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Forums - Gaming Discussion - The Final Fantasy XV Metacritic Thread: 82 with 90 reviews. (Final score?)

 

So, are you hyped?

Absolutely, this'll be an amazing game! 256 30.33%
 
Yeah, I hope this turns out great! 193 22.87%
 
Sure, it'll be good. 78 9.24%
 
Meh, no strong feelings about it. 85 10.07%
 
Nah, looks bland. 40 4.74%
 
Eww, not really. Looks stupid. 22 2.61%
 
Nope. This shit is destroying Final Fantasy. 68 8.06%
 
I just want Noctis x Prom... 16 1.90%
 
No female members = no buy. 42 4.98%
 
Jpop emo band, unite! 44 5.21%
 
Total:844

Oh wtf. Theres a patch to download and its over 9 gb. Im tempting to just skip it



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OMG! people this days... "86 bad, 90 Good" WTH guys!?...



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Grrrr. Fine. I bought it.

I am so ready to be disappointed though.



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I thought there would be drama if it scored poorly but apparently, even if it does score really well, there is still drama!

Can't wait for the game tomorrow!



                  

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Pinkie_pie said:
Oh wtf. Theres a patch to download and its over 9 gb. Im tempting to just skip it

Don't,  it contains story lol



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CosmicSex said:

If you think the Xbox One version will account for anyting more than 10 percent of FFXV sales:

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LOL.  No really though.  Its going to be a blowout.  Which is really scary when you think about it because the sheer number of Xbox Ones in the US wont matter.  There is a REAL anti Japanese developer chord that flows through the blood of the Xbox Community.  Look at Recore... now I'm not saying that Recore was a good game.  I am saying that Scalebound like Recore before it are doomed to fail because they are Japanese games on an Xbox.  They don't support JRPGs.  Sure some will break with the community and get XV because its obviously a good game, but nothing short of it becoming a WRPG and redeveloped by people from the West will move Xbox gamers to take it seriously.    In the world where Xbox is the only console, Japanese developers cease to be.  That excites some in the Xbox community no doubt although I don't know how things got like this. 

This conversation took a very weird turn that has nothing to do with your original point (for the record, none of this points to FF XV being exclusive in any way or shape, still). I'll play along, regardless.

There's going to be a difference in sales? Yes, for sure. It's going to be big? Sure. It's going to be a 10:1 split ratio? I doubt it, even though I see it struggling quite a lot in Xbox One. Now let's focus on the rest of your message. You seem to extrapolate an anti-japanese feel onto the whole console for no reason than pointing out one japanese game that struggled to sell despite its lackuster critical reception, ReCore. This for some reason allows you to point out that Xbox doesn't support japanese games; and extrapolate that xbox gamers don't took anything that isn't WRPG seriously, and there's so much wrong in those sentences that it's amazing you even stated it in the first place.

Let's get something clear out of the way first, as I hope (I hope!) you're just talking about Xbox One in this case when you mention Xbox, and not the whole Xbox family. The original Xbox, and the Xbox 360, literally saw a huge bunch of japanese games that were successful or, at least, achieved the developer's intended sales. Not only there were agressive marketing deals with SEGA and the likes (which produced exclusive sequels for Xbox such as Jet Set Radio Future, or saw noteworthy SEGA games ported to Xbox like Shenmue 2), but MS also tried its best to take away japanese control from Sony, getting things like Star Ocean and Tales of Vesperia and impending them to release on Playstation until later. Not only that but Microsoft also financed plenty of japanese games in both the OG Xbox and the 360, and the later got such a small but dedicated fanbase in Japan itself, being at some point the king of naughty visual novels and shumps game (Cave had an amazing collection exclusively for 360, just to name an example, and five of these games were localized, if memory serves me right). On top of all these, plenty of japanese games got not only a dedicated western fanbase, but healthy sales and you can check them by both the developers or the VGC database, which was a bit more reliable back then than it is today.

With OG Xbox and 360 out of the equation, there's only one console left: Xbox One. You're still extrapolating a whole japanese hating spirit onto it, for no reason. Especially when there's plenty of japanese games with, admittely not as good sales as the Playstation version (then again, Xbox has never managed to quite grasp the same amount of sales in comparison to playstation when it comes to japanese games), display a good amount of legs and healthy sales. Just to name a few, The Evil Within, Dark Souls, Metal Gear Solid V, Dead or Alive 5... I could go on, I guess. Even if you manage to pinpoint specific games that really had terrible sales, that doesn't mean either that there's a japanese hating feeling,especially when things stated by Phil Spencer himself such as the most requested game to be brough on Xbox was Shenmue 3 (a japanese game!) point out to the entirely different conclussion about it. Honestly there's a lot of factual evidence that Xbox doesn't hate in any way or shape japanese games, outside the lackuster sales of ReCore and, I guess, Final Fantasy Type-0 HD. And I don't think you have a solid case to ever entertain the idea in the first place, especially considering Xbox (overall) trajectory and the fact that even admist everything against them, they still chose to release Xbox One on Japan, when it's moving incredibly abysmal numbers, and that enticed developers to make games for it in the first place, like Raiden V or Psycho-Pass. Not to mention confirmed PS4 games (PS4/PC in this case) such as Nier: Automata has seen its developer expressing some wishes to release it on Xbox One, too. You know what that means, right? There's a market for it, and no, no Xbox community actively tries to boycott japanese games because they hate them. Xbox One has shown some lackuster sales when compared to Xbox 360, and that goes even for flagship franchises such as Halo and Gears of War, so the most logical conclussion isn't that suddenly Xbox gamers hate Halo and Gears of War (extrapolate this conclussion to japanese games too, by the way); it's just that the userbase on Xbox One right now isn't consuming as many games as the 360's used to.



I hope there will be a great PC port soon.



Updated the OP a bit. We're still sitting at 86 meta with 25 reviews, but there's bound to be more.



I guess reviewers are re-testing the game with the updates :P



golfgt170 said:
I guess reviewers are re-testing the game with the updates :P

If that means better scores in exchange for waiting a bit more, I'm totally on board!