Final Fantasy XV

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The time period seen in Final Fantasy XV’s latest trailer will only be shown in flashbacks in the final game.

Speaking to IGN at Gamescom, Final Fantasy XV director Hajime Tabata explained that the time period shown in the latest trailer, which takes place fifteen years before the main game, will not be featured in any playable sequences but will instead be shown before players take control in order to provide context.

“[Those are] only flashbacks in the main game, the events you see when he's a young boy, fifteen years before the start of the main game itself. But it really is important, because it shows the events which were really vital and pivotal in what happens in the story you'll be actually playing through,” Tabata told IGN via translator. “So, it's really important to have a way to [see] both of those periods in his life.”

Tabata explained that these sequences are representative of his own personal experiences in some ways.

“I remember some really fond memories of my own father and how I related to him. I remember being driven around by him in his car,” he explained. “And when he started talking to me about cars, I started getting interested in the car he drives and talked about that kind of stuff.”

“And so, because of that, we have the same car that Noctis was driven around in as a kid,” he continued, referring to the car the main characters drive in Final Fantasy XV’s playable demo, Episode Duscae. “It's his father's car, the royal transport, the one his dad drove. And in the journey that the characters go on fifteen years later, they're all driven around in that. And that's very much representative of his relationship with his father, because he’s inherited this car. There's a lot of attachment to that.”

Tabata says Square Enix is “not going to make you wait until 2017” to play Final Fantasy XV. For more from our interview, read about the game's simultaneous worldwide release plus how the team may collaborate with the developers of Just Cause 3.

Square Enix will announce the release date of Final Fantasy XV at a “special event” in March.

The news comes from the game’s Active Time Report panel at PAX in Seattle today, where director Hajime Tabata confirmed that the game will indeed arrive in 2016, but that the team isn’t ready to announce the specific date just yet. No other information about the event was announced.

Speaking to IGN, Tabata also confirmed that an additional Active Time Report will take place in Japan during the upcoming Tokyo Game Show and will contain more information on two characters: Luna and Regis (the father of main character Noctis).

Tabata previously confirmed that Final Fantasy XV will see a simultaneous worldwide release.

IGN is at PAX and we’ll have plenty of updates all throughout this weekend. Keep an eye on our PAX hub for the latest news.

FF15 Release Date to be announced in March


Well, at least we know for sure its coming in 2016...

12/31/2016 @ 11:59:59 PM :3

Square Enix experimented with VR support for Final Fantasy XV.

Speaking to IGN at PAX in Seattle, director Hajime Tabata explained that VR was briefly considered for a segment of the game but ultimately didn’t match the team’s goals.

“We had tested out utilizing VR,” Tabata told IGN via translator. “At the time we were looking into it, we felt that it could potentially work as a passive experience for a portion of the game utilizing VR. We felt that it would potentially make sense for a segment, but in terms of the overall game in itself, the entire game, we didn’t feel that having that headset on for the entirety of the game and that experience would match what we were aiming for with XV.”

“It’s a very long game,” he added. “You’d wear that headset for hours.”

“It’s a very long game,” he added. “You’d wear that headset for hours.”

I need to see some final fantasy elements, at this point I don't know if I'll even get the game on release day.

They really need to start showing more... interesting things. Why wait for PAX to show off an autodrive simulator where you look around?

I need to see some final fantasy elements, at this point I don't know if I'll even get the game on release day.