Square Enix’s efforts to salvage Final Fantasy XIV with a complete relaunch and PS3 port look to have born some rather luscious fruit, as the latest shots of the alpha/beta edition of Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn amply demonstrate.
Square Enix has been busily drumming up as much interest in the gaming media as money can buy, even going so far as to have 2ch founder and online drug kingpin Hiroyuki play the beta – although it seems even his involvement may not be enough to turn the game into another disaster:
A complicated sequence of beta tests is due to start in February – at which point it will presumably begin to become apparent whether Square Enix has finally rescued the title.
Guild Wars just got pwned.
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Half-done panty shot of cat girl. Obvious to hide scary panties underneath from QQ West.
thats not a mind flayer, its called a soul flayer any ffxi player knows this xD……. and a true ff player could care less if this is a wow killer or not…. ive been playing ff since the 80’s and even after the mmo release have never said or thought.. ” oh oh .. oh yeah …this is going to be a wow killer” =/
who cares.
and if ffo goes f2p it will die, thats a fact…. you get what you pay for….
WOW GD xD PIC 1 is EPIC…… yoshi san is pure EPICNESS… i see where ur going yoshi san. i just jizzed my pants …… ~_^
can somebody please tell me what the last pic is about??
is he showing off the NOPAN option already?!?
You had me at Cthulu
That Mind FLayer is GORGEOUS!
it was always pretty–the questing, UI (press 8 buttons to do 1 thing), map design were shit
Doesn’t really matter. They had the gall to shelf out and maintain one of the most ridiculous MMOs in recent history for months and they bitterly admitted their incompetence by “graciously allowing” players to play for free. To be honest, it should have been them paying us money to play, not the other way around.
And now, after months of antagonizing core fans and casual players they want to stick to the subscription model because “they want to keep their promises”. How fucking generous of them. Makes me want to award them a Soiled ChocoBOO Statuette +1 with a heartfelt “go fuck yourselves” on top.
Whatever. After all this monkey business, this game should have been B2P at worst. That’s buying a disc-based/digital copy and playing forever, for all the pedestrians.
Just release sword art online mmorpg already…
Play DOTA or League of Legends… i find myself having more fun playing it for free 30mins a day then 1hr+
Doing George Jetson crafting actions…
Crafting just fails…in this game…
Hands down… crafting shouldn’t be THIS repetitive.
-Game release everyones on THIER KNEES crafting.
trying to think about one thing…
“I WANT TO BE RICH or GOLD SELLER”
not a game anymore… why those games ontop > FFXIV.
SKILL & TEAMWORK, without CASH Transations from players but from real TOURNAMENT SKILL WINNERS.
Seems to me like situation with FF 1 is repeating itself. A hit or miss, if this game doesn’t sell Squenix goes bankrupt. Or at least I fucking hope so.
Despite how interesting it looks, I can’t say I could play it actively enough to warrant a subscription.
Hopefully its good.
Played ff11 for 6 years. It had its flaws, but overall it was a great game that required *way* more skill than any other MMO i’ve ever played before or after it.
Played ff14 for less than a month; it was complete garbage. From day 1 it was full of bots and was buggy as hell. And all the bad aspects of ff11 were magnified ten-fold.
At this point i kind of hope they cater it slightly towards the more casual crowd. FF11 for example was about as hardcore as you can get (way more than those kids that complain about vanilla wow raids) Personally i’m too old now to get into a hardcore MMO anymore.
I give it 6 months before it abandons subscription like Tera did…
Square Enix just has to concentrate on making plot elements consistent with the fantasy genre… what’s that naked lady on my right.
First image.. its a cthulhu right?
All the same, Cthulhu Ftaghn! iA! iA!
Or a supersized Yrmgarl-symbiont (since tehre are are no symbiont magi anymore….).
Someone call the Ordo Xenos to purge all those wicked creatures.
Basicly ya. its the Soulflayer mob from FFXI.
http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090221223509/ffxi/images/f/fa/Soulflayer.png
Heh. From FFXI… damn kids.
Graphics alone will not make it a good game.
We still need to see the game system, the hidtory andother things. Remember when they limited the growth of a chracter?
I’ll wait untill it changed to F2P
will have to wait and see since ff XI still has a sub to play
Bad games don’t fail because they weren’t advertised or hyped enough… they fail because they are bad games..
If this game is good, it will succeed, if this game is bad, it will fail.
IT IS THAT SIMPLE.
I played in the alpha (shhh!) and it really was very different. They took a lot of the fans’ suggestions, ideas from other MMOs and other things and gave it an FF twist. Yes, the graphics are good, but unlike FFXIV 1.0 the gameplay is actually pretty fun too. I’m hoping it succeeds, this is the first time in a while SE has focused more on the fans than on the quick buck, and I’d rather that be positively reinforced.
Man, Wizards of the Coast is one of the most lawsuit happy companies around. I don’t understand why Square-Enix risks stealing the Illithids, and even calling them Mind Flayers in the PSP port of FF4, one of the few things absolutely under copyright.
I know they were in FF1, which was more or less a D&D game, but I figured that’s because they were in Japan, far away from TSR, and a relatively small company.
It’s always happens. just one monster looks so familiar is not that big deal if you compare to Blizzard. Who makes both well-know RTS game Warcraft and Starcraft series while all unit and faction and game play is based on Warhammer and Warhammer 40K. While Games Workshop have been sued Blizzard, WotC and GW never sue each other for their Elf, Orcs, goblin or even Necrons and Phyraxia looks so similar.
thats down to the naming, you can copyright a name, orc, elf, etc are general fantasy creatures, however a necron is a trademark or copyright whichever applies to it, it is a unique name.
They can steal them but they were from lovercraft lore more than anything.
Man, that last to second picture with the inset guy on ‘HIGH’ mark.
It seems like he played the game while doing meth.
The interface remind me of those browser based RPG that I played long time ago. Is this a common traits in any MMORPG now?
With Neverwinter about to be released and Tera going F2P I don’t see myself resubbing…
Loli fox-girls in sukumizu. Any gameplay gripes aside, you’re already winning by logging in to TERA. Also, the broken physics engine makes exploring hilariously amusing.
beta application is up
http://entry.ffxiv.com/beta/na
it is for pc and ps3 and if you have ps3 ff13 members code you have priority for ff14 ps3 beta test… if you are legacy in ff14 you automatically get in to phase 1 of beta and if you have an active ff14 you automatically get into phase 3
thanks for the link, i’m applying.
Two things I don’t like 14:
– Battle/attack engine is bad;
– Movements are way too fake!
Been playing since launch of 1.0.
Alpha and beta tester for 2.0 and I gotta say, it’s everything you’ll ever want.
even fast paced action non-turn based combat?
Aside weaponskill cooldowns there’s no turns.
…Don’t be stupid. It’s a Final Fantasy game. It’s going to have turn based combat. If you want fast paced combat, play something else.
I think sankaku is getting paid by Squenix to hype this game.
“Square Enix has been busily drumming up as much interest in the gaming media as money can buy.”
Does Sankaku count as gaming media? They do tend to cover Final Fantasy games. 🙂
Really, this all looks pretty mediocre. At least, not what I’d call “quite spectacular”. From the perspective of someone who didn’t play the original version, the screenshots don’t appear to show anything particularly new or interesting.
Unless they’ve completely changed the gameplay mechanics, it will likely be just another MMO grindfest. I have little doubt that it will be improved over what it was before, but I question whether it will manage to be anything more than ‘decent’. At a time when many other MMOs have gone to a free-to-play model, it might be hard to convince people to pay a monthly subscription fee for something that’s not any better than what they could be playing for free. The Final Fantasy name can only go so far.
…Hardly. Older posts of Sankaku in regards to FFXIV were of doomsday proportions.
obviously I meant for the new release
Yeah… maybe that was before Squeenix payed big bucks..
Try looking back at ANY article about XIV in the past and you’ll rethink that premise.
I played the alpha of this and thought it was MUCH better than the 1st FFXIV. I have high hopes for this game now. I’ve signed up for the beta. Hope I get in!
Yea me too it was pretty good compared to the old VER but still needs some tuning.. either way i need a new MMO.. i gotta stop playing TERA cuz the amount of pedo’s in that game is staggering… they ruin it
Where is my FFXI Remake? I played that for 7 years and loved every moment! I’ll give this a go but I’m honestly not expecting much, they should never have raised the level cap on FFXI past 75 and just kept on expanding it and maybe updating the graphics :3
There was nothing wrong with the cap increase and Adoulin looks promising. Although its never going get the same type of pampering that XIV gets. In fact XIV is ironically funded by XIs profits.
Another one waiting to fail if u ask me -_-… it happens when u cling to past glories. They should just make a new series..
Some fan you turned out to be…
yup played the beta.. do wanna play this badly… wish they would hurry the fukk up with NA release
The beta isn’t out till next month… Unless you are referring to the beta of the old FFXIV, then in which case the game you played and this are almost completely different ones.
Do not remember anybody complaining about the graphics of the previous FF.
Probably they should have elaborated on game play instead.
The graphics were really good…. up to about 10 feet out from your character. Their version of “level of detail” was a solid, visible line beyond which all textures looked like garbage. You could see a building that looks half good and half crap if you look at it sideways. Then you could take a few steps forward and watch the magic not-crap line slide forward.
old graphics has a lot of bug. limited number of light and only one of it can cast dynamic shadow. The new one have overcome that limit and now i can feel the real power of FFXIV’s artist that build the world for you to messed around beautifully, while it takes lower spec of PC. if you’ve play both of it you will notice many improvement in graphics for sure.
while game play improved a lot. the new graphics can makes you fun even you just running around talking to NPC for some quest while discovering new part of land, LQ or grind some monster, farm for some material or discover new quest to bring you to other beautiful place or dungeon. the graphics always have some kicks to your eyes.
From what I have seen so far, the Realm Reborn systems, at its current Alpha state has reached at least the level of the average modern MMORPG.
Coupled with FF-level graphics and music, takes it at least a rank over the spam of WoW clones out there, even while the game is still in the alpha phase.
Though of course there are still quite a few issues with the systems, such as the combat system being your average ‘stand and attack -> press skill hotkey now and then’, the overall special effects being so flashy that in a party situation that you may have a hard time telling who did what to whom, etc…
Artefact should probably add that the beta application is up for the pc and ps3 http://entry.ffxiv.com/beta/na
“They copied and pasted the same town and landmarks over and over!!”
That has nothing to do with graphics, as even still those copy/pasted landmasses still looks good. that was flawed [map]design.
I’m betting questing will be like Wow classic lol.
Chocobos/horsebirds have been in the game for like a year now. You can get your own, and buy it different sets of cosmetic armor. Can summon it at any time, just can’t ride it in cities.
But will we be able to travel from town to town while riding a horsebird? And will mounted combat be an option, or will we have to dismount our Chocopos in a random encounter?
well, dosnt matter if they copied the whole map, it just matter if they used a better interface and make the questing more intresting
inb4 “It looks nice, but it’s still a horrible game..”
think half the nay Sayers on here are just trolling to get a reaction because, they get kicks out of it. The game looks awesome and from the game play video’s of the alpha version, the combat system seems to be a lot faster than 1.0, exponentially even. I hope it does at least as well as 11 did, but would be even better if it did better than 11.
I played the 1.0 Beta and had combined time of 1 month after release… man did this game burn everyone. I read up on all the updates about 2.0 and I have to say, its sounding really really good. I would even say its sounding more like a traditional FF game (pre-FFX) and I think thats amazing for a MMO. Definitely signed up for beta and hoping to give it a spin.
This was fantastic to try out. They finally got it right. Full release when?
looks more and more like they just caved and went “fuck it we dont know what people want so lets make a wow clone”.
disappointing.
You’re crazy. The last one WAS shit. They really step the game up with this one. No more fancy graphics with bad game-play. It plays out quite well in FF Realm Reborn…Just look at the fucking screenshots for gods sake. ALL REAL-TIME.
My biggest fear is that it will be a WOW killer.
Yeah… Looks shitty on this screens … I was hoping that this shots are from 1.0 …
wont be a wow killer ppl said that about SWTOR and that game is going free to play….
every game ppl called a wow killer ended being good or but not good enough to kill wow
No PVPenis in the game what so every.
Shit graphics this is s like 10 years to the past.
Holy shiat, your games in 2003 had graphics on-par with these?! Wow which timeline are you from?
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dont know what pic ur looking at but the graphics look awesome to me.