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Is Final Fantasy XV a step in the right direction??

YES 220 64.71%
 
NO 120 35.29%
 
Total:340

Even if the changes will disappoint some people, they're trying really hard to please us. And that transpires through EVERYTHING in this game. Even if you are disappointed, at least salute the effort and the risk they've taken, since this game must have been incredibly expansive to develop.
Yet, they never cancelled it. They changed its direction, but they kept going, while often asking us for our opinions (remember the surveys ?).

Sometimes, I have to admit FF XV gets kinda lost between all the things they're trying.
But it's an true FF by all means, while trying to push the serie further than it ever has been.

I'm personnally having an incredible time with this game, I adore everything coming from it, and I had extremely high expectations.

FF VI, VII, IX and X remain my all time favourite, but still, it's really great.

Yes, it is polarizing, and there are some harsh criticisms, but is there any game that didn't go through that kind of stuff ?
And even the harshest criticisms are simply people who are disappointed. It's sad, sure, but it doesn't mean the game is bad, or even average.



Just because you have an opinion doesn't mean you are necessarily right.

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Jpcc86 said:
think-man said:

That's one one thing that's really bothering me,  aside from being stalked by enemy ships every 200 steps the world lacks the real feeling that a war has even happened.  You have towns with buzzing happy music while apparently this big war just happened.  Even noct and co don't seem to care to much,  being more than happy to help everyone out while his dad only just died 5 minutes earlier. 

But isnt that sort of normal for the franchise? 

I remember being completely thrown out of FFX's story many times because there was a giant killing god destroying everything around and everyone was like "we need to distract ourselves with Blitzball to not think about that Giant thing killing us all. And then the Al Bhed were kidnapping the only people who could stop him, even for a certain period of time. They really didnt think that one through. 

 

 

But thats a normal attitude, especially when in FFX Sin has been atacking humanity for more than 1000 years with not permanent solution.What are you supposed to do in  that situation?Keep depressed and holled up in your house for the rest of the life.Blitzball and other distractions were exactly for that: distract from the horrible reality and give people a way to cope with the reality and try to live their lifes.



My (locked) thread about how difficulty should be a decision for the developers, not the gamers.

https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=241866&page=1

Some steps forward some steps back and many not moved either way. Better than 13 series at least.



I disagree with what's being said on the music, characters and combat though.

They're all very different, but I love how human the characters feel, without even needing too much cutscenes to show that. They actually FEEL like friends.

ALso, yeah, the combat is never really challenging to be honest, but I find it really fun, so I'm okay with that, even though I have yet to experience a truely challenging battle (but still, let's admit it, we rarely beat a boss thanks to our sick strats, we simply grinded like mad men :P /j )

Also, stellar OST imo.



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taus90 said:
The thing is this game was never meant to be the main line Final Fantasy Game thats why it was called versus 13. And Square Enix had no choice but to turn this game into a numbered Final Fantasy, if i remember correctly some western studio was supposed to be developing Final Fantasy 15 in space like mass effect. but that project got canned, and with Versus 13 being 35 t0 40% completed, Nomura dark vision, and multiple entries i guess square decided to make changes to the game to fit the main line series hence tabata comes in. So the game we are seeing now is half of Nomura's vision and other half slapped on by SE to be XV.

Grin was making a Final Fantasy but it was not a mainline. Just a spinoff. Grin was asked to develop many Japanese franchises. Bionic Commando both Rearmed (awesome game)and the 2009 Wife Arms game that was awful and Strider which had a much more realistic tone and look (looked like shit TBH and glad we got the Double Helix 2014 game instead ) and Final Fantasy Fortres



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It's nice to be able to see some of the complaints and draw the conclusion that they're probably just upset that it isn't menu-based.



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taus90 said:
The thing is this game was never meant to be the main line Final Fantasy Game thats why it was called versus 13. And Square Enix had no choice but to turn this game into a numbered Final Fantasy, if i remember correctly some western studio was supposed to be developing Final Fantasy 15 in space like mass effect. but that project got canned, and with Versus 13 being 35 t0 40% completed, Nomura dark vision, and multiple entries i guess square decided to make changes to the game to fit the main line series hence tabata comes in. So the game we are seeing now is half of Nomura's vision and other half slapped on by SE to be XV.

That would be dumb to try and do a space game.

1. Just make a new Star Ocean if want space.

2. Make a new series

Both scenerios, they should not call if Final Fantasy. They would only be doing so for sales. THey know they would get massive hype/sales just from name alone. It could be a reskinned Mass Effect and you would have a million people saying its better than Mass Effect cause it has FF in the name.



Azuren said:
It's nice to be able to see some of the complaints and draw the conclusion that they're probably just upset that it isn't menu-based.

You sound like the people who say DMC fans hate DmC because of hair.



SegataSanshiro said:
Azuren said:
It's nice to be able to see some of the complaints and draw the conclusion that they're probably just upset that it isn't menu-based.

You sound like the people who say DMC fans hate DmC because of hair.

And you make it sound like that never played a role.



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I personally want future games to be more like FFIX..



                
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