Those pics are opening old wounds :/
Luna had no phone? She was so bad I hardly remember anything about her aside from her demise.
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Official original designs and story details from Versus XIII/FFXV surface
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Those pics are opening old wounds :/
Luna had no phone? She was so bad I hardly remember anything about her aside from her demise.
I guess? But wasn't the criticism mostly directed at Ofuji's comment that (I think) EU players want female characters, but at the same time slammed Cindy for her "sexy" outfit?
ShadowSwordmaster
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Here we go again. I knew what this thread was going to turn into.
SporeCrawler
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to be fair we know nothing about Stella. She could have been just like Lunafreya and from a pure design standpoint I dont think Stella or Lunafreya are that much different.
DarkLordMalik
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Now that you put it this way, it seems to the case, lol. Plenty of flashbacks or perhaps playable scenes in Insomnia as well.
YunFang1130
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These are beautiful! Why weren't these in the artbook?!
UtterlyPerplexed
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Nope. She and Noctis passed messages to each other in a diary book with a mysterious magical dog acting as a courier. Y'know, as you do.
They also showed this unused art for Episode Prompto featuring the best bro, naked.
I appreciate that they are sharing more info about the changes for the game since the fans are clearly interested in them, but I'm not sure if I like the way they are revealing them at selected events while at the same time they ask us to focus on the actual finished game.
I appreciate that they are sharing more info about the changes for the game since the fans are clearly interested in them, but I'm not sure if I like the way they are revealing them at selected events while at the same time they ask us to focus on the actual finished game.
They probably didn't want people's attention on versus stuff so close to launch of XV.
BossDarkseid
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With the way the dev team got split up by SE to fix other teams problems every few months, I can't imagine they ever made much progress beyond concepts and the equivalent of vertical slices/tech demos. I don't really blame Nomura for the games problems, even Yoshi-P on FFXIV says its literally SE's arrogance in the post PS2 era and insular obsession with Crystal Tools that tanked the company, but I wonder if he didn't lose heart in v13 well before 2013.
ShadowSwordmaster
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I wonder if the majority of game takes place in those two places.
The Nomura game was a trilogy. They probably didn't do any significant planning for parts 2 and 3.
This is verrrrrry evident in how XV falls apart story-wise after Altissia.
Do we have an actual source on the trilogy thing other than Nomura saying that he wishes to expand the game with multiple entries? Because I always interpreted as if he wanted to make a FFXV compilation like VII and KH instead of episodic releases.
I'm going off of the 4chan leaks, which of course you have to take with a grain of salt. But they've been pretty adamant about XV being a trilogy condensed into one game.
DarkLordMalik
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A world of Versus epic. Google it.
ShadowSwordmaster
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Basically, they had no plans after Versus because they were struggling with Versus. Even with the amount of stuff written about it.
Yeah, most likely it was part of a storyboard that Roberto Ferrari mentioned in one of his facebook post. One of the image is the same one as the image he posted here:
https://www.facebook.com/RobertoFerrariArt/photos/a.945240485548310.1073741836.944530178952674/1276229885782700/?type=3&theater
Roberto Ferrari said:
Laplasakos
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Yep, this is all Ferrari's art, i recognized the pic that he posted on FB in the past.
NoctisVsStar
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Umbra in human form looks bad ass
https://www.google.com/amp/kotaku.com/sounds-like-final-fantasy-xv-might-get-a-sequel-512907771/amp
Hint hint.
https://www.google.com/amp/kotaku.com/sounds-like-final-fantasy-xv-might-get-a-sequel-512907771/amp
Hint hint.
If this was for the aforementioned presentation then it might be specifically Nomura's FFXV rather than just versus.
Someone mentioned that this all ends with Leviathan. It's very possible that was the end of the first FFXV game/chapter what have you. Or just all that Roberto prepared for the staff presentation.
Someone mentioned that this all ends with Leviathan. It's very possible that was the end of the first FFXV game/chapter what have you. Or just all that Roberto prepared for the staff presentation.
DarkLordMalik
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They had content but not time.
NoctisVsStar
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Even the ninja transforming dog got downgraded.
triggered
Honestly, they should really have made it so that when the gang went back to Insomnia, they would've run into Luna who had barely escaped Insomnia at the end of Kingsglaive, then taken her with them, had some interactions with her & Noctis & the rest of them to build their relationship, then maybe have her being captured at some point while Noctis was going around powering himself up (and Luna gathering all the plague she can), then have Noctis & the gang rush to Altissia to save her. Then the game could've carried on much like it did in the final game (though optimally with less linearity). That way all the stuff in and after Altissia would carry more weight and they could've still build all of the story around the content/environments that was in the game as is.
Don't think time was an issue other than past Altissia, before that they could've done a better job with the time & resources they had. Tabata and the writers just did all the wrong decisions.
Gai Murakumo
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God dammit more Stella stuff was cut. The more I learn about what FFXV could have been the sadder I get.
I wonder about this because the beginning of the game actually has a really sparse story and I would think that if that was the issue that would be the inverse. I think they told the story they wanted to tell for the most part (besides the rushed parts after Altissa) which is weird because one of the main criticisms of FFXIII was story.
Umbra, cause Stella only exists in dreams now.
Lord of Ostia
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I mean, he kept her in the game, so he's responsible at some level. Everyone knows the Italian character designer is the one who created her design, that's obvious, but I can see why people would criticize Tabata for her too.
Vic_Viper
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Really wanted that gameplay sequence from the last Versus trailer/first XV trailer with Noctis fighting through tons of soldiers while the city is being attacked by the Hydra.
I really hope Square has learned from this and FFXIV's failures. Basically how to handle game development in this day and console generation. Mainly build your tools first before showing "gameplay" off. KH3 and FFVIIr already look like they are having the same issues which is seriously troubling.
I really hope Square has learned from this and FFXIV's failures. Basically how to handle game development in this day and console generation. Mainly build your tools first before showing "gameplay" off. KH3 and FFVIIr already look like they are having the same issues which is seriously troubling.
The Last One
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Who created those concepts? Ferrari?
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Bahaha that fucking phone picture. 😂😂😂 Who the hell signed off on them using that diary shit in the final game?
DarkLordMalik
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The story is designed to be entirely from Noctis' POV so I guess one of the reason it suffered was they were too fixated on Noctis and his journey of road trip and brotherhood.
There could be a better way to approach this, sure. But what can I say when even Nomura himself was fixated on road trip and brotherhood during the Versus era. Tabata was just told to carry his baggage and reshape it into something playable, which he did.
Vulcano's assistant
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stella! stella!...
hehehe
ShadowSwordmaster
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She seems to be shining pretty well on Neogaf from the looks of things.
The road trip aspect wasn't the problem.
DiipuSurotu
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MadChapelier
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Holy Etro...
DiipuSurotu
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He would be more involved in Part II if I recall correctly.
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