Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn “Really Looks Good”
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Aug 17, 2012 18:32 JST
- Tags: Final Fantasy, Internet, MMORPG, PC Gaming, PS3, RPG, Square Enix
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:
Screenshots:
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…
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"Looks" is what FF is good at
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....
I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE
Unfortunately they would probably need a mega-elixir to recover completely >.>
lol this looks better than some korean shits
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
It's always had looks, it's everywhere else it falls short.
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
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!
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
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.
Not everywhere, music is also mostly top tier.
and tons of awesome world content is what XI was great at and what this game will also excel at.
The video looks like more of the same crap..
Visual quality wasn't the problem...
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.
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.
then F2P gotta be -> buy anti-break seal -> upgrade equips -> fail -> repeat
haha.. that's right
Enjoy having no meaningful endgame content, since one death means you gotta start all over.
wizardry online may be what you're looking for
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.
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.
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.
Could be like guild wars /2, you pay the retail and be happy, or just remove the retail price and then pay subscription only.
yup.. F2P just like shits.. u pay $1000++ to upgrade certain weapon :|
it looks awfully normal (unlike the previous game), just like a regular MMORPG on the PC. and normal is good.
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.
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.
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...
why not ? he's just minding what user wants
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.
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.
Their budget is going to hell since FF13 and beyond all failed so this is all the fans get.
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.
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.
>expecting better from SE
this guy
Not really, looks fine to me.
Even if the game doesn't launch well, these concept arts are just gorgeous!
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..
Is this going to be same as SAO where you can't log out?
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
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.