Final Fantasy XV Gets 1080p Screenshots; More Info Shared on Magic, Niflheim Empire and Combat

Square Enix released new screenshots and artwork of Final Fantasy XV.
On top of that, a whole lot of new information on the game has been shared.

[DarkOcelet]

http://cdn3.dualshockers.co...

This looks absolutely beautiful.

"Thunder will be more powerful when it rains due to the interaction between electricity and water. Blizzard will freeze water and slow down enemies."

I love how natural elements in the game like Rain will affect Magic.

I feel this game will set the bar huge for JRPG and RPG games in general.

And Aranea looks badass and beautiful :3

[Abriael]

i'm in LOVE with Aranea.

Who said that Final Fantasy XV has no strong ladies again?

(PS: I bet someone will take issue with the fact that she wears a mask. I don't know, but I feel someone will find a way to protest it as demeaning or some such).

[DarkOcelet]

If people will complain then they should just stop watching this game.

I dont want anything changed at all.

Aranea looks badass as it is.

And btw Aranea was available in Versus XIII gameplay.

http://vignette4.wikia.noco...

I love her new design.

http://cdn3.dualshockers.co...

I am so glad she is back and still super badass.

So now, we have to badass Female Dragoons.

http://gematsu.com/wp-conte...

[-Gespenst-]

The second picture you linked is of the character Gentiana.

[Quatron]

Who cares? I'm more concerned about the gameplay, it seems like it's even more simplistic not just in control but also how it looks. And that it's announced to be this year has me a bit worried. Also is it just me or are the health bars looking more and more tame?

[camel_toad]

It's frickun beautimous. I really hope this is Final Fantasy's return to glory.

[DarkOcelet]

And the game looks like its gonna have a really dark story.

[sinspirit]

I hope this comes to PC just so they hopefully release a free benchmark just like FF14 has. Also, what if it did have a PC version and a huge modding community? Might be interesting. I want chocobo racing.

[DarkOcelet]

I am pretty sure its coming to PC but maybe a year or two later.

And i am gonna buy it a second time when it comes to PC :)

[ErebosTenebris]

I'm pretty sure there's gonna be chocobo racing without having to mod for it. Considering how ambitious they're being with this project, there's no way they wouldn't add it.

[-Gespenst-]

Dragoon Lady! I thought we'd never see her again. Nice to have names to put to those other characters. The Assassin's Creed looking guy from the earlier trailers (DKS3713 Trailer, Advent Children Complete Trailer, e3 2013 trailer) is still a mystery though. Glauca reminds me of that big armored guy that the Assassin's Creed looking guy talks to in the 2013 e3 trailer. Maybe he's one of the "captains" that serves under Glauca. Then again, the AC looking guy was talking to him, and I'm starting to think the AC looking guy is from some other country, not Niflheim, meaning the big metal guy who reminds me of Glauca is probably not a Niflheim soldier / captain.

[randomwannab]

"The female character introduced today is named Aranea Highwind and she’s in command of Niflheim’s 87th Airborne Unit, which is “kind of a mercenary unit.” She’s human and due to her ability in aerial combat, the army started to refer to her as “the Dragoon.”"

Kinda reminds me of Cid from Final Fantasy VII.

[Relientk77]

Hoping Final Fantasy XV is good

[Nucler100]

I need this game in my life. I don't know any other way to put it. I just need it.

I -, we, have waited too long. It's almost time.

March 30th....lets go.

[DEATHxTHExKIDx]

This game looks so promising. Its nearly guaranteed greatness at this point.

[thexmanone]

Those are nice screen shots, It just goes to show what a good PC can do. The PC fans should enjoys this.

[the_dark_one]

salty arent you??

[thexmanone]

O please explain as why my comment is salty.

You don`t really think those screen shots are from the PS4 do you?

[nRicosS]

Im not good in English.
So FF XV only have 3 magics, fire, blizzard, thunder???

[Deeke]

Yeah, there's only three elemental magics, but they are dynamic and interact with the environment. So you can light grass and oil on fire for extra damage, or using Thunder in the rain for more damage.

There's also "ring" magic, which is exclusive to the bearer of the Lucis royal signet ring. So basically only Noctis will be able to use Ring Magic.

[indyman7777]

hmmm That's a far cry from 400 like the turn based rpg's. Guess you can't have everything. If they was going to put 400 plus magic assest's in the game plus all the other hundreds of fighting assest, then they would have went ahead and made it a turn based rpg to get 50% market penetration.

[ErebosTenebris]

No. They only said there are 3 elements. There might still be different levels of the spells, (blizzard, blizzara, blizzaga, et cetera).

Furthermore we don't know how many ring spells there will be, or what kind of effects they will have. At this point it could be 4-5 or a couple dozen. Though I would guess that they will use ring magic to fit in some of the other iconic spells like gravity magic, bio, holy, flare, and ultima.

I would also argue that summons are a type of magic as well, and we already know of 3 of them, (ramuh, titan, and leviathan).

Considering that the game still doesn't even have a release date, I doubt that's even a quarter of the summons in the game.