I'm tired of the trend of mindless drones using random factors to judge quality. FFXV has issues, and some are significant. It also excels in areas where gamers consistently bitch and moan about the industry's lack. So what is it? A ton of content that the OP clearly hasn't gotten to that unravel the claim that the game is "too easy:" and apt description for ever FF prior, so maybe he hates the whole franchise. He clearly hates the game's cast, and there's little one can do about that. The story is good (not great), if you finish it. It clearly should have been delayed further, in lieu of announced DLC clarifications. The combat camera and AI are the biggest issues there, as it's stuck somewhere between FFXII and FFXIII.

well it's a good example of what happens when a game is rushed to meet deadlines. lots of missing content, underdeveloped combat, short story with filler sidequest as an attempt to extend playtime. it wasn't intended to be a bad game, it just needed more dev time.

This.

The Order: 1886 - Awful gameplay and awful story = bad

FFXV - Awful gameplay and awful story = bad

Length does not make a game better. Especially when 90% of FFXV's content is mindless side content like finding frogs or dog tags. Maybe it would be bearable with a decent story but nope! 

Meh, I didn't mind the combat in FF15. It was just the glaring missing plots, ignored side characters, main plot points expositioned in notes on teh floor, ect that screwed it over. As I said above, it was like reading Fellowship of the Ring and then being told what book 2 and 3 are about in a quick 2 minute summary. 

Clearly a rush job. There was a good story there, just rushed. The gameplay was pretty great imo, just some camera issues when inside caves or fighting huge monsters. AI seemse to always be dying, but you can ignore them. Magic system was fine enough, just lacking. Where were the holy and dark magics (we had resistance to them). Also, I can understand making flasks for your companions to throw magic (which is dumb, cause they throw at teh stupidest times basically wasting them), but why did we also throw bombs. The Main hero was supposed to have magic. Heck the king threw magic out of his hands in the movie. He didnt' use bombs. 

Also to the person you responded to. The game is not 100+ hours of content. I'm at 60 and I've wasted many hours doing stuff not worth mentioning. Also it sounds like a lot fo the future stuff to due is going down some 100 level floors where you mindlessly fight monsters (taking 4 hours to do) just to get a weapon on the floor. Hardly consider that worthy content. Or the hour long fight with a giant turtle, ect. Hitting a giant brown wall for an hour is not exactly riviting. 

Interesting bit of revisionist history there: The Order was consistently maligned for the length, especially among players. The story narrative centered around it being...too short. FFXV basically has the same gameplay of FFXII or FFXIII, without the much-missed logic system of the former and without the abject positioning stupidity of the latter. Most FFs require you to push or hold the X button, so the holding O claim is specious at best, especially with regards to harder content. My biggest gripe is the camera, which is often frustrating, but a fixed-angle camera would probably have been queslly frustrating. I hate the car. The story is incomplete, but far from awful or bad, if you finished the game. It had the best, most impactful ending since FFX. 

If you want something to complain about, go beat Pitioss dungeon.

Well, yeah, both trends are worrying for sure XD. I don't think it's an awfil game, it had redeeming factors. But the game was let down because of an obvioisly rushed relase date, and that's a shame. It has way more potential. I also felt that the main story was too easy though, but that would be because I made a lot of side content. Which, tbh, is repetitive as fuck. Best part was the post-game dungeons imo.

Completed it last night and I'm feeling kind of favourable towards it. Chapter 9 in particular was great, and everything after improved and progressed fast enough to keep me interested. Worst Final Fantasy game I've played by a long shot, but still glad I experienced it.

Have about 28 hours clocked in it, getting too tired of all of the small annoyances and the huge, glaring flaws to finish this, probably. FFXIII was the same for me, I just couldn't force myself to finish it.
When the fishing mini game is more fun than combat, there's something wrong...

Agreed, but Pitioss was a should-have-been-cut abomination.