lithiumkatana17
Pro Adventurer
- AKA
- Lith
Final Fantasy XV (was Versus XIII)
- Thread starter Arianna
- Start date
Flintlock
Pro Adventurer
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Harbinger O Great Justice
- AKA
- X
ForceStealer
Double Growth
Jason Tandro
Banned
- AKA
- Jason Tandro, Doc Brown, Santa Christ, FearAddict, Thibault Stormrunner, RN: Micah Rodney
Quick thoughts about A King's Tale. It's actually a really fun arcade beat em up, taking the fluid combat of FFXV and taking away the Z-axis which if anything makes it even more precise. Having enemies that require different strategies really forces you to plan your attacks which sounds like it may hamper the beat em up catharsis but if anything it makes you feel like more a God when you land a perfect strike with your sword, shield or magic. And adding companion attacks and the Armiger as super moves based on your chain are great bonuses as well. I twitch'd it so if you want to see what it looks like:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/162869341
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/162869341
So Episode Gladiolus imho was a complete waste of time. It was a bonus dungeon at best and while the combat had some fun moments and the bits with Cor were cool it felt like a really cheap distraction. The final battle with Gilgamesh was okay but I don't like what they did to his character. Ultimately it felt like two hours wasted for not anything nearly as cool as I was envisioning.
Episode Prompto delivers an experience closer to what I was envisioning. You have a solid main story which deals with Prompto coming to terms with his true identity and features some amazing gameplay. The shooter gameplay style actually kind of works in FFXV's game engine and the snowmobile is an absolute joy to ride every time.
The small open world chunk of the snowdrifts is a beautiful little slice of imperial territory to go through and the addition of side quests to boost your snowmobile's performance give this some lastability and replayability, especially with most sidequests pitting you in some unique challenge or facing some terrifying opponent. My favorite opponent so far was the absolutely terrifying Deathclaw who is mostly transparent except for two yellow eyes, and you fight this fiend in the middle of the night (plus the first time I encountered him I was launched into the air and landed about a mile away, no seriously there's video on my FB of that happening:
Also the final dungeon push and the final two boss fights were both great, the former being a test of all your crackshot skills and the second being an MGS style shot the thing while you run away final boss, albeit with an impressive final boss who is visually more astounding than anything we faced in the original FFXV (yes even Leviathan).
While this was an enormous improvement and got me through three solid fun filled hours, there were some things I have to point out:
1. The rewards for the sidequests seemed rather arbitrary. You can kill an insanely tough enemy like the Deathclaw and get 5 CPU or you can kill some random mobs at night and get 5 CPU. The Kaiser Behemoth awarded 10 CPU.
2. To compound that, boosting your snowmobile in the grand scheme really doesn't matter because if you want to just do the main story you can complete it very quickly and completely ignore side objectives. I'm unsure whether boosting the snowmobile helps in the final battle but all I upgraded was the damage anyways.
3. Having challenging side enemies is grand but there are two massively easy cheeses built into the game. Your unlimited ammo snowmobile SMG which you can use to dance around most of the game's mobs and the infinitely respawning weapon shacks around which most of the game's superbosses take place. The Kaiser Behemoth was absolutey a pushover because I just stayed behind cover for his ice attacks and swapped between the sniper rifle and the bazooka and took him down. I did, however, end up running form the Angelus MA-X mainly because I was getting a little tired of the missile barrages. I think that is probably the true "super boss".
4. And finally the story line is amazing and we get some great character revelations and development but I'm compelled to say it - this would have been better had it been a part of the origial game. Imagine if after chapter... what was it Chapter 11? ... we lost control of Noct and followed Prompto around on this sojourn of his. I mean to be fair FFXV religiously followed Noctis so that would have been a bit wonky from an artistic standpoint but still.
That said, it did what it had to do and was a fun distraction. I'd say it like the rest of FFXV is an 8 out of 10 experience.
Episode Prompto delivers an experience closer to what I was envisioning. You have a solid main story which deals with Prompto coming to terms with his true identity and features some amazing gameplay. The shooter gameplay style actually kind of works in FFXV's game engine and the snowmobile is an absolute joy to ride every time.
The small open world chunk of the snowdrifts is a beautiful little slice of imperial territory to go through and the addition of side quests to boost your snowmobile's performance give this some lastability and replayability, especially with most sidequests pitting you in some unique challenge or facing some terrifying opponent. My favorite opponent so far was the absolutely terrifying Deathclaw who is mostly transparent except for two yellow eyes, and you fight this fiend in the middle of the night (plus the first time I encountered him I was launched into the air and landed about a mile away, no seriously there's video on my FB of that happening:
Also the final dungeon push and the final two boss fights were both great, the former being a test of all your crackshot skills and the second being an MGS style shot the thing while you run away final boss, albeit with an impressive final boss who is visually more astounding than anything we faced in the original FFXV (yes even Leviathan).
While this was an enormous improvement and got me through three solid fun filled hours, there were some things I have to point out:
1. The rewards for the sidequests seemed rather arbitrary. You can kill an insanely tough enemy like the Deathclaw and get 5 CPU or you can kill some random mobs at night and get 5 CPU. The Kaiser Behemoth awarded 10 CPU.
2. To compound that, boosting your snowmobile in the grand scheme really doesn't matter because if you want to just do the main story you can complete it very quickly and completely ignore side objectives. I'm unsure whether boosting the snowmobile helps in the final battle but all I upgraded was the damage anyways.
3. Having challenging side enemies is grand but there are two massively easy cheeses built into the game. Your unlimited ammo snowmobile SMG which you can use to dance around most of the game's mobs and the infinitely respawning weapon shacks around which most of the game's superbosses take place. The Kaiser Behemoth was absolutey a pushover because I just stayed behind cover for his ice attacks and swapped between the sniper rifle and the bazooka and took him down. I did, however, end up running form the Angelus MA-X mainly because I was getting a little tired of the missile barrages. I think that is probably the true "super boss".
4. And finally the story line is amazing and we get some great character revelations and development but I'm compelled to say it - this would have been better had it been a part of the origial game. Imagine if after chapter... what was it Chapter 11? ... we lost control of Noct and followed Prompto around on this sojourn of his. I mean to be fair FFXV religiously followed Noctis so that would have been a bit wonky from an artistic standpoint but still.
That said, it did what it had to do and was a fun distraction. I'd say it like the rest of FFXV is an 8 out of 10 experience.
lithiumkatana17
Pro Adventurer
- AKA
- Lith
What the shit?
They look like fucking mini-General Glaucas now.
EDIT:
Apparently the Moogle Chocobo Carnival is back--so you folks that didn't get to play it can play it now!
They look like fucking mini-General Glaucas now.
EDIT:
Apparently the Moogle Chocobo Carnival is back--so you folks that didn't get to play it can play it now!
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Lulcielid
Eyes of the Lord
- AKA
- Lulcy
They added the Episode Duscae Demo Cross Chain Combo.
https://twitter.com/Rurouni720/status/891870162101702656
https://twitter.com/Rurouni720/status/891870162101702656
Lulcielid
Eyes of the Lord
- AKA
- Lulcy
The Moogle Chocobo Carnival will be open until late September.
https://twitter.com/FFXVEN/status/892015618244964352
https://twitter.com/FFXVEN/status/892015618244964352
The Twilight Mexican
Ex-SeeD-ingly good
- AKA
- TresDias
I still won't own it by then. Damn.
The Twilight Mexican
Ex-SeeD-ingly good
- AKA
- TresDias
So, this is interesting:
Gentiana has HP. Sign that she's going to be playable or a guest character soon?
Gentiana has HP. Sign that she's going to be playable or a guest character soon?
ultima espio
Pro Adventurer
There's a lot of little things in this game that can go unnoticed. You can get one of the royal arms before Talcott tells you about it, resulting in a different scene:
You can get ahead of Ardyn in the chase scene, but nothing different happens when you get to the disc, except for him smashing into you:
There's a close beta going on now for the multiplayer, taking place in the World of Ruin apparently.
You can get ahead of Ardyn in the chase scene, but nothing different happens when you get to the disc, except for him smashing into you:
There's a close beta going on now for the multiplayer, taking place in the World of Ruin apparently.
The Twilight Mexican
Ex-SeeD-ingly good
- AKA
- TresDias
I'm actually the person who asked Rifza Gamer to look into what would happen if you got the waterfall royal arm before meeting Talcott. 
So awesome that the developers included different dialogue (both at the cave and in the hotel) for that eventuality.
So awesome that the developers included different dialogue (both at the cave and in the hotel) for that eventuality.
Lulcielid
Eyes of the Lord
- AKA
- Lulcy
Next week the devs will release an update to improve matchmaking in the FFXVComrades Closed Online Test and will do another test between 11th-13th August.
https://twitter.com/FFXVEN/status/893490498026979328
The current on-going Closed Beta run will end on August 8th.
https://twitter.com/FFXVEN/status/893490498026979328
The current on-going Closed Beta run will end on August 8th.
X-SOLDIER
Harbinger O Great Justice
- AKA
- X
Comrades was entertaining, but jeeze damn those Iron Giants are a bitch and a half. It'd be cool to squad up with people you know rather than randoms, but I've yet to try that out as I just toyed around with it for about 2 hours last night. Without that, the Iron Giant just WRECKED through everyone else on my team and I ended up trying to finish it off solo (spoiler: that doesn't pan out).
Also, it's DEFINITELY in the world of Ruin. I took a screenshot of one of the store descriptions that talks about the sun having gone away. REALLY excited to see what comes of this when it's out of Beta.
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Also, it's DEFINITELY in the world of Ruin. I took a screenshot of one of the store descriptions that talks about the sun having gone away. REALLY excited to see what comes of this when it's out of Beta.
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The Twilight Mexican
Ex-SeeD-ingly good
- AKA
- TresDias
screenshot plz
lithiumkatana17
Pro Adventurer
- AKA
- Lith
I'm about to try it out as soon as I come back from getting some dog food lol. I'm glad it's in the World of Ruin; it would make sense for people to travel in fire teams and squads back then because of the daemons.
A buddy of mine spent like half an hour creating his character; I expect I'll end up doing the same.
A buddy of mine spent like half an hour creating his character; I expect I'll end up doing the same.
X-SOLDIER
Harbinger O Great Justice
- AKA
- X
Meant to upload it last night after playing, but forgot. Will do as soon as I get home from work tonight & link it in this thread.
I spent EASILY that much time with mine. The missus helped me make it look somewhat like me facially. There's no Noctis-style hair available yet though, so it's not truly complete yet.
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