Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn Quite Spectacular
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Jan 14, 2013 08:49 JST
- Tags: 3D CG, Final Fantasy, Image Gallery, MMORPG, PC Gaming, Ports, PS3, Square Enix
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.
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inb4 "It looks nice, but it's still a horrible game.."
Do not remember anybody complaining about the graphics of the previous FF.
Probably they should have elaborated on game play instead.
"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.
well, dosnt matter if they copied the whole map, it just matter if they used a better interface and make the questing more intresting
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?
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.
I'm betting questing will be like Wow classic lol.
Artefact should probably add that the beta application is up for the pc and ps3 http://entry.ffxiv.com/beta/na
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Yeah... Looks shitty on this screens ... I was hoping that this shots are from 1.0 ...
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...
Shit graphics this is s like 10 years to the past.
dont know what pic ur looking at but the graphics look awesome to me.
Holy shiat, your games in 2003 had graphics on-par with these?! Wow which timeline are you from?
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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.
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
I think sankaku is getting paid by Squenix to hype this game.
Try looking back at ANY article about XIV in the past and you'll rethink that premise.
...Hardly. Older posts of Sankaku in regards to FFXIV were of doomsday proportions.
Yeah... maybe that was before Squeenix payed big bucks..
obviously I meant for the new release
"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.
This was fantastic to try out. They finally got it right. Full release when?
No PVPenis in the game what so every.
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?
...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.
Aside weaponskill cooldowns there's no turns.
Two things I don't like 14:
- Battle/attack engine is bad;
- Movements are way too fake!
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.
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.
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?
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.
They can steal them but they were from lovercraft lore more than anything.
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.
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.