Topic: General Final Fantasy Thread

@Dezzy Got it At least the anime is easy to search around...

Huh, well waiting until next year will at least allow me to finish the game coming this year anyway (and hopefully better sales by then as well). Thank you for the help owo/ I'll take a look in the anime tonight then.

Royal Edition...... I think I agree that the new non-season pass content is going to have to be fairly substantial to justify $25-30.

Although, Royal Edition will probably be $60 in Canada, and the SP is $30+...... maybe I should just buy Royal. It'd cost the same price, but then I'd have the game digitally. Since the “Royal“ content is ultimately just an addon, I should be able to keep my saves.

I regret getting the game at launch because now it finally seems like the game it was meant to be, but I got burned out enough on open worlds that I have no desire to try to play through it again

@MisterPi

Yep. It's very dodgy. It's a bit of a Catch-22 as well though. If it hadn't sold as well at launch, they wouldn't have made all this extra stuff.

Yeah, I think I'll wait this out before I play more of it, then. I was already overwhelmed by the sheer about of content in the base game, let alone the updates. If there's still more new content outside of the Ryal edition, I don't think I'm ready to go back to it just yet. Shame, since I already thought it was a fascinating game. I'd love to delve more into it. However, I also love playing finished products, and that's clearly not what FFXV has been for quite some time now...

@CanisWolfred

I think the main story does feel finished after Ignis and Prompto DLC were added.

There's still plenty they could add to improve it further but I do think it feels like a complete experience at this point. Which it definitely didn't at launch.

Something that would improve it massively is making the second continent explorable. Or even just small parts of it. It would improve the pacing hugely and would also better balance the difficulty. If you do absolutely everything on the first continent before you leave, you're insanely overpowered for the second half. So as it stands if you want to play the game in its optimum way (doing everything but never being overpowered), you need to keep warping back to the first continent from rest points. Which I hate doing because it completely breaks to sense of narrative cohesion between the gameplay and story.

@Dezzy Well, that's certainly not the product sitting on my shelf, since I didn't buy the DLC, and it sounds like it'll save me a lot more money if I just sell that and get the complete edition later, like I should've done with Street Fighter V (which I was going to do, but then I found SFV still sitting on my shelf last week, long after I thought I already sold it, so I opted out of pre-ordering the Arcade Edition, only to find out that I'm still left with a massive grind that I need to spend money for. I don't want to spend hours playing as characters I don't like, just so I can get Sakura and Blanka back...it's like my favorite characters are being held ransom <_<)

@CanisWolfred

If you didn't buy the season pass, you should definitely just sell your current copy and buy either this version or whatever the final version ends up being.

But either way you should definitely replay it with the various DLC. Ignis and Prompto ones are great. The free update to Chapter 13 makes it sooo much better than it was at launch.
Then the Gladio and Comrades DLC are an OK bit of fun but not at all essential to the story.

Talking about XV, what happened to the pocket edition or whatever it was called?

It kind of never happened.

@Meowpheel

It's been moved to “Winter“. So, the next 2 months, probably.

Hm. I wonder how will that be compared to the big game.

It's apparently the exact same story with simplified gameplay.

I have a question for you final Fantasy aficionados. I bought FF7 and love it. The catch is... I bought it on the App Store for my iPad. Is it worth buying on Switch (if it ever comes to it) or just keep playing iOS. (I’m pretty far in and probably won’t want to restart for a loong time.

I doubt a port of original FFVII will ever be released on the switch so I guess you're ok just playing it on your iPad.

Even the remake seems unlikely.

@Voldemort807 The original will never come to the Switch, at least not in any official capacity. I'd honestly be very surprised if the remake made it to the Switch. If you're far enough in I'd say just finish it off on there and then play the remake if you're able to when it releases.

@Meowpheel

It's got 10 chapters (I guess it's condensed from the game's 14/ 15-ish) and an asking price of $20 USD for all of them. It must be something substantial, given that mobile apps rarely tend to price that high.

@DarthNocturnal Nah, that's typical Square-Enix App Store pricing. They're usually between $12-20.

Yeah. But well to be fair they're usually fully featured rpg games.

I may get it on windows, to play on my tablet and laptop. Haven't played any main Final Fantasy post-9, so this is quite interesting.

@CanisWolfred

For their mainline FF game ports, yes. But not for their built-for-mobile games (Record Keeper, Brave Exvuis, etc).

Well, this is a mainline FF port. Kinda.

@Meowpheel

My point is that most games on mobile are F2P or very cheap. When they have a price tag reaching into double digits? It'd better feel like it's worth it.

The FF mainline game ports are “pricey“ by app store standards, but the cost is generally justified, since you're getting the full game with no frills (except for the DRM.... I wish they'd remove that).