Final Fantasy franchise is one of the best video games franchise of all time. you must be proud. I don’t know why you use word “ashamed”

this is the best final fantasy people didn't recive it well when it first came out it was a mess. but know i can say this games is amazing am just mad they never finish it. the last chapter is on books only.

@@kmall87 There's like 8 billion people on the planet. This is someone's favorite game of all time.

@@kmall87 This is my favorite FF after FF X Come to love this game over time more and more and the story is pretty good for a game thats not even finished.... But to be honest it never felt like theres something missing at least to me

@@kmall87 why would anyone fucking care about what other people think about video games. if you like this particular FF game more than any other FF game then that is, for you, the best game in the series. this could literally apply to any video game ever.

Here to pay respects to the rightful seated king of light.. man this game's damn awesome

I've never felt more conflicted over a FF game than I do with this one.

Yep XD

agreed but the game is mediocre with great moments here and there.

No kidding. Pre-patch or post, you can't deny how powerful this ending was.

Kill an immortal guy in the afterlife to make sure he doesn't come back. Link should learn from him

@@irocklalot That would mean Link dies too lol

*Kings of the Round

​​@@Gamer-zg2wb lol that would be great, end the family tree of links and zelda. Except you can't call it a tree because it has no branches. Yes I did indeed take that joke from flashgits. 100% would recommend ngl.

The game has a lot of flaws, but the reason why this game is so beautiful for me in the end is when you reflect on how the game made you feel while you were playing it + the ending just solidifies it as an incredibly beautiful experience for me. The game is all about your journey through life with your friends and it's hard to realize that as you're going through it. But once you get to the end and you finally realize how much you enjoyed that bond you developed with them and the fact that it's all coming to an end, you realize how much fun you had experiencing the world and life with your boys. At it's core, this game is all about friendship and cherishing the journeys you had with those friends.

Thats florence and the machine

It’s painful that’s what it is lol

It really reminds me of an actual journey you take with your friends, looking back on it through your camera/phone and looking back at all the stupid fun shit your friends did. Imo This game really has the best “journey with your friends” feeling ive ever played.

The way they used Prompto and his photos is genius.

It took me a full hour to chose my picture. Such a great moment!

No kidding. Like, you don't reflect upon this photo feature a whole lot the first time you play through the game, but when you're standing there, just about to confront Ardyn one final time, the ingenuity of it really sinks in... I accidentally overwrote my first playthrough savefile and was so distraught by it that I literally fished out out my PS4 backup, complete with my old savefiles, just so I could preserve that first journey.

seriously , can’t think of any other game that’s done something like this. I was blown away when i realized that all the pics i’ve been taken throughout the game ends up being memories irl and for the boys.

One of the small bunch of games that made me cry. When the night has cooooome.

I fucking hated the game. I played it at release, it is an unfinished mess of a game, and even after all the patches it still is. The gameplay is bad, the story is bad, the performance (in PS4) is terrible. Even then, even then, I cried a lot during the ending, and I did again now. I love these 4 goofballs like you wouldn't believe.

100% dude. 100%.

@@devildante9 yeah keep trolling my friend

@@tangguhsulthan5013 reading comprehension my friend.

I agree it's incomplete. I think it was just way too ambitious to be completed, but unlike many other games you could say this about, this one's soul is intact. I've always felt it was one of the more underrated FF games, but I also understand why that's the case.

@@cosmiczeppelin it's the little things for me. Sure the story isn't well explained and the whole thing just seems thrown together by the astrals or bahamut or whatever as some crazy plot for no good reason, gameplay is iffy and the map seems like half of it was cut, but the impact the characters have on the experience as a whole trumps all of that. Camping at night with the boys, going fishing, grabbing food, taking pictures, all of it elevates the experience above what it honestly should be. Personal stories between well written characters that play off of each other makes you care about what happens more than some sacred duty and background lore. Final fantasy 10 had a similar feeling to it's ending but there wasn't as much character interaction in that game, so the goodbye's didn't hit quite as hard for me despite the game having a much better story.

For what its worth, I don't blame Tabata one bit. I still think its a shame the last batch of dlcs got cancelled.

If you want the true ending to this game, go read the FF XV Dawn of the future. Basically it is the true ending to FFXV Where Ardyn Luna and Noctis resist their fate and fight against bahamut because he is the cause of everything

It honestly has potential to be an incredible ending, but its impact is severely hampered by having next to no plot development until near the end. When the DLC and novels have more character development than the main game, that's a problem

Was easy for me. Damn ending was so rushed.

@@user-uv4wn2xx7o nah i just think you can’t tell when one of the best endings slaps you in the face.

@@user-uv4wn2xx7o well some people also didn't cry when Mufasa died but that aint the norm :3

@Jonathan Fakhoury it was too rushed. They tried copying other expects of games like ff 7 to try giving it that since of loss feeling. You get that feeling but not from nocts girl dying. Plus they practically gave it away saying “this is the saddest ff yet” so you can only assume they’re probably gonna kill Noct too. It was all just predictable, sorry. Everything else in the game is fine imo. Just the pacing became way off towards the middle/end. Oh and the magic system sucked, sorry not sorry.

@Jonathan Fakhoury No you are, as you say, talking out your ass by providing your opinion as fact。 Also you should get better at understanding how RPG works because if you think magic is useless and grinding is required, then you are another who lacks strategy and understanding of mechanics- something that FFXV is also completely guilty of。 It is an easy game that one must try to fail at。 Magic is useless, getting better weapons and equipment is pointless and not needed, the so-called superbosses of FFXV require no strategy。 Also, telling somebody they are wrong for being disappointed with the "vanilla" version of the game- the supposedly completed product that released, is hilarious。 Sorry but since 1987 (I am from Japan), we have got "Vanilla" games that were feature complete。 Every Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest had the complete story from beginning to end and the game didn't have to be fixed afterwards。 I describe it as it is- FFXV had to be fixed and have content added after it's release and if you deny that, we can circle back around and cite you, yes you, as claiming that only playing the vanilla version of the game and judging it based on that is somehow a problem。 Why is that? Oh that is right, we circle back around to the reason: incomplete game with issues that had to be fixed, story details added, and some still broken up and released in other media which was also stupid。 FF without 坂口様 sakaguchi truly is an unmitigated disaster with the exception of FFXIV。 By the way, since you are very new to FF by my standards I should also explain that the idea of targeting all enemies for spread damage vs single, or あall allies for spread heal vs single, has been in more FF games than it has not so consider yourself corrected 毛唐。 I would not call the game getting good from midway to end instead of starting off as something worthwhile as "crazy"。 I'd call that another negative。 Why isn't the whole thing good? It should be, but it isn't。 That is shame。 The first 3 FF are not pure garbage, they are just beyond you and I don't think you westerners even originally got all the FF games。 FF MMO are not all the same- that is a laughable statement as FFXI and FFXIV play nothing alike。 You -would- know about being in the "shitpit of arrogance" wouldn't you? After all, you typed up your response to "C" from the very depths of one。 Also, nobody cares you are devoted to FF since you are 14, since by your own admission, the DS REMAKE of FF4 came out when you were 9。 A remake of a game that was already creeping up on 20 years old at the time。 You are way, way late to the party, even later because I know the west didn't get these games at the same time as we did and did not get them all originally, and your devotion and hubris comes from a very short podium。 Shameful。 I do not understand how one can claim devotion -weird in itself- to a thing and not know much about it and be so wrong like the statement about the MMO games above。It would appear more knowledge on the subject matter is needed if you really want claim this "devotion"。 You can reply to me but I will not read what you say nor trouble myself to speak to you again as it is time wasted beyond what is said above

The only redeeming aspect of this game in my opinion

It hit me so hard in high school it was my wallpaper for months literally the best logo meaning in the series

It has since been dethroned. "You are not Ifrit. I am."

​@J01789 I would agree, if Clive didn't then spend the next 6hrs of the game not able to prime into Ifrit lol So because of that, this one still takes the cake.

fuck no. clive's best line is "I am a shield of rosaria and I will do my duty" before tanking bahamut's gigaflare @@J01789

"The only fantasy here is yours. And we shall be it's final witness"... You're welcome guys.

For me the game skyrocketed from "decent" to "amazing" after the fight with Leviathan. I didn't like the first half but the second half was so incredible dude... and that ending is just a masterpiece.

@@kostasspirou1010 leviathan fight is such a high. Thay music is great. Its easily my favorite of the different renditions of Noctis theme.

@@tequilawhiskey Ikr, when Luna died and gave Noctis the power I actually cried ngl, and the music made everything better. The fight was very easy though, but it just looked amazing and I can't complain 😅

Because its a horrible hodge-podge of an unfinished game. It still pisses me off that I pre-order digitally this game.

I mean, I thought the first area of the game was boring as hell with no weight to the combat when it came out. FF16 combat looks like what they should have had for 15. Cut-scenes were wonky with time of day. Too much side-shit to pick up and do, keeping you in one area long after it's wore out it's welcome. Too long load times. Repetitive battle dialogue. I really don't like the magic system. Just straight up uninteresting characters at the beginning (not to mention it feels like I wasn't introduced properly to any single character or the world), which I'm sure improves greatly if you like the gameplay, but I didn't, so it was just 4 uninteresting guys who take forever to get anywhere regardless of fast traveling, and repeat themselves over and over during and after floaty combat. It's just the same dull shit over and over. But that's just like, my opinion based on limited experience and perspective, man. Different strokes for different folks.

Same here Still to this day….

dude I balled ngl

@@kickhoppa5891 same lol I don’t even think another game has come close to making me cry like that except maybe Sarah at the beginning of The Last of Us.

True, and the ending is a cinematic masterpiece.

Yeah.. It's so weird when the game gives you side quests you can only complete after passing a point of no return.. then you have to dream and travel back in time to finish the quest? WTF? Worse weird design ever.. they should just have removed those nonsensical side quests can only be done when using Umbra.. made zero sense. But I get.. given the development hell this game was I'm surprised it ever got done in the first place. It does feel very unfinished.

@@thiagovidal6137 Dude, it's just a gameplay mechanic. It's no less logical than games that let you just go back into the world after you've cleared it to finish up side quests even though your mission's over or in some instances your character isn't even alive anymore or games that have NG+ features that let you start from the very beginning again with everything you earned before. You're looking too hard into it. Using Umbra was a decent excuse to allow the player to go back and do unfinished content at least rather than giving no reasoning and just letting you go back even after *SPOILER ALERT* Noctis dies.

The base game was a bit unfinished to be honest (not much of a surprise given it's development cycle) but Royal Edition was a great way to "complete" the game if you will. I honestly had no regrets even buying the base game back in 2016 because even while it did come off as unfinished at times it still gave me a good story with lovable characters, one of the best villains in the franchise and fun combat and I got over 60 hours on my first playthrough. Royal Edition was what 15 always had the potential to be. It's not my favorite FF game but it's definitely in my top 5.

@@jeremycampbell4021 I just recently played the Royal edition for the first time a few months ago, and I will say this game is a solid package. It's unfortunate that it launched the way it did. I watched the prequel anime and the Kingsglaive movie, and the DLC closed story gaps and fleshed out Ardyn as a villain. It really made the plot and characters come together and I had a good time with the Noctis and his bros. It wasn't a perfect game, but I really liked it. The additional DLC and content outside of the game make you have to work for the satisfaction, but damn it's quite a ride.

i finished my 3rd run 1 week ago still one of my favorite games

aboslutely. I've beaten it twice (once in Vanilla, once in Royal). After I beat 16 im gonna replay 15 again, one of my favorite games ever.

@@GooseGumlizzard the only problem I really had was the PC port. need I explain why

Same here, finished it a few weeks ago and it got me to play all the other games after putting my FF7R playthrough on hold out of frustration with the combat. Now I'm playing through X-1 and FF7R and just having a blast. No matter what though... No other FF game will be as special to me as this one. The Royal Gang are the best crew in this series.

I beat the game when i was young but i didnt pay any attention so i replayed it again. Royal edition this time and beat it last night. Loved it.

Some people (like me, for example) had waited for FFXV ever since it was first revealed as Final Fantasy versus XIII back in 2006. We waited for 10 whole years for a game that changed so much over the course of its production that we basically never got the game we waited for... but that was still basically fine... What was significantly less fine was the incomplete state that the game was released in after those 10 years, the kinda messy and poorly paced plot, the content that Square had to cut because the game was just plain beyond what they could produce, and also their treatment of FFXV post-release... If the season 1 DLC had been a part of the day 1 base-game, then XV would at least have been a respectably good game... it would still have been a bit of a mess, but it might've become better with the season 2 DLC content... ... ...now, to be fair, I don't "hate" FFXV. In fact, I actually like it. But I'd be lying if there isn't a lot of frustration and resentment mixed in with those feelings... The worst part, I think, is that I can see clear glimpses how great FFXV could've been if Square had been able to realize their vision of what it was supposed to be. Seriously though, check all FFvsXIII and FFXV trailers; there's _a lot_ of stuff that got cut.

Every single person I know who played this game say it is a masterpiece and 10/10. Ignore trolls.

@@GrahamChapman What you say is 100% wrong. If you have waited for 10 years how come you didn't do some reading during those time about this game to see what's going on? The thing you say are similar to the things random clueless people say. I usually don't take the time to correct people because if you care the correct information is available on the internet. If you don't bother to read it why would I bother telling you right? Today I am in the good mood so I will share you what you should have known as a person who waited 10 years lol The game didn't change through the time what so ever. They wanted to make Final Fantasy XIII Versus after they released Final Fantasy XIII trilogy , they faced so many problems with the game engine they were working on and finally decided to cancel the game. The project got canceled. They started a fresh new project called Final Fantasy XV from ground up on a new gaming engine called Luminous with new dev team and new director. They used character models and few other things from the previous canceled project since they were very good but these two project are two completely different games with different story and world settings. Final Fantasy XV production itself was smooth without any problem. About the story of Final Fantasy XV: If you take the time to read his interviews he says that his vision was to put 100% of the attention of Noctis journey and what he was experiencing though his journey. there were few parts they had to show what's going on behind the screen so the story make sense but for the most part we see what Noctis sees and experiences and his brotherhood with his friends. If I was the director I would do things differently but I am not. It is Tabata's game and I respect his vision and decisions and in my opinion it works that's why almost every body cry at the end. As soon as Final Fantasy XV came out Square Enix announced Season Pass for future DLC. All DLCs are fans requested and are not there to complete the main game because the main game is already complete from Tabata's point of view . Each DLC has done by different directors and different musicians. This is the problem of people who post wrong information. They take the time to watch so random videos and read some random comments and take the time to respond and participate but all they say is wrong because what they say is either out of imagination or repeating what some other clueless people say. This game is a critically acclaimed game and won many many many awards around all over the world and it makes it clear whether this game is good or not.

I'd say what it lacked is that luna didn't have much screen time And we didn't able to explore the world after 10 years like what what happened to FF6 and we didn't see Iris, Aranea, and cindy in 10 years and it lacked interaction between luna and noctis like they didn't take in personal only in letters This FFXV has the potential to be one of the best but for me it was rushed Still A great game tho I really liked noctis as a character he really felt like human and not any other typical RPG heroes

@@mudamuda482 the problem is some people think THEY ARE the director of the game and imagining what they like to see in the game and if they don get what they imagine in their mind they start hating that game. Each person has his/her own opinion about story. I am not the director of this game, I would have done things differently if I was the director but I am not. You are not either. This game is Tabata's game and in order to understand his vision we have to look at things from his point of view. When I go to art gallery I ask someone who work there to tell me about each painting and what the painter wanted to show in each of them. After understand and look at that painting from pianist point of view I understand the painting better. As I said I have my own opinion but when I look at someone else work of art. I try to understand his vision and respect it. Final Fantasy XV director Hajime Tabata says that he told the story from Noctis point of view and the things he experiences through his journey. that's the most important things he wanted to focused for people to see and feel. There were few parts he had to show what's going on behind the scene so the story make sense but for the most part we see and experience what Noctis sees and experiences. You mentioned Luna screen time was not long enough. As Tabata said we see what Noctis see and experience so that make snese because Noctis got separated from Luna when they were a child and all we see during the game is Noctis's memories of the past. Memories of the time Noctis and Luna were together and the things they said to each other. I have my own opinion and I could direct the game differently but I am not the director, Tabata is. I look the game from his point of view to understand his vision better. I have 100% respect for Tabata and his vision and appreciated for everything he has done for this game. If someone ask me about this game I only say good things because that's what I experienced.

The gameplay wasn't the best, and I feel ff7 remake did it better, but I'd be lying if I said that the game didn't have an amazing ending and great character moments. I knownit didn't have the best reception, but I know it sold well, so im glad.

@Aer- The supposed fifth member of the group was supposed to be Cor, but so many changes took his importance out of the story’s dynamic. I feel bad for Cor, besides Lunafreya, Luna, and the Empire, along with some other characters, Cor was supposed to have a pretty important role in the story with our main fabulous four. I still love the game despite the fact that it could have been even greater and known as one of the best Final Fantasy games of all time behind VI, VII, IX, X and IV.

@@jerrym1218 I can see that, Cor is a really cool character too. I agree, I love the game but its unfortunate to think that it really could have been one of the best if it didn't stumble in places. Oh well, hopefully they won't make the same mistakes and if the main cast of characters of FFXVI are anywhere near as likeable as XV then it will be a great game.

Same

What great game man

I hate that it's already been 5 years...

Oh :O oh wow, Now I gotta look at for that when I continue World of Final Fantasy! Thanks for the knowledge drop :)

Please, play more of this game! The DLCs added more perspective and made the game a little more complete. Sadly, there’s still a book on the rest of the DLCs…

I actually died laughing while crying 😂

It’s sad that the DLCs weren’t included in launch, because I think the game would have got more praise (at least in terms of story and characters). I really like FFXV, the boys remind me a lot of my good times in high school and college. I love the lore involved (like Ardyn, the night, etc.) and the gameplay.

@@DinDjarr1 These days most RPG game have dlcs. There isn't anything wrong about it and DLCs don't release at lunch. That's how it is.

Agree. One of the best game of all time. I love it.

Sucks that 3 of the DLC’s to complete the game never came out Episode’s Aranea Luna and Noctis

@@DinDjarr1 it is clear that you are in poverty and have never played any RPG games in your life before.100% all rpgs games release DLC months and months after the game. go educate your self before barking

Every time

Man, when the FF Main Theme starts and the photograph appears, I cry every single time.

You mean time management. But its not Tabata's fault. They had a deadline for 3 years to redevelop the game. And the game is playable as hell. And yeah, seeing how there's a dialogue for Aranea and Gladio during combat. Actual explorable world at the western country of Niflheim.

@@fraenznoa5508 wait nifhelm is explorable???

@@Tristan-mv6lc Yeah it's has literally nothing in it (Besides roads & trees) but it has all collision. Same with the train section with Sheva's corpse. They have a bunch of unused area's that would basically be complete if they had assets. Crazy thing is that stuff has been in the game since Vanilla 15 & they see only got around to finishing insomnia exploration with Royal edition & since the 2nd season pass was cancelled & compressed to a book. All the unused content will be left to time.

This game is amazing. I love it.

Man, it would’ve been so much more… But god dammit I’m down

@Jonathan Fakhoury I read it. I liked it. My issue is that I wanted it in game form, not book form. But like I said before, I'm content with what we got.

@Jonathan Fakhoury I don't really know what you mean by sudden switch.

Probably not the best gameplay wise, and you can make an argument about the weird decisions they took. But they chose a theme, and follow through till the end. Everything in this game is designed to bump the "roadtrip with friends" aspect, from the opening, the "stand by me" song, to the picture mechanic payoff in the end, which was a very genious inclusion.

Your opinions lol. FF15 sits up there with the best for me. Plenty of final fantasy games came out that HAVENT been revisited or received tears. This game ended and left an incredible feeling that really isn’t forgotten. The game didn’t have to be perfect for me, it made me feel something. Something special and it was organic.

@@hartfantom nobody here was bashing the game dude. Just pointing out it’s got some flaws which is obvious to anyone who beats it but it’s still an amazing game.

@@gdadder uuuuuhhhhh, I never said you were bashing it tho lol. So where did you get that from?

Every single FF is masterpiece. Each of them has its own beauty. I don't compare them and I am not looking for the best FF. I love them all.

For sure!

This is an amazing game. Ignore trolls.

nope. it's not

@@rakhaalif8037 it is. And it doesn't matter how hard you try, you can't deny it

@@jjjjffff1293 i dont have to try hard to prove this game is trash, but hey if u think this game is good then ok. everyone have their own opinion

Saying that is probably the Hardest thing anyone can say in actual Japanese. The Culture there is so uptight that Expressing love or just "I Love You" at all overwhelms the senses.

Its because its incomplete

Sadly the original release without the dlcs a lot of people played that and not the updated or paid dlc stuff so it left a bad taste for some of my friends. This is why I wished they released games when their ready and not just to sell.. I still think it's a unfinished game but still love it myself.

This game was absolute shit without the Royal edition upgrade. This shit looks like a completely different game with the updated combat and extra stuff they added. Wish I had experienced this version first

@@nelzillaz Well, your entitled to your opinion, but I thought the game was fun at first, and got better with Royal. Of course, I saw all the movies and the little episodes they had for story. But as far as gameplay, it wasn't that bad, especially when you mix in the OP magic. Shit was cool. The open world was cool, but I wish there were more cities, but what was there was fantastic. The only real problem I had was I wish I had more interactions with the villains. Especially people like Ravis and Aranea. They definitely deserved more screentime. Lol

FF16 is all flash, no soul

Fuck, I haven't seen the end in a good 3 years and this shit still fucking makes me bawl. The campfire scene is just incredible. Still crying while writing this. Whole fucking ending just destroys my heart.

Well it wasnt now that all the updates and patches are out i can saw its worth a buy since its aleays gonna be on sale due to people hating it

no the dlc add some hype moment. it better that way.