So VideoGamer.com who notoriously hate Final fantasy games and have never been shy of letting their viewers/readers know this, have previewed chapter 3 of Final fantasy XV and guess what, they really liked it. They said they simply followed the main story line of chapter 3 and it last 4-5 hours while they bipassed loads of side quests. 

in a later tweet on Twitter Alice bell (the girl who previewed it) said the best comparison for the combat would be devil may cry only better. 

Heres the link of the preview. http://www.videogamer.com/ps4/final_fantasy_15/preview-4020.html

So basically this accomplish the goals of appealing to more action focused fanbase?

Well we know FF has been heading this way for a long time now, but it's not the reason they like it, and the old style battle systems wasn't the reason they disliked the older FF games, they simply just didn't like the whole idea of final fantasy and found them massively over rated. They seem to like the open worldness of this and the environments, aswell as the cast. 

See the thing is, I would rather trust lets say Outlaw (someone on this site's opinion of a preview, than that) or people I consider unbiased in console war thing plus they like eastern gaming.

This fits the unbiased part, but not the second part. 

I'm not saying Alice's opinion is incorrect, but based on history with the franchise, I rather see someone that is more intune with it. 

By the way, I know I will love the sandbox elements of the game, Ace is a sucker for Sandbox games (third person I know). 

I can understand why you'd prefer to read someone's preview who was more in tune with the franchise as then they'd be able to make better comparisons to the franchise and it'd probably be more our way of thinking (as fans of FF)

still, it's good to see they liked it :) even though I can more a less guarantee I'll enjoy this, it's good to see a positive preview.

It's weird because when you read her combat preview, it doesn't really sound like DMC she says turn based combat has been swept away, replaced with a real time, contextual system that relies on you chaining attack and defense at the right time. If you're near one of your buddies you'll work together automatically, and they also have special attacks you can trigger to help you out. You can warp in and out of battle, switch weapons on the fly, flank, plan, and target weak spots. It's fast and it's stylish and felt so much cooler and more immediate than Final Fantasy combat had to me before. Spells require much more admin, and are a resource-heavy process that entails crafting what are essentially grenades of magic from elemental sources you find in the environment. The trade off is that magic, at least in the preview build, is amazingly imber, and will damage everything in the blast radius (including you and your friends, who were visibly charred by my aim on more than one occasion). Like the rest of combat it's contextual, so if you cast Fira on dry grass the area will burn for longer than if it's raining.

It's normal to hate all FF games and love this one. It's called inverted good taste and seems to be a pretty rampant disease among gamers.

Do we have a cure? 

Jesus I want to play it so baaaaaad

The only one I know is being me. But that's pretty hard to accomplish.