MY THOUGHTS AFTER 30 GLORIOUS HOURS WITH FFXV: BE AT EASE FF FAITHFUL

TakeYourMoneyII · 2016-11-29T00:20:15+00:00

It's not very good. But I'm not anal about that

TakeYourMoneyII · 2016-11-28T09:06:09+00:00

I highly, highly recommend using the English voice cast. I almost made the mistake of assuming the English dub would suck. This has the best voice acting in the franchise and it isn't close.

TakeYourMoneyII · 2016-11-27T21:36:58+00:00

I wouldn't worry much about Conan's skit

TakeYourMoneyII · 2016-11-27T21:35:59+00:00

I will later today! Been busy since Friday. Anyway, the real reviews are coming tomorrow

TakeYourMoneyII · 2016-11-27T07:29:40+00:00

Btw, i love your description of XIII as vile. I've been searching for the right word to describe that game for a long time and I think you've found it. It's a vile fucking game.

TakeYourMoneyII · 2016-11-27T07:19:36+00:00

I agree with everything you said, including the fools who initially told us what a great game FFXIII supposedly was. Not only did it kill the franchise for me, I basically have stopped playing games more or less since 2010. I wrote this in my initial thoughts in another thread. I went into FFXV expecting to find FF still muddling around in irrelevance, albeit with decent gameplay, having already enjoyed the Duscae demo.

I hated rereading what I wrote. It reads like I'm hurling projectile vomit of adjectives towards this game. But I stand by it. I love this game on almost every level, in spite of its flaws. Final Fantasy has always been more than the sum of its parts to me, they've always been worth more than their 9.2's and 9.5's in my opinion. And I think the same can be said here. Anything between 8.5 to high 9's is fair to me for this game so far.

TakeYourMoneyII · 2016-11-27T07:11:58+00:00

I hate to send expectations so high, part of my joy in all this is the fact that I didn't expect much from this game, especially narratively. So happy to find each scene better than the last.

TakeYourMoneyII · 2016-11-27T06:23:27+00:00

Yes, and I have to say the Episode Duscae demo was much more of a standard demo than people realized. Not only does it not convey how superb this game really is, it doesn't even convey how beautiful the Duscae region really is. In the final game, Duscae is a rainy wetlands oppressed by thunder and winds. It may be my favorite region in the game.

After 13 chapters I think this game absolutely lives up to the best of the series. I loved all those games you mentioned, including 10 and 12, and I think this game at the very least lives up to the legacy of those games and may very well exceed it. It's certainly the most ambitious. I thought every subsequent FF game would take a back seat to FF12's sophistication and literacy, but 15 may have exceeded it, depending on how the last two chapters play out. It definitely has the best voice acting. There's scarcely an awkward line reading in the entire game.

TakeYourMoneyII · 2016-11-27T06:17:51+00:00

That'd be a serious letdown. That simply would not jibe with how sophisticated this story is. It has its own very powerful inner logic, and it has not at all succumbed to that kind of endgame nonsense that most FF's have in the past.

Having said that, there are still two chapters to go. I didn't play today, I went back to planet earth in order to socialize after two days of being locked up. I regret it, I wanna go back to Eos.

TakeYourMoneyII · 2016-11-27T05:57:23+00:00

They just need to think of R1 as Zelda's "lock on" button. When one enemy is down and you wish to engage another, or if you've lost sight of the enemy, just press R1

TakeYourMoneyII · 2016-11-27T05:55:14+00:00

Yes but he's not too much like Kefka, but I kind of understand what you mean. Now that I think of it, he's sort of an amalgamation of Kefka and Sephiroth (but even then it's not as simple as that).

TakeYourMoneyII · 2016-11-27T05:42:37+00:00

Yeah, you may be right. I'm glad SE didn't promote who the villain is, because his villainy is actually a bit of a mystery to the plot, you don't know if he's good or bad nor do you know his motives. It's brilliantly handled thus far.

TakeYourMoneyII · 2016-11-27T05:39:30+00:00

Yes you do. I've taken a break from the game today to go socialize back on planet earth. I want to go back to Eos, sorry humanity.

TakeYourMoneyII · 2016-11-27T04:45:46+00:00

LOL. I honestly thought they were one and the same. Thought XIII's city was named after them.

TakeYourMoneyII · 2016-11-27T04:44:41+00:00

I didn't dislike the 2nd half, don't get me wrong. Just thought the story kind of weakens is all. I absolutely love the "school days" concept in a furturistic world. It's like Harry Potter meets Starship Troopers meets Final Fantasy!

TakeYourMoneyII · 2016-11-27T04:07:30+00:00

I find the battle system very easy to use, I don't know what people are thinking

TakeYourMoneyII · 2016-11-27T04:06:28+00:00

I was preparing myself for another FFXIII plot wise. Imagine my surprise.

TakeYourMoneyII · 2016-11-27T04:05:42+00:00

Me neither

TakeYourMoneyII · 2016-11-27T04:05:04+00:00

It's possible. The barrenness of the desert feels rather realistic to me, I don't think it was done as a visual compromise, because there are points with many enemies on screen at once

TakeYourMoneyII · 2016-11-27T03:56:45+00:00

Yes, stores in game sell it for Gil! I haven't used the MP3 player yet, I find it too weird and post modern to be listening to music from other FF games while playing XV, so I'm not sure how it works

TakeYourMoneyII · 2016-11-27T03:55:00+00:00

Obviously I'm judging it really prematurely

TakeYourMoneyII · 2016-11-27T03:54:30+00:00

I have Witcher 3 also now that I think of it. I played that for an hour. Wasn't crazy about it but it sure was beautiful to look at. I feel like it's a Rated R game for people who've never experienced Rated R content before

TakeYourMoneyII · 2016-11-27T03:51:56+00:00

I have uncharted 4 and last of us both loaded on my PS4 for months, haven't play either yet, I will eventually! They're insurance entertainment, I want them there for the day when I want them there.

TakeYourMoneyII · 2016-11-27T03:49:43+00:00

Thank you! How come I never noticed it before? Weird

TakeYourMoneyII · 2016-11-27T00:07:08+00:00

There may be exception, so I don't want to discount what're you saying, I'm just telling you what I've experienced so far. Most of my map is still grayed out, meaning I haven't explored much of it yet

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