FFXV and God of War are my favorite PS4 games. I started that game the night it came out, and by that sunday i had put 55 hours into it.
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Final Fantasy XV - an incredible masterpiece
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Very far from a masterpiece to me
I do want to go back to it but for a final fantasy game to be so easy to put down and walk away from?!?
Pretty damning for the future of the series
Im hoping they dont try to build another 10 year rpg thats still isnt finished going forward
I do want to go back to it but for a final fantasy game to be so easy to put down and walk away from?!?
Pretty damning for the future of the series
Im hoping they dont try to build another 10 year rpg thats still isnt finished going forward
I had a good time with it but it's definitely my least favourite FF (been playing since VII). The two biggest issues for me are :
- Almost complete lack of story, everything happens off screen, the characters' reactions are not believable at all... It's a complete mess narratively speaking.
- The open world makes the game feel like you're just cruising through one small (relatively speaking) region. It doesn't give any sens of real travel, of going to a distant country. Instanced areas like in FFXII provide a much better sense of travel. It's a shame since FFXV is all about road tripping across the world. I would have much preferred two or three smaller regions.
- Almost complete lack of story, everything happens off screen, the characters' reactions are not believable at all... It's a complete mess narratively speaking.
- The open world makes the game feel like you're just cruising through one small (relatively speaking) region. It doesn't give any sens of real travel, of going to a distant country. Instanced areas like in FFXII provide a much better sense of travel. It's a shame since FFXV is all about road tripping across the world. I would have much preferred two or three smaller regions.
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I assure you that I played all the Final Fantasy released :)
(both the main ones, from I to XV, and all the spinoffs, including those for today's smartphones)
lol no. Opinions and all that but it can never be a masterpiece because of how bad it's tells its story. I enjoyed it but it's no masterpiece not even close.
Is the story better in the Royal Edition? I've yet to play the game because of two reasons, 1) The anime main character bruhs, both their looks and apparently unlikable writing, and 2) I've read a few impressions saying the story isn't that good. #1 I can deal with but #2 would be a dagger if true. Maybe the RE added some story elements and cut scenes.
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same
I attempted to get back to the game many times now but the slow start and the hunting missions (because of how hard is it to change the time of day) hindered my experience.
I know that changing time of day is now more accessible from a recent update so that might help
Hell no. It was a fucking mess at launch. When you have to do story patches up to 2-3 years later, you got some serious issues.
Disagree, and I think that's why I like the game so much. It is weighty and full of options, even ones you wouldn't expect like the Saws.
If you were to play it for the first time after the story patches, do you think you'd like the story much more or about the same? Try to pretend you never played the game
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Sorry if I ask you, but you've never played Final Fantasy XIV O_o
Because, as well as any Final Fantasy released, it is completely different from both the previous and the subsequent titles of the saga.
And I played FF XIV and it's totally different from the XV, as it should be. Since every Final Fantasy is different :)
To be fair, XIV recycles a lot of shit from a lot of other FF games lol
About XV, I liked it, but it's too flawed to be called a masterpiece. And the poll is biased as fuck lol
Lol that bait but fine I'll bite. The only thing FFXV is a masterpiece of is being a train wreck. The story makes no god damn sense what so ever early on because they stripped it out of the game and put it into Kingsglaive which still doesn't really tell its story properly and theres still a ton of things missing from the various early trailers and preview builds. The combat system is a mess that works some of the time but the majority of the time theres so much going on it can be hard to tell wtf is happening until you get a QTE to block/parry or whatever. Also whoever thought turning magic into a simple grenade mechanic was a good idea should never make games again.
The worst part of the game though is the characters, I do not understand how fans of this game so easily forgive how the game fridges Luna, its god damn insulting and its a trope that needs to die in a fire. So many characters have unexplained purpose or motives besides just being around and many of them just don't do anything but show up for a chapter or two and then are never seen again. Then you also have Cidney who is just pure tasteless fanservice. The boy band itself isn't terrible and has some good development (although you miss a lot of that if you haven't seen the fucking anime) but is far from being good.
Also lets be clear here, this game shipped completely unfinished and everything they've done as 'DLC' has been attempts to make or put back in content that should have clearly been in the game in the first place. The way people to go bat for this game is rather embarrassing when SE shipped an unfinished product and even more then a year later they are still trying to add additional DLC and patches to fix the game in an attempt at making it a finished product which it won't be any time soon.
All this game did was make me never excited for a Final Fantasy game ever again because FFXV was very successful and because of that SE will try to do the same shit with FFXVI or whatever the hell game comes next (because it worked) and it doesn't matter how good that game is I will not buy it at launch because chances are it'll be as unfinished as this game was if not more so and I will not pick up one of these games until its very clear its a complete product. Buying the base version of FFXV felt like I got scammed by SE and something I never want to repeat again.
The worst part of the game though is the characters, I do not understand how fans of this game so easily forgive how the game fridges Luna, its god damn insulting and its a trope that needs to die in a fire. So many characters have unexplained purpose or motives besides just being around and many of them just don't do anything but show up for a chapter or two and then are never seen again. Then you also have Cidney who is just pure tasteless fanservice. The boy band itself isn't terrible and has some good development (although you miss a lot of that if you haven't seen the fucking anime) but is far from being good.
Also lets be clear here, this game shipped completely unfinished and everything they've done as 'DLC' has been attempts to make or put back in content that should have clearly been in the game in the first place. The way people to go bat for this game is rather embarrassing when SE shipped an unfinished product and even more then a year later they are still trying to add additional DLC and patches to fix the game in an attempt at making it a finished product which it won't be any time soon.
All this game did was make me never excited for a Final Fantasy game ever again because FFXV was very successful and because of that SE will try to do the same shit with FFXVI or whatever the hell game comes next (because it worked) and it doesn't matter how good that game is I will not buy it at launch because chances are it'll be as unfinished as this game was if not more so and I will not pick up one of these games until its very clear its a complete product. Buying the base version of FFXV felt like I got scammed by SE and something I never want to repeat again.
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Every Final Fantasy is different.
It is a mistake to judge the future based on the present ;)
More basik than slay for me unfortunately...
It was ok, really weird mash up of great, ok and bad design choices at almost every level. To me, FF XV is perhaps the epitome of a game designed by multiple teams with sometime a lack of coherence, that went through development hell but was saved by a big amount of cash and crunch by talented teams in the end.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/horizon-zero-dawn-is-actually-just-ok.34998/
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That poll though. I'm havin' a laugh tbh. I like FFXV, but come on.
This thread ain't gonna go well. I liked the game but it is a weaker final fantasy title. It doesn't help every time I consider replaying it there's something else for me to buy. God of war actually made me more upset because the level of polish in 15 is just lacking with side quests that are objectively worse then the mmo 14.
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I could give the same vote to Ori, a nice 4 ;)
(an Indi game....)
But, fortunately, we are not talking about votes. Quite right? ;)
I love the game. It definitely has it's flaws, but they have improved the game a lot with patches and DLC, which I know isn't ideal. A lot of it's criticism is deserved though, even if I think some people are way too harsh on it.
For me, I loved Noctis and bros, and while the story has a lot of issues, especially vanilla, I was still a big fan of the journey they went on. I really enjoyed the gameplay, even though it was quite different than other FF games. The fast paced melee and warping was a blast to do. The graphics of course are great, and I still feel like it's one of the games that does HDR the best, at least for me. The other truly special thing about the game is the soundtrack, which I still listen to all the time. So while I know it's not perfect, it still resonated with me way more than a lot of games do. So even with it's flaws, it's still one of my favorite games of the generatation.
For me, I loved Noctis and bros, and while the story has a lot of issues, especially vanilla, I was still a big fan of the journey they went on. I really enjoyed the gameplay, even though it was quite different than other FF games. The fast paced melee and warping was a blast to do. The graphics of course are great, and I still feel like it's one of the games that does HDR the best, at least for me. The other truly special thing about the game is the soundtrack, which I still listen to all the time. So while I know it's not perfect, it still resonated with me way more than a lot of games do. So even with it's flaws, it's still one of my favorite games of the generatation.
Not really questioning your love of the game but, that poll is kinda all different levels of "I agree".
Someone's opinion, which different from yours. Weird how that works, eh?
I liked it better than 13 but that was a low bar to clear
And people here fucking love 13
I think whats really happening is that this style of FF game wasnt made for me
They always jump around with styles and I consider 10-13-15 to all share similar DNA as far as what is focused on from a gameplay and design perspective
And people here fucking love 13
I think whats really happening is that this style of FF game wasnt made for me
They always jump around with styles and I consider 10-13-15 to all share similar DNA as far as what is focused on from a gameplay and design perspective
After playing the windows edition and with almost 100hrs in it all i can say is that i fucking love it. Every single part of this game is amazing.
It has it's good points, but the story is rushed as hell and the battle system is a train wreck.
The game is missing the entire first act and inciting incident, has you learn about it through a newspaper in game, and then sells you that first act as a CG movie which explains the setting better than the game. That pretty much sums XV up for me.
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