Final Fantasy XV

[Opaque]

I just hope this is next gen consoles, or god, PC.

The current systems can't do this the way we'd all want, but PS4 could do it some justice. I mean just look at XIII-2, it was fun and all, but even with closed worlds and small amounts of NPCs it had some graphical short comings and took too damn long to load. I can only imagine hundreds of NPCs and non instanced combat.

[sedition]

However, it's not good when a piece is that it would be revealed at E3 2012, which we know didn't happen. Of course, that's probably related to the fact that there is no way this is going to be on PS3/360.

As far as the initial rumor claiming Final Fantasy XV would be announced at E3 2012 the publication stood by its “extremely trustworthy, industry source” who also informed them that Final Fantasy XIII being announced for Xbox 360 at E3 2008 ahead of the public reveal.

He said that he was 90% sure the game would be announced as part of Final Fantasy 25th anniversary. It was us that predicted that the place of the announcement would be E3.

He only told us a vague, “Next year, as part of FF 25th anniversary.” What that means is that it could still show up at Tokyo Game Show in September. You may think this is all BS but the track record of this source with Square Enix news is hard for us to ignore. We wouldn’t have run the story if we didn’t believe it was true.

To be fair, they say the same industry source told them about FFXIV being announced at E3 2009, FFXIII being announced for Xbox 360 at E3 2008 and the FFXIII Compilation being announced at E3 2006. That's a formidable track record.

[MechDeus]

I think people might be taking the comments regarding Skyrim too literally. They're talking scope and amount of stuff to do, not necessarily the same type of quest structure and NPCs. Think more along the lines of how Xenoblade's world is about the size of Japan with tons of sidequests from every NPC, and less that it will play like a Bethesda game. I think a lot of the comparisons there are like standard pitches, where it's lots of well-known comparisons without putting down their own stuff, like how stating that the cities will be filled with people like Assassin's Creed sidesteps talking about the whiplash they got from not having towns in FFXIII.

Also not sure why a couple of you are worried about timing, FFIX and FFXII were both released at the tail end of their system's lifetime and blew away their predecessors in a technical sense (and story and a bunch of other things too). They're likely using their new Luminous engine on this (the same one they're using for FFXIV 2.0 and that they showed off at the last E3 for a supposed PS4/720 demo), which already shows that they can have damn good graphics with tons of NPCs and is designed to work on the PS3.

This could be another disaster, but I'd like to think that FFXV will be this gen's FFXII as FFXIII was last gen's FFX; the culmination of what they learned developing on newer and more powerful systems with a much better director in tow vs. their previous attempt which tried and failed miserably at having human drama and soaked it in terrible visual design.

[Andrew]

I played a game recently that took the best of FFXII and placed it in a very open-world setting. It was on the Wii.

For the concept to work, it doesn't need to run on new hardware. Hell, it's already been done on a dogshit old machine. It just needs to be made by people who are good at making video games.

[Opaque]

The problem for me is that XII is the best FF but when it first came out I had been playing 360 games and it looked unbarably bad to me. I never go into it until I emulated.

Current console games vs current PC games is getting ridiculous. By the time this comes out 7 series Nvidia cards will be out and the suggested specs on those is crazy. Its going to diminish the awe of this game dramatically when it looks like shit comparably. Graphics aren't everything, but low res muddy texture low fps games played right after beautiful top of the line PC games are hard to stand sometimes.

I don't see you guys going out hunting for VHS tapes anymore and for good reason. It easier to get sucked into a story or a game when there's no visual problems taking you out of the situation. The better a game looks, the smoother it runs, the easier it is for me to get obsorbed in it.

[MechDeus]

It just needs to be made by people who are good at making video games.

Well that excludes Monolith Soft.

[Yoshi]

It just needs to be made by people who are good at making video games.

So Matsuno, Sega's Yakuza team, Cave, or in the west.

[Thief Silver]

The problem for me is that XII is the best FF but when it first came out I had been playing 360 games and it looked unbarably bad to me. I never go into it until I emulated.

Current console games vs current PC games is getting ridiculous. By the time this comes out 7 series Nvidia cards will be out and the suggested specs on those is crazy. Its going to diminish the awe of this game dramatically when it looks like shit comparably. Graphics aren't everything, but low res muddy texture low fps games played right after beautiful top of the line PC games are hard to stand sometimes.

I don't see you guys going out hunting for VHS tapes anymore and for good reason. It easier to get sucked into a story or a game when there's no visual problems taking you out of the situation. The better a game looks, the smoother it runs, the easier it is for me to get obsorbed in it.

XII isn't that ugly, you're just an asshole.

Games are better when they look better or have a good style, but there aren't many games that are so 'unbarably' bad that you couldn't play them. Especially not XII.

But it's not unbearably ugly. The emulation looks great don't get me wrong! I just find it hilarious that original 360 games made it unplayable, when a lot of them are now really ugly too.

[Yoshi]

It's ugly as sin if not emulated.

[Opaque]

XII on PS2 is a muddy ugly jaggy mess.

Emulated it looks incredible. The textures and love was there, the hardware wasn't. After I get a 680 (someday, this steam sale hasn't exactly helped me save money) I'm gonna try to strong arm some PS3 emulation and see what is hidden in XIII-2.

You know, I think I just solved my own problem. The 7 series cards will be out by the time this game is, you'll be able to emulate it day one. Fuck it, they can do whatever they want.