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Tour of Eorzea Part 1

Brace yourselves! The flood is upon us! *scrambles for life preserver*

EDIT: Wow the bard actually looked like it was playing music now. :D

Edited, Feb 21st 2013 10:03am by scorleone

Can i move in and live in these places.. man this looks amazing i cant WAIT!!! phase 3 beta or a miracle to get in sooner cant come fast enough!!!.

Yeah those framerate issues are the last thing they're working on I think. They were sure to mention that Sony was helping them out and that the game would look good on the PS3 as well. The controller UI is really awesome, I think it will be fun to try out on the PC as well.

They seem to have done away with some of the monster spasms that people were complaining about in the alpha as well, combat was a lot of fun when I tried the hands on.

NDA or not, the stuttering is actually compression issues, same thing happened when they showed off the PC video before. There are a little FPS issues with the PS3 version that's for sure, but I can see some compression issues, but it's not bad.

I'm only impressed by the difference between 1.0 > 2.0, otherwise it's still a wait and see for me. They're trying to compete with current generic MMORPGs so if they land in all the pitfalls that plague those MMOs all of this beauty will be wasted :\

Edited, Feb 21st 2013 8:20am by Theonehio

That's good because the mob spasms looked pretty ridiculous heh. I'm really excited for the PS3 version though. Something about having a controller in my hand and kicked back on the couch just seems right. I played FFXI on the ps2 originally and when I tried playing FFXI on the PC without a controller it just didn't feel right.

I think, in my head, I'm already moving in.

I know right? God if I was a billionaire I would buy a huge plot of land and create a society for MMO weirdos who want to live in fantasy land. I'd even name it after one of the worlds in the FF series. It would be incredible.

Ok back to reality.

wow, the game looks a lot more flushed out than even I was expecting it to. I have to say I am even more optimistic now than I was before, and as long as they can add enough content to the game, I have a feeling they might have pulled off a miracle. Very excited for the next couple of months... building a new house (should be ready by May), and then a shiny new MMO to take up my time since I will have no money to go out and do anything >.>

Yeah that controller setup isn't too bad. And it looks like the initial limitation of 16 action buttons isn't really a thing since you have several sets you can switch between easily enough.

0 through 9 would be 10 sets of 16 buttons... so... 160 hotbar buttons? Yeah that should be enough.

Macros will be in ARR. And you can assign them to hotbar action slots.