Forbes article of the Killer MMOs of 2013Follow

I think Roegadyn and Lalafell are both inferior.

I honestly would have liked to see the Galka become more draconic if anything, but instead they cut off the tail and made it just a big pale human with rugged features.

I mean, IDEALLY I wouldn't have reused the FFXI races to begin with, but that's another discussion.

Actually, I would argue that the only improved character design over FFXI (design, not graphics) are the male Hyur and the Miqo'te.

Elezen? *two thumbs down*

Who came up with these names anyway?! I always have to look up the spelling for Roegadyn and I forget where the apostrophe is in Mi'qote. It's confusing that they kept in the same races but changed their names...

Edited, Apr 9th 2013 11:32pm by Killua125

What did I misread?

If you're talking about the names, it's because my brain sees the Mithra design, and it makes the connection automatically. Mithra.

It would be like if they took a Chocobo and randomly started calling it Chob'qote or something. My brain wouldn't be able to deal.

Whatever.

Edited, Apr 9th 2013 11:50pm by Killua125

I know why they included the FFXI races, but in that case they should have either:

1. Added more races ON TOP OF the Vana'diel races, to set the citizens of Eorzea apart from Vana'diel in some way... it's kind of unlikely that the population of two different fictional universes would be EXACTLY the same, right down to hairstyles.

2. Why not set it in Vana'diel again? I think they should have either (my preference) gone for a unique game entirely, or stick to FFXI... they're kinda flipflopping back and forth. I always thought it might have been a good idea to set their next MMORPG in a very futuristic Vana'diel (maybe XIII-tier technology?) if they wanted to keep the same races but have unique areas. I feel like Eorzea is kind of a more generic version of Vana'diel, so I don't get what the point is -- if they wanted to keep all the same races, they should have just made it FFXI-2... then they'd have some lore to work on.

Then again, I'm glad they didn't go for FFXI-2 in retrospect, because it would have stained the FFXI name and probably made people even more upset than they already were.

Edited, Apr 9th 2013 11:59pm by Killua125

Edited, Apr 10th 2013 12:00am by Killua125

I wasn't talking about a time difference like WotG vs. the present in Vana'diel. I was proposing a HUGE timeskip to the high tech future, lol.

I want ARR to be its own game too, but I think adding the same exact races was a weak start in doing that.

I'm like, want to use the same exact Vana'diel races (not even with any additional ones, the same exact races, hairstyles, faces, and all)? Alrighty, set it in Vana'diel or connect it to Vana'diel somehow. (If they want that route, I was just suggesting a futuristic Vana'diel as one possibility)

Want to set it in this new setting, Eorzea? ... come up with new, Eorzean races then.

It's just my opinion, of course.

NO ONE and i mean no one should talk bad about my lalafell. He is gonna be "da bomb" !1!1!

Saw the leaked ESO gameplay footage earlier today. Gotta say it looks very underwhelming. =/

The UI, gameplay, graphics, animation quality all look like a game that was supposed to be released in 2005 or something. -__-

Yeah, I understand what the purpose of an NDA is.

However, I wouldn't be too concerned if that footage was from the alpha stages. The beta stage of a game is almost a finished product. Most of the graphics and gameplay will make it into launch. Beta is more of a debugging and polishing stage.

And from that footage, the game doesn't need any debugging just yet. It needs a major overhaul. ^^;