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Tyaren

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We are talking about pure story without any sidetracking. So it's not short at all and after FF12 it will actually be the second longest Final Fantasy yet.

HowLongToBeat.com estimates for FF main stories:
FF1 - 18 hours
FF2 - 26 hours
FF3 - 31 hours
FF4 - 25 hours
FF5 - 35 hours
FF6 - 34 hours
FF7 - 38 hours
FF8 - 42 hours
FF9 - 43 hours
FF10 - 49 hours
FF12 - 58 hours
FF13 - 49 hours

Other important news about FFXV: It will be the first game to make full use of Umbra 3D Technology!

"Helsinki, Finland – March 25th – Umbra announced today that Square Enix has licensed Umbra’s technology to boost graphics performance in FINAL FANTASY XV. The game will be published in 2016 for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

FINAL FANTASY XV is the first game in history to take full advantage of Square Enix’s new game engine, which also has Umbra’s visibility optimization technology integrated into it. The engine has been specifically designed to allow the game to have high density, polygon rendering performance. Umbra’s technology is ensuring that only the visible objects in every frame are being processed and rendered, the end result being optimized performance ensuring the best possible graphics and frame-rate.

“By using Umbra, frame-rate performance could be improved over two times than before in characteristic scenes.
The tool is extremely easy to use with a simple API build that allows paralleling computation to be handled with ease as well,” says the development team.

Umbra creates an optimized database from your 3D data, whether it is a small game level or a huge architectural model. Umbra processes your data automatically, which means you can give Umbra your geometry as-is without modifying it in any way, or doing any extra work. Umbra’s optimized database can then be used in an application to perform queries. The queries answer questions like “what can be seen here?” or “what needs to be rendered next?”.

Umbra runs on virtually any modern CPU and does not depend on any specific hardware or external software. It’s also available for a free evaluation on all major platforms."

Other games running partly on Umbra are The Witcher 3, Batman Arkham Knight and Killzone Shadowfall. All amazing looking games. :)

Here is how that technology works with The Witcher 3 as an example:

 
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Tyaren

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FFXV Uncovered teaser trailer:


@Jadeinchains...

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Jadeinchains

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FFXV Uncovered teaser trailer:


@Jadeinchains...

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Lol that writing was strange "we're not gonna give away the whole story or anything". Anyway this is great that we are so close to the event now!! I'm sure it will be at some ridiculously inconvenient time for people in Europe but I'll be watching a stream regardless!
 

Jadeinchains

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Happy Easter! :D

According to the German FFXV Facebook page it's the Chocobos' job to distribute/hide Easter eggs in the world of FFXV. XD

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Happy Easter!

Its cool that there's little bits of news everyday leading up to this event even if its just little tidbits.
 

Tyaren

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Happy Easter!

Its cool that there's little bits of news everyday leading up to this event even if its just little tidbits.

There recently was even more news/little tidbits actually. I just didn't want to double post or spam this thread like crazy. ;)
They were for example talking about the day and night cycle and how they want it to be very realistic and atmospheric. Apparently it plays a bigger role in the story even. Already in the demo day and night time were pretty different in gameplay. You really should rest at night to regain health, to level up and to get boosts for the next day. Also the monsters roaming the nights were different and far more dangerous.
Here's some pictures of the changing time of day:

04:30:
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05:10:
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12:00:
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18:50:
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21:00:
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Looking together for shelter at night (a hotel, a camping site or just a rock in the middle of the wilderness), cooking, eating together, talking...really conveys the feeling of having a big adventure with your best friends. :)
 
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Jadeinchains

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It looks really beautiful and 12:00 especially! I've seen that the story is about some curse that will make the nights longer as time goes on so that will be interesting how that translates to gameplay.
 

Tyaren

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When I'll play this game, I'm definetly not gonna rest at night, it looks too amazing, it's my favourite D:

The nightsky is amazingly beautiful. The most realistic I have seen in any video game yet (where it often looks like a flat texture if you look close). In FFXV it is deep and dark and there are thousands of stars twinkling. (I'd post some of my pics, but I told myself to not do that anymore here in the forum.)
One of the side missions in the Duscae demo was actually to search for a good spot to watch the stars with Ignis, while they were talking about them being kids and doing the same back then. Then a beautiful meteor shower happened. :) I hope that is in the final game too.
 

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Just two more days till the Uncovered event...

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The start of the show for all time zones:

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Square Enix really thought of us guys in the EU... Funny that they still put in as much effort to provide live translation and moderation for German and French speaking countries...at 04:00 in the morning. XD I doubt many will watch that. Even if it is Final Fantasy. ;)
 

Jadeinchains

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Just two more days till the Uncovered event...

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The start of the show for all time zones:

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Square Enix really thought of us guys in the EU... Funny that they still put in as much effort to provide live translation and moderation for German and French speaking countries...at 04:00 in the morning. XD I doubt many will watch that. Even if it is Final Fantasy. ;)

Thanks for the timezones! So its at 3am for me... Well to be honest I expected as much is the stream ever not at 3am?!
 
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Tyaren

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@Jadeinchains, just image you might be able to finally try out FFXV soon, when they announce the new demo is out now during the Uncovered. *__*

Rumor says the demo has something to do with this image, that was teased back in January...

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The public demo might be bigger/better than expected after all...which would make perfect sense now that I think about it. XD It would be unwise to release a demo for everyone that is inferior to the older one limited to just a small number of people. They want to sell their game and the public demo therefore has to be convincing, even more than Duscae!

Can't wait to play something new! >__<
 

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They just put up this impressive artwork by Amano above the entrance to the event hosting theatre:

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You can see the Regalia (the car) with Noctis and the others right under the V. Going by this artwork and all the summons in it this game might turn out to be pretty epic. :)
 
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