Final Fantasy XV (was Versus XIII)

Alex Strife

Alex Strife

Ex-SOLDIER
I contacted Square and they replied amazingly fast. Impressed with that, at least.

They said they prepared and shipped everything in time and it must be an issue with Royal Mail. However, they also said it should be arriving any time now. So that's that, I guess?

Let's hope for tomorrow.
 
Blade

Blade

That Man
AKA
Darkside-Ky/Mimeblade
I was level 29 or so when I took on Midgarsormr (yes the giant Snake is back, even has boss music) it was Level 54 and wiped out my party several times, but I just happened to have a few Mega potions handy and managed to win, crazy as it sounds!

Granted, I didn't shove a tree through its skull like Sephiroth did, but I won!

Having the right stock of items really covers for mistakes.
 
Cthulhu

Cthulhu

Administrator
AKA
Yop
May want to spoiler tag those content thingies, not sure if they're considered common knowledge.
 
Blade

Blade

That Man
AKA
Darkside-Ky/Mimeblade
I wouldn't exactly call optional monster fights a spoiler if they're out in the open world map like that. It wasn't even a side quest. It was just there.

I've refrained from talking plot stuff though.
 
JechtShotMK9

JechtShotMK9

The Sublimely Magnificent One
AKA
Kamiccolo9
Anyone else think Noctis' dad looks like Christian Bale from the beginning of Dark Knight Rises?
 
Lex

Lex

Administrator
Everything that isn't common knowledge prior to actually owning the game is a spoiler. If Ignis happens to gain one extra experience point for no reason whatsoever from a fight and there's no way to know that until you've played the game, that's a spoiler. Don't make assumptions about what others consider a spoiler.

Luckily the Midgardsormr was shown in footage prior to release. I would have tagged it anyway, because several people here went dark on footage prior to that being shown. If you want to openly discuss stuff there's a spoiler thread for that.
 
Lex

Lex

Administrator
I can't believe it

I'm standing in Insomnia and vocal Somnus is the background music. It's kinda surreal. Long time coming and all that. Anyway that's where I stopped for the night, I'm going to finish the game tomorrow after work.

Unsure how I feel about plot developments? Ardyn was one of the original kings of Lucis or an oracle or some such? In fairness I think this is one of the things the game actually bothered to explain, I just wasn't paying enough attention XD.

For the record I think Ardyn is one of the best FF villains of all time (so far).

Ravus on the other hand remains a complete enigma. I feel like Kingsglaive complicates this. His motivations shift so suddenly during the story and there's literally no indication as to why or how. IIRC in Kingsglaive he is like... 10000% evil, and he begins this game in much the same way then suddenly he's helping? Zero sense.

For the record I'm looking none of this up until I've seen the ending, I don't want to be spoiled.

The narrative shift to more linear progression in the latter chapters is honestly welcome. The "open" world is still there for you to go back to whenever you like. For the record I'm nearing level 60 and have done all optional dungeons so it felt slightly pointless to continue doing things like hunts when I suspect they'll be available after completion anyway.

Chapter 13 was a total slog but it at least served some form of narrative purpose (i.e. look how much worse off Noctis is without the guys).

Oh yeah almost forgot, Bahamut "revelation". I suppose this is what's passing for XV's big twist (there's always a "big twist" in FF games that get you in some way), I suppose I can only say that it's quite fitting and if it does end the way Bahamut says it must I suspected this from the beginning XD. As in from the Versus beginning. Main protag sacrifice ending imminent (DON'T FUCKING TELL ME IF I'M RIGHT FFS).

I prefer the guys older too lololol

But yeah, still having a blast.

EDIT: Almost forgot, listened to Carlie while she played

THAT bit. You know the bit. It was a joy to hear her extreme rage :monster:

Just to reiterate, it really is a shame what became of Luna. Not the dying thing, because who cares. The being a completely useless plot device whose sole purpose in existence is to service Noctis XD. Like this is an actual thing that happened guys XD.

TELL ME NOW WE DON'T KNOW ENOUGH ABOUT HER YET. TELL ME NOW STELLA WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN BETTER.

You can't. Because in the three seconds of footage where we had Stella drawing her own version of the Armiger against Noctis, she had literally more purpose and personality than Luna in the entirety of XV, Kingsglaive and Brotherhood combined. Fucking fight me, I dare you :monster:

This is one of those situations where I desperately wanted to be wrong but am still enjoying the vindication of being correct. I fully suspect people to still go "omg but we din' no stella tho" and like that's fine, but shut up and you're wrong.
 
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trash panda

trash panda

---m(O.O)gle---
AKA
Howl
Well, here's my review of FFXV so far:

I haven't moved from my couch in 48 hours, my house looks like a dumpster and I can't remember if I bathed last night. :monster:

Even if I've spent 30 hours doing fetch quests, at least I can say it's entertaining. :monster:
 
Claymore

Claymore

3x3 Eyes
Still running around doing Quests in Chapter 3.

I do wish a couple of things were a heck of a lot more intuitive. There's no reason for Quests to be this side thing on a table instead of being integrated directly with the Quest Giver when you initiate dialogue. 'X' to both jump and pick up can get quite annoying at times. Also, yeah I got rid of my Potions, but you know what, I have a Hi-Potion, so please don't tell me that a more potent curative can't be used for an emergency Quest situation. -___-

Loving the game though.
 
Interslicery

Interslicery

.....
I hardly ever use hi-potions, potions do just fine for me and I'm lvl 50.

Also, why does it keep saying that I wont be able to return to a place for some time when I've never had any issues going back to previous places? It's like the 6th time it's said that with no pay off.
 
Joe

Joe

I KEEP MY IDEALS
AKA
Joe, Arcana
Finished this last night. Am sure I'll write up my thoughts and feelings at some point.
Overall I loved 95% of the story and am so pleased with this game.

Time to catch all the fish. :monster:
 
Tetsujin

Tetsujin

he/they
AKA
Tets
There's been multiple times now where the characters started talking about plot stuff and then immediately got cut off by one of them warning me of one of those Magitek dropships. Starting to get annoying. I wanna know what they were saying! :@
 
Alex Strife

Alex Strife

Ex-SOLDIER
You guys are starting to finish the game. It's still to arrive here. This is reaching a new high :lol: .

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Alright, new update is I received something else completely unrelated from Royal Mail, same carriers as my FFXV game. Royal Mail is being handled by regular Spanish mail in here... which means if it does not arrive today, it won't come tomorrow either because it's a holiday.

That means if it doesn't come today, Wednesday's my next chance. And Thursday's another holiday so then we go on to Friday.
 
Lex

Lex

Administrator
To throw my hat in the ring I have 70 hours on the clock and am standing in the final area. Will be finishing tonight.
 
Alex Strife

Alex Strife

Ex-SOLDIER
Lex said:
Why are random days in the middle of weeks holidays in Spain!?!?

I want that
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6th of December is Constitution Day.

8th of December... we celebrate that's the day Mary was conceived.

It's like Spain in a nutshell :monster:

(I was planning on using those holidays to play FFXV :sadpanda: )
 
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