@@LuthusNoxFleuret Dope that you're covering this. I haven't explored the area myself but after thoroughly exploring episode Ardyn's map came to the conclusion that it was based on a different Insomnia build than the destroyed one due to the differences it had with main game. Hyped for the premiere of this video!
You played the game in a fairly good time. I played around the launch date, maybe a few months later. And the game was in rough shape. Yes it looked beautiful but empty. People went way too hard agains't No MAn's Sky at the time, but that game was made by 16 people, this one was made by at least 300. The rellease build of this game was in an inexcusable state, and Square Enix was lucky that people were soo tame with them, considering FF13 had a way better finished product when released if compared to 15.
@@advmx3 I was thinking the same thing but with Cyberpunk. People came down so hard on that game (and rightly so) but at least they took the time to fix it and have now given fans pretty much everything they wanted from the trailers. Meanwhile FFXV got a few half-hearted DLC which didn't include any of the things people wanted and then cancelled the rest...
it COULD have started like this afaik kingsglaive was supposed to be a linear prologue before moving to the open world with noct. then they turned it into a movie
This is insane. While less detailed than episode ardyn's insomnia, almost everything was actually already there from the start, really shows how much more of Insomnia they were planning to use. Great video as always, very interesting.
Yea, the whole world map of FFXV had been outlined but a bunch of locales got scrapped and they had to condense the story from multiples games into just 1 game. It really sucks.
My favourite part of FFXV was exploring the environments and cities that they designed, it annoys me so much we arent able to explore like you do in this video as part of normal gameplay especially knowing that they built all of this
exactly my sentiment. imagine clocking in everyday at the square enix offices dedicated nd fucking toiling away on these massive environments w stellar amounts of detail--only to have zero players who they were intended for to even step foot on those sacred grounds. i feel like in any game of this ambition nd scale its a genuine crime to work so fucking hard on these intricate environments to have no meaningful content to tie it all together. shits insane
16:06 THIS is what I always wanted since 2006. The city at night with the lights on around the modern architecture inspired by Shinjuku as well as mixing in Paris, London and New York. While Persona 5 and the Yakuza series have their own takes, there could still be hope to see this in Kingdom Hearts IV.
@@bdf2660 At one point probably yes, and they must have had great ambition. But in the end we only ever got to see the city pre-invasion in the the demo and during the first loading of the game... And never at night.
@@RDR911 I meant no purpose as in no purpose in the retail version, like they worked for nothing. I'm not sure the people who worked on it knew that Insomnia would not be the center piece of the game anymore
10:22 on the left I think that's the restaurant Noctis used to work at as a teen. I really hope we get the full extent of what they were planning one day. There was so much out there during the train ride through cities we missed and a big bit of Altissa we were never allowed to get to. Even Insomnia was lit up at night, as if we would have seen that in gameplay... There was just so many unused assets.
So many people hope for a Xenogears remake….I just honestly wish they put out a “complete” version of FFXV. There is SO much of that map to explore…these out of bound videos are awesome because it shows how much area they finished (most even with hit collision even) but didn’t get added to the in-game finished product. Such a shame….
I always had a thought that, during the ending of chapter 1, they could have entered back into Insomnia during its invasion as a sort of "rescue mission" of its citizens of whatever is left, where they are also introduced to the early main villains of the story,
This is cool to see Insomnia without all of the Founder day celebration stuff from episode Ardyn. It reminds me of a trailer way back when we were fighting a behemoth in Insomnia in daylight and even in all the versus 13 trailers there was SO much stuff going on in Insomnia we were clearly supposed to be there for quite a while. I'm still so sad we never got that game... i wonder how much Quadratum will resemble Insomnia
i love how they spent all that time to make these insanely gorgeous cities and yet . . we cant even normally go around walking around to appreciate them . .
@@XChronicHashthey were doing fuck all on Versus13 for most of that and more so was SE staff wrangling with the development of Crystal Tools and then Luminous Engine, actual production only happened in the last three years of that, starting from when it was rebranded as XV
This is a huge part of what the game was missing. If they had allowed you to explore more towns and interact with more people it would've been great. I feel like it wouldn't have been that hard to implement if they were given more time, especially knowing that all of this was already developed. Open the story up in Insomnia, let that be the tutorial to get you used to the controls. Do a few fetch quests, explore the castle, spar with Gladio to get the combat mechanics down, etc, then implement some exploration in Tenebrae later on. Have Noctis and gang there when the daemons attack. It would add more exploration, story, and gameplay. I enjoyed the game overall and once all the pieces were in place the story did have a lot of interesting aspects to it, but it was presented very poorly. They wanted it to be a multimedia experience, which would've been great if the initial game was complete. Instead, the additional media had to support the game's story rather than expand upon it. I have tons of respect for Tabata and the team that worked on this. If it hadn't been for the poor leadership throughout the majority of the game's development, we could've had an amazing game from day 1.
I remember spending HOURS in this version of insomnia, when downloading this game on my slow wifi. Looking outside the gates, the download pre-game really had me waiting for the actual game to let me out and explore the city.
This is amazing….I wish I would’ve known you could access this when the disk is installing. I played FFXV for the first time back in May of 2021. Quickly became my favorite FF game. I love it to bits and pieces. Really cool to see all this secret stuff.
I mean the amount of artwork that went into this game is too fantastic. There are a few things I didn't like - such as the weird final plot leaving everyone unable to understand why each and every character was behaving the way they were behaving, but those cities, those landscapes, are ..... humongous artworks
They could've just made FF:Yakuza and I won't be complaining. Like there is no need to always do big missions, just Noctis and crew beating up local thugs for selling fake potions and shit
Damn. ..would have been awesome. Imagine playing in the city, jumping over cars and dodging bullets while taking bad guys out with your sword, crystal powers/teleportation ability, smashing the bad guys heads against cop cars like we saw in one of the 2013 trailers, at night, holding up traffic lol would have been insanely awesome! In another alternative universe it happened.
Well FFXV is pretty much an Unfinished game, a lot of ideas been scrapped, and i also believes there is a lot of stories element that also cut from the game, since the story itself feels "Rushed". Too bad a lot of the assets is unused, FFXV could've been the best FF or even won a GOTY if it's complete from the start.
thats (here) the german word for the report card at the end of a fight. underneath are the time (zeit) finesse (technik) and offense (offensive) rankings (which are all in D because he left the fight). also noctis says "Aus meinen Augen" while he is in battle. it can be translate to "out of my sight"
After seeing this. Make sure that decision to cut insomnia falls chapter in game development was a devil disguise. Just say square and Sony sudden wanted to make a movie based on ffxv
Square Enix HQ: Great Job you did with the City Guys but yeah we make a Movie that is not even that good because we want to milk the Cow a little more.
you have to jailbreak your ps4 or xbox download the games pkg files on ur pc & merge the colition files of the chapter14 insomnia into the open combat insomnia, once you do that you’ll have to intergrade it onto the game so when you put the game on your console, fresh with no updates the game will start you off on the open combat & you’re basically free to roam
This is what you have to do, you have to jailbreak your ps4 or xbox download the games pkg files on ur pc & merge the colition files of the chapter14 insomnia into the open combat insomnia, once you do that you’ll have to intergrade it onto the game so when you put the game on your console, fresh with no updates the game will start you off on the open combat & you’re basically free to roam.
how did you re-add collision with chapter 14 assetts on console? Im curious since I was hoping to try this myself but if there is no collision normally than could you tell me how you did added collision?
Was this insomnia already in the 1.0 version of the game? If that’s the case I can’t believe they used all that effort to make the whole city only to not show it to us.
it took me an embarrassingly long time to put together that insomnia is based off france and nifelhelm is america i guess its cuz the rest of the game is kind of a mix of retro american stuff
@@LuthusNoxFleuret ah yes tokyo; famouse for its art right down to the art nouveau lamp posts... lol i imagine theres multiple inspirations since it snot a one to one of an irl city
I blame Crystal Tools for being such a bad engine which caused issues all around and almost killed Squenix. Maybe XV would still end up half baked maybe it would have been God's gift to mankind but we'll never know and we'll only be left with the dreams of what could have been. Edit: For the sake of clarity XV runs on luminous not Crystal Tools.
I mean, just blame Square Enix for this mess. It's Square Enix higher ups who messed all of it, since the beginning. Nor tabata and Nomura fault, all blame goes to Square Enix. They've got diamond in their hands, literally.
Disclaimer: This area has nothing to do with Episode Ardyn - infact the map from EPA might be based off this one.
Is this accessible in the PC version of FFXV? Or just consoles?
@@Tonda00 The files for this area do not exist outside the console version. This and other things I will mention in the description when I publish it.
@@LuthusNoxFleuret Dope that you're covering this. I haven't explored the area myself but after thoroughly exploring episode Ardyn's map came to the conclusion that it was based on a different Insomnia build than the destroyed one due to the differences it had with main game. Hyped for the premiere of this video!
@@HeartlessSeph If you have the chance play the original chapter 14 map not the royal edition one - its also based off this one
@@LuthusNoxFleuret Dope, I'll go to version 1.0 and try exploring around a bit. Never got a chance to look at that version myself
I've played this game in 2020 and I still can't believe the ridiculous amount of cool content from Insomnia and Altissia that were cut from the game.
I played this game in 2018, nostalgia hits me now
You played the game in a fairly good time. I played around the launch date, maybe a few months later. And the game was in rough shape. Yes it looked beautiful but empty.
People went way too hard agains't No MAn's Sky at the time, but that game was made by 16 people, this one was made by at least 300. The rellease build of this game was in an inexcusable state, and Square Enix was lucky that people were soo tame with them, considering FF13 had a way better finished product when released if compared to 15.
@@advmx3 I was thinking the same thing but with Cyberpunk. People came down so hard on that game (and rightly so) but at least they took the time to fix it and have now given fans pretty much everything they wanted from the trailers. Meanwhile FFXV got a few half-hearted DLC which didn't include any of the things people wanted and then cancelled the rest...
Played in 2024 still great game
@@galegorgeous8857FFXV you mean? FFXIV is the MMO and that's a whole 'nother story of trouble.
Insomnia could've been such fun to drive and chill around in with the guys. Would've been amazing if this was actualy how the game started
it COULD have started like this
afaik kingsglaive was supposed to be a linear prologue before moving to the open world with noct. then they turned it into a movie
This is insane. While less detailed than episode ardyn's insomnia, almost everything was actually already there from the start, really shows how much more of Insomnia they were planning to use.
Great video as always, very interesting.
Well we WERE at one point going to explore Insomnia when XV was VS XIII
@@SpiderTrickster basically we were supposed to play the entire invasion part of the story. so sad that they decided to make it into a movie instead
Yea, the whole world map of FFXV had been outlined but a bunch of locales got scrapped and they had to condense the story from multiples games into just 1 game. It really sucks.
My favourite part of FFXV was exploring the environments and cities that they designed, it annoys me so much we arent able to explore like you do in this video as part of normal gameplay especially knowing that they built all of this
exactly my sentiment. imagine clocking in everyday at the square enix offices dedicated nd fucking toiling away on these massive environments w stellar amounts of detail--only to have zero players who they were intended for to even step foot on those sacred grounds. i feel like in any game of this ambition nd scale its a genuine crime to work so fucking hard on these intricate environments to have no meaningful content to tie it all together. shits insane
The more I see these videos, the more upset I get about what this game could have truly been.
16:06 THIS is what I always wanted since 2006. The city at night with the lights on around the modern architecture inspired by Shinjuku as well as mixing in Paris, London and New York. While Persona 5 and the Yakuza series have their own takes, there could still be hope to see this in Kingdom Hearts IV.
And it's gonna be run on UE5 can you imagine how realistic can it get quadratum would look like
Kh4’s city is just straight up Tokyo.
It's mind blowing thinking they did a night version with all the buildings lit up, for basically no purpose...
Oh it had a purpose
@@bdf2660 At one point probably yes, and they must have had great ambition. But in the end we only ever got to see the city pre-invasion in the the demo and during the first loading of the game... And never at night.
Nothing is ever done without a purpose in game development. Just because an idea did scrapped doesn’t mean a thing was done “without purpose” lol.
@@RDR911 I meant no purpose as in no purpose in the retail version, like they worked for nothing. I'm not sure the people who worked on it knew that Insomnia would not be the center piece of the game anymore
10:22 on the left
I think that's the restaurant Noctis used to work at as a teen.
I really hope we get the full extent of what they were planning one day. There was so much out there during the train ride through cities we missed and a big bit of Altissa we were never allowed to get to. Even Insomnia was lit up at night, as if we would have seen that in gameplay...
There was just so many unused assets.
I totally missed this, thank you for pointing this out!
Wait what? Noctis worked at a restaurant?
yeah thats why he loves fishing
this area is where a yojima spawns on the royal edition map
@@shiroe1642 Noctis worked as a sushi cook when he was a teenager. The bros reminisce about it in the WoR/Ruined Insomnia.
So many people hope for a Xenogears remake….I just honestly wish they put out a “complete” version of FFXV. There is SO much of that map to explore…these out of bound videos are awesome because it shows how much area they finished (most even with hit collision even) but didn’t get added to the in-game finished product. Such a shame….
I always had a thought that, during the ending of chapter 1, they could have entered back into Insomnia during its invasion as a sort of "rescue mission" of its citizens of whatever is left, where they are also introduced to the early main villains of the story,
the part had become a bad movie at the end. such a bad decision from square enix
The Versus XIII vibes are strong in this, for those who know the previously canned game
This is cool to see Insomnia without all of the Founder day celebration stuff from episode Ardyn. It reminds me of a trailer way back when we were fighting a behemoth in Insomnia in daylight and even in all the versus 13 trailers there was SO much stuff going on in Insomnia we were clearly supposed to be there for quite a while. I'm still so sad we never got that game... i wonder how much Quadratum will resemble Insomnia
you might also wanna watch my platinum demo insomnia exploration then if you like this
9:58 I recognise this location from one of the really old trailers when it was still gonna be a ps3 game
Thank you again for sharing. I adore the amount of detail in the FFXV environment.
i love how they spent all that time to make these insanely gorgeous cities and yet . . we cant even normally go around walking around to appreciate them . .
This was a very ambitious project, it's heartbreaking seeing all this wasted potential. This could have been a masterpiece with more development time.
Lol more development time, 15 years aint enough?
They had a lot of problems, but they definitely ain't 1 of them
@@XChronicHashthey were doing fuck all on Versus13 for most of that and more so was SE staff wrangling with the development of Crystal Tools and then Luminous Engine, actual production only happened in the last three years of that, starting from when it was rebranded as XV
This is a huge part of what the game was missing. If they had allowed you to explore more towns and interact with more people it would've been great. I feel like it wouldn't have been that hard to implement if they were given more time, especially knowing that all of this was already developed.
Open the story up in Insomnia, let that be the tutorial to get you used to the controls. Do a few fetch quests, explore the castle, spar with Gladio to get the combat mechanics down, etc, then implement some exploration in Tenebrae later on. Have Noctis and gang there when the daemons attack. It would add more exploration, story, and gameplay.
I enjoyed the game overall and once all the pieces were in place the story did have a lot of interesting aspects to it, but it was presented very poorly. They wanted it to be a multimedia experience, which would've been great if the initial game was complete. Instead, the additional media had to support the game's story rather than expand upon it.
I have tons of respect for Tabata and the team that worked on this. If it hadn't been for the poor leadership throughout the majority of the game's development, we could've had an amazing game from day 1.
I remember spending HOURS in this version of insomnia, when downloading this game on my slow wifi. Looking outside the gates, the download pre-game really had me waiting for the actual game to let me out and explore the city.
Top 10 Betrayals of all time.
having Flashback of 2013 battle trailer oh man . .I was so hype with that badass cinematic escape in Insomia invasion 😢
Damn, that's huge! I can't imagine how long it would take to finish the game if they stick to the original vision.
Thank You FFXV, without you, there no complete open map like in FFVII rebirth
This is amazing….I wish I would’ve known you could access this when the disk is installing. I played FFXV for the first time back in May of 2021. Quickly became my favorite FF game. I love it to bits and pieces. Really cool to see all this secret stuff.
They need to remake this game as it should have been 😭
we got a FFVII remake. maybe someday we will (PRAYS INTENSELY)
One day maybe. but then again Namura may be remaking his original vision with Verum Rex.
It pretty much was. It wasnt what Nomura is doing now I'll tell you that.
So many people don't seem to understand that
@@Confused_Master stfu his original vision was a tech demo not a real game
@@Confused_Master LOL Verum Rex is at best a toy version of Versus XIII
It reminds me of Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building in Shinjuku District of Japan, that I’ve never been to.
Never forget what they took from you
*sighs* Why did they cut so much out of this awesome game. I love FFXV.
I mean the amount of artwork that went into this game is too fantastic. There are a few things I didn't like - such as the weird final plot leaving everyone unable to understand why each and every character was behaving the way they were behaving, but those cities, those landscapes, are ..... humongous artworks
This is really fantastic. Really huge.
You can even see it in the training area while the game downloads...you literally fight in an area of insomnia
They could've just made FF:Yakuza and I won't be complaining. Like there is no need to always do big missions, just Noctis and crew beating up local thugs for selling fake potions and shit
Not sure why but this reminds of an old PC game: Midtown Madness. Loved that game along with 3D Movie Maker. ❤😂
imagine what this game could've been 😔
Would loved to explore Insomnia before the disaster
yo they still have that hugebuilding from the trailer with stella
Pain
Damn. ..would have been awesome. Imagine playing in the city, jumping over cars and dodging bullets while taking bad guys out with your sword, crystal powers/teleportation ability, smashing the bad guys heads against cop cars like we saw in one of the 2013 trailers, at night, holding up traffic lol would have been insanely awesome! In another alternative universe it happened.
This game could have been ABSOLUTELY perfect 😭 I WANT A REMASTERED PLS PLS PLSSSS PRETTY PLEASEEEE
This game is so amazing..nice one my friend...
実際リアルで東京を王都インソムニアに改名したら面白いと思う
で、政治家は全員ノムリッシュ語で会話するようになったら最高だな
凄いエキサイティングな国になるだろう
Well FFXV is pretty much an Unfinished game, a lot of ideas been scrapped, and i also believes there is a lot of stories element that also cut from the game, since the story itself feels "Rushed".
Too bad a lot of the assets is unused, FFXV could've been the best FF or even won a GOTY if it's complete from the start.
The way I'm still lamenting about how FFXV came to be... the potential is there, but the execution failed!
13:01 Weird enemy encounter "Bilanz"?
thats (here) the german word for the report card at the end of a fight. underneath are the time (zeit) finesse (technik) and offense (offensive) rankings (which are all in D because he left the fight). also noctis says "Aus meinen Augen" while he is in battle. it can be translate to "out of my sight"
Do you have a install tutprial?
Maybe it's time we get multiple bluray discs?
After seeing this. Make sure that decision to cut insomnia falls chapter in game development was a devil disguise. Just say square and Sony sudden wanted to make a movie based on ffxv
love the ambience... Gentle breeze through tree leaves
Imagine we can free roam use regalia in this big city ^^
yeah this game was supposed to be way more ambitious
Square Enix HQ: Great Job you did with the City Guys but yeah we make a Movie that is not even that good because we want to milk the Cow a little more.
Dude, I just want a tutorial on how tf ur doing all this impossible shit! I wanna play it for myself! 😩
He modded the game. the map has no collision so you'd fall through.
you have to jailbreak your ps4 or xbox download the games pkg files on ur pc & merge the colition files of the chapter14 insomnia into the open combat insomnia, once you do that you’ll have to intergrade it onto the game so when you put the game on your console, fresh with no updates the game will start you off on the open combat & you’re basically free to roam
This make a me want a gta styled final fantasy game
How can I try this for myself on ps4
This is what you have to do, you have to jailbreak your ps4 or xbox download the games pkg files on ur pc & merge the colition files of the chapter14 insomnia into the open combat insomnia, once you do that you’ll have to intergrade it onto the game so when you put the game on your console, fresh with no updates the game will start you off on the open combat & you’re basically free to roam.
I like how the cars look like they are from a ps1 game afjsjf
sadly... such a huge pity....
is there any way to access this after installation?
theres no way to do this without modifying the game
how different is this map to the ardyn one
I know you’ve covered pre invasion insomnia, but is there any way to do an aerial view of it? I’m curious to see the map as a whole.
how did you re-add collision with chapter 14 assetts on console? Im curious since I was hoping to try this myself but if there is no collision normally than could you tell me how you did added collision?
Its like GTA version of Final Fantasy,...
Was this insomnia already in the 1.0 version of the game? If that’s the case I can’t believe they used all that effort to make the whole city only to not show it to us.
yes its used for the "open combat" option while you wait for the entire game to install
Funny super fuzzy cars are more modern unlike the npc cars in the real game are all like 40’s cars
I wanted this
すごい！
it took me an embarrassingly long time to put together that insomnia is based off france and nifelhelm is america i guess its cuz the rest of the game is kind of a mix of retro american stuff
insomnia is based off tokyo
@@LuthusNoxFleuret ah yes tokyo; famouse for its art right down to the art nouveau lamp posts... lol i imagine theres multiple inspirations since it snot a one to one of an irl city
Wait is this debug mode?
no
Jail break on console
I blame Crystal Tools for being such a bad engine which caused issues all around and almost killed Squenix. Maybe XV would still end up half baked maybe it would have been God's gift to mankind but we'll never know and we'll only be left with the dreams of what could have been.
Edit: For the sake of clarity XV runs on luminous not Crystal Tools.
This is not crystal tools. Also crystal tools wasnt actually a bad engine it was just misused.
Imagine if FFXV switch to Unreal Engine 4 instead of luminous . The amount of realistic detailed graphic would like to see ..
I mean, just blame Square Enix for this mess. It's Square Enix higher ups who messed all of it, since the beginning. Nor tabata and Nomura fault, all blame goes to Square Enix. They've got diamond in their hands, literally.
This game felt so empty
This game is such a waste.