Final Fantasy XV - General News Thread

@Paperchampion23 You know, there is one word which people even now, after 2 years passed since release, keep using and repeating things over and over and over. It's a word 'If". In the context of FF XV, this word became a gigantic parasite, which makes things complicated in ff xv community. What done was done, They did it with clear mind and acknowledging all problems and risk behind this. CGI-movie shows in full light who are Regis, Iedolas, Glauca, Nyx and a bit of Luna with Ravus. Story of the first four has preety logical end in the movie, except emperor, he gets his end in the game and he doesnt need much screen time.
So who left? Ravus, Ardyn and kinda Emperor. Last one almost doesn't need much time, so we wont count him. So left Ravus and Ardyn.
No need to say anything about this badass, so skipping him. The only one who left and about whom i agreed is Ravus. They really fcked up a bit with him, and he needs more screen time, so we could FEEL him as anti-hero.

What they are doing right now is polishing and improving the game, based most of all on fans demand. Heck, they even made alternative ending, cause ppl dont like and dont want accept the real ending.
The game has a VILLIAN, ANTI-HERO, PUPPET and some kind of unimportant third-rate characters. What trully this game needs are Monster Bosses.

They just don't connect it well enough.

I really don't get the viewpoint that the villains don't need more scenes because they weren't important in the game.

The game itself made them not important. All of them could have had more significance if the developers wanted to.

For example, Caligo had no importance to the game whatsoever. Then, Episode Ignis decided to give him more to do (as well as a means to make Ravus's character that much better) and it made his character that much more entertaining to watch. The SAME exact thing happened to Loqi. Barebones, useless character that actually got a pretty fun story with the AC Festival.

The dev's can give characters like Verstael, Iedolas, Ravus (ahem, that chapter 5 bossfight that should be there) and Aranea more things to do, if they so choose. They can have them interfere with Noct's story more if they want. They can be more important if they want them to be. They could reference the events of KG more make a few of them better if they want.

Its the lack of the above that causes people to say they were useless to the story.

If the game made them not important is for a reason, they are not as important as your expectations or the marketing wants you to believe they actually are.
Again, what I said before, the XV universe giving importance or throwing a bone to something is not the same as XV The Game giving importance or throwing a bone to something (just like how The Clone Wars, Fall of the Jedi Order, Vader and Obi-Wan relation are important for the Star Wars universe but not for Episode IV itself).
They could have given and made more some characters in Noctis story but they didn't because they are and were never important in his story (outside of Ravus). None of the Niffs are connected to him (again, outside of Ravus). Like my example above, Boba Fett, Jabba and The Emperor could have been made important in Luke story but they didn't because they never were.

Can I just say, this conversation about Ledolas is extremely boring.

Let's go back to talking about the Royal Edition.


I'm disappointed that a lot of the new Insomnia map is going to be taking place underground. I want to explore the city, instead of a long white hallway like the one in that gameplay video today.

Can I just say, this conversation about Ledolas is extremely boring.

Let's go back to talking about the Royal Edition.


I'm disappointed that a lot of the new Insomnia map is going to be taking place underground. I want to explore the city, instead of a long white hallway like the one in that gameplay video today.

I'm disappointed that a lot of the new Insomnia map is going to be taking place underground. I want to explore the city, instead of a long white hallway like the one in that gameplay video today.

We don't know how much of it is underground. It's already been said through the leaks that the underground is used as a means to get to other locations in the city (the keys)

For what it's worth, thanks to OG I can tell you that there is actually a particular reason as to why the underground is being made use of. It's not particularly difficult to figure it out, but again he doesn't want to post all of the plot spoilers.

That's why neither Storm and I have been posting them.

Can I just say, this conversation about Ledolas is extremely boring.

Let's go back to talking about the Royal Edition.


I'm disappointed that a lot of the new Insomnia map is going to be taking place underground. I want to explore the city, instead of a long white hallway like the one in that gameplay video today.

For what it's worth, thanks to OG I can tell you that there is actually a particular reason as to why the underground is being made use of. It's not particularly difficult to figure it out, but again he doesn't want to post all of the plot spoilers.

That's why neither Storm and I have been posting them.

For what it's worth, thanks to OG I can tell you that there is actually a particular reason as to why the underground is being made use of. It's not particularly difficult to figure it out, but again he doesn't want to post all of the plot spoilers.

That's why neither Storm and I have been posting them.

...does it have anything to do with the bodies all over the place in the underground that no one seems to be talking about? XD;

...does it have anything to do with the bodies all over the place in the underground that no one seems to be talking about? XD;

Seriously, though, there seems to be quite a bit of environmental storytelling going on in the underground area, and I'm curious to see how the game builds on that. It seems like the survivors might have been driven to the underground for survival, which offers a great deal of potential.

Wait waaaaaat?

For what it's worth, thanks to OG I can tell you that there is actually a particular reason as to why the underground is being made use of. It's not particularly difficult to figure it out, but again he doesn't want to post all of the plot spoilers.

That's why neither Storm and I have been posting them.

Man, as much I know it's not true or plausible since there's no evidence of it how cool would it be if the reason was a surviving Diamond Weapon or revived Glauca roaming around? Tbh as more time goes on I just want more connective tissue with KG. I won't even care about them integrating the movie into the game if they can just give me a meaningful encounter with Glauca, let me fight at least one Diamond Weapon, let me raid an Imperial Dreadnought (seriously they're such badass looking ships, Noct should be allowed to take one down or at least board it), I want some mention and acknowledgement of Nyx which hopefully we're getting in that Glaive out of time quest. Hell it also just dawned on me that Libertus could inform Noct of Drautos' treachery thus creating the proper motivation for him to be personally invested in taking down Glauca if that happens. I feel like one of the reasons while KG is cool but ultimately creates a sense of dissatisfaction in XV is cuz it introduced so much cool shit that never got followed up on. Like rivalries, betrayals, enemy types, and just stuff with history in general. XV in many ways does, at times, feel like it's not really extending out of KG but rather just referencing it here and there. So I hope there's more effort to fix that. They've been making progress towards so it means there's some acknowledgement of the issue on their part but I wanna see more concrete stuff come about of said acknowledgement. Overall expanded Insomnia has a lot of potential to have stuff added in the future so I hope they utilize it fully.