Topic: Final fantasy discussion thread

@FullbringIchigo Can you explain further (and link something maybe) about Square owing Sony and MS games? I’ve never heard of anything like where they aren’t exclusive and owe it to both of them.

@Jaz007 i can't remember where i read it as it was years ago but apparently how it works is a publisher sells a game licence to a console manufacturer hence why each game is "Licensed by SCIE" or "Licensed by Microsoft" well in this case Square sold them 3 games under the Final Fantasy XIII label

so in short Sony and MS brought 3 Final Fantasy XIII games from Square for release on their respective consoles and when Vs and Agito became other games they fulfilled the contract by making XIII-2 and LR

and as i said it's also why they had to rewrite the original resolute FFXIII ending in FFXIII-2, we was always going to get a Trilogy but wasn't going to be the one we actually got and it also impacted FFXV a lot as they had to remove all the stuff that connected it and XIII together (another reason the game took so long) but you can still see some of it such as Angelgard Island it looks like fallen Cocoon in FFXIII

or how Noctis Mark of the Astrals and Lightning's Brand of the l'Cie are basically the same thing

has anyone seen this, it's hilarious

OK so i was playing FFXV Episode Gladiolus on the XBOX ONE and it had some really serious slowdown and at times entire parts of the level wouldn't even load in & Gladio was walking on thin air

i took pics but i can't for the life of me figure out how to get them off my XB1

@FullbringIchigo OMG that is strange. It's one of the smoothest looking part of the game (being a long corridor). P.s.I must be the only person that really really liked episode Gladio with its arcade scoring system - I would have liked more stages.

@Feena yeah i know right, i even played it on PS4 just to see if it was all the 4k assets as i only have a XB1s but it played fine on there and that was just a base PS4

also yes Episode Galdio was awesome

@FullbringIchigo That’s because your playing it on the heathen console.

@Jaz007

JK

but seriously it is strange, i have never seen it before and wondering if it had ever happened to anyone else

so i decided to try Episode Gladiolus again on both the XB1 and PS4 and the same thing happened, the PS4 version had no issues but the XB1 version had slowdown and missing assets again

anyone have any ideas?

on a side note with the latest FFXV update i'm sad at some of the news but i think that the time has come for Square to move onto new projects and i look forward to the LAST DLC, Episode Ardyn

and they did say they will still give us the Stories of the other DLC's just in another form, a film perhaps? or maybe as side quests?

farewell FFXV, it's been a rocky road but it was still a fun ride

@FullbringIchigo Man, I just gotta say - I was catching up on the articles of the day yesterday and I found it incredibly ironic how you have been one of the most vocal and dedicated fans of all things final fantasy and someone was calling you out as a “Final Fantasy noob” in the comments section of the recent PS article. Gosh, could anything be further from the truth 🙄. I thought you handled yourself well there and I almost just came to your defense for being trolled like that but I didn’t get around to reading the article until late last night and it was pretty much blown over at that point and some other users had already assisted you to correct the ridiculous accusations. Anyway, whether FFXV is one of the series high points or not, to claim you don’t know your final fantasy games is one of the most hilariously ignorant statements I think I have read in recent memory. 😂
Anyways, I still have yet to play XV so have nothing to contribute to the discussion other than to say I’m glad you and @Feena , @Jaz007 and others continue to enjoy it, despite the unfortunate cancellation of the promised DLC content.

@Th3solution thanks although honestly while i'm sad the DLC got cancelled i'm also OK with them finally moving onto a new project (which i HOPE is FFXVI)

and they have said they will still be getting the stories out just not as DLC for FFXV so i'm guessing maybe an animated short or movie or something which again is fine

but for now i'm looking forward to the Stand Alone version of Comrades to see what's changed, the FFXIV collab and the upcoming final DLC, Episode Ardyn

on a side note i always felt the Noctis episode was a bit redundant anyway after all they always said FFXV itself was Episode Noctis and if the rumours were true and it was just going to be a what if ending then it's OK not getting that one (also Episode Ignis has an alternate ending anyway)

Looking forward to Episode Ardyn and really sad about Tabata. He is good imho. I would have loved a FFXVI by XV' s team (minus the troubled development that wasn't their fault at all). let us know your impressions of the game when you play it! @Th3solution @FullbringIchigo

@Feena i think Episode Ardyn could be amazing and it will be nice to see more of his motivations

@FullbringIchigo Looking forward to Episode Ardyn. I'll play it as part of my girormous Final Fantasy XV replay next year. Regarding Ardyn's motivations, I hope we see some more background on the Astrals, particularly Ifrit.

@mookysam yeah it would be nice to see just how they teamed up

@FullbringIchigo Yes! At this point I hope it's a chunky episode and I don't care if they want to charge us 15-20$ instead of the usual 5.

Gonna replay the full game next year as well. @mookysam

@mookysam @Feena i was currently replaying it on XB1 but i might go back to the PS4 version, i'm getting far too many issues with the XB1 version, at least the PS4 version only has a bit of pop in when driving but the XB1 version is full of slowdown, texture pop in during cutscenes and at times missing assets, one time i was fighting and none of the weapons would load in, it still acted like they were there though but it looked really strange

i think it's because it has the 4k assets installed but i'm only playing on a XB1s (FFXV came out during that time period where they didn't really know how to do the 4k updates properly)

Well, after looking at the recent article, as much as I shouldn't be, I'm still shocked that this will apparently be the way FFXV is ending. I guess now that means I can call it finished now, but it still feels like a downer ending. I hope Tabata continues to find success with whatever he does.

I still look forward to playing the game whenever I get a chance.

@DerMeister i'm sure he will, i think he said he was going to create his own company to make games and if so i wish him luck

also i take it you have/planing to get the Royal Edition of FFXV because it's probably the cost cost effective version of the game to get

@FullbringIchigo Yeah, the Royal Edition is the one I'll get. Partially because it's cost effective, and also because of that sexy artwork by Yoshitaka Amano.