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[Kssio_Aug]

I'm not too worried about the battle system. I think that there is much more than his interviews led us to believe and something lost in translation as well. If we play the demo and it feels like I'm watching a movie I'll start to worry then, but for now the hype train is chugging along.

Indeed there is much more we dont know. Even if you get all the patent anlysis and the little Tabata's words about the combat system, you will see that there's still a "hole" about all of this. We will probably have many more surprises regarding gameplay, and hopefully good ones (and I'm confident).

 

[Gbraga]

I was one of the Advent Children Complete importers.

Yup. Needed to get that new Versus trailer.

Oh, and it also came with a free FFXIII demo and a copy of Advent Children on blu-ray.

 

[kenji_sama]

Why are you frowny facing?

thanks alot .

 

[Golnei]

Well, Nomura was the main artist for Parasite Eve 2.

I'm not sure whether he did the creature designs too though.

I'm not sure either, though I did love his PE1 designs. Eve's first two forms and the third version of the Ultimate Being are the perfect mix of grotesque and elegant.

 

[Dark_castle]

This game is going to be amazing, not long now.

I can remember thinking, next year, next year, since it was announced. At one point, "I'll probably be playing it in 2011, that's a safe guess." This was in 2008 if I remember right. If only I knew how wrong I was. Such a long, long time.

It's also crazy that we're finally nearing the end now. I'm probably going to go on blackout from the beginning of next year, like I've done with MGS5. It's nice to have some surprises. I remember playing FFVII, VIII, IX, X, and XII, without really knowing anything about them.

Woah, hold your tiger there. This is a big claim.

 

[Verendus]

Says the only guy on Neogaf known to have played it already.

I'm not sure how to respond to this since you just made an ass out of me (I commend you for it though), but a more developed demo about a year later in a more significantly developed stage where you can waste a good few hours compared to that miniscule hands-on is still a significant difference to me. That's still worth something. It's that line.

Woah, hold your tiger there. This is a big claim.

2006. The game was announced in 2006.

 

[NoctisVsStar]

Woah, hold your tiger there. This is a big claim.

Q12016 seems like a sure thing.. 10 year anniversary ;P

 

[jett]

^Really like this.

Rest here:
http://www.famitsu.com/news/201409/25062242.html

Seriously, for as long as the internet has existed Famitsu has been posting postage stamp-sized pictures. The fuck is up with that.

 

[wmlk]

2006-10:

CG Trailers, Pre-production work begins with a very small team of artists and writers and planners.

FFXIII,XIV pull the core teams here.

2010-2011

Small team working on the Versus...XIII-2 begins,XIV flops.

Early working prototype shown in the 2011 trailer

Planning for ARR revival begins.SE issues XIV apology and takes it very seriously.

Planning for XIII-2 in full steam.

VersusXIII full production simply cannot begin
2012-2013

XIII-2,LR,ARR full steam ahead.

SE cannot dump the valuable pre-production work done by small team under Nomura over many years : Prototype is switching to next gen in 2012..Enter Tabata.

Nomura still co-director.

Next gen switch and tech hurdles coupled with a still small team establishing some newly revised framework for what is now FFXV.

2013

Mix of cross gen work shown at E3,Game acquires a full team after ARR releases and XIII trilogy ends , KH3 premature announcement.

2013-2014

Nomura must be moved to KH3 which is facing developmental issues

FFXV finally gets a full 300 man production team under Tabata's sole leadership.

Much of Nomura's pre-production was used but the battle system is completely revised..

2014-2015-2016

Tabata proceeds with the game. Nomura making KH3.

Nomura got screwed over because just as soon as he has a chance to make a game, the behemoth that is KH3 pulls him away from Versus.Overall management in the company is messed up.

Your point was how amazing the 2011 trailer was. I just said it wasn't. I didn't need a damn history. I've waited enough.

 

[MagnaderAlpha]

The second half of the trailer music gave me ASMR goosebumps all over.
Though she said on her twitter that it's a new piece of music and Gaffer Falk (who worked on it) said it was recorded just recently. So I wonder how much is done and how much is left to go.

Falk also said that soundtrack recording tends to come at the end of production, so as not to record too much material that won't be used.

I would guess she's been steadily composing some songs that have yet to be recorded. I'd also think she'd have to know the context of which her music fits into the games and certain scenes. I particularly don't know much on this front. If anybody aware within the industry could enlighten us. Do composers get to see certain scenes, read treatments or view storyboards to get a sense of how their music can fit within the game by reflecting the atmosphere of locations or the emotion of scenes?

 

[duckroll]

March 2006 - Lord Nomura-sama first scribbles the words Noctis, reality, and Hamlet on a napkin

March 2016 - Prince Tabata-kun finally ships Final Fantasy XV

---

"Sorry it took us this long."

 

[Ceravic]

I'm not sure how to respond to this since you just made an ass out of me (I commend you for it though), but a more developed demo about a year later in a more significantly developed stage where you can waste a good few hours compared to that miniscule hands-on is still a significant difference to me. That's still worth something. It's that line.


2006. The game was announced in 2006.

You got to play XV and have an awesome Lincoln Osiris avatar. Some people have all the luck

 

[Manu]

Wait, looks like we're getting FFXV info on a regular basis. IS THIS REAL LIFE.

 

[ShroudOfFate]

Man, watching this makes me realize how far we've come (from a technical standpoint anyway).

I really hope some of the sequences in the trailers make it into XV somehow. Like running through the city as it explodes or the party with Stella.

 

[Plywood]

March 2006 - Lord Nomura-sama first scribbles the words Noctis, reality, and Hamlet on a napkin

March 2016 - Prince Tabata-kun finally ships Final Fantasy XV

---

"Sorry it took us this long."

If we get XVI the year after will it have been worth it?

 

[NinjamicWZ]

I was pretty sure this game was going to be a movie when they finally showed it.

I guess I can enjoy movies.

 

[NoctisVsStar]

March 2006 - Lord Nomura-sama first scribbles the words Noctis, reality, and Hamlet on a napkin

March 2016 - Prince Tabata-kun finally ships Final Fantasy XV

---

"Sorry it took us this long."

Duck-Sama pls to much logic in this comment! March 2016 it is!.. Duck give me a date for MGSV ;P

 

[Deleted member 20920]

^Really like this.

Rest here:
http://www.famitsu.com/news/201409/25062242.html

This monster looks really familiar. Like I've seen a sprite form of it before. Wonder what monster it is.

 

[wmlk]

March 2006 - Lord Nomura-sama first scribbles the words Noctis, reality, and Hamlet on a napkin

March 2016 - Prince Tabata-kun finally ships Final Fantasy XV

---

"Sorry it took us this long."

There you go.

 

[NoctisVsStar]

If we get XVI the year after will it have been worth it?

We'll be lucky enough to KH3 by the end of this gen... XVI Well idk about that.

 

[HeelPower]

Your point was how amazing the 2011 trailer was. I just said it wasn't. I didn't need a damn history. I've waited enough.

Never said it was amazing on its own.

I said it was on the right track to be amazing but was never given the proper chance to fully grow...for a large multitude of reasons I mentioned in the long post.

 

[Plywood]

We'll be lucky enough to KH3 by the end of this gen... XVI Well idk about that.

I'm presuming that XVI is further along than KH3 along side with this tinfoil theory.

 

[jett]

If we get XVI the year after will it have been worth it?

By the time FFXVI comes out the Japanese console market will have completed eroded and become mobile-only.

 

[killatopak]

By the time FFXVI comes out the Japanese console market will have completed eroded and become mobile-only.

I'm sad that even if this is a joke, it might actually be true.

 

[Hibiki Kurosawa]

God DAMIT, and everything looked like it was going to go smoothly from here on out. Then they tell us the combat is basically going to be hold x to win?

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHY WHY WHY CAN'T YOU UNDERSTAND?

Lol, this is humorous.

 

[HeelPower]

I'm going to skip the demo. When they clarify on the battle system some more or if I'm presented with another opportunity, I'll probably know what I want to, and that'll be me done. I like the fresh experience, or as fresh as it can possibly be. And I still haven't completed the Mass Effect series, Sleeping Dogs, and many others that I want to play. I want to focus on that backlog with the little time I do get.

That might be a good idea.

SE is going to spoil a lot of the experience and I'd much rather have it while playing the game rather read it on some website.

After waiting so long..Its time to wait for the final stretch.

luckily that final stretch is 2015 and boy does 2015 have an amazing list of games.

 

[Rhomega Beta]

"My goal is to have people play Final Fantasy 15, and for them to think this is the best Final Fantasy they've ever played."

Better than IV and VI? You've got big shoes to fill.

 

[Kssio_Aug]

That might be a good idea.

SE is going to spoil a lot of the experience and I'd much rather have it while playing the game rather read it on some website.

After waiting so long..Its time to wait for the final stretch.

luckily that final stretch is 2015 and boy does 2015 have an amazing list of games.

Will be the time to avoid the forums. I dont know if it happens on gaf, but I'm sure that in another forum that I know will be having stupid people spoiling the end.

 

[Laconic]

Better than IV and VI? You've got big shoes to fill.

Tina and Celes had tiny feet.

And their shoes shall never be filled.

 

[Hindle]

Anyone wondering just how much FF XV has cost Square to make so far? Dev costs must be over $100m by now.

 

[ZenTzen]

interesting, nomura already said weapon switching would be automatic in 2011

http://andriasang.com/comtqu/nomura_ffxvxiii_famitsu/

Switching between weapons is part of the base action gameplay. For Noctis, you can go into the menu to set him with multiple weapons. These will automatically switch out as you fight. Depending on the weapons you've set, you'll get various combos.

 

[Slowdive]

interesting, nomura already said weapon switching would be automatic in 2011

http://andriasang.com/comtqu/nomura_ffxvxiii_famitsu/

Never knew this.

 

[Kssio_Aug]

interesting, nomura already said weapon switching would be automatic in 2011

http://andriasang.com/comtqu/nomura_ffxvxiii_famitsu/

Interesting. Maybe the menu with the weapons were never meaning manual switch then. Maybe they were just a preview of weapons on the deck to be used or someting like that?

The more I read about all of this, the more it seems the game is NOT going that far from its original concept, even on gameplay.

 

[10k]

"Final Fantasy XV is the greatest FF since Final Fantasy XV!"

Future review.

 

[killatopak]

interesting, nomura already said weapon switching would be automatic in 2011

http://andriasang.com/comtqu/nomura_ffxvxiii_famitsu/

Tabata redeemed?

 

[Frumix]

interesting, nomura already said weapon switching would be automatic in 2011

http://andriasang.com/comtqu/nomura_ffxvxiii_famitsu/

Kagari you should've known this!

 

[Dark_castle]

interesting, nomura already said weapon switching would be automatic in 2011

http://andriasang.com/comtqu/nomura_ffxvxiii_famitsu/

Yeah, but in 2013, he said they decided to make it manual instead.

 

[Stark]

Yeah, but in 2013, he said they decided to make it manual instead.

I wonder how it worked out in actually play.

But the some of the current BS is really based around the same concepts.

 

[Kssio_Aug]

Yeah, but in 2013, he said they decided to make it manual instead.

Even if it was said in 2013, it was last year. By all the fanfare generated out there I thought this was a crucial point of their original concept. That pratically proves how people were overracting imho!

 

[Kagari]

Kagari you should've known this!

Last year they said weapon switching would be manual, I'm pretty sure. And it looked that way in the videos.

 

[BadWolf]

They probably tried and ditched the weapon switching because it complicated things. They really seem to be focusing on making the battle system as accessible as possible in terms of execution.

 

[Sayad]

Man, watching this makes me realize how far we've come (from a technical standpoint anyway).

They showed the AssCreed guy/girl in the second trailer, and he can use magic! I wonder how much of the game was planned by then.

 

[duckroll]

Better than IV and VI? You've got big shoes to fill.

Won't take much to be better than FFIV. That's one of the worst FFs.

 

[Skilletor]

Anyone wondering just how much FF XV has cost Square to make so far? Dev costs must be over $100m by now.

They've probably written off most of that, as others have mentioned. Development before two years ago doesn't really matter except for people who want to dwell on it.


This isn't the same game that was announced so long ago.

 

[Scrooge McDuck]

Yeah, but in 2013, he said they decided to make it manual instead.

Now we know the exact reason Nomura was shunned. He was just making it hard for everybody.

 

[HeelPower]

Won't take much to be better than FFIV. That's one of the worst FFs.

I honestly think FFVI and IV are very comparable sister games.

IV can't possibly be the worst when VI is considered by some to be GOAT

 

[duckroll]

I honestly think FFVI and IV are very comparable sister games.

IV can't possibly be the worst when VI is considered by some to be GOAT

They're very comparable in the sense that one is bad and the other is good, yes. One is an example of a bad game, the other is an example of a good game. It can be compared like that.

 

[HeelPower]

They're very comparable in the sense that one is bad and the other is good, yes. One is an example of a bad game, the other is an example of a good game. It can be compared like that.

It can be compared that both are similarly good.

Like good in the same way as each other.VI and IV.

Heck their numbers are mirror images

 

[wmlk]

Last year they said weapon switching would be manual, I'm pretty sure. And it looked that way in the videos.

EDIT: Yeah, looks like button switching was there but it still has semblance of Tabata's one button system.

 

[duckroll]

It can be compared that both are similarly good.

Like good in the same way as each other.VI and IV.

Heck their numbers are mirror images

No, I think you're mistaken.