Final Fantasy 15 PC Demo is out

[Jtbrig7390]

shiiit with Nvidia hair effects it sets most PC's on fire. My 980 GTX substitutes as a space heater when I put that game on high

I kinda want to download the Demon and see how much I can max the game out on my PC. I know I won't be buying it for PC tho since I own it on PS4.

Fun Fact: With FFXV that means Square Enix released a "Monster Hunter" game on PC before Capcom did LOL.....

[vipers]

completed demo and damn was fun game and run all high 1080p 70-80 fps with all nvidia crap on

[Super Kami Dende]

SO glad this game had a Demo. SO that I could see how shit the Combat system was before I wasted money on buying it.

Goddamn Square Enix needs to stop trying to reinvent the Wheel and just refine the Turn Based Systems from 1-10

[nocturnus]

Opinions and all but I can't take yours seriously if you think its PS3 quality. I don't know if you had ur settings on the most low without realizing it but no the game does not look PS3 quality not even close.

In the demo yes because its a demo.

Once again Demo issue, Yes the car sucks driving manual but the world is not on rails at all.

Opinions? Really? What gave it away?

According to RockPaperShotgun's review it's not a "demo issue" at all; freedom is in fact often limited by actual invisible boundaries, driving vehicles never changes and remains on 'rails' for the full duration of the game. Plus, you continuously lose control of your character by forced, repetitive cut scenes that have nothing to do with the story line.

As for the graphics, everything's set on max as every other game I run. It's interesting that you choose to draw all attention to the 'PS3 graphics' bit (which obviously was a slight exaggeration) while dancing around the fact that this game has mediocre graphics at best. Especially in comparison to actual open world games like AC: Origins especially if you consider the fact that it runs worse.

Only 3rd party game that crosses my mind that mite look better is Witcher 3.

I assume you're talking about PS4 games, since you specified third party games. The amount of old and new pc games that have higher graphical fidelity than FFXV is huge. I don't know about the PS4, but if this is the PS4's 'showpiece' it not looking very good for the console.

SO glad this game had a Demo. SO that I could see how shit the Combat system was before I wasted money on buying it.

Goddamn Square Enix needs to stop trying to reinvent the Wheel and just refine the Turn Based Systems from 1-10

Yeah, it's utter garbage. When I read about it on rps it didn't sound that bad. Thank goodness for demos and, ya know, demos that aren't intended as demos.

[Jtbrig7390]

Opinions? Really? What gave it away?

According to RockPaperShotgun's review it's not a "demo issue" at all; freedom is in fact often limited by actual invisible boundaries, driving vehicles never changes and remains on 'rails' for the full duration of the game. Plus, you continuously lose control of your character by forced, repetitive cut scenes that have nothing to do with the story line.

As for the graphics, everything's set on max as every other game I run. It's interesting that you choose to draw all attention to the 'PS3 graphics' bit (which obviously was a slight exaggeration) while dancing around the fact that this game has mediocre graphics at best. Especially in comparison to actual open world games like AC: Origins especially if you consider the fact that it runs worse.

Top: Then RockPaperSHotgun's review is wrong because its a full open world the moment you get to control the characters. Yes the car handling is ass but 90% of the time you will be riding a Chocobo and that controls much much better.

Bottom: No I fully disagree that the game has mediocre graphic's even on PS4 let alone PC maxed out. Hell Order 1886 and Uncharted 4 has better graphic's then most games on the market period so by ur logic Assassin's Creed Origin's is shitty cause of that...

I assume you're talking about PS4 games, since you specified third party games. The amount of old and new pc games that have higher graphical fidelity than FFXV is huge. I don't know about the PS4, but if this is the PS4's 'showpiece' it not looking very good for the console.

Nope was talking about overall and this was far from the showpiece for PS4, That goes to Uncharted 4 and 1886.

The developers have also address that any performance issues in the demo won't be that way in the final product because there was bugs.

Also saying it has PS3 graphic's isn't a slight exaggeration. You don't like the game fine no biggy, But saying stupid shit like it has PS3 graphic's and is one of the worse looking games out is factual wrong.

Best looking game? No but fair from medcore or worse.

[Tech614]

You should stop taking this guy serious when he claimed AC:O is a "true open world" as if FFXV isn't.

FFXV at 700 sq miles is the largest open world ever created in a game. Even if you take away half of that because of mountains that can only be flown over it's still well ahead of AC:O.

He clearly never played the game if he thinks it's not open world. It's so open world it might of actually came at a detriment to the game as I would have preferred a smaller world with more content. Then again AC:O has entire zones that literally have 0 content in them so maybe we shouldn't get in the habit of subtracting world space or it ends up far worse for it.

Also, AC:O is a good looking game. But it doesn't look as good as FFXV sorry. Doesn't have anywhere near the same league of texture detail at distances nor quality of animation work. AC:O isn't even the best looking AC game, that title is still held by Unity.

[Jtbrig7390]

. AC:O isn't even the best looking AC game, that title is still held by Unity.

Yep that's one reason its kinda the new "Crysis" when it comes to benchmarking.

[Baconeggcheese]

Also can someone explain to me why on earth the full version of this game is going to require 100 Gigabytes of HD space? I get that 4k textures take up a lot of space, but it's excessive even for that.

Wow thats nuts, I was skeptical at first when I saw the demo was 20 gigs but holy shit.

[serendipity11]

http://store.steampowered.com/app/67...PLAYABLE_DEMO/

Couldn't find a FF15 PC thread using the search, though I could have sworn there was one.

The "warriors of light" on this game are all men. /yawn. The story seems kinda crap. The graphics are pretty I guess?

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SO glad this game had a Demo. SO that I could see how shit the Combat system was before I wasted money on buying it.

Goddamn Square Enix needs to stop trying to reinvent the Wheel and just refine the Turn Based Systems from 1-10

Or use a regular action combat style. One or the other not this in between bs.

[Super Kami Dende]

Or use a regular action combat style. One or the other not this in between bs.

I was hoping for Kingdom hearts style gameplay. was disappointed.

[Skorpionss]

I was disapointed with what little I played of it too. I wanted to run over Moogles and crash my car into Behemoths. Squenix said no. It's fine them wanting to go for a full open world, but if they're going to keep you largely on the road then I don't see what purpose it serves other than to artifically inflate the time it takes to play the game.

Also can someone explain to me why on earth the full version of this game is going to require 100 Gigabytes of HD space? I get that 4k textures take up a lot of space, but it's excessive even for that.

Then again, 13 on Steam takes a staggering 60 gig too because Squenix in their infinate stupidity decided to include cutscenes for both English and Japanese versions of the game. I assume because they couldn't be bothered to differentiate between global regions.

Or you know, not everyone wants to play with the horrible English dubs and prefers original voices.

[StrawberryZebra]

Or you know, not everyone wants to play with the horrible English dubs and prefers original voices.

The Japanese ones are just as bad, if not worse. The voice cast for FF13 had a lot of talented people that did a far better job with Lightning, Snow, Fang and even Sazh in English. Vanille was painful to listen to in English, I get that, but she's just as off the charts crazy in Japanese too. The cast of 15 were more than self-aware enough to realise just how jarring the Cup Noodle product placements were too, and that really shows through in their perfomances. To be quite honest, I live in the UK and I've genuinely never seen Cup Noodles here.

While the English actors may get given a slightly looser interpretation of the script, they do generally give a better performance with what they have to work with. It might not be the exact translations that purists demand, but when you're hiring top talent you can generally count on at least adequate perfomances, even if that does mean you hear a lot of Nolan North and Steve Blum.

Still, that's no reason at all to include twice as many cutscenes as you need. There was an easy way around it by simply allowing you to select which ones you'd prefer - Squenix made the stupid choice and included both, inconveniencing all of their customers, rather than having a solution that worked for everyone. It's either laziness or incompetance that saw them include both. Pick your poison.

[nocturnus]

You should stop taking this guy serious when he claimed AC:O is a "true open world" as if FFXV isn't.

FFXV at 700 sq miles is the largest open world ever created in a game. Even if you take away half of that because of mountains that can only be flown over it's still well ahead of AC:O.

He clearly never played the game if he thinks it's not open world. It's so open world it might of actually came at a detriment to the game as I would have preferred a smaller world with more content. Then again AC:O has entire zones that literally have 0 content in them so maybe we shouldn't get in the habit of subtracting world space or it ends up far worse for it.

Also, AC:O is a good looking game. But it doesn't look as good as FFXV sorry. Doesn't have anywhere near the same league of texture detail at distances nor quality of animation work. AC:O isn't even the best looking AC game, that title is still held by Unity.

Christ, ratio sure takes a dive when fanboyism kicks in, doesn't it?

I never said AC:O is bigger. That's just you trying to support some flawed narrative. I said AC:O feels more like an open world [to me] because you're not being limited by invisible bounds or transport on rails.

Good looking is subjective. From that point of view you could argue the last Zelda looks better. But I was talking about graphical fidelity and not about what I think is "pretty". From an objective point of view FFXV is behind on quite a few levels. I already mentioned things like dynamic lighting, shadows, depth of field, texture quality, the water (ugh, not even randomised waves?), bump mapping, etc. etc.

Just off the top of my head a few (older) games that are qualitatively much better from a graphical point of view: Rise of the Tomb Raider, Far Cry 3, 4 and Primal, DOOM, GTA 5, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, TC's Wildlands, The Division, AC: Origins, Syndicate, Unity, Metro 2033 and Last Light, Just Cause 3, Crysis 3, Watch Dogs 2, etc.

Most of these games run better while being more advanced graphically, which suggests FFXV isn't a great port.

Next time, read before you spastically reply with your emotions rather than your wits.

Bottom: No I fully disagree that the game has mediocre graphic's even on PS4 let alone PC maxed out. Hell Order 1886 and Uncharted 4 has better graphic's then most games on the market period so by ur logic Assassin's Creed Origin's is shitty cause of that...

That's the conclusion you drew? Why doesn't this surprise me? hehehe

But saying stupid shit like... is one of the worse looking games out is factual wrong.

Oh, do show me where I said it's "one of the worse looking games out". Beside the fact that I'd never use the word 'worse' like that, it's utterly stupid to claim I said something I didn't, just because you're an emotional wreck that jumps into primal defence mode the instant someone disagrees with you.

[Jtbrig7390]

Oh, do show me where I said it's "one of the worse looking games out". Beside the fact that I'd never use the word 'worse' like that, it's utterly stupid to claim I said something I didn't, just because you're an emotional wreck that jumps into primal defence mode the instant someone disagrees with you.

You don't get to cut what I said into bits and then tell me to defend something I didn't say. How about using the whole sentence and not two 2/3rd's of it.

Since your going to just cut bits out to try to make a argument I'm done replying to you.

[nocturnus]

You don't get to cut what I said into bits and then tell me to defend something I didn't say. How about using the whole sentence and not two 2/3rd's of it.

Since your going to just cut bits out to try to make a argument I'm done replying to you.

Seriously, why do you continue to prove to everyone how utterly dense you are?

You literally said I called it one of the worst looking games out, when I never did. Did it bother you I removed the completely irrelevant PS3 bit? Because that doesn't change anything especially if you consider the fact I already said I might have exaggerated a bit.

But saying stupid shit like it has PS3 graphic's and is one of the worse looking games out is factual wrong.

Here, you buffoon. I still never said what you claim I did. Now stop lying merely to support your ridiculously poor narrative and for the love of all that is holy, work on your grammar. You're a native speaker for crying out loud.

[Low Hanging Fruit]

I see we have a large, popular, and seccessful franchise thread here.. and that we have it filled with white knights and haters. So what everyone is really saying is I need to try the demo and make up my own mind. Because no way in hell any honesty will be allowed to go on in here without blind enraged counter attacks.

Thanks.

[Skorpionss]

The Japanese ones are just as bad, if not worse. The voice cast for FF13 had a lot of talented people that did a far better job with Lightning, Snow, Fang and even Sazh in English. Vanille was painful to listen to in English, I get that, but she's just as off the charts crazy in Japanese too. The cast of 15 were more than self-aware enough to realise just how jarring the Cup Noodle product placements were too, and that really shows through in their perfomances. To be quite honest, I live in the UK and I've genuinely never seen Cup Noodles here.

While the English actors may get given a slightly looser interpretation of the script, they do generally give a better performance with what they have to work with. It might not be the exact translations that purists demand, but when you're hiring top talent you can generally count on at least adequate perfomances, even if that does mean you hear a lot of Nolan North and Steve Blum.

Still, that's no reason at all to include twice as many cutscenes as you need. There was an easy way around it by simply allowing you to select which ones you'd prefer - Squenix made the stupid choice and included both, inconveniencing all of their customers, rather than having a solution that worked for everyone. It's either laziness or incompetance that saw them include both. Pick your poison.

I dunno man, the voices just seem so cringey and forced, with no real emotion behind them in english... Maybe I can't detect that in japanese ones because I'm not fluent in the language but it just seems more professional and genuine than the English one. The script is not even an issue for me because since I don't speak japanese they could say the same things as in english with the subtitles and I wouldn't know the difference.

As for their choice of having both versions downloaded/installed I think it's a double edged sword, like I get that it takes way too much space but at the same time I like to try the Eng dub at least and see how it sounds because contrary to my first statement I'm not a blind hater, I prefer English if it sounds good, I just haven't found many that do indeed sound better in any Japanese game... they seem to not really care for VA in the western release and just hire cheap ones that convey emotions poorly...

[Stormspark]

Yeah! Now PC players can also experience the intense mediocrity that is FF15!

Are you ready for Hold Down (whatever button is attack on PC) Simulator?!

Seriously, I highly recommend a pass on this one unless you're a sucker for pretty graphics and need a basic rpg to pass the time.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.ph...PressXToNotDie

[Lazuli]

FF can only get better after 13 and in comparison 15 is a godsend yet still uses some cancerous action combat. If they insist on this newer form of combat they really need to take notes from Star Ocean... jesus fuck it's failure after failure. That said, 15 is worth a play through imo since it has some redeeming qualities and can give you a little bit of hope for the future of the franchise.

[StrawberryZebra]

As for their choice of having both versions downloaded/installed I think it's a double edged sword, like I get that it takes way too much space but at the same time I like to try the Eng dub at least and see how it sounds because contrary to my first statement I'm not a blind hater, I prefer English if it sounds good, I just haven't found many that do indeed sound better in any Japanese game... they seem to not really care for VA in the western release and just hire cheap ones that convey emotions poorly...

You could still get both versions if you wish, but that would be entirely your choice. Making your download twice as big as it needs to be for most of your customers however just seems like a bad idea all round. Especially when half of it isn't going to even be used!

I'm just hoping that FF 15 isn't 100 Gig for the same kinds of reasons. It would be such a typical Squenix move that I wouldn't even be surprised by it, but I'm still really curious to know how and why the game is that big.