Final Fantasy XIV Battles “Pathetically Boring”

And how is this any worse than low level in WoW anyway?

Not an FF fan(looking toward TERA) but just because it isn't as buttons smashing as much as wow doesn't mean it's worse.It's all about the content and I would prefer a more tactical approach to mindless button smashing and occasional get outta the funny stuffs,harder dps/healing,etc....

Videos don't exist anymore.

And all the videos are gone... :/ I'll assume it was boring.

This does remind me a bit of ffxi, but considering that all MMOs are slow paced at lower levels (combined with the lag I've seen mentioned in the videos' comments), I'm not sure this is a fair representation. After all, I recall footage from the last expo this was shown at that moved considerably faster. Also, this is still in beta and SE has been more open to player input than they were in the past, so there's a good chance it'll be faster paced in the actual game.

omg final fantasy is sinking,
ever so slowly...

Wow this looks bad...UI is ugly and doesn't look very streamlined. combat is about as fun as watching the grass grow.

I hope alot changes for retail or this will be another shitty MMO.

what the hell is this bullshit, for the love of the classics, send square-enix a copy of dragon age origins, fallout 3 and mass effect!! ASAP!!

I knew mmorpgs were crap, but wow.

Pretentious faggots bitching about a game that isn't even out yet. Why am I not surprised?

The speed reminds me of facebook apps. FinalFantasy...ville

Video got taken down :(

I was pretty curious

Well, with the vids down, I cannot really do a 'good' quote on this game. But the fact is that the RPG genre (online or offline/single-player) has been SLOWLY DYING!

Either there is too damned much 'GRIND, GRIND, GRIND!' for MMO's, or there is too much of that for single-players.

They really need to come up with a way that the game is CHALLENGING yet there are no more 'experience levels' as they stand today.

Heck, I went back to play FF1 recently.... guess what I did to stop the grind? Yep, CHEAT CODED it! I just couldn't stand the thought of sitting there for HOURS grinding away at gaining experience.

you guys are over reacting to alpha footage. lol I know everything there is to know about this game because I'm on the alpha. there is like 1800 testers on the NA alpha test and they have us all crammed in to what amounts to 10% of the total game area of the game. right now we just finish the 6th test. we are stress testing the servers. this game is far from ready. it took 3 test before the game was even playable. and it took that many just to weed the people out that can't even run this game at all. there are a mass out dumb asses trying to play this game on laptops that don't even get close to the minimum requirements to run this game.

Wait. This is alpha. Of course it's going to be slow - you always start at the extremes, and make your way to a balancing point.

Still not a fan of the WoW formula.

It's like Dragon Age.

fixed.

Because Artefact is biased when it comes to Final Fantasy/Square-Enix related games.
It's a shame too.
Jumping to conclusions when the game itself is still in Alpha?
Artefact, I am disappointed.

I lol'd.

well, well~ looks to seem them cock sucking shit eating mother ass & eye socket fucking reapers took down the "epic" video of characters flinching to 9999 damage dealings moments no doubt.

Japanese RPG is old.. so. fucking... Old. With prettier pictures. I tried out FF13 and could not pass the first "boss" without yawning. attack - attack - redundant - redundant - redundant - oops* better heal... attack- whoops, the "boss" got tired of being pinched and died of boredom~ its body fall down the dark below.. I swear I heard it giggle with glee in its plunge. I quit with the character emoting without end.

14 will be a prettier version of 11.

And that is it.

Too blind to notice the server lag, or what? Look how long it takes to go from readying to fired.

A L P H A

The battle system is on the contrary very intuitive, and the videos the almighty unbiased Artefact picked out do not demonstrate it well at all. In fact, I think he purposely picked out the videos where the characters are not really fighting but testing out the dynamics -just to make the article juicy and controversial. WHICH YOU DO A LOT ARTEFACT.

The load time between attacks is shown on the action gauge. The action gauge is the bar the empties and refills on the upper right hand side, right below the action icon you chose. If you want to attack, it takes as long as it does for the bar to refill. There is also a secondary gauge that is used for the off hand.

I'm looking at continuous lance attacks right now on an alpha video and it takes 4 seconds for the bar to refill.

This is also not taking into account stacking and the battle regimen system which will add an entirely new level of gameplay.

The battle system is not slow, the attack delays are just as long as they were in FFXI if not faster. And the action based system makes battle flow much more hands on and involved.

you guys are stupid, keep in mind that this is BETA. Patches/updates will go accordingly to how players like. geez it's going to be an awesome game shoot FFXI was awesome enough, this is going to rock! make your own MMRPG if you're so good!

It's either this or diablo-style button mash mmorpgs at this point. It's the limitations of our time, and you can't expect developers to suddenly both make amazingly complex systems requiring 1mb+ connections while still catering to those with what we would call "low-end" computers.

I'd like to see anyone on this board to come up with an idea for an mmorpg that doesn't revolve around one of those styles. For an mmorpg, I'm perfectly content with this style, even if it is somewhat slowed, but hopefully be more strategic based.

dont say the game sucks unitl u play it

I'm also interested where you got that quote from. Some random japanese complainer on 2ch I'm assuming? Judging a broken game based on the laggy alpha servers wouldn't surprise me.

Crap what a downer
and I didn't even look at the video o__o

What a pile of shit.
Animations are pure shit, might as well be turn based... the environments look like shit, but that's FF for you... Amazing cut-scenes, good story, hi-res character models, low-res empty environments, boring shitty gameplay.

Everything is moving so fast! Duhhhh
Slow it down, duhhh, my brain cannot compre-durrr-hend...

Most of the thread is just bashing from non FFXI, even non MMO players. There's really no point arguing with them.

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So bad that it's laughable...

This guy is like a level 5 ranger. ~_~ of course he'll be fighting monstrous bats outside of town.. In any MMO you gotta start with the basics--which is boring, and after you learn you gain more abilities, level up, blah blah blah gear... blah and then do fun shit. Even with non mmo games you still have to go through a tutorial level, ya know? Levels 1~10ish in MMOs are like tutorial levels.

People must think if there's no effect on your screen every second as you smash your buttons randomly, it's too slow.

yea thats a bit slow

im still gonna play it tho >.>

Its leaked footage, so I'm hoping the actual combat in its final form will be better... but yeah - what we're seeing right now is pretty boring and exactly where FFXI combat is today(sans annoying chiming noise).

Same piece of shit, a rehash of final fantasy 11.

By the time you finish your attack, your balls drop in real life.