Is this worth playing?
I don't know anything about Final Fantasy and there's at least 15 of them and however many remakes or spin offs
>Is this worth playing?
no
Being real with you, I had fun with it.
Play it for 1.5 hrs and see what you think
Sure is, it triggers /v/ because it's about a road trip with your homies instead of being left alone on prom night
sadly it is a mediocre, forgettable experience like every FF past X.
watch the movie first then give it a go. its pretty fun
>>716015283 (OP)I had a great time in the open world section. But I have unironically zero memories of anything after. The game peaks at not-Venice, then it’s absolutely done for.
>>716017912Yeah I had a lot of fun pre Venice and post-game after the story was over. The final dungeon was cool though
>>716015283 (OP)i liked it, but try another game in the series first
Everything good about it is the side-content.
Fishing, hunts, exploration, camping, unlocking chocobo colours are all fun as fuck. Pitioss dungeon is possibly the most memorable and interesting dungeon in the series.
But the main story, the shitty state of towns, and especially the last act of the game are a total fucking mess. The DLC is just ok.
Get it on sale for really cheap.
>>716015283 (OP)Yeah, just don't use the dog. The dog that lets you time travel completely ruins the game. Also don'f use the warp strike sword or it will be all you use.
It could have been a lot better, there aren't many locations or a lot in them. But what is there is pretty.
Woukdn't be in my top 100 though. There are better games to play. But not much caveat other than lost time to playing it. Maybe not. You wouldn't want it in a kid making it.
Have real road trips instead.
>>716015283 (OP)Worst gameplay of anything I have ever played.
>Button mash and you teleport around and attack enemies>Later on in the game knife enemies show up and they flail around and knock you down to critical health if they hit you>Oh and after the game got re-released you also start the game with a full set of invincibility suits in your inventory for some reason because the devs got tired of even pretending to give a fuck any more.If you don't care about gameplay in the slightest then sure why not, it looks pretty I guess.
>>716015283 (OP)I only played it the week it was released and I can tell you then it definitely wasn't. They've patched and added shit since then plus dlc so it probably is okay now.
The best thing about it was hanging out with your bros but that's triggered by sleeping in certain camp spots. Riding around in the car gets boring pretty fast so you'll likely just fast travel and end up watching loading screens. Also the world is mostly gas stations.
>>716015283 (OP)Not unless you first watch the movie, Square Enix made FFXV into a multimedia experience so the story is segmented into a bunch of different mediums including a movie, the game, a book and a bunch of DLC, and wthout all of thm you don't really get the whole picture because the game skimps a lot on actually explaining wtf is going on and what everyone's motivations are.
>15
no, it feels extremely dated. Somehow more dated than 10 which came out 25 years ago. Play 16 if anything, at least there are some kino parts of 16.
>>716015283 (OP)If you're in the mood for a lengthy modern JRPG you're better off playing Xenoblade or something, FFXV is so heavily automated it barely counts as a game.
Just play FF IX, it's awesome.
>>716022474>>716022554Don't listen to these fools. It sold 13 million copies for a reason.
It's fine and occasionally great.
There's something about the FF franchise that turns most anons brains into mush when discussing it, they revert back to baby brain when they can only remember good things about the rattles they played with as toddlers and let nostalgia override their senses like a child with zero ability to engage with the world.
That said. The combat kinda sucks until you decide to put in the work to make it fun. The story is solid but often frustrating, especially with the main love interest.
Noctis himself isn't too different from a stock JRPG protag, but he has good chemistry with the boys, and that's ultimately what will determine if you like the game or not.
In terms of raw spectacle it has a couple stand out moments, and in terms of legitimate gameplay challenge there's really just the 1 superboss, Omega. Adamantoise is technically a superboss too but let's be real that's a test of patience and not skill.
I'd say try it. If you aren't interested in continuing after 2 hours just quit it, and if by the time you have Ramuh you aren't enjoying yourself it's really not for you.
If nothing else, play it for the excellent fishing minigame.
Said better before but trying again, how FFXV could have been better:
240i Blurry TAA, and or Bicubic upscale and gaussian blur after upscale.
Characters sprites.
No animals/monsters. Machines instead of plant life.
People machines, trying to regain memory of humanity.
Making civilisation, individuals, individual ideals from what they saw and had right. All trying to build better, make them more capable, survive and enjoy life.
They think they've succeeded, have sentimental.
Precious reserve of previous people, that require alternative fuel, food, water. Introduced for approval.
Road trip, essentials provided for. Earn beyond from serving others as offering and interested. Let on or not that you're different. Decide if you want to be one of them, or they one of you. Find a partner, a party.
Some basics virtual with you that can imbue in others. Upgrade them to be defenders, heroes, whatever is needed, aided from an archive, an authirity kind of, of good. What was it incarnate, historical essentials, what saved the day. Entertainers, unknown, but not sold to the enemy, for humanity. Animals even maybe. But people more good through effort than naturally.
Machines want the good natural. But effort kind of makes it so. May be required, but nice to build from rather than retry the essentials, redo from spark/scratch, building and again after broken/defeated, tired etc. Victories add up and are acted from.
Frames preforated, missing pixels guessed and using past frames, averages, inertia. 30 or so frames required for a full one. So 30x more performance. A couple generations ahead. Or push it as much as possible. Little movement in the thousands. And performance used, references, artistry, and generation, press a button to keep the generations. Part of gameplay. Virtual, mixed with done, all approved essentially done. Deal with the defects, right them, what was overlooked for the rest or a little bit of good unforsakable.
Or try not to let world/virtual/ai/system/f
>>716022908Yeah, because it was hyped to fuck and back for a decade, Xenoblade X mogged the shit out of it the very same year.
>>716016727>>716022264I liked the movie. I still have no interest in playing the game but it did make me want to drive an Audi.
>>716022987It was loved by all!! Why you got to cope like that?
I just wish there were more city sections that didn't involve demons. There's a lot of wide open nothing but it wouldn't be bad if there was a lot of city clutter that, again, doesn't involve demons or crawling through a ruined city
I liked it but the big thing is the game will do its absolute best to get you to play it wrong. From the tutorial you'll think Noctis is some action game character when in reality, for the early game at least, you need to play him more as an assassin/tactician and his early skills definitely compliment that.
You play defensively, watch the flow of combat, take care of your party members, and really only switch to attacking when you can do a back strike on enemies (several early skills highly point to this playstyle), eventually, as the game progresses you'll switch to a more aggressive play style.
Now the sad thing with all that being said, by the time you unlock Noctis' more aggressive skills and party swapping the game doesnt really offer many enemies that can handle it and even though the combat system can be surprisingly deep, no enemy will last long enough for you to really experiment and play around with it.
Still, its a solid enough time. Switch to JP voices too as the American dub makes it feel like a weird anime when its supposed to have the vibes of a laid back road trip with your bros.
>>716015283 (OP)The director made the devs focus on realism when designing enemy attacks so many enemies don't have proper tells and are a chore to fight.
That combined with 'hold down button' combat, because the director said he was too dumb to play games normally, makes the game into a true mess.
There was a patch later that let you play as party members and using the guy with the gun trivializes the awful combat, including the hardest optional boss. Still not fun, but at least when you can't take any more of the awful combat design you can just blast everything with a rocket launcher and move on.
That's not touching on how missing the story and characters are.
How empty the world is.
How if you do the side content it's just auto piloting back and forth and doing MMO-tier bullshit for cardboard npcs.
How bad your car is and how they clearly gave up and turned it into a menu first and car second.
They fired the director.
They cancelled tons of FF15 DLC because no one was buying it.
And then no one played FF16.
That's how bad FF15 is.
