Final Fantasy XV - Exploring Insomnia before its fall 

Good thing they weren’t cutting games to repackage them and resell as dlc later on, back then.

​@@porterde08that's exactly what they djd

​@@1eye1tear95I'd argue that that's what ended up happening, not that that way the intent from the get go. ffxv was a massive project that took over a decade of development time and changed hands constantly

@Datbombboody true that wasn't the intent but you can tell poor management and other mistakes turned this game to what it is now

Play Kingdom hearts 4 or Verum Rex Explore Quadratum

Yeah, I feel the same

​@@OrganizationXIIIMeh, never will be the same....

Go on utube, pick some night city sounds, add some nomura songs. Thank god they did a game and not whatever you are asking for

And the biggest missed opportunities of all of them

But people failed to appreciate it.. Just like XII..

If only they moved the released date for a year, we might get an acceptable game..

@@jchea1764 WHat? Zodiac Age is literally the best FF game ever made, culmination of years of building these worlds. 15 is literal garbage compared to the genius that is 12. It was underappreciated because of the plot being very crappy and star wars ish. 15 is going to suck forever

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OMG yes would've been much cooler if Noctis didn't have to leave for Luna and like you said, witnessed Insomnias destruction first hand, maybe even see his father die. Would be cliche, but a much better motivation for Noctis, would make a bit more sense with his random nightmares and wavering mentality during the game. And when he sees Luna die later in the game, that solidifies his goal for revenge and peace so it doesn't happen again.

Also wanted more bonding time with Regis and Luna, maybe touring around Insomnia together before Luna and Noctis travel to Altissia together for their marriage? And then Luna gets dragged away by Ravus and then the main game starts as normal, just with slight changes.

this game was meant for that, look at the earlier ffxiii versus trailer, we got the same city and the live invasion. from this video i can assume they had 60-70% completion on insomnia arc but it's really unfortunate they had to scrap everything

​@@princessloveheartglitterNot neccesarily watch his father death, more exactly being more close as much. If not will cut Nyx protagonism.

Nyx is more interesting than Noctis, people crap on the movie but really I find myself more intrigued in Nyx, Libertus and Crowe, even Lunafreya version of the movie than the black clad quartet and their journey

Insomnia, Tenebrae and Niflheim areas. It would be great.

Give me more Altissia, I need a proper vacation!

@@Takodate I mean, Ignis DLC is all of Altissia isn't it?

​@@RatedRY barely, you just go on some rooftops and in like 3 small areas. You explore more of it on the main game. Hopefully in a couple of years they remake the game or have a sort of 10 year anniversary or something, because it def deserves to have it's problems fixed

I know it’s a pipe dream but one day I would love a FFXV remake like how they’re doing FFVII rn. Spilt this story up into multiple games, might be a bit overkill but then they’d have enough time to properly tell the full story. Would love to explore Tenebrae properly

Indeed. It's a very iconic and important gaming location for me, even if it seems ironic given how little of it we're shown in the main game... The city really symbolize the amount of hope I had for this game.

The game was under contract to be released before the end of 2016 regardless of how finished it was. Realistically speaking, the game needed roughly another 3 or so years for a proper complete product. It makes me so mad at square dammit

@@KilluaZoldyck-qx9jf Here’s hoping some time down the line we get a FFXV Remake haha doubtful but I’m hoping

#releasethenomuracut

@@KilluaZoldyck-qx9jf I’ve heard people saying this and I guess this is to those who kept up to date with everything. I didn’t keep up to the date with how long and just played the game and to be honest I LOVED IT. Easily TOP 5 I’ve ever played. Though I could see some cracks as sometimes and figured if someone stuff was designed like this by choice or time constraint

@@KilluaZoldyck-qx9jf honestly & have someone motivated to work on it like nomura, tabata was just filled with stress & lack of motivation when working on this game

It was everyone's dream :( Seeing more of Insomnia when it was glorious

You can access this place in Ardyn dlc

This map is actually used in the game. The mod here puts Noctis into the founder’s day parade from the Episode Ardyn DLC. The signs, banners, and balloons show that this map is the open world for from Episode Ardyn. It’s wide and open cityscape with sprawling rooftops are meant to accommodate Ardyn’s moveset, who is quicker and more nimble than Noctis in gameplay.

Just wait for Verum Rex and Kingdom Hearts 4

@@OrganizationXIII Will Verum Rex be its own game? Not sure about that. I'm not much into the Kingdom Hearts games, not that I think they're bad I've only played very little of the first one, never kept on going. However, after watching the new direction of where KH4 is going that has made very curious about what they're going to do. If Nomura makes his Versus somehow within KH4 and beyond, that would definitely make me play the games asap!

@@takaro0 as far as i know, Verum Rex is it’s own thing. The box of Verum Rex in Toy Story’s world is seen to only have Square Enix copyright © and not disney’s. So KH is probably used for testing the reaction while also advertising it. In recent interview, he did say stella(the girl from Verum Rex ad) is a Verum Rex’s character and not Kingdom Heart’s. Also nomura is torn from choosing between KH4 or Verum Rex for his next project. And ultimately decide on KH4 because of KH3’s ending. I hate FFXV for what it was, the combat was bland the story has more hole than swiss cheese (talking about you ignis blindness why tf do i need to pay for DLC to know mf, also why did regis not warn noctis about ardyn what an ass dad, so much hole so little will to write them) and the only good thing from it was Ardyn. (Very evil villain i love it) I’ll never lose hope for Versus XIII’s return. But all hope seems to be lost. 😔 Personally, kingdom hearts is my favorite franchise of all so i do recommend the game for you.

​@@Veltee Yeah, I did look up everything I could about Verum Rex after my question, but that was a while ago now so that interview I've missed. Did he specifically say Stella? There's still a few things though that makes me question Verum Rex becoming it's own game or IP. First, it's connection to KH. 4 will apparently take place in the city where Yozora lives, so that makes me think that VR won't be its own thing, but instead at the most be a possible spin-off series within the KH lore and personally I'd much rather see it become detached from it. Second, I haven't seen Nomura really give a direct confirmation that there will be a VR game, as what he said was specifically that he wasn't sure if he wanted to do a Verum Rex game or KH4, but he chose KH4, for the fans, but as he will be using VR in this new KH arc, I don't think we can be sure that a VR game will even be made and instead whatever VR story that exists will be incorporated in KH. Even though Verum Rex isn't Versus with a different name, there's definitely enough proof that he hasn't let go of those concepts and will use at least some of them in the future. I'm right there with you. As the true Noctis once said ''My heart won't let go.'' lol I definitely agree with you on XV. The story, combat & general game mechanics are of very low quality. Versus conecepts was used in XV in the most shallow of ways, stolen and warped into something else entirely, so in that sense Versus as he first envisioned is forever lost, as he won't be able to use those characters that he first drew and the names he came up with, a story taking place in a FF setting. No matter how much I wish for a Versus game using everything the way they were supposed to be used, realistically that will never happen. The ones in control just won't allow it. Hell, if it was up to me, I'd just give him all the freedom and resources he wants. I'll let him take back and use everything from XV, use all the concepts about death because I don't give a F*** if it can't be sold in China etc and he can name the game whatever. I see Nomura like Hideo Kojima, I just want to see what the man can do when he's not held back. I'd just make sure his true Versus vision becomes realized. With Verum Rex though, now we've got every reason to see it as some kind of revival of Versus. Although they will be used differently, concepts of that vision will be used. For now, I don't dare to hope for anything more than that. Admittedly I'd rather him making that Verum Rex game, but I am happy for you and yes, I'll definitely make sure to have played KH1-3 (+watched the other games on yt) before 4 comes.

Ure rigth it saddens me

I don't think we need a remake, I think we need a sequel.. Cuz FFXV was a masterpiece itself imo....

Versus XIII Remake*

An unfinished masterpiece for me. Loved this game i only wished parts like these were incorporated into the game

I feel like even 10 or 15 years from now. Once in a while we will all think back to the hype, trailers, cut content cancelled content and missed potential

@@alumlovescake missing potential its all it has after you finished it

I love the game to death but it pains me to think what it could have been

I agree 1000% but this is actually from the dlc. Where you do see it. Sadly in Ep Adyran you only get to see a tiny bit and are forced into the objective

13 & 15 suffered the same fate in that regard

THE GAME WAS SOO MUCH MORE THAN IT COULD HAVE FAILED OR MISSED

​@@alumlovescake still a great game and even if u or they say cut content what they gave is waay more than any content of a game pretty much 99% of games It was maybe just there is just way too much to make and the team was overwhelmed If i become a millionaire i hope i can pay tgem to make the game bigger fr

Thats cap tho so much less?

Playing FF15 after finishing Rebirth all i can say was wow Rebirth got a lot of inspiration from FF15. From the character bonding, the open world, the gameplay etc. i fully agree to the comment i saw that said "FF15 walked so Rebirth could run"

" Why did developer waste this" FF XV as a whole :( so much missed opportunities

This actually looks like the map from Ardyn's DLC. Or at least the final version. I did see an earlier version which was much bigger though it didn't look as flushed out as the Ardyn map.

Nah not GTA lol It might seem bigger in video than it is I guess. Once you start going away, things start to be lower detailed and then just background. It would be big enough for a city in this game though, because it's definitely bigger than any other cities from the main game (that's not hard), or for a yakuza game with more freedom, but it's definitely not on the scale of something like GTA, at least not in its current "available" form. If the WHOLE insomnia city was modeled and explorable, in that case yes.

@@Larxia Yakuza was a good example. That was exactly what I was thinking.

Ffxv map as a whole is bigger than gta

But what he meant is right thats just huge

And u cant even explore everything...

Looks like a 360 game with better lighting. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Unless the PC version sucks

OMM

Insomnia. City that never sleeps

Actually, it took 4 years to develop, it was mismanaged during 6 years lol.

FF VS 13 is what I wanted! Now we are getting Verum Rex!

Vermont Rex nor Kingdom Hearts IV isn't going to be versus. It's just reusing some concepts.

@@OrganizationXIII imagine they did versus 13 and it is an huge trash game? Ever thought about why they changed it?? I could have been worse dude

@@kingdomheartscomments8742 It was three years. Not four.

Kingsglaive Final Fantasy XV: Prologue

Rushed? This game was in development for a decade

​@@crazyfire9470it took them too long to decide and plan on what this game's going to be about. By the time they knew what to do, they don't have much time left to realized what they were planning.

Yes :(

You can in Episode Ardyn, but will not be as peaceful as this tho

@@ForganMreeman-0The one I didn’t start yet cool

@@destroyermcw626 Start it, Insomnia is a Beautiful Place, especially when there is populated in Episode Ardyn

I think that might be Stella it looks like her 2013 design before being scraped. Makes me sad this should of been part of the base game.

I don't think that's Luna, but like Killerxkoed said, it does look a bit like Stella. There's another poster similar in the insomnia ruins from the royal edition: i.imgur.com/u4sqTtJ.jpg

Well basically: That's not Luna but it's something like: Ardyn stayed locked on that weird shaped island you can see through galden (Noctis is also locked there) for centuries or something. And he gets rescued by the empire with the mission to destroy insomnia to allow the empire to go through the blockade, that's when the city falls. By that time Noctis was on his way to galden to get the boat to Alissa, as far as I know Luna was in the city when all that shit happened but escaped, you can see that through a cutscene on the base game and on the movie Kingsglave. So that happened during the main base game, but you're right Luna wasn't born back in Ardyn's days By the way i think that's just propaganda, that lady is no one

@@hackerwolf1995. Actually, there is no doubt that that's Stella. Back in mid 2011, Motomu Toriyama mentioned that FFXIII-2 was originally going to have more FMVs, but it was decided that they'd forgo that so that Versus XIII could have more FMVs. It was then announced that Noctis and Stella's meeting had been redone as an FMV since they decided it would more fully enhance the emotions of the scene. We do actually have that board in full. i.imgur.com/vET1xse.jpg If you look at the official Stella image from the 2013 trailer, you'll notice she has the same earrings, as well as the same effect on her eyes. i.imgur.com/KX9iJjs.png And if you look at the background, it's very obviously the party hall. i.imgur.com/6qk1CEl.png Now, taking this into account, there's no way this isn't Stella. The more pertinent question is if it's from the finished FMV we never got to see but heard of or is it a completely new scene made because, as Tabata himself mentioned, they knew people would be pissed about her exclusion and made a new version to be used as an easter egg. We do know a few previous FMVs were used as easter eggs, namely the wideshot of Altissia, so I wouldn't be surprised if they did indeed do this. We do also know that at one point Stella's model was actually used in the making of Kingsglaive, so it's not that hard to imagine it could be either option. www.gamekyo.com/images_1/61c9fedb688b5730f7ff9419cedb955120190425095719.jpg

@@TheReterded OMG She is

@@IIADBIDTIST You didn't watch the video did you?

Why would they forget about xv just because xvi is coming

@@patrickbalmes801Yeah that’s like forgetting X and X-2 or IX or FF7

lol that's actually a really good comparison yes.

Do you own eposode ardyn?

We all do

With quadratum most likely! And if you're interested I'm also working on an Insomnia mod for Kingdom Hearts 3 :D here's a recent pic: cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1052667283492843521/1088542785499566130/36696878.49_image.png

@@Larxia Holy shit. That’s looks cool

Yeah lol I edited the values with cheat engine to make it like what I wished it was if we could have explored Insomnia in the main game. Being able to freely warp around buildings would have been great

@@Larxia aaaah yeah that makes sense xD It actually looks REALLY cool tho! The city is brilliantly designed and it IS just a shame we couldn't play in it in the earlier stages.... Thanks for the video too btw! Looks great👍🏻

@@TheMindofagenius1 Glad you like it!