FFXIV
Reddit thread on FFXIV
After playing the game for a bit this past weekend, I have to agree adding the following comments:
1) Graphics will date themselves horribly in a year or two - See any discussion on silhouette recognition. Also the game has pretty bad z-fighting (so did ffxi, honestly).
2) The combat system is like Guild Wars, except suckier.
3) Recycling of assets... It makes me think that FFXIV was a tech-demo of FFXI with upgraded DirectX10/11 back-end, that a manager said "hey, let's spin this off into a new RPG just rename everything". I mean... The Mithra analogue is Mi'Quote, and instead of fish mithkabobs (ffxi) they have fish miquokabobs (ffxiv). They're not even trying.
4) The saddest thing is that they've fixed most of the gripes that people had with FFXI, but people are noticeably leaving FFXI for FFXIV because of brand loyalty. You no longer have to have the best job, best gear, or loads of cash to have a fun time xp'ing with the Abyssea expansion. Gear is readily available to purchase that is almost as good as top-of-the-line gear. And weapons are free after doing a small bit of monster grinding that are better than 99% of the available weapons on the auction market. My biggest gripe is the deprecation of the level 75 "endgame gear" since so much time was invested in it, but I'll gladly throw that to the wayside in favor of new content, accessible to more of the player-base.
Edit: Also it runs like ass on my $400 NVidia 295. I didn't think that was possible since that thing can destroy benchmarks, give like 200 fps in Crysis, and cooks me bacon on demand.
After playing the game for a bit this past weekend, I have to agree adding the following comments:
1) Graphics will date themselves horribly in a year or two - See any discussion on silhouette recognition. Also the game has pretty bad z-fighting (so did ffxi, honestly).
2) The combat system is like Guild Wars, except suckier.
3) Recycling of assets... It makes me think that FFXIV was a tech-demo of FFXI with upgraded DirectX10/11 back-end, that a manager said "hey, let's spin this off into a new RPG just rename everything". I mean... The Mithra analogue is Mi'Quote, and instead of fish mithkabobs (ffxi) they have fish miquokabobs (ffxiv). They're not even trying.
4) The saddest thing is that they've fixed most of the gripes that people had with FFXI, but people are noticeably leaving FFXI for FFXIV because of brand loyalty. You no longer have to have the best job, best gear, or loads of cash to have a fun time xp'ing with the Abyssea expansion. Gear is readily available to purchase that is almost as good as top-of-the-line gear. And weapons are free after doing a small bit of monster grinding that are better than 99% of the available weapons on the auction market. My biggest gripe is the deprecation of the level 75 "endgame gear" since so much time was invested in it, but I'll gladly throw that to the wayside in favor of new content, accessible to more of the player-base.
Edit: Also it runs like ass on my $400 NVidia 295. I didn't think that was possible since that thing can destroy benchmarks, give like 200 fps in Crysis, and cooks me bacon on demand.
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