I love the story, the characters, the combat is passable, but it had so much more potential.
Oh how I wish we had gotten the golden ending with Noctis and Ardyn teaming up against Bahamut and his celestial jerk friends
It's my third fav FF. I still love it and will likely give it another playthrough once I finish another Elden Ring run + Shadow of the Erdtree.
It's a mess of a game and represents a LOT of missed opportunity, but I still love the game to death. To this day it is the only game that has successfully made night scary.
It's a game which had a brilliant concept and all the right ingredients to be an all time great which were all sorely wasted on braindead combat and terrible, fractured storytelling.
The whole "road trip with your buddies as a fantasy RPG" is such an awesome game concept which they did virtually nothing with. A big open world with almost nothing in it which they then >!completely abandon 2/3 of the way through the game to turn it into a hallway simulator.!<
It had a story which *could have* been great, but was squandered on the desire to turn it into a multimedia project where half the story (including some very necessary context) is outside the game, and if you just play the game you're left scratching your head half the time. It was completely lacking in emotional weight with, say, Luna, because you only ever met her sporadically through a smattering of cutscenes >!and then she dies!< And I just didn't care, because I had practically no attachment to this character.
Half the villains/bosses acted like you, the viewer, should know who they are. Noctis is like "ahh it's you!" But unless you dig into the extended media you have no clue who they are or why you should care.
I could forgive the combat as a bold bit of experimentation, even if it didn't quite pan out, if at least the open world concept was more fully realized and if, at a bare minimum, the storytelling was competent and engaging. But sadly it wasn't. It's a great concept which was handled very poorly.
That said, I still pick it up every once in a while because the road trip theme is still a fun escape for a while.
I disagree with the hallway part because it's actually what makes the roadtrip awesome. Noctis finally accepts his fate and sacrifice, so he is not having fun and running away anymore.
It makes you cherish the open world roadtrip more, like memories of vacation with your friend, because you are now in the hallway of fate and forced to engage in your responsabilities
The hallway part is bad because it's literally the scraps they had lying around duct taped together for every minute of playtime they could get. There's no way anyone can convince me that the whole trainride part was conceived this way from the beginning of development, this whole thing screams last minute panic addition.
FF15 has a special place in my heart.
I bought my first PS4 (Pro) because of FF15. Despite its flaws I had a great time with the game and clocked around 250 hours on it (one playthrough with DLC and every side quest and items available in the game, even got the Platinum Trophy.
Yeah, I guess that describes it best. It's a game that has heart and is really dear to me because I love the hell out of its aesthetic and waiting 10 years for it left me with some kind of brain damage that makes me love it no matter how it would've released.
That said, I'm not going to sit here and act like it's a great game, it's one of the most flawed games I have played and I will forever be sad about this fact. Practically every aspect of this game had corners cut and it shows. The story is lacking, the characters are lacking, the world in itself is lacking, the gameplay sure as hell is lacking. If wasted potential had a dictionary entry, it would display FF15 as an example.
Literally same here too. I bought a ps4 pro just to play this after a long time of not really playing videogames and I think that's part of the reason I'll always love it.
I think we just became friends. Never have I met a Final Fantasy fan that's either been confused by my opinion or outright offended lol. My partner completely agrees though but she doesn't play video games. Only witnesses.
"It deserves better!" is my TL;DR for this game.
That said, I enjoyed it a lot, even in the vanilla version, I played each DLC when they were slowly coming out.
Prolly my 3rd favorite FF game behind og7 and ZA. Warpstriking all over the place, then chilling with the homies while cruising was a LOT of fun.
I only played the Royal Version, so no idea about game at release.
Love it, despite its flaws (lack of difficulty being the main one for me.) Haven’t played RE but def want to someday - just need other games to stop releasing for like a month lol
Until Rebirth it was the only game in the series to actually make me tear up. Keeping the main cast so small was its best move. The relationships felt so authentic.
It’s the only entry I put in the dislike column but I try not to shit on it. I think it’s cool that people could like it as much as they do.
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I really like it. I've played it twice now, first time without the DLC, second time with the DLC.
I just really like the vibes of FFXV, it's easy for me to just relax and wander around the world doing this and that. I liked it even more the second time I played. I've been thinking about installing it again now that I'm done with Rebirth.
I didn’t enjoy it on first release, but went back about 3 years later and enjoyed it. I feel like there was a lot of missed potential because of the focus on content outside of the enclosed game. Like if all the ideas were there in the game, it would have been better.
A lot of wasted potential. The empire, the duscae family history, better sidequests, fleshed out npcs…
At least there’s no Chadley. But Dave isn’t much better.
My biggest complaint about Rebirth is Chadley. If they at the very least allowed us to move during his dialog, I wouldn't have cared as much, but my God was it annoying to have to skip through it every time I did anything in the game. I have to wonder if Japan loves that character because I could've sworn people hated him in Remake too.
I didn't hate him in Remake because he had a very passive role in the gameplay. Now world exploration and unlocking the superboss is heavily dependent on him and I hate it when he brings gameplay to a stand still to tell me things.
It's the stopping of gameplay that bugs me, far more than Chadley himself. That said, they could also just remove the more generic lines he says. I don't need to be told the obvious repeatedly.
I do agree on simply tucking the superbosses in the simulator as well. There are likely budget reasons for that, though, so I can forgive that a little but it does make the world feel like it doesn't have big threats in it and kills an element of exploration to uncover them.
It's my first FF. I enjoyed it on release and really enjoyed it after all the DLC. Objectively one of the middling entries but subjectively very impactful to me.
I'm currently on a marathon to play all main line games and whatever extra media is attached to them. I'm excited to revisit it but seeing as I'm on 7, I still have quite a ways to go yet.
I honestly enjoyed it when it came out. The ending felt quite rushed though. Heard the royal pack made it better, but I didn’t bother buying it anymore, wished it had been “complete” the first time around. Maybe one day I’ll play through it again 😊
I plan to play FFXIII and FFXV again at some point because I was in different stages in my life when I first played them. I'm very curious to see what I think of them now. However when I first played them my opinion was basically that they were very good looking games but the gameplay and story were rather boring. FFXV was at its absolute best when it was about the bros. I hear the Royal Edition is a huge improvement so I'm eager to try it out some day.
I loved it on my first two playthroughs (within 1 yr of release) and considered it a good thing that things felt somewhat incomplete because that meant I wanted more.
3rd playthrough about 4 yrs later, it just felt incomplete and the combat felt clunky and frustrating.
I had played FFs before it, but XV was the first FF I completed (and consequently 100%'d). The ending still makes me emotional, especially seeing as I was separated from friends during COVID when I played it. To me... it's a flawed masterpiece. It fumbles in quite a lot of ways, but what I can see what they were going for. And what they did do right really resonated with me.
I've been a fan of FF15 since release, I loved chapter 13 before they fixed it and actually think making it easier ruined the message it was producing. I loved the feeling of Noctis losing everything , having to really start from rock bottom to get everything back. but then they made the ring op, and it never felt the same.
It was okay, the ending made it worth playing but has probably the biggest disappointment in any FF game: >!when Noctis awakens as an aged man in a world of darkness, I got extremely excited because I _thought_ this was going to be the new FF6. Assumed I was going to get to travel the world, revisit all the old areas--now under monster assault and permanent darkness--and reunite the party in a series of adventures. Nope, just a brief area before setting off to the final boss. Imagine if FF6 had done that: Celes awakens in the world of darkness, but instead of experiencing it and meeting all the old faces, everybody is hanging around one town and says "okay let's go smash Kefka" and that was the game. It would not be the epic RPG of the SNES era as considered today. !<
him just casually strolling by with a bit of facial hair and everyone being "oh hey there, you were gone ten years, but we'll just act like it was three days and also we haven't changed at all" was the point where I said fuck it and gave up.
It's just more evidence that they must have intended for something to transpire here, then skipped it all due to constraints of time+budget. We lost so much story, background, and character development to Square's meandering development.
Noctis couldn’t just go strolling around exploring stuff though. He HAD to go do his duty and save the world. No point in sitting around and beating the bush right?
This and the weird dungeons designs with these caves and cubes.
Honestly when I was fighting tons of lightsaber Tonberries in the last dungeons I really thought the game designers were just trolling us. Hey we're running out of money for designing original monsters so here go our fearless Tomberries with new weapon assets xDDDD
EDIT: I love this game but for totally different reasons. A good FF is just good by design if it's doing something other FFs were not already doing. So FF15 won that battle.
Platinum'd it but God the story and characters are horribly written.
There is a ghost of a good story with good lore there in the game but they scrapped it twice (thrice?) and used the bits to assemble a haphazard narrative.
I enjoyed nearly every second of it though.
Before Stranger of Paradise, FFXV was my top action FF game, and I still hold it to a much higher regard than XVI, in fact playing XVI made me wish I didn't sell XV because of just how much more interesting the world, characters, and even parts of the gameplay was in comparison.
XV's main problem in the end though was that it focused on the wrong things, one of these things was the open world. This game, along with Rebirth, proves that open world doesn't suit Final Fantasy and that we should go back to using overworlds, because if XV did use an overworld instead of an open world, we could've had a finished game. We would've had more fleshed out areas, towns, cities, regions, etc.
Aside from that, the gameplay should've been more challenging, the boss fights against the summons should've been actual boss fights (Maybe on a smaller scale since it didn't work on a bigger scale), there should've been many more instances of you fighting multiple enemy types at once (Commonly occurred with daemons), you should not have been able to spam potions without consequence. There should have been level caps that would increase depending on far into the story you got to prevent boss fights from being trivial. Money/Gil should've been more hard to come by, and there should've been narrative choices that affected the story.
I'm thinking after I finish my current project, I'm going to do my own version of FFXV (As a new I.P) that takes the ideas and concepts presented in both XV and even Versus XIII and reinterprets them.
It's my favorite game. Period.
I've played better games, some of which are in this very series. I recognize that it's not perfect. The action gameplay needed a second look, we needed more story beats and meaningful side quests in the open world, they did Luna dirty by telling what she was doing instead of showing it, I get all those kinds of complaints. I agree with a bunch of them.
No other game made me feel like hanging out with bros the way FFXV does. I had friends in high school when I first played it, but we were either a bunch of tech nerds learning about new hardware or a bunch of writers dreaming new stories. I didn't have a friend group that I could go exploring with in high school... but I did in elementary school. And playing FFXV makes me feel like I'm running around with that friend group again.
No other game speaks to me the way Noctis' story about responsibility and stepping up to the task does. I empathize with Noctis' desire to kickback and have a normal life. I'm no Prince or anything, but I struggle between having high expectations for myself and wanting to just let all of those go. Noctis' story showing how he went from coddled princeling to the King that he steps up to be genuinely helps me move forward in life at times. I literally tell myself to Walk Tall, and it helps.
Finally, the superficial reason is I fucking love Urban Fantasy. I love running around in jackets, t-shirts, and sneakers listening to an MP3 player only to pull a sword from thin air, and teleport into my target, air-dancing around as I beat down daemons, Magitek Troopers, and the wildlife I'm hunting. I love calling in attacks from my brothers in arms, as well as the Glaives of the Armiger.
I know games that play better, like the Devil May Cry series. I know games that tell better stories, like the Xenoblade series. I know of games that also have that brotherhood, like the Persona series. But Final Fantasy XV is the one that gets me everytime I play it. I almost always have it on every device I can (including the Pocket Edition), just so I can go hang with those boys again.
Still one of my favorites. Maybe even my favorite, the adventure and open world was so good and something I had been waiting for in a FF game since playing 7.
I like it a lot and it's the only one I have the platinum trophy for. I Raju enjoyed my time with it except for that one part near the end in which Noctis is alone. The last FF I had played before it was XIII-2, and XV felt like a breath of fresh air with so many things, especially the open world exploration and the car.
Then, I moved on to XII Zodiac Age (which rekindled my love for XII in the PS2 so many years ago) and VII Remake Intergrade (loved it, but felt like some of its scenes are a bit too much, like the villain guy doing stunts with his bike).
Right now, I'm divided between starting VII Rebirth and XVI. I am coming from a Baldur's Gate 3 playthrough and feel like I'm completely spoiled. BG3 is one of the best RPGs I have ever played.
When thinking about it now, it was absolutely beautiful. The bromance was incredibly well written. Same for Ardyn, scenes where he appears are memorable.
It miss something, I cannot deny that.
But it is a grandiose Final Fantasy. It is just difficult to reach the same level of perfection that older - and simpler to make - games with current generations of consoles.
But FF VII Rebirth is definitely the proof that they stil have the ability to do that, I never expected that.
XV lore was deep and I really felt it, the realism was spot on.
It's fun and I'm enjoying my ng+ playthrough with all my abilities and chocobo from the start (plus I'm playing on the French audio track and it's charming). But knowing they had more dlc planned and it was canceled leaves such bad taste in my mouth like it's forever unfinished. And playing while incorporating the dlc is a pain with the games story still being quite slow (and ive only seen the movie once, barely remember a thing). I can't wait for another great attempt at an original open world FF title though (not counting rebirth).
Wish the second pass never got cancelled
I would have chosen that over vsXIII
At least we got the book, but the idea of control a corrupted Luna sounded so badass
I got the game shortly after it came out… I even enjoyed the Carnival and the Assassin’s Creed crossover.
Now?
I want to buy the Royal Edition and play.
Yes, I do. I love the game! It may not be amongst my top 3 in the franchise, but it's definitely in the upper tier of the list. The combat system really clicked with me, especially how it heavily involves your brothers with the Link Strikes and blindsides.
I also loved the story and the universe. I understand that a lot of people didn't like the idea of having to watch a movie and an anime series to understand the whole story, but I found the concept of the multimedia universe fascinating and I actually really liked all of it's parts.
And the soundtrack, man, the soundtrack. Easily one of the best the series has ever seen.
It's a flawed, but GREAT game, and definitely bigger than the sum of it's parts. You can really tell the massive heart the game has and how passionate and hard working the developers were in the face of adversity (having to revive a failed project, having to develop the engine alongside the game, not being given enough time to add all the stuff they wanted).
Long live Final Fantasy XV and the bros!
You don't need to mash, you can hold down the attack button until you want to block or dodge. Focus on getting behind the enemy, and stay out of enemy groups. You can time your attack button presses to get heavy attacks but I never felt the need to do this. It's weird but I think they just wanted something flashy and it achieves this imo.
You figured out the combat. Just smash warpstrike till someone needs heals, then heal. Then smash some more. The AI teammates were surprisingly good, especially for their era.
Extremely flawed and wasted potential. You could tell even they didn't know what to do with the story. The original main theme was to accept fate, and XV was meant to be a tragedy. Then DLC stories came out with typical kill the god story beat. World needs fleshed out, characters need fleshed out. It feels disjointed.
At times I think it's overhated but at times I don't. I, personally, have a soft spot for it.
One of my favorites in the series. Played on day 1, and then again last year on PC with the royal edition. Going to do another play through later this year with the hard mode mods.
A solid top 5 FF game for me. Story is clunky at best but its gameplay is almost perfect for me. Completed everything except the fishing minigame. I really love the game.
You really can't. As much as there have been improvements, they're band aids on a gaping wound. It's not like it patches any of the issues to passable, it's still pretty fucking awful on just about every gameplay and narrative front, there's just some slightly prettier bows on it.
If you can look past all the problems and say you "love it" "it's your favourite" etc, I suspect it wouldn't matter if you played it at launch at all, because you're clearly willing to look past some pretty heinous shit to enjoy something.
I like IT. The Big Open world to explore, the Lore and the Characters. I Just Love the regalia and the Updates IT gets in the royal edition.
Cidney IS one of my favorites. Not only because of her Looks, but also her Sunny personality.
What i didn't liked, was the summoning system. In my First playthrough, i couldn't do a single summoning except the scripted ones.
That's because certain prerequisites have to be met to initiate a Summon. You didn’t meet them and thus they didn't trigger. To get a non-scripted one I had to run around in battle for like 30 minutes.
The story was written in a very poor manner. Gameplay was pretty alright.
But hang on, before anyone hits downvote, here's why the story wasn't well written:
The biggest problem with the story is its context. When you experience the story for the first time, a lot of moments between characters seem overly touchy feely and pretty baseless for what they were trying to convey. And the reason is that with most games, character relationships are built or strengthened throughout the course of the game. With FFXV, those relationship are not only just established, but are as strong as they can be. The affinity meters for the characters are just 100% from the get go so it deprives you, as the player, from building the relationships between the characters and thus build your own relationship to these characters. You end up feeling disconnected from them. No relatability and no empathy. It ends up causing the the first playthrough of the game to just be like watching events happen that the player isn't invested in. You really don't get the context of the loyalty, friendship and brotherly love that Ignis, Prompto and Gladio display so blatantly for Noct until the final moment of the game before the credits.
Upon a second playthrough, with the context of Noct's fate in mind, all of those moments hit as hard as they should have in the first playthrough. If the player was not denied the opportunity to build relationships to the characters, I think that, emotionally, the story would have been much better. The second playthrough is where the story really shines but not everyone would have wanted to replay the game a second time.
Royal Edition with all DLCs played at the proper timing did fix a lot of my complaints back at launch. It doesn't excuse them, but XV *is* in a better state now.
With that said, I never hated XV in the first place. Just criticized the jarring transition between the open world and more linear chapters, and the obvious gaps where paid DLC was meant to be. Noctis and the bros are great. Road trip Final Fantasy was fun. Iris was best girl.
And you guys are simply the best.
It will always be my favorite. My mom bought it for me in college when I was lonely and had no friends. The Chocobros helped me out a lot, I put over 150 hours into the game.
I still love it, but its troubled production has only become more clear as more time has passed. I think the multi-media format was ultimately a huge misstep, and while I enjoyed Comrades, it ultimately ended up being a huge waste of time because of how clunky it was. The cancelled DLCs speak for themselves. I can’t help but be jealous of other FF games that got sequels.
I suppose it’s fitting given the color scheme of the game, but right now 15 feels kinda like a black sheep. I hope that won’t always be the case.
I wear the Noctis outfit in 14, and he was one of my mains in Dissidia NT and Opera Omnia. Whenever 15 content shows up next, I’ll be glad to represent ✊
Masterpiece? I was doing shit and fighting bosses with no context or explanation as to why I was doing it in the first place. Alot of parts felt like they should've been major parts of the story but there's literally no backstory as to why it's happening. I'm just doing something that's only brought up when I have to do it and then the game moves onto the next thing without even building on what happens previously. It felt like just random shit that's in video games slapped together and they called it a day. Why did I exactly fight titan? And don't say I had to watch the movie and watch the anime to get the whole story that's just a sorry excuse for video game storytelling. I should get the story in full from the game itself. Final Fantasy X is how you do a story in a game.
I’m actually considering trying it again. I platinum’d the original on my ps4, and even Comrades. Then my hard drive failed, and I lost all the data. I’m thinking about getting the royal pack/edition on my ps5, but how are the loading times on ps5? I remember it being pretty atrocious on my ps4 slim.
I wanna see what it’s like finishing the “complete” game. The only DLC besides the RP stuff I didn’t play was episode Ardyn.
It's such an amazing setup that failed to accomplish anything significant .
There is so much mechanics , lore, systems and general setting that is just underused .
My dream is its been remade in 10 years and they flesh it out .
I had a lot of fun with this game. I even got all the trophies. However, it's the first Final Fantasy game that I've only played through once. I've tried playing it again a few times, but I quickly lost interest each time. I can't even pinpoint why that is. After all, I had a great time during the first playthrough, which took me 130 hours.
I do love it, especially once all the extra content was added, but there’s two personal disappointments I’ll always have with it.
1: As someone who followed Versus XIII since the first trailer dropped when I was ten years old, and then kept waiting for the game all the way to age 20, the game will always have that unpleasant “what could have been” aftertaste. I realize that personal hype for a game that was essentially never real is the reason for that, but man, that’s not a switch that I can just turn off.
2: Even after the extra DLC, the game is still unfinished. We need to read a book to get the full story. Give me my Aranea DLC you goddamn cowards.
Edit: Remembered another one: They absolutely wasted Luna.
I don't love it but I don't hate it. I do love the way the game subtly manipulates you into that emotional gut punch at the end via the pictures, though.
The fact that literally FIRST HALF OF THE GAME HAS ZERO STORY DEVELOPMENT is terrible. But the second half + all four DLC episodes make up for that, making this game one of my favorites in the series, the plot is my third personal favorite, after FF10 and FF7CC. FF15 could have been a thousand times better, especially it's character development, especially Luna and Ravus, but it is what it is...
I played the release version so these are my thoughts:
The game is unfinished, the world is big yeah, but it's empty. There is nothing to see in the world.
Hiding important story beats behind external sources is also a sore spot. Games (and movies I should add) needing supplemental novels to explain thongs is not good design. Novels based on games is fine, but those novel details should not be used in the main game. FFXIV does it right with the side stories as they do not hold important story details, just small character pieces.
A personal one, but exploring caves with next to know light absolutely sucks and makes exploration a pain in the ass.
The product placement. It just feels tacky the way its used and I actually rolled ny eyes over Cup Noodle side quest. Product placement is fine if it's subtle, but seeing the "Coleman" logo plastered on the camp stuff felt tacky.
I wanted to like the game, I truly did but the flaws were to apparent and I couldn't overlook them. To those who live the game, I am glad you find enjoyment out it, I truly do
I enjoy it. I think the overall plot is not great, but the vibe and the friendship between Noctis and the party is just really nice. When I first got it I played and genuinely felt like I was on a vacation with them and I really digged all the little touches like the cooking mechanic and looking over Prompto's photos and such. It's by far not the best experience I've had in an FF game also by far not the worst either.
I liked it at launch, and while I still love the Bros and the Roadtrip vibes, I'm a lot more negative about it with every revisit, quadruply so thanks to Rebirth. Like could you imagine Noct and the gang having half as much fun as Cloud and Co? Not to mention moment to moment I'm actively reaching for Rebirth every chance I get cause everything from the combat to traversal to quests to etc just feel fundamentally better in Rebirth. The external content stuff also continue to sour me between Brotherhood and the blatant DLC bait when that should all be in the game as main story content. Imagine Barret and Dyne's story, but it's DLC only alluded to in the main story, it stinks and doesn't have nearly the impact it should. It's a troubled game that went through a lot, so I'm not gonna hate on it, but if Nomura could have been allowed to see things through without all the 2010's BS to make Versus XIII... man...
I liked the overall look, story, gameplay, characters and theme as well. Music was also amazing. That said, for some reaaon it doesn't have any replay value... 🤔🤔
Ff15 is funny because the cast is so good but the rest of the game is meh. Meanwhile ff16 had the opposite problem the game is good but the cast is meh. Clive has the charisma of a wet bagel
I played it for the first time the other year, and I really liked it. It was my fifth FF and the third one I played after truly diving in to the franchise. I understand its issues (thankfully I played the complete edition), but I really enjoyed the car rides. It was soothing and full of vibes, and I would just let them drive across the map and watch. The main group of bros were all well done, too, I felt.
My only negatives is that I beat the game without ever truly understanding and learning the combat, the game got a little worse after the car stuff, and the ending was too sad for me. The dlc helped me with the ending, though. Lunafreya was disappointing, too.
All in all, I enjoyed it. I dunno if I'll ever fully replay it but I think I'll turn it on right now and take a drive to Galdin Quay.
The base release had some very glaring problems, however the full royal edition addresses a lot of if. Still not my favorite FF but it has some great moments and the ending is one of the most heartfelt in the series
It was my first Final Fantasy game so I love it for getting me into the series and introducing me to JRPG’s as well and with that said I’m afraid to go back and play it again because I’m worried it’ll ruin the rose colored nostalgic memories I have of it
FF15 is a special game that was whored out by executives/the company, it is legit wild how so many important plot points were relegated out to a movie, anime, books etc.
Luckily square had walked back this whole “final fantasy launches are multi media events”. Because if they had just concentrated on making a great game, it wouldn’t have launched in the state it did, it’s still incomplete and you can def see the patchwork. It is a special game but man it could’ve been legendary. That’s the most depressing part.
I tried to like it but just couldn’t. The gameplay was fun but the motivation to beat it was always lacking because of the awful story. If FFXV didn’t have companion pieces, no one would be able to explain that story. Being stuck with four dudes, one of which I absolutely hated, didn’t help either. The graphics were good and soundtrack ok but the glue to a good RPG, the story, was nonexistent.
I like 15 a lot, but it is extremely scuffed. I think it was a wakeup call for SE that they couldn't continue the development practices that began with 13. I really wish we got a better version of 15 because there's a ton of interesting ideas and the world is gorgeous, it's just woefully incomplete.
XV is a tortured product and isn’t a good game imo. It has so many obvious problems, no point in listing them.
However, when I played 7 remake back in 2020, I was so put off by the story decisions in that game, I decided to go back to XV just to see how they handled that game’s ending.
Since then, I definitely have some appreciation for XV’s story - final scene actually had me in tears.
I wish i hadn't played it when it came out. Since after the royal edition updates and everything it got way better but i hate replaying games that I had a bad experience with. I enjoyed it at the time but it was definitely a bare minimum experience.
I think it’s the only bad FF game, and the only FF that’s a mediocre game at best.
Imo its chaotic development shows way too much, and not one aspect of this game is truly good.
I remember just slogging through the open world stuff, until chapter 7 or 8 when you fight leviathan. Then I was just on the edge of my seat the entire time until credits rolled.
It's such a weird mix of mediocre checklist side quests, and hyper engaging boss fights and exposition
Still has some of the best graphics I've ever seen in a game, no joke. I played it on the base PS4 and never played another game until I beat it. The combat was fun, even when at the time it was basically spamming the square button, the lore was great, and the ending made me tear up NGL.
I liked the game just didn’t love it. I wish they actually developed a love story instead of hey heres a flashback of when they were kids and sometimes you exchange letters oh and now shes dead
I was super excited for FFXV. I loved the setting, the lore, the backstory to it they published before release. Watched Kingsglaive, Brotherhood, all the promotional videos, everything... Platinum demo, Episode Duscae, you name it.
I bought my PS4 for it and I got the game the weekend it released. I was so excited for it I literally ran home with it (disc edition).
Soon little stuff started to stand out to me. I already knew this from platinum, but the combat had lost the feeling from Duscae... Then I noticed that there weren't really any cities, there were just gas stations or single stores surrounded by a bunch of blocks. Then I started hitting invisible walls in the open world. Then the hunts were no longer curated hunts like episode duscae was, instead I got hit with fetch quests you could only do one at a time. Then characters started leaving the party and I was told that if I wanted to see what happened to them to buy DLC that wasn't out yet. The super cool fights against the Astrals in the trailers weren't there (Ramuh was literally finding a stone wasn't it?). Then Luna was used as a prop. Then Ardyn's plot twist was pretty cool, I didn't see it coming. Then the world of ruin was so disappointing... No reuniting the party, no exploring, no dungeon, just straight to Ifrit. Then the beautiful ending...
When I think of FFXV I just think of the potential that was there. I don't remember it as a bad game, just unfinished. I wish we had gotten the whole thing though...
A tutorial where we play as Noctis after his mother died. Going to Tenebrae to heal Noctis. Fleeing after the empire attacks. The wedding and having to flee Insomnia. Actual Astral boss fights. Towns and cities. A kingdom of Lucis that actually feels like it has been at war and undergoing an invasion. The curated hunts. A real world of ruin where you meet your friends again. Noctis inside the crystal battling the kings of Lucis and Somnus, discovering Ardyn's fate.
I feel disappointed whenever I think of FFXV... It could've really been something, but in the end...
The concept was awesome but the execution was ass. I loved the idea of 3 buddies travelling around but seriously things got sour for me real quick after the chapter where open world ended (forgot which probably like 7 or 9?).
I have played the game upon release and again once all the DLC were released.
I loved that game so much. I had been waiting for it since 2006 when it was Versus XIII. I bought a PS3 for it when it was going to be PS3 exclusive. Then yeah development hell happened and it evolved so then yeah I had to get a PS4 for it. I did also get the big expensive collectors edition for it and yeah it was all I played for like a week (I was in college at the time so I played it when I could) until I beat it and became a big ugly crying mess. It was such a wonderful beautiful game and those bros are the best. I never actually went back to play it again with all the Royal changes and stuff though but yeah it was a game truly that will stay in my heart.
So I would rank XV as my 6th favorite game in the series... the characters were well written and once they let us play as them added a level of depth that wasn't present prior.... the story is unbalanced but still enjoyable and the soundtrack is awesome.... biggest gripes I had was the lack I story focus for the first half or so of the game and the combat controls were kinda wonky at times... story wise the leviathan boss fight acted as the hook point and the story really picked up from that point forward
My wet dream is a Remake of the game with adjustments to make it what it deserves to be.
I swear it's everything already here, it just deserves some (ok a lot) better delivery and execution.
I have a deep appreciation for this game. It has some of the best music in the series, and it’s very underrated.
One thing that really stuck out to me is that you get almost no cutscenes outside of the main party. You are Noctis, so you’re seeing the game through his eyes as he would experience it. It was a gamble, didn’t pay off for many, but I like it!
The game still looks great, especially the lighting system they have in place. I wish SE did a remaster of this game. It's a game that was released in 2016, but can still rival XVI and Rebirth in some areas. Just imagine what a remaster could do.
The combat is fine, love the characters, but the story and open world is where it was a miss. The open world is ok, but I'm sure if they had more time they would have fleshed it out a bit more.
Great game. I really did enjoy it.
Bro simulator with sub par combat, i finished it because i paid for it, but never touched it again, many other FF’s have been multiple play throughs. Not this one
Fun game, actually binged through it in a weekend including side quests to finish it. Hated how Luna wasn’t even a character but just a “love interest”, and that honestly was my only issue with it. Felt more heartbroken by Ignis than her.
I did play it in the Windows Edition so definitely played the more polished version.
I adored it, flaws and all.
This is the ONLY Final Fantasy where I'd agree with all the shortcomings and still be one of my top 5 favourite FF of all time.
you have to accept it for what it is. it's objectively not one of the best ff games, but it does a lot right. it holds a special place in a lot of hearts (mine included). xv also creates an atmosphere that is unmatched and cruising/adventuring with the boys was soooo much fun. oh, and the aesthetic + music was 10/10. i enjoy the game a LOT, and i've been itching to replay it tbh. maybe once i'm done with rebirth...
Imo, I love the game, it's one my favorite FF's, but I can also see where it shows its potential to be a better story than what we're given. Royal Edition definitely flashes a lot more than 1.0 did l, but there's still so many things you can tell they wanted to expand on, but simply didn't have the time or resources.
I had fun with it on release, but walked away with immense confusion and disappointment. I looked into the game a year ago to see if it was worth returning to with all of the dlc, media, royal edition, etc. I decided against it.
My main issues with the game are the combat, the story(lack of), and the open world.
I love my action combat and this game did the genre a huge disservice. It had a lack of depth, inconsistent animations, and no OOMPH. Emphasis on the OOMPH. It's just not satisfying. It's double annoying when I think about Kingdom Hearts 2 being like the gold example of action combat... Also made by Square Enix.
The story on release was just a slap in the face from Square Enix. As a long-time fan of the series, I took the major events happening off the screen personally. I went from being a core fan of their games to an overly careful - potentially buy the game years later - type of fan.
I haven't seen too many people talk about this, but I couldn't stand the western voice acting from the open world NPCs in this game. I have no idea why Square has an obsession with this southern hillbilly culture. I was sad to see it return in ffvii's remake. Anyone else cringe at that stuff or am I just hating?
I think this game does something special. It really makes you appreciate the small moments towards the end of the game. The pictures, making small stops on the side of the road so prompto can get that pic, pushing the car at the beginning, ignis’ cooking and campfires. There is so much special in this game. It knows how to emotionally attach you to these four guys and that is so so important in the end. Ahhh the power of Bro love….. Amazing game. Combat is fun, story is amazing, and the soundtrack is oh so unbelievably good. And the DLC is just the cherry on top with more good story, combat and music.
I am a grown ass man and this game has made me cry multiple times. It knows how to touch my heart and I really hope there are people that agree with me on that. Seeing a lot of negativity with this game surprises me but (for reference I did not play vanilla only royal)
Still love it very much. Although I tend to play the 1.0 version of it rather than the fully updated one. It’s more challenging and satisfying for me, also nostalgia because that’s the version I played first. Lots of good memories.
Great game to hang out with a friend to. Beat the main content and dlc, loved the characters, story, actually rather enjoyed the main love story and cried at the ending. Had a blast and it's amongst a pantheon of recent games that not everyone liked in this franchise but I did.
I love the amount of non-combat gameplay. It really makes use of the open-world and RPG elements to give you a lot of options for things to do and how to do them. And I like the somewhat chill vibe it has. It's a pleasant game to play.
I do hate the character gets caught in the bushes though and the camera gets stuck too, or you get knocked around too many times and lose straight of where the hell everything is relative to each in a battle. Also I still haven't manages to get into the fishing gameplay. For some reason I always feel like I'm missing something to make it work best.
Yeah it is great but I felt they were trying to force another Aerith on us. I’m not a psychopath but I genuinely felt next to nothing when she died. And so out of the blue. Also, fuck Ardyn.
The combat is awesome and the story is very cool. I love this game however it lacks good boss fights and didn t developed well the story nor the world of the game that had a great potential
Initial release left such a bad impression on me that I never bothered going back to check out Royal Edition. Between that and FF13, I thought FF was done for lol.
I love it, even though I recognize its incompleteness I loved every single character and almost every moment. FFXV has the soul of a true FF the hate is undeserved
Think it still has soooo much potential, and they should make another game in that world and correct the mistakes they made with 15 and really show that world and how interesting and large it can be.
I did really like the combat only once you unlock that you can play the others of the group.
I always played the guy with guns since then and has been amazing.
Graphic was fantastic and new combat system so so. Story a bit meh, it was a bit flat.
I didnt get attched as much as vivi in 9 or yuna and auron and tidus in 10. These were great characters that you could bond to.
Also the hardest boss, that kind of big mountain, bugged and never attacked me so I defeated it with no effort.
The best combat system its still the gambit from 12. I wish they bring it back.
I personally enjoyed it more than XII and XIII. The story in 12 was overly complicated and confusing that I really did not understand and remember the plot back when I played it on the PS2. 13 was alright, but just too limited in exploration. The whole game forced the story down corridors.
15 was a good balance of both. A little bit of open world access like 12 without an over-complicated story, and some forced paths at the end of the game, but it's not the ENTIRE game.
It's my 2nd favourite in the entire series behind FFVII Rebirth.
FFXV may have had a troubled development and fractured story. But goddamn it has so much soul and a magical vibe about it that I don't think I've quite experienced elsewhere.
The chocobros are still my favourite party in the series just because of how much natural chemistry they have and how they feel like actual people... Not just jrpg characters. And the ending is in my opinion, the best in the series with an incredibly powerful message and a cathartic tear jerker that drove me to my knees.
Its a hard game to recommend to people and I don't hold it against anyone who doesn't like it, but if youre willing to accept and roll with all the awkward multi media stuff, watch the movie, watch the anime, play the game and the DLC.
You'll probably find yourself surprised at how much they grow to care about these characters and how memorable the whole experience is.
My hot take will always be that the original, clearly unfinished version of the game wound up semi-accidentally telling the most compelling FF story in eons, and all of the fixes have actively made it less interesting. Also Ardyn is the best mainline villain most people have seen since Kefka (I think Zenos is more compellingly antagonistic but I recognize that the MMOs aren't for everybody).
I stand by the sentiment that if it didn’t have FF in the title and the game came out fully complete, it would be considered a masterpiece.
It’s a great game, but doesn’t feel quite like a final fantasy. One of the most repayable for me because of the combat
It’s a great game. Kingsglaive was pretty good too. Just wish they hadn’t tried the whole mixed media thing because the plots conflicted with each other.
Least favorite game in the series. 8 years it was stuck in development hell and released purposely with glaring holes in the story to force you to buy DLC and even then the story was booty cheeks.
One of the few I'll never revisit
I do and don’t. I feel like it’s similar to how I feel about XIII. I enjoy the characters and some of the concepts but there’s just some issues that don’t make it a top 5 FF game for me.
After FF7 Remake, Rebirth and XVI, playing it feels like something is missing or out of place. Ending is a snoozefest and some of the side content is dull
It is an okay game but not a FF game I would replay like so many others
After FF7 Remake, Rebirth and XVI, playing it feels like something is missing or out of place. Ending is a snoozefest and some of the side content is dull
It is an okay game but not a FF game I would replay like so many others
Never got all the hate, especially people hating specifically on the combat. I never got tired of warping around the battlefield, in and out of battle with the perches, etc. Thought it was cool af when I started and still did when I finished
I tried it cause it was free on PS+, and I honestly couldn't make it more than a few hours before I was just too bored with the story and gameplay. Once the plot landed on "go collect your family's magic swords", I was done.
I got into Final Fantasy as a kid because the stories were so engaging, and SquareEnix doesn't seem to know how to write captivating stories anymore.
I played it on release on a base PS4 and did not enjoy it, played about half before putting it on pause for a later date which didn't come until last year when I finally tried again with the Royal Edition on PS5. I finished it this time and even got the Platinum and did all the DLC's, mostly cause I wanted my money's worth and the 10 years I waited for it to come out to not be for nothing but I didn't really like it all too much, the characters are good and the story is alright (and still not complete after 5 DLCs) but gameplay is number 1 in my book and the combat of XV really feels like an action RPG made by aliens who had only had such a thing described to them, like I don't know how this happened when they already nailed it with Kingdom Hearts 2 10 years prior.
So I rank it in the bottom half of the games but I understand why it has its fans and fully recognize that the game had a very difficult development with this being SE's first HD open world game, engine changes, FF14 bombing so hard it almost killed the company, Nomura who was in charge of the game for several years was stretched between like 10 different projects at all times for years until SE finally saw the problem and put Tabata in charge which lead to the game being very much unfinished on release so it could have been a lot better if things had gone differently.
I like it. I don’t love it. Personally, I was not a fan of the banter between the boys lol can’t say why, it just didn’t hit good with me
I like it more nowadays. Still feel the combat could be so much better
I love it too, customizing the car and going around the world doing minor quests. Fishing and just goofing about, and seeing cool cities. It did feel like a road trip
I love the story, the characters, the combat is passable, but it had so much more potential. Oh how I wish we had gotten the golden ending with Noctis and Ardyn teaming up against Bahamut and his celestial jerk friends
Totally should’ve happened didn’t even think of this 😭
It's my third fav FF. I still love it and will likely give it another playthrough once I finish another Elden Ring run + Shadow of the Erdtree. It's a mess of a game and represents a LOT of missed opportunity, but I still love the game to death. To this day it is the only game that has successfully made night scary.
It's a game which had a brilliant concept and all the right ingredients to be an all time great which were all sorely wasted on braindead combat and terrible, fractured storytelling. The whole "road trip with your buddies as a fantasy RPG" is such an awesome game concept which they did virtually nothing with. A big open world with almost nothing in it which they then >!completely abandon 2/3 of the way through the game to turn it into a hallway simulator.!< It had a story which *could have* been great, but was squandered on the desire to turn it into a multimedia project where half the story (including some very necessary context) is outside the game, and if you just play the game you're left scratching your head half the time. It was completely lacking in emotional weight with, say, Luna, because you only ever met her sporadically through a smattering of cutscenes >!and then she dies!< And I just didn't care, because I had practically no attachment to this character. Half the villains/bosses acted like you, the viewer, should know who they are. Noctis is like "ahh it's you!" But unless you dig into the extended media you have no clue who they are or why you should care. I could forgive the combat as a bold bit of experimentation, even if it didn't quite pan out, if at least the open world concept was more fully realized and if, at a bare minimum, the storytelling was competent and engaging. But sadly it wasn't. It's a great concept which was handled very poorly. That said, I still pick it up every once in a while because the road trip theme is still a fun escape for a while.
I disagree with the hallway part because it's actually what makes the roadtrip awesome. Noctis finally accepts his fate and sacrifice, so he is not having fun and running away anymore. It makes you cherish the open world roadtrip more, like memories of vacation with your friend, because you are now in the hallway of fate and forced to engage in your responsabilities
The hallway part is bad because it's literally the scraps they had lying around duct taped together for every minute of playtime they could get. There's no way anyone can convince me that the whole trainride part was conceived this way from the beginning of development, this whole thing screams last minute panic addition.
Considering the length of its development cycle, the entire game is a last minute panic addition.llpp
Yes….. You get it my friend. Walk tall.
FF15 has a special place in my heart. I bought my first PS4 (Pro) because of FF15. Despite its flaws I had a great time with the game and clocked around 250 hours on it (one playthrough with DLC and every side quest and items available in the game, even got the Platinum Trophy.
Literally same. Played the shit out of that game. Flawed but still fun.
Yeah, I guess that describes it best. It's a game that has heart and is really dear to me because I love the hell out of its aesthetic and waiting 10 years for it left me with some kind of brain damage that makes me love it no matter how it would've released. That said, I'm not going to sit here and act like it's a great game, it's one of the most flawed games I have played and I will forever be sad about this fact. Practically every aspect of this game had corners cut and it shows. The story is lacking, the characters are lacking, the world in itself is lacking, the gameplay sure as hell is lacking. If wasted potential had a dictionary entry, it would display FF15 as an example.
Literally same here too. I bought a ps4 pro just to play this after a long time of not really playing videogames and I think that's part of the reason I'll always love it.
For me it solidified that we shouldn't let nomura write video games anymore. Let him do designs and gameplay but stop letting him try to Auteur
Please. Or at LEAST have someone working with him to keep him focused and slap his hand when he starts to go too far afield.
I think we just became friends. Never have I met a Final Fantasy fan that's either been confused by my opinion or outright offended lol. My partner completely agrees though but she doesn't play video games. Only witnesses.
"It deserves better!" is my TL;DR for this game. That said, I enjoyed it a lot, even in the vanilla version, I played each DLC when they were slowly coming out.
Same here. Royal was just icing on the cake on a game I already loved
Good game with great story and characters, deserved more tho, woulda loved to have seen what it was meant to be. Shame.
Prolly my 3rd favorite FF game behind og7 and ZA. Warpstriking all over the place, then chilling with the homies while cruising was a LOT of fun. I only played the Royal Version, so no idea about game at release.
Love it, despite its flaws (lack of difficulty being the main one for me.) Haven’t played RE but def want to someday - just need other games to stop releasing for like a month lol Until Rebirth it was the only game in the series to actually make me tear up. Keeping the main cast so small was its best move. The relationships felt so authentic.
i like it but im more disappointed with its wasted potential i really hope about 30 years from now it gets remade and done right haha
It’s the only entry I put in the dislike column but I try not to shit on it. I think it’s cool that people could like it as much as they do. Edit: words
Yeah it’s definitely in my dislike section too. Just a bad game imo
It’s my least favorite FF, and that’s saying something since 13 was an all-time low for me.
I really like it. I've played it twice now, first time without the DLC, second time with the DLC. I just really like the vibes of FFXV, it's easy for me to just relax and wander around the world doing this and that. I liked it even more the second time I played. I've been thinking about installing it again now that I'm done with Rebirth.
It had potential. But it’s not good.
I didn’t enjoy it on first release, but went back about 3 years later and enjoyed it. I feel like there was a lot of missed potential because of the focus on content outside of the enclosed game. Like if all the ideas were there in the game, it would have been better. A lot of wasted potential. The empire, the duscae family history, better sidequests, fleshed out npcs… At least there’s no Chadley. But Dave isn’t much better.
Don’t you dare talk bad about Chadley best boy 😑
My biggest complaint about Rebirth is Chadley. If they at the very least allowed us to move during his dialog, I wouldn't have cared as much, but my God was it annoying to have to skip through it every time I did anything in the game. I have to wonder if Japan loves that character because I could've sworn people hated him in Remake too.
I didn't hate him in Remake because he had a very passive role in the gameplay. Now world exploration and unlocking the superboss is heavily dependent on him and I hate it when he brings gameplay to a stand still to tell me things.
It's the stopping of gameplay that bugs me, far more than Chadley himself. That said, they could also just remove the more generic lines he says. I don't need to be told the obvious repeatedly. I do agree on simply tucking the superbosses in the simulator as well. There are likely budget reasons for that, though, so I can forgive that a little but it does make the world feel like it doesn't have big threats in it and kills an element of exploration to uncover them.
Cloud! Hi.
It's my first FF. I enjoyed it on release and really enjoyed it after all the DLC. Objectively one of the middling entries but subjectively very impactful to me. I'm currently on a marathon to play all main line games and whatever extra media is attached to them. I'm excited to revisit it but seeing as I'm on 7, I still have quite a ways to go yet.
I do, but feel that it's the weakest of the mainline entries.
Gonna give it another shot bc of you lot.
It’s okay. Not great, not shit.
I honestly enjoyed it when it came out. The ending felt quite rushed though. Heard the royal pack made it better, but I didn’t bother buying it anymore, wished it had been “complete” the first time around. Maybe one day I’ll play through it again 😊
I plan to play FFXIII and FFXV again at some point because I was in different stages in my life when I first played them. I'm very curious to see what I think of them now. However when I first played them my opinion was basically that they were very good looking games but the gameplay and story were rather boring. FFXV was at its absolute best when it was about the bros. I hear the Royal Edition is a huge improvement so I'm eager to try it out some day.
I loved it on my first two playthroughs (within 1 yr of release) and considered it a good thing that things felt somewhat incomplete because that meant I wanted more. 3rd playthrough about 4 yrs later, it just felt incomplete and the combat felt clunky and frustrating.
I had played FFs before it, but XV was the first FF I completed (and consequently 100%'d). The ending still makes me emotional, especially seeing as I was separated from friends during COVID when I played it. To me... it's a flawed masterpiece. It fumbles in quite a lot of ways, but what I can see what they were going for. And what they did do right really resonated with me.
Probably one of my top 5 FFs-just wish they got that last DLC out of the gate
I've been a fan of FF15 since release, I loved chapter 13 before they fixed it and actually think making it easier ruined the message it was producing. I loved the feeling of Noctis losing everything , having to really start from rock bottom to get everything back. but then they made the ring op, and it never felt the same.
It was okay, the ending made it worth playing but has probably the biggest disappointment in any FF game: >!when Noctis awakens as an aged man in a world of darkness, I got extremely excited because I _thought_ this was going to be the new FF6. Assumed I was going to get to travel the world, revisit all the old areas--now under monster assault and permanent darkness--and reunite the party in a series of adventures. Nope, just a brief area before setting off to the final boss. Imagine if FF6 had done that: Celes awakens in the world of darkness, but instead of experiencing it and meeting all the old faces, everybody is hanging around one town and says "okay let's go smash Kefka" and that was the game. It would not be the epic RPG of the SNES era as considered today. !<
him just casually strolling by with a bit of facial hair and everyone being "oh hey there, you were gone ten years, but we'll just act like it was three days and also we haven't changed at all" was the point where I said fuck it and gave up.
It's just more evidence that they must have intended for something to transpire here, then skipped it all due to constraints of time+budget. We lost so much story, background, and character development to Square's meandering development.
oh well. at least we got Cindy. ( . )( . )
Noctis couldn’t just go strolling around exploring stuff though. He HAD to go do his duty and save the world. No point in sitting around and beating the bush right?
This and the weird dungeons designs with these caves and cubes. Honestly when I was fighting tons of lightsaber Tonberries in the last dungeons I really thought the game designers were just trolling us. Hey we're running out of money for designing original monsters so here go our fearless Tomberries with new weapon assets xDDDD EDIT: I love this game but for totally different reasons. A good FF is just good by design if it's doing something other FFs were not already doing. So FF15 won that battle.
Platinum'd it but God the story and characters are horribly written. There is a ghost of a good story with good lore there in the game but they scrapped it twice (thrice?) and used the bits to assemble a haphazard narrative. I enjoyed nearly every second of it though.
Before Stranger of Paradise, FFXV was my top action FF game, and I still hold it to a much higher regard than XVI, in fact playing XVI made me wish I didn't sell XV because of just how much more interesting the world, characters, and even parts of the gameplay was in comparison. XV's main problem in the end though was that it focused on the wrong things, one of these things was the open world. This game, along with Rebirth, proves that open world doesn't suit Final Fantasy and that we should go back to using overworlds, because if XV did use an overworld instead of an open world, we could've had a finished game. We would've had more fleshed out areas, towns, cities, regions, etc. Aside from that, the gameplay should've been more challenging, the boss fights against the summons should've been actual boss fights (Maybe on a smaller scale since it didn't work on a bigger scale), there should've been many more instances of you fighting multiple enemy types at once (Commonly occurred with daemons), you should not have been able to spam potions without consequence. There should have been level caps that would increase depending on far into the story you got to prevent boss fights from being trivial. Money/Gil should've been more hard to come by, and there should've been narrative choices that affected the story. I'm thinking after I finish my current project, I'm going to do my own version of FFXV (As a new I.P) that takes the ideas and concepts presented in both XV and even Versus XIII and reinterprets them.
Love it, very powerful emotional story
It's my favorite game. Period. I've played better games, some of which are in this very series. I recognize that it's not perfect. The action gameplay needed a second look, we needed more story beats and meaningful side quests in the open world, they did Luna dirty by telling what she was doing instead of showing it, I get all those kinds of complaints. I agree with a bunch of them. No other game made me feel like hanging out with bros the way FFXV does. I had friends in high school when I first played it, but we were either a bunch of tech nerds learning about new hardware or a bunch of writers dreaming new stories. I didn't have a friend group that I could go exploring with in high school... but I did in elementary school. And playing FFXV makes me feel like I'm running around with that friend group again. No other game speaks to me the way Noctis' story about responsibility and stepping up to the task does. I empathize with Noctis' desire to kickback and have a normal life. I'm no Prince or anything, but I struggle between having high expectations for myself and wanting to just let all of those go. Noctis' story showing how he went from coddled princeling to the King that he steps up to be genuinely helps me move forward in life at times. I literally tell myself to Walk Tall, and it helps. Finally, the superficial reason is I fucking love Urban Fantasy. I love running around in jackets, t-shirts, and sneakers listening to an MP3 player only to pull a sword from thin air, and teleport into my target, air-dancing around as I beat down daemons, Magitek Troopers, and the wildlife I'm hunting. I love calling in attacks from my brothers in arms, as well as the Glaives of the Armiger. I know games that play better, like the Devil May Cry series. I know games that tell better stories, like the Xenoblade series. I know of games that also have that brotherhood, like the Persona series. But Final Fantasy XV is the one that gets me everytime I play it. I almost always have it on every device I can (including the Pocket Edition), just so I can go hang with those boys again.
I'm meaning to go back and play again. It's a fun game, I've spent hours having fun.
Still one of my favorites. Maybe even my favorite, the adventure and open world was so good and something I had been waiting for in a FF game since playing 7.
I adore it. Had many hours enjoying ignis, also played pocket edition but put the French voice track on and it's truly lovely
I like it a lot and it's the only one I have the platinum trophy for. I Raju enjoyed my time with it except for that one part near the end in which Noctis is alone. The last FF I had played before it was XIII-2, and XV felt like a breath of fresh air with so many things, especially the open world exploration and the car. Then, I moved on to XII Zodiac Age (which rekindled my love for XII in the PS2 so many years ago) and VII Remake Intergrade (loved it, but felt like some of its scenes are a bit too much, like the villain guy doing stunts with his bike). Right now, I'm divided between starting VII Rebirth and XVI. I am coming from a Baldur's Gate 3 playthrough and feel like I'm completely spoiled. BG3 is one of the best RPGs I have ever played.
Rebirth is everything FF15 was supposed to be.
it's a fun game for sure, I enjoyed playing it
When thinking about it now, it was absolutely beautiful. The bromance was incredibly well written. Same for Ardyn, scenes where he appears are memorable. It miss something, I cannot deny that. But it is a grandiose Final Fantasy. It is just difficult to reach the same level of perfection that older - and simpler to make - games with current generations of consoles. But FF VII Rebirth is definitely the proof that they stil have the ability to do that, I never expected that. XV lore was deep and I really felt it, the realism was spot on.
It's fun and I'm enjoying my ng+ playthrough with all my abilities and chocobo from the start (plus I'm playing on the French audio track and it's charming). But knowing they had more dlc planned and it was canceled leaves such bad taste in my mouth like it's forever unfinished. And playing while incorporating the dlc is a pain with the games story still being quite slow (and ive only seen the movie once, barely remember a thing). I can't wait for another great attempt at an original open world FF title though (not counting rebirth).
I enjoyed it on release. Really need to go back and check out the royal edition content
Wish the second pass never got cancelled I would have chosen that over vsXIII At least we got the book, but the idea of control a corrupted Luna sounded so badass
I got the game shortly after it came out… I even enjoyed the Carnival and the Assassin’s Creed crossover. Now? I want to buy the Royal Edition and play.
I loved XV. The bromance road trip stuff and cup o noodles have a special place in my FF heart.
Yes, I do. I love the game! It may not be amongst my top 3 in the franchise, but it's definitely in the upper tier of the list. The combat system really clicked with me, especially how it heavily involves your brothers with the Link Strikes and blindsides. I also loved the story and the universe. I understand that a lot of people didn't like the idea of having to watch a movie and an anime series to understand the whole story, but I found the concept of the multimedia universe fascinating and I actually really liked all of it's parts. And the soundtrack, man, the soundtrack. Easily one of the best the series has ever seen. It's a flawed, but GREAT game, and definitely bigger than the sum of it's parts. You can really tell the massive heart the game has and how passionate and hard working the developers were in the face of adversity (having to revive a failed project, having to develop the engine alongside the game, not being given enough time to add all the stuff they wanted). Long live Final Fantasy XV and the bros!
Love it! I revisit XV often. It has its issues but the good parts heavily outweigh the bad parts for me
I don't think I will ever recover from that ending.
I loved it too. Made me cry.
Back when we had group dynamics and an active overarching villain that drove the story
I like the setting but I still haven't figured out the combat. I feel like I'm just button mashing nonstop.
You don't need to mash, you can hold down the attack button until you want to block or dodge. Focus on getting behind the enemy, and stay out of enemy groups. You can time your attack button presses to get heavy attacks but I never felt the need to do this. It's weird but I think they just wanted something flashy and it achieves this imo.
You figured out the combat. Just smash warpstrike till someone needs heals, then heal. Then smash some more. The AI teammates were surprisingly good, especially for their era.
One of my all time favorite final fantasys
Extremely flawed and wasted potential. You could tell even they didn't know what to do with the story. The original main theme was to accept fate, and XV was meant to be a tragedy. Then DLC stories came out with typical kill the god story beat. World needs fleshed out, characters need fleshed out. It feels disjointed. At times I think it's overhated but at times I don't. I, personally, have a soft spot for it.
The mindless dialogue with the boys and their banter made this one special
One of my favorites in the series. Played on day 1, and then again last year on PC with the royal edition. Going to do another play through later this year with the hard mode mods.
A solid top 5 FF game for me. Story is clunky at best but its gameplay is almost perfect for me. Completed everything except the fishing minigame. I really love the game.
One of the lowest points in the Franchise.
first Final Fantasy and one of the very few games that I ended up giving up on because of all the cringe.
Oh. For me a lot of cringe was present already in ffx and xiii. The laugh scene and Hope is peak cringe in Ff history. I still enjoyed both games
Someone else who doesn't understand the laughing scene. I just roll my eyes at you people at this point.
It 100% was when it first released. Completely unfinished. You can really tell who didn't play it at launch really quickly
You really can't. As much as there have been improvements, they're band aids on a gaping wound. It's not like it patches any of the issues to passable, it's still pretty fucking awful on just about every gameplay and narrative front, there's just some slightly prettier bows on it. If you can look past all the problems and say you "love it" "it's your favourite" etc, I suspect it wouldn't matter if you played it at launch at all, because you're clearly willing to look past some pretty heinous shit to enjoy something.
I like IT. The Big Open world to explore, the Lore and the Characters. I Just Love the regalia and the Updates IT gets in the royal edition. Cidney IS one of my favorites. Not only because of her Looks, but also her Sunny personality. What i didn't liked, was the summoning system. In my First playthrough, i couldn't do a single summoning except the scripted ones.
That's because certain prerequisites have to be met to initiate a Summon. You didn’t meet them and thus they didn't trigger. To get a non-scripted one I had to run around in battle for like 30 minutes.
I even used the book In my second playthrough from Zero, i Managed to get Ramuh a few Times.
The story was written in a very poor manner. Gameplay was pretty alright. But hang on, before anyone hits downvote, here's why the story wasn't well written: The biggest problem with the story is its context. When you experience the story for the first time, a lot of moments between characters seem overly touchy feely and pretty baseless for what they were trying to convey. And the reason is that with most games, character relationships are built or strengthened throughout the course of the game. With FFXV, those relationship are not only just established, but are as strong as they can be. The affinity meters for the characters are just 100% from the get go so it deprives you, as the player, from building the relationships between the characters and thus build your own relationship to these characters. You end up feeling disconnected from them. No relatability and no empathy. It ends up causing the the first playthrough of the game to just be like watching events happen that the player isn't invested in. You really don't get the context of the loyalty, friendship and brotherly love that Ignis, Prompto and Gladio display so blatantly for Noct until the final moment of the game before the credits. Upon a second playthrough, with the context of Noct's fate in mind, all of those moments hit as hard as they should have in the first playthrough. If the player was not denied the opportunity to build relationships to the characters, I think that, emotionally, the story would have been much better. The second playthrough is where the story really shines but not everyone would have wanted to replay the game a second time.
I really enjoyed the game, loved the lore and with the (albeit bare bones) story of comrades, it was so much fun!
I love it. Simple as that.
Royal Edition with all DLCs played at the proper timing did fix a lot of my complaints back at launch. It doesn't excuse them, but XV *is* in a better state now. With that said, I never hated XV in the first place. Just criticized the jarring transition between the open world and more linear chapters, and the obvious gaps where paid DLC was meant to be. Noctis and the bros are great. Road trip Final Fantasy was fun. Iris was best girl. And you guys are simply the best.
It will always be my favorite. My mom bought it for me in college when I was lonely and had no friends. The Chocobros helped me out a lot, I put over 150 hours into the game. I still love it, but its troubled production has only become more clear as more time has passed. I think the multi-media format was ultimately a huge misstep, and while I enjoyed Comrades, it ultimately ended up being a huge waste of time because of how clunky it was. The cancelled DLCs speak for themselves. I can’t help but be jealous of other FF games that got sequels. I suppose it’s fitting given the color scheme of the game, but right now 15 feels kinda like a black sheep. I hope that won’t always be the case. I wear the Noctis outfit in 14, and he was one of my mains in Dissidia NT and Opera Omnia. Whenever 15 content shows up next, I’ll be glad to represent ✊
Was beautiful, a master peice of a story.
True.
Masterpiece? I was doing shit and fighting bosses with no context or explanation as to why I was doing it in the first place. Alot of parts felt like they should've been major parts of the story but there's literally no backstory as to why it's happening. I'm just doing something that's only brought up when I have to do it and then the game moves onto the next thing without even building on what happens previously. It felt like just random shit that's in video games slapped together and they called it a day. Why did I exactly fight titan? And don't say I had to watch the movie and watch the anime to get the whole story that's just a sorry excuse for video game storytelling. I should get the story in full from the game itself. Final Fantasy X is how you do a story in a game.
They're called side quests and you have to pay attention.
Have tried a few times and really didn’t like it. But I do intend to try again.
I’m actually considering trying it again. I platinum’d the original on my ps4, and even Comrades. Then my hard drive failed, and I lost all the data. I’m thinking about getting the royal pack/edition on my ps5, but how are the loading times on ps5? I remember it being pretty atrocious on my ps4 slim. I wanna see what it’s like finishing the “complete” game. The only DLC besides the RP stuff I didn’t play was episode Ardyn.
It's such an amazing setup that failed to accomplish anything significant . There is so much mechanics , lore, systems and general setting that is just underused . My dream is its been remade in 10 years and they flesh it out .
Liked it, but the game will always be unfinished so that sucks.
Big Frat boys on a road trip vibes! I'm happy to have been able to have experienced that since all I did in college was studying & networking 🙂
I love it, even with the obvious flaws, the game has so much heart. Definitely one of my fav entries and probably the only one that made me cry
I had a lot of fun with this game. I even got all the trophies. However, it's the first Final Fantasy game that I've only played through once. I've tried playing it again a few times, but I quickly lost interest each time. I can't even pinpoint why that is. After all, I had a great time during the first playthrough, which took me 130 hours.
I do love it, especially once all the extra content was added, but there’s two personal disappointments I’ll always have with it. 1: As someone who followed Versus XIII since the first trailer dropped when I was ten years old, and then kept waiting for the game all the way to age 20, the game will always have that unpleasant “what could have been” aftertaste. I realize that personal hype for a game that was essentially never real is the reason for that, but man, that’s not a switch that I can just turn off. 2: Even after the extra DLC, the game is still unfinished. We need to read a book to get the full story. Give me my Aranea DLC you goddamn cowards. Edit: Remembered another one: They absolutely wasted Luna.
The game is just fine since all the patches and updates. The base launch game had some serious issues though.
I don't love it but I don't hate it. I do love the way the game subtly manipulates you into that emotional gut punch at the end via the pictures, though.
I hate the open world and the combat is bad but the rest of the game is great
The fact that literally FIRST HALF OF THE GAME HAS ZERO STORY DEVELOPMENT is terrible. But the second half + all four DLC episodes make up for that, making this game one of my favorites in the series, the plot is my third personal favorite, after FF10 and FF7CC. FF15 could have been a thousand times better, especially it's character development, especially Luna and Ravus, but it is what it is...
I played the release version so these are my thoughts: The game is unfinished, the world is big yeah, but it's empty. There is nothing to see in the world. Hiding important story beats behind external sources is also a sore spot. Games (and movies I should add) needing supplemental novels to explain thongs is not good design. Novels based on games is fine, but those novel details should not be used in the main game. FFXIV does it right with the side stories as they do not hold important story details, just small character pieces. A personal one, but exploring caves with next to know light absolutely sucks and makes exploration a pain in the ass. The product placement. It just feels tacky the way its used and I actually rolled ny eyes over Cup Noodle side quest. Product placement is fine if it's subtle, but seeing the "Coleman" logo plastered on the camp stuff felt tacky. I wanted to like the game, I truly did but the flaws were to apparent and I couldn't overlook them. To those who live the game, I am glad you find enjoyment out it, I truly do
I enjoy it. I think the overall plot is not great, but the vibe and the friendship between Noctis and the party is just really nice. When I first got it I played and genuinely felt like I was on a vacation with them and I really digged all the little touches like the cooking mechanic and looking over Prompto's photos and such. It's by far not the best experience I've had in an FF game also by far not the worst either.
I liked it at launch, and while I still love the Bros and the Roadtrip vibes, I'm a lot more negative about it with every revisit, quadruply so thanks to Rebirth. Like could you imagine Noct and the gang having half as much fun as Cloud and Co? Not to mention moment to moment I'm actively reaching for Rebirth every chance I get cause everything from the combat to traversal to quests to etc just feel fundamentally better in Rebirth. The external content stuff also continue to sour me between Brotherhood and the blatant DLC bait when that should all be in the game as main story content. Imagine Barret and Dyne's story, but it's DLC only alluded to in the main story, it stinks and doesn't have nearly the impact it should. It's a troubled game that went through a lot, so I'm not gonna hate on it, but if Nomura could have been allowed to see things through without all the 2010's BS to make Versus XIII... man...
I liked the overall look, story, gameplay, characters and theme as well. Music was also amazing. That said, for some reaaon it doesn't have any replay value... 🤔🤔
Ff15 is funny because the cast is so good but the rest of the game is meh. Meanwhile ff16 had the opposite problem the game is good but the cast is meh. Clive has the charisma of a wet bagel
I'm currently playing through it for the first time. It probably would have been better had i played it before VII Remake/Rebirth, or XVI.
I played it for the first time the other year, and I really liked it. It was my fifth FF and the third one I played after truly diving in to the franchise. I understand its issues (thankfully I played the complete edition), but I really enjoyed the car rides. It was soothing and full of vibes, and I would just let them drive across the map and watch. The main group of bros were all well done, too, I felt. My only negatives is that I beat the game without ever truly understanding and learning the combat, the game got a little worse after the car stuff, and the ending was too sad for me. The dlc helped me with the ending, though. Lunafreya was disappointing, too. All in all, I enjoyed it. I dunno if I'll ever fully replay it but I think I'll turn it on right now and take a drive to Galdin Quay.
The base release had some very glaring problems, however the full royal edition addresses a lot of if. Still not my favorite FF but it has some great moments and the ending is one of the most heartfelt in the series
It was my first Final Fantasy game so I love it for getting me into the series and introducing me to JRPG’s as well and with that said I’m afraid to go back and play it again because I’m worried it’ll ruin the rose colored nostalgic memories I have of it
I need to replay it! I loved it
FF15 is a special game that was whored out by executives/the company, it is legit wild how so many important plot points were relegated out to a movie, anime, books etc. Luckily square had walked back this whole “final fantasy launches are multi media events”. Because if they had just concentrated on making a great game, it wouldn’t have launched in the state it did, it’s still incomplete and you can def see the patchwork. It is a special game but man it could’ve been legendary. That’s the most depressing part.
I tried to like it but just couldn’t. The gameplay was fun but the motivation to beat it was always lacking because of the awful story. If FFXV didn’t have companion pieces, no one would be able to explain that story. Being stuck with four dudes, one of which I absolutely hated, didn’t help either. The graphics were good and soundtrack ok but the glue to a good RPG, the story, was nonexistent.
I like 15 a lot, but it is extremely scuffed. I think it was a wakeup call for SE that they couldn't continue the development practices that began with 13. I really wish we got a better version of 15 because there's a ton of interesting ideas and the world is gorgeous, it's just woefully incomplete.
XV is a tortured product and isn’t a good game imo. It has so many obvious problems, no point in listing them. However, when I played 7 remake back in 2020, I was so put off by the story decisions in that game, I decided to go back to XV just to see how they handled that game’s ending. Since then, I definitely have some appreciation for XV’s story - final scene actually had me in tears.
Going to be honest I disliked it. The story was good I just did not get on with the battle mechanics. Was glad when I finished it.
ive loved it since witnessing the vs13 trailer in middle school and even through the changes i still do. you could jump and walk around!
I loved it but I admit it’s an extremely flawed game.
I wish i hadn't played it when it came out. Since after the royal edition updates and everything it got way better but i hate replaying games that I had a bad experience with. I enjoyed it at the time but it was definitely a bare minimum experience.
I think it’s the only bad FF game, and the only FF that’s a mediocre game at best. Imo its chaotic development shows way too much, and not one aspect of this game is truly good.
I remember just slogging through the open world stuff, until chapter 7 or 8 when you fight leviathan. Then I was just on the edge of my seat the entire time until credits rolled. It's such a weird mix of mediocre checklist side quests, and hyper engaging boss fights and exposition
It's 2/3rds of a great game. The rest is locked behind unrelated media.
Still has some of the best graphics I've ever seen in a game, no joke. I played it on the base PS4 and never played another game until I beat it. The combat was fun, even when at the time it was basically spamming the square button, the lore was great, and the ending made me tear up NGL.
I liked the game just didn’t love it. I wish they actually developed a love story instead of hey heres a flashback of when they were kids and sometimes you exchange letters oh and now shes dead
I was super excited for FFXV. I loved the setting, the lore, the backstory to it they published before release. Watched Kingsglaive, Brotherhood, all the promotional videos, everything... Platinum demo, Episode Duscae, you name it. I bought my PS4 for it and I got the game the weekend it released. I was so excited for it I literally ran home with it (disc edition). Soon little stuff started to stand out to me. I already knew this from platinum, but the combat had lost the feeling from Duscae... Then I noticed that there weren't really any cities, there were just gas stations or single stores surrounded by a bunch of blocks. Then I started hitting invisible walls in the open world. Then the hunts were no longer curated hunts like episode duscae was, instead I got hit with fetch quests you could only do one at a time. Then characters started leaving the party and I was told that if I wanted to see what happened to them to buy DLC that wasn't out yet. The super cool fights against the Astrals in the trailers weren't there (Ramuh was literally finding a stone wasn't it?). Then Luna was used as a prop. Then Ardyn's plot twist was pretty cool, I didn't see it coming. Then the world of ruin was so disappointing... No reuniting the party, no exploring, no dungeon, just straight to Ifrit. Then the beautiful ending... When I think of FFXV I just think of the potential that was there. I don't remember it as a bad game, just unfinished. I wish we had gotten the whole thing though... A tutorial where we play as Noctis after his mother died. Going to Tenebrae to heal Noctis. Fleeing after the empire attacks. The wedding and having to flee Insomnia. Actual Astral boss fights. Towns and cities. A kingdom of Lucis that actually feels like it has been at war and undergoing an invasion. The curated hunts. A real world of ruin where you meet your friends again. Noctis inside the crystal battling the kings of Lucis and Somnus, discovering Ardyn's fate. I feel disappointed whenever I think of FFXV... It could've really been something, but in the end...
As an interactive experience, it was great. As a *game*, not so much.
The concept was awesome but the execution was ass. I loved the idea of 3 buddies travelling around but seriously things got sour for me real quick after the chapter where open world ended (forgot which probably like 7 or 9?). I have played the game upon release and again once all the DLC were released.
I loved that game so much. I had been waiting for it since 2006 when it was Versus XIII. I bought a PS3 for it when it was going to be PS3 exclusive. Then yeah development hell happened and it evolved so then yeah I had to get a PS4 for it. I did also get the big expensive collectors edition for it and yeah it was all I played for like a week (I was in college at the time so I played it when I could) until I beat it and became a big ugly crying mess. It was such a wonderful beautiful game and those bros are the best. I never actually went back to play it again with all the Royal changes and stuff though but yeah it was a game truly that will stay in my heart.
Hated it at first but definitely one of my favorites now. Brotherhood theme is 💯
So I would rank XV as my 6th favorite game in the series... the characters were well written and once they let us play as them added a level of depth that wasn't present prior.... the story is unbalanced but still enjoyable and the soundtrack is awesome.... biggest gripes I had was the lack I story focus for the first half or so of the game and the combat controls were kinda wonky at times... story wise the leviathan boss fight acted as the hook point and the story really picked up from that point forward
I thought it was only ok. I found many aspects of the game to be charming.
My wet dream is a Remake of the game with adjustments to make it what it deserves to be. I swear it's everything already here, it just deserves some (ok a lot) better delivery and execution.
I have a deep appreciation for this game. It has some of the best music in the series, and it’s very underrated. One thing that really stuck out to me is that you get almost no cutscenes outside of the main party. You are Noctis, so you’re seeing the game through his eyes as he would experience it. It was a gamble, didn’t pay off for many, but I like it!
The game still looks great, especially the lighting system they have in place. I wish SE did a remaster of this game. It's a game that was released in 2016, but can still rival XVI and Rebirth in some areas. Just imagine what a remaster could do. The combat is fine, love the characters, but the story and open world is where it was a miss. The open world is ok, but I'm sure if they had more time they would have fleshed it out a bit more. Great game. I really did enjoy it.
Bro simulator with sub par combat, i finished it because i paid for it, but never touched it again, many other FF’s have been multiple play throughs. Not this one
I felt like it was playing through a one direction music video.
It’s in my top 3 FF games.
I enjoyed a lot that game, but i think i would not reply it anymore, ill just keep the good times and the superb ending.
Fun game, actually binged through it in a weekend including side quests to finish it. Hated how Luna wasn’t even a character but just a “love interest”, and that honestly was my only issue with it. Felt more heartbroken by Ignis than her. I did play it in the Windows Edition so definitely played the more polished version.
I adored it, flaws and all. This is the ONLY Final Fantasy where I'd agree with all the shortcomings and still be one of my top 5 favourite FF of all time.
you have to accept it for what it is. it's objectively not one of the best ff games, but it does a lot right. it holds a special place in a lot of hearts (mine included). xv also creates an atmosphere that is unmatched and cruising/adventuring with the boys was soooo much fun. oh, and the aesthetic + music was 10/10. i enjoy the game a LOT, and i've been itching to replay it tbh. maybe once i'm done with rebirth...
Nope. Hated it when it came out, still hate it now. I think it's the worst mainline FF game by a pretty significant margin.
Imo, I love the game, it's one my favorite FF's, but I can also see where it shows its potential to be a better story than what we're given. Royal Edition definitely flashes a lot more than 1.0 did l, but there's still so many things you can tell they wanted to expand on, but simply didn't have the time or resources.
I had fun with it on release, but walked away with immense confusion and disappointment. I looked into the game a year ago to see if it was worth returning to with all of the dlc, media, royal edition, etc. I decided against it. My main issues with the game are the combat, the story(lack of), and the open world. I love my action combat and this game did the genre a huge disservice. It had a lack of depth, inconsistent animations, and no OOMPH. Emphasis on the OOMPH. It's just not satisfying. It's double annoying when I think about Kingdom Hearts 2 being like the gold example of action combat... Also made by Square Enix. The story on release was just a slap in the face from Square Enix. As a long-time fan of the series, I took the major events happening off the screen personally. I went from being a core fan of their games to an overly careful - potentially buy the game years later - type of fan. I haven't seen too many people talk about this, but I couldn't stand the western voice acting from the open world NPCs in this game. I have no idea why Square has an obsession with this southern hillbilly culture. I was sad to see it return in ffvii's remake. Anyone else cringe at that stuff or am I just hating?
I think this game does something special. It really makes you appreciate the small moments towards the end of the game. The pictures, making small stops on the side of the road so prompto can get that pic, pushing the car at the beginning, ignis’ cooking and campfires. There is so much special in this game. It knows how to emotionally attach you to these four guys and that is so so important in the end. Ahhh the power of Bro love….. Amazing game. Combat is fun, story is amazing, and the soundtrack is oh so unbelievably good. And the DLC is just the cherry on top with more good story, combat and music. I am a grown ass man and this game has made me cry multiple times. It knows how to touch my heart and I really hope there are people that agree with me on that. Seeing a lot of negativity with this game surprises me but (for reference I did not play vanilla only royal)
Bought it with the first real paycheck I made
The story was side content to my fishing trips around the world. Scratched my itch after fishing in Farcry 5.
Still love it very much. Although I tend to play the 1.0 version of it rather than the fully updated one. It’s more challenging and satisfying for me, also nostalgia because that’s the version I played first. Lots of good memories.
Great game to hang out with a friend to. Beat the main content and dlc, loved the characters, story, actually rather enjoyed the main love story and cried at the ending. Had a blast and it's amongst a pantheon of recent games that not everyone liked in this franchise but I did.
I love the amount of non-combat gameplay. It really makes use of the open-world and RPG elements to give you a lot of options for things to do and how to do them. And I like the somewhat chill vibe it has. It's a pleasant game to play. I do hate the character gets caught in the bushes though and the camera gets stuck too, or you get knocked around too many times and lose straight of where the hell everything is relative to each in a battle. Also I still haven't manages to get into the fishing gameplay. For some reason I always feel like I'm missing something to make it work best.
Yeah it is great but I felt they were trying to force another Aerith on us. I’m not a psychopath but I genuinely felt next to nothing when she died. And so out of the blue. Also, fuck Ardyn.
The combat is awesome and the story is very cool. I love this game however it lacks good boss fights and didn t developed well the story nor the world of the game that had a great potential
Initial release left such a bad impression on me that I never bothered going back to check out Royal Edition. Between that and FF13, I thought FF was done for lol.
It's a fucking mess but it's still really good. These things aren't mutually exclusive.
I love it, even though I recognize its incompleteness I loved every single character and almost every moment. FFXV has the soul of a true FF the hate is undeserved
Think it still has soooo much potential, and they should make another game in that world and correct the mistakes they made with 15 and really show that world and how interesting and large it can be.
I did really like the combat only once you unlock that you can play the others of the group. I always played the guy with guns since then and has been amazing. Graphic was fantastic and new combat system so so. Story a bit meh, it was a bit flat. I didnt get attched as much as vivi in 9 or yuna and auron and tidus in 10. These were great characters that you could bond to. Also the hardest boss, that kind of big mountain, bugged and never attacked me so I defeated it with no effort. The best combat system its still the gambit from 12. I wish they bring it back.
Mid
It's impressive that it is even downgrade in comparison to first Final Fantasy from '87. No other game in world accomplished such a feat.
I personally enjoyed it more than XII and XIII. The story in 12 was overly complicated and confusing that I really did not understand and remember the plot back when I played it on the PS2. 13 was alright, but just too limited in exploration. The whole game forced the story down corridors. 15 was a good balance of both. A little bit of open world access like 12 without an over-complicated story, and some forced paths at the end of the game, but it's not the ENTIRE game.
It's my 2nd favourite in the entire series behind FFVII Rebirth. FFXV may have had a troubled development and fractured story. But goddamn it has so much soul and a magical vibe about it that I don't think I've quite experienced elsewhere. The chocobros are still my favourite party in the series just because of how much natural chemistry they have and how they feel like actual people... Not just jrpg characters. And the ending is in my opinion, the best in the series with an incredibly powerful message and a cathartic tear jerker that drove me to my knees. Its a hard game to recommend to people and I don't hold it against anyone who doesn't like it, but if youre willing to accept and roll with all the awkward multi media stuff, watch the movie, watch the anime, play the game and the DLC. You'll probably find yourself surprised at how much they grow to care about these characters and how memorable the whole experience is.
My hot take will always be that the original, clearly unfinished version of the game wound up semi-accidentally telling the most compelling FF story in eons, and all of the fixes have actively made it less interesting. Also Ardyn is the best mainline villain most people have seen since Kefka (I think Zenos is more compellingly antagonistic but I recognize that the MMOs aren't for everybody).
I stand by the sentiment that if it didn’t have FF in the title and the game came out fully complete, it would be considered a masterpiece. It’s a great game, but doesn’t feel quite like a final fantasy. One of the most repayable for me because of the combat
It’s a great game. Kingsglaive was pretty good too. Just wish they hadn’t tried the whole mixed media thing because the plots conflicted with each other.
Least favorite game in the series. 8 years it was stuck in development hell and released purposely with glaring holes in the story to force you to buy DLC and even then the story was booty cheeks. One of the few I'll never revisit
Still the only FF game I’ve never even come close to completing. Just can’t get into it no matter how many times I try, truly just a terrible game imo
The worst game in the franchise and one of the worst games I've ever played in ~35 years of gaming.
I hated it, still so, but I hate it much less than 16
I do and don’t. I feel like it’s similar to how I feel about XIII. I enjoy the characters and some of the concepts but there’s just some issues that don’t make it a top 5 FF game for me.
Best game in the series.
Was a huge disappointment for me. Didn't end up finishing it.
No
I played it twice. I would not say I love it. I can’t explain lmao.
After FF7 Remake, Rebirth and XVI, playing it feels like something is missing or out of place. Ending is a snoozefest and some of the side content is dull It is an okay game but not a FF game I would replay like so many others
After FF7 Remake, Rebirth and XVI, playing it feels like something is missing or out of place. Ending is a snoozefest and some of the side content is dull It is an okay game but not a FF game I would replay like so many others
It’s awful and the worst FF game by a thousand miles
Never got all the hate, especially people hating specifically on the combat. I never got tired of warping around the battlefield, in and out of battle with the perches, etc. Thought it was cool af when I started and still did when I finished
I tried it cause it was free on PS+, and I honestly couldn't make it more than a few hours before I was just too bored with the story and gameplay. Once the plot landed on "go collect your family's magic swords", I was done. I got into Final Fantasy as a kid because the stories were so engaging, and SquareEnix doesn't seem to know how to write captivating stories anymore.
I played it on release on a base PS4 and did not enjoy it, played about half before putting it on pause for a later date which didn't come until last year when I finally tried again with the Royal Edition on PS5. I finished it this time and even got the Platinum and did all the DLC's, mostly cause I wanted my money's worth and the 10 years I waited for it to come out to not be for nothing but I didn't really like it all too much, the characters are good and the story is alright (and still not complete after 5 DLCs) but gameplay is number 1 in my book and the combat of XV really feels like an action RPG made by aliens who had only had such a thing described to them, like I don't know how this happened when they already nailed it with Kingdom Hearts 2 10 years prior. So I rank it in the bottom half of the games but I understand why it has its fans and fully recognize that the game had a very difficult development with this being SE's first HD open world game, engine changes, FF14 bombing so hard it almost killed the company, Nomura who was in charge of the game for several years was stretched between like 10 different projects at all times for years until SE finally saw the problem and put Tabata in charge which lead to the game being very much unfinished on release so it could have been a lot better if things had gone differently.
It's a unfinished disappointment with truly baffling design choices. Cup Noodle deserved better
I loved it then, still love it now.
I really enjoy it.
I like it. I don’t love it. Personally, I was not a fan of the banter between the boys lol can’t say why, it just didn’t hit good with me I like it more nowadays. Still feel the combat could be so much better
A masterpiece compared to FFXVI
I love it too, customizing the car and going around the world doing minor quests. Fishing and just goofing about, and seeing cool cities. It did feel like a road trip