FFXV discussion thread [No Spoilers]

Oh don't get me wrong I enjoy the game as it is very much so. 160+ hours in and still counting since I haven't platinumed the game yet.

All this came about when I saw the Ardyn artwork and it intrigued me greatly since I want to learn more about his story.

Aye, Ardyn is interesting to say the least. I haven't played a lot of mainline FFs either, but I do have more questions about the character than ever lol. I apologize if I came across as thinking that you don't enjoy the game as is. I can tell from your posts that you do enjoy FFXV, while still understanding some of the flaws present.

Ardyn is probably my second favorite Final Fantasy villain, I will say he's much better than Ultimecia, but I'm not too sure if he's better than Sephiroth.
The FFXV cast might even be my second or first favorite main cast in all of FF, hell I like them so much, I question why they didn't just use those characters for Final Fantasy XIII, in fact I'd go as far as to say that if you took out the entire main cast of Final Fantasy XIII, replaced them with the Chocobros, took out the entire battle system(It sucks), and replaced it with a Kingdom Hearts esque battle system, with switchable characters, that alone would have shot FFXIII up from a 6/10 game to an 8.5/10 game for me, even if it was a hallway, even if encounters functioned the same way, even if the story was somewhat similar, would have made for a much better title.

It comes down to personal taste. I don't think there is a right or wrong answer on the topic.

I don't know about you guys, but apart me kinda wishes that the Final Fantasy Versus XIII concepts were used for Final Fantasy XIII, and the current FFXIII we know didn't exist, just wiped off the face of the planet, and my wished for FFXIII got a trilogy instead, and they just had it be Final Fantasy XIII, and Type-0.

Things probably would have still been problematic given what was going on in the background at SE last gen. What's done is done.

Oh I know the Crystal Tools nonsense, just kinda wish though, that the Lighting FFXIII just got scrapped entirely or used for something else, they use Nomura's Versus XIII idea and turn that into Final Fantasy XIII maybe repurpose some of those assets, if Crystal Tools was being a pain in the ass, they just use Unreal Engine 3, and have Crystal Tools be used for Type-0, and have that release for consoles, and PC. Have both Final Fantasy XIII Noctis Edition, and Type-0 release for PS3, Xbox 360, and Steam oh that would have been great.

My god reading the story about the Ifrit/Eo theory, it's just incredible.
It shows how actually important the Pitioss Ruins are and all these little things you can cover, but it's also sad that they don't tell it directly to the players.
These hidden, very interesting story parts in games are mysterious and gives the story a lot more potential, but I think there are many people who just play the game through and don't even know there's actually a lot more hidden story (like FF VIII about Ultimecia=Riona or Squall is just dreaming/dead).
I hope they will tell the story in the DLC's a lot more directly like about Ifrit, Eos, starscourge, Ardyn's past ect.

I think Ignis DLC will be about Starscourge, i remember Talcott said that Ignis did research it when Noctis was in the crystal.
Its just assuming, but there is not too much to cover in Altissia events from Ignis point of view, so i think part of his DLC will take place post timeskip.

@everyone

FFXV's biggest mystery has finally been solved

Speaking of Ignis holy shit!

https://twitter.com/pyms11/status/829665251498942466

As Ignis would say, 'Adding insult to injury" xD

On March 28, What will you play first?:

• Episode Gladiolus
• Chapter 13 (with adjustments)

Ill probably will wait for June Prompto DLC and replay full game from start to finish with all adjustments and new stuff.

Depending on how easy it is to go back to Chapter 13, I might just watch the cutscenes when they show up and play the Gladio DLC either before or after, depending on how soon they're uploaded. =P

I intend to do a full New Game+ once the changes to the main game seem to be complete; given the nature of some of the changes in the March update, it seems to make more sense to hold off until the other DLC episodes are released.

Randomly found this online.

Never come across this dialogue between Ignis and Aranea before, and yes that URL is utterly ridiculous lol

http://cup-ah-jho.tumblr.com/post/156432827293/ignis-ass-cheeks-ignis-are-you-hurt-aranea

I bet she wanted to make a smartass comeback like she normally does, but couldn't overcome the swag of Ignis. That URL though....

if you play FFXIV you'll get the reference ;P

edit:

https://i.imgur.com/CjwSqL4.jpg
http://www.oocities.org/area51/lair/3294/finalfantasy/cloudmid.jpg

amazing

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B84PtSbC58zSbGFlV0dsajBkWTQ

the fuck

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B84PtSbC58zSbGFlV0dsajBkWTQ

dont remember this scene at all lol

Wtf?!? Neither do I.

I'm referring to the second half of those screenshots btw.

Holy crap has anyone here actually seen that scene in the game?