Recently, Bethesda, creators of the Elder Scrolls and Falloutseries, launched a new feature: Creation Club. Essentially, they are official mods to Fallout 4 and Skyrim that players pay for through credits. They are created from fans or engineers from Bethesda and actually require Quality Assurance Testing before they are released for players to purchase. They don’t affect the achievements or trophies, unlike fan mods. It will be completely compatible with the game and you’ll receive 100 credits for all users on all systems. There will still be free modding support for all systems as well.
Fans Respond
Obviously, there is fan backlash regarding premium mod supports. They consider the prices too high for essential paid DLC content such as one gun, backpacks, or even armor. The modding community has always been providing free content to improve the gameplay, adding unique features, or even add an additional fan story portion. Bethesda even provided the ability to download free mods on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. To add paid mods will not appeal to anybody considering free mods are actively available and better than the paid versions. To remain good relations with their fans, Bethesda should not release the Creation Club or make them free for all users.
LOL, check out FO4's current review score on Steam: 57%. The market has spoken.
Announced today, Final Fantasy XV will receive free DLC that fuses its game play with the Assassin’s Creed series. From August 31st to January 31st, 2018 the DLC area will be free. It is actually an alternative reality plot line in Lestallum and entirely different game play mechanics, story, and costumes. From the trailer, Noctis no longer has his Power of Kings and has replaced it with the Power of Assassins…Creed. Stealth, stab, and stuff your enemies in hay piles. You’ll still have the ability to teleport but there is a bigger emphasis on movement with climbing, crossing railways, moving around your enemies, parrying, and chasing after your enemies similar to Assassin’s Creed. The combat will still relatively be the same with you controlling Noctis while fighting with your brothers: Gladious, Ignis, and Prompto. The partnership between Square-Enix and Ubisoft has been planned for 3 years based on Ubisoft’s blog.
The Future of Final Fantasy XV
Director of Final Fantasy XV, Hajime Tabatha they will not have a sequel of the series. Tabata stated the reason they would not do a sequel:
“The negative of that is there’s a very large open period where you’re not releasing anything. In that period, you get people to move away, and their attachment to the franchise dissipates a little bit.”
The original game took 10 years to finally release with multiple changes of directors, story, game play, art really confused players when a complete version would be released. Taking time to produce a sequel would take serious effort. Instead, Tabata is focusing on filling in the missing plot with the DLC. They still want to maintain a good relationship with fans by continuing to release new content for the game.
“If we had tried to do that as a traditional, full-scale sequel, that would have been very difficult,” the director said, “but it works really well in [keeping] that continued relationship with fans.”
The World of Final Fantasy XV has definitely been expanding since the release in late 2016. Two additional DLC stories for Gladious and Prompto have been released and Ignis‘s story is set to release for Winter 2017. A multiplayer mode was in beta during the month of August and was well received by fans. A new mobile game was release called Final Fantasy XV New Empire was released in July. It’s a generic tower defense mobile game that horribly disappointed fans of the series. Also the advertisements are all over YouTube and are actually quite annoying. Final Fantasy XV Pocket Edition is scheduled to release in Fall. It is a mobile militarizes version of FFXV with Chibi Character models and simplified combat. While frame rate looks slow during intense fighting scenes, it looks like a decent game for people who only play mobile games.
Opinion:
I personally liked Final Fantasy XV. It had major plot holes, average gameplay, and a weak third act but I still had a lot of fun. While I’m not interested in the playing the DLC at the moment, but I do love all the main characters. I don’t think Square-Enix should release a sequel because reception for the game is mixed overall rather than positive. The side content is fine except for the mobile game.
Questions:
How do you feel about Final Fantasy XV and the update to the series as time goes on? It is a different experience than the Final Fantasy of the past.
I can’t believe I was able to pre-order a SNES Classic last night. I literally ran to grab my wallet. If you haven’t heard, the Super Nintendo Classic‘s Pre-orders are finally out. They are sold out everywhere. I am attaching links below of where you can purchase them. GameStop has recently been stocking them.
If you look on Nintendo‘s social media, fans are furious. For a company as large as Nintendo, there should never actually be a shortage of products. However, this has been their strategy ever since the Nintendo Wii. It builds interest and more sales over time rather than at specific quarter ends or during the holiday season. Nintendo will most likely release a surplus during the holiday season, so don’t panic just yet.
If you search on E-bay, the prices being set are insane so I would not recommend it unless you are that desperate. Nintendo will be stocking more so I highly recommend checking the links and staying up to date.
Avid fans of the Final Fantasy series remembers the 20th-anniversary game: Dissidia Final Fantasy. It was a fighting game that pit the series main heroes and villains spanning from Final Fantasy 1 to Final Fantasy 12 in 2008. It was released for the PlayStation Portable and a sequel was made in 2011: Dissidia 012. (These names are all awful). They were generally well-received as fun arcade type brawler and included fan favorite characters and dream matches for fans. The 3rd entry in the series was announced for arcades in Japan in November 2015. It was named Dissidia Final Fantasy (2015) and was announced for early 2018 release in North America earlier this year.
Dissidia Final Fantasy NT launches January 30, 2018 on PS4! The forces of light and darkness gather again. pic.twitter.com/HKiSRqpDDI
On January 30, 2018, Square-Enix will release Dissidia Final Fantasy (2015) in North America. Now referred as Dissidia Final Fantasy NT, it is a 3vs3 fighter rather than the 1v1 brawler like its predecessor. It will maintain the fighting system such as BRAVE and HP Attacks. Each character will have their own health bar and the ability to use Summons. It will include all the characters in the Arcade version and have Noctis from Final Fantasy XV.
If you would like to pre-order the game, here is the link.
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