DiipuSurotu
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Of course he did.
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FINAL FANTASY XV - Uncovered New Trailer(s)
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Of course he did.
The same experience of the people who watched The Force Awakens yet they didn't play the Battle of Jakku game neither read the C3P0 prequel story. A transmedia universe doesn't mean that you have to consume all of the products to understand the main story. It means that it gives people access to the main story from other type of media, it's in reverse of what people are complaining, actually. People who like anime will watch Brotherhood, then will be hooked to their characters and then they will be interested in the game. People who watch Kingsglaive will be interested in Regis' son, so they will want to play the game.
Everything that it's being told in these transmedia products is already being explained in the game. We know how the Imsomnia invasion is going to play out, we just aren't going to be there. And everything that's being represented on Brotherhood so far it's a rehash of what's already being told in the trailers and in Duscae.
You are fine if you just play the main game and do not watch neither the movie or the anime (specially the anime), or play the mobile game. But when you finish the game, you might be interested in what happened in Imsomnia at the beginning, so you can watch the movie. It's an organic relationship between the main product and the transmedia ones.
Dark_castle
Junior Member
Fair enough.
YankeeDonB
Member
Yes, I hope this is how it works!
KZXcellent
Member
Yeah, I don't think we're gonna miss anything with the Invasion being made into a movie. The newest trailer shows him reacting to it from afar and it's a central plot point. I'm cool with them using it as a movie to garner the interest of a more mainstream crowd. I also like Aaron Paul. He's dreamy. Them devoting a chunk of Uncovered: FFXV to basically say "Man, FFXIII really sucks doesn't it!" renewed my faith that we won't have to go into a menu or another source to understand the story, or potential fantasy jargon like with XIII's datalog.
Honey Bunny
Member
Of course we're going to lose something, escaping a city under invasion would be a fantastic sequence and an exact fit for the bombastic opening that AAA games demand these days.
Just have to take it on the chin, because this game has to release some time.
Just have to take it on the chin, because this game has to release some time.
Yeah the opening sequence change is the only thng i didn't like.
It would have been a Midgar 2.0.
That said, we still don't know how the new opening is going to play out, i'm curious to see if they came out with something that can top it.
japanese trailer with better quality: https://apollo2.dl.playstation.net/cdn/JP0082/CUSA01570_00/FREE_CONTENTyqyotye7SJvdXcbBzG7Y/23119_B_PV.mp4
They really need to fix this guy's hair.
The problem is he has really small intricately detailed hair, but each strand of hair is thinner than a single pixel on screen(this is aliasing). The further noise comes from temporal AA which tries it's best to smooth an image using information from previous frames. The problem is that with detail that small the information in previous frames isn't valuable since it's aliased to and in the next frame it's aliased to hell in an entirely different way.
tl;dr: increase the resolution, solve a lot of the problems. (or release on PC, and downsample to infinity and beyond on NASA supercomputers)
YankeeDonB
Member
How do people get between all these cliff top buildings? My guess: black chocobos.
My guess: those bridges.
YankeeDonB
Member
You're probably right - some of the buildings don't look to have connections, but they're likely inaccesible window dressing. Still, a man can dream.
nelsonroyale
Member
They really managed to capture these cities in game. I think Altissia was paired back in the demo pretty drastically. In the trailer it looked just about the most impressive city I have seen rendered in game. More impressive than the cities in Witcher 3.
diablos991
Can’t stump the diablos
That Stand By Me bullshit was a terrible song choice.
It's okay. The bridges are only accessible via black chocobo.
nelsonroyale
Member
I thought the city environment at the end looked about on par with the above...Messing with the ToD in that environment shows off the lighting pretty well.
YankeeDonB
Member
Lol, now you're talking.
I think it's perfect for the game, considering the lyrics and the some themes of the movie Stand by Me (where it was also featured).
theofficefan99
Junior Member
I have a feeling that the scene where it's used will make people cry
Personally I feel the darling lyric works fine for this. These are obviously really close friends who have known each other since they were much younger.
A quick look up of the definition for darling: used as an affectionate form of address to a beloved person.
Yep, works fine within the context of the game.
You wouldn't use it casually in a sentence to a close friend, but in a poetic, existential sort of sentiment? Sure, of course.
theofficefan99
Junior Member
I think it'll be used for a scene between Noctis and Luna, maybe.
theofficefan99
Junior Member
The song will definitely be used in the game. Whenever I was at the Uncovered event I remembered them using the song before the show started.
Also, about the people concerned with Noctis being removed from the Insomnia invasion, it makes sense especially due to the fact that Nomura was originally planning on this game to span multiple releases (and of course that idea was moved over to the VIIr).
I personally don't mind it anymore, as long as the main game is an incredibly solid experience (and it has CGI).
It's been the main menu theme for the two demos, i expect it to be the same for the full game + some important moments + end credits together with Stand by Me.
spoiler: all cars can fly
Probably been pointed out already, but I think this is the first look at a CGI scene from the game since 2013.
Looks kinda crappola by Squeenix standards, who knows if it's even in the actual game.
I think that scene is part of the beginning sequence with Regis saying goodbye to Noctis. It's still in the game.
Total opposite for me. They're gonna show a shot of the Moon when the song mentions it? Could you be any more subtle...
Thicc Enigma
Member
I'm not saying the song is shit, it's ok-ish but in my opinion it doesn't fit with a final fantasy game. For me a FF game needs epic choir just like the beginning of the trailer. The first track is so freakin epic, i'm watching this trailer 20 times a day just for this track. After the first part is over i mostly skip the second part with the stand by me shite.
You did this cover? Nice work!
Dude, FF vocal themes are rarely ever epic. This is like a tradition.
WTF FFVIII INTRO SON
Thicc Enigma
Member
I wish lol That is Prince Royce of course, our modern day Bachata king.
I know, just messing with you. "Yours truly" means "I" or "me".
Demoskinos
Member
I'll still never understand this. I never had any issues picking up the jargon in XIII.
That's totally different. Compare it to Eyes On Me.
KZXcellent
Member
I never did either, we're in the minority though.
I'll give you that one but for me combat and rescuing eachother signals standing by eachother more than nice vistas and tech demo shots.
Lunafreya Nox Fleuret
Member
I'm a bit worried that Tabata has axed Luna as a guest that will show up in our party. In a recent gamespot interview he said she's nothing more than a very important NPC. Why tell us that she would join us in a interview last year then? Is it mistranslation?
I don't mind this song because it's original and not some stupid pop cover or whatever.
I always hated it when games just cover or use other songs just because the lyrics make sense for that game.
Same with Black Ops 3, they used the song "Paint it Black" just because it had Black in the name.
DarkLordMalik
Member
The aliasing is due to the way the hair is rendered and while it will look cool in motion in the game with the third person camera, it won't look as good in cutscenes/closeups, especially during daytime lighting.They really need to fix this guy's hair.
Good AA/downsampling needs hardware that is only possible on a high-end PC.