Games The Final Fantasy Thread!

[zelllogan]

They just confirmed a PS4/XBOX one version of Type-0

 

[Sky]

They just confirmed a PS4/XBOX one version of Type-0

Yeah I just read that too. Now we have to wait... I guess 2015 or even 2016... T__T

Because I can't play the fan patch... Cutscenes are unwatchable on my PSP... The lag... <.<

 

[riki]

Final Fantasy Explorers has been announced for the 3DS

 

[ibra87]

Yeah I just read that too. Now we have to wait... I guess 2015 or even 2016... T__T

Because I can't play the fan patch... Cutscenes are unwatchable on my PSP... The lag... <.<

Use the emulator, PPSSPP!!

 

[Sky]

Use the emulator, PPSSPP!!

Already solved the problem... Just had to format my magic stick... Last time I did that was like three years ago. Now it works like it should.

Although I wanted to wait till the PS4 release is out.

 

[ibra87]

Already solved the problem... Just had to format my magic stick... Last time I did that was like three years ago. Now it works like it should.

Although I wanted to wait till the PS4 release is out.

I was really more refering to how much prettier it is on the emulator

 

[Sky]

I was really more refering to how much prettier it is on the emulator

I tried it but unllike Kingdom Hearts BbS, the FPS drop big time. My Laptop is basically a piece of garbage... Well I missed the Vita exploit so I play it on PSP. No harm done. It looks awesome there too.

 

[riki]

More info on the jobs for FF Explorers

 

[ibra87]

http://kotaku.com/sony-boss-kaz-hirai-was-heckled-at-the-recent-investors-1593069193

ouch!

 

[Zeltrax]

I tried it but unllike Kingdom Hearts BbS, the FPS drop big time. My Laptop is basically a piece of garbage... Well I missed the Vita exploit so I play it on PSP. No harm done. It looks awesome there too.

Yay let's play type-0 together! I've just started only though on my PPSSPP.
I got spoilt the other day on the PPSSPP forum about the ending and it really sucks

but oh well, I guess it's always the journey before the destination.

 

[shahdan]

Hirari at the investors meeting. LMFAO.

 

[phio_chan]

I finished with Final Fantasy IX a while ago! I was rather impatient to do all the side quests properly, so I just beat the game then move on. Especially because a friend keeps on nagging at me with Final Fantasy Type-0! Looks so nice. Since I don't have a PSP in real world I can only use PPSSPP. I also wanted to play the game on mt phone but unfortunately it still lags at the moment. Playing a real-action RPG on computer with keyboard just doesn't make sense, lol.

Anyone can maybe share their best setting for playing it on Android, with 1 GB RAM?

 

[riki]

FF Type-0 will be launched on March 17th in N. America, March 19th in Japan, and March 20th in Europe.

Oh, the FF Type-0 director will be taking over FFXV so Nomura can focus on KHIII

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The demo for FFXV

 

[Jammin]

I have to admit I don't understand this Final Fantasy XV all male cast thing at all.

“The party members being all men was something that [former director] Tetsuya Nomura had kept as a very important element of this journey. He wanted to depict a story in which a group of men, a group of friends, journey throughout the world. So that’s something that I kept in Final Fantasy XV.” - Tabata

Why? What's the advantage to having only a certain type of character? To be honest, this really effects my expectations for the game in a negative way because I was hoping for some interesting character reveals. Not having female characters also just sounds like a bad idea to me. You can't have a bunch of emo guys doing the bromance thing for a whole game, not unless it's an otome game.

Sure, I hated Vanille and Lightening but not because they were girls. I hated them because the one was annoying and the other had the charisma of a stone. I just don't get this.

 

[SharkBait]

Dont understand peoples complaints on final fantasy gender, people just got three games with Lightning as a strong fem lead, and even had a game with an all female cast...Clearly, they are doing better than other companies, and people have no clue how the other characters in ff15 will be without playing the game.

If people are really up in arms about characters gender without playing a game. then well theres more to life than peoples appearances.

 

[Jammin]

Dont understand peoples complaints on final fantasy gender, people just got three games with Lightning as a strong fem lead, and even had a game with an all female cast...Clearly, they are doing better than other companies, and people have no clue how the other characters in ff15 will be without playing the game.

If people are really up in arms about characters gender without playing a game. then well theres more to life than peoples appearances.

I don't think it's about whether it's male of female though. It's the gender disparity as factor in and of itself. If it was an all female game my complaint would be the same.(Just as it was with Final Fantasy X-II)

It's about taking something away from the core character dynamics. Imagine a Persona game with only one gender, or a Tales game? Terrible idea right? In a lengthy RPG a quality and variety of characters and perspectives is a vital part of telling a good story; take that away and you take away depth. What would Final Fantasy VII have been without Aeris and Tifa?

 

[SharkBait]

It's about taking something away from the core character dynamics. Imagine a Persona game with only one gender, or a Tales game? Terrible idea right? In a lengthy RPG a quality and variety of characters and perspectives is a vital part of telling a good story; take that away and you take away depth. What would Final Fantasy VII have been without Aeris and Tifa?

I couldnt say without playing it really. I dont see how its different than people playing games with all male or all female parties, or watching a movie with a male or female lead, or reading a novel with an female lead etc. The whole narrative would most likely have female characters in it so it doesnt really matter if they are playable or not. Do people complain about NFL games having all male characters?

I think complaints should be withheld until people play the whole game and assess it.

 

[Jammin]

I couldnt say without playing it really. I dont see how its different than people playing games with all male or all female parties, or watching a movie with a male or female lead, or reading a novel with an female lead etc. The whole narrative would most likely have female characters in it so it doesnt really matter if they are playable or not. Do people complain about NFL games having all male characters?

I think complaints should be withheld until people play the whole game and assess it.

The difference is in narrative focus. Something with all male or female characters is inherently different than something with a conventional cast. And while I'm sure there are female side characters that's not the same thing. There are only certain kinds of stories that can be told with an all male main cast and most of those are very far from epic fantasy/sci fi which is what Final Fantasy typically draws from.

Sports games are not story driven. There are no characters, there are no plot lines. Athletes in them are the equivalent of cars in a racing game.

And I strongly disagree that concerns should be withheld, we're both consumers. Square Enix wants us to give them our money for something that they are selling us. That means we have the right to try and figure out whether or not what they are selling us is actually something worth buying. Right now we know a few things about Final Fantasy XV.

- It's an action game in which Noctis is the only character you control (the others are managed through orders)
- It's only 55% Complete somehow.(How is that even possible!!)
- It's geared toward casual gamers.
- It looks very pretty.
- It has a car you can drive around. (Why you would want to has yet to be revealed.)
- Aaand it's a sausage festival hosted in bro-city by the japanese backstreet boys.

I hope you can understand why that would foster some skepticism for me about the final product. Granted we should know a lot more when the Demo comes out but we do know some things now, and most of those things don't fill my heart with optimism.

 

[riki]

Some screenshots for FFXV and Type-0 are out

 

[zelllogan]

My history with final fantasy is the one of a long time fan, I played FF1,2,4,5 and finished 3,6,7,8,9,10,10-2,12,13,13-2 ... And I'm among the many people who loudly shout "IT WAS BETTER BEFORE"

For the moment, I'm playing FF4 (steam version). I played 14 hours so far.
Not everything about the game is awesome by today standards but the game got a soul, an identity.
Don't tell me there isn't a massive potential public for an old school final fantasy.

Who really wants to play with Noctis and the rest of the 'N Sync (see better name than backstreet boys for them) ? I find the overall design of the characters awful. It's almost as bad as FF12 for me. At least, Noctis is a prince and not a fucking Vaan.

If I was super rich, I would bought square enix and gave them following instructions for a new final fantasy:
- Final fantasy game in an heroic fantasy world (ff4,ff6,ff9 as inspirations)
- No action rpg, real "turn by turn" system inspired from Grandia 2
- A real world map
- No random encounters. Visible beasts that can be avoided
- Nobuo Uematsu
- A great villain (inspiration Kefka, Joker)
- a great set of heroes to save the world and with a design that would make me believe they are something else than male prostittutes from Shinjuku
- At least one really important death among the main characters (tellah, Aerith, ...)
- Keep the world to be discovered first by walking, then with a boat, then with a flyng vessel
- The moment you acquire the flyng vessel is the moment to do side quests to prepare for endgame.