Final Fantasy XV (was Versus XIII)

[Tennyo]

^This

What a dick.

 

[Strangelove]

is this festival thing a limited time event?

i don't think i'll be able to buy this any time soon so if it's only available for limited period then i will miss it

 

[Tetsujin]

Yeah it's limited apparently.

 

[Strangelove]

i don't understand this strange new world we live in

 

[The Twilight Mexican]

Disappointing, for sure. It will still be a while before I get the PS4 as well.

Probably next year. Trying to do the "get a house" thing.

 

[The Twilight Mexican]

Some interesting new "you aren't supposed to be here" exploration videos:

Spoiler: Chapter 12 spoilers? Sort of?

In this video, the player explores around Shiva's corpse, but then takes a route we haven't seen anyone attempt before back toward Tenebrae (we've seen another player go all the way to where Gralea should be to find nothing there, and we've seen an in-depth examination of Shiva's corpse previously).

They're actually able to scale the mountains, which is surprising (can't believe that stuff has collision detection), and reach the train tracks headed back the other way -- but when they do finally get about 6/10 or 7/10 of the way to Tenebrae, the traintracks disappear into the snow and the landscape suddenly stops being solid.

We know from previous exploration videos that you can't really get into this area between Tenebrae and where the tracks end coming from the other direction either. Coming from the direction of Tenebrae, you'll hit an endless loading screen.

So it seems that while most of the Niflheim contintent is fully explorable, there's this tiny little section right at the center that isn't. Odd.

Spoiler: Chapter 10 spoilers? Probably not

Someone found out that you can climb the giant tree in the Fodina Caestino Mine.

You can't climb all the way up, and you aren't even supposed to be able to get to here -- but oddly enough, there's a non-functioning point-warp marker at the spot about the height of where you're able to reach using this exploit (see about 3:20 in the video).

More oddly still, when the player who did the Shiva video attempted this tree climb on the latest update of the game, the point-warp marker didn't appear. See about 4:45 in this video.

Good stuff.

 

[Lulcielid]

FFXV was #1 most download game between Nov 28 - Dec 25 according to Famitsu
https://metabblestavern.blogspot.com.ar/2017/01/famitsu-digital-estimates-nov-28-dec-25.html

Based on Famitsu estimates, FFXV was the #3 most downloaded game of 2016 at over 88k downloads.
https://metabblestavern.blogspot.com.ar/2017/01/the-best-selling-digital-games-in-japan.html

Regardless of it's opening performance compared to previous entires, FFXV is still the #1 best selling PS4 game in japan once all is said and done. As well as the only game to cross over a million there, currently (physical + digital sales).
https://sites.google.com/site/gamedatalibrary/software-by-platform/playstation-4

 

[The Twilight Mexican]

I was going to embed all of these, but ... then the page started to lag. So just the first three will be embedded, then the last one; the rest will be links to YouTube.
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Anybody else ever see this one? The Chocobros giving Prompto shit in Altissia:

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And when asking him whether he's more interested in Cidney or

Spoiler: Chapter 7 spoilers

Aranea

(major burn from Ignis at the very end of the video):

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It had to happen. The "That's It" remix:

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—Ignis doing a hit and run followed by the perfect music

—Ghost Ignis driving

—Weird animation of Ignis and Prompto apparently having an argument during a drive

—Ignis makes an entrance

—Hilarious fan edit entitled "Ignis comes up with a new recipe at the most inappropriate moment" (beware: Chapter 9/10 spoilers); LMAOOO

—Here, he really does pick a bad time

—Noctis basically jerking Talcott around

—I don't know what to say about you after this, Prompto

—And after that, Prompto wasn't allowed to hold any more magic

—Seriously, there's no way after this
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Random assortment of awesome:

 

[Shademp]

Thanks for sharing all that gold, Tres. I find it humorous that what has drawn my attention to FFXV in the most positive way are its broken and glitchy aspects.

 

[The Twilight Mexican]

This game really is a gold mine for that kind of stuff.

And I've got more!

Ignis was kind of the star of that last round, but this one is almost all Prompto. Though, while on the subject, Iggy really needs to keep his eye on the road if he's going to critique Noctis's driving.

Anyway --

—Prompto flipping off Talcott; I literally choked on my drink and laughed out loud at this for a couple of minutes

—Further evidence that Prompto shouldn't have access to anything that goes "boom"

—Like, seriously, don't let him have that stuff

—For real

—Also, he may occasionally get distracted during battle when you need him

—He is fearless, though, rushing in where angels fear to tread; got to give him that

—Not that it's always a good thing

—Sometimes it's straight-up bad

—That being said, he'll go that extra mile to get the perfect picture

—Really, this is dedication

—And at times he totally can just be a total BAMF
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Also, here's an asshole driver -- and for once, it isn't Ignis:

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And here Noctis goes Super Saiyan Rose:

 

[Lulcielid]

Next Final Fantasy XV Active Time Report set for February 2

 

[Tetsujin]

DLC release dates

Gladio DLC screenshots

 

[The Twilight Mexican]

—Another out-of-bounds exploration video during the big boss fight in Chapter 9 (sort of spoilery if you never watched any trailers, I guess)

—An epic Regalia crash entitled "Impressing Cindy"

—Another crash nearly as epic as the first

—This is apparently a really common glitch, and I never get tired of seeing new videos of it

—The main attraction here is the super creepy summoning that happens at 1:25

—Main attraction here is what

Spoiler: Chapter 7 spoilers

Aranea's

doing at 6:08

—Kenny Crow cosplay

—GIF entitled "The FFXV DLC is starting to get a bit weird"

—Gentiana decided to appear in the group photo at Cape Caem for this lucky player

 

[Lulcielid]

Final Fantasy XV director Hajime Tabata talks VR content, potential PC port, more in Weekly Famitsu

What’s the ratio between Final Fantasy XV‘s physical and digital sales?

Tabata: “Based on the company’s average, there has been a whole lot of sales of the digital version. We’ve seen good numbers not only in Japan, but also in North America and Europe, so we’re happy about it.”

What kind of feedback have you received from players overseas, given that they’re so accustomed to open worlds?

Tabata: “As a current generation game, there has been a lot of satisfied feedback. We’ve seen an impressive amount of feedback such as, ‘it’s a very important title as it’s a major step in Final Fantasy moving forward to the next stage.’ However, players that put maximum priority on story have the same opinion as those in Japan (their level of satisfaction is low).”

Were there any parts of the story that were cut out of necessity?

Tabata: “Not particularly.”

When you update Chapter 13, will there be a mechanism for players who have cleared it to be able to play it again?

Tabata: “I’m thinking about those things together.”

What’s going on with Final Fantasy XV‘s virtual reality content?

Tabata: “Development is progressing, but we haven’t progressed to the point where we can say specifically when it will be released.”

Fast-travel loading is long…

Tabata: “It’s honestly difficult because there is a lot of information to load. We’re thinking about various ideas though.”

Any update and downloadable content news outside of what was announced?

Tabata: “Although there are no plans, I do have one ambition. And that’s to freely travel that world by car. However, since realizing this in its existing state means overcoming some very high hurdles and tremendous debugging, the prospect of implementing it is impractical.”

In the movie there were areas that you couldn’t go to in the game. Will the amount of areas increase?

Tabata: “Those videos made use of glitches. There is a large map being used on the train route in the second half of the game. Since that area isn’t completely made, opening it up as an area you can freely traverse is difficult as is.

“We might remake playable areas in future expansions, but since that would take a year, it is not currently in our plans. For argument’s sake, if we were to prepare new fields, Insomnia would also be a candidate, but that also would take a year’s worth of work.”

Regarding a release on other platforms…

Tabata: “I’d like to release the game on PC as a technical attempt. I want to show PC users Final Fantasy XV running on high-end machines, and we personally would like to see it, too. Also, I would like to try developing on PC to pursue a unique way of playing with PC-exclusive features like making your own quests and enjoying the world using things like mods.”

 

[Shademp]

—GIF entitled "The FFXV DLC is starting to get a bit weird"

 

[The Twilight Mexican]

God, I love this game's glitches.

—Ignis has such an epiphany when coming up with this new recipe that ... well, you'll see (skip to 13:10)

—Infinite attack from invincible daemon (skip to 11:30)

—Player has hilarious reaction to glitch warping out of a dungeon

—"David Blaine: Street Magic," now featuring Prince Noctis

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Spoiler: Endgame spoiler

Ifrit gets frozen early; twice; three times even

—Camping with a goblin

—Not sure if dead

—Gentiana may be the chick from "The Ring"; sure seems like it

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Spoiler: Chapter 7 spoiler

Aranea can seriously jump

—Flying chocobos

—Bailing out of the Regalia

—Magitek Troopers decided not to even try

 

[X-SOLDIER]

So, we need to be talking about the pure excellence that is up-and-coming on the 21st, which is the...







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[Unit-01]

Were there any parts of the story that were cut out of necessity?

Tabata: “Not particularly.”

Putting your foot right in your mouth Tabata.

 

[Elessar]

Updates from the 2/2/17 ATR

Pics below are from their Twitter account.

I'm too tired to translate them. Maybe later. But the parts in English should be pretty obvious.

Oh. Can someone change the thread title to reflect the date of this ATR? So that it'll be clearer.

 

[Lulcielid]

Final Fantasy XV’s promised 60FPS PS4 Pro patch arrives February 21

 

[Tetsujin]

Off-road driving finally becoming a thing!

 

[Lulcielid]

Off-road driving finally becoming a thing!

It´s under development, still not a thing.

 

[Tetsujin]

Notice the part where I used future tense.

 

[The Twilight Mexican]

But will veering slightly off the road during a landing -- when there's a lot of time yet to course correct -- still get you a game over?


Disappointed to hear that the Platinum Demo will be gone before the time I can get the game. I was looking forward to playing that.

 

[lithiumkatana17]

But will veering slightly off the road during a landing -- when there's a lot of time yet to course correct -- still get you a game over?


Disappointed to hear that the Platinum Demo will be gone before the time I can get the game. I was looking forward to playing that.

Is it just going away completely or will those that have downloaded it still have access to play it?