YEAH!!!!

HELL YEA

touch gladio's gladdies for me

i miss that game...my girlfriend has never played it so i'm gonna stream it for her

i haven't played it in its entirety since it came out, so like.

almost ten years

....you be quiet

has it been ten years
stares upwards

i played the episodes when they released but that's it

how the fuck has it been almost 10 years

2016 bayBEEEE

you SHUT YOUR MOUTH

I'm gonna put my previous playthru thoughts in here bc i wanna see how my opinions have changed since i had very strong ones about the game before lol

I wish you luck

so i played it on release day, i was jaded but jazzed (did not like 12 or 13 but liked what i saw abt 15). hopeful

i obviously was immediately abt prompto before even knowing anything bc he was a blond twink who was way too cheerful for it to be real. my type

i remember when i was playing struggling with the combat system somewhat but still having fun, but largely just little WOWWWW DAAMMN about the open world bc it was. SO hueg

so impressed by everything to do, everywhere to go

LOOK AWAY IM GONNA GET A LITTLE SALTY SOON

god egg now I just really wanna see you play clair obscur

(but not yet) one of the major complaints with ff13 was how linear it was, and 15 seemed to be like "ok, opposite day"

i loved piling into the car and just GOING to a place. the world felt very, very alive

i liked prompto even if he was a little annoying, i liked noct, i liked iggy. i was. lukewarm on gladio

i like my big beefy guys sweet; a big beefer who was a little mean was not my style

and that leads me to one of my complaints

i do still enjoy just setting the car onto auto-drive, turning on the radio, and just going

the guys were a lil bit too mean to each other for my tastes (back then, maybe it's different now)

i remember the director being asked abt that too and some weird bullshit answer like "this is how guys are without girls around, it's so normal" and i was kind of like. well you just told on urself there, so

it doesn't help that luna gets fridged and cindy is...like that and gladio is supposedly some kind of lady killer

all girl workforce was also weird with how uhhhh highlighted??? ig

so the misogyny wasnt fun

yyyyeah
that's been my problem with the last 2 mainline FF games
where are the women to be in my party

but i was like ok, i can deal. that's what fanfic is for haha

yeah i played it long after it released and like
most of what i like about 15 is what the potential for it is there

and like. despite how misogynistically the game engine/camera handles her the guys are actually fairly respectful??

of cindy

i thought the writing about dealing with some of the big issues was clumsy to the point of rattling me out of the immersion, but I'm nitpicky when it comes to that so i can deal with that too

i'll never be over, as a nyx ulric rper, the VAST difference in Kingsglaive Lunafreya vs Game Lunafreya

girl who jumps out a shuttle to make someone save her so she can find the king < girl who just goes along with being captured ???

foxtrots: yeah the guys are fine it's just looking at her tits as she washes the car and me behind the screen like because she's hot but not when i know who wrote that and for whom

lmao precisely

me when i never wash the car/skip the refueling cs because i don't need that shit

^

lies down here

and yeah luna was wasted on the main game, she was also way hotter in kingsglaive

agreed

me when i ship lunyx and noctis can just have his three bfs

(it's me i play noctis and two of his three bfs)

honestly I'm a shipping monster with this game

everybody fux

all the ships are so good

although i hold fondness for nyx/ignis, prom/gladio and noctis/gladio

HOWEVER. ok. the other main issue i had was that after altissa (sp?) it felt like the game pacing suddenly CAREENED towards its end and a lot of parts were so unsatisfactory bc of that

i felt like we needed 10 more chapters between that and the end. there was so much more ee could've done

insomnia being invaded/destroyed was supposed to be the first big impetus, i get that, but we weren't THERE for that

and then immediately after we go do some fights and go back to monster hunting with the bros

it didn't feel like the "oh shit what we are doing isn't just a road trip" event it was supposed to

no 100% i'm pretty sure that's where they ran out of money since they put you on a train

they do let you wander AROUND insomnia in royal edition now

so when leviathan happened i was like "oh hell yea here we go" but then after that it was like. TRAIN. PROM. NIFLHEIM. ENDGAME

it felt so fast

its the same thing that happened in like, 1999 with xenogears

yea

it went from a very open game to "cutscene, dungeon, cutscene, dungeon"

and 15 does that but it's "marlboro, train, dungeon, dlc, train, dungeon, timeskip"

i think I'm going to take a break from the main game to do the episodes when they chronologically happen to try and finagle the pacing on my own this time

ansel revealed that there's whole huge maps partially developed and unused for both the train area and the capital that you were meant to get to explore some and they just. couldn't get there

yeah

I'm curious to see if i hate gladio less this playthru also now that I'm over 10 yrs older than his char

(well probably ansel + a bunch of code divers but ansel is how i saw it)

if you dont still dislike him you are stronger than i

yeah, it def felt like they had more but were under pressure to get it finished and out the door

i definitely like fanon gladio way more than canon

i just straight up rp fanon gladio and have never had anyone even castmates complain lol

asshole who? here's the leather daddy

yeah because if u play him straight from canon he's heinously unlikeable LMAO

i only ever had the Most Insufferable Gladio Imaginable who made him worse rp did not in fact fix him

any body can be fixed in rp but rip to those who make them worse bc they resonated with the original asshole from canon

the only person i want to make worse in rp is axel

but anyways,,,

SO. yeah

i was impressed by a lot of things in the game, but a few other things that are usually more important to me let me down. and honestly i get really bitter when something i like a LOT ends up being disappointing to me, so that didnt help

curious to see how i handle it now

(fun fact: ff15 was my first intro to ff14 with that special event that made noct cosplay miqo)

OH YEAH another thing, the character/model acting and faces are god tier

my fav ff wrt that, BY FAR

i missed the ambient party dialogue so fucking much in ff16

if youre gonna have a game where you're mostly solo or your only party member is a dog at least make one of them talk

LMAO

ff15 lads had something to say about EVERYTHING

i kind of liked it narratively, but it was smth i missed

AND THE FUN TAG-TEAM MOVES IN BATTLE WERE SO SEAMLESS

THE TAG TEAMING WAS SO SMOOTH

u know what i wanted

more unsubtle fealty

i needed more horniness tbh

that's what i just said

Nyanyanyan~they just did this. whenever they wanted. fuck. so good.

A SUPREME LACK OF KNEELING BEFORE HIS HIGHNESS IN A VERY HORNY WAY

its bc they knew he hated it

(he coulda been into it a little bit tho. as a treat)

ngl

if gladio had done THAT instead of just like. yelled and hit noct. to impress upon him the importance of his station

god.

it would've been so much better and i would've hated him 30% less

noct like I DON'T WANT TO BE THE PRINCE I DON'T WANT TO DO THESE PAINFUL THINGS and gladio like i fucking GET THAT. but you HAVE to. even if its unfair. and then he goes down to a knee in front of noct and says smth like. the only comfort i can offer you here is that you will never be killed while I'm still alive

AND THAT WOULD'VE BEEN EVEN WORSE AT THE END GAME TOO!!!

SE give me your budget so i can fix ur shit

im yappin abt gladio a lot but prom is where it's at for me

if ignis was the hyperloyal one out of love and gladio was hyperloyal out of duty and prompto was the Normal One who let noct connect with someone outside of crown shit

ig and glad were raised to throw their lives away for the prince

prom does it purely bc he likes the guy

i would've liked it way more if they leaned more heavily on that dynamic

basically the storytelling falls short but wbk

also find it hilarious that the majority of the ppl who realize/know noct is the prince are like "lmao ur so lame" HE IS YOUR PRINCE???? maybe cool it with the hazing

the casual rudeness in this game that shows up constantly irritated me

honestly they did establish that decently well with lore as like.... no one gives a shit about royalty outside of the city bc they've essentially been abandoned

ohhhh yeah i forgot

prince dont mean shit to them

hes just a Guy

that does indeed make more sense

Which i would have loved to dig into more too

YEAH

disrespect him MORE

But it just comes out as "you gotta do these side quests"

you gotta EARN IT

me when the class war comes and i gotta shoot the crown prince of lucius:
noct: i appreciate the hesitation tho

i wanted more people to freak out when you just casually hand them a potion and it heals them LITERALLY NO ONE ELSE CAN DO THIS

youve seen the prompt meme of that right

*prompto

I HAVEN'T

prompto made it and texted it to noct during class and that's why they had detention in their final week of school

kjdsfds ill find it. or try to

god the menu music for this game is so. GOOD

The music for 15 honestly does NOT miss

legit too powerful

so I'm a couple chapters in and I'm still kind of unimpressed with the pacing issues, but I'm able to take a more objective view about it

its also interesting to look at certain elements of this game and see: 1. how they came about from SE work on previous games and 2. how they influenced games that came after it

i wish they'd treated this game less like a 14/7 monster; there was no need to have 1000 time-sensitive special events for a supposedly standalone game, and it was annoying for them to have a dozen other pieces of media for you to get a better idea if the main game's lore

it really cripples the main game when they do that. look, make the main game well, and then WHEN you add on all the extra stuff, people love it even more

i hate what MCU (or whoever did it first) has done to us as a society

there are some other nitpicky things (dialogue prompts too early a lot, esp in dungeons; camera sometimes goes weird; uncanny valley sometimes in the faces) but honestly i kind of affectionately go "oh, you" bc like. there is SO MUCH in the game that's new and adventurous from a programming standpoint that rough patches were inevitable

so much of the ambient dialogue is so nice that i would much rather it be glitchy than not there (example: gladio scaring prompto when he accidentally kicks a can in the dark)

theres so much of it, too. and it never seems to repeat (or at least hardly ever does)

besides battle stuff obv

I'm so nitpicky abt dialogue so when it falls short of what i think is good writing i get so bitchy B|

some of the dialogue in the game is good and feels natural, but sometimes during big plot things it feels clunky

the ambient dialogue in the world does repeat pretty often but it's usually short and not obnoxious so it's not like I'm complaining

i need more promptis fanfic writers to understand that even if these two dated and were sickeningly in love, they would still persist in calling each other 'dude' and use bro language constantly

like, i cannot see noctis saying "oh my sweetheart, come here and let me kiss you" like no

noct would say "man, c'mon...can't we like make out or something instead" and prompto would say "dude totally" AND THEN THEY'D MAKE OUT

like they can compliment each other don't get me wrong

but it would be noctis going "dude...you're freakin cute" and promptis going "even when you do that dumb pose you look so cool bro"

dialogue is so often a curse in fanfics

God yeah they have such specific dialogue cadence and WOULD talk like that

You want flowery language ship them with ignis /sage nod/ but they'd still call him dude too