Starting playing a lot of FFXV lately, after not playing it for a good 3 months. Had 8 hours into the game and was tempted to restart, but I guess I like where it's going now.
A few points I wanted to share, this is a very innovative game with a lot of little gimmicks that work out. The game also seems to be very western-influenced, and reminds me a lot of Witcher 3 and GTA V. The music I feel isn't as good as FFXIII, but that soundtrack is in there, so it makes up for it. And some of the worst side quests in videogame history are present, the frog ones were the reason I quit playing before. Also, and I cannot stress this enough, the inspect function AND the jump function should not be mapped to the SAME BUTTON. It it so damn annoying to try and pick something up, only to keep jumping up away from it.
As to a few people who inquired, I really think this game should be played now or as soon as possible. I mean if you are waiting for a definitive edition, eventually pass the updates and DLC, there's going to be a GOTY version, and then a PC version, and you'll end up waiting forever. If anything, it'll turn into the Witcher 3, where there was an enhanced edition, but the updates weren't astronomical, I still enjoyed the original game. I actually think I should've played FFXV at launch, waiting till now I feel is a bit late.
The main reason for playing it now is because it feels so fresh. It's only a matter of time until other games adapt the little quirks this game has going for it. Tallying EXP, the Regalia, the teamwork system, the photo system, etc. are going to be copied by other games and it wouldn't feel so special seeing it in FFXV for the first time. Also, FFXV is a great game, at least from what I played. But it's going to be made somewhat obsolete fast, the graphics are good but not amazing, the combat gets dull, and the story isn't all that intriguing. In a year or so, many games with much better graphics, and what does FFXV does but better, will fill the market, and playing FFXV will feel like a chore and the graphics will feel outdated. It's similar to when I played GTA 4 many years after it came out, the graphics were bad and controls were janky. But the game was revolutionary and highly praised when it first came out. Same for Metal Gear Solid 4. What I'm trying to say now is play it before it turns old and bad compared to newer games. A movie equivalent I'd like to use is Pulp Fiction. Fantastic and innovative movie when it first came out, did stuff that was surprising to the cinema audience then. Now, it feels outdated as so many movies have used those ideas already.
Sorry for the wall of text, but I wanted to give an opposing argument to the waiting one. Don't get me wrong though, I'm not trying to put down the other argument, there are more and better reasons for waiting to play the game. But in case you didn't have another game to play and wanted it out of the backlog.
Also, about next month, with the Switch releasing, and a few high profile games (Horizon, Nier, Zelda, etc.), it's really up to you guys but I feel like it might be a desolate month if we pick a game no one ends up playing. The games from last month (Ni no Kuni and FFXV) will be active anyway, but this month was shorter and we started later, and those two are very long games to beat.
I'm proposing that we keep Ni no Kuni and FFXV this month, and we add an additional "talk about what games you played if you didn't play a niche game" part to it like we did in January. That way we still get some discussion while focusing on the main two games. The reason I don't make this a regular thing is because we already have a Backlog Support group thread, and I know Corgstradamus and the other guys work really hard on maintaining it. The last thing I want is to hurt their own progress.
