2010-09-16, 13:30 | Link #341 | |
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Snake Way
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btw, you want a Fallout MMO? Play fallen earth, warning tho.. it kinda sucks.. really RESTRICTED. oh and mindless grinding to get even the lowest vehicles.. and the best one takes a whole Week (Real time) to make.
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2010-09-16, 13:49 | Link #342 | ||
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: New York City
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EVE Online is the only game that comes close to what you want synaesthetic; so much so that your allowed to steal around USD$45,000 worth of in-game currency ($850,000,000,000)
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2010-10-10, 11:05 | Link #343 |
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Join Date: Apr 2007
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Gametrailers review
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/re...fantasy/705893 Gamespot review http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/final...14/review.html Plus a ton of negative reviews on fan forums. Huge step backwards from FFXI! |
2010-10-10, 23:11 | Link #346 |
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Join Date: Apr 2007
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I don't think its anywhere as good as FFXIs .
Jeuno, Ronfaure, Sanctuary of Zi tah, Kazaam, etc. Each zone had different music not like most of FFXIV since the game is practically one big zone. Hmm I wonder if this is true http://www.ffxivblog.com/content.php...V-to-be-blamed Spirits Within almost bankrupt S.E. Now it might be FFXIV that does it o_O. Last edited by Sassarai; 2010-10-10 at 23:46. |
2010-10-11, 19:26 | Link #347 | |
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Age: 35
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Been playing since 25th last month. Horrendous game...it is a bloody chore to do crafting that I gave up on it. Once monster hunting gets boring I will stop my subscription.
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2010-10-11, 19:51 | Link #349 | |
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Join Date: Apr 2007
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Here's a new review by gamespy http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/square-enix...1127142p1.html "Worst user interface in a PC game since 1998; every aspect of game unnecessarily convoluted; feels like a free-to-play MMO in the very worst way. " ouch! edit IGN gives 5.5 (mediocre) out of 10 http://pc.ign.com/articles/112/1123824p1.html BTW - Have you seen any cool monsters yet? Last edited by Sassarai; 2010-10-11 at 20:19. |
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2010-10-11, 20:46 | Link #350 | ||
NYAAAAHAAANNNNN~
Join Date: Nov 2007
Age: 35
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I am already level 25 with at least a level 10 in every crafting and gathering skill. It is a fucking massive grindfest for 2 weeks, and it turned out that I can't even repair my own goddamned Trapper's Tunic with a level 11 Leathercraft. The only upside is that I get eyes on me when I hit 150+ with a Weathered Shortbow, which only a few archers are able to do even with a Maple Longbow. The goddamned lag is annoying though, but it is interesting to have a mass buff of Raging Strike + Quelling Shot + Bloodbath + Wide Volley when aggro-ing quest monsters in groups. P.S I became one of the most interesting archers in my linkshell. I have Cure, Sacrifice, Bloodbath and now I am planning to get an extra attack buff from Lancer.
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2010-10-12, 03:34 | Link #352 | |
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Age: 35
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They have ranged attack, high movement speed, and hit over 500 with Trapper's Tunic on. And they spawn near the western choke point at the mountain.
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2010-10-12, 07:14 | Link #353 | |
Tastes Cloudy
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Snake Way
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as much as I want to love it, im slowly starting to hate it -_- they REALLY should have postponed it and perfected it.. not be scared by Guild wars 2 (IT SHOULD BE! WUAHAHA) or WoW and release early
No Chocobo's, no Aircrafts, 30% quests, no Side missions.. what was Square thinking!? I get bitched at a lot for mentioning this but DAMN IT its true! Quote:
what server are you on saint? and whats ur char
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2010-10-12, 11:36 | Link #354 | |
NYAAAAHAAANNNNN~
Join Date: Nov 2007
Age: 35
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The game is bloody retarded : 1. Damaged Equipment : Repairing it to 75% takes a large sum of money and running back to a goddamn NPC. Asking a player to repair it is even worse - nobody wants to pay a decent sum (at least 5k for a repair costing 10k at an NPC), and nobody bothers to check for repairs. Shouting will net you a blacklist on other players. The worst thing is that THEY DON'T EVEN TOUCH YOUR BLOODY RINGS. 2. Delays in skillcasting : It takes 2-3 seconds JUST TO CAST A GODDAMNED SKILL. It isn't a lag issue, it is a mechanic one based on turns and attack speed. The mob will always attack faster than the player if the player is an Archer, Marauder, Conjurer or Gladiator. 3. Market Search : How the heck am I supposed to find something in the market wards with so many people around? There aren't even indicators to display what items they have! 4. Unnecessary Updates : So far, the game has been updated 3 times since its release on 25/9. And none of the updates solved any of the above problems, just fixing bugs like the healspam levelling. And the bloody rollback they did costed me 7000 Physical Level EXP, they didn't reset the goddamn quest expiry AT ALL. Mailed them and their reply was "There is nothing we can do.". Not even some kind of incentive or repayment.
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2010-10-12, 11:52 | Link #355 | |
Tastes Cloudy
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and its so freakin true what you said about shouting XD Im gonna let this game set until they get shit in gear. and that better happen before Guild wars 2.. because honestly... ... honestly..\ I think square just has too many games in the making. their still doing crap for FFXI, you got Versus and agito coming. See why WoW is where its at? what other games are blizzard workging on? Starcraft2? woo one game, and that game is AWESOME. Square needs to learn a thing or two about MMORPG's.
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2010-10-12, 20:25 | Link #356 |
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Join Date: Apr 2007
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I think the deal breaker for me was the game just lacks atmosphere. Everything is bland. All I can remember about the game is running around green hills looking at dodos and killing rats. I can remember everything so fondly in FFXI and it has been years since I've played it.
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2010-10-13, 09:51 | Link #357 | |
NYAAAAHAAANNNNN~
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2010-10-14, 02:46 | Link #358 | |
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Singapore
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Square-Enix has had seven years to learn about MMORPGs from FFXI. It's disappointing that the development team hadn't been able to draw effective lessons from that experience. Worse, it appears the developers are repeating all the same mistakes that FFXI made in its early days.
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In hindsight, if it weren't for the availability of fansites like FFXI Allakazham (now simply known as FFXI Zam), I would never have been able to make much progress in FFXI. There was nothing in that game, for example, to teach me how to make and use macros (I've just discovered how to use macros in FFXIV and, boy, I can't describe how much easier it is now to actually play the game). And there was even less information available, in-game, on how to solve many different quests. FFXIV's development team claims to have drawn inspiration from World of Warcraft. Well, it seems that haven't learnt enough about how to create a UI as intuitive as WoW's. Instead, the team seems to have followed FFXI's playbook almost to the letter, that is, make the game as inscrutable as possible and trust the player community to figure things out on its own as it did back when FFXI was new. Back in 2003/4, North American fans were fortunate enough to receive a version of FFXI that had already benefited from a year of play-testing by Japanese gamers. FFXIV does not have that benefit, and hence all the rough edges we are seeing now, I believe. Simply put, the developers had to have been either incredibly naive about what players would put up with, or incredibly complacent when they were studying rival games. At this point, count me in as one of many disappointed fans. Ironically, this game makes me miss FFXI enough to feel like visiting Vana'diel again. In many ways, I regret not completing Rise of the Zilart (I was just two or three missions short of completing that storyline) and Chains of Promathia before retiring my character. Unfortunately, FFXI has changed so much since then that it wouldn't feel the same even if I do return now. ============== Still, when all is said and done, the key factor that keeps me playing any given RPG is the quality of its world and story concept. I've stuck with even more poorly implemented games in the past, simply because I had become emotionally involved with the story's progress. In that sense, I'm still curious about how FFXIV will develop. Despite its many surface similarities, Eorzea does present interesting world concepts that are subtly different from Vana'diel's. |
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2010-10-14, 09:35 | Link #359 | ||
NYAAAAHAAANNNNN~
Join Date: Nov 2007
Age: 35
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I just realised one thing : repairing items for others CAN be very profitable - I just earned 30k from repairing every item in someone's list.
This guy offered over 40k in total for all the item repairs. I bought the materials and repaired all of them at once. I didn't quite catch what he is saying in Japanese other than "w" (lol in Japanese leetspeak) and "Arigatou" in characters. Moral of the story? Train EVERY crafting skill until level 10 and target those who offer more than 2k for their repairs per item. And another thing : I found a number of the cast from Strike Witches in Gyshal. They are : 1. Trude Barkhorn (Female Hyur) 2. Sanya Litvyak (Female Miquote, what else?) 3. Eila Juutilainenn (Female Hyur) 4. Ursula Hartmann (Female Hyur) 5. Mio Sakamoto (Female Miquote) That is around half the main characters, subbing Ursula for Erica; though I didn't see Minna Dietlinde Wilcke yet (which is Rie Tanaka's character in the anime, she also did Voice 2 for the Miquote). Quote:
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2010-10-14, 10:02 | Link #360 |
Army of One
Join Date: Apr 2007
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I just don't see enough potential in the game. Is it possible to fix the copy/pasta terrains? Can they change the map design so everywhere doesn't look like a pacman maze?
I read that the UI lag is done on purpose to prevent hacks so that might not even be fix. Add that along with a bad buying/selling system, lack of creative monsters, and a boring combat system just makes this game feel way too incomplete. I might pick this game up when I read things have change dramatically but my expectations are pretty low that it will since they had 5 years and all the knowledge from FFXI to work with and this is the result? |
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