FFXV

The decision to delay the game was made because of a last minute marketing deal with Sony and the new console they are announcing next month.

The game script was rewritten fall 2015. The first acts were fine but people's impressions during the last third of the game weren't as good, Tabata wasn't satisfied with it neither. I heard they got Nomura to voice and opinion about it (he didn't work with the new script neither it was an official re-work by Nomura, he just gave advice)

The team was fine with launching the game as it was in September and then making a huge day one patch (which was already being worked on when the delay was decided). The deal with Sony helped them launch a more polished game than Expect FFXV to be the only third party bundle for the new console for a month or two.

The plan was to have a Leviathan battle demo ready for Gamescom but after seeing the poor reception to the Titan demo and how every summon battle in the game sort of plays similar, they decided to just make the master version playable.

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Why does the game look like its on a low graphics setting?

They started porting the game to PS4 and X1 this year.

That doesn't answer my question.

Summary for first quarter of the story

Game starts 10 year into the future. The 4 warriors facing an unknown foe sitting in a throne. Back into the present, Regis sends Noctis off to marry Luna and tells him everything will be fine by the time he comes back. The car gets wrecked and by the time they repair the car and get on moving, they learn that the citadel has been attacked and the royal family has been killed.

Noctis and the gang go back to the citadel outskirts and find the imperial troops leaving the place. Cor Leonis calls Noctis and tells him that he has a mission for him. Noctis has to retrieve the power of the 13 fallen kings of Lucis. After that, they learn that Lunafreya has escaped the attack and she's hiding in Altissia.

By the time the party gets to Altissia, Luna has been found by the empire and she's being taken hostage. It's then when her companion tells her that she's willing to sacrifice herself in order to help Luna scape. Noctis wakes up the next day and Leviathan has appeared in front of the city, the empire is fightning the summon too.

Please use spoilers. Ctrl + s.

They don't have enough time to work on an optimized version of the game for consoles

That still doesn't answer my question.

>started this year
So thats why there were playable demos last year?

consoles are using 2010 hardware so it has to look like shit to run at a sub 30 frame rate.

They weren't running on consoles

Plenty of console game examples that don't run like shit.

but most do and 3 0 f p s is really bad. 60 fps is what should be the new normal.

So seems like Gentiana is gonna die in 5 mins after her first appearence. Sounds great.

Why weren't they running on consoles?

How was I playing Episode Duscae last year then?

I didn't play ED back then. Did it really runs poorly with bad fps? Or it was fine?
Cause ED looks so much better than the last 50 min video. I can't believe they downgrade game so much.

I wish the game still looked this good

The story after that gets a bit less in the forefront. You get to visit a dungeons where you find the fallen king's weapons. You hear Luna has been spotten with a red haired man (Ardyn) near a strange monolith. When you get there, Titan is fightning the empire and Noctis takes advantage of the situation to prove Titan that he's worth of the archaean's power.

When the party finally gets to the empire citadel, Ravus confronts Ardyn about leaving the empire to look for his own interests. The party witnesses this encounter and they fight Ravus. After being defeated, Ravus says that he truly believes Noctis is worthy of being the new king and helps him take down the empire. Both Ravus and Noctis want to avenge their parents.

After the empire is taken down, an era of peace starts. It is announced that the Oracle will fufill the Ascension ceremony in a temple near Tenebrae. The party finds this the perfect chance to finally meet Luna but when they get there, the ceremony has already begun. They see Luna marching the streets with the people cheering and celebrating. When the Luna enters the temple, she performs the ritual but then she's brutally murdered by Ardyn. The sky turns red and people start to feel sick. Ardyn reveals himself as the first guardian of the crystal.

It definitely ran well enough to make it 30fps locked in the time they had up until now, but they just deicded to downgrade it to hell instead of actually trying to optimize in a good way

bro, use spoiler cuts, you were already asked to.

God use spoiler you faggot

She appears in two cutscenes. She transforms off-screen.

Sub 30 with dips
Then they patch it to run smoother
There are youtube videos you can refer to

You are a liar
There's absolutely zero chance of PSNeo launching this year.

Well, excuse me. Will use them from now on, sorry.

Just stop coming to Sup Forums if you care about spoilers

Where are you getting all this info from?

No one cares about the story, because no one can prove you wrong or right. Explain why the game looks like shit then maybe someone will care what you have to say.

Why are you believing him in the first place? He's already proven to be lying about the console "ports"

Use Sage people.

After Ardyn gets revealed as the first guardian of the four crystals, Noctis wants to fight him but he is defeated by Ardyn with no effort. Ardyn then disappears and Noctis reunites with Luna. She handles him the Lucian ring and dies.

Outside, the party meets Ravus looking at the red sky while the rain is pouring. He laments that when he finally got to avenge his country, he lost his sister.

The party has to visit the place where the four crystals were located together in ancient times. There they meet with Ramuh, which tells them that Ardyn was the first King of Light asked by the Goddess to guard the crystals. After seeking more power to himself and refusing to share the light of the crystals with the people outside of his kingdom, an old war begun to control the crystals. It resulted with Ardyn disappearing in darkness and four different nations controlling a crystal

I'm asking for his source. I'm a bit concerned since his version of the story is consistent with the neoGAF leaker from a few months ago.

This was a vertical slice. The engine was running on consoles then. The actual full game, not. They optimized a small area of the game for the duscae demo, it doesn't mean the whole game was available on consoles and they just axed the rest to offer that demo.

It's coming november I believe.

Its looks so much better from current version. I just dont get it. Consoles can handle it, so what was the reason really...

I think the information from that leak came from my source too. It wasn't entirely accurate.

So, why aren't they optimizing the full game?

Not neogaf, my bad, GameFAQs. Actually they said they found it from a Sup Forums poster. Here's the link gamefaqs.com/boards/932981-final-fantasy-xv/73784761

They are now. They weren't back then. They wanted to finish the game first on PC and then port it to consoles.

But the full game doesn't look as good.

Transforms off-screen and then just die? Thats all her role?

It was originally a ps3 game remember?

Sounds like a typical game development process, even mobile games.

dumb tripfag cancer

fake

Leviathan is still being shown tho

>You now remember how the game looked like this and you thought it was going to get better.
How much asset was wasted on this game, seriously?

Ravus burned his arm just to get the power of the Ring of Lucii. Now he immediately wants to help Noctis? Bullshit.

Probably why Nomura wanted to make it multi-part like VIIR since they had so many assets with nothing to use them on

Yea. I never trust anything that's not footage 2 weeks from shipping anymore.

I wish they kept the 2013 models and make the world looks good instead

Noctis is offered the chance to sacrifice 10 years of his limited lifetime to gain enough power to face Ardyn. His friends tells him that if he does so, Regis' sacrifice won't make sense. Regis fought so his son could live his life without being affected by the curse of the Lucian barrier. Noctis tells them that if he doesn't do it, the world with end. In order to make Noctis's sacrifice lighter, Prompto and the rest also sacrifice part of their lifetime too.

They sleep for 10 days straight, but it feels like 10 years for them. Having gathered enough power to face Ardyn, the party goes back to Imsomnia. There, they find the ghost of Regis and Noctis obtains the power of the fourteenth king weapon. They find Ardyn in the throne room and fights him. They defeat him but then Ardyn reveal his true Chaos form.

Noctis then defeats Chaos and obtains the fifteenth royal arm. When they get to the crystal room, Ravus is in there. He wants to use the crystal and Chaos's power to go back in time and mold the world to his liking, so he can life with his family in his hometown. Noctis tries to convince him but it's useless.

They are absorbed by the crystal and fight Ravus inside. Luna appears as a ghost and sides with Noctis. Ravus is defeated. The game ends with the sun going up in Insomnia and Noctis sitting exhausted in the throne room.

>My old man is on the LAM

Yes. He appears in some flashbacks with Luna and Noctis, with she doesn't play a major role other than that.

He takes advantage of Noctis so he can take down the empire during that part of the story. He can't defeat Noctis and the party by himself.

What happens to Cor? I'm already disappointed af with what happens to Gentiana, what a god damn waste after all these years of saying she's important.

There's still a lot of details missing, like the Plague of the Stars and the giant gods that appear in the Dawn trailer and the cover art.

When the party is near Niflheim, Cor contact them saying that he has found a way to enter the citadel. He joins the party for a short time again and then an empire general appears and he dies in the battle.

fucking Tabata.

yeah two of the characters i was looking forward to most and this is the result.

What did they do with the last third in the end ?

The Plague of the Stars is what happens when the oracle/luna performs the ascension. The nights become longer and the sky turns red during a few hours at night. It happens because the light of the four crystals is becoming less present in the world.

The giant gods that appear in the Dawn trailer are the past guardians of the crystals, and a new rendition to the Knights of the Round summon.

Give game details. Not story.

What about locations, cities and towns ?

>tabata ruining the script
>every summon battle plays the same as titan

jesus christ this is gonna flop so hard. and here i was getting worried for gravity rush 2

Hello Nomura cocksucker.

>7 years
>no game

Luna didn't die during the original script. She joined the party after being deceived into prolonging the Plague of the Stars instead of stopping it and went into the 10 year sleep with the party.

During the original script Ardyn and Ravus were working along behind the scenes and then Ravus betrayed Ardyn to absorb his powers.

They also added more backstory on Noctis and his relationship with Ravus, Regis and Luna.

The game ended with Chaos being defeated and Noctis being crowned king, Luna appeared alongside him. There were also scenes featuring Gladio, Ignis and Prompto and what happens to them once the journey ends, but they were scrapped.

The game essentially ended with an epilogue to send off the characters.

>tabata
>12 years
>no good game

Calling it right now, the game ends with noctis friends dying and him taking the throne and being invincible or someshit

Again, where are you getting this goddamn information??

Lestlallum, Altissia, Tenebrae and the Niflheim citadel are the only four big cities in the game. There are a bunch of smaller towns and villages but they are significantly smaller than these cities.

Insomnia is explorable but it's not a city, it's just a battle are filled with monsters and foes.

>a final fantasy game
>first two acts good, third bad

you don't fucking say

Yeah, just charge Nomura's incapability on Tabata - NeoNomuraCocksuckers

I find it very hard to believe that they'd completely change the script and story in a year.

That's fine ! Thanks

I will, thanks

Ignis dies at the end. The game ends with the frinds slowly walking into the throne room, Noctis sits on the throne, with his friends at his side.

When dawn comes, people are seen entering Insomnia, the last shot of the game is Noctis and the friends finally resting at the throne room.

What does the logo symbolize?

>Ardyn reveal his true Chaos form.

I fucking knew it. Though it was pretty damn obvious.

It's the goddess and I guess it's also supposed to symbolize Luna during the ascension.

>chromatic aberration everywhere

kek

What's the significance of Noctis's near death experience and him being destined and chosen by the gods for something as said in the Dawn trailer?

So basically they thought the original story was shit near the end and re-wrote it, but it's still shit?

Still not as shit as XIII I guess.

Are you this guy?

boards.fireden.net/v/thread/347113846

Yeah i'm glad the game looks like this now

Full summon list pls

>Another 4 months to endure these fake leakers cause they know no one can confirmed these are fake until the game is out.

They should have announced the game is out a month before release date.

Noctis was attacked by a monster when he was a child and he went to a coma. Regis thought he was going to lose his son but then he woke up. The Knights of the Round showed up to let Regis know that Noctis fate wasn't to die like that, but to die guarding the crystal.

Regis sent Noctis away to live with Lunafreya and her family so he could recover in Tenebrae.

how will the be improved on the new console?

But Luna is an oracle and already performed the ascension. She is the youngest oracle at the age of 16.

This sounds so meh. Are Ardyn and Ravus at least interesting as antagonists?

How are you searching fireden? It says whoops for me

No

Leviathan, Titan, Carbuncle, Ramuh, Knights of the Round and Bahamut. 6 summons.

because the game is developed on and for PCs, you fucking annoying child full of moronic questions

You must be lying. Why would they build around pc when the majority of sales would be between the xbone and the ps4? Or namely the ps4 since pc users don't really buy into the ff franchise

Who are all the guest party members?

Use google you idiot. I'm not spoonfeeding you

Because that's how every game is made you retard.

Explain bad ports then. How would they be bad if everything was made on pc? Do they literally port to consoles and from consoles port to pc to make it extra worse?

Yea that's why arkham knight was missing textures right? If the pc version was the original, it wouldn't be missing anything. Op is bullshitting

Yes, Luna is the youngest oracle. The ascension is a long journey that starts with a initation ceremony and ends with another. During that time, the oracle uses her powers to fight the Plague of the Stars until it's finally eradicated.

Ardyn is supposed to be a cruel antagonist with no redeeming motives while the player is supposed to feel sorry for Ravus and understand why he's doing what he's doing.

Every game is developed using PC hardware and then optimized for the consumer version for the system it's being targeted on.

Cor, Iris and Ravus.

Listen here nigger, are more collectors editions being made avaliable or what?