Thread 715485114

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzIsbgDt5oM

it really puts into perspective how far down this industry has fallen with the vaseline smeared-fake frames-vomit inducing modern """"tech""", I hate it so much

>>715485114 (OP)
ff15 was underrated

>>715485114 (OP)
Remember what they took from you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0SSeBcWpJc

>>715485114 (OP)
meanwhile, actual promotional materials for the same game, because the industry had already fallen by this point:

>>715485516
>Versus XIII was announced all the way in 2006
Why the fuck does SE takes so long with their games?

The final nail in the coffin of this franchise.

>>715485516
Also remember:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVX0OUO9ptU

And no, Agni's Philosophy was just not a tech demo, it was originally part of the XIII trifecta:

>FF XIII
>FF Versus XIII
>FF Agni's Philosophy

All set in the same universe and with shared lore.

>>715486492
>Agni's Philosophy
You mean XIII Agito

>>715485114 (OP)
Don't get what you're trying to say here. FFXV looks much worse than most of the vaseline smeared-fake frames-vomit inducing modern """"tech""" we use today, is that your statement? Because you're right.

>>715485114 (OP)
this game was total dogshit

>>715485114 (OP)
I hate that the bottom of his shoes are red.

>>715485114 (OP)
I just started playing this recently. It's very pretty.

>>715485114 (OP)
The first third of the game is good.
You can tell where they were told to "hurry the fuck up and finish the game" by the publishers though.
You can also tell where they were told "you have one week to finish the game - it's shipping in whatever state you have it" by the publishers, too. It's when they get on the boat - from there, it's a sprint to the finish line.
I heard the plan was to have three continents, each as feature rich as the northeast corner of the first continent. That would have been cool, but wouldn't have been released for at least another ten years from now.

>>715487329
yeah the whole dungeon with the ring shit pissed me off, the final stretch of the game was a huge rushed part

>>715487636
I can't remember the specifics, but I seem to remember it being something like; there's time shananegans, then you're on a boat, then you're on an island talking to the girl who was supposed to be FMC, then you're in the future fighting as an old man, then the game is over.
It was all so crazy rushed compared to the comfy feel of the start, where MC is just camping and fishing with the bros.

>>715487891
it felt like the time skip part was supposed to be the halfway point to the game where you see the world turn to shit with endless nights, the lore was fucking cool

>>715487953
> the lore was fucking cool
agree.
15 was wasted potential, second only to the ff7 remake.
they really did fuck around and take too much time though.

>>715485114 (OP)
This game had a 4~10 year development time while all FFs from I through X had 1 or 2 years at most. XII had 4 years and XIII had 5.
Let it sink for a moment.
The bad entries had much longer development cycles.

the only think i know about this game is cup ramen and coleman camping equipment.

say what you will about current vidya but at least they don't product place to that degree anymore.

>>715485665
kek the game never looked as good as it did in the Episode Duscae demo. It's crazy how a base PS4 could run that, but they had to tone everything down when it actually released.

>>715488478
>at least they don't product place to that degree anymore
The American Express one is the most ridiculous. It's just a tiny thing in the store windows, but it implies America exists in the world of FFXV. It's like having the Texas sign in FF7, but even worse.

>>715485114 (OP)
The first 5~10hrs of gameplay should've been a small Yakuza game in Insomnia. All the OVA parts should've been in-game flashback cutscenes.

I loved everything about the car gameplay and the fact that there were gas stations in the game.

>>715488487
It's almost like haveing a large open world requires allocating resources to preloading shit, leaving less resources to render the world you're currently in.

dumbass.

>>715488790
Instead of making one of the most climatic parts of the game a fucking standalone movie, they should've had you actually play that part. Like the FFXIII Versus previews. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ7MwTXYLpg

I'm glad game companies seem to be over the whole "universe" crap where you need to watch a film, an anime series, read two novels, and play the time limited demos just to get the whole story that should've been in the game in the first place.

>>715485114 (OP)
FFXV was shit and Nomura still hasn't recovered from versus XII being cancelled.

>>715488861
Episode Duscae was the whole open world area that's in the final game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VAjGUtjwfU

>>715488841
I agree with this.

>>715488475
XII also had directors swapped mid-development. It's all been fucked after XI.

>>715489085
>Squaresoft and Enix merge
>not a single game ever reaches the heights of what each company made alone ever again
What an absolute disaster.

>>715488916
Yeah, true. Altissia and Niflheim needs more meat as well.
I don't think the game is garbage or anything, but it feels like 50% of an actual game. Using story parts in other media was so stupid.

>>715489185
Square Enix was really into that shit in 2016. Deus Ex Mankind Divided was the same way with a book and a mobile AR game (that has since shut down) being required in order to get the whole story, and then they cut the game in half anyway.

>>715485516
I'm not for or against either of these, but what do people see in this version of the game that they wish could have made it to the final product? There's no indication that it would be better in any way to what FFXV turned out to be. If anything the plot focusing more on romance melodrama looks less interesting than the focus on brotherhood and loyalty.

>>715489169
At least we can enjoy squaresoft's run through the 90's

>>715489461
STELLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>715489085
Meanwhile Dragon Quest is only getting better with each new game ever since the merge, Nier games are popular and Kingdom Hearts has only gotten worse with the third game.

>>715490282
Lol no. DQ peaked at 7.

>>715490282
DQ also has increasingly longer dev cycles. XI came out what 10 years ago and we still have little to no info regarding XII. I'll admit that it does a better job of keeping quality to its games.

>>715490402
DQVIII is a masterpiece, DQXI is a very good game

>>715485307
If by under you mean ass and by rated mean grated from someone's asshole? I agree.

>>715489169
DQB1 and 2 were great.

>>715490402
DQ9 was great if you had friends/brothers to play it with

>>715485516
I doubt there was even a scenario written for this until 2014. It always felt like the usual Nomura gothic/emo character in a town that is always night, like The World that Never Was in KH.

>>715490624
8 is mid, its just jerked off by ps2babbies

At least Dragon Quest still have it's identity and it's still turn-based while FF is fucked by different teams that are changing the combat and overall gameplay with each new game ever since XI

>>715490686
In interviews he said the entire scenario was done, he just didnt have a team to make anything since all his people were pulled to fix XIII and XIV

the big picture concept idea of the game was brilliant. cut off that fat of a bloated party, condense it into just 4 cool dudes who are bros for life, just traveling the world by car, making dinner every night by campfires, the world was pretty, music was there, an okay storyline maybe needed some more work but sure. The execution ultimately failed so hard to do anything right they should have scratched the entire project. The storytelling was awful, the open world is how not to make an open world game 101. This had tons of potential to be a truly unique FF experience and could have been one of the best, but ultimately shit the bed like no other. SAD

>>715490831
Didn't Nomura say he wrote the entire KH story in the late 00's/early 10's as well? I think he lies with a straight face.

>>715485307
It's not underrated. The game was formed from a mess of a developmeny cycle and was forced to be born; a real FF15 was probably nowhere near in Square's plans at the time. If I know them, Nomura was probably so hard stuck on his project and justifying the time and money, that he just desperately approached with the idea of rebranding it to FF15. It's such a shame too, because the game lacks a strong identity because of this. There are definitely "Final Fantasy" elements in there once it actually started as 15, but there's too much of Versus 13 that's in it that leaves it be a bit of a bitter taste. Like a needy ghost that won't let you forget it existed. A theoretical 15 deserved better; this 15, which would be based on the friendship of the party, what it means to heed the call of duty and embrace it, even if not willingly, but for the sake of those you love, DESERVED better.
Anyone who calls the game a "masterpiece" or "underrated" is either a midwit or just someone who barely played RPGs. There's a lot to like about 15, but it had scars that could never heal and force you to look at.

>>715491431
For me, the real FFXV is Stranger of Paradise. Should've been the numbered entry while this abortion became a spinoff.

>>715491431
nah its underrated

>>715491835
its a terrible game that never reached the potential it had preproduction. If someone pitched this idea to me before the game was made i would have thought this game was set to be one of the all time greats, but they just fucked everything up.

How the fuck a game can be underrated when it sold over 10 million?

>>715488841
And then they added flight with controls worst than superman 64.

>>715490701
I'll freely admit that it was my first but that comes with the Europeon territory

>>715492025
After like 7 years of fucking around with the production of Vs, the execs panicked they had no mainline FF in the pipeline since all hands were on deck fixing the previous two games. They turned Vs in to XV, decided Nomura had no time to make what he wanted and would not budge creatively, so they forced him off and put Tabata on to stitch together what was ready.
Nomura was put on VII-R with top billing (although it was well into production) as a consolation prize, likely to keep him from pulling a Kojima on them

>>715492302
the only way to get a game over

>>715492152
ask squeenix's shareholders

>>715492416
It's actually possible to get one?

>>715489461
Legit Versus schizos. They(most likely 1 person) are constantly making threads over a game that wasn't even put on paper.

>>715491835
Refer to my last paragraph please.
>>715492025
If you ask me, anything "pre production" doesn't exist when it comes to 15. I hate the idea that somehow V13's shithole of development was somehow supposed to translate to 15 somehow. It was entirely impossible. Like getting oil and water to mix, day and night to happen at the same time in your area, etc. It's more embarassing on Square's part, because for some reason these fucks are so goddamn prideful even though FF was never a gangbuster series like Pokemon. They wouldn't let themselves cancel V13 outright because they'd think it would be embarassing to give it so much attention and money. And sure, it might be. But for fucks sake, forcing an abortion like that to then somehow be your next mainline game and then making an ACTUAL game on top of it, making tbe circumstances and actual development even significantly harder? It's unfathomable. I can't think of any other major franchise that ever had this happen.

>>715492498
The flying was so god awful sometimes it wouldn't even show how you crashed and just show a gameover screen.

The first time i saw the first Versus trailer i immediately remembered KH1 secret ending, it have same colors and same idea.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOtXZp3B-tc

>>715492416
Flying this piece of shit and landing at the end game dungeon was the hardest part of the game.

is FF15 the greatest love story ever written?

>>715492903
>and landing at the end game dungeon was the hardest part of the game.
That shit felt like some developer's shitpost. There's no way someone playtested this and went, "yep this is fine". Fucking threading a needle tier hard.

>>715493210
Trying too hard. Do better.

>>715493210
was there even a love story?

>>715493450
Yeah, half the game is you going to your wedding only for your wife to die 2 minutes later.

>>715485114 (OP)
I gotta say, there's still a lot of little things I liked about the game and at the same time a lot of shitty things I hated about the game. All in all, I liked it better than that mess called FFXIII.

>>715493502
How hard was it to add like 2 or 3 sections where you actually spend time with her?

>>715493502
wait didn't they die together and turned into ghosts or some shit?

Nomura wanted to make a high budget, power fantasy 3-D Action RPG in Tokyo since 2002.. Look at KH secret ending, KHIII ending, trailers for KHIV, Versus XIII, TWEWY itselt, etc.
For what reason? Probably because it's cool and nothing more.
It'

>>715493573
No, no, that was reserved for the books, no need to waste your time with it in game!

>>715493503
Also forgot to mention I think its because you can mod/cheat engine a lot of problems out of FFXV. For FFXIII, there's nothing that can save that game. I tried.

*It's the same idea refurbished over and over.

>>715493605
Luna dies in Altissa when you fight Leviathan. When Noctis dies at the end, he joins her in heaven.

i wish this game were good, stylistically it appealed to me, but it was just awful

>>715493618
He's a chuuni that got a little too much power. Most of his antics can be understood by understanding the chuunibyou mindset.

>>715493635
Are you seriously bitching about not getting a forced hour long movieslop autowalk cutscene with inconsequential dialogue choices?
Really nigga? That's what would've "saved" 15 for you?

>>715485114 (OP)
I bought this garbage day one and haven't gone back since. How different is the day 1 version compared to the current version? Almost quit the game at chapter 13

>>715493879
You get to go on a date with your bro's underage sister instead!

>>715493952
they added stuff the last area in the game

>>715485114 (OP)
it looked ugly as fuck thougheverbeit??
your shot has more blur than fucking dlss has

>>715493573
Better yet, Tanaka REMOVED her entire story and character that was already made and ready to go when he got there.

>>715493952
>How different is the day 1 version compared to the current version?
Not much because they charged for all the stuff they added. Most of the fixes and additions are in the Royal DLC like >>715494019.
Then there's the DLCs for the three bros to expand on major parts of the story and a DLC for Ardyn explaining his backstory.
The Windows edition includes all of them except Ardyn's by default. On PS4 they're all extra.

>>715493986
And it was better for it. Iris should've been the goddamn love interest.

>>715493952
Pretty different but not enough to buy or pirate it just to see all the changes. The final area/chapter got a pretty big revamp but not enough to be honest as the story still feels unfinished.

>>715489169
To split hairs a little bit, Enix was more of a publisher for the most part. They worked with or owned studios that did the developer. Like DQ wasn't developed by Enix.

>Just want to walk around and explore the map
>NOPE RANDOM ENCOUNTER
>Can't even stand in 1 spot without random encounters happening
I have no clue why no one bothered to make a mod to turn off enemy soldiers and demons at night. This is the most anti open world game I've ever played.

>>715486492
>>715486570
Agni’s Philosophy was part of Project Witch, which unfortunately became Project Athia AKA Forspoken. FF Agito XIII was the working title of FF Type-0 which had a name change after the middling reception to FF XIII proper.

>>715493830
I know I do. I was like that in the 00's punk and gothic vibes too.
Then realized I was finally reaching 20 and how ridiculous it sounded, and moved on. Dude is still like that in his fifties.

>>715494239
>Theres nothing do in the open world! >:(
>Noooo why are you bringing me things to do in the open world??? >:O

>>715488790
That was the plan at one point. Three games, with the events of Insomnia either being a game in and of itself or the opening sequence of the first game. When Tabata took over and this was deemed infeasible, he cut the opening sequence and made the movie as a replacement.

>>715494239
>no one bothered to make a mod to turn off enemy soldiers and demons at night
Probably because they can't. Still mad that Square Enix never released the modding SDK like they promised. Actual mods could've possible saved the game, but instead best we get is model replacements.

>>715494435
He is more based than you

>>715494435
>Dude is still like that in his fifties.
In a sense I actually respect him for that. Takes a certain amount of autism to completely disregard other people like that.

>>715494496
More power to him, for sure

FF15 in particular was trash, it had mobile games, anime, a trash movie with bad direction (literally all SE movies are failure).

was Noctis a chad, or an incel?

>>715495196
He was a sigma

>>715488618
Fucking Harry Potter exists in the world of FFXV.

>>715485114 (OP)
I miss going on a road trip with my friends. But now they are in their mid 30s married and already henpecked by their wives and kids..

>>715498556
Be the cool uncle anon and take them and their kids on road/camping trips. Give their kids some good road trip memories because goodness knows they probably won't get any from their parents.

>>715485114 (OP)
>Game's most pivotal moment required you to turn the game off and watch a literal movie
I'm still fucking floored.

>>715488487
oh yeah that shimmering aliased mess that ran at 20fps + tip sure was impressive

>>715499008
I just chose not to watch it. To this day, I still haven't. Same with the anime.

>>715491835
Midwit lmao

I saw this video recently and I laughed.
It's funny how square utterly wasted money with this engine
https://youtu.be/wWBQckTix4A?si=cu_hORBxmvMyBZBu

>>715485307
This. Game was kino on PC

>>715490624
>DQVIII is a masterpiece
Not with that combat and leveling system. Story is kino though, but it still gets mogged by every other DQ aside from 1-3, 9 and 11.

With the success of Expedition 33, surely Final Fantasy 17 will go back to turn based.

>>715503563
Nah, they'll keep to the freestyle action because that's what FF was supposed to be this whole time, and Square is stubborn.

>>715503563
>after success of BG3..
>insert whatever Bethesda said about BG3 back then
>Fallout 5 is in development at Zenimax Online studio
Those "other games success influence" don't go as one would think they'll go.

>>715485114 (OP)
2015 feels like the last year of legit triple A gaming.
Nothing has approached MGSV, Arkham Knight, FF15 or Persona in terms of design scope

>>715485516
>Remember what they took from you
A bunch of trailers for a game that never existed?

>>715494479
>Probably because they can't.
People actually can, someone made a mod tool a couple years ago to edit scripts. BUT the fucker locked it behind his patreon, and surprise, no one wants to pay money for a modtool just for FFXV and Forspoken

>>715485114 (OP)
I remember having a good time playing this, despite more preferring ATB. I even went into the whole expanded Universe thing and tried to watch or play as much as I could. Probably the biggest shame is that the King's Knight Sequel they made for mobile was EoS'd, was a pretty fun Sh'mup and had a decent fantasy story. I really clicked with the vibe. I also really enjoyed the Kingsglaive movie for what it was, I could have seen a whole series made with just the Kingsglaive's lives just chilling and doing mundane work.
Still, it did have a lot of issues. The gameplay was jank and the story felt really compressed and it showed despite how much content they made for it. It all honestly felt like it would have been better served if they focused on the content more than the looks and fidelity.

I'm not letting Barry being an autistic loser kill my enjoyment of the game.

>>715493210
Yes, the part where Ignis calls Ardyn a stupid jew and then dooms the world so that Noctis can live is the greatest love story of all time.

>>715503989
FF7remake part 2, Death Stranding 2, Elden Ring?

>>715504289
u are fucking insane

>>715485114 (OP)
>Unlock flying car
>Immediately crash flying car
>Have to redo dungeon because I didn't save right away
Surely I wasn't the only one

>>715503989
It was 2017, and it had a nice combo of AAA & Indies & AA all popping off with amazing games.
Persona 5, Dragon Quest XI, Sonic Mania, Yakuza 0, Fortnite, NieR: Automata, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood, Cuphead, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Destiny 2, King's Knight -Wrath of the Dark Dragon-, Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue, Night in the Woods, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, Super Mario Odyssey, The Evil Within 2, Sniper Elite 4, Blaster Master Zero, Everything, Nidhogg 2, Golf Story, A Hat in Time

>>715504328
Please do go on about how those games aren't AAA enough for you

Rewatched the Versus XIII trailer and still begging for Square to just make a contemporary FF game and lean hard into the modern city, but now it wouldn't hit as hard since they half assed it with XV.

Also still wondering if Versus XIII was literally going to be a game where the FNC lore was going to somehow clash against traditional FF lore.

>>715488916
Namco tired it with that one game they wanted to turn into a big ass franchise last year or the year before that bombed immediately upon release. Forgot it's name, Unknown 9?
Had a movie, comic books, and all sorts of other tie-ins prepared for it but the game being stillborn at release put a stop to that.
Think Sony was going to do the same with Concord as well.
Hopefully those two big projects failing outright will deter other publishers from attempting it in the future.

>>715503989
Are you just naturally retarded or something? Baiting?

>>715485114 (OP)
The game definitely wasn't perfect (especially true in its launch state), but the Royal Edition definitely improved things. I played through it twice, and had a lot of fun - warts and all.

The tech was fantastic, and it's a shame Forespoken basically became the albatross around the neck of Luminous Engine.

Not Barry, I swear.

>>715485931
>>715485516
>moving character HUD both in kh3 and Vs XIII trailers
>never implemented in game
like a curse

>>715488916
>>715504946
It's something I hope they realize should only come naturally, you can't force it.
Like it makes sense for Sonic for example to have a lot of media outside the games because the games had a strong foundation in the first place. So of course it's fans would try to make and consume as much product as possible.
You can't make people feel that way about your game that hasn't even come out.

I never played even this shit because 12 and 13 burned me so bad as someone who was obsessed with FF since 6 years old
not having cute girls as party members in a fucking final fantasy game is a crime against humanity

>>715505259
Call me petty but the main party being a sausage fest was part of the reason I never cared much to look into 15. If Iris was a permanent part of the main cast I would probably have suffered through ti just for her.

>>715493952
They actually added quite a lot of stuff. DLC chapters for each of the crew (and a prequel for the villain), the ability to play as the entire party in battle, an off-road truck, a playable ocean section with new fish to catch, a new quest and summon based on FFXIV, completely revamped final section and an online multiplayer campaign (I'm not sure if you can still play it though). They also had an Assassin's Creed and Moogle Carnival DLCs, but they can't be accessed now.

>>715485516
I really like the advent trailer/2011, something about the piano with the panning walking and talking shots I like a lot

>>715505649
You can still play Comrades because it's P2P. Also, it's soloable and I actually think it's extremely important to the story since it takes place during the time that gets time skipped.
It's actually kinda amazing how retarded how much story is missed by the person that ONLY plays FFXV. Like even the King's Knight Sequel has kinda important stuff as it's what inspires Noctis to value his friends.

>>715485307
It was, I played it until the Royal Edition, and despite all its flaws, it has some great moments, and the trope of the prince traveling around collecting the blessing of his ancestors in the form of weapons is great. The warping feels very satisfying, and camping is comfy as fuck, the food looks amazing. I also think the story is pretty simple abd straightforward, but presented in a horrible manner, but I watched kingsglaive first so maybe that helped

>>715504289
Slop, not as good as ds1, only better than dark souls 2 in it's series

>>715485114 (OP)
>how they needed 10 years to turn a mafia heir into some gay prince

>>715505125
I think Barry either changed his writing style or legit killed himself. I haven't seen him in a long time

>>715505998
I loved that they made the fat guy not just redeemed but also I laughed that he was important in Comrades.
Never change Nomura.

>>715485307
No it was overrated.
Piece of shit game made for journalists and women.

>>715485114 (OP)
dinnah is served!

>>715504694
Nomura tried to get versus 13 back again through verum rex but retards at SE forced him to do more Sora crap again

>>715490282
>Nier games are popular
Only 2B is
>Dragon Quest
DQ is like the bread, everyone likes it but that's it

>>715485114 (OP)
That is true. It did.

>>715489085
12 was a fucking crime. I fucking despise the director for making people work hard in the game only for him to quit like a faggot

>>715485114 (OP)
FF13 looks a lot better

>>715506092
He is busy shilling donkey Kong Pauline

>>715485114 (OP)
If they wanted a fun road trip with the bros game don't kill my dad and holocaust my city 10 minutes into it

>>715505259
There is something interesting about 12 and 13 and it's that they obviously tried to get rid of the intense romance FF games are popular for because they probably tried to look for the asexual audience. It's why Ashe x Vaan only exists in promos now, no triangle romance with Vaan, Penelo and Ashe (hell Vaan x Penelo is just bland), and 13 has the main character being single while her sister takes the tall Aryan Chad (to be fair if ff6 were remade these days people would see Terra is just looking while Celes and Locke kiss)
Versus XIII seemed to bring back romance kino but Stella got replaced by a worse version and 15 had too many cuts.
FF16 while shit at least it still tried to have romance so my guess is 17 will have romance too

>>715490282
>>715490810
Dude you literally only praise DQ in FF threads, outside of them DQ are pretty dead. There is a reason every new jrpg gets compared to FF still and not Dragon Quest

>>715509521
Terra would likely get with one of the older orphans if they were to give her a romance. Or if they really wanted to, they could make her the "Not a Mom, but a Mother" archetype that has been getting popular.

>>715509573
Not that anon, but I'm Still pissed we never got DQX offline

I'm still mad they cancelled the aranea dlc that would make her fully playable as a part member, im FUCKING mad about the fact that the true ending is locked behind a stupid novel where its revealed that bahamut was the actual bad guy and ardyn is redeemed

hold dodge button, tap attack occasionally, watch movie - beat the entire game. It's shit.

>>715510326
We knew Bahamut was the bad guy ever since Comrades.

>>715485114 (OP)
Looks like dogshit

footage in OP would be so lit if it wasn't for a shit piss easy braindead baby game.

>>715491835
Based as fuck. Paragraphers seething and coping.

>>715510692
yeah but you dont get to fight him

the game would benefit from a reboot. it has a lot of untapped potential with a really big world building. Square got the hang out of their gameplays by now. give it an FF16 gameplay and cut the open world and you pretty much have a top tier Final Fantasy in your hands

>>715511259
Wtf, yes you do. It's the final boss before ethe credits?

>>715503563
no turnfag, it's still not your turn

>>715485114 (OP)
this piece of shit game had the vaseline smearing and shimmering hair that you hate so much. in fact this game having these is what told me square is on their death bed.

>>715485114 (OP)
reminder that they modelled the entire capital and you could explore it and everything was detailed too. all the environments had lots of objects. but you could only access it in when preloading the game on ps4 (when its 75% downloaded and lets you launch a special version of the game).
imagine spending nearly 10% of the budget of a game on the most detailed map in the whole game just to not use it as it didnt fit the story.
its not as if you couldnt back track on your journey.
oh yeah this thing takes like 10 gigs of space.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFR1cfSXiMU

>>715512485
Lara>>>>>>>>Samus

>>715485114 (OP)
this "game" was pure shit and people still bought it
ff13 was shit too, and people bought it

now square makng some underwhelming ff16 and asking, why people no buyin. i wonder, in first place, who bought 13 and 15. although, i bought 13.

>>715511553
Nomura was trying that with verum rex but got forced to do more Sora shit again

>>715485307
Nah. This game just never made sense.

>>715485114 (OP)
I miss how good games looked without bloated requirements. Not FFXIV, but metal gear v, things now look worse a d require 3k cards to get 30fps with DLSS, even then there is ghosting everywhere

I played this on release.
The only other games that i was hyped about but was ultimately let down were MGSV and DD2.
Piece of shit game

>>715490984
who the fuck eats dinner at night

>>715512460
Wasn't there an OoB area that had Shiva's giant ass laying down and you could climb it?

>>715512785
very likely was nothing but a stupid joke. which i don't understand why it was ever greenlit knowing how hotly debated FFXV and it's beta concept was (and still is apparently).

>>715513679
You wasn't able to climb her body.
It was on the train section

worst things about this game
>too slow to get around
getting to anything was a chore
>halfway point
they threw out the "camping trip with the bros" gameplay out the window halfway through the game and made it a linear game.
combat was fine though

>>715513926
>combat was fine
>hold one button to attack
>hold other button to dodge
>occasionally use a Team up attack
The demo combat was actually better than the full game

>>715514069
the combat was about juggling weaknesses and knowing when to zip around and when to use team skills.
its not as in your face as a beatemup but its just as involved.

>>715514190
>the combat was about juggling weaknesses
hold O, warp, spam items, repeat
there's nothing more to it because the devs are retarded.

>>715514314
yet another tard that skipped the 15 minute tutorial.

>>715514190
Nah, combat was pretty shallow.
Magic was also kinda bad, in a sense that you could use it only sparingly until you had to recharge it with those crystals.

>>715513701
It was never a joke, for some reason someone in SE have a hate boner against Nomura
>Take his resources so Toriyama can give TWO more games to his waifu
>Shadowdrop neo twewy the same fucking day as Persona 5 on steam
>Willing to greenlit turds like forspoken but unable to let Nomura make a new ip with not!versus
Suits logic is also retarded, using their logic KH nor FF should exist because only DQ was popular enough
Zoomers would try a new ip with cool hot characters without needing to play 900 games before, and even millennials are tired of Disney