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Forums - Gaming Discussion - Final Fantasy XV is 50 to 60% Complete Says New Director, Will have no playable female characters

LurkerJ on 23 September 2014
VXIII said:
LurkerJ said:

 

I don't want to jump the gun here, but this article literally ruined my day. Honestly, I don't feel well at the moment.

I will try the demo and if it is as this... human being makes it sounds to be I'll try to start a campaign on Twitter or something. "I myself am not getting any younger" Are you kidding me ?

You are not over reacting. This is bad news straight from the director's mouth.



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Panama on 23 September 2014

Good to see they're open to feedback from the demo, unlike a certain other game where once the demo was out it was too late.



outlawauron on 23 September 2014
VXIII said:
outlawauron said:

How do you take only male playable characters to mean you only control Noctis.

From here :

" There are no menu commands in combat. It controls like an action game where players switch between offense and defense. You can only control Noctis, but you can give orders to other party members. And there are menus to give commands to everyone, swap out weapons, etc. "

Noctis is the only character that can warp and use magic ( story related ), the other characters have no unique skills or special abilities, I guess that why they changed their original plan.

See, you can control them by giving commands. Just because you don't literally move that character doesn't mean it's entirely independent.

Edit: Geez, people are so melodramatic. If you want to play a RPG with 90s mechanics and design, why look for Final Fantasy which has always innovated.



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outlawauron on 23 September 2014
HyrulianScrolls said:
outlawauron said:
TheLastStarFighter said:
That's inexcusable. The original concept was shown almost a decade ago. I guess a lot of staff were pulled to revive FFIV. I think they rebuilt the title in the Xenoblade mold after the poor reception FFXIII received. Hopefully we'll see the game in 2016, but 2015 looks like it's out.

In what universe do people believe this actually happened?

Maybe because the new trailer looks like they're driving through Gaur Plains from Xenoblade? And because the combat system looks to have similarities to Xenoblade and FF12. And because Xenoblade was the biggest JRPG success story of the 7th gen and came right when the genre looked on the verge of collpase. And because the game out Final Fantasy'd any FF game of last generation and felt like what FF13 should have been. And because Square desperately needs the series to get back on track after spending the last decade trying to remove JRPG elements from FF. And following a blueprint of the game that saved JRPG's last gen is probably a safe way to start back on the right track. And because this game has shifted gears so many times in the last decade of development, it wouldn't be surprising if they completely did a 180 with what it was going to be prior to revealing it as FFXV. Do I need to keep going?

This is only because of your experience. It looked far more like the Calm Lands or Pulse to me. The combat has far more in common with Crisis Core (especially based on interviews where he described how it feels and controls). It has similarities to previous games Square has made, you're reaching to find coorelation to a game you like.

You don't realize how little impact Xenoblade has had on the genre. It didn't "save" or change anything.



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