Active Time Report June 4th 2015 (FFXV)

[Lucina]

No sweat! I'd imagine once we get some more powerful foes cover will become more of a luxury. I can't see it being immensely effective against, say, a big fire spell or Titan's foot. Still, I agree that I don't necessarily love the dynamic that it establishes in the demo. Even just gating Armiger behind something besides MP would be a great way to make this less of a broken tactic.

Yes, I agree. Cover mechanic isn't exactly bad, just that more work needs to be put into it. Gating Armiger behind something else would make it much less viable, but still good for crucial moments when you need MP.

 

[yeah_93]

45 minutes left... damn I won't be able to watch it.

 

[Mistwalker]

Light a candle for Stella ;_;

 

[MAJID]

they killed all the hype

 

[Crystal Power]

To be fair, this game was announced far to early. All that we have known was mere concept for a game. And all that concept we had seen so far was not much to be honest, you could not even predict the games true plot at that point.

It is unfortunate that the concept of Stella and Noctis battling is gone, and the concept of the party meeting have been removed. But that was all concepts, even under Nomura's order all this may have had to be altered.

 

[Kenshin_44]

I am kinda mad that they removed Stella because they could have kept Stella and give her Luna role in ffxv. But they must have a good reason for this but that awesome ff verses 13 trailer is to blame for being to awesome. It made people fall in love with both Noctis and Stella, so the hype between them was immense. I was excited to see Noctis and Stella confrontation in ffxv but that is just a fal cie fantasy right now.

 

[yeah_93]

Holy fuck. Let this be a lesson to you all who say nothing has been changed from the Versus days.

 

[Squirrel Emperor]

It's pretty loud and clear they want to get this game out as soon as possible and in order to do that, they're going to be axing and changing a ton of things. They're pretty much butchering up Nomura's original vision.

 

[Lulcielid]

Holy fuck. Let this be a lesson to you all who say nothing has been changed from the Versus days.

While yes we can't no longer say that nothing has changed, we cant say what's changed between VersusXIII and XV when we know very little (minus what Tabata revealed) of what was suppose to be the former.

 

[Lulcielid]

It's pretty loud and clear they want to get this game out as soon as possible and in order to do that, they're going to be axing and changing a ton of things. They're pretty much butchering up Nomura's original vision.

Like when they axed his idea of turning the game into a musical ....

 

[Squirrel Emperor]

Like when they axed his idea of turning the game into a musical ....

Which was not suppose to be taken literally...

 

[yeah_93]

Like when they axed his idea of turning the game into a musical ....

Wasn't that a joke Nomura say to IGN?

 

[yeah_93]

It's pretty loud and clear they want to get this game out as soon as possible and in order to do that, they're going to be axing and changing a ton of things. They're pretty much butchering up Nomura's original vision.

I don't think that's the reason. I think it's because it's being treated just different product. No matter how much they talk about "preserving the original vision", things are going to change to fit a new script. XV looks pretty much something based on what already existed in early Versus XIII. I don't think time constraints have anything to do with changing a character to an already similar-looking one and changing her role.

 

[Squirrel Emperor]

I don't think that's the reason. I think it's because it's being treated just different product. No matter how much they talk about "preserving the original vision", things are going to change to fit a new script. XV looks pretty much something based on what already existed in early Versus XIII. I don't think time constraints have anything to do with changing a character to an already similar-looking one and changing her role.

To clarify, I'm not just talking about axing Stella and replacing her with Luna. I'm talking about the project as a whole. The entire project has been nothing but a money sink. They're probably going to just write off the losses and start fresh. All these changes I've heard about sound like it boils down to just simply saving time and money. They're doing what they have to do in order to get things done.

 

[Lucina]

If we don't accurately know the boundaries in which Nomura's vision lies, how are we to know whether it's been butchered? Rhetorical question, I know.

 

[Squirrel Emperor]

If we don't accurately know the boundaries in which Nomura's vision lies, how are we to know whether it's been butchered? Rhetorical question, I know.

Maybe that's why Nomura left the project?

 

[Myrodis19]

Maybe that's why Nomura left the project?

Im pretty sure from what we know he was made to leave. But come now. Give the game a chance, other then the info out there people really shouldnt have this much of an attachment to the game as is. We know/knew virtually nothing on it. Same with Stella, minus the one scene with her. People are acting like Square killed their girlfriends.

 

[Squirrel Emperor]

How are we given the right to be upset about the butchery that is Nomura's vision if we know next to nothing of it?

I would imagine all the things we've learned about during the Versus XIII era were part of Nomura's original vision and some of those things have been changed and cut. That's probably why people are getting upset.

 

[Lulcielid]

I would imagine all the things we've learned about during the Versus XIII era were part of Nomura's original vision and some of those things have been changed and cut. That's probably why people are getting upset.

What makes me upset is the fact that people thing that those little things we knew about VERSUSXIII are the only elements Nomura had in his original vision, do you really thing that was all his vision ?

 

[Squirrel Emperor]

What makes me upset is the fact that people thing that those little things we knew about VERSUSXIII are the only elements Nomura had in his original vision, do you really thing that was all his vision ?

I don't think people really think that but I'm curious to know what your definition of "little" is.