If I still haven't played ff15 should I get regular, Royal edition, or just replay 12 for the 5th time

>fun to explore
No it's completely empty and everything is walled off until progressing through the plot. There is literally only one town in the full game and its tiny and empty, literally just one quest takes place there then that's it done with. Never encounter an explorable town again, just gas stations.

Get the windows edition. It's the best version by far and the battle system is way more fun when you're not dropping frames all the time like the console versions

Watch the XIV Noctis event.
Go "Huh, that was pretty interesting."
Never look further into XV.

Technically there's three towns. :^)

Buy the vanilla game, completely ignore the side content and steamroll the story, buy and play Episodes Prompto and Ignis, then put the game down forever.

This way you get everything worth a damn while wasting as little time as possible.

Just get royal edition

>Skip Gladio
>The most fun character to play as
what did he mean

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His hallway is boring, his Gilgamesh sucks, and you can play him in chapter 13.

empty outposts aren't towns they're essentially disguised gas stations or a gas station is the only notable place in the outpost

If you included outposts it's be even more.
Lestallum and Altissa are both cities, even if they're nothing but sidequest hubs. Insomnia is arguably a town despite being a dungeon. Galdin Quay is REALLY arguable given there's nothing fucking there but it's an actual beachside settlement. There's basically three towns, three big outposts, and a fuckload of gas stations.

Why is Noctis so much better in FFXIV than in his own game?

Pirate Royal on PC.

15 is bad but 13 is still fucking dogshit.

>getting everything worth a damn
You wouldn’t be touching XV at all then if this were the case.

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Because Noctis in XV is like if Cloud in 7 was having his crazy wheelchair adventures for 90% of the game and only ever did what Sephiroth tells him to. He doesn't get a chance to express his personality in ways that impact the story or give him substance and, since he makes no choices, we have no sense of how he behaves as a person. Letting the man choose to do things instead of having people tell him what to do does wonders for him.

Plot should have been about noctis and his j-pop band on a road trip, exploring the continent and solving problems without the fedora tier villain and the empire bs

Royal Edition is just the base game + Season Pass + Royal Upgrade DLC

I have seen Royal Edition sold for $20 at Walmart.

but overall it's still a mediocre game

you're not smart

I've been a final fantasy fan for around 20 years now.

From the ones I've played (6 as the oldest one), XV has the weakest story presentation by far. Imagine a kinda ok story with potential, but then have a 8 year old try and summarize it to you in 2 minutes, that's how XV feels.

Game itself doesn't really feel like a final fantasy game, more like a fan-made tribute game. You'll enjoy it if you like to do sidequests and completely ignore the story until there's nothing else to do. Overall not that bad of a game as some make it out to be tho, it's a 7 or 7.5 out of 10.

Get the pc version

Fucking kill yourself.

XV tells us who Noctis is. XIV shows us.

>Noctis is an encouraging person and a born leader.
>XV: The gods say so, he tells a politician exactly what she wants to hear, and he gives generic emotional speeches.
>XIV: He leads adventurers into a massive battle without a second thought, quickly and effortlessly befriends influential people and solves problems through social networking, and instinctively teaches, encourages, and learns from his comrades in arms.

It's sad when a fucking MMO cares more about a character better THAN THE GAME HE ORIGINATED FROM.

Hell, if Luna was in the XIV collab, she would be an actual character instead of a pretty face and nothing more.

I got around 60 hours out of it, its not hard at all. But then again none of the other FF games are if you grind a little, this one just cuts the grinding segment out in order to complete the story.
You'll need to grind bounties if you want to get to the neat fights though. I would say buy it, but the edition is up to you. I honestly liked it and Ive grinded through 7, 9 ,10, 10-2, 12, 13, I wanted to blow my brains out with 13 though.

Im actually in the middle of playing through world of final fantasy maxima right now too

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It's less care and more structure. XV was a clusterfuck with no story. The XIV event is tailor made to showcase who Noctis is. Again,

>Noctis is aloof, a bit rude, and extremely passionate about his hobbies.
>XV: Noctis is dismissive about absolutely everything except the stuff he likes.
XIV: Noctis is strangely calm about weirdness, gets a bit curt befire he understands a situation, and shows extreme levels of skill at fishing from the word go.

It's crazy what showing instead of telling/implying can do.

XV might have worked as a satirical love letter to the entire series up to this point desu. You already have the boyband aping the X-2 cast.

It doesn't really need to be satirical, just a touch self-aware. The characters have personalities that work great for episodic adventures but the game tried to be a single story with only six sentences worth of narrative.

>XV was a clusterfuck with no story

from what I understand, the story was regulated to all the DLCs and CGI movie.

It's more like they came up with the backstory and the premise, but them they had a ton of assets to use and no time to make new shit, so they cobbled it together into a "story."

it doesn't solve anything, there's still no story. The shitty 3/10 movie has a better story presentation than the game