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Final Fantasy XV Judgment Disc demo out now on JPSN & JP Xbox Store

So let me start this by saying that I have been looking forward to this game since it was announced back as Versus and I love love LOVE this demo.
I was showing it to a friend who was on the fence and he had the worst possible experience. First a glitch happened where the parry prompt was glued on the screen for 10 minutes out of battle, but then a video glitch happened that well...just look at it: https://youtu.be/52Q4_P9p0kI

Has anyone else experienced stuff like this? Honestly if my friend didn't love the gameplay up and until this point he probably would have been more angry instead of cracking up laughing at it all.
 
Played the demo for over 8 hours now. Some impressions/observations:

Holding R3 opens the hardtop cover for the car. But the frustrating thing is that whenever you start the car, the cover automatically retracts.

Noct's reaction to winning darts at the Hunter's Rest Stop is adorable.

There's so many things to discover. In my recent session, I just discovered a small fishing spot near the Insomnia border and one of the Royal Tombs.

How do I customize the body color of the car? I mined several elements but the options are still greyed out.

I like it how if Ignis is driving and you put the brakes on suddenly, Noct will chew him out. Or if you wave your weapons around your buddies out of combat your buddies will yell at you. It's the little things.



On another note, some people mentioned they found Cactuars. Where can you find them?

And does anyone have any viable strategies of beating the lv42 Flame Sword Iron Giants beyond holding square and spamming commands?
 
Slaythe said:
What the actual fuck is going on. I had to go check myself.

None of that appears. I'm using the PRO mode though.



(keep in mind the waves are animated so what looks like broken colors aren't really shocking in movement)

That's not the best water ever obviously, but that's not anywhere close to the monstrosity you experienced D: .
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I'm also playing on my brand-new PRO in the "High-Quality" mode.
And those screenshots are from three completely separate visits to that location, which you can tell by the slightly different stats on the HP bars.

Like I said in an earlier post, every time I go to Galdin Quay it seems the water finds a new way to glitch out.
There's been a couple I can't even adequately share because they'd require video rather than a screenshot, and I'm just too lazy for that at the moment.

poipoipoi9 said:
On another note, some people mentioned they found Cactuars. Where can you find them?
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I ran into one around the area behind Hammerhead back by a little watchtower sort of structure.
 
Mailbox said:
damn! played over 8 hours worth now.

its funny how a "1 hour demo" can give me more value than a lot of other games :P
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value is subjective. if this game leans towards your particular interest off course you would think it gives you more value.

i played the other demos of the game, felt like a waste of time
 
J 0 E said:
Anyone else felt the world "empty"?
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Yeah, a bit. It is certainly not a Witcher 3 or Skyrim im terms of stuff to see and do. But keep in mind they deliberately left out some stuff in this demo, like NPCs, monster mobs and quests. I was a bit sad that they left out the cat quest in Galdin Quay. :( So I had no reason to try out fishing,
 
Just uploading this picture because I absolutely love it. Thanks Prompto!

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tait269 said:
Here is a comparision of OG PS4, Pro 4K Light & Pro 4k High.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C59uuNwzJTQ
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The differences in character models and hair quality is frankly nearly non-existent.

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I don't notice any framerate improvemets in the "lightweight" mode either. If it's gaining frames it must be like 32fps or some shit because it certainly doesn't look any smoother than regular ol' 30fps. The game looks pretty decent on the regular PS4, Squeenix has made massive improvements since their horrible master version.
 
Reading people's impressions on the demo feels like someone is ripping me apart from the inside out. I want to play it, but I dont want to spoil a thing. I want it to be fresh and new.

Can't have my cake and eat it, I guess.
 
Vex_ said:
Reading people's impressions on the demo feels like someone is ripping me apart from the inside out. I want to play it, but I dont want to spoil a thing. I want it to be fresh and new.

Can't have my cake and eat it, I guess.
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I don't really get how it's spoiling stuff.

I mean, it's the same thing you'd play when you start the actual game. Take it as playing the game and then having a 2,5 week break until continuing :p
 
Vex_ said:
Reading people's impressions on the demo feels like someone is ripping me apart from the inside out. I want to play it, but I dont want to spoil a thing. I want it to be fresh and new.

Can't have my cake and eat it, I guess.
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I'm with you!! I'm so tempted, I even have the demo installed on my ps4 but I might just remove it before giving in and playing it. I just want my first steps in FFXV to be in the final copy, from the title screen and all the way through.

artsi said:
I don't really get how it's spoiling stuff.

I mean, it's the same thing you'd play when you start the actual game. Take it as playing the game and then having a 2,5 week break until continuing :p
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For me, it's spoiling in the sense that I'd like to experience FFXV in its final glory, start with the title screen and just hunker down and immerse myself in the final product as long as I need. Spoiling as in corrupting my first steps into the game. Nothing against demos, but I'd like to save the intro and my personal intro to the game when it finally comes out. Same reason I haven't imported Persona 5, I just have to experience it in English and get immersed in the whole experience from the get-go. Totally get why so many are downloading it, different strokes.
 
jett said:
The differences in character models and hair quality is frankly nearly non-existent.

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I don't notice any framerate improvemets in the "lightweight" mode either. If it's gaining frames it must be like 32fps or some shit because it certainly doesn't look any smoother than regular ol' 30fps. The game looks pretty decent on the regular PS4, Squeenix has made massive improvements since their horrible master version.
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That video is useless. It's very blurry and compressed. Also, the PS4 Pro 4K High mode doesn't actually exist. It's a 1080p and higher graphical settings mode.
Also, in these screens the 4K High version looks the blurriest (compare Cindy's skin pores and oil spots), which can't be true and isn't true.
I switched back and forth between them on my Pro and there is definitely a noticable difference between HQ and LQ mode and it is definitely in favor of the HQ mode, not the other way around. ;)
 
jett said:
The differences in character models and hair quality is frankly nearly non-existent.

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I don't notice any framerate improvemets in the "lightweight" mode either. If it's gaining frames it must be like 32fps or some shit because it certainly doesn't look any smoother than regular ol' 30fps. The game looks pretty decent on the regular PS4, Squeenix has made massive improvements since their horrible master version.
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That's not exactly true.

The hair benefits from better AA quite a lot. Might not be obvious in cutscenes (maybe it's off or something) but during gameplay it's rather obvious.
 
The hair looks worse in cutscenes currently than it does in gameplay. That'll probably be fixed for launch on the Pro I would assume.
 
I found that gazelle/giraffe hybrid thingy.

Time to slaughter

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edit: they are the first non hostile creatures in the demo. Maybe I should just leave them be.
 
Tyaren said:
That video is useless. It's very blurry and compressed. Also, the PS4 PRO 4K mode doesn't actually exist. It's a 1080p high quality mode.
Also, in these screens the 4K (in reality 1080p and higher graphical settings) version looks the blurriest, which can't be true and isn't true.
I switched back and forth between them and there is definitely a noticable difference between HQ and LQ mode and it is definitely in favor of the HQ mode, not the other way around. ;)
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That video is of pretty good quality actually, set it to 1440p or 4K. The screens I posted have a pretty small amount of macroblocking (considering they're video captures), you can see all of the detail (and issues) with hair rendering in this game.

When it comes to your semantics argument, I believe FFXV still ends upscaling from 1080p to 4K. There are "full res" pictures in this thread (looks hideous, obviously).

And I don't know about any of them looking the "blurriest" in the video or my pics. All three have a rather similar image quality. Definitely not a useless video, looks like a lot of effort went into capturing similar scenes from three different versions of the game to me.

Slaythe said:
That's not exactly true.

The hair benefits from better AA quite a lot. Might not be obvious in cutscenes (maybe it's off or something) but during gameplay it's rather obvious.
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It may be so that it's just in cut-scenes or up-close that the hair looks the same across all versions.
 
VanillaCakeIsBurning said:
So it looks like there are special attacks your team can use that don't consume meter.

In this vid you can see Gladio/Prompto/Ignis all using something called a "Fatal Attack" multiple times that seem to do a lot of damage.
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You unlock those on the ascension grid. Follow the reddit guide to see where it's at.
 
This game is gorgeous in the PSr Pro. It's too bad they're not releasing an English demo too.

Where is this "lightweight mode?" HDR was easy enough to find.
 
jett said:
That video is of pretty good quality actually, set it to 1440p or 4K. The screens I posted have a pretty small amount of macroblocking (considering they're video captures), you can see all of the detail (and issues) with hair rendering in this game.

When it comes to your semantics argument, I believe FFXV still ends upscaling from 1080p to 4K. There are "full res" pictures in this thread (looks hideous, obviously).

And I don't know about any of them looking the "blurriest" in the video or my pics. All three have a rather similar image quality. Definitely not a useless video, looks like a lot of effort went into capturing similar scenes from three different versions of the game to me.
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See? You don't even notice that. I did immediately.
Just open each of these images in a new browser tab and click back and forth between them. That's the easiest way to directly compare them.

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Do you see now that the 4K High image is noticably blurrier in it's details? That just can't be right. I played this mode and I could count each of Cindy's pores separately, lol. In cutscenes and in gameplay. I don't know what the maker of this video did to the image.The standard PS4 version also doesn't even run in full 1080p but 900p-1080p dynamic resolution.

Or...we have just found out another example of the Pro actually performing inferior than the PS4. O:
 
Anyone have any tips for the fire iron giant beyond outlasting him until dawn? I managed to hold out until the sun killed him (what a cool touch, had to fight him while the sun burned him down) but that feels like cheating.
 
jett said:
It may be so that it's just in cut-scenes or up-close that the hair looks the same across all versions.
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Well the post process they use "ingame" sure isn't the same. This is a perfect 1:1 (same frame) comparison, and as you can see it doesn't look the same.

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Guys it's probably been talked about already, but is it normal I can't play the demo from my main european account? It says I don't have the license and I have to switch to my japanese account.
 
Jinroh said:
Guys it's probably been talked about already, but is it normal I can't play the demo from my main european account? It says I don't have the license and I have to switch to my japanese account.
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Set your Japanese account to use your PS4 as its primary system.
 
I keep fiddling with pro settings,hardly seeing differences.

"Light weight" doesnt seem worth it.Hardly any framerate gains & AF ,aliasing seem worse(thought not by alot tbh)

Light weight seems to reduce stuttering by a bit.
 
Tyaren said:
See? You don't even notice that. I did immediately.
Just open each of these images in a new browser tab and click back and forth between them. That's the easiest way to directly compare them.



Do you see now that the 4K High image is noticably blurrier in it's details? That just can't be right. I played this mode and I could count each of Cindy's pores separately, lol. In cutscenes and in gameplay. I don't know what the maker of this video did to the image.The standard PS4 version also doesn't even run in full 1080p but 900p-1080p dynamic resolution.

Or...we have just found out another example of the Pro actually performing inferior than the PS4. O:
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Hmm, well, when you're right, you're right.

The hair still does look about the same though.

Slaythe said:
Well the post process they use "ingame" sure isn't the same. This is a perfect 1:1 (same frame) comparison, and as you can see it doesn't look the same.

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I must be crazy because I just don't see a difference.
 
Darker hair above noctis' ear

I dunno, I didn't open them to check side by side/flipping tabs, that just stood out to me looking at quote thumbnails.

edit: Seems darker on details in general actually, whether AO or just a slight lighting difference or contrast (lol) I'm not sure.
 
jett said:
Hmm, well, when you're right, you're right.

The hair still does look about the same though.



I must be crazy because I just don't see a difference.
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I can barely see a difference in the majority of screen comparisons posted, to be honest. But the game looks very good on the whole regardless.
 
Based Tabata put in camera distance options for battle. With the closer up option it's more like Metal Gear Rising / Ninja Gaiden now and I can actually see enemy movements and Noct's proximity to dodge instead of that far out God of War cam shit. Manual dodge feels so much better and more responsive now too.

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I'm at the right spot, but bandersnatch just won't spawn :/

I even rested before going there.

Solid Sora said:
Just killed the fire-y iron giant. Tough fight. Consumed all my items + 15 mins of my life. But it was worth for the cool exclusive parry animation I didn't know it had:

https://twitter.com/SolidSora/status/797378999148249088
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Yup, that parry animation is dope. It doesn't make sense that he sutomatically uses fire on... fire-y monster.
 
benzy said:
Based Tabata put in camera distance options for battle. With the closer up option it's more like Metal Gear Rising / Ninja Gaiden now and I can actually see enemy movements and Noct's proximity to dodge instead of that far out God of War cam shit. Manual dodge feels so much better and more responsive now too.

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Huh? you can change how close the camera is? how?
 
Man people keep talking about how the combat is so much better...I dunno..It feels like Duscae to me...

There are adjustments here and there but by and large Duscae was actually very representative of this game.
 
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