Final Fantasy XV Rant

Final Fantasy XV, the game that took a decade to be finished! but wasn't finished and doesn't look like it will ever be finished!!!

Lets take this back to when FFXV was very first announced, originally called Final Fantasy Versus XIII (2006 yes that long ago), it was to be part of the XIII universe and take a more mature based on reality approach. Originally it was also meant to be releasing on the PS3. After years of snippets, no shows, more snippets, even more no shows it was finally in 2012 Renamed what we know today as FFXV, with a new director and not much of the previously shown Versus game. It was also noted to be moving away from PS3 and onto the next generation of machines the PS4 and Xbox One. It didn't stop there it was also to be (just like XIII) its own universe. 

So skip forward to present release after many no shows and re scheduled releases the game finally came out on November 2016. To celebrate the release I myself wanted to go all out and get the wonderful UCE and FFXV Branded PS4 slim, as most of you know me but for those that dont I like to consider myself a huge Final Fantasy fan, with a wide collection of the series games and memorabilia along with a skin full of Final Fantasy tattoos.

So when Final Fantasy Versus/XV was announced I was ecstatic!! I was lucky enough to experience many events leading up to the FFXV release so I was after such a long wait very excited for the game. 

Roll forward to placing the game in the machine, it looked incredible i was in awe of the world that was portrayed, i wanted to explore and I could. Then reality started to kick in arent I on a mission to save my beloved, combat er what combat all I do is hold X, whats magic as is barely needed or used, what happened to equipment as I only ever change a weapon maybe once, twice at a push, Summons a big fun staple of the Final Fantasy series dropped to random show ups, leveling up isn't immediate you have to camp to level up (for me this was a chore), finally what was actually going on with the story.....no really what was going on. 

10 Years for a game to be released, ok even if you give them the benefit of the doubt and take it from when it changed hands, 3-4 years for a game to be released and it be in a complete mess like this is unacceptable. I personally would of preferred it being delayed longer for a more complete game, but there in lies the problem with today's gaming, rush rush patch patch season pass DLC. 

After much community input FFXV was going to get a season pass to try and expand and build on the faili..universe and give more insight to the characters. While this seemed like a plausible idea just think hard and clear about it, you've spent £45-£190 on a version of the game (none of which came with a season pass! In my case over £600 and still no season pass), to find the game a horrible mess, plot holes bigger than my ex.... er massive hole, to then have the audacity to charge £20-£25 extra to try and add content to help with these holes. Now I cant talk much about the extra (should of been in the game) content as I personally refused to buy the season pass, but from what I have seen even this content again fails to really add much more to the mess of the game. Is it bad that I feel the movie Kingsglaive and mini series Brotherhood was more in-depth than the main game itself, even the game A Kings Tale was more interesting and easier to make sense of than FFXV.

To me there was more emphasis on graphics than there was story and combat which isnt fitting within the Final Fantasy universe. So you have this game FFXV, its a mess you try and correct it with season passes (yes they'll be another one) this doesn't help so rather than try and fix the game you decide to do several mobile games one of which isnt even developed by square-enix themselves (joke). You then announce a fucking VR fishing game (I thought it was a joke at first). They get to this years gamscon and announce 3 further things that have no added value to the game itself, PC version (which was inevitable as SE love milking it) a horrid looking Pocket Mobile version (chibi is meant to be cute the characters in this arent) and worst of all a fucking cross over with one of the worst franchises in asscreed.. sorry assassins creed. They also said something like theirs more to come but you know what I DONT GIVE A SHIT anymore!! as all square-enix seems to be doing is milking/degrading a franchise that I loved and that has been with me for so long and helped through some difficult times.

This game has really knocked my confidence in Square-Enix ability to continue the Final Fantasy franchise and sadly cannot get excited for any new Final Fantasy games that maybe on the horizon, that being said lets hope they learn from this fuck up and try with the next installment.