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Summary: Best Online Game EVER!!
Review: I have played UO and Everquest and let me just tell you this, they are both childs play compared to Final Fantasy. Square just has the money and right programs who put all efforts in making this game the best. Final Fantasy did not win the title for best RPG for nothing. The work that is played into the series really show in this online game. I recommend everyone to play this game becuase it truly is ONLINE FANTASY! And let me just add THIS IS THE FIRST GAME THAT HAS REALISTIC LOOKING PEOPLE AND CHARACTERS!! THEY ARE ACTUALLY CUTE AND HOT!!!
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Summary: Good but Great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: This game is great! To play you will need a good Video Card to enjoy this game INSANE eye-candy. The game play is beter than EQ (everquest) much more fun. More to do than just fighting. Fish, do missions, and much more. I recomend this game for any Hardcore gammer with a good computer ( or you can wait for it for ps2). OK for some of you people that say this game suck... well... you are stupid. If you just dont like MMORGPs than go play something els. If you dont like FFXI thats why they made FFX-2 come out a few weeks after for you people that dont like MMORPGs than just play FFX-2. Smart for square-enix letting out FFX-2 and FFXI back to back.
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Summary: Yep^
Review: ok you guys need to stop freaking complaining this is not a review this is a shut up post. I havent played the game but I am planning on it, but me unlike you are going to try it out before buying it to solve the stupidity of not liking it. You complain about crappy graphics, get a new video card noob. It says that you need a GeForce video card, if you dont know , your an idiot. So stop your guys complaining it aint gonna get you anywhere, you say all the final fantasies are boring like this one why buy this one if you think all the others are boring. Get a life.
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Summary: yep
Review: ok look, you people are complaining that you didnt know that you had to have a geForce card...and that the manufactures should tell it on the box, well it does ok, look on the internet, sheesh. Shopping stupidely is one way to get a bad game experiance. I havent played this game, I am unlike you guys, trying it out before buying it. You complain about the pixelated graphics, get a better video card noob. You also say its dull and boring like all other final fantasies...well if you dont like the other ones why try this one? Then complain. Just keep your mouths shut and deal with your stupidity losses, because their your fault.
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Summary: Good idea, if it wasn't Final Fantasy...
Review: I'm gonna be frank with this, I love Final Fantasy. I've beaten roughly every single one except for the Nintendo versions. When I heard of Final Fantasy XI it sounded like a great idea. How could a company with so much success in rpgs mess up this? It became apparent to me.The Final Fantasy series was never meant to be an online RPG. This fact alone plagues the game because most people who end up playing this will try rationalizing all of its various problems based on the success of the series. For an MMORPG, though I havn't played many, Final Fantasy is certainly top notch with an excellent quantity of things to do and people to interact with. So with that in mind, I shall list the pros and cons. Pros- With right video card and cpu, this game is dazzling to look at So much to keep someone occupied such as smithing, woodworking, bone crafting, hunting, etc. Thousands of people to interact with on vast server ------------------------------------------- Cons- Final Fantasy fans are for the most part NOT MMORPG fans Combat is bland It is near impossible to escape from battle without a certan thief move. Game is often too large, dying could mean at least ten minutes of walking to the destination you were at. Enemy variation in difficulty is sudden; one could kick a certain enemies butt, and face another of the same type and get wrecked. For anybody with a cable modem or dsl, enjoy the lovely 2 hour download before you can even start the game. Thats assuming you dont have the download canceled in the middle of it like it did for me. Anybody who has 56k, dont even bother trying to play this game. Some quests are as simple as wearing something, while others require to kill hundreds of tough monsters to acquire four items that never seem to drop. ---------------------------------------------- Besides all that, if you are a fan of MMORPG's, this game should please you for some time.
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Summary: Nice try
Review: My problems with this game are that if you play as an amarican there is no server for you. Your forced onto a server with people who dont understand you or you them with a small translation tool that is hard to use and hardly solves the mass problems of all the people who you dont understand being a million times higher leveled then you or domanateing the econemy. In my opinon this game really treats you as tho your second class for being amarican and becuse of that I canceled my account after the first week. Haveing there team with better support and new servers for the amarican population would have helped but that was the choice they made.
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Summary: The worse game tryed in years
Review: First of all Square soft seems to be unable to create a PC game. I believe they spend too much time trying to figure out how to make players life miserable.
They didn't though it would be a good idea to burn a new CD but it would be better for you to have a 1 hour patch on a T1 connection ( 56K modem this should be around 3-4 hours ). If you are lucky because their connection S... and you will certainy have to try 2-3 time before you patch ( 48 hours on DSL for me ).
This isn't a windows application, if you receive an AIm the game crash, if you want to look at your email the game crash, etc... if the game isn't in focus 100% of the time, you are out.
It's impossible to choose your server if you do not buy a world pass, if you want more than 1 avatar you have to pay extra.
the Play Online service is ridiculously complex and painfull.
I won't pay the subscription, I won't pay the zillion extra cost needed just to have a fun experience.
Square Soft just lost a huge fan with that greedy crap.
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Summary: Pixelated graphics?
Review: Just a quick counter point to those that say the PC versions graphics are pixelated. If you have a nice video card with bump mapping turned on, and full resolution (1280x1024) it looks beautiful, even in extreme closeups. On the other hand, the game can be fairly boring. I am NOT a fanboy for he Final Fantasy series. In fact, I really only liked the first 3. This is an average MMORPG.
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Summary: Let the buyer beware!
Review: I think I would have liked this game... unfortunately I never got to play it. I wasted a lot of time installing and setting up this game, setting up an account with PlayOnline, giving them all the registration baloney, including credit card number... setting up passwords for everything, then installing the Final Fantasy XI game itself and setting up an account for that... finally, after all the grief, I clicked the "play" button... oh, the anticipation for the moment.... only to have an error message pop up to tell me that I didn't have the correct video card to play the game.... Hold the phone! I have a state of the art NVidia graphics card with 64 megs of video ram... what do they mean by this?? Well, I call customer support, and guess what? It appears that I don't have the right model of NVidia card... it must be a GeForce series card... the one I have is not supported. If I want to play FFXI I have to go out and buy another video card... well forget that noise. I've already spent enough money on this one game, thankyouverymuch. And I can't even get a refund for the game. Fifty bucks down the tubes. The manufacturer should make the point clear that ONLY certain video cards are supported. And it doesn't help matters that they don't tell you until you have already spent HOURS setting everything up. So, if you want to play Final Fantasy XI, just make sure you have all the correct hardware, are willing to spend an evening parked at your computer for set up, and have your credit card handy for those monthly PlayOnline payments. Knock yourself out. For me, I just chalk that one up as a learning experience.
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Summary: Awesome Game
Review: Don't believe what the people say, there are guilds, they are just called "Linkshells".
Also the resolutions and other stuff can be changed to look better.
I suggest when playing to use your numberpad, because it is easy and compact. You can also use a gamepad according to SquareEnix. The menu's don't take up the screen if you have HALF a brain and did what the game said and "Edited your Configuaration".
The missions (quests) are ment to be done as a group, not alone. That is why the game is multiplayer. There are also plenty of places to level up.
And the races are fine, you have a selection of 5 Races, Male and Female for Hume/Tarutaru/Elvaan. The Classes are excellent, plus the extra ones you can get aswell. The Graphics are great and the gameplay is fun.
The Battles are very unique. Usally when not in a battle your characters weapon will be on his back, side or wherever. When you engage a enemy he grabs it and gets ready for battle, the angle changes. There are also Abilities to use for your special class.
I'd recommend this game, very good. Just make sure you configure it.
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