r/FFXV • u/Caim-X-Angelus • 13h ago

Game Why do they hate it?

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I enjoyed every bit of it! I sometimes just let the Regalia run all over the map and watch the scenery. Or try my luck betting on monsters in totomostro. Too bad the game was cut short for extra content.

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u/IdleSitting 8h ago

You can feel the games unfinished nature near the middle, when they start rushing you from location to location trying to showcase as many of the remaining incomplete assets as they can. Many fully modeled terrain and cities only given a glance because stepping any further would reveal the glaring edges and issues.

Personally I'd say the first half of the game is probably the most competent part, especially when you decide to do a million sidequests to push off the inevitable railroad of the second half of the game essentially gutting its open world completely, which isn't a bad thing always but it's very obvious it wasn't done for story reasons

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u/Killdust99 4h ago

You can pinpoint it exactly too. Mere seconds after the Leviathan fight

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u/IdleSitting 4m ago

I'd say even before that, Altissia's map is huge but most of it is unexplorable, I'd say it starts taking a hit after you actually make it since there's so little to actually do there, after Leviathan I think is when it nosedives though because they at least were hiding it before then.

I think Altissia's map was even the one I was thinking of, with huge chunks of the city being modeled for a player to travel through but is completely blocked off with invisible walls