FFXV sells almost 700,000 copies in Japan alone

No, the success is all in the Cup Noodles™, of course.

I think it should also be noted that Square doesn't simply wan't XV to break even or even make a slight proffit either. They want a blockbuster. No matter what, I don't think they're going to get one.

Noodle cups are super gay.

They're less vocal, but only slightly less numerous. They also have worse standards it makes up for the difference

Looks like Holla Forums has been BTFO yet again

I dont think SE is ever going to see a blockbuster in the same way FF7 was ever again.

DQ XI

I'll put my noodle in your cup.

Maybe not even with FF7 2.0.

I'm guessing he's meaning from a Final Fantasy title.

This shit was worth every single dollar of the budget. It's a fucking masterpiece

learn to read nigger

I think they lost a lot of momentum with the decision to number the online games as main titles. It muddled everything up, and then 12 was a pseudo-mmo.

Hell yeah

I maintain my statement. And see

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No, because big name JRPG's like FF and Dragon Quest would literally shut down the country at their height and do millions of sales in a day. For the series to go back to Famicom levels is a massive collapse and less an indictement of FF XIII and more that Japan simply is not interested in consoles any more (And I bet that result is going to freak Sony out because it's effectively ended the PS4's chances of being a success in Japan if Final Fucking Fantasy can't move units)

Everything is riding on Switch now. Especially since DQ XI is likely to be a launch title in Japan.

Here's the real question

FF Versus XV when?

Damn shame they won't bring that to Vita. That game would work well on a handheld because a lot of it is pseudo MonHun stuff

I'm not gonna lie though, I sometimes fatassed and followed some of the delicious recipes and brands posted there.

Are yaoi fangirls an untapped market?

This is the lowest FF went since the 90s. Glad appealing to westerners failed them.

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We need to up or meme magic, because if Andromeda does well, we will be stuck with carp RPGs for years. We can do it Holla Forums! Holla Forums memed Trump to victory, we can meme EA to fall.

Meanwhile Persona 5 outsold the PS1 games. I think that FF13 really did a number on the brand.

It's fine to have a thread, but that level of product placement in a game is ridiculous.

I'm not laughing at the concept, I'm laughing at the pure beauty of the product placement

I don't get this image

Nice quads. But P5 only really did the same numbers as the COD games did on PS4. It did well for Atlus but it did nothing for the health of the PS4 in Japan other than show a small subset will still buy big name JRPG's. And even if Sony gets a technically superior version on Pro of DQ XI, the Switch version will more than likely outsell it. (There is probably someone in Sony's offices freaking out they just paid Square a fat chunk of dosh for FF7 Remake to make sure it succeeds in Japan and they ain't going to see a single Yen back on that investment)

Square's probably counting the days till "Export To Switch" gets added to Unreal 4. And likely trying to figure out how to quick and dirty port Luminous (Well if they can run it on Xbone, they can probably run it on Switch)

It really did, not just in Japan but everywhere else. Hope Lightning was worth it.

I predict if they make FFXVI it will be Gachimuchi edition.

I don't think it's possible to understand half the images Escapist makes.

That's porn "casting" couch.
Sic transit gloria mundi.

On a more relevant note, EA and bigger companies are beginning to fail more often and more frequently
Its a shame we don't have a Hulk Hogan for them (yet)

I dunno mayn, I guess they thought Anita successfully conning people into giving her money and attention was worthy of merit
After all she really stuck it to those "gooblegrobblers" when she got all those millions for doing nothing
Someone should create a counter-comic, but with liberals and Trump in response for maximum salt

Is it going to be Switch exclusive?

Nope, 3ds as well.

It's a PS4 and 3DS game

I want to say the joke is she just had her 15 minutes of fame and then she went away precisely as stated but I'm having a hard time figuring out the friggin joke too.

Is the Switch based on x86 hardware ? PC, Xbone and PS4 are, that is why port are easy to make there days.

It's going to be a mobage.

3DS, PS4 and Switch. 3DS is going to be a different game done in the Bravely Default engine compared to the Switch and PS4 versions (Which use Unreal 4).

ARM based, but NVIDIA is developing the dev tools and Unreal 4 will have a "Compile for Switch" exporting option anyway which will just export the game ready for ARM (It already has those options for PS4, Xbone, PC, PCVR and Mobile as well). Devs have gone out and said Shit's EZ Mode to dev for Switch and Nvidia's tools make it very easy to port engines and compile games to ARM.

One of the old rumors is that Switch is so easy to port to it's almost a drag-and-drop procedure, but most of the rumors about specs or the software end of things are so far false or unproven, even from "trusted" sources.

Oh good. Because as much as I would a Switch-tan the real Switch isn't an anthropomorphized gynoid pupper and I don't want to have buy one.

everything about the Switch until its released is going to be "unproven" but if trusted peeps are leaking, its shouldn't be immediately discounted

Get ready for XV-2, XV-3, XV-4, and XV-5
Squeenix is going to have to squeeze as much money as they can out of this.

lmao
I haven't really kept up with Final Fantasy games. Just now learning what FFXV is about, the very concept is ridiculous. Mall goths on a road trip fighting gigamonsters that are chilling on the side of the road of a contemporary civilization. I might pirate it out of sheer curiosity if it ever comes out on PC, but I can't see how anyone thought this was a blockbuster concept.
Also the English voice acting sucks and makes me want to punch everyone but the buff cup ramen aficionado. I'd say that's a given, but I think the move to voice acting helped kill the franchise.

got any screencaps? I've been doing this lately and could use some ideas

1. It's an edit. The original sycophantic image shows Anita going on to great success after the stereotypical nerd cyber violences her. This edit shows her ending up as a washed up porn star.
2. It's a normalfag meme. That "casting couch" is part of the set for a lot of porn videos where they film first (probably one-time) performers.

The game was going to be something very different, until Nomura swapped out with Tabata sometime around 2013.

Why do you think they left a giant fucking time skip in the middle? They could theoretically expand the game forever.

Has Tabata ever made a good game? All the SaGas are janky at best.

Crisis Core was bretty gud for a PSP game

SaGa is Kawazu. And SaGa is fucking awesome.

How so?
Kinda sad that the MMOs seem to stick more to the spirit of the franchise than the mainline titles these days.

I don't unfortunately, it's some of the quality crossboarding /jp/ shitposting material I lost during the exodus.

Oh that's understandable

To be fair it's being done INCREDIBLY tongue in cheek with all the characters but Buff McBeefcakeston being very unenthusiastic about it. until they actually taste the abominations they cook of course

Good grief I can't believe I missed out on that thread! Do you have the tasty recipes /jp/ and /ck/ used to share witch each other by any chance?

I've only played FFL3 on the GB.

What are they DOING

The PS2 remake of Romancing SaGa is fantastic. I think that this game represents the series best.

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WHERE WERE YOU WHEN CUP NOODLES WERE USED TO FIGHT OFF EVIL AND BE YOUR SON

youtube.com/watch?v=P5A6D-LKxyw

IIRC it was going to be a romeo/juliet story with two warring mafia clans or similar.

There wasn't going to be any road trip, but it was probably going to be Yakuza Fantasy.

That is a much more interesting concept.
Was probably always going to be contemporary but the idea of warring magical fantasy gangs is giving me an erection.

That means every Jap bought at least two copies.

For being Japan, and knowing the HUGHE expectation sales tha Square Enix have for the game, thats low numbers.

Japan is 127 million. Think again.

No it wasn't.

didnt japs already moved to mobile?

also anyone knows good documentaries bout jap gaming? there is a barely anything on youtube except of maybe 4 vids of gaijins going around stores

What made you think this wasnt going to get the numbers?
Its a mainline FF game.

It sold less than 13. That's catastrophic.

That's pretty terrible for such a big series.

After watching a few videos it doesn't look all that bad though, might give it a try whenever I eventually finally pick up a PS quadruple.

Doubles dubs confirm. I doubt it even sell 5 million over it's lifetime.

It's impressive how seamless that is

THEY DON'T KNOW!

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Is tight pants mechanic in it ?

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Jesus, I didn't know product placement was this strong.

I guess its supposed to be her, but they gave her skirt and thats just one of the flaws

nice quads tho

Well, is the stripping at start good at least?

Doesn't XV need to sell 10 million copies to break even? Things aren't looking good for them.

no striping, she is already comando. its shit just as anything modern

What are brazzers thinking.

what a disgrace

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I want to eat that

i don't think they ever cared about being accurate. they just slap the title on there for the memes and free advertisement

SFM porn is our only hope now.

Go shill your youtube channel somewhere else

I guess. But digital playground had some fun star wars parodies.
Maybe porn has too many chicks on the fat side, and very few younger cunts for roles such as this.
Pic related is another example of bad parody porn.

goddammit

Now that is some advanced fail…

All I want is to see Prompto getting gang raped. Is that so much to ask?

Don't they need like 15M to break even?

Absolutely everything else aside for a moment, I'd never pick up this game simply because the four main characters are just so bland and lame looking. They pretty much all look exactly the same, the buff guy barely being kind of different, and there is nothing compelling about their designs or personalities. Aren't Final Fantasy characters usually different and crazy with unusual outfits? And all the fucking product placement that makes all the objects look way too perfect and clean. Fuck this game. I at least expect some flair from my JRPGs. This is just a sterile bland mess.

I'll be honest. This is so on the fucking nose it made me be completely okay with it.
This is deadly premonition of fucking absurd.
I sort of love it

Considering consoles are dying in Japan, this may not be indicative of overall sales. I'd wait for info on global sales before saying it bombed. Regardless of whether or not it bombs though, we will see FFXV-2, FFXV-3 ect. and DLC out the ass for this. It bombing or not will not effect them milking it for shekels.

This

I don't know user. Whether it needs 10 million sales or not, it will likely not even break 2 million. As some anons pointed out this will likely be the end of the playstation in Japan. If not even FF can move units investors will panic.

The characters are as bland as they look.

Noctis isn't so much of a whiny prince. He whines sometimes. And there's one story scene IN THE BATTLE WITH FUCKING TITAN where he whines about how he's tired of walking, and in the most contrived scene ever, Gladio (the big guy) roughs him up for bitching, and tells him about his family line's duty, to be a shield for the prince and that he never falters. Nobody gives a shit.

Then Gladio leaves the party later for one chapter to do some arbitrary bullshit that's never fully explained. But he's the stalwart bodyguard of the prince. Okay.

Ignis (glasses) is supposed to fill the advisor/butler role. And I suppose he fills that role well enough given that's all he is. Nothing special. Just an archetype.

Prompto is the genki guy (?). Jumping all over the place, taking photos (he takes some decent ones actually). Other than that? He hates bugs, I guess.

The two guest party members (pics) that are only in the party for about an hour each have more personality in their pinky fingers than the entire party does in their whole body.

HAhaha

I think you forget
L'CIE
FALCIE
LIGHTNING FeMessiah
NOPE

Stop being a "what coulda been" poser. NO ONE wants Versus 13 because NO ONE wants ANYTHING 13.

XV is pathetic, but as bad as it is it's still better than the entire FF13 trilogy.

I underlined this to make sure anons who tried to argue with me know that they will out themselves as contrarian posers. Absolutely no one wants 13 ever again. Even Type-0 aka "Final Fantasy: Drakengard" is worse for wear because it was in the stupid 13 universe.

the producer is cuck and 4channer so what do you expect

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They were both supposed to be out around the same time.

The lack of Nomura is why we got shit combat and a shit story.

I read that this game is FF in name only is that true? I enjoy the series and most of the spinoffs but is it really true that FF15 dont really feel like a FF game?

It's a big departure from the mainline series in that you do "action" combat and you drive fucking everywhere.

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My deepest hopes is for 12Z to rekindle Final Fantasy more in that direction. Maybe even get Fortress revived.
Failing that I'd like to see the Square side of SE mostly mothballed and for the Enix side to revive and take over the Chrono, Mana, and Chrystal Chronicles series.
Obviously KH will still be around for a long while of course.

I would kill for an Ivalice game on today's hardware.

FFXV only served to get me excited for Zodiac Age.

Square still makes good Final Fantasy games, just not under the main series for some reason. Type-0 was decent (great graphics, good story, decent gameplay), WoFF was fun and a very good throwback, and the Bravely Series is always good despite fucking LOOPING. EVERY FUCKING TIME.

Fun fact: The same guy who directed Type 0, with it's myriad of characters, fighting styles and decent action combat, directed FFXV, and pushed for the braindead "one button combat" in it.

I just don't understand.

The driving everywhere sounds weird but i dont mind action combat myself. How much different is the combat from KH?

Drugs can make you do weird shit.

Also how shit is the ost in FFXV? Is there at least some good pieces of music in that game?

It wasn't. And both of you need to reevaluate your lives.

What are the worldwide sales figures separate from Japan's for all other FF games?

Kingsgalive, Battlesystem , open world and changed character models to make them older and uglier women like luna change and the black haired woman. Fag party for westerners. They even making cloud uglier in the remake to appeal to westerners.

I haven't played KH myself so I can't tell you the differences.

But the core of the combat is "holding the button". You hold the attack button to auto-combo, and hold the dodge button to auto-dodge. When holding the attack button you can input directions on the analog to have him do different things, such as backflip or sidestep. It depends on the weapon.

You can tap the button, and you can even do special follow up attacks by doing so, but Noctis will do different attack animations depending on how far the enemy is away from him. Which fucks certain things up because some follow up attacks can only be done after certain attacks. It's fucked up further because the game's auto-lock on system switches enemies like crazy. And if you hold lock on, it focuses on one enemy, and most of the time you're fighting swarms.

You'll find yourself holding the dodge button more often, because of the most horrid camera that gets obscured by bushes, rocks, or gets pushed so far up Noctis' ass that you can't see shit. Fight a big enemy even in an open space and the camera freaks the fuck out when you move in close to attack.

Weapon switching is done clunkily with the d-pad. Magic is now a weapon that you craft and equip.

You don't have any control over your party members OR their AI. You can only direct them to use certain skills that you set, and each character can only set one skill at a time. So most of the shit is automatic. You don't have commands like run, or defend. There's a regroup skill that one character has but you regroup where he's standing, and since he's melee he's usually right up in the ass of a monster you want to get away from.

The combat is tolerable until you start factoring in the camera and the lack of control over allies. Then it just becomes bad.

The music and the visuals are actually alright. Visuals especially. It's basically a "Driving through scenery" sim for half the game.

Speaking of osts, a nice touch was that you can buy (ingame) pieces of osts from other FF games to play in the car. I thought that was neat.

That's for nip women.

the original had a different 3rd panel of her fighting dragons or some shit. so this was edited for truth, she dissolved back into obscurity.

a disappointment indeed. i think these older porn stars are just cheaper and more accessible than the young ones. this isn't an issue of whether there's enough actresses, i'm fairly sure it's just a budget thing. as in: they keep it as tight as possible

I am reading this review on gamefags gamefaqs.com/ps4/932981-final-fantasy-xv/reviews/163498 and it seems like the game got many flaws. Can you comfirm/deny the points in that review. Talking about bad boring side quests that this reviewer call more boring than WoW quests, 90% of areas are forest or desert, really shitty driving, Way too little story dialog so you wont get the story at all and some other flaws as well

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she went from "psychotic ex girlfriend" to "your estranged stepmother who watched zeitgeist and thinks she's woke"

WEW

I work retail and occasionally Jones Soda does a custom packaging for a vidya release and we get a dozen bottles of it to put near the game display. For Fallout 4 it was Nuka Cola and it sold out 10 minutes after we opened despite being $3 per 12-oz bottle.
For FFXV it was some asshole's elixer or something, but clearly branded as a final fantasy tie-in. Nobody's buying it, we still have bottles from the initial release. I lul softly when I walk by it and see them still sitting there along with the games themselves, gathering dust. I never liked FF and this failure is beautiful to me.

It's been a long time coming, 2016 is the gift that keeps on giving.

Wow it's fucking nothing. They really fucked it up this time.

There already are, like, three different spin-off games for mobile.

It is now the fujoshi era. Bow down filthy peasants to your new gayloving overlords.

Finally

I knew being a tall, pale and hairless skeleton would pay off eventually.

When can it be the Gachimuchi or manly era instead?

I haven't gotten very far in the game's story due to my autism compelling me to do sidequests and rack up as much exp as possible before sleeping. That's another thing. You only level up when you sleep.

When you sleep in different places, you gain different bonuses. If you camp, Ignis cooks for you and you gain buffs from the food (but you can also buy food from diners and gain buffs from there. Ignis just gains a wider range).

If you sleep in a trailer, you gain 20% more EXP. If you sleep in a motel, you gain 50% more. If you sleep in a luxury hotel, you gain 100% more. So you can save up as much EXP as you can and then go sleep in one of the three. Trailers are cheaper than motels, motels are much cheaper than hotels. Hotels cost 10k guild for a night.

Anyway, on to those points. Summary: The reviewer is right.

He's right. The game looks lovely, not so much in polygon count and texture resolution, but aesthetically. Screenshots don't do it justice because PS4 takes low quality ones.

There are only two huge areas. One has forest/lakes/swamp and the other is desert. You do visit areas that are different, but for the most part you'll be driving around in either of those two areas.

So far I've had a few funny animation bugs that resolve themselves in a few seconds but nothing detrimental. The biggest bug I've gotten was where enemies stopped spawning in the world. Had to close the game and restart it.

I haven't unlocked the flying car yet but yes. You don't have control over your car. You hold R2, the game drives for you. When you reach a junction you push left or right to turn. You press Square for a U turn and press X to park and hop out. I, personally, don't use the manual driving mode. I just put it on auto and have Ignis drive around. I'll explain why I don't fast travel in a later point.

Chocobos are amazing for off-roading but slow as hell if you just want to get from one point to another. The world is huge and there's very little in it.

The story has a decent setup. The prince and his friends doing a road trip to head to Altissa so the prince can get married. Shit happens back home while he's on his roadtrip, and then he has to find a way to take back his kingdom… That's alright. That's the setup.

Since I haven't gotten very far in the story, I can tell you that the characters are the most bland shit ever. Lunafreya has no fucking personality. Zero. I can't even see what Luna and Noctis see in each other.

Aranea, an enemy you fight for a few minutes, then gain as a guest party member later for an hour, has more personality than all 4 of the main party put together. She's fun, flirty, laid back, goes where the money is and works by mostly her own rules and time. So yeah, the review is right about the characters.

Most of them are "go here, fetch this." A few of them are interesting. It's the same as the hunt quests. "Go here, kill enemies that you can fight elsewhere in the world". Rarely you get a decent hunt against a unique monster. There is very little dialogue, no worldbuilding. There's one town. One, in the world. Lestallum. The "towns" the game says that are "towns" consist of a gas station, a shop or two and maybe a diner. You probably go to Altissa late game but I assume that that's when they cut you off from the freedom.

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Part 2:

The reviewer is right on the money here as well. Combat gets pretty braindead. There's no reason to do the fancy directional attacks. Though I personally don't mind the ability to take down high level monsters with a level 1 character in any game (you could do it in FF12 IZJS as well), but the combat system combined with the camera is just atrocious.You have NO control over your party members, and can't issue general commands to them or have settings for their behaviour.

They keep the Abilities/Skills separate from leveling. Leveling raises your stats. Abilities, which can also raise stats, also work to give your allies techniques, make dodging easier, etc. You gain abilities by spending Ability Points. You gain AP by killing monsters with Link Attack Blindsides (attacking an enemy from behind. If the game chooses to do so you automatically do a combo with a party member. But it's purely in the AI's control), or by killing them with warp strikes, and from leveling up. But mostly, you get them from… doing inane shit. Set up camp? Gain 1 AP. You can even spend AP to gain more AP! Such as gaining the ability to get 1 AP point if you drive a certain distance by car. Or 1 AP point if you reel in a fish. Or a chance of gaining 1 AP if you spend two tech bars during battle to have Prompto take a picture. It's really retarded.

Yeah, you can't choose when to summon. You can only call out summons during certain conditions. Such as if you're at critical/danger health and such. I've heard Leviathan needs a body of water nearby otherwise it's useless.

Yeah, you craft magic. You can only do fire/lightning/ice with effects, such as stop or poison. No, you can't cast a haste spell. Also magic has friendly fire which makes it useless since you're only helping to kill your party unless the monster(s) you're fighting can only be damaged by magic.

It has a few alright tracks but it's mostly forgettable. Best thing is the other games soundtracks in this one.

I don't see me playing this game again unless they really add something to entice me. Like maybe a gameplay overhaul.

It needs another panel, 5 years later, she's super fat and has dissolved into the couch.

the fuck is that abomination?

A US citizen in its natural habitat

Bullshit, this is a US citizen in it's natural habitat. And that habitat is freedom!

she ate so much she bloated like a drowned pig, The she softened into sludge

A stronk independent womyn who don't need no man.

Depression is apparently a more savory spice than hunger

Yes.

We can't keep looking at the sales numbers. You know that 10 million copies sold was just some PR bullshit to please investors. You know square enix is gonna beat this horse like they did with XIII

Our board owner.

Thanks for this great written post. Really get me a feeling what the game is like

A Sload

You'd think it would lose weight when it's too fat to get to the kitchen.

those numbers in japan is really unbelievably high considering they've basically are mobile heavy now

The game looks like blurry, low-res DOF garbage user. Please stop.

but I'm right here user

I was almost going to get a PS4 for this and Bloodborne, but the KH qte gameplay killed my interest.

WoFF and DQ:Builders make up for FFXV, IMO. If you haven't already pirated them on the Vita yet.

Might as well rename the series Fujoshi Fantasy.

I don't even know why SE panders so hard to the fujoshi/tumblr audience because they're not a strong enough demographic to forsake core gamers for. It's like they see the decreasing FF sales and think "we're just not pandering hard enough to the rotten girl audience".

Jesus Christ, I didn't really set commands for my party members in KH2 that often, but at least the option was there. How did they fuck up something so obviously needed?

five

million

Well, back in the Squaresoft years, they shouldn't have fucking alienated their different studios and development teams working on different IPs (Mana Series, Tactics Ogre, Xenogears) they could have experimented on different stories and genres, even fucking Xenoblade was goddamn better at this and Gran Blue, rest in peace Squeenix, hope FF7-CURRENT YEAR fucking tanks your coffers.

It's retarded as hell.

Like if a boss is charging up an attack I can't tell them to run or back off.

I can't set them to be defensive when I want or aggressive when I want. They're always aggressive. As a result they get the shit stomped out of them. Wasting my items all the time.

They can't use items themselves either, Noctis has to command them to use items. Even phoenix downs.

God damn i already came in my paints just thinking about the concept of cindy pissing in my mouth

If only Square could have conceived of some way to program your uncontrolled party members. Some sort of Gambit system or something…

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It's really amazing how FFXV is only making me more excited for Zodiac Age. Everything that this game falls short on or lacks entirely, FF12 IZJS has.

Classes/Jobs, decent and fun characters and interactions, female party members, actually good hunts, really meaty lore in the world, actually interesting world instead of just being pretty, summons that you can choose when to summon, controllable summons, treasure chests, better political/supernatural plot, no DLC, no patches.

Especially patches that are needed FOR THE FUCKING STORY

That's completely absurd. Do they expect you to be able to heal yourself at all times? Do they have no concept of healers?

Well, you CAN heal yourself. When you have 0 HP left, you have a few seconds to use a phoenix down on yourself.

But if you're low on health and you're in a situation where you can't get away from an enemy, someone from your party should be able to give you a potion or something.

Opening the menu to find a potion pauses the game. And then you're invincible during the item use animation.

It breaks the flow of battle pretty badly. And it's not like Monster Hunter where using an item is dangerous.

Oh, my mistake. I assumed it still played a bit like a really ''really' shitty KH, but that's pretty bad too. I feel like an idiot now.

Tactics Ogre was an Enix game retard

Square literally poached the TO devs to work on FFT

Yeah but then they had them do one of the best rereleases of all time for the PSP.

Normalfags are the saviors of vidya industry

That has to be the worst fucking thing i've ever seen. This is the epitome of how not to design a game. Cup Noodles? Reminds me of WoW style shit quests "kill X to cook Y to listen to generic script story Z" These characters are the toppest of autist, blondie sounds like a fucking whimp, and I want to slap the cup noodle seller for wasting people's time, going into ugly GUI menu's just to get a fucking cup noodle. Also the campfire looks retarded, its a generic cutscene where you can't move and watch whatever play out. What were they thinking?

That's bad considering how many years this hyped game was in development.

People call Starcitizen Scamcitizen but it's not that bad considering how big the dev team is and how long it has been in development for.

I wonder how bad KOH 3 will sell.

The sad part is I think you're serious.

How many copies does it have to sell to start making a profit?

They couldn't even outsell monster hunter
With the amount of money they shat into this game it's safe to say it's a flop

they said 10 million

Why the fuck does Cindy have the face of a prepubescent boy?

Development for SC started about 5 years ago

The FF game started 10 years ago.

Apparently that was a "communication problem." Whatever the case, XIII-2 sold about 500,000 copies on PS3 in Japan during it's opening week, whereas XIII sold over a million in it's first week. A 10 million breaking point is probably an exaggeration, but I doubt they're gonna make their money back on this.

OY VEY!
that's 4 million more than the prophecy foretold!

Gameplay doesn't sell games

Yeah, they would still need to make enough money on this thing besides making enough to cover tye costs.

From what I've seen, the game does make an honest try to capture the "roadtrip with your bros" feeling. It expects you to soak in the scenery, listen to some dialog, and busy yourself with little chores, like stopping at diners, gassing up the car, and stuff like that.

This is potentially an interesting setup and basis for a game. They just cut the idea short in its infancy. There doesn't appear to be much else to this quasi-realistic groundwork. You're not managing snacks or hunger. You don't have to pull over to let one of your buddies piss. You don't take turns driving or arguing over what to put on the radio…

And worst of all.. there's fucking nothing to really see. Yeah, it's a huge sprawling fantasy world, but it may as well be a screensaver, and a pretty lame one at that. It's lacking in jaw-dropping sights and truly whimsical imagery. It's just really generic countryside with the occasional floating rocks or strange rock formation.

If they went full Deadly Premonition and had you managing your party in a quasi-realistic, but silly kind of way, it would be entertaining. Something to tickle your autism in between battles. Of course, the battle system would need to be better too.. but it might even be forgivable if the experience in between the "hold button to fight" battles was mildly entertaining.

Japan

As much as people love to quote 10 million, they've specifically said that 10M is a sales goal and not necessarily what they need to break even. Honestly though, I think they don't actually know. Seriously, when you put together the development mess, plus side shit like the mobile spinoff games and all the promotional media, I'd be willing to bet that they genuinely don't have a definitive break even point. I think for at least a few years or so they've just been operating under the (probably true) assumption that they passed the point of no return, where they might as well finish what they have even if the game represents a net loss rather than cancel it and write the whole thing off.

I don't want to get on a thread derail, but the one has nothing to do with the other. Square at least has generally blown it's own money on FFXV. And a larger development team is not an excuse for being in development for a long time. Especially as SC release dates get farther away the longer the game is in development.

Wait you're saying you don't have control over the car

Can you take pictures in the game? While it probably wouldn't undo the damage in game, it would be a nice addition for the comfy nature

Not in the same way as other driving games. The driving is on rails. Hold R2, the car automatically drives, turns etc. When you reach a junction or intersection, push left/right to turn. Press square to U-turn. Press X to park.

Prompto automatically takes random pictures. You see what he has when you sleep ingame. And can choose to save or upload them or not.

I didn't know how badly I wanted this til now.

That is fucking gay, if you're going to have driving in a game you might as well make it fun

It would help if they were actually bro-tier rather than fujo-bait.

So driving is basically a loading screen?

CUP NOODLE 15

CUP NOODLE XV-2

I wouldn't say that, since you can park your car at any time and just get out and explore.

Although there's nothing much to explore.

Fuck Now I want someone to make a "Roadtrip with your bros" version of my Summer car

Why can't you fucking drive? Why can't you manually input combos? Why?!

Because it's made for casuals/game journalists and fujoshits?

Because that takes effort. It's weird because it's enjoyed by all the girls I know that have it a grand total of one loves it because "Bro-time, open world!" And basically because it just barely meets to qualifications of a video game. Which is weird because this the same friend who plays P* games and tries to plat every stage in them and likes airdasher fightans.

Meanwhile, everyone else that had a chance to play it all screamed about why make a roadtrip simulator and not fucking be able to drive the car. It just ain't right.

I'm kicking myself.. Now I really want a road trip with your bros simulator.

This thread is making me really depressed. The more I hear about this game and what it could've been, the more I wanna play it. But I know that I'll just be disappointed if I even could play it.

I'd say Chrono Trigger could be right up your alley, if you don't mind the lack of a car.

This bullshit almost makes me want to make my own game, to show the faggots at Square up
I've been to areas prettier than what they show in the gam

Final Fantasy is dead. Can we just get to posting Cidney porn already?

I don't know how you want to fap to that after seeing . Her face looks weird, fam.

You know, the whole time leading up to the game's release, I could've sworn her name was Cidney. Is it really Cindy?

I love ffxv

It is Cidney in Japan, but Cindy in NA. Fuck knows why they ruined the reference.

It's Cindy. Her adoptive father's name is Cid.

Her name should have been Mindy then to go back to Cid and Mid. Or Shera. Or ANYTHING BUT FUCKING CINDY.

So basically Enix banked big on an experiment and just like that it's good in theory, but poor in practice.

No they're just retarded, and hate money. But love cupnoodle.

I can't fucking wait any longer. I want Nier: Automata,
NOW

for you anons who don't masturbate for some reason
the third panel is the casting couch. A scenario/couch famous for having lots of porn made on it

Why the fuck did I click on it twice?

What a fucking wreck, what the actual fuck Tabata

you know what honestly bothered me most about the game? it wasn't even the pretty blatant product placement (remember that fishing guy in the second area? remember how during the cutscene the camera panned to his Coleman-brand director's chair for no fucking reason?). it's how noctis is such an unbelievably insufferable asshole.

>fuck off old man you don't know me OH GOD YOU DIED I AM NOW SAD

like seriously, did they somehow forget that a huge part of the reason that ffxiii bombed so hard was because lightning was such an increidbly unlikable cunt

Anita and Zoe were invited to the UN to discuss CYBER VIOLENCE TOWARDS WOMEN IN VIDEO GAMES, and everybody that sucks their tits went fucking bonkers over it - said it was the end of the internet and other assorted things.

And then it went absolutely nowhere. Nothing was ever brought up again afterwards, and that was the end of it. Her invitation was basically window dressing.

while the real reason is probably teenage edge chances are someone who is by default hostile to their parents has really shitty parents

tbh highwind or nazi biggs is the best character and iris is best waifu

I cannot see the logic here. Development costs have exploded over years, projects tend to take more manpower and more year, yet nobody will buy their games as consoles fade away into irrelevance. Maybe this is one of the reasons why there are more JRPGs for 3DS than PS4

dang dude

source lighting makes sfm look hideous

yes, only extremely exceptionally popular things like dragon quest and yakuza sell more than this in the games first week. Thinking 700K is low in Japan is like thinking 3M is low in America. You may be a retard if you think this.

is that oc? it's nice

You guys think spoony would've liked this game if he was still alive? Honestly it seems like something he wouldn't go to the trouble of reviewing for 5 hours.

Holy fuck I miss those dumb threads…some user are culinary ninjas.

It's not as good as one, but better than 2, and birth by sleep. It starts out piss easy at first, but once you get to chapter 2 it gets more fun.

The driving isn't like grand theft auto shit it's basicly riding a taxi. It's a lot better than it sounds. It's a good thing to replace fast travel. Chocobos are fun as fuck to ride though.

I would actually stick my dick in her in 2012.

the scenery in this game is amazing. Best I've seen in any game. It reminds me of going on road trips to california as a kid.

my nigga, those were my exact thoughts
Shaquisha, Devourer of Gods

Finished the game, why is everyone bitching about chapter 13? Sure the game took a emotional downturn but that's not a reason to hate the chapter.

Enjoy having Jew kids

Wait, you faggots actually believe those numbers?

What the fuck? Is that some kind of advertisement in game?

American Express.

Man, I actually disagree. I found Noctis to be one of the most likeable FF protags in a long ass while.
The last one I really liked was Tidus tbh

Here's your (You).

Aldrich, Devourer of Gods.

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Wrong again dumbass, unless you can tell people that the original fucking game was published by Enix, it wasn't, Quest Corporation did, so fuck you.

I second the motion, what is going on in japan?

Unless their FF9 fans.

same, I guess we have shit taste
but really, noctis felt like he developed while you were playing, becoming less of a prick as he went along.
By the end it felt like he was trying to be a decent guy.

im glad I preordered the last guardian instead of this. I will laugh at all the salt this piece of garbage creates while I wait for an actually good game to get here

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>that worldspace will never be ported to something like Arma/Outerra or The Elder Scrolls

god damn all those art assets need to be used for something good

Reminder about what Nomura wanted and what Tabata ruined.

A musical?

Reminder that Nomura is an idiot as well, and his game wouldn't have been any better.

Have you played it? No? Then fuck off. The only complaint you have is frame rate, and that could be said if almost all PS4 games.

there is sort of a combo system, at least with some weapons
the 'regular' greatsword combo of holding circle sucks ass, but if you release it and press it again properly, noctis does different attacks that are much better
i think other weapons are like that, too

That looks like a lot of one-time action sequences that would have been quick-time events even in Nomura's version of the game.

That's even disregarding how it would have taken another ten years to come out if he was still at the helm as well.

I will only defend Ignis. His name, his hair, his face and his Michael Jackson gloves are stupid, but the guy is the only intelligent person in the group, the only one who actually THINKS before acting, the only one who genuinely cares about Noctis as a buddy, the only one with opinions worth a slice, and he becomes a blind spearman.

Yeah, dude goes blind and still tries to fight. He sucks, of course, but he's more useful even blind than cameraguy and yell-face.
Gladio's only job is to yell at Noctis even after he loses his home, his father, his only love, and his best friend goes blind.

Somehow this is supposed to help Noctis, and the game outright says it does, despite Gladio doing nothing but being a hypocritical pantywaste. He yells at you for being sad about losing EVERYTHING, but he himself only got a bit of a cut on his face. Boo hoo you hulking fruit

Prompto is the designated "boy-girl" of the group. He's a guy, and a guy with good taste in women, but he acts like a ginger giddy girl. You could replace Prompto with a woman - Gladio's little sister - and give Gladio the taste in women and it would have been the same thing. At least then Gladio would be remotely likable.

Cup Noodle worshiping retard

Are you ok?

I'm down. I keep hearing about musical games, like how Batman Arkham Asylum was originally going to be a rhythm game, but no one has the balls to actually go foward with it.

welcome to the game industry for the last like fifteen years, where if it isn't a guaranteed moneymaker it doesn't really exist unless it's made by indie hipsters

What are you talking about? everyone on Holla Forums is either a faggot or a fujoshi trying to get pretty princess points so daddy will buy us games.

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Shouldn't you be too unconscious by that point?

source?

It's more like "heal yourself before you go fully unconscious"

Though I think if you don't, you die, even if your party members are alive.

if any of your guys can get to you, they can also heal you out of your danger state and get you at least moving so you can get some distance or do whatever you need to do

thicc

It's terrible all around.

Just for laughs, right? haha

The old greats before the age of degeneracy. Monty Python, Benny Hill, Mel Brooks. Much mature. Such sophistication.