r/FFXV

I really love how relationships between boys are portrayed in FF XV and I believe this is main reason why it‘s my favorite game in the series, despite all its flaws. So ever since I finished it I am trying to find games where relationships between teammates feels as real and fluid, and not just main character and bunch of supporting NPCs.

There are plenty of games with amazing parent-child dynamics, or between lovers, but with relationships between friends - not so much! Maybe it’s just my experience, I definitely didn’t play every single game in existence)

From what I know only Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy come close, but I can’t name anything else.

Do you have any other examples?

So for context. I first played this game at launch and absolutely loved it. I was blown away by the graphics and gameplay. I was a big Zelda and Kingdom Hearts fan growing up. This was also my first Final Fantasy game. At the time I was in nursing school so I didn’t have the money or time to play any of the additional content that came out later. Even though the game and especially story had its flaws, it was one of my favorites.

Now a decade later, I’m a married man with a full-time job. It still blows me away how good this game is. I also think it came from that era of video games when developers were actually making games look incredible rather than being constrained by publishers like they are now. Other examples would be Assassins Creed unity or Arkham Knight. I’m only about five hours in, but I’m so excited to see how the game has changed with the updates and DLC content.

I’ll wait to pass judgment until I beat it but so far I still think this Topps Final Fantasy rebirth for me

I'm late to the party, but better late than never I guess.

First of all, it's a beautiful game. I'm not here to talk about gameplay, but about the story and the ending and how I felt like it was really flawed.

It's baffling to me that a game that focuses on its characters and really wants you to care about them has an ending with absolutely zero closure. I mean yeah, Noct got his end credits scene with Luna, but I'll be honest, that didn't do anything for me.

First of all it was hard for me to care about Luna. She didn't feel human to me at all. She was the Oracle yes, but I don't think they did that well in trying to get me to care about her. I understand her importance and the emotional weight of her death, but she was more of a symbol than an actual human.

Her flashbacks with Noct as kids didn't really do anything for me and their interactions with each other as adults are almost non-existent or just plain as her whole personality was being the Oracle. I dunno, I tried to care about her but I just really couldn't.

Characters like Iris, Aranea and Cindy are there with Noct during the game and even tho they are clearly supporting characters, I ended up caring about them more than Luna and the game clearly wanted you to care about them too, only to just dump them.

I mean Talcott briefly mentions that Cindy is still at Hammerhead and Iris became a daemon hunter. Later on in Insomnia if you do the side quests, you will get like 20 second phone calls from each of them.

It's like the devs knew they had to add them in there somehow, because they were part of the story, but the rushed ending prevented them from having anything relatively meaningful going for them.

Once Noct sacrifices himself, we never really saw how the world recovered, making his sacrifice feel super empty for me. Not seeing the survivors see the light again and rebuild the world even briefly, just took all the weight from the sacrifice for me personally.

Also how the game changes in chapter 8-9 to a more linear and kind of rushed story was definitely weird. It had it's moments, but it just felt messy and rushed.

I have way more questions and things I wanted to mention, but I don't wanna bore you guys. You've probably seen people mention these exact things several times in the last 10 years.

Overall a lot of things I loved about the game, but the story just felt very incomplete and somehow anticlimactic. The journey that made you love the characters just didn't get an ending it deserved in my opinion.

i recently started my cd collection, and as both a nerd and a ffxv lover, i thought it was a nice idea to buy the ost cd, since i love the music in that game, but holy cow, the price is unreasonably high for a compact disc, i might as well just burn one myself. But i'm not here to complain, i just can't understand, is there a valid reason for having such high price? Because it doesn't seem to be some sort of limited edition/special/exclusive stuff...

J'ai eu la chance de découvrir FFXV avec l'édition royale il y a quelques années c'est peut être l'un des jeux qui m'a le plus marqué je ne comprends pas les personnes qui disent que le jeu est foireux a cause des problèmes pendant la production du jeu, ceux qui ont joué au jeu lors de sa sortie je peux comprendre mais ceux qui ont découvert le jeu avec l'édition royal j'ai l'impression qu'ils fondent leurs avis sur les "on dit" sur internet. Ce jeu est incroyable, probablement mon FF préféré, mon méchant préféré, mes invocations préférées, ma ville de l'univers FF préféré (Altissia). Le jeu est incroyablement varié, que ce soit la pêche, la customisation du véhicule, le camping, les attaques aléatoires des soldats magiteck.

Un jour j'ai lu un avis sur reddit la personne disait que FFXVI est mieux que XV car c'est un jeu fini, mais oh mon dieu! Bien-sûr que FFXVI est fini, il y a rien dedans a part des combats et des cinématiques.

Perso j'espère que SE sortira un FF XVII pas fini mais riche en contenu PCQ si c'est ça les jeux fini, je préfère encore le lancer une partie d'échecs.

Voilà petit coup de gueule parce que je trouve qu'il ne mérite pas son traitement, il m'a fait passer des heures incroyable et c'est le seul FF (je les ai tous terminé ) que j'ai continué après avoir terminé l'histoire principale

*mention spéciale pour la Regalia volante*