I've seen too many previews that ended up looking, and supposedly playing, far better than what the released game does. I rather wait 'til reviews from reliable sources come in.
Just like XIII.
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Anyways, I got this from GS. Also, once the localized Type-0 comes out, we can try out the demo, assuming it is part of the actual game.
Apparently Nomura has left the project to focus on Kingdom Hearts 3, and a new director is doing FFXV. Say hello to Hajime Tabata, probably the new hit director of the upcoming games of the franchise.
I'm not into Gamespot, but I'm just there for the article.
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/playing-final-fantasy-15-for-the-first-time/1100-6425760/Anyways, talking about the battle system, yet again. I don't know if a job system is existent in this title, although I'm expecting it's not, still Noctis is able to use multiple weapons, and can initiate combos based on different combination of weapons. Why did I say Noctis only? Well it looks like Noctis is the only playable character. Minus points for that for me. I'm not exactly sure, but that's what they said on the video. Probably a demo thing, but I do hope we can control the other characters, even if it's like XIII.
So looks like after X, the whole main games have become very dependent on single character battle interaction per real-time. I'm glad they're innovating, but I thought they would keep atleast some elements from the classics. It's more Kingdom Hearts-esque x XII x Crisis Core. I mean XII had a good battle system, I expected them to re-use the system where you're atleast able to switch characters, and add a system where you'll be able to initiate combos in-between.
As for technical issues, even after 7th Gen and currently 8th Gen consoles, the PS4 has been struggling with frame rate drops. As they said, maybe SE was too ambitious for a very dynamic game world like this, thinking they really want a successor to the VII, and might have even taken them more years to tweak and only decided it was time to release it due to how long it has been. If they didn't, we might be seeing XV on the PS5 instead, or the PC.
I'd rather there were a few less blades of grass and a few more frames per second than the otherway around.
Still, even with all that, I think they're actually going all-out on this. If I played the demo, and I become impressed, I have to say, their 8 years developing probably the best FF title so far(might most likely thank the open world exploration for that) I will think it was worth the wait. XV might not probably be the new VII, but will probably mark the real new generation of FF titles, which partly saddens me how Lightning isn't part of what's supposed to be her's. So yea, exploration is the actual reason why I'm digging it.
So when will the game be out? Who knows? But with the demos out, I'm expecting Japan release at around late winter 2015, or early 2016, with the NA release a few months after that as usual. If not, expect more years. :V
