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Final Fantasy XV Jump Festa 2015 Trailer

Well I dunno if the FF7 trolling was a good idea.

Showing this could've been so much better.

But hey maybe it wasn't even remotely ready 15 days ago.So that's understandable.

This was cobbled together from what i can see. I believe they are gonna wait until they have made more progress so they don't have to write 'NOW IN DEVELOPMENT' at the ends of trailers. They will want to show of more of the towns in the trailers i imagine. Really curious how the hotels gonna look like.
 
yeah, anything would have been better than that FF7 fiasco, like the Type-0 trailer.

Someone's gonna get trolled either way, be it the PSX audience, the Jump Festa/Japanese stream crowd, or the Chinese press.

lol yeah...Hashimoto's gotta Hashimoto.

But you know what.Whenever he trolls something great happens.So he never really trolls for nothing.


I guess shimomura herself learned to be master troll as well as a great musician.

IIRC TGA was dec 5, PSX was dec 6.So was it ready for PSX at least ?

The Japanese version of this trailer got 500k views though.

well ok then.

That's pretty good.
 
I guess shimomura herself learned to be master troll as well as a great musician.

IIRC TGA was dec 5, PSX was dec 6.So was it ready for PSX at least ?

Music doesn't get ready that fast after recording. Not to mention even after that, trailers don't get put together that fast.
 
How come people suddenly want a realistic design from Final Fantasy character? Is there any past FF game that emphasize on that?

A mechanic who wear like red light district girl? Who cares. It's a game with all main character has magic and wear like kpop group...
 
How come people suddenly want a realistic design from Final Fantasy character? Is there any past FF game that emphasize on that?

A mechanic who wear like red light district girl? Who cares. It's a game with all main character has magic and wear like kpop group...

I'm not that bothered by Cidney's design, but realism is relative. It matters that it's appropriate to the context of the world that was created.

The outfits worn by Squall and co. wouldn't make sense in FFIX or FFX, but it's not that ill-suited for FFVII, because both of those games's setting exhibit modern day urban-fantasy, where magic co-exist with large skyscrapers, guns, automobiles, and cities.

FFIX has a lot of wacky designs, but it fits that world because that's the 'realism' behind that world.

Kpop design is a modern day design that fits in our world today, even if they aren't necessarily normal everyday clothing of common folk. And FFXV's world has modern day aspects of urban fantasy, so why not?
 
With VGO recording all the tracks for the trailers I wonder if they'll appear in the game, or just being recorded for promotional efforts. Also makes me wonder about the state of the soundtrack.
 
Ugh I hate Cindy's (Cidney?) design! They went totally overboard!

They could've gotten away with 2 out of four but no they had to go full on: cleavage, midriff, microscopic shorts showing ass and thighs, and boots with high heels. And she's a fucking mechanic! She looks dressed for a red light district than someone who's supposed to be fixing cars!

How about cleavage, midriff and wear some pants and actual work shoes. Or a serviceable jacket and tiny shorts. But no, they went full blown 13 year old fantasy.

They got some things super right! The baseball cap, the face, the hair, the goggles (awesome!), the fact we have a female Cid! But they fucked her up by making her look like an expensive prostitute.

Anyone else feeling that?

Don't you see it? It's the perfect fantasy combo: Cars + The Calendar Poster Gal.

Hope there's a mini game where she does Car Washing.

I love her!
 
Why? I absolutely think her design is good. Is the argument against it that she's a mechanic and a mechanic wouldn't dress like that? Sure they wouldn't. But this is Final Fantasy. Character designs, particularly with the "good" characters, are based on style not function. Otherwise Noctis and his gang would be decked out in armor rather than designer clothing considering that they're going up against an army that looks like this

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Actually, even those dudes in armor are based on style, not function, since in a world that has discovered plastic materials, it makes no sense to still wear those sort of armors that are likely very heavy, not very flexible, and limit your vision.

Otherwise you'd see modern SWAT teams dressed up as fucking King Arthur, but you don't.

And you wouldn't fight a Titan with a sword, nor with a small rifle, you'd use anti-air turrets, anti-tank ammo, missiles, bombs and other heavy shit.
 
Well I dunno if the FF7 trolling was a good idea.

You don't know? It clearly WAS NOT good. The rage in the hours following the announcement was off the charts (I wasn't particularly angry because I was not expecting FFVII-R, I just laughed lol)

But showing XV at PSX would've been awkward with the game coming also to Xbox One (I know that at E3 it's showcased at Sony's press conference, but inside a huge expo about games, not as part of an all-Sony for Sony fans event) and they probably didn't trust the TGAs much because Keighley was trying a new formula and it could go either right or wrong, so I think Jump Festa was probably the smartest choice (though the risk of showing it at the TGAs would've paid off, cause the show was somewhat successful)

Even if it's off-topic, I'm still devastated over no Kingdom Hearts stuff at Jump Festa :(
 
And you wouldn't fight a Titan with a sword, nor with a small rifle, you'd use anti-air turrets, anti-tank ammo, missiles, bombs and other heavy shit.

Nah. You know in Virtua Cop 2's first level, where you have a robbery gone awry (seriously, it takes like 200 robbers to rob a jewelry store? And why are the surrounding buildings also infested with robbers) and the getaway involves like 50 cars which are summarily blown up by 2 cops, and then the robbers are like "OH SHIT THEY BE KILLING ALL OUR DUDES, WE HAD BETTER CALL OUT THE BIG GUY WITH A ROCKET LAUNCHER WHO CAN THROW TRUCKS"?

I'd send that big guy with a rocket launcher who can throw trucks against Titan. Titan doesn't stand a chance.

edit: no seriously that guy is a badass
 
The outfits worn by Squall and co. wouldn't make sense in FFIX or FFX, but it's not that ill-suited for FFVII, because both of those games's setting exhibit modern day urban-fantasy, where magic co-exist with large skyscrapers, guns, automobiles, and cities.

about that, there is someone with selphie's outfit in FFX, in the opening blitzball sequence in zanarkand.
 
2015
Yeah, hopefully they'll make up for the massive silence this year (2.5 aside).....if they show stuff at E3 2015 that one may surpass the hype levels of E3 2013, because both XV and KHIII will be further into development. (Or Dream Drop Distance HD, who knows at this point lol)
 
i wonder what the sparkle sky shown in the first scene of the trailer means?


I interpreted it as a magical barrier going up to protect from the in-coming invasion?

Could be anything at this point though!!!!


With Nomura gone, probably not. This could have been the greatest game ever made and they went and removed him from the project =(.


Even with Nomura gone, his initial idea is still intact; We still have an action based battle system, summons, cities/towns, world map, vehicles, and what seems to be an epic story.

This was everything he talked about in interviews for years, and it's in-game in trailers being shown to us. They made it, so it's still possible this game might not 'the best game ever', but the best game from square in years :0!!! (though secretly this will most like be the best game ever made) Believe!!!
 
Maybe Nomura will come back for an enhanced FFXV International version similar to how Ito did FFXII IZJS (Ito was never gone from the FFXII project of course). The IZJS team was like ten people top.
 
Uhhh...asian?

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Does she reaaaallly look asian to you? She looks pretty much what her English accent sounds like, Southern. Which is why her English dub her fits perfectly imo.

IMO, almost every character in this looks Japanese to me. (Ignore eye color and hair color. I'm talking face shape, eye shape, etc)
 
She has like 3 seconds of screentime... Whether she fits in the game or not doesn't matter at all :/

oh I'm sorry, i got messed up in whatever that arguement was about, i just wanted to show that indeed an outfit was in another game(really just wanted to show that an outfit from 8 made it in another game) and yeah.. doesnt matter if she fits or not considering what happens to everyone there momentarily.
 
I kinda wish that SE would get on the Characters that switch outfits depending on where they go, but that'd assume too much. Example, they go to a mountain area so they bundle up in heavy warm clothing, go to a desert, they dress appropriately for the occasion. or is that too much to handle? i mean Persona 4 did it (i didnt play 3 in a long time so i cant remember if they also switch uniforms during seasons) But again i have no problem with cidney's design, as long as the area its in isnt something like a cold area, since thats stupid.
 
ِAre you guys serious ?

That's all there is to Cidney ? There is a bit more we don't know right ? It can't just be a few seconds.

TABATHA NOOO #CIDNEYGATE
 
I kinda wish that SE would get on the Characters that switch outfits depending on where they go, but that'd assume too much. Example, they go to a mountain area so they bundle up in heavy warm clothing, go to a desert, they dress appropriately for the occasion. or is that too much to handle? i mean Persona 4 did it (i didnt play 3 in a long time so i cant remember if they also switch uniforms during seasons) But again i have no problem with cidney's design, as long as the area its in isnt something like a cold area, since thats stupid.

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ِAre you guys serious ?

That's all there is to Cidney ? There is a bit more we don't know right ? It can't just be a few seconds.

TABATHA NOOO #CIDNEYGATE

Nah man, those few seconds are all we need to make a coherent conclusion on a character.
Sarcasm because i know some people might not get that.
 
This trailer would've gotten way more coverage if they'd shown at the VGA and PSX.

Imo SE's marketing is fairly weak for a game this big.

Its hovering around 100K views now.That's low for a trailer that should be making millions of views.


They didnt show Final Fantasy at the E3 nor at the Gamescom and also not on the PS Experience.

Looks like right now, SE is more busy pushing the marketing in Japan and for the Hardcore Fans. (Tabatas Active Time Report)

Also there is no rush in terms of marketing if this game comes out 2016.

With an Full Blow Out Trailer at the E3 2015 the views on this game will exlpode !!
 
Nah. You know in Virtua Cop 2's first level, where you have a robbery gone awry (seriously, it takes like 200 robbers to rob a jewelry store? And why are the surrounding buildings also infested with robbers) and the getaway involves like 50 cars which are summarily blown up by 2 cops, and then the robbers are like "OH SHIT THEY BE KILLING ALL OUR DUDES, WE HAD BETTER CALL OUT THE BIG GUY WITH A ROCKET LAUNCHER WHO CAN THROW TRUCKS"?

I'd send that big guy with a rocket launcher who can throw trucks against Titan. Titan doesn't stand a chance.

edit: no seriously that guy is a badass
I stand corrected.

People keep calling her boots "high heels"

These are not high heels:
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These are high heels:
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Her heels are a bit taller than the ones in the first pic, but i agree that calling them "high heels" is a stretch.
 
Whoa, so glad to see things moving full speed ahead. Hopefully we can chill at campfires and chat for some stuff we normally wouldn't get elsewhere in response. Love Prompto, and Cidney is gorgeous too.

The snowtrain sequence makes me think of FF VI :)
 
Have to give them credit, the monster design we have seen those far has been excellent. One of the few shining lights for the game.

Kinda sucks Cidney's design is so bad. No mechanic ever would have much, if any, unneeded skin exposed. Great way to take some nasty burns. Nope, gotta sexy the female character...
 
ِAre you guys serious ?

That's all there is to Cidney ? There is a bit more we don't know right ? It can't just be a few seconds.

TABATHA NOOO #CIDNEYGATE

Is this sarcasm or are you reading the 3 second thing above wrong? That's about FFX.
 
What is the appeal of Cor? Honest question. I always figured he looked like every generic white guy AAA game protagonist.

He's just not the protagonist here.

The fact that he's twice as old as anybody else in the group, and the fact that even though he looks like as tough as anybody we've seen, he's clearly on the verge of breaking down.

The way they've shown him off is the biggest tease. They've only shown him off for that one CG scene from the E3 2013 trailer, and we see the same shots of that CG scene here.

In the E3 2013 scene, this was the dialogue:

Cor: "You want the truth?"
Noctis: "Why not?"
Cor: "It's complicated."

Then, they only show him talking in this trailer but we don't get to hear him. It's likely a pivotal moment in the game.
 
The fact that he's twice as old as anybody else in the group, and the fact that even though he looks like as tough as anybody we've seen, he's clearly on the verge of breaking down.

The way they've shown him off is the biggest tease. They've only shown him off for that one CG scene from the E3 2013 trailer, and we see the same shots of that CG scene here.

In the E3 2013 scene, this was the dialogue:

Cor: "You want the truth?"
Noctis: "Why not?"
Cor: "It's complicated."

Then, they only show him talking in this trailer but we don't get to hear him. It's likely a pivotal moment in the game.

Plus his weapon is a katana.
 
Uhhh...asian?

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Does she reaaaallly look asian to you? She looks pretty much what her English accent sounds like, Southern. Which is why her English dub her fits perfectly imo.

She looks like Japanese girl with died hair and green contacts. Nothing wrong with that. I'm from the South and I wish southern girls looked like this.
 
On the subject of Sidney, after seeing her entire outfit it loses a sense of believability within the real world for the most part. Not gonna defend that. Even though I don't like that outfit, I'm not going to go off and claim that just because she's revealing that it's somehow an evil thing in the game.

The Nomura and Naora FF games have defined themselves on their style over substance flair. Really, something like this fits right in. I think it's pretty far from being a case of bad design.

Japanese trailer is over 500k views. (*edit: public youtube number shows 491k wtf)

Considering the TGS trailer hit 1 million in 24 hours and that was with the whole "holy shit they actually showed something" factor after being absent at E3, I'd say the numbers this trailer is pushing is pretty expected.

The leak dampened things. If SE knew how to use YouTube and publishes the trailer first, we would have double the views.
 
I found it hilarious that the JP trailer is pretty much the first video in a lo-o-ong time on Square Enix JP channel that has comments and likes/dislikes enabled.

Japanese devs use the youtubes in a very odd manner. (Bandai Namco for example follows suit - all their videos generally disable comments. It's like they use Youtube for a video dumping ground for embeds)
 
I found it hilarious that the JP trailer is pretty much the first video in a lo-o-ong time on Square Enix JP channel that has comments and likes/dislikes enabled.

Japanese devs use the youtubes in a very odd manner. (Bandai Namco for example follows suit - all their videos generally disable comments. It's like they use Youtube for a video dumping ground for embeds)

This is also the case for the Tech Demo and Walkthrough videos.

Maybe they're just gauging interest. No one takes the actual content of the comments seriously.
 
I like Cid look, and man do i found her hot, but i would have preferred something more bizarre, maybe an old woman with a mechanic equipment, mostly because i miss the more weirder and crazy designs of older FFs (think FFIX Queen Brahne).
 
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