FFXV is a mistreated masterpiece. You can tell a truly enormous amount of love went into crafting this game world, the character interactions, the enemies, etc. but they just kind of gave up on it at the last minute. There are all these technical issues (rampant stuttering, long load times), unexplained game mechanics (fishing, "warp links"), and quality-of-life issues (there's nowhere you can see all of your active quests at once on a map, lots of common interactions are frustratingly long). Apparently the stuttering issues were actually added in the last patch, and they just haven't bothered to do anything about it.

I can't give a good recommendation to something that would otherwise be a 10/10, only to be ruined by someone not willing to put in the last 0.1% of effort required to make this a polished product. If you still want to play this game, make sure to read the PCGamingWiki article on it BEFORE you start. To work around the problems, you need to downgrade to an older version, which means you can't use save games from the buggy newer version.

FFXV is a mistreated masterpiece. You can tell a truly enormous amount of love went into crafting this game world, the character interactions, the enemies, etc. but they just kind of gave up on it at the last minute. There are all these technical issues (rampant stuttering, long load times), unexplained game mechanics (fishing, "warp links"), and quality-of-life issues (there's nowhere you can see all of your active quests at once on a map, lots of common interactions are frustratingly long). Apparently the stuttering issues were actually added in the last patch, and they just haven't bothered to do anything about it. I can't give a good recommendation to something that would otherwise be a 10/10, only to be ruined by someone not willing to put in the last 0.1% of effort required to make this a polished product. If you still want to play this game, make sure to read the PCGamingWiki article on it BEFORE you start. To work around the problems, you need to downgrade to an older version, which means you can't use save games from the buggy newer version.