Especially since my video card is a 780. Trying to get a 1080 thrown in this year.
Send it my way if you don't want it . That's already a very powerful card, I see no reason for such small upgrade tho.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding the wording, like that it'd be a small upgrade for you personally. I hope so, (or I'm missing the trolling) because there is an ocean of difference in performance separating the 780 and 1080. It's not even close. Ten fold if you're speaking with exclusivity for FFXV (and quite frankly, most other AAA titles that are coming out now and will be coming out sooner than later, though FFXV is the extreme of that). I mean the specs alone are easy to look at but I had a 780 about two years ago and upgraded to the 1070 and that alone was a massive boost in performance, so that's a first hand account. That's just a jarring comment if it's in reference to the actual difference between a 780 and a 1080.
Not to say the 780 is bad or anything, but going from that to a 1080 is going to be night and day.
That's a real shame about the invisible barriers that keep you from seriously exploring. That's genuinely disappointing. I do want to play it because the boss battles look ridiculously cool and it's just beautiful, but that's a problem. So is the lack of diversity in the party, the entire bromance/road trip/bonding thing is not what I really want out of a Final Fantasy story. Maybe I should wait for a sale. Especially since my video card is a 780. Trying to get a 1080 thrown in this year.
I'm pretty picky about it and probably have been more than biased since my BoTW playthrough, so don't let it muddy your view of the game too much. It's not noticeable for the most part in the actual "open map" (there actually isn't a map ala the old school FF's, but there are dungeons and smaller sections of that "map" in which the invisible wall phenomena is present) of the game but there's little sections that very much resemble FFXIII's way of going about "openness" where you'll see a fairly sizable chunk of the map, try to go over there and there's an invisible wall. Again, much of the time that isn't there but it was jarring for me at first because I went into the game almost entirely blind and thought it'd be true open world goodness. It's almost there, just not quite. Definitely check it out though because the game is a whole lot of fun and I'm enjoying it a lot, just don't go into it thinking it's a true open world game. Go into it viewing it like a regular Final Fantasy with open-world aspects and you'll be pleasantly surprised.