the rest of the game better. It's the cherry on top the ties the rest of the game's style. I guess if Noctics looked more realistic rather than anime I wouldn't be complaining but then again that's a different argument ha
chozen
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Pre-beta vs Uncovered.
Whered you get this
DiipuSurotu
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Old Prompto looks like a KH character.
The setting for Kingsglaive is based on Tokyo though.
Pre-beta vs Uncovered.
I'm getting KH vibes
Icyflamez96
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It always stuns me how current Promto looks exactly like this dude that some of my friends hang out with.
Well except the hair.
Well except the hair.
DiipuSurotu
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Anyone else thinks the guy on the left kinda sorta looks like a real-world Prompto?
Edge_Maverick
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Prompto's new hair and face are much better. Still not a big fan his design though (Cor is still da best).
Clothes on the other hand... ugh.
Clothes on the other hand... ugh.
NoctisVsStar
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Preach but my boy Noct looks fabolous.
If it's shit 80% of the time, and great 20% of the time. It's still shit.
NoctisVsStar
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That's life in a nutshell.
I disagree with you on Regis' old design not looking Asian.
And if this doesn't look like an Asian face to you, I don't know what to tell you.
He has Caucasian features, nose and facial structure, blonde hair, blue eyes, freckles, I'm not sure how you are seeing Prompto as ever being Asian, not in his 2013 design or even in his Versus design did he look Asian. Having anime style hairstyles doesn't mean a character is Asian.
Regis also always looked Caucasian, like I mentioned before he looked just like Alan Rickman did as Hans.
The aesthetic of the city is yet the characters from Lucis look the same as those from Niflheim or Tenebrae.
NoctisVsStar
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This game is the walking dead, it won't die.
Nomura wears Roen clothing on a regular basis.
Soon he will become a model for Roen.
That's the point I'm making.
I disagree with you on Regis' old design not looking Asian.
And if this doesn't look like an Asian face to you, I don't know what to tell you.
Asian? What the hell? Guy is as westerner as it goes. There's a reason most japanese think we are better cosplayers than they are because we look more like the characters they've invented.
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