OP please keep us posted on your thoughts. The main story itself is super short (and super easy).
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LTTP: Final Fantasy 15....what is happening in this story?
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This is a game where, basically six months before release, according to a 4chan leaker who leaked the entire plot, the story was in disarray with constant rewrites. All those flashback scenes? They were created late in development, and they didn't really know what to do with them so they just stuck them wherever they'd fit. I know games go off the rails sometimes. But FFXV was really, really, really off the rails.
Also, yes, JARED. Freaking Jared. Everything wrong with FFXV's approach to story and utterly disconnected narrative arcs can be summed up with Jared.
It's crazy how much better Omen was than the actual game. Final Fantasy XV was a game badly in need of a complete reboot. And possibly being handed off to a completely different studio. It shouldn't have been in development for so long with such fundamental structural problems and a lack of narrative direction afflicting it.
Also, yes, JARED. Freaking Jared. Everything wrong with FFXV's approach to story and utterly disconnected narrative arcs can be summed up with Jared.
It's crazy how much better Omen was than the actual game. Final Fantasy XV was a game badly in need of a complete reboot. And possibly being handed off to a completely different studio. It shouldn't have been in development for so long with such fundamental structural problems and a lack of narrative direction afflicting it.
The only good story part is the last few chapters.
Everything else is omitted and you couldn't help but feel it's to rush the game / budget cuts. All those awesome things in trailers aren't in the game. The invasion of Insomnia in the beginning becomes a newspaper article for crying out loud.
There's no build up. You just hear about major events in the background. You get random setpieces thrown around.
Everything else is omitted and you couldn't help but feel it's to rush the game / budget cuts. All those awesome things in trailers aren't in the game. The invasion of Insomnia in the beginning becomes a newspaper article for crying out loud.
There's no build up. You just hear about major events in the background. You get random setpieces thrown around.
The story in FFXV and the way it was told is without a doubt the biggest lost potential ever lost in a game.
Just remembering the way it was written and directed makes me very upset...
Just remembering the way it was written and directed makes me very upset...
The story is a hot mess and is all over the place. When you need an anime, a movie, several different reading materials and a art book to fully comprehend what the main story is, you fucked up somewhere.
Also OP, pay attention to those fairytale books you find around the world, they're actually incredibly important to a character's motivation and the plot.
Also OP, pay attention to those fairytale books you find around the world, they're actually incredibly important to a character's motivation and the plot.
Its hot fucking trash littered with like two good scenes. My hatred towards the game just seems to grow and grow as time passes..
Oh... and wait till you get to the Leviathan fight. I always thought to myself "it cant possibly be as bad as people say." Let me tell you, it is. It is worse than what people tell you.
And in the later chapters you get to fight the hardest boss fight in the series: corridors. Its not that the segment is hard, its just the most tedious 2 hour copy pasted corridor segment you have ever "experienced."
Oh... and wait till you get to the Leviathan fight. I always thought to myself "it cant possibly be as bad as people say." Let me tell you, it is. It is worse than what people tell you.
And in the later chapters you get to fight the hardest boss fight in the series: corridors. Its not that the segment is hard, its just the most tedious 2 hour copy pasted corridor segment you have ever "experienced."
When you leave in high tech world where everyone has mobiles and as such and you learn about the
from a fckn newspaper, then you know the story is shit
attack on your country's capital and your father death
Not only that, but a lot of plot points make no sense.
If you don't care about the battle system, my advice is to quit and save precious time for better game lol.
The transition to the "where's our car" scenario right after the Titan fight is hilariously jarring.
No joke, I literally thought that the game had gone into a parallel universe or the whole Titan fight was a dream or something because the character's reactions just didn't make a single lick of sense.
No joke, I literally thought that the game had gone into a parallel universe or the whole Titan fight was a dream or something because the character's reactions just didn't make a single lick of sense.
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LMAOOO I love this post. I had the same reaction with Leviathan (and all of Chapter 9, really). I couldn't believe this was the "epic midpoint" of the game.
Till this day, i still don't get it. I get the gist of it but there are still so many holes in the story that anything could have hapoened really.
Wrong Jared. XV Jared impacted all our lives for the better.
FOR JARED!
Came here to say this.
Man, I enjoyed a lot about that game, but what a fucking miss on the narrative.
My favourite thing in this stupid mess of a game is Noctis and Luna communicating through writing notes through magic dog messengers despite cell phones existing in this world
The story really suffers from it being open world. I know you can do open world stories well, if the story centres around meeting new people and new places; but FFXVs story is not about that. It's pure plot. The only important characters you meet are the playable characters. As a result any kind of build up in tension is killed by the open world structure.
You know that's right!
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I think my main problem is that the main group are so unimportant to everything else that's going on, and it's really bizarre. You just happen to stumble into the plot, almost like the bit on Forest Gump where he's going into all the key real life moments.
Are you being sarcastic? Someone has to play that long to decide whether they like it or not? lol
Final Fantasy XV´s plot is a hot mess; a prime example of bad patchwork. Holy moly, I was never more disappointed in my entire life when it comes to media. Seriously, just thinking about the game again makes me ANGRY haha
I have played the vanilla version back in Dec. 2016 btw. And that infamous chapter 13 made me cry, no joke. I was sitting in front of my TV when all of a sudden my eyes started to get wet out of frustration lmao
OP, ignore the story and everything around it. As you say there cleary is great potential there but it is wasted so hard, it´s mind-boggling.
I have played the vanilla version back in Dec. 2016 btw. And that infamous chapter 13 made me cry, no joke. I was sitting in front of my TV when all of a sudden my eyes started to get wet out of frustration lmao
OP, ignore the story and everything around it. As you say there cleary is great potential there but it is wasted so hard, it´s mind-boggling.
Its all bullshit OP dont try to make any sense of the story. I will never give this game a pass on how horribly it was handled.
Come on now, Noctis is unimportant? Group exist as companions that share the same misadventures, but the plot revolves all around Noctis and that's clear from the very beginning.
Unfortunately, this is the reality of modern Final Fantasy storytelling, i.e. a fragmented, incoherent mess.
If I have to watch a 2hr movies and some anime shorts in order to have enough context to have a chance at understanding the story in your game then you dun goofed, Square Enix....!
Square needs to give FF to a fresh crop of new, young games directors and writers. The existing guys have entirely lost their mojo from their FF6/7/8/9/10 days.
Last gen I suspected it was a problem with Japanese games in general, but the incredible titles we've had from other Japanese devs so far this gen have only gone to prove how fucking useless FF-writers now currently are.
If I have to watch a 2hr movies and some anime shorts in order to have enough context to have a chance at understanding the story in your game then you dun goofed, Square Enix....!
Square needs to give FF to a fresh crop of new, young games directors and writers. The existing guys have entirely lost their mojo from their FF6/7/8/9/10 days.
Last gen I suspected it was a problem with Japanese games in general, but the incredible titles we've had from other Japanese devs so far this gen have only gone to prove how fucking useless FF-writers now currently are.
Luna is probably more important than Noctis until the time skip/last hour of the game, and she's already done almost everything you do by the time you get to her, then gets killed minutes later. Until that point, the gang is just playing catch up, while getting sidetracked with stuff that doesn't really matter. After the Leviathan fight, Noctis starts to actually feel like the main focus of the story.
Omen is frankly terribad and even though I'm not a fan of FF15, we definitely got a better game than whatever this edgemaster trailer was about.
They put a huge portion of their story in a separate cgi movie.
What insane mental hoops does a developer have to jump through to think this was a good idea?
What insane mental hoops does a developer have to jump through to think this was a good idea?
You should really play it yourself. Main story can be completed in just 20-25 hours
Yeah about the story..
It's .. inconsistent. Even with watching the movie I had problems following it and many parts didn't make sense.
BUT. The last part of it is good enough for me and I enjoyed the game + the gang quite a bit and I do not regret playing it.
It's .. inconsistent. Even with watching the movie I had problems following it and many parts didn't make sense.
BUT. The last part of it is good enough for me and I enjoyed the game + the gang quite a bit and I do not regret playing it.
Doesn't help that I also don't think the game is enjoyable to even play. Coupled with an incoherent story, this game is one of the worst I've played in recent years.
And why the fuck did Umbra never bother to teleport the ring to Noctis?
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Lmao praise be to Jared, just starting up chapter 6
Edit oh god this stealth mission is horrendous
Edit oh god this stealth mission is horrendous
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Finished chapter 7 that was a pretty useless chapter all things considered, an entire chapter that was just a fetch quest
Just you wait my sweet child, once you hit the endless corridor bonanza of chapter 13.
Man just wait until party members start to go off on their own 1 by 1 and come back an hour / 2 hours later with a new scar and NOTHING is talked about / explained regarding their absence unless you play the DLC. And then also try and remember that we didn't get the DLC until months and months after many of us already completed the game. And then remember that the final chapter of the game was literally changed with the Royal edition (same ending, but the lead up to it was significantly changed).
What a fucking mess.
What a fucking mess.
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I just had gladio leave "to take care of business". It was so random that I assumed they added it with the DLC and it was different before...
Nah that's literally what happened in the main game months before the Gladio DLC was added in. In fact, even if you have the DLC, the Gladio portion was never added in to the base game. You'll have to know beforehand to exit back to the main menu and play the DLC separately yourself, or finish the game and play the DLC later afterwards.
Speaking of Gladiolus and missing content, does the game itself ever tell you what happened to his dad, or would you have to watch the movie? I'm pretty sure neither Gladio nor Iris mention their dad at all in the main game, which just really grinds my gears. Most people agree that the camaraderie between the bros is the best part of XV, but I can't get into it because the bros themselves feel hollow. Ignis has an uncle, and I have no idea what happened to him. And then there's Prompto.
So it all goes back to Jared; I have nothing against butlers, but I'm pretty sure most people would be at least mention their dead dad, instead of solely their butler. It don't make no sense to me.
So it all goes back to Jared; I have nothing against butlers, but I'm pretty sure most people would be at least mention their dead dad, instead of solely their butler. It don't make no sense to me.
Remember the time when the final boss picks you up in his car and you all go camping together ?