Final Fantasy XV - General News Thread

Insomnia looks incredible, and I wouldn't expect anything less from the devs however I wonder how much of it is available too us? I doubt it'll be 1:1 with Shinjuku lol but I am expecting a bigger map than what we had in the Royal Edition. Also, I hope we can explore the city before Ardyn begins his assault even if just for a few minutes, it'd be nice to experience Insomnia while it's actually still vibrant and full of life as opposed to it being void and full of enemies the entire time like at the end of the game.

Also, seeing the city like this makes me want a playable parting ways prologue even more . And hey I mean the story is already composed, and now the assets are already created.. I'm not saying it would be "easy to do" but it wouldn't be entirely difficult either and it would do so much of a service too the story.

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I'm fine with any amount of explorable sections of Insomnia in Episode: Ardyn, especially since what I saw was eye-popping gorgeous to me and even if it's just a non-destroyed version of the expanded map of the ruins we got in the Royal Pack DLC, my current number one most favorite DLC, I would be fine with either thing we get here. Also, I think we'll be able to explore it even during the invasion based on those two screenshots, similar to like we were able to explore the section of Altissia we got in Episode Ignis, and plus, we have rooftops to Shadow Warp to in Insomnia in Episode Ardyn which seem to add a sense verticality to Insomnia. The Insomnia City Ruins in the vanilla version of Chapter 14 had a lot to be desired because of the size of what we could explore, story content and main bosses, and I felt the Royal Pack DLC fixed those things up well, even those it has miss-able content. Of course, my expectations are low for this DLC, but I'm excited to finally get my hands on it, even if there is linearity involved. This is all just my opinion, of course.

I mean even when they did the Royal Edition Tabata was like, of course it's not going to be as big as Kingsglaive. I mean cause that thing was massive in the movie. It was bigger than San Andreas! And we know Insomnia in this game is not going to be ANYTHING like San Andreas. Anything like San Andreas would require a bigger budget. All the lights and cars and sets and NPC's would be expensive. And we just don't have that.

The rest of Insomnia that can be seen in game via Ansel is probably close to half the size of the main continent of Lucis. Considering how much more densely packed a city that size would be compared to the wilderness of the main map, yeah I agree big time. They probably could only have pulled that off if it was the sole area in which the game took place.

Being the most widely used term for summon outside of summon itself does mean it is synonymous with it, the frequency of Eidolon's use is far higher than Esper, especially if you even factor in the amount of people who even played those games which already puts Eidolon's spread ever further than whatever Esper has. If someone says Eidolon they know it means summon, it's a term synonymous with summon and even after XV was out people still call the XV summons as Eidolons because it's a term that is just synonymous with summons. A live translation is not the same thing as actually localizing a game, and using terms not actually present in the game is extremely common and has nothing to do with being unprofessional.

Also I suggest you read this article which was a GDC presentation by the localization head of FFXV.
https://www.dualshockers.com/final-...on-director-talks-fantasy-based-reality-much/
And check this



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Here he pretty much flat out states that the Archaean term mentioned in Ep Duscae is what people thought summons were called because Astral hadn't been used to directly referr to a summon as yet, even though it was the actual term but only Archaean had been seen at the time to directly referr to a summon by. The only mention of Astral in ep Duscae is just saying Noctis gained an Astral Power, but Archaean is used to directly call Titan, a summon, the Archaean Titan, which caused people to assume Archaean was the term for summons.

Or this Legends of Localizations FF6 article, which also shows that when typing FFVI's Japanese term for summons which is "幻獣 /genjuu" into google translate that it shows up as Eidolon now instead of saying Phantom Beast.
https://legendsoflocalization.com/final-fantasy-vi/

My guess is you first get to explore a few streets and plazas while visiting shops and speaking to NPCs - and then Ardyn goes berserk and the rest of the map is just a battleground.

btw, is it confirmed to have a day/night cycle? I seem to only see daytime screenshots of the city.