Final Fantasy XV - General News Thread

The Universe only became a thing because they didn't have time to complete the game like they would have wanted to.

There should be no exceptions in proper setup. And I can keep giving examples. Clarus' gets killed protecting Regis and yet it's never addressed in the game: Iris prefers to go on a date with Noctis instead of talking with her brother about the family they just lost. The Empire is set up as this massive antagonist to the story, and then they are almost a non issue during the game. We are supposed to believe there's this great war going on between Lucis and Niflheim and that the fall of Insomnia is a significant event, and yet in the game people go on quite happily with their lives (including Noctis), sending you on missions to catch frogs and take pics or go fishing. The dissonance between the movie and game is huge. This coming from someone who really wants the final version of XV to be a better game than it is now.

Even if time was not a factor, the disc limitation would have created the universe aspect regardless.

Could you give some examples? Cause I can't think of anything in particular.

It's not anything bald or very concrete. It's more like...the general feeling. I can give examples, thinking about it.

There's the obvious disconnect between Lunafreya's physical appearance between game and movie (plus miraculous change of clothes that isn't covered at all in-game). I think it's also that Kingsglaive seemed to be build up so much for the main antagonists (Ardyn, Iedolas, Ravus), when the game's narrative structure completely undermines or ignores them. Then there's the weird "they're magical, so go with it" thing of Umbra and Pryna being puppies during Prompto's Brotherhood episode while their age is consistently adult during the game (seen in the childhood flashbacks with Noctis and Lunafreya). And any emotional connection between Noctis and Regis is barely evident in the game, although it's palpable in the film and anime from different sides.

Of course some of this can be put down to each project's mutual dependence on each other (all parts are needed, or they fall down), but other elements just look like a different creative team who didn't get the memo.

Multi-disks can still be a thing. I'm not saying that it would have actually been employed, but the idea of separating the game between disks would have been possible.

It is clear by now that Kingsglaive was setting up a story that was quite different from what FFXV ended up being, hence the lack of continuity (e.g. coughing smoke when using the Ring of the Lucii -probably a remnant of VSXIII's death worship storyline- or Luna's role as an oracle being a non-factor in the movie because they evidently came up with that idea late into the game's development), so the idea that the expanded universe is a proper setup for the game is eyeroll-worhty at this point.

No sir, multi-discs could not have been a thing. A lot of the consumer base views paying even $60 USD a lot for a single title (in some countries it's even higher in their own respective currency). Having more discs would have increased the price, which in turn would have produced less sales. We are not in the PS1 era of games anymore where FF titles had multi-discs.

Regardless, it IS possible theoretically, but would unlikely to ever happen lol. That is what I was trying to get at. Would you pay $120 for a game like that? No. Would Square be stupid enough to do it? Probably not. I know they could barely fit the entire game on the disk. I know that the Universe also stipulated from that.

The original game would have had to release in parts (its probably why Versus 13 would have been 3 different games), but you could technically "on-disc" everything. It's just what is acceptible vs. what is not.

Bandai fucking released 4 .Hack games that all were tecnically the same game but should have been packaged together, but instead you had to pay $200 to get them all separately back in the day, then another $150 for the GU sequels.

I definitely know the difference don't worry ( I was one of the idiots who used his chore money every 6 months to get one of those 2nd/3rd/4th part .hack games in order "complete" the story back in the day).

Multi-disks can still be a thing. I'm not saying that it would have actually been employed, but the idea of separating the game between disks would have been possible.

As @T.O.T mentioned that scenario would have drove the cost of the base game up to an unfeasible degree, which wouldn't sit well with a lot of people i feel.

As @T.O.T mentioned that scenario would have drove the cost of the base game up to an unfeasible degree, which wouldn't sit well with a lot of people i feel.

OG has said there's actually cutscene script variants, there is also quite a bit flagged as unused and other things pending voice over.

I'll ask him about the Glauca bits, and other things. He'll probably tell me there's nothing file-wise to look for again, though I'll remind him to look in the retail one too, for whomever asked a few pages back.

He mentioned that the Comrades data mentions classic FF job class names, kind of weird it doesn't actually use them as it would solve a lot of confusion in my opinion.

OG has said there's actually cutscene script variants, there is also quite a bit flagged as unused and other things pending voice over.

I'll ask him about the Glauca bits, and other things. He'll probably tell me there's nothing file-wise to look for again, though I'll remind him to look in the retail one too, for whomever asked a few pages back.

He mentioned that the Comrades data mentions classic FF job class names, kind of weird it doesn't actually use them as it would solve a lot of confusion in my opinion.

Well, aren't VII remake going to be released in parts anyway? Ugh, are they even going to release physical copies? I would be happier if XV was too, instead of having DLCs all the time :/