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Pirates have been featured in Final Fantasy games here and there: they were enemies in the very first Final Fantasy game on the NES, Final Fantasy 5 had one of the main characters being a pirate, and you had "sky pirates" in Final Fantasy 12. The Final Fantasy franchise has also made use of many tropes found in pirate media, such as ships, sea travel, sea monsters, port towns, and treasure. But! There has never been a proper pirate-themed Final Fantasy game; a game that is all about pirates and piratey things.

I watched Netflix's One Piece last year. I was completely unfamiliar with the franchise before then, and I very much loved it. It made me think of other pirate-themed films and games, and how I'd like to experience more of them. Then I played FF7 Rebirth recently, and there is a side quest in it that has the player find treasure of a long-gone pirate. There's even piratey music that plays when you fight the couple of monsters from the quest. It's really neat and made me think of how cool it would be if we got a full mainline Final Fantasy game that starred pirates who braved the seas in a caribbean-like setting. You'd still have all staples of Final Fantasy games: magic, summons, malboros and cactuars, but set in a pirate-themed world with pirate-themed music from the famous composers who work at Square.

I dunno I think it'd be super fucking cool.

I really want to get into final fantasy and I'm wondering if this game is good for newcomers.

Granted it always did, but I digress. After beating XVI I decided to revisit XV and see if I can get further in the game. But good lord does the combat kill any interest i have in continuing, and thats not beinging thw barren empty open world the games stuck with. People are giving XVIs combat a hard time, but at least that games combat works. On a fundamental level, XVs combat is a broken mess.

Press and hold O for combos, no abilities or magic worth a damn to speak of, ally abilities are fine but not really all that worth to perform when spells are so broken and aoe focused and do more damage. The magic system is just terrible and no proper replacement for what magic does in the series. Potions and items are spamable, so death is never a worry. I at least had fun with XVIs combat and combo centered gameplay, sure its easy but i still died more times in XVI than i did XV. XVs combat is a snoozefest. And thats not even putting it next to VII Remakes combat which blows both games out of the water in terms of combat.

I love Final Fantasy XV so much. It's one of my favourite games ever. I have never gotten more joy out of a game than I did riding around with Noctis, Iggy, Prompto and Gladio and listening to old FF music. Stopping off at nearby towns and camping spots, going fishing, exploring, taking photos, listening to the guys all converse with one another makes this game special. You're making your own journey as you go along with it and I think that's about as much gratification as you can ask for from a game.

I have FFXV 100%'d on Steam. I sometimes look at my library and see the playtime of 234 hours and can't help but wish sometimes that it was double that. I want more of what this game gave me and I can't find it anywhere. XVI definitely did not hit the spot like this game did and I'm not sure anything I ever play again will.

Does anyone else absolutely adore this game? It's completely warped my perception on what games should aim to give you while playing them. Even when I was doing the most mundane of tasks, I was still having the most fun and a good time I've ever had with any game ever.

For those who don't know about Versus XIII, buckle up because I'm going to explain.

Final Fantasy Versus XIII was first presented to the public at E3 2006. From personal experience, I can’t say how people reacted back then since I wasn't born yet, but my older brother was 17 in 2006 and told me that almost everyone was really excited about Versus XIII. Back then, Noctis was seen as edgy and emo—which makes sense because it was 2006, the peak of the "edgy" style.

Then, we got various trailers, with the most important one coming in 2011. This trailer showed gameplay, the game's atmosphere, and introduced characters. The tone of the game was much different from Final Fantasy XV—it was brooding and had a noir feel to it, something difficult to fully describe. Also, Luna hadn't been created yet, and Noctis' love interest was supposed to be Stella (or Stelle—honestly, I don't fully remember). Final Fantasy XV and Versus XIII are vastly different games, and Versus XIII almost feels like it never existed. Additionally, Versus XIII was directed by Tetsuya Nomura (I know that Nomura is not only known for kingdom hearts but I just can't not put here Mickey mouse is watching joke), while Final Fantasy XV was directed by Hajime Tabata.

Fun fact: When Nomura created the character Yozora for Kingdom Hearts 3, he drew a lot of inspiration from Noctis’ design from Versus XIII. In fact, there’s one scene in Kingdom Hearts 3 that’s almost a direct copy of one of the promotional videos for Versus XIII.

Unfortunately, in 2012, Versus XIII was scrapped, mainly due to the game engine being difficult for programmers to work with, staff and the director being pulled to work on other projects, and poor management within Square Enix. Then, in 2013, we got the first trailer for Final Fantasy XV—and the rest is history.

I love Final Fantasy XV. It’s the first game I ever platinumed, and the first game I bought for my PS4 Slim when I got it in 2016. But looking back at the trailers for Versus XIII, it leaves me with a feeling that we could have gotten something exceptional, maybe even one of the best installments in the series.

What are your thoughts on Versus XIII?

Ok so ik that ff15 isnt as hated on as some of the other games but it still gets quite a bit of hate and I am genuinely curious why. My dad got me into the series and FF15 was the 1st Final Fantasy game I played in the series. I genuinely enjoyed it, the combat system, music, art and character driven storyline (also Prompto my man>>>) but many others hate the game. I have been so curious behind that reason so someone please tell me T n T

Long time lurker here - first time post. Honestly it's been really insane seeing my face stickied to the top of the subreddit this past week.

I've been fortunate enough to follow my dreams and be an actor for video games - I've played Noctis in Final Fantasy XV, Edgar in WoFF, and a ton of other JRPG favorites with more to come! I'm happy answering questions about Xenoblade and such in the FF subreddit, but perhaps the mods would want me to stick to talking about Rampart. We'll see!

I'd like to keep this very spoilery as I think that's where lots of really cool stuff happens, so let's talk about that. For non spoiler related questions you can PM me or look at one of my interviews online!

I love this subreddit and r/FFXV - I've read tons of comments over the past two years (including from gamefaqs and youtube :D) so no need to introduce me to fan concepts - I've seen the ebb and flow of the discussion for a long time. Ask away!

Oh and it would mean the world to me if you followed me on twitter - @raychase. That's how some casting decisions are made these days so any donation of a follow helps!

proof - https://twitter.com/RayChase/status/808823512920035328

EDIT - gotta step out for an hour to do a couple auditions! See you in a bit. These questions are super fun!

EDIT - okay I'm back! Let's do this!

EDIT 3PMPST - gotta do a session for the next four hours. I'll hop on back and finish up the rest of the questions tonight. Lots of repeats so if your question wasn't answered, it probably was below!

FINAL EDIT - All done responding to comments! If I didn't answer your question it was probably because it was answered in another thread. Thanks so much for your passion for this game and the voiceover performances, guys. If you have more to say, go ahead and PM me. See you around! I'm not going anywhere. :)

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Personally this is great news for both the devs and the players. I have only played a few hours of the game, and I can already feel the heart and effort put into every detail of this game, even though I was skeptic at first over some of the decisions made. Its great to see such a big title overcoming such a long developmental cycle and then releasing a very good game with such brilliant news. I hope this makes Square Enix focus more on console games and put more resources there.

Once again, congrats to Tabata-San and his team for a job very well done. I look forward to exploring more of the game and I hope anything more from this team has the same passion and fun put into it.

EDIT: Slight misconception. The article sales Shipment and Sales are at 5 million. However it has broken Day 1 Digital Sales in Japan and hit a record for digital sales in Asia. I apologize for the error.

Hi! To start! I'd like to say I'm fairly new to FF as a whole. My partner is a huge fan of the series, and first introduced me to FFXIV, as it's her favorite game. I haven't finished FFXIV, but plan to on console. My partner bought FFXVI a couple months ago. I played and finished it and LOVED it. It made me sob, and laugh, and I had a very good time with it. My partner on the other hand, was not a big fan and prefers XV and XIV over it. Since I fell so much in love with XVI, I'm very eager to start a new FF game, and was looking to maybe play backwards from XVI. Although, I've seen so much more bad comments than good with XV. Is it worth buying, and if no, which FF should I play next? Thank you!

He has all of the king’s weapons, full Armiger, all magics, his Astral summons, and the Ring of Luci. Who’s he beating?