More Final Fantasy XV Videos Show Enormous Areas and Draw Distance, Absolutely Beautiful Graphics

Final Fantasy XV Director Hajime Tabata appeared at a conference at Paris Games Week, and after showing a definitely amazing tech demo focused on the power of the Luminous engine he had more up his sleeve.

[ic3fir3]

is impossible =O

[TheLyonKing]

It's so pretty and looks so tangeable.

I hope they have secret areas on the world map like the island closest to hell and the island closest heaven and the research lab in 8 or where you get quadra and knights of the round in 7. Also I hope there's secret towns and villages...I am rambling because am starting to get hyped again!!

[bouzebbal]

well after the 6 years they have been developing it i am not expecting less.
i wanna see how much of an RPG this game will be, cause i haven't been entirely sold for the fighting mechanics. if it's as RPG as Kingdom Hearts then it's a no go for me.
I expect very deep RPG elements in a FF.
Definitely looks crazy graphically

[on_line_forever]

the only thing iam worry about is the fight system

we want epic fight with monsters like squall in final fantsy 8 when he hit and cute the monster by lion heart .

also we want to see great magic attack and great summons .

[on_line_forever]

oh i forgot

i love CARD GAMES so much in final fantasy 8

i hope they bring it again in FFXV .

[hay]

Those are all good points, but after they "simplified" targeting and command system, excluded character change I feel this will be more of FFXIII all over again. Really beautiful game with no substance.

[Yahdaree]

I am not worried about graphics with SE anyways.. it's story and gameplay. I hope those are good. Looking good so far.

[TheFanboySlayer]

Impossibru*

[Magicite]

so its open world almost like Skyrim? Awesome!

[TheLyonKing]

This game looks very promising, if I had to compare the open world and over feel to any ff i would place it nearer 8 though a story with fighting kingdoms also seems to draw heavily on 9.
Both are my two most favourite ffs so I have high hopes this game will be superb and the story will spot on (tight and easy to understand).

My only two concerns is comments the new director made about the battle system and maybe that the other characters in noctis' group won't have good character background making them uninteresting.

[joab777]

Looks they have drawn heavily from Western rpgs. Though I see some Dragons Dogma in there...which isn't bad.

If it has a deep combat system, great story, and customization to go with the gorgeous open world...I will buy and play my 1st FF games since 13.

[on_line_forever]

i agree with you

we want deep combat system like final fantasy 7 and 8 .

[tanukisuit]

... what's this about a new director??? O_O

[TheLyonKing]

Tetsuya gave the reins to Hajime Tabata so that Tetsuya could work on kingdom hearts 3 and knowing tetsuya a lot of other projects as well.

In an interview he sid he wanted to make the gameplay in a way a lot easier for people to play essentially making it a one button press. I can't remember if it was just mistranslated but it still worries me.
I hope he just means it will be easy to use on the surface but more deep and engaging for people wanting a more fuller ff experience.

Heres the interview anyway: http://www.eurogamer.net/ar...

[Kumomeme]

@theylyonking

i believe this 'one button' issue had been cleared before

if you keep followed after past tgs update,there are clarification from another interview with tabata together analysis from neogaf user based on the gameplay patent

what sure and what been clarify now is:

-tabata want to make the gameplay more approachable to casual gamers only,but doesnt mean it will be easy,it just approachable,while hardcore can expect more
-it was no button smashing,this had been cleared
-gameplay mechanic was involve one button +gambit mechanics,which is pretty strategic combat come with it
-nothing near kh3 combat as well

this stuff already been clarified before, hope this stuff no need to repeat over and over again

[tanukisuit]

Thank you, sir.

[Elda]

The anticipation is driving me crazy!

[The_Blue]

Im sitting here thinking about all the hours i'm going to spend on this. lol

[jhoward585]

Final Fantasy XV runs so smooth. The draw distance are incredible.

BTW, does anyone know what the crowd were cheering about?

[kingdomtriggers]

I know the biggest cheer was from Tabata asking the crowd "Do you want japanese voices in the overseas versions of the game?" And obviously the crowd went wild. and Tabata said "Well, we will have to work on getting that in for you guys" or something like that. essentially, dual audio for ffxv 90% confirmed.

[jhoward585]

thank you for the info. Sounds like the japs are getting back in to console gaming.Wow, I have never heard them this excited in a long time.

[xGrunty]

All those graphics.
Can only play as one character.

What a fail. SE is a shadow of its former self.

[Kumomeme]

wait the game came out first then decide wherever it fail or not
surely not easy for devs team to come for such decision ...they build the game,develop the game,creating the mechanics,making the script and stuff

while we gamers only know to play

[DigitalRaptor]

This is my biggest concern as well.

I'm still looking forward to XV, but the concept for each character and their individual battle skills that would have made gameplay about 10x more interesting and dynamic, has been axed. This isn't a good thing, despite how pretty the game looks or how large the game world is.

[Tapani]

FFXV is giving me the same feeling of excitement I used to have when expecting a new FF game in the 90s.

[TheGrimReaper0011]

Is this really running on PS4 and XB1 hardware?

I'm sorry, but it just looks ... so ... preeeeetty

[EXVirtual]

Don't worry.
At TGS they were using a DS4 controller (PS4 dev kit) and this is the Luminous Engine 1.4. By the time the demo releases, the game will run on Luminous 1.5 and by the time the full game releases it will run on 2.0. So you can expect even better graphics than this at native 1080p on PS4. SE knows how to do their graphics (:

[Kumomeme]

and we might expect more if square release on pc
curious what kind of enhancement they got for pc users especially those with high end specs

[Paprika]

Looks great so far, almost reminiscent of dragons dogma. If its more refined and the story and general final fantasy styled aspects are in place, then this might just work out!

[Agent_hitman]

My jaw drops

[Becuzisaid]

The night scene definitely reminded me of Dragon's Dogma. Hoping that they still put a large emphasis on explorable towns and cities. Preferably with seamless transitions from wilderness, but I can compromise a little I guess.

[TonyPT]

I'm still hoping that this game will come to PC :) I really wanted to play this, as I haven't played any FF since PS2.

I'm not going to buy a console just because of 1 game. Not criticizing consoles, it's just that I'm a PC gamer for many years now.

[Eiyuuou]

"Not criticizing consoles"

THIS. We need more people like you. I also hope, despite the fact that I play on PS4, that it comes on PC so that people like you can enjoy this awesome game too!

[Kumomeme]

buy ff13 trilogy to show support pc version
currently square are testing pc market by releasing bunch of ff titles

[EXVirtual]

FF15 will come to PC after the trilogy is over. You'll have to wait a while.

[Kumomeme]

those amazing draw distance remind me of the feeling when enter bionis legs in xenoblade(this more awesome)

the woods and pitch dark night with torchligh kind remind of dragons dogma,

hope they could added breath sound when sprinting on the field like dragon dogma does,also hope added stuff like character goes dizzy when walk in circles like in ff13
it will be great if more dynamic wheather presence...kind remind me of discovery channel where a group of scientist chasing tornado on road
and this game badly need photomode

also,really hope they release official HD video for this
if possible uncompressed version too

[aerisbueller]

looks FF'in amazing.

[XtraTrstrL]

Insane draw distances. It's so good you'd assume those far-away background objects wouldn't be reachable or full 3D, but it seems most/all of everything you see is all there and reachable.

[mediate-this]

Leas characters look like j pop stars, lol. Effeminate males. Japanese are weirdos