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Post: 86308187_286 created on Tue, 23 Sep 2014 21:31:46 +0000
Posted: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 21:31:46 +0000

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I've been reading that

the party is male characters only and that only Noctis can be controlled in battle with the option of giving commands to other characters.

is this only in the demo? I was hoping

Stella would be playable at some point.

Pretty sure the four we see are the four we get.

Not sure there are gonna be many more surprises released about this game until it comes out.

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Post: 86308187_287 created on Tue, 23 Sep 2014 22:11:36 +0000
Posted: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 22:11:36 +0000

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einmyrin

I've been reading that

the party is male characters only and that only Noctis can be controlled in battle with the option of giving commands to other characters.

is this only in the demo? I was hoping

Stella would be playable at some point.

Pretty sure the four we see are the four we get.

Not sure there are gonna be many more surprises released about this game until it comes out.

that's what I was thinking, but I wasn't too sure. I thought she would be fun to use in battle but I'm sure I'll enjoy it either way.

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Post: 86308187_288 created on Wed, 24 Sep 2014 08:13:15 +0000
Posted: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 08:13:15 +0000

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einmyrin

I've been reading that

the party is male characters only and that only Noctis can be controlled in battle with the option of giving commands to other characters.

is this only in the demo? I was hoping

Stella would be playable at some point.

Pretty sure the four we see are the four we get.

Not sure there are gonna be many more surprises released about this game until it comes out.

Cor Leonis is also supposed to be playable.
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Of course, he could just be playable in the beginning, and either die or betray the group. Also apparently he's 42.

Also, I really hope that there's more than just 4/5 party members. I hate small parties. And I really hope not being able to control anyone but Noctis is just a mistranslation or something. That's really gonna bum me out if I can't play as Gladiolus or Ignis. emotion_8c That also makes this image really confusing. But that's also from like four years ago, so I guess they could have removed that element by now. neutral

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Post: 86308187_289 created on Wed, 24 Sep 2014 20:37:08 +0000
Posted: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 20:37:08 +0000

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einmyrin

I've been reading that

the party is male characters only and that only Noctis can be controlled in battle with the option of giving commands to other characters.

is this only in the demo? I was hoping

Stella would be playable at some point.

Pretty sure the four we see are the four we get.

Not sure there are gonna be many more surprises released about this game until it comes out.

Cor Leonis is also supposed to be playable.
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He looks like a man who would betray the party.

Could also be Noctis' body guard who you control in the beginning escaping the capital. Then he dies and you take control of Noctis. Just a thought. Probably no where near correct, but a theory.

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Post: 86308187_290 created on Thu, 25 Sep 2014 01:52:11 +0000
Posted: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 01:52:11 +0000

Nomura talks about stepping down from being Director of XV

....to which he says that he cannot say anything more than the fact that it was a company decision. There's a lot he's not saying, but the words "company decision" give off a bad feeling and I get the feeling that he's pissed. I wouldn't be surprised if Nomura left SE after finishing KH3.

Now I'm a little less optimistic about FFXV. I mean, I have some faith in Tabata, but I just have a slight bad feeling about SE in general now. neutral

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Post: 86308187_291 created on Thu, 25 Sep 2014 02:14:41 +0000
Posted: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 02:14:41 +0000

Last I heard Noctis had to be in your party at all times but other characters were playable. Of course, that was long ago and the game has changed so much.

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Post: 86308187_292 created on Thu, 25 Sep 2014 03:26:23 +0000
Posted: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 03:26:23 +0000

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While a bit saddening to hear he may have been pushed off as director by Square Enix, it sort of makes sense too. Clearly Nomura wasn't moving the project along quickly enough, and we've been waiting far too long.

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Post: 86308187_293 created on Thu, 25 Sep 2014 06:29:31 +0000
Posted: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 06:29:31 +0000

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Yeah, I mean if he was essentially 'fired' from the project, I can't say he didn't deserve it. The production time for this game has been completely ridiculous. And I mean BEYOND absurd. They have absolutely no chance of making back what they've spent on this monolith of a game, and there's no reason it should have taken this long. And that, boys and girls, is a fireable offense, and it's shocking no ones been fired because of it (though honestly I feel that the producer is more to blame since maintaining a smooth production schedule is literally their entire job. But stubborn directors can sometimes conflict with that).

I imagine Nomura was too ambitious honestly, and his vision for the game was never possible on the PS3 platform. But in that kind of a situation, you have to make sacrifices in order to make it possible. Frankly, Shadow of the Colossus shouldn't have been possible on PS2, but they made it work. And now, after having wasted an entire seven-year console generation, they have to upres everything for the PS4's standards, delaying the project even longer. If Nomura was fired for taking too long, then frankly, he deserved it. And I don't feel sorry for him. There is just no excuse for this ridiculous development cycle.

Ugh. Sorry. I have strong opinions. emo

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Post: 86308187_294 created on Thu, 25 Sep 2014 18:32:11 +0000
Posted: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 18:32:11 +0000

I'm hoping for a larger party, personally.
I like having a large cast of playable characters, even if it takes a bit of grinding to keep them all at equal levels. That being said, I do like the four that have been introduced so far. I don't really know how I feel about Cor yet, and he seemed absent from the TGS 2014 trailers.
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Luna is a new character.

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Post: 86308187_295 created on Fri, 26 Sep 2014 00:39:54 +0000
Posted: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 00:39:54 +0000

Nomura tried to do too much. It's as simple as that. When progress on XV pretty much stopped, Enix had to do what was best for the company and it's next big game.

If Nomura is actually upset enough about this decision he should have probably not forced the company hand. If he takes his ball and goes home after Kingdom Hearts 3, is it that big of a loss? I'm not sure as of now.

When you don't get the job done, you get the boot. IF ANYTHING he should be happy they took him off the project and Tabata took it over. Tabata has said in interviews that he is not going to change much about the game because Nomura put so much in to the game. I can see why Nomura is upset, you grow fond of your project after working on it for 8 years. It should have been done 2 years ago. There could be countless reasons on to why it has taken eight years to get this far that we will probably never know about, but the fact is, it has taken eight years to get 60% done.

Nomura can go work on his franchise and give it all his time.

Tabata can take on the challenge that is FF XV.

No one should be pissed or upset about this situation. Especially Nomura.

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Post: 86308187_296 created on Fri, 26 Sep 2014 20:10:17 +0000
Posted: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 20:10:17 +0000

I would just like to point out that during the first three years of XIII's development, they only showed off Lightning, Snow and Vanille. And each of them took like a year to be announced. It wasn't until the final year of development that we found out about Hope or Sazh, and Fang was revealed only mere months before the game's release.

There's definitely still a possibility that we will have more than just the five characters currently announced.

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Post: 86308187_297 created on Fri, 26 Sep 2014 22:03:51 +0000
Posted: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 22:03:51 +0000

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At this point I believe the playable cast is done. It's an all-male team of 4 or 5 people.

New characters ARE being announced (Luna), but I don't think they'll be playable or even allied characters. Luna for example looks like a potential romance or enemy, and looks nearly identical to Stella.