Got back into playing 15. About 35 hours in and overall I really like the game, more so than most of the previous ones over the past decade. My only complaint is the story or lack there of.
Its like there's something going on independent of what your characters are doing. Only by watching the whole separate movie do I know that your dad is getting murdered and your home is on fire in this massive war, while you are cooking, camping and fishin down by the lake. Like where's the urgency and where's the conflict? Who are the bad guys and WHY are they doing anything? You are just casually driving around, occasionally fighting some nameless soldiers.
Ardyn is cool, but he acts in no way like an antagonist. He's just helping me along my path and acting coy. Why am I cordial with this guy? He is with the guys that declared war on my nation? And I just got to the part why this chick highwind has joined my party RIGHT after trying to fight me to the death in an enemy base like 5 mins ago. I don't know what is going on in this game. And If I didn't watch the movie, I swear to god, I would know nothing about this story what so ever.
The game is not finished. Simple as that. Even toward the end of the game you get mere glimpses of awesome locations that you get to experience for minutes, when clearly they were meant to be bigger places to have purpose. Oh well.
Sorry for the rant, its just that I'm like 35 hours in and there's been almost no story development and its getting in the way of an otherwise awesome game.