Final Fantasy XV: Cup Noodle XV Special Edition

[Ratatapa]

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[Infini]

Well I still havent gotten round to playing it on PS4 so..... buying this to add to my PCmasterrace collection! :D

[Adajer]

does this game suck tho? dont recall any good reviews

[Kaslo]

does this game suck tho? dont recall any good reviews

wut

[IceSylph]

does this game suck tho? dont recall any good reviews

It's in the bottom tier of FF for me. It's not a bad game, but it's a bad Final Fantasy, in my opinion.

Pros:
Music is great.
The main 4 characters have good synergy, they're comical at times, their banter is pretty good.
Graphics are pretty at times, I guess?
Exploration is decent.
Customizable chocobo colors for each character.
Main villain is a better done Kefka.
Battle system is okay at times.
Car has an MP3 player where you can listen to tracks from previous FF games.

Cons:
Camera control is crap, especially in close quarters or hallways.
The execution of story is terribly done.
Breaks immersion multiple times with a black screen that says along the lines of, "days later, weeks later, etc."
Characters are introduced then thrown away with no explanation.
Difficulty is extremely easy. You will never get a game over as long as you have a potion on you.
The loading times are atrocious. If you use fast travel, you will spend way too much time in loading screens, where most of the time it's just faster to run/drive/ride your way to wherever it is you need to go.
You can tell that chunks of the story were left incomplete at multiple intervals.
Things are brought up, yet never mentioned again, despite being pretty important to a certain character.
Quests are complete shit.
You can only have 1 hunt at a time.
Exp system is meh if you don't want to become overleveled while doing all content. Kinda remedied with an accessory you get that prevents EXP gain while resting.

It's worth a playthrough atleast.

[6souls]

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Press Release

Square Enix today announced that Final Fantasy XV will launch on Windows PC in early 2018. Final Fantasy XV Windows Edition comes loaded with Nvidia GameWorks technology and other advanced PC features adding cutting-edge graphics and physics simulation technologies with support for Nvidia’s capture and share tools.

“With the help of Nvidia, we are creating a stunning visual experience in Final Fantasy XV Windows Edition, one worthy of this beloved franchise,” said Hajime Tabata, Director of Final Fantasy XV. “Nvidia pushes the pace of innovation in our industry, and that benefits gamers and developers alike.”

Final Fantasy XV Windows Edition will include the following GameWorks technology for real-time graphics and physics simulations:

• Nvidia Flow – Creates vivid, combustible fluid, fire and smoke.

• Nvidia HairWorks – Creates dynamic, life-like hair and fur for characters, animals and monsters that inhabit the game.

• Nvidia ShadowWorks – Enables characters to cast shadows on themselves.

• Nvidia Turf Effects – Creates life-like grass and vegetation in the game environment.

• Nvidia VXAO – Adds depth and realism based on the physics principles shadows and light.

There is also support for both GeForce Experience capture and share tools:

• Nvidia Ansel, an in-game photography tool that allows gamers to compose shots from any position, adjust with post-process filters, capture HDR images in high fidelity formats, and share screenshots in 360 via a smartphone, PC or VR headset.

• Nvidia ShadowPlay Highlights automatically captures the player’s greatest gaming achievements in video and screenshot, enabling seamless sharing through social channels.

Steam page - http://store.steampowered.com/app/63...NDOWS_EDITION/

[Elizara]

I'm NOT sorry at this point that I got the PS4 version of this. Right now I have a I5 processor, and recommended is a I7. Not going to rebuy, but if this kinda thing shows up on a game I actually want, I might think about saving up for a mb/processor transplant. Not to mention I don't have a 4k tv (use that for my monitor too) either, so it'd be no better than my PS4 anyhoo, graphics wise. (I'm kinda a frugal girl; I tend to hang onto my gear for quite a while as long as it still does the job and isn't broken, and my current tv does the job and works just fine.)

Enjoyed the game when I got it, not anxious to replay right now anyway.

[Xno Kappa]

God fucking damn it. I'm gonna have to rebuy the game now.

[Shenrien]

Coming in at a whopping 1 7 0 GB

[Prothescar]

SE has never understood compression or space saving. XIII was like 60 gigs or some stupid shit

[NynJa]

Its their attempt to prevent piracy maybe?
"No ones gonna download it if its this huge, right?"

[Kainos]

does this game suck tho? dont recall any good reviews

As far as core game play like combat and exploration I think it's pretty fun. But it's a rushed and incomplete game and you can feel that toward the end. Worth a play through if you are a fan of the series. I thought the dungeons were really well done.

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[Koyangi]

What accessory prevents exp gain from resting?

[TheDirtyHobo]

I think SE just has some deals going on with SSD makers and are conspiring ways to push people to buy bigger drives.

[Silenka]

does this game suck tho? dont recall any good reviews

It depends what you like. IceSylph hit the nail on the head as far as pros/cons. This became one of my favorite FF games solely for the world/characters. I got a little bit obsessed. (but I'm a girl so that probably helps a bit...) The story does suffer from incompleteness but mainly in the questions it leaves you with, which are often speculated over by youtubers and fanfic writers and - perhaps unfairly since you need to pay more for it - slowly being answered with DLC content.

I preferred to play this game in English because the localization team and voice actors grand slammed it out of the park. As usual with Japanese games that are heavy on humor such as XV, the humor is nearly always better in English versions because Japanese just don't have the same sensibilities as Westerners when it comes to jokes and what makes something genuinely funny. A good localization will win out every time (hello Phoenix Wright in particular), and it's really the localization that will drive this over the edge of "worth playing" for people who might not be as interested in the setting or characters as I am.

[Gokulo]

Its their attempt to prevent piracy maybe?
"No ones gonna download it if its this huge, right?"

Except all the people that buy the digital version

[Tyrath]

Do people even buy physical PC games anymore?

[Scythiroth]

Do people even buy physical PC games anymore?

I think the last PC game I bought physically was FF11 lol.

[Gokulo]

I do sometimes when they have some nice edition, some examples: Ori, Layers of Fear, Pillars of Eternity, Lara Croft and Temple of Osiris - they all cost the same or sometimes less than the digital version and had stuff like posters, figures or nice boxes

[Kaisha]

Do people even buy physical PC games anymore?

If they still actually contained the entire game I would, given I'm on bandwidth-limited internet. Next three months here being spent slowly downloading Doom 20gb at a time.

Also the high reliance on nVidia BloatWorks makes me wonder just how performance hungry a lot of those features will end up being even at 1080p on PC. Hairworks in other titles already destroys your framerate. At any rate, it'll be a polished turd for that playerbase, there's just too much fucked with XV to be fixed at this point, they're better off either doing FFXVI or doing a XV-2 on a clean-slate using the tech they built.