The Last One
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This is the best design for a Malboro in the series IMO.
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New Final Fantasy XV gameplay footage from Active Time Report
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Well it looks just like the one in FF14 lol.
Makoto Yuki
Banned
Wonderful, assets from ARR: FFXIV are seeping into FFXV, that's awesome in a strange way. Both are Luminous anyways.
Whatever it takes for them to ship this game is fine by me.
The Last One
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TransTrender
Gold Member
Well yeah never played 14 but yes this one looks great.
TransTrender
Gold Member
Engine looks great.
If they change the perspective and scope through gameplay modifications it could be great.
If they change the perspective and scope through gameplay modifications it could be great.
TransTrender
Gold Member
I'm being optimistic and think if they dial back the scope and fov the game could look great and have a nice framerate.
legacyzero
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BAD BREATH
Gunslinger
Member
Man...after losing hope for the FFVII remake and now this....
This looks like it will run at 20 fps max on super low settings for consoles. And sub 30 fps on 3k computers. This engine looks terrible.
This looks like it will run at 20 fps max on super low settings for consoles. And sub 30 fps on 3k computers. This engine looks terrible.
Hibiki Kurosawa
Member
Look more like Crystal Chronicles' design to me, which is very, very similar.
The game itself looks better than anything we have on consoles right now visually to me. Image quality just needs to be improved and it will look perfect.
The footage isn't a good judge of how it will run as it's ripped from a stream and heavily compressed. Duscae hitches a bunch, but it's never that bad. Usually in the 27-30 range.
If anything they at least have ample time to get it to run well.
Icyflamez96
Member
Never played XIV so i'm fine with that lol
TransTrender
Gold Member
I'm on mobile and not my glorious 4k OLED display. Maybe when I get home I'll see how shitty it is, but I recall it not being too bad during E3 and chalked it up to pre-alpha-beta.
HerroRygar
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Even on mobile the frame drops in today's Malboro clip are quite noticeable. I watched it on my iPhone at first and thought that it looked pretty rough, but figured that I just had crappy internet or my phone was rendering it poorly or something. Watched again on a computer to confirm that the engine couldn't handle the graphics it was pumping out (at least at this point).
You're right that the clips in previous events looked pretty good; maybe the area they demoed today hadn't been optimized, or perhaps it was using some lighting effect that's very expensive and hasn't been polished yet, or whatev. /optimism
TransTrender
Gold Member
OK got home and watched it.
I'm going to assume there was a lot of compression and crap from the stream encoder.
Some assets looked great while others looked like crap and overall the framerate was pretty bad with noticeable hitching. Hopefully they make better use of all dat DDR3 DRAM so they're not pulling assets from the HDD and messing up the frame rate but that could be wishful thinking.
I'm going to assume there was a lot of compression and crap from the stream encoder.
Some assets looked great while others looked like crap and overall the framerate was pretty bad with noticeable hitching. Hopefully they make better use of all dat DDR3 DRAM so they're not pulling assets from the HDD and messing up the frame rate but that could be wishful thinking.
Yes, it does, but I think the one from FF XIV is really great too though.
Nope. XIV malboro is actually great and comes in many sizes.
The difference with XV malboro is that it has more animations.
meanspartan
Member
So it's Final Fantasy 15: Inquisition?
MagnaderAlpha
Member
Similar, but different. The mouths look different(the teeth of the FFXV Malboro are smaller than the FFXIV Marlboros, and are more thin, similar to the ones of FFX) and they seem to have more "eye tentacles", which the FFXIV Marlboros don't have.
Yeah the design of the malboro is definitely different from XIV. I'm looking at one square in the face.
If anything XIV is the one that loves to steal assets...from everything.
nelsonroyale
Member
The Malboro does look similar to 14, but obvioulsy quite a lot more details and animates better.
Perfect Cha0s
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Is it possible that the framerate issue is from the stream itself?
We don't have direct feed, AFAIK.
We don't have direct feed, AFAIK.
Ploid 3.0
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I love open world arpgs, and Final Fantasy 11/12, but this thing is doing nothing for me outside of that first video where I was very hopeful. The demo looked so boring to me, this new footage coupled with that confusing big baby trailer are pushing me away from this game.
Assets from FF A B C and D are in FFXIV. They pretty much reused whatever they could for that game, it doesn't surprise me if they continue to do that for future FF games.
Assets from FF A B C and D are in FFXIV. They pretty much reused whatever they could for that game, it doesn't surprise me if they continue to do that for future FF games.
GreenMakoEyes
Member
new footage looks nice. It always makes me happy to see new footage of the game 
Malboros design is fantastic!.. and I like how they camouflage themselves in the swamps. Can't wait to fight them.
edit: sadly no magic in the new footage :/
Malboros design is fantastic!.. and I like how they camouflage themselves in the swamps. Can't wait to fight them.
edit: sadly no magic in the new footage :/
NipplesAndToes23
Member
Well my complaint is that none of that happened. It showed up and it was game over.
TransTrender
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*Looks at enemy name*
Is this a joke on halitosis?
Didn't think bad breath would make the translation..
Lightning?
Frame rate was absolute shit in the demo
YankeeDonB
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Yup, both good, but XV's tentacles are way more developed, and the animation is next level.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txnngFuV_Ss
The official version of the Malboro encounter footage.
We can stop freaking out about the frame rate since it's really smooth here. Probably captured on PC.
The official version of the Malboro encounter footage.
We can stop freaking out about the frame rate since it's really smooth here. Probably captured on PC.
The Last One
Member
Ok, the Malboro is officially FREAKING AWESOME in this game.
Hikami
Member
Yep, that's much better. So it was just the stream lagging then.
This area is a lot more constrained than Duscae, not to mention baren so there should be no issues with it running smoothly on a PS4 dev kit. Also, the footage is edited, any hitches could have been cut out.