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["Rumor"] Final Fantasy XV Delayed to November 29 [Up: Photo evidence]
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DukeLongfellow
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I would kind of like this. Would give me enough time to sort out my college stuff and save a bit more for the LE.
The only console build at E3 was the Titan demo, and that wasn't shaky.
And while they are showing dev PC material on screenshots and in videos, the preview events where people actually play the game use the console builds now (different to E3).
Go_Ly_Dow
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Ok ok, your post was sarcasm, but you see many other similar posts which definitely aren't. Mental filtering systems do fail from time to time.
Doesn't matter that much, does it? The game has been anticipated for 10+ years, and they announced the release date only a few months ago. They can't afford the same delay pattern as games that aren't ten years old.
If all boss fights are going to be glorified quicktime events, the game won't even need to be buggy to fail.
And like M_Night points out, it was very buggy - the game would stop responding entirely to some players. You can't get much worse than needing to reboot the demo.
Go_Ly_Dow
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Plenty of people have mentioned game breaking bugs that they encountered in the E3 Titan demo.
[me on 29th November]
- finally, gonna play FF15
- just pass chapter 1 because of "collect 'em all" habit
- quit game
[me on 30th November]
- finally, gonna play Gravity Rush 2
- just pass chapter 1 because of "collect 'em all" habit
- quit game
- play FF15
[me on 1st-5th December]
- play FF15
- quit game
- play Gravity Rush 2
- quit game
- loop
- suffer
[me on 6th December]
- finally, gonna play South Park Butthole
- just pass chapter 1 because of "collect 'em all" habit
- quit game
- suffer
- die
- finally, gonna play FF15
- just pass chapter 1 because of "collect 'em all" habit
- quit game
[me on 30th November]
- finally, gonna play Gravity Rush 2
- just pass chapter 1 because of "collect 'em all" habit
- quit game
- play FF15
[me on 1st-5th December]
- play FF15
- quit game
- play Gravity Rush 2
- quit game
- loop
- suffer
[me on 6th December]
- finally, gonna play South Park Butthole
- just pass chapter 1 because of "collect 'em all" habit
- quit game
- suffer
- die
I expect all fights against summons to be setpieces, but there will be much more boss fights than just against the summons.
It's the first time it's been publicly delayed.
But the definition of delay is to make something happen later than originally planned or intended. And I'm pretty sure when Square Enix first decided to develop this game, they intended to release it much much sooner.
Final Fantasy Versus XIII was cancelled. Final Fantasy XV was announced at E3 2013, so it's three years old.
The games aren't the same -- just ask the Stella fans.
The game isn't the same but its skeleton is, exaclty like Duke Nukem Forever.
A new trailer is pretty sure, since Gamescom is the next big thing and the game is supposed to release in 45 days. We'll see for a delay, but at this point delaying the game after that big announcement just shows how SE can't plan properly their releases according to the development time needed.
Kenzodielocke
Banned
So, new trailer + delay message at Gamescom maybe?
Yes FF is more than the latest single player experience. But if FFXV is a failure, in terms of mindshare and reception how long would it have been since the last Final Fantasy game people felt delivered? My brothers and sisters loved FF just as much as I did, but for them now they've kind of lost intetest since it's been a decade and more for a release they were happy with. An entire new generation of gamers have come during a time FF's brand power hasn't been the biggest and FFXV doesn't set things right how long will people have to wait for the next mainline game and can FF retain it's prestige status after another 5 years of people not really caring?
The amount of people I know that are eager for FFVIIR but are just apathetic for XV is staggering.
purseowner
Member
Yep, this is me, but add Dead Rising 4 to the 6th as well. :/
CrimsonCrescendo
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Expected. Probably needs more time than that, honestly.
I just want to move on to XVI.
I just want to move on to XVI.
XV was built from the remains of Versus XIII's rotten corpse.
True, the period from about a month after September 30th is insane for me: I am looking to get WOFF, NIOH, ROTR PS4, GR2, and Skyrim in the month from october 28th to november 30th. FFXV fitted in perfectly at September 30th, but November 29th places it right in that same period, which complicates the already difficult schedule a whole lot more.
From the state of the videos released, this is true. I mean, nothing of this game is impressive, usually older FF games were also a tech showcase for the machines in which they released (just think about FFVII, the first 3D RPG on PSX after Wild Arms 1, which wasn't too impressive), even FFXIII delivered in this, PS3 version looks awesome even now...FFXV after Witcher 3, GTAV etc. doesn't look at all, otherwise it looks very bland and unpolished.
So yeah, even from a mere graphics aspect, the game still needs work (I'm not even talking about the clipping the Titan demo had).
But if you are not sure to being able to deliver in time an already delayed, stuck in development hell title, you don't do a big event in a theatre just to delay the game two months after.
I'm incredibly sceptical of FFXV, but I always thought the assets themselves were great.
Acquiescence
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Very true sadly.
It doesn't have to be that way though if Sony made an effort to market the game properly and give it a fighting chance. Going by how fabulous much of the footage for GR2 looks, I honestly think there's some mainstream appeal there, but Sony won't get the game out there for folks to see. It's genuinely disheartening stuff.
Watch them not even bother to put GR:Remastered on PS+ a couple of months prior to 2's release.
Well, I decided that I was going to wait a couple months anyway after the initial hype period and after things get patched to get a better feel for what people really think of the game, so... I really won't mind if it's delayed a couple months. Even early next year is ok. The game looks rough. I am preparing for the worst no matter when it finally ships.
Part of me wonders if it will end up getting delayed indefinitely again. You have to prepare for every scenario with this game in regards to development.
Part of me wonders if it will end up getting delayed indefinitely again. You have to prepare for every scenario with this game in regards to development.
Makoto Yuki
Banned
After FFXV, hopefully, FFXVI won't take nearly as long to come out.
Makoto Yuki
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NoctisVsStar
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Teletraan1
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A few month delay to iron out some performance issues is probably not going to help because performance issues are the least of this games problems. Personally I wish they would just release it get the bad feedback so they can move on and at least attempt to make XVI a good game rather than this albatross around their neck. Everything related to FNC in any way has been absolute poison for this brand.
Here's my ULTIMATE question.
My SUPER DUPER question I would love someone to answer. And it would have made a world of difference and put this game in a much better place for many people.
Why..........WHY did SE announce Final Fantasy Versus XIII AT ALL?
Why would ANY developer, announce vaporware that is more than 3 years out?
Don't do it.
Don't do that. 3+ years out? Just keep it under wraps! You don't build hype and keep hype for that long. Better to wait until it's actually......I don't know. A GAME.
This game should not have even BEEN ANNOUNCED until late 2014, as far as I'm concerned. Everything else before that was tripe.
My SUPER DUPER question I would love someone to answer. And it would have made a world of difference and put this game in a much better place for many people.
Why..........WHY did SE announce Final Fantasy Versus XIII AT ALL?
Why would ANY developer, announce vaporware that is more than 3 years out?
Don't do it.
Don't do that. 3+ years out? Just keep it under wraps! You don't build hype and keep hype for that long. Better to wait until it's actually......I don't know. A GAME.
This game should not have even BEEN ANNOUNCED until late 2014, as far as I'm concerned. Everything else before that was tripe.
- "We need every day we can get to improve the game's quality."
- "I've got an idea! Let's focus instead on making another demo."
- "It's brilliant! That way nobody will get angry!"
While we can probably agree that the game was announced way too early, I doubt it was their intention to have this game stuck in development hell for 10 years.
They should just keep the September 30th release date for A King's Tale.
That's the question. Perhaps they wanted to get their stock up a bit for that fiscal year? Although I'm not sure a spin-off title would have that much of an effect...
ArkhamFantasy
Member
You should probably aim this message at every AAA publisher. Dont announce the game until the end of development is in sight. Granted the FNC announcement was especially bad because all 3 of those games either had barely started development or werent even in development yet.
Amen!
ArkhamFantasy
Member
I doubt it. I think the big difference between the two versions is going to be IQ, and its going to make a world of difference.
FFXV will be the single biggest selling point of the Neo, there wont be another game that benefits from it as much as XV does imo.
Fine, how about just giving us that demo that was at E3. Will you both still not want that?
Simo
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The reason every AAA publisher does, to generate interest and hype. I mean this thread jumped to over 500 replies in like 20 minutes. lol
I mean CD Projekt dropped a CG announcement trailer for Cyberpunk 2077 over 3 years ago and refuse to even discuss it or show any actual gameplay until next year...but thanks to their work on The Witcher 3, for a lot of people it's one of the most anticipated games announced.
Lunarwhale
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if it is they better be getting a PC release out asap. Last thing this brand needs is for the game to run like dogshit on the consoles it was advertised to actually come out for. If they tell people "hey, get a NEO for the best FFXV experience!" it's just going to make the sting of any inherent problems even worse.
But what is the actual DIFFERENCE between THAT hype, and the hype of revealing 1 year before release? Does it ACTUALLY get you more sales?
Surely a year is enough time for the same set of people to be aware of your product.
GreenMakoEyes
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actually I hope its true, so they could improve the game. I am waiting for over 10 years now, 2 more months is a piece of cake.
Well, XV and Versus XIII are also different games. Versus XIII never reached an advanced stage of development, and XV reflects the sensibilities and efforts of a new team. It's kinda pointless to invoke Versus XIII's history here, because outside of public perception, it's not all that pertinent to the development situation around the game now being worked on.
In most cases, people understand the occasional delay. On a practical level, this is no different from those cases. It would be counterproductive for the current team to rush their game out, just because Nomura used up all his "please wait a little longer" cards when Versus XIII was still a thing.
Yes. Now a lot of the people who were looking forward to Versus are buying FFXV, even if FFXV isn't as appealing to them. If they had never shown any Nomura-directed trailers and instead started with the Tabata-directed trailers, there would be less hype and less sales for sure.
EDIT > Oh, you were talking about Cyberpunk there. I'd assume it'd be similar in that people are hyped for "another Witcher 3-type game" rather than the Cyberpunk concept itself.
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