That’s disappointing to hear. It makes me think of of FF VIII, which also starts slow, but it hypes you up for the coming adventure with an opening sequence which previews some of the game’s characters and themes and which was, at the time (18 years ago, good god!) the most complex and gorgeous FMV sequence ever seen…

Combat is far from shallow, it’s actually kinda tough in fights and not an easy breeze at all. Was he early in the game? Later fights can get dire very fast.

What did FF use to be? Open world? Linear world? Shove all the plot in your face the whole time you play? Give you a lot of plot at key points in the game? Turn based battle system? Time based battle system? Realtime battle system? Backtracking? Exploration? Summons? Aeons? Espers?

The protagonist is fine. It’s Prompto that looks stupid. He seems to have stuck his finger in the electrical socket the longest before putting gel in it.

I was actually reading about the delay a bit last night. Turns out the main problem stemmed from it being their first attempt to make a Western-style open world RPG, but without understanding the Western game development culture of crunch time. So they thought they were on track to complete the game within that…

The series doesn’t have to look like the old games but it should go back to those older settings and move away from the modern shit. I don’t want cars in my JRPG. I would also prefer turn based but at least moving away from the modern stuff would be a start.

I can see it. From 1987-1997 there where 7 main entries in the franchise. from 2006-2016 there were 3, 2 if you don’t count the MMO. These games are expensive to make, take a long ass time to do so, and regardless of how much effort is put in, will never hold a candle to the older ones in the eyes of the fans. It’s…

The series is in a weird spot. It’s desperate for that sweet, sweet, casual audience money, but, you know, is kind of fucking weird and will probably never appeal to them again, especially not with a big ol’ roman numeral for FIFTEEN etched on the cover.

I know a lot of people yearn for the “glory days”, but a lot of…

I think it has more to do with the budget and timetable that XV was on. This game was probably going to make or break Square.

to be fair it was kinda predictable considering who made it.

See I don’t like that 16 only happens if 15 does well because that it will only reinforce them to do more of the same if 15 does well. I want 15 to do shit so they go back to what the series used to be.