[LukeB]

Is this a long game?

[Toy Soldier]

Originally Posted by LukeBrrr.

Is this a long game?

Apparently you can plough through the main quest in under 20 hours if you ignore most of the other stuff, but there are a tonne of side quests / hunts etc.

Like I said above, I'm at over 30 hours and I've only just gotten to the first town... But I do think that's probably an extreme example.

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There will be an option to play the new chapter 13 from the menu

[Toy Soldier]

My guys are still coolin their heels at the start of chapter 9 waiting for April . I'll probably have to relearn the combat system by the time I actually play the final stretch...

[Toy Soldier]

Characters all pushing level 90 and I did quite a few of the "end game" optional dungeons before I went on hiatus

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Youtube video

The offroad car looks fun, lol

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Had a little go at Comrades, seems pretty fun so far

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Apparently they're considering making either a standalone game, or a new film about Adryn's backstory.

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The comrades expansion is out! I'm enjoying it so far, it's pretty well made. The character creation is fantastic, and the story is interesting, with it being set a few months after

Spoiler:

Noct goes missing for 10 years

also
Comrade spoiler

Spoiler:

Libertus from Kingsglaive is back!

Anyway, here's my character!

[Toy Soldier]

I really want to play it but I should probably finish the game first... haha. I could probably plough through pretty fast, I was lvl 80-something and have already left the main area / fought Leviathan...

[Scarlett.]

It will make sense if you complete the main game first (actually, don't think it unlocks until after Chapter 11). They've made quite a few additions on the back end of the game, adding much more story to the second half. The character episodes have been decent, Prompto's was good.

[Toy Soldier]

Originally Posted by Chewy

It will make sense if you complete the main game first (actually, don't think it unlocks until after Chapter 11). They've made quite a few additions on the back end of the game, adding much more story to the second half. The character episodes have been decent, Prompto's was good.

Yeah, that's why I stopped playing, they announced the added story content just as I hit Chapter 9 so I decided to stop playing until it was released... but that was like 9 months ago . It's next on my list of "unfinished games". Then "The Witcher 3", which I've been about 80% of the way through for years... 65 hours played ...

Skyrim still holds the record though.



...I've never finished the main questline

[Toy Soldier]

Right, those who have played the Prompto DLC...

Spoiler:

Prompto has just taken his swan dive off the train, I'm playing on with the game and assume he'll rejoin eventually as Gladio did... my question is, should I play the DLC at that point (when he returns to the party) OR is it better to play it post-game? In other words... does it spoil any story content that occurs AFTER he rejoins the party?

[Scarlett.]

Hmm, I can't actually remember if it spoils anything from the main story, its a good dlc though

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Holy ****

Youtube video

Also...

EPISODE ARDYN CONFIRMED

[Toy Soldier]

Originally Posted by Chewy

Holy ****

Youtube video

Also...

EPISODE ARDYN CONFIRMED

Does it not make you really pissed off that this is starting to become the game that it really should have been from the very start? Like I sort of wish I hadn't already played through the storyline, so that I could play it in a few years when it's totally "done"

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They're only able to do that now after having made all the character episodes, would have been too much work to put in the original game I think.

[Toy Soldier]

Originally Posted by Chewy

They're only able to do that now after having made all the character episodes, would have been too much work to put in the original game I think.

True but I think this is mainly because of the game's development troubles... I do sort of think that somewhere in the original plan once the concept of the 4 buddies was thought up, they intended for them to be switchable in combat. They couldn't implement it in time and so came up with the episodes structure, and now have decided to bite the bullet and port over the other guys combat mechanics to the main game, creating the combat system they envisioned in the first place.

I also think they originally fully intended for the big post-chapter-9 world area to be a fleshed out open world just like the first area, and again it was just a stretch too far.

[Tom4784]

The game, while excellent (the story less so), was rushed which is crazy when you think that it was in development for 10+ years.

[Toy Soldier]

Originally Posted by Dezzy

The game, while excellent (the story less so), was rushed which is crazy when you think that it was in development for 10+ years.

I think people would have waited longer for it not to be, however, I don't think they were willing to gamble any more funding on it at the time. Because it was well received despite its flaws, they have continued to work on featured that were intended for the main release, but if it hadn't been embraced by fans they wouldn't have funded further development. A bit of an odd situation really... they sort of beta-released it? And I don't necessarily have a problem with beta releases but I personally would have waited to play if I had known these features were coming.

I actually still haven't finished it; I got up to

[spoiler]Hammerhead, "10 years later" where it says there's no turning back once you leave Hammerhead[/quote]

Then I Umbra'd to Lucis to do some hunts and sidequests, been considering going for the platinum, but now (again!) I might drop it until January and completely start from scratch . I haven't done that much side content and I reckon it would only take maybe 15 hours to go back through the main questline with a bit of wandering thrown in, and then go from there for platinum.

I never used to be into trophies at all but after getting two platinums this year I feel oddly compelled .

[Tom4784]

It probably didn't help that they threw out most of what they were working on with Versus XIII tbh, it did feel like they were trying to latch on to the open world trend and I think they sacrificed a lot of Versus to do that. It annoys me that they threw XV's story together when Versus XIII's story from the bits that have been released sounded fantastic.

I've been meaning to play through it again for the new story content to see if it fixes things but I keep putting it off since they keep adding more to the main story. I bought the season pass when it came out but I've yet to play Prompto and Ignis' episodes.

[Toy Soldier]

Originally Posted by Dezzy

It probably didn't help that they threw out most of what they were working on with Versus XIII tbh, it did feel like they were trying to latch on to the open world trend and I think they sacrificed a lot of Versus to do that. It annoys me that they threw XV's story together when Versus XIII's story from the bits that have been released sounded fantastic.

I've been meaning to play through it again for the new story content to see if it fixes things but I keep putting it off since they keep adding more to the main story. I bought the season pass when it came out but I've yet to play Prompto and Ignis' episodes.

I only played from chapter 9 after the additions were made so I don't know what was or wasn't there before... But I still found a big chunk pretty "empty", from after the Regalia gets trashed up until finding Prompto was basically just Noctis running down long empty corridors collecting key cards... It's tedious. Like they made an attempt at stealth / survival horror / jumpscares but it's never scary because, even though you only have the ring for most of it, the ring seems majorly overpowered. "OH NO a scary bbbzzzrrrtttt *pop* and it's gone." that said, based on the fact that Prompto is level 34 in the DLC and my Prompto at that point was level 72... There's a chance I was a bit over levelled...

There are a few narrated cut-away sequences that I feel like might be what was added? I honestly can't think of anything else it could be.

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Well, the new path was the Gladio/Ignis one, in which you control Gladio, it has a lot more lore in it, I think they kept the Noctis path so it didn't seem like they were 'deleting' part of the game. Also, the ring used to be super weak, and the enemies would take ages to kill, which made the stealth/survival horror thing more important. But it went on too long, so they boosted the ring to make that part of the game faster.