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Rumor: Final Fantasy XV Launches September 30
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NoctisVsStar
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Bookmark this post.. You'll have the game spoiled by June. You thought Kojima was bad giving out everything in trailers? be prepared for SE.. Careful what you wish you for. You'll get your wish on the 30th..come release you'll see many say "they showed everything!"
I'm a disciple of the school of versusXIII led by Mnight and the apostles. You've been warned.
MultiJhonny
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NoctisVsStar
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MultiJhonny
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NoctisVsStar
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We need that gif from 2011 trailer when Noctis wakes up from the throne and Ignis his talking to him saying the following:
Noctis: "it's time my fans need me."
Ignis: "Preparations for the 30th are complete"
Gif ends: Uncovered XV.
I'm going to make this gif FFXV related. it needs to be a hype gif for this game
Don't fail me Johnny.....I will be gloriously waiting the day after uncovered for it.....this is my most hyped game of 2016. It's been to damn long since I've wanted a final fantasy and episode duscae had me putting more hours into a demo then I have some video games lol
MultiJhonny
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I'll see what I can do. I hate making gifs but I can do it. I shall prepare them for the 30th then.
I also wonder what MNight has ready for us
Really?
Yeah, he was in my Japanese class, I was surprised the first time I heard the teacher say his name during roll call.
MultiJhonny
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I won't fail FFXV gaf. Hype is at hand.
theofficefan99
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There were numerous signs that pointed toward Versus XIII getting a name change. Biggest one was the random Noctis cologne from 2013 that just said "Final Fantasy," when Lightning and Cloud's perfume/cologne had their respective roman numerals included. I really don't know why everyone keeps bringing Verendus up.
qualitydisc
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Yep. I own that cologne!
And yes even Verendus said "pretty much everyone suspects this by now but..."
Wow, he must have been thrilled when FFVsXIII was announced. I, for one, couldn't throw a kyoukasho in my Japanese classes without hitting a Gladiolus or a Prompto.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
At this point it's possible that he was named after the FFvsXIII reveal. It's been a long time!
MultiJhonny
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How does it smell?
More info from the fan event. http://www.novacrystallis.com/2016/03/final-fantasy-xv-fan-meeting-report/
Novacrystallis didn't translate everything and all info though. Anyone able to translate the full fan impressions?
http://tsumige.net/archives/2128
http://taka-azul.tumblr.com/post/140907265928/ffxvファンミーティングに参加してきました
Interspersed within these conversations were small comments about Final Fantasy XVs development:
Another participant, Maitako, had asked about the games realism. Discussion revolving around this topic revealed that the team are walking on a fine reality line. Everything from character animation, to city and monster designs, to dialogue and reactions has been painstakingly designed to exude this realism. In other news, the staff have once again expressed their desire for Final Fantasy XV to achieve the same impact that Final Fantasy VII once did.
- Signs and boards in Final Fantasy XV all have different designs
- Many enemies have yet to be revealed
- The staff want fans to look forward to dungeons
Another participant, Maitako, had asked about the games realism. Discussion revolving around this topic revealed that the team are walking on a fine reality line. Everything from character animation, to city and monster designs, to dialogue and reactions has been painstakingly designed to exude this realism. In other news, the staff have once again expressed their desire for Final Fantasy XV to achieve the same impact that Final Fantasy VII once did.
Novacrystallis didn't translate everything and all info though. Anyone able to translate the full fan impressions?
http://tsumige.net/archives/2128
http://taka-azul.tumblr.com/post/140907265928/ffxvファンミーティングに参加してきました
NoctisVsStar
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Hnnnnnngggggggg!
Maybe Noctis is this generations cloud?! For the young folks that is (assuming XV has a great impact)
qualitydisc
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I think it's supposed to be lemongrass and sandalwood if I remember correctly
MultiJhonny
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Sounds like it would smell nice.
imagine if Lightning was named Stella during the XIII reveal but just kept the name
Cindi Mayweather
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It wasn't just one game. FF14 launch was terrible and I avoided it like the plague. 13-2 was well received but LR is highly divisive. Type 0, according to most, is ass. I'm more content just playing FF remakes. They have no idea what they're doing at that company.
I'm not sure why these games being spin offs takes away anything.
Cindi Mayweather
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Fuck if I know. It seems well received in the "it's better than 13" argument. I'm not sure if that means it's actually good.
NoctisVsStar
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It corrected a lot of the issues of vanilla 13 but the damage was already done and Lighting Returns only redeeming feature is the combat. But the whole saga was trash.. Inb4 perfo comes in to defend.
MultiJhonny
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It helped her with Louis Vuitton though
Cindi Mayweather
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I don't consider X and X-2 remaster a new game. I did buy that and enjoyed it thoroughly.
And yeah, four games in six years, none of which are essential unless you're a fan of MMO's? Nothing cannot not make that pathetic and sad. SE should be embarrassed.
Let's just say XV better be good. If it isn't, I'm sorry SE but I'm done with the series.
NoctisVsStar
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Our boy Nocto better get a sponsorship that isn't Coleman!
A lot is riding on XV and FF7r already got people concerned with the episodic nature.. They could very easily stop making them for consoles or go to episodic route or worse mobile to try and make it a profit.. These games are expensive to make and have a hard time breaking even unless you got a hit.
FF13 crew once got a promotion with Prada, I think Noctis will look good in Prada.
the_sun_king
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The "pathetic and sad" FFXIV has become one of my favourite entries in the mainline series, so I guess I should feel bad.
I don't.
NoctisVsStar
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He's tied to Roen unfortunately but hey wouldn't mind that.
It's the best FF in years people dismiss it because of the MMO nature and it brought the brand back to some level of respectability.
Cindi Mayweather
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Can you imagine if XV and VIIR aren't good? Lord have mercy.
I did say there's an exception if you like MMO's. The problem with XIV people is they think everyone should like MMO's.
MultiJhonny
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I think we will see another mainline FF. New management and a lot of new blood in the developers with some of the older guys moving to more producing roles or to the remake role.
The Final Fantasy name is still way to big to ignore.
Don't ARR and HW are incredible. The turnaround for that game is legendary.
NoctisVsStar
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The funny thing is XV is looking like the bigger game at the moment compared to FF7r since it's being broken up into segments.
MultiJhonny
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The word is simply: HYPPEEEEE
I thoroughly enjoyed XIII-2 until I beat it, at which point i realized that it wasn't worth $60, the DLC was NOT story related and was horseshit, and that the story had actually gotten even worse and pulled some dusty Next Time On DBZ shit as incentive to buy the sequel.
However, I maintain the idea that if instead of XIII-2 or Garbage Returns, they had simply did a "remastered" XIII game that played more like XIII-2 did with its expanded features and exploration, it would have probably actually maaaybeee been pretty fucking amazing. And I hated XIII in retrospect, if that's any indication.
Cindi Mayweather
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It isn't narrow minded when you take ten years to do it.
To be fair, critically, it was well received in Japan and it got good scores here too. However, most can agree that the flaws of FFXIII, the structure and famous 'ending' of FFXIII-2 and the shift of LR to its new format helped hold back the sales of the sequels.
Still, SE has continuously called the entire FFXIII saga a big success so whatever they expected it to do, it ended up doing. Besides the ways FFXIII-2 and LR were made (LR more so), I wager SE made quite a profit from the recycled assets. Toriyama, if anything, can stretch a lot from old material when it comes to making a game...Not always a good thing of course but compared to western games, the FFXIII saga was astonishingly free of glitches.
I will grant, they stretched whatever crap they didn't use in XIII-2 pretty well. Then again, they stretched FFX's assets well enough for X-2 as well.
Cindi Mayweather
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Do you not think that after 13 trilogy, 14 launch, Type 0 not coming out in the west until the HD version, Type 0 not being as good as people hoped to begin with despite the years long wait for localization, and this game taking ten years that such criticism is not justified? A lot of us have moved on. I used to be a massive Final Fantasy fan and I haven't bought a new game in almost a decade. That isn't hyperbole. That is pure fact and no amount of damage control can change the fact that the past ten years of Final Fantays have been completely unacceptable. Many have found solace in other franchises, for some of us our favorite jrpg franchises are now long dead (Suikoden).
Despite all of this that of all things is what amazes you? That criticism is more than earned.
Geez, If FFX-2 had ditched all that J-POP 'crap' (just my opinion) and keep the story focused on a world of transition, the game would have been even more amazing
The game did an excellent job of making old areas seem fresh.BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
Because none of those spinoffs are the reason why this brand is beloved and important. They're generally experiments and reused asset cash-ins. Most of us arent making any inferences about the quality of the mainline games from these small spinoffs. When I talk about my love of FF games.. I'm not even considering these offshoots. It's like numbered Star Wars films vs comics and cartoons.
If you are turned off the FF brand from these quick spinoff games.. That's fine. But the original question you had for us was "why are people so excited about XV?" And the answer is because this is the first real one since XIII, the single dud in the series long history, and the series was all gold before then. No reason to expect a pattern of shame until mainline games are consistently bad (something I find hard to believe given how long this was in the oven).
It has got a really long preproduction time that's all. Lot's of things happened during 06-11 in SE. They messed up the next-gen engine, they messed up FFXIV. FFVXIII was not being actively developed at that time period. When they finally decided to make this game into FFXV and put it on PS4/XBOXONE in 2012, the game has since undergone a much more smooth production cycle. The fans might have been waiting for ten years, but the development certainly hasn't taken that long.
The Final Fantasy franchise is one of my favorites.
I wasn't a fan of the XIII games or Type-0, but they had some merit to them. I don't play MMOs anymore, but XIV is quite good by all accounts.
I've been waiting for VersusXIII/XV for 10 years like everybody else, but I don't find the wait to be that big of a deal. It's not like I don't have tons of other entertainment options to keep me busy in the meantime. I just hope they make a good game and I'll be there to play it and try it out. I don't see how getting all indignant and swearing off the franchise is in any way worthwhile to me. If they make good games, I'll play them and enjoy them. If they make bad games, I'll skip them or I may pick them up later when they're much cheaper on sale, and at least give them a try to see what is so bad about them.
I can't speak for the other poster, but it's the vitriol that amazes me.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
Of course you haven't bought an FF game in a decade. They've only made one big one, and it was their one famous dud (due to a troubled development cycle).
It's less that the quality dived and more that their output of big mainline games slowed down to a crawl, and the brand was carried on only by smaller mediocre spinoff projects. That's a big fault of the company, and we all hate that this happened... But once we actually see more real flagship FFs games come out, then we can begin to judge the quality of this series.
Cindi Mayweather
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