Final Fantasy XV: Square Looks to Reinvent the RPG - IGN

IGN: Final Fantasy XV reinvents the lauded Square RPG again. Check out our impressions after playing the first four chapters.

[vikingland1]

Maybe this will be the FF we've been waiting for , aside from the emo boy band that is. Still, if it's fun and has a good story then it's all good.

[Snookies12]

How exactly are they emo? Because of their hair? Their clothing? Their personalities? They're all different in terms of personality, you can change their clothes, and FF has always had crazy hairstyles. (These hair styles are pretty tame in comparison, lol.)

[vikingland1]

Yes, they look emo because of their hair and clothing. I agree FF has always had crazy hair styles....and clothing that's part of the charm. Like I said "It's all good". I'm hoping this is going to be a classic.

@Eamon
ha evidently I don't.

[Eamon]

viking, I don't think emo means what you think it means....

[kingdomtriggers]

Emo....You do realize the main character is a dork who enjoys saying puns right? They're not edgy or emo at all.

[PhoenixUp]

I'd say FFXV reinvents the Final Fantasy franchise more than it reinvents the RPG genre as a whole.

[GrimmyReaper]

I really hope so cause all of the demo's have been utter shit IMO

Low frame rate that tends to go to 20fps, no anti aliasing which makes the game look incredibly pixelated, poor textures, poor lighting, driving controls were just odd in the Platinum Demo, models were something of last gen, lots and lots and lots of running and loading times of up to 2-3min.

People will probably say I'm a hater, but when all 4 demo's that I played had these problems. Yeah, ofcourse I get skeptical.

[Nara_shikamaru]

Okay, i only have two problems with your comment: lighting and frame rate...lighting is not poor, far from it, its rather realistic actually, other games sugar coat it with all these unrealistic glares and atmospheric effects, secondly the frame rate, i agree with you is definately an issue, however, alot of other consoles games have the same frame rate issues, some even worse, and bear in mind, those games hardly compare to this game in scale etc,

[GrimmyReaper]

I found the lighting to be very .. simple. The only nice thing was when I ran through forests and such other foliage heavy area's. My biggest problem is the fact that the frames dip so hard when everything looks so bad. People are talking about how great it looks and runs and Final Fantasy usually sets a standard. Fine, it doesn't look nearly as good as advertised, can it then at LEAST stay at 30? All demo's I played couldn't even keep up with 27 frames and yes! It matters!

Not only is it unappealing, it can outright fuck you over in battles and responsiveness. It just feels sluggish. And again, I noticed that in all 4 demo's I played, one was only a month ago.

[NoctisPendragon]

0 previews talked about framerate dips , some of them even pointed out that it was rock solid (even in huge battles) so you shouldn't worry about that for the 1st 15 hours of the game .

The Plat demo wasn't a seamless OW like the actual game so that's why you had load screens .

As for the lighting i personally found it fantastic and it got often praised .
Very few RPG /OW game come close to P.D's lighting from a pure technical standpoint : https://forum.finalfantasyx... .