Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn

[BigEd781]

Well, I installed it last night... failed on updating to the latest patch.  Continually failing after much troubleshooting.  What a piece of crap, I'm considering just getting my money back.  Not a good first impression.

 

[Napoleon]

I played during the beta. Didn't like it. Even after all the upgrades, it's not good enough compared to other existing mmo's imo. 6+ years ago I would have accepted a game like this but not now.

 

[The Dragon God]

It is good to me, graphics aren't everything, heck people play the games we make here and these games are 2D.

 

[BigEd781]

Well, got it working. Had to start up in safe mode w/networking (seriously), but I got it downloaded.


I like the game so far. Given, I'm only level 8, but it's interesting. I'm hoping that I eventually get skills which aren't on the same 2.5 second GCD so that the combat gets a bit more interesting. We'll see.


@The Dragon God: I don't think he was talking about graphics. This game has great graphics for an MMO. If I had to guess (I do) I would assume he was referring to the grindy nature of the game. It's not for everyone, but I like me a good grind (hehe).

 

[The Dragon God]

Hnmm maybe, even IF he wasn't referring to graphics, I'll just leave that up in the air then or everyone to see. But good point.

 

[Kaelan]

The GCD will matter less and less as you get more abilities. Most classes get several skills that aren't on the GCD, and you usually weave them in-between your GCD abilties. When I got to 45~50 Paladin I could barely keep up with using everything at the right time on the more difficult story fights. 

And yeah..I don't know what Napoleon's on about. It's not grindiness either, this is the least grindy MMO I've ever played. I played it for two months and got like 6 different classes to level cap. You cap your first class with basically no extra effort by just finishing the story. You can grind if you want to get there even faster...but there isn't really any reason to. It's already pretty fast as it is.

 

[ChaosDecides]

I started to lose interest in FF when the Sci-Fi element become a major part of the game. Though I do like Crisis Core. I haven't played a FF game after IX. Absolutely hated VIII and thought VII was alright but wish they would do a remake and improve the graphics. Was kind of the beginning of the 3D polygon age and it just looked crappy.