Players May be able To Switch Party Members in Final Fantasy XV

Final Fantasy XV received plenty of coverage recently when it took the center stage at this year’s TGS with its road trip trailer. The game was missing for more than a year without any proper footage and info and suddenly made a big appearance at TGS with a kick-ass trailer. Along with this trailer, we also heard a lot of new details about the game, along with the news that Tetsuya Nomura is no more involved with the project.

[NukaCola]

Game doesn't need it. It's not turn based. FFXIII static player made it frustrating, specifically since in previous FFs, if your main guy is down, you can be revived many ways by others. It's not the end of the world.

[vishmarx]

imo it was just a misinterpretation , he might have meant that the party members are controlled by ai unlike ,7,9,9,10 and more akin to 12,13 at a given time
and no point was it ever said that player switching is out.
well find out in two days though

[Metallox]

Other RPGs aren't exactly turn based and don't have problems switching playable characters. I think this function is a must. What if some people don't like Noctis movements?

[Kamikaze135]

As long as it works well, I'm fine with just one playable character.

[Spotie]

Ys: MoC isn't turn based, but you can switch your characters on the fly, and it works quite well.

Not a matter of needing it or not. Just a matter of implementing it well.

[rextraordinaire]

Many real time rpgs did character switching well. Tales, Star Ocean, Ys...

[iamtehpwn]

I've been hearing it was a mistranslation, and that they meant you will only be able to play as Noctis in the demo, Episode Duscae.

I don't see why they would change the ability to switch party members when they've shown it off as a feature since the first Gameplay reveal back on Ps3.

[DarkOcelet]

Hopefully its true .

[Double_Oh_Snap]

I really hope so... I just think it would be a lot of fun and add a lot of combat variety.

[Paprika]

Other interviews have stated you will have control over party members in battle. The demo won't however.

I'll find some links :)

[gangsta_red]

It's looking more and more like great action RPG's like Tales and Rogue Galaxy!

Can't wait to play this game!

[Dasteru]

They really should bring back and expand on the gambit system from FFXII. It was by far the best AI control provided in any game ever. If you cannot directly control side characters during combat, atleast allow AI programming so they aren't completely useless like in FFXIII.

[kingdomtriggers]

They are lol. In interviews tabata directly said the combat "is like the gambit system" Based on the patent it seems like the ff12 gambit system on steroids.

[BluFish]

Very cool. A lot of people seemed to hate FFXII and its combat, but I loved it. I didn't think it was much different than the standard FF template- you just didn't have to load into battles and could move around during combat. Positive changes, I think.

[Dasteru]

FFXII is my favorite post merger FF. The characters may not have been the most likeable but story wise it is by far the least cliche in the series. The licence board was a much improved version of FFXs sphere grid (especially IZJS). The gameplay was great and the gambit system was genius.

[KwietStorm_BLM]

I had assumed this was always the case. Guess I got ahead of myself.

[DarkZane]

Pretty sure this was confirmed a long time ago that you could switch which party member you control at any time.

[Kalebninja]

lol this was confirmed AGES ago. even in the leviathan trailer it shows you playing as the blondie.

[Secretariat]

Right? This is common knowledge and nothing new.

[nshpff]

Tabata said that the only player you can control is Noctis. The trailer you speak of was released before Tabata changed the battlesystem, so basically it plays like FFXII and Type 0.

[trenso1]

no type-0 you can control all the characters you just switch to the one you want to control

[nshpff]

@trenso1 That's why I mentioned FFXII too. It takes elements from both games AND Tabata said that it's a simpler version of the Type-0 battlesystem.

[Chii081994]

But if you read this interview :

http://sqex.info/tgs-2014-4...

It pretty much concludes that only noctis is controllable

according to Tabata: "The only character you can control is Noctis, but the other characters operate based on a strategy assigned by the player and they act automatically."

more like Tales series only that you cant control the other characters

[Adrian_v01]

I wanna play as Prompto D: I love guns