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Final Fantasy XIV Reviews - GameSpot 4/10, GameTrailers 4.2/10, GameSpy 2/5, IGN 5.5
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Rahxephon91
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It's a shame that apparently the game has some major problems. Was looking forward to playing an MMO again and since Square has yet to let me down I thought XIV would be the one to. It's also a shame that any Square/FF hater now has new ammo in their trolling regardless if they played the game or not.
Still I watched the GT review and while some arguments they made seemed correct, a lot of the others seemed to be bitching because the game isn't exactly in line with what they think games should be like compared to the genre leader. It reminds me of the recent Castlevannia review where they complained it wasn't as good as its genre leaders because of all the exploration and puzzles. I had to smh at that. The game likes really complicated, but it looks like it has some interesting mechanics that make you figure them out, just like XI and I really like that. So as I was watching the review, all I could say is this game actually looks pretty good.
So I'll be getting the PS3 version when it releases. Hopefully some fixes will be in place, but if they aren't I'm still interested in actually trying the game out for myself. I do wish a free trial was out there so I could see how my pc can handle the game.
Still I watched the GT review and while some arguments they made seemed correct, a lot of the others seemed to be bitching because the game isn't exactly in line with what they think games should be like compared to the genre leader. It reminds me of the recent Castlevannia review where they complained it wasn't as good as its genre leaders because of all the exploration and puzzles. I had to smh at that. The game likes really complicated, but it looks like it has some interesting mechanics that make you figure them out, just like XI and I really like that. So as I was watching the review, all I could say is this game actually looks pretty good.
So I'll be getting the PS3 version when it releases. Hopefully some fixes will be in place, but if they aren't I'm still interested in actually trying the game out for myself. I do wish a free trial was out there so I could see how my pc can handle the game.
Teknopathetic
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"Actually no. I replied to people talking about how WoW is better, when it really isn't"
But you wouldn't know that.
But you wouldn't know that.
Haunted said:
Not really, if you compare XIV with XI, and everyone should. XI was a mess at launch, and even worst than what XIV is, by early 2008, I ranked the game as the second best FF game, just behind VI and over XII.
Right now, even tho I don't play XI anymore, I'd say it's gone down the way of the casuals, and yeah, taht's a bad thing for FFXI, mixed together with the level cap raise that just made 6 years of content almost obsolete. How I loved side-ways progression, best thing ever.
Anyway, if XIV follows a similar development path as XI, it will hit a very high cap in a few years, and that's a very good thing.
Kagari said:
The thing is that 13 is an almost perfect piece of software with bad unchangeable design. Meanwhile 14 is an unoptimized and bugged piece of software, with a huge empty shell waiting to be filled up with content and *promised* features.
From my point of view, 14 is at a loss with 13 right now, because of the code and server issues, content will come sooner than later, but server and ui stability needs to come now.
Yeah this is probably one of my main favorite influences WoW took from EQ, because of their experiences as hardcore EQ players the WoW team understood how important endgame content was. When I first started playing WoW (I started during Wrath), a friend ported my still low level toon to Dalaran and I was shocked to see how almost everyone in Dalaran was at the level cap (80) yet they were still running around, being active and doing things even though they were max level. It made me excited to know that there was really something worth working my way all the way up to level 80 for.JWong said:
ZombieSupaStar
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holy fuck gametrailers just ripped ff14 a new asshole! :lol
wow.... well i guess its just down to cataclysm and SWTOR
wow.... well i guess its just down to cataclysm and SWTOR
Babalu. said:
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this guy is greatLonda said:
I don't remember XI ever being even remotely as bad as XIV is right now. Then again, I didn't play it before XI's US beta, at which point the game's first expansion was already on the way out in Japan, so I suppose it's not a really fair comparison on my part.Khrno said:
MetatronM said:
I mentioned exactly that before, we got a one and half year old FFXI with many content updates, fixes and one expansion. While we are getting a rushed bare-bones unoptimized FFXIV, of course that's not excuse for SE to have released the game in such state tho.
But anyone thinking that the game will just remain like this months and years down the road, is just been silly, and that's why I bring up FFXI as example and reference, since sadly (and hopefully gladly) they are sharing many development similarities.
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2001 is not 2003.
Mister Zimbu
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I didn't actually think FF13 was too terrible. Significantly better both gameplaywise and storywise than FF12 at least. The main story arc was completely nonsensical, poorly written, and thrown together, but I liked the interaction between the characters and all that. Very flawed game but still was worth playing through.
On a side note, I just started playing LotRO (3 years too late), and, while it's not a very good game, it's the perfect example of how modern MMOs should be modelling things. It actually looked at World of Warcraft and saw what it did well, looked at the bad parts of World of Warcraft and tried to improve upon them, and in general tried to be a good evolution of a genre instead of another general thrown together MMO cash-in "me too".
Noone's asking modern MMOs to BE "World of Warcraft with a different skin". But it's just stupid to completely ignore the strides forward that WoW made.
Care to clarify on specifically what you wouldn't enjoy about it?
On a side note, I just started playing LotRO (3 years too late), and, while it's not a very good game, it's the perfect example of how modern MMOs should be modelling things. It actually looked at World of Warcraft and saw what it did well, looked at the bad parts of World of Warcraft and tried to improve upon them, and in general tried to be a good evolution of a genre instead of another general thrown together MMO cash-in "me too".
Noone's asking modern MMOs to BE "World of Warcraft with a different skin". But it's just stupid to completely ignore the strides forward that WoW made.
Londa said:
Care to clarify on specifically what you wouldn't enjoy about it?
just calling her out; I know she won't because she doesn't know anything about the game except for the fact that it doesn't start with the words final fantasy; will just resort to another strawman/ad hominem or completely ignore the post like normal
If she seen videos of a raid, she wouldn't have said that. Raids are awesome to play and to watch. Illidan, Kil'jaeden, and Yogg Saron world first... too awesome.CcrooK said:
Ragnarok Online is soooooo good. I love the openess of character builds. My favourite MMO prior to WoW.Babalu. said:
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score breakdowns out of a hundred are just hilarious to me.
I love that out of a hundred the story was a 57, which is to say, three points short of 60 but you know, slightly better than a 55 or 56.
if people can't look at something like this and think to ourselves "our system means nothing below a 6", then I don't know what's wrong with them.
Gameplay: can only have one job on a single character. Only job that may interest me is Rogue and it look lame imo. I know Rogue is suppose to be powerful but its not my style. The game just looks really easy and the add-ons I heard about seem really sad. The add on to tell you where to stand is just pathetic imo.
Doesn't look like there is much challenge to the game other than the raids. Seems targeted to anyone with a short attention span. Work very little for big gain.
Graphics : looks really bad. The character creation makes all females look ugly. Bad textures, mounts look out of place. Motorcycles? really now?
Story: you read most of it from a text box. CS are not interesting. Boring over all when it comes to story.
Controls: cant tell you because I didn't play it. But I did hear about how some tanks can roll their head on the keyboard and still be able to tank.
I know I will get flamed for this :lol
Doesn't look like there is much challenge to the game other than the raids. Seems targeted to anyone with a short attention span. Work very little for big gain.
Graphics : looks really bad. The character creation makes all females look ugly. Bad textures, mounts look out of place. Motorcycles? really now?
Story: you read most of it from a text box. CS are not interesting. Boring over all when it comes to story.
Controls: cant tell you because I didn't play it. But I did hear about how some tanks can roll their head on the keyboard and still be able to tank.
I know I will get flamed for this :lol
The sole purpose of decimals is to differentiate one game review from another.
So game X's story is slightly better than game Y's story, but not as good as game Z's story.
It is very hilarious when you try to think about what makes a 3.1 story different from a 3.2 story.
I mean like, a LOT of patience.
So game X's story is slightly better than game Y's story, but not as good as game Z's story.
It is very hilarious when you try to think about what makes a 3.1 story different from a 3.2 story.
A raid might not require a lot of work but it does require a lot of patience.
I mean like, a LOT of patience.
Translation: I want to roll a pretty animu elf like in Lineage!
Considering I read nearly all of my stories it's not a big deal. And I liked Warcraft's lore enough to just read pages of it on wiki.
Depends on which instance, difficulty, class and timeframe you're talking about.
Rez said:
score breakdowns out of a hundred are just hilarious to me.
I love that out of a hundred the story was a 57, which is to say, three points short of 60 but you know, slightly better than a 55 or 56.
if people can't look at something like this and think to ourselves "our system means nothing below a 6", then I don't know what's wrong with them.
Wow Design and Presentation is under 8 points. They are clearly bias and just want to join in on the negative reaction this game has been getting, so they can get more views.
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