This is a really fantastic post. I feel like this is a Bit of Nomura’s touch or whoever at Square also did the last bit of KH2.
The biggest success of FFXV is that I never for a second doubt these guys are all friends.
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this is a fucking scam, tbh.
i think the ongoing development of this game is really cool and i don’t mind that having played this on day one i didn’t get the ‘full’ experience. i was actually going to start this game again and give it another 50+ hours or something but this seems incredibly unfair for people who supported the game earlier on.
also i’m broke and cant afford that $20
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yeah this is pretty much how i feel about this after 15 hours, think i’m gonna call it there
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So I don’t know if I like this open world. In addition to putting down our controllers for lengthy cutscenes we’re now putting down our controllers for lengthy car rides. I’m watching YouTube videos while playing this game because there’s so much downtime. Maybe I just shouldn’t bother with sidequests and just do the story?
I think if those aren’t your favorite parts this isn’t your jam
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There’s a fast travel function for when you don’t feel like taking in the sights. You even get a time estimate of how long the ride is in real time if you take it.
See I’m kinda coming around on that. They were my favorite parts of the game in the first chapter but now they’re maybe not? I don’t know, maybe it’s just that the sidequests suck.
Fast travel sorta helps, yeah. Warping to places you’ve been and to the car.
Also, I’ve been under the impression that you can just camp anywhere but I don’t know how to do that. And I don’t know how to cook at those trailers. And I don’t know how to skip time for hunts that are in the night, except for at the quest giver. Surely there must be a way when you’re out in the field.
Either way, I’m not giving up yet. The first dungeon was pretty fun!
this game needed witcher 3 quality sidequests. I don’t know how anyone can say they’re the best part of the game. stuff like wall market or running on the rooftops at the begining of ix are interesting and memorable “side quests.” this shit is just running out to kill or press x on a thing and running back for a “thanks” or bounty complete popup. it’s miserable mmo busywork. and the open world is like a far cry 2 open world, long narrow highways, sometimes with impassable walls on the sides, leading to identical gas stations, and there’s only one real town and it’s not that big. I think ff10 did a better job of feeling more like a road trip/pilgrimage/journey type deal. here I’m just going back and forth between the same places.
the battle system is incredibly tolerable. my highest praise ever for a jrpg battle system. I actually enjoy going through dungeons in a jrpg for once, especially when I’m under levelled in a dungeon I found on accident
I don’t understand why the health bars and weapon equip have to be on screen all the time though
I like that the characters are just four kids wearing all black. that seems like something that would break what somebody in charge of one these things at some point would consider some kind of game design rule. well, good for them.
I’m playing in japanese. I really like having a big bruiser bodyguard with the jet from cowboy bepop type anime personality/voice. and I guess the other characters were alloted the remaining male anime personality types/voices. but I though it was cool when that guy tossed a coin in your face and he immediately caught it. then when you face some empire bigwig who just kind of ignores him like’s not even there and fights you a little bit I was thinking “what the hell gladios” but then what do you know, he leaves the party without explanantion and if you play the dlc it turns out he was feeling incredibly shamed and embarked upon a suicidal pilgrimage to face the BLADEMASTER so he could become the ultimate bodyguard or die trying. what a guy. and it’s real neat that at one point that dlc didn’t exist, he just left and came back scarred with no explanation because of a small thing that happened in the background of a cutscene
the main character has some bizarre dream out of nowhere about mowing down cops with a machine gun to protect a dog but then the dog dies. I don’t know what that was about but if you want me to try to connect with this moody rich brat that’s one way to go about it.
I set my sound to “home theater” in the options cause I’m playing on my tv but every time I go to lestallum there’s this horrifying ominous droning sound overpowering the music. I can’t tell if it’s supposed to be the power plant there or what
the game has told me twice “you’re about to leave are you sure you’re ready to go you won’t be able to come back for a while” and was lying both times but I think I’m about to do it for real now.
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I liked the game more when it became more linear and depressing and then it got even better when you disappear into an extra dimensional space so you can immerge in the real world at the appointed time a decade later to set the world right. just wish the sidequests had had more goofy anime melodrama or something. I just reinstalled witcher 3 a while back to play a single side quest I missed and it had everything, comedy, tragedy, a talking horse, a ghost horse, self-flagellation etc.
that was great when the car gets shot up but manages to lurch you towards the finish line and they all take a moment to pay respects to the machine.
I’m at the end in insomnia but haven’t finished yet because for some reason trying to use techniques in battle now I keep accidentally activating a debug mode that sends me back to the last check point while reducing my stats down to the average intended level for the area with some basic equipment
There are specific camp sites. You can only cook at camp sites. They are marked on your map if you go to diners or restaurants and ask for tips about the area. You have to choose between buffs for sleeping outside or bonus EXP for sleeping at “hotels”.
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Thanks! That clears it up. I like that design decision
You can also see them from a distance when traveling because there’s a plume of mystical star-smoke coming out of the campsites
Been replaying now that there’s all that DLC and also I picked up the Royal Edition on sale a while back.
Episode Gladio has one heck of a rendition of Battle on the Big Bridge!
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tbh, the first female character in this game being a girl (cindy) in cutoffs who’s only nominally wearing a leather jacket that full-on shows off her bra is kind of a bitter note to follow up that glorious “stand by me” opening
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I have the opposite opinion. Cindy is a valid character and having a cover of stand by me instead of an original song is a wasted opportunity.
Like literally the fact they booked Florence Welch and the only thing they could think to do with her talents was have her cover an existing song epitomizes all the worst excesses and weird decisions of this whole project
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Cindy seems like a fine character, I just don’t know why the camera has to leer at her exposed body so damn much.
honestly I think Cindy comes closer to owning it or w/e than most of their past track record in this department and I am all in favour of characters having their underwear out in cases where the history of your or genre or your medium or your audience isn’t quite that dismaying (see helpful platform comparison screenshot) so while this would not be the negative example I would personally single out you can obviously take your pick
Tits Mechanic is still better than coquettish schoolgirl
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yeah, I just played an hour and she was literally the only woman I saw after a solid amount of bro time and that was just kinda dismaying. that’s all. i’m sure opinions will evolve as I keep playing.
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Totes.