We hope that you didn't expect to see a lot of new Final Fantasy XV footage at Gamescom 2015 next month, because according to Square Enix's schedule, the publisher's planning on showing the game's same old Episode Duscae demo over 17 times at the German expo.
Each live demonstration will be around two hours long, and on each day of the event, from the 5th August to the 9th August, the hosts will be joined by a different YouTuber. We're not making this up.
The single saving grace is that there's a one hour, Final Fantasy XV-related Active Time Report scheduled for the first day, and along with the rest of the events, it'll be streamed via Square Enix's Twitch channel. For those out of the loop, the Active Time Reports are essentially small panels where key staff members of the development team give updates on the featured title.
We hope and pray that we see something - anything - new during that one hour slot, because let's face it, this is becoming a bit of a joke, especially after the publisher so adamantly declared that Noctis and the gang would have a big showing at Gamescom when the release failed to turn up at E3.
Are you sitting there shaking your head? Are you somehow hyped for more Episode Duscae? Ask what the heck is going on in the comments section below.
[source gematsu.com, via neogaf.com]
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I know we've been waiting almost 10 years to see anything remotely decent from this game but this is just getting ridiculous.
Sigh.
I just wanna grab em and shake em. They seem to be doing allot right recently, or at least talking about doing allot of right things. It'd be nice to actually see them get something out the gate.
"Are you sitting there shaking your head?"
That is not enough to describe my feelings right now.
Just because we've been waiting for a near decade for this, just because they made people happy with the remake of VII, DOES NOT MEAN they can get lazy on us and skimp out.
Seriously, I wonder if they're getting a rise out of us on purpose just to make they're good announcements better, or doing some reverse-psychological stuff to surprise us.
I ain't even surprised anymore. This game is a joke until they actually release it and it'll be a released joke if it's anything short of top tier for the series
I don't care about footage shown, I just want some details on a release date.
2017 release, anyone?
This is why I fear for FFVII:Remake...
We just want the bloody game already. It's getting very hard to be hyped at all about this game when they continually fail to mention anything new about it.
'meh'.
'Nuff said.
Sure i saw it somewhere yesterday that duscae 2.0 as it is now is going to be around for demo purposes and SE are going to be showing some new footage
The intro scene in the tent is a bit LGBT for my taste. Nothing against that, I'm ok with it (Bioware games), but I found it a bit disturbing (maybe a strong word, but in the lack of other) something like that right from the start.
There was a "drama" with the female character clothes, but everyone seems ok with this scene? A bit confusing.
I hope that I didn't ofend anyone, not my intention.
It's for those who don't know what's going on. They could tell us when the game will be out. You know. Hope not in another 8 years.
This isn't surprising at all imo. People who actually think FFXV is releasing in 2016 are the ones who surprise me quite frankly. Have we not been paying attention to everything Squeenix does the last 15 years?
In fairness, I read an article that stipulates so much of what we've already seen of the game has been dropped (i.e that princess we saw a lot of in the past, fighting in the city etc). It really sounds like the game has drastically reworked. So in that sense, for the game as it is at present, it's probably had a reasonable development time. Just doesn't help that they announced it so long ago as something else.
It would be nice for them to give even a year for the release though, i.e 2016 or 17.
Scrap it, make a classic turn based FF.
Has the demo actually been released yet? I don't consider having to BUY a game to play it releasing the demo, free DL on PS4 is releasing the demo. So maybe for some people it's still new, I doubt all 22m PS4 owners bought that game, not even the ones who want FFXV.
WRONG! Tabata said on the previous active time report that the full game will get a major relaunch with lots of new information, come Paris game week! everyone seems to be skipping gamescom this year, with sony taking the same stance.
@whizzkidd wha...? The tent scene is not homoeroticism at all... Just some guys wakin up in a tent. Don't be ridiculous.... You would have to be REALLY homophobic to be bothered by this.
You claim to be "okay with it" but doesn't seem so if you can't handle watching a scene where four guys wake up on a tent and.... That's it.
Hilarious... Not even sure if your post is real
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