World of Warcraft can blow me. Yes, I said it, and I'm not sorry. No amount of friends in that game can convince me that it's fun to play. Give me the characters and surroundings of any Final Fantasy XI expansion and I'll pick those over WoW for meandering about in any day of the week.
The thing about Final Fantasy XI though, is that every time an expansion comes out, I feel almost a sensual temptation to pick up the game and start playing again. Square tries to manipulate the fangirl in me, and it almost works, but in the end I somehow manage to stay strong. Do you hear me, Square? You can't take me alive! I'll fight you to the death to defend my honor (not to mention my addled credit cards.) I won't buy every one of your 1,275,204 titles coming out this quarter!
Phew. Anyway, here's a new trailer for Wings of the Goddess, which will be on sale on November 20th. Before you buy it, remember that no matter how beautiful it is, finding a healer to join your party is harder than saying no to a seventeen year old that promises not to tell anybody. Also, MMOs make you witless and insane and eventually kill you. Yay!
I have been wanting to play this mmo for the longest time but never really had a chance to get into it ...argh!
I played WoW for 6 months, and I loved it, mainly because I could move around and jump while ATTACKING! It made the combat more enjoyable, that and the control scheme was so simple to understand. It was an easy-mans mmo in terms of how much shit a player can do, where as compared to everquest which had mountains and mountains of shit to do.
Now with the Final Fantasy MMO, ive always wanted to try it simply because the universe looks beautiful, and rather appealing. I don't know, maybe I'll jump on it some day soon if theres a trail around.
I always really wanted to like this game. I even bought it again earlier this year for $20. But all the neat possibilities of Vana'diel fade from mind pretty quickly when you spend so much god damned time walking from one place to another.
And then there are the other people. Multiplayer games are fine until you give people the ability to communicate. Then the madness takes hold.
I LOVED FF11 when it was first released! I still consider it my favorite MMO, and would gladly return if I could get a bunch of friends to play again.
Oh how I remember the grind though... the futility of finding a white mage... the exp drop after forming a party without said white mage... and the run times until I acquired that sexy chocobo!
My galka War/Sammy and his dazzling great katana... oh the nerd in my squeels with glee!
^What's needed to be expanded apon about that quote? (which is freaking hilarious I might add). There simply is no one who wants to play as a healer in that game which is essential to a party.
Fuck this game!!!
Okay now that I got this out of the way. Let me elaborate. I loves me my Final Fantasy. I got into FF11 before I ever considered WOW. Sure I may have only gotten to a level 34 thief, but that was enough for me to see that; one, finding a party is hard, way hard, Chinese calculus hard. If you can't find a party you can't really do much in this game. There isn't an abundance of soloing/quests to be done especially as a theif. Second when you die because some jerk kited an especially ferocious beast and lose a level, worse sound effect ever!! BRRRRRRRRRRRRN *you suck! Perhaps if I had a group of friends to play this with me consistantly I would have had a better experience.
I agree with you 100%, Colette. WOW did nothing for me the few months I played it, but I still reminisce about playing FFXI after having canceled my account over three years ago. I'm afraid to start playing again because I don't have the luxury of letting it suck my life away like it could before. That and I've heard it has become even harder to find a quality party these days since it became available on the XBOX.
I would have stuck with this game far longer if not for it requiring a full party to fight even the basest monsters. Also, that party has to have their renkei timing down pat or you'll all suck and level down.
Which is a shame, 'cause I loved everything else about it. Just not the combat.
I played FFXI in the NA Beta. I played it for several months after the official release. I quit and never looked back.
Why?
I was SICK of waiting around for hours to get a team that never lasted longer than 1 hour. And unless the game has become one where a person can actually solo a mob their level after level 20 I'm never going back.
Yeah, I played it 3 times, the last time I only got to level 12 and since I couldn't find teams I quit. I really love the game, it's 1 the 2 MMO that I like(the other is talesweaver(asian languages only... but easy to pickup). But not being able to solo for to save your life really sucks. I played white mage one time in the hope of finding more parties but I got bored of it. It's not my type of gameplay. I would return if I could solo/duo good exp. Now I don't have 40 hours a week to invest in a game where half my time I'm just waiting. I have a backlog of offline game to finish(I was at about 25-30 last time I counted) so if I can stop watching animes long enough I'll play those.
I used to play this game, i was so addicted that even when everyone left me and i had no idea what was happening... i stayed, in a half japanese linkshard i stayed... when i was the only englishman left i stayed until i was so lost and such a robot that i could play for hours with out talking and using emotes only... i realised there was a problem...
but, dammit, i miss it so.. so much greater than any MMO ive ever played next to EQ...
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2:33 PM on 09.29.2007
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I played WoW for 6 months, and I loved it, mainly because I could move around and jump while ATTACKING! It made the combat more enjoyable, that and the control scheme was so simple to understand. It was an easy-mans mmo in terms of how much shit a player can do, where as compared to everquest which had mountains and mountains of shit to do.
Now with the Final Fantasy MMO, ive always wanted to try it simply because the universe looks beautiful, and rather appealing. I don't know, maybe I'll jump on it some day soon if theres a trail around.
And then there are the other people. Multiplayer games are fine until you give people the ability to communicate. Then the madness takes hold.
That sounds interesting. Care to expand on this?
I was really REALLLLLY close to picking up FFXI. Then I watched GameTrailer's Final Fantasy Retrospective, and decided that it wasn't for me.
I'm not interested in grind fest, thank-you-very-much.
Oh how I remember the grind though... the futility of finding a white mage... the exp drop after forming a party without said white mage... and the run times until I acquired that sexy chocobo!
My galka War/Sammy and his dazzling great katana... oh the nerd in my squeels with glee!
Okay now that I got this out of the way. Let me elaborate. I loves me my Final Fantasy. I got into FF11 before I ever considered WOW. Sure I may have only gotten to a level 34 thief, but that was enough for me to see that; one, finding a party is hard, way hard, Chinese calculus hard. If you can't find a party you can't really do much in this game. There isn't an abundance of soloing/quests to be done especially as a theif. Second when you die because some jerk kited an especially ferocious beast and lose a level, worse sound effect ever!! BRRRRRRRRRRRRN *you suck! Perhaps if I had a group of friends to play this with me consistantly I would have had a better experience.
still, I'm finding it impossible to find parties in this game anymore.
Which is a shame, 'cause I loved everything else about it. Just not the combat.
Why?
I was SICK of waiting around for hours to get a team that never lasted longer than 1 hour. And unless the game has become one where a person can actually solo a mob their level after level 20 I'm never going back.
Must...
resist!
but, dammit, i miss it so.. so much greater than any MMO ive ever played next to EQ...