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The game is the most stunningly beautiful MMO world created to date, from a pure artistic design perspective. The world is huge and gorgeous and has so many thoughtful details (the noise of the crowd at Black Brush station was a wonderful surprise.)

As for the gameplay, it's bland compared to some more action-oriented games, but if you want a button masher fighting game, there are already games that fit that bill.

SE's strong point has always been the storylines and cutscenes. The thing they're losing out on in the NA version is the terrible voice acting. I'd almost rather there be no voices than these awful faux British accents.

Ul'Dah, the interaction between Thancred and Lilira at the Sultan Tree.

Yeah, I haven't heard either of those voice actors yet. I don't know how you are about foreign language dubs but I would try the Japanese. I hear they're better.



Oh, right. I'll go try that soon.

Yeah, I guess Limsa Lominsa people are pretty fortunate with the voice acting (at least to begin with), Y'shtola or whatever sounds fine and really everyone is tolerable so far, but I'm still gonna change it to Japanese due to the horror stories with the other VA.

Edited, Aug 18th 2013 11:53am by Killua125

For Gridania, it seems like the voices of those two should be swapped lol

I originally planned on doing this, but I've noticed in quite a number of cutscenes that a character will be speaking on the background and his/her dialogue will not get translated or appear in the log. It's usually not anything important but I'd still like to be able to understand all of what's being said. So I'm stuck in english.

I am enjoying the game! I will admit at time I realize that I am spamming a move alot. I hope this is something they come to address later. But in all its fun game. I hope to meet some friends and enjoying this game together.

If XIV proves to be the antithesis to FFXI in terms of overall game philosophy, I will certainly be singing it's praises upon release. I'm still holding out hope for XI but it seems as though the developers there have left non-hardcore players twisting in the wind with the new expansion. Players shouldn't feel like they're training in a martial arts dojo in a game, nor should they feel like the risk:reward ratio is heavily tilted against them when it comes to meaningful items.

I also hope that the new job classes are not subject to balance issues that has plagued XI forever. I hope Summoners and Black Mages, for example, aren't hamstrung in terms of performance in order to keep melee fans happy. That has driven me crazy about XI as well as the previous regime's obsession with making pet jobs as ineffective as possible.

Yes, please!

Though Merwlyn's eye movement in the first CS you have with her makes me want to see what she's been popping from her medicine cabinet.

I don't understand your argument. There are MMORPGs that cater to an extremely hardcore base too. He wants to play this one. There are extreme modes of primals and dungeons that you'll get to do and complete way before us casual players can, and that's fine. But to suggest we play another game or play a single player game because we have a real life to tend to is sort of asinine.

Edited, Aug 19th 2013 12:11am by UltKnightGrover

As odd as it's going to sound, I actually look forward to the months ahead when the bandwagoners lose interest, quit playing, and move back to playing WoW or LoL or whatever it is people play nowadays. That's when you're going to get to experience a community similar to that of XI. The people that stay are going to be the people that legitimately enjoy the game. For now, the closest we're gonna get is the ZAM community LS.

I'm gonna kinda miss having global servers. Getting to play with NA and EU players during the day, and JP players at night was actually a lot of fun. No matter what time of day or night that I was on playing, there were always people online running groups.

Some people just aren't going to enjoy the game. I know this, SE knows this, as do quite a lot of other people. Never will there ever be a game that makes 'everyone' happy. The unhappy players will leave, and the happy players will stay.

Edited, Aug 19th 2013 3:51am by Teracide

That you know of. I would venture to say that the endgame will be different. I mean fighting the primals in hardmore or further in progression I assume will not be a pick up group doing so. Keep in mind we have only played to 20 in the OB, we don't know how the endgame will be. From what I have been reading the content will be just as difficult as XI.

I guess my question would be do you think chain pulling crabs for hours on the beaches of the Dunes is in anyway more difficult than running the current dungeons we just did in OB? They are both about the same IMO, basic game play teaching you the "core" of how to play the MMO, at the beginning levels anyways.

The idea I think is to keep the low and mid level content relatively easy for the casual gamers and the like, just to keep the subs high and then to keep the endgame the way SE always has, a challenge. And it looks like they will have two tiers of endgame, with the highest being for you hardcore gamers. I assume that is where you will get the UBER gear you are hunting that us "normal" folk can't get. Not saying that in a bad way. Like I said before, I always wanted the Ridill in FFXI for my War, but never could get one due to my level of playtime. You knew who were the elite in XI, running around with the Ridill, Adaberks, relics, etc. I am hoping you will see the same with this game. The ironic thing is when I played most had to go as Bard to get the uber gear for the jobs they actually enjoyed playing. LOL

I just hope this time around it is a challenge of skill and not available time to play.

I think if i HAD to complain about anything for this game thus far.......
I think I would have to say the lack of players that would level a class before leveling any supporting class to that class. What i mean is, i leveled cnj before doing arn so that i would have moves like protect and raise. I had a cnj die during one of our runs on SAS and he was soooo damn happy when my arn started casting raise on him. Then again most people were shocked when i would see a shout for a raise and show up as my arn.

LOL. I guess that is where our opinions differ. Leveling IMO should not be hard, that is just a progression through the story. Content is supposed to be hard and push the players, leveling should not. You level to get to content, and I have always liked FF for the story they tell while leveling, not the grind fest to get there.

I just don't see how grinding for hours somehow turned into a badge of honor with XI. Hell, it took me almost a full year to get my NIN to 75 when that was the level cap. that is not a fond memory for me, hours and hours of pulling single mobs doing the same thing over and over is not fun, I don't care who you are.

What I really don't get is that is how you leveled in XI, period, no other way really. But people are complaining about the leveling in XIV saying you are just smashing a few buttons. What the hell did you do in XI? Ranger or thief pull the mob, I cast Ninjitsu as the mob is coming in, then voke. Then WS to seal hate. WS when I could saving TP for the next pull to pin hate to me and voke when it was up and timed my shadows.........for hours on end. How the hell is that better :) For god's sake I used to fall asleep in those epic hours long parties just due to boredom.

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Just sayin............LOL