Final Fantasy XIV’s desperate rescue project Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn appears to be in danger of succeeding, with fresh screens and gameplay videos from the beta leading many to concede “it actually looks good” and “it may even be worth playing,” some improvement over the whipping boy status it formerly enjoyed.
Gameplay:
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There is a certain amount of scepticism as to how much of these visuals will be possible on the PS3’s now (by glorious PC gaming master race standards) pathetically underpowered hardware, but on the PC it now looks set to give other MMORPGs a run for their money – graphically at any rate…
currently playing xiv and loveing it, if u liked xi xiv is for u atm, cant wait for 2.0 ‘.’)d looking good SE keep it up, btw id like to see some hylander women i hope u have that comeing with the new setup, peace
Holy shit, has Sankaku been invaded by Squenix advertising reps? as everyone already forgotten how bad this game was? It always looked great, the fact that they are spending money making it ‘look’ better is already a huge warning flag.
No Chocobos???
Haah, back to PSO2…
The pseudo f2p model was the only thing that kept this thing somewhat alive. Them switching back to subscription might have attracted a few of those elitist prick people (we all know them)back to the game but i seriously doubt it will do the game much good. Bigger and better titles are all going b2p or f2p because that is the future. Saturation kills the market. People are growing weary of picking up monthly paid games.
My preferred model certainly is buy and play online for free with a trivial in-game shop. F2p is very good for B or C titles, like those bazillions of Korean grinders or old titles that finally switch over.
NCSoft / Nexon are great by the F2P models.
You’d think Square could learn.
Not to be americanized and maybe be more KOREANIZED.
badly compressed Jpgs are bad.
I LOVED the graphics engine before. Never before have I seen such expansive landscapes.
These screenshots are so bad though it’s hard to tell the true quality. Because it looks like they moved to Deferred rendering(or lighting). Texture quality looks suspect!
Also: DAT BANDING in sky 🙁
No thank you.
Next please.
This might be the first FF game I play…here’s to hoping it’s not being undeservedly praised.
It *ONLY* looks good. The end P-E-R-I-O-D !
OMG you can jump!
Jump only, come on. Fucking fail.
Where is the tarzan rope swinging, double jumping, and kick ass things we should be near now.
Gaming imagination should be limitless by now.
This is a exact sample why; this game fails YET STILL.
Final Fantasy, just another excuse how to milke idiots who don’t know..
Summons -> Espers -> Avatars -> Eidolons -> Crap+I+Can+Change another name and idiot will still pay for it… intstead of losing their virginity and having a family.
Grow up.
Real Life =/= Video Games.
Women are on the REAL LIFE SIDE MORE.
I’ll pass. To medieval looking which is not my style of RPG. Much more into the dark future city type.
There is dark future shit in the imperial areas including airships that look like shit from star wars and giant robots and machines n shit
An MMO where I don’t get to play as a little animu girl with fox ears? Garbage.
lol bns is a shit in the first place 😛
now if only it wasnt still a japanese MMORPG
Graphics =/= Gameplay
If I wanted something for pure looks, I’d go watch a movie.
Well….at least it doesn’t look like just one big open space now…but dumbing down the graphics isn’t the way to go, I hope they at least have an option then for Ultra High settings, I like to perve on the kitties in HD. I bought a pretty good high end PC just for FFXIV, then then it bombed, if I’m to keep playing I need the graphics Square used to be known for.
All those trees will make finding harvest points easier I guess. I get the feeling they are making it easy mode, and dumbing down the graphics, for the casual gamers, and then making hardcore pvp and forced party situations for the hardcore players, but what about the middle ground?
It looks good but does it PLAY GOOD?
This is fail too
Obilgartory; “HURRR DURRR SE WHY WON’T YOU REMAKE THE FINAL FANTASEEEEE SVEEEEENNNN?!!!11 WAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH”
Looks nice but gameplay is the important thing so I guess we’ll see how that goes. If I hear good things I’ll probably check it out… assuming I ever get bored of Guild Wars 2 (as unlikely as that is).
The Graphics weren’t the issue with the original release it was really bad lag. Not just server lag but the UI stunk and was slow.
but not anymore 🙂
Yes, now it will be much, much worse. :3
fuk this jap shit give us back our horsebirds
chocobo > alpaca 😛
d00d look at that ugly fukn grass this game is clearly a piece of fukn shit
YEAH. Fucking bitches can’t make good fucking grass. The fuck’s wrong with them? How can you expect a game to sell without good fucking grass!? That’s like… the most important part, right!?
You gotta have good grass man you gotta feel them vibes man you need the good shit man
sorry there’s no COW 😛
‘Cuz grafics are evrything, right? -_-‘
For FF it is.
but still a tons of ppl still playing it
Someone didn’t play I through VI.
Hell even the Mission in XI were incredibly well written the game itself was just kinda brutal and unforgiving.
Considering the amount of work that’s gone into the revision of the game from 1.x to 2.0 they can’t afford to fail.
It won’t be a behemoth (wow is a freak of creation) but it will still have a niche like FFXI craved out for itself.
Personally visuals aren’t the thing it has going for it, it’s a big plus the new engine but it’s everything else going into the game that people want.
New interfaces for both K&M and Gamepad, user mods, character control changes, client upgrades, server upgrades, new battle system changes, numerous primal fights, more dungeons, way more NMs battles, a proper quest system, mail system, auction system, better character creation, player housing, guild housing, proper guilds (not just chat channels) with free companies…
Shit I could go on about the game changes, heck crystal tower, golden saucer and magitek armor are great things to look forward to in the future.
Yoshi taking over is a blessing, he really went the mile with that 300+ team he has working on it.
So how much is Squenix paying you?
I’m a lot more interested in Guild Wars 2…
If GW2 is like GW1, will be done and bored with the game in a month like d3 lol
Feel free to be more interested in GW2, so once it comes to October and no one longer cares for that game..I hope you have a backup interest.
GW2 sucks 😐
I hope they fixed DoW and DoM leveling, the combat jobs level way way to fast in ff14, I played it a few months ago, and got whm to cap fairly fast w/o even trying in a few days.
Can i use my FF14 toon for this one? played it for 2 months and quit.. wonder if my character is still there
I’m pretty sure they’re going to wipe all the old characters since technically it’s a new game.
all characters will be ported over. It’s been confirmed a dozen of times
Is this going to be same as SAO where you can’t log out?
It makes me wonder how they will make a PC master race game work on the PS3, with game size and ram limitations in the way.
Hopefully it’s just some texture low-res’ing changes and no censoring for western release like Tera.
tera is stupid shit..
Even if the game doesn’t launch well, these concept arts are just gorgeous!
Anyone else bothered by the jagged tree trunks and big flat slabs of texture passing for leaves? I haven’t seen polygon count this low since the ’90s… It’s ironically nostalgic.
Not really, looks fine to me.
>expecting better from SE
this guy
I’m actually going to play Devil’s Advocate here. Usually, an MMORPGs graphics will be a generation or so behind those of a single player game. This is deliberate. It’s so more players can join in the game and so the game will run more smoothly on more computers.
Sure you could make your MMO in the RED Engine with graphics pushed to the max and it would make the game really pretty but it would also cut your player base in half. A great many people couldn’t join in because they can’t afford a top of the line gaming PC.
They are reworking an existing game released 2 years ago, which started development 5 years before.
Also, need I remind you that this is going for PS3 too? Square isn’t generous enough to allow their PC games to be upscaled far beyond their console versions. Not many company has done it.
These days, they just port the game to PC straight from the console version. Rarely do you see a game made to take advantage of latest PC hardware like Deus Ex or The Witcher 2.
Their budget is going to hell since FF13 and beyond all failed so this is all the fans get.
Still not worth the sub imo. Should really have moved to B2P.
F2P is not necessarily bad. It works well for LoL, Blacklight, TF2, CoH/V, Champions Online and quite a few others. F2P doesn’t automatically make for a bad game any more. And nor does it instantly translate to pay to win. I can’t remember any F2P game that’s come out recently that’s had that, while being actually decent.
I think SWTOR will be a pretty good one too. It was a fun game playing it like KOTOR.
The way I see it, they basically made a new game.
The difference is that instead of just bullshitting when they claim to ‘respond to feedback’ like Hiromichi Tanaka did, Naoki Yoshida had to read so many forum posts by actual users before making changes and post the progress month by fucking month. He even cracked at one point and told people to stop with the harrassment in an update log, proving that he actually had to skim through millions of hate comments while doing his fucking job.
That’s how you should make videogames, SE. NEXT TIME, THAT’S HOW YOU FUCKING MAKE VIDEOGAMES.
why not ? he’s just minding what user wants
This, a hundred times. It’s not only SE, there is so many companies out there who grew so big that they think tha players will buy anything.
But the truth is that people buy and play good games.
How can you forget something that simple ?
CoD is a good game?
CoD is just death match zergfest really…
I’d kill to have lalafell that looks as good as those artwork in game … we’ve gone from furry dwarf (taru taru) to walking potatoes (lalafell) …
Hope the new character creation system allow you to change this …
That lala female art makes my cock rise.
it looks awfully normal (unlike the previous game), just like a regular MMORPG on the PC. and normal is good.
It looks interesting for PS3, however, i dont gonna pay a suscription fee :S If someday change into a F2P game, then i will buy it and give it a try…
Then the term you’re looking for is B2P… if it were F2P there’d be nothing to buy…
…Except for endless pay to win cash shop garbage.
yup.. F2P just like shits.. u pay $1000++ to upgrade certain weapon 😐
Could be like guild wars /2, you pay the retail and be happy, or just remove the retail price and then pay subscription only.
Make it a permadeath game, to make me play it! I have played too many MMORPG, it’s getting a lot boring. Needs more challenges in this type of games.
Perma Death Instance Battle Options
-More Unique Drop List on Win.
Still rely on RNG and chance but be more reasonable and make the weapons REALLY earth breaking.
-You cannot attempt this FIGHT on same account if you played it -EASY MODE within the same Account.-
No practicing for you or your friends. Make sure it checks each account variable FIRST.
(Make a spare then). PAY MORE MONEY!
-You may not get the item you want from this fight. (Though you can trade it // If you win it).
-You get a Unique Title/Passive Skill
-Your Epeen Grows more Girth.
If you die in the instance.
-Your returned to character select and watch your character get deleted Infront of your EYES without any DELAY.
Maybe not permadeath, but have a HUGE penalty for dying. That said, they should make it a little hard to die to make it fair.
wizardry online may be what you’re looking for
Enjoy having no meaningful endgame content, since one death means you gotta start all over.
So you will get to level 30+, then die and quit the game/cancel subscription out of frustration. Yeah, totally what a company making a MMO with a monthly fee wants.
haha.. that’s right
then F2P gotta be -> buy anti-break seal -> upgrade equips -> fail -> repeat
“Looks” is what FF is good at
The video looks like more of the same crap..
Visual quality wasn’t the problem…
and tons of awesome world content is what XI was great at and what this game will also excel at.
It’s always had looks, it’s everywhere else it falls short.
Not everywhere, music is also mostly top tier.
yea i got FFXIV and it looked awesome but there wasn’t like any dungeons or quests just grinding ~ not exactly the qualities of a good MMO
Because you’re talking about the .hack game, and he was talking about “The World” the game in .hack. The dungeons werent always the same had lots of variety. The point of .hack was that each area is randomly generated to look different.
are you kidding me?
.hack dungeons were one of the worst parts. they were all the same over and over again.
the history was good and battle system too but the game gets kinda repetitive after some time
Why can’t things be more like .hack// when it comes to dungeons? Sure it wasn’t a REAL mmo, but that mechanic was pretty well designed!
I agree that it looks gorgeous.
But the UI looks busy. Not Morrowind level, but…
UI is customization as seen in the video. If you don’t like busy you can probably make it less so
I agree. I think we’ve all be burned too many times. It’d take nothing less than a miracle to regain the magic.
Or an ether….
lol this looks better than some korean shits
Unfortunately they would probably need a mega-elixir to recover completely >.>
I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE
It seems they also copy the same idea from Star Wars Old Republic MMORPG where you can alter your UI the way you want it.
UI customization has been around since the early 90s in gaming.
For Moding yes like Curse and other Moding UI programs they never actually made a simple one were you can direct it.
Wonder if they’ve realized that they could get a bigger budget with a remastered Final Fantasy VII with new age graphics, and voice added to market out to those that really did enjoy playing the best Final Fantasy game made hands down.
When will you guys get over this FF7 Remake thing…
I’d rather see them make a new and actually good FF instead of one we’ve already seen. And can still play.
cause the chances of that are slim to none
not really
Looks stupid… another FF game that’s a waste of time.
Though I bet there’s peeps out there that would be willing to waste money on it.
Go back to CoD
Not a bad idea, I have all of them except 1-4.
Bored of “all” the games lately, but going through and beating those old school ones might be fun ^^.
Waiting for the new aliens fps… :\, a long wait on that one.
Haven’t found a rpg I liked since the ps2 days, and I didn’t like any of squares rpgs of the time period and still don’t.