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Summary: THIS GAME RULES!
Review: Yes the game is a very long one ,but thats whats good about it,whats wrong with a long game?The amount of things that can be done on this game is amazing!truely the best game iv played on ever,i suppose FFX,FF8 + FF7 come close because they have more storyline,however the game doesnt need a storyline with all the people u can talk to.If your a FF fan this is the ultimate game!
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Summary: BEST GAME EVER TO HIT THE EARTH!
Review: This is a very great game. But there are some flaws to the game, one, you have to pay $13.00 a month, 2, (it is not that bad but)it costs an extra $1 on your bill to get another character. But overall this is the best game yet. It also has great graphics then all the other games you see. You get to make your own person to play in this game. So please, dont listen to all the other bad reveiws, look at the positive ones because if you are a FF fan, this is the game for you!
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Summary: FFXI
Review: YES! This game is great! there are downsides, however. If you LOVED EverQuest, you will love this game. FFXI is WAY more time consuming, and camping is just as hardcore. If you don't have the GIL to buy things in this game (which is hard), you will NEED high level friends. Even to be able to travel efficiently. By efficiently, I mean you will sit on an AirShip for about 15 minutes real time. This sounds great? the people you will party with will be... not so good. They can and WILL be good, but good luck. If you are not in an active Link Shell, you will get NOWHERE at later levels. Its tough, but you CAN find people to get you past the roadblocks that make this game. If you have played this game, and think the sub-job quest was tough? Do NOT play this game. The quests get intense. Intensly hard! This game is very rewarding, but if you do not have the time or resources or energy? I would never play this game. This is a VERY time-intensive game. DO NOT play this as your first MORPG. Please play something else.
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Summary: $12.95 a month!?!?!
Review: The game looks cool and all but $13 a month!? $13x12+$45+shipping and handling=2 years of my allowence!!! Sure $12.95 doesn't seem like much but when you add it all up the total is unreasonable. I would buy it if I could afford it. (ganiemead- your review was so stupid it wasn't funny clay boy)
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Summary: I agree with "Don't listen to the other reviews"
Review: The first 10 lvl's are difficult. Especially if you choose a Taru WHM as I did, but I stuck it out. Call it patience.
But the game in wonderful. Rich and full, with a great deal to do.
Negativity abounds in America, but this is the best of the MMORPG's, like it or not.
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Summary: Long time FF fan and Huge RPG fan.
Review: This review should begin with saying that this game is very pleasant and has many positives. However, overall, this is not exactly what I think a game should be, and could be improved in many ways. I have played every Final Fantasy game ever released in America, and I beat every one. Also, I have played many RPG games in my life and a few online ones as well. With that said, let me say this game holds very true to the general scheme of FF. You have to walk before you get Chocobos, and later you can ride airships. Also, all spells and potions in this game are the same as other FF games. The graphics are very nice and can be highly intensive or lowered for non-top-of-the-line machines. Also, people from all over the world play and there is a language translator so it can be neat to play with someone from Japan. (This also has many negatives which I will discuss later. That is about the extent of the positives for this game. The Problems with FFXI: ----This game is painfully slow to do anything. Every step of the game requires some mission which can take many houres per mission to complete.
+ All missions cannot be undertaken until you are a certain level, which takes some time to level.
+ However, you must also obtain fame doing certain quests before you can do many missions. These quests are very boring and feel more like a chore than like you accomplish anything. You have to the same quest many times over to obtain any reasonable amount of fame.
+ Also, you must develop a "trade skill" like smithing to be able make any amount of money call gil. Buying the needed materials to level in your skill is ridiculous and takes weeks to truly level up. ----The PC's in FFXI are not near as friendly or as helpful as most online games. I believe this is due to the difficult nature and length of time it takes to do anything. People are so busy with their own characters, that they don't feel they have time to help. Also, if they wanted to show you how to do something, it takes over 1 hour of their time, because walking anywhere is very slow. Also, half the people online do not speak English so they cannot help because the translator does not work with regular speach. You have to choose which words to say from a list which is too small. To summarize, you have to do so many things to be well accomplished in FFXI that it no longer feels like a game and only feels like a job. DO NOT THINK YOU CAN SIT AND PLAY FOR LESS THAN 2 HOURS AND ACCOMPLISH ANYTHING. This is a long slow game that requires tons of time to enjoy. I love all FF games, but this is no game, its a job. ALSO, DO NOT THINK YOU CAN MAKE IT FAR IN THIS GAME WITHOUT LOTS OF HELP FROM STRATEGY GUIDES. The NPCs do not give enough info on how to do the different missions, and the PCs are too busy to help you. People only talk when they are in a party and then it is only about what monster to draw in next.
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Summary: FFXI: Hard to get in, hard to get out
Review: Most MMORPGs tend to cater to the lowest common denominator. It's a business after all. They have to steer a path between making it so difficult that they lose casual players and making it so easy that the hard-core fans leave for other games. The money is in making it fun enough, easy enough yet not too easy so that completing tasks in the game brings satisfaction. CONS:
1. The learning curve is steep. [After the several hours long installation, you'll spend even more learning how to play] For those who want a quick game or someplace to experience fantasy away from reality, this can be rough transition period. FF fans should have already tasted a bit of this, FF games are not easy. Well, FFXI is worst. Might be a be a bit easier for the PS2 owners. 2. The majority of players in the game are non-English speaking [or prefer not too, at any rate it's not their native tongue] There is a very clever in-game translator that can handle most of the necessary phrases however but this does mean that most American players will have to learn how to adapt. FFXI just recently celebrated it's 2nd birthday. If you are bigoted, or narrow-minded or just plain lazy, you might want to find another game. Else it takes a little extra and special effort to communicate with the non-English speakers and it is well worth it. How many other MMORPGs really do expose you to a different language and culture? [And not just to nerds like me or other no-life folks :)] That being said, the game population is so high that this should not be a problem most of the time. [i.e. play during the evenings EST/PST] 3. The game occupies a lot of your time. No, REALLY. Almost anything in this game requires a lot of time to accomplish. The good news is that the game also provides a myriad array of things to do. From crafting [cooking to smithing], gardening [I'm not kidding], mining, logging, fishing.... there's a lot more. You could become an entrepeneur that has millions in the bank, at level 1. Recently, they added 'signatures' to items so items that people will know just who made that particular item. Maybe they'll add painting soon. Gardening? Forget trout-hunter 2000, FFXI has fishing [and sometimes what you fish up can be dangerously fatal :)] Repetition. Missed something while you were levelling? Don't fret. There's a good chance you'll be doing it again. And again.. and again... There's that time thing again. 4. Alliance/Party system. Functionally, it's a grouping of a standard 6 member party. Inter party interaction is not intuitive and usually requires setting up inflexible ingame macros. Still doable but not as easy as in other MMMORPGs. 5. Mostly PvE, although the new PvP addition is fun, it's an opt-in thing. So you PK'ers can go get your sick kicks elsewhere. [I know I do :)] 6. Cost. It's the game + monthly fees and you better have the hardware to play it AND a broadband connection. MMORPGs like these have never been cheap. [Voodoo 2 SLI anybody?] 7. Other soon to be released MMORPGs have something better. Yeah, don't they always? PROS: 1. Graphics. Very good. Not the best. 2. Sound. Right up there, music too. Mind you, you have to like FF to really appreciate all of this but it's very good nonetheless. But it gets pretty run of the mill after a while. Music is sometimes a bit like the old MIDI days. 3. Job system. This is hands down, the best innovation in MMORPG in a LONG time and Square does it very nicely. You can switch to any job, everytime you're in town. Yes, ANY job. You also hold a sub job [of a maximum of 1/2 of your main job's level]. You can literally be the 'Man of all Seasons' or Girl Friday I suppose. For long time MMORPG players, it's like a cross between the traditional race/class system from EQ and something from SWG. Having one character with multiple jobs also takes the sting out of having to pay 1 USD per additional character [don't need one, unless you need the storage space] and also allows people to form groups [parties, in-game] at various levels. Hi! Need a healer? No? Musician maybe? Fighter? I've got em all! 4. It's FF! Awww... don't tell me you haven't been waiting for a MMORPG a la FF? How about that Yuna heh? Want to be a Summoner? You can now! In short, it's a big time sink, it's hard but it's worth it. Don't expect EQ or DAoC, this is something at once a lot easier to get into and at the same time, it's guaranteed to be very frustrating at times. I've been playing MMORPGs starting with text muds and graphical ones like FFXI since EQ way back in late 1997 [Man, I hope the NDA on that's expired] and this is the first MMORPG since EQ that recaptured that almost magical feeling I got when I started EQ for the very first time. I've also played other MMORPGs like Lineage II and some others still in beta but I always come back to FFXI. Must be that FF touch some of the FF fans are talking about.
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Summary: Good game
Review: I've done my reading on most people's reviews. Saying how EQ's graphics are better and that EQ is better well I'm sorry but EQ is lame... FFXI Is so much better on PC than it is on PS2, yeah it does run smoother on PS2 thats because your limited to a certain amount of detail. Yeah it's true that final fantasy is a playstation game but before that it was a super nes game and before that it was an nes. It's just changing times and they made it on two different systems because 1) Someone may have a MAC or no computer or they computer is no good or 2) Someone may have Xbox, GC, SNES, NES, Sega, DC, etc., etc. but no PC but a really good computer. Anyways back on the game I don't think it's really a job, yeah you do a lot of stuff but FFXI is like D2 except there is a subscription fee, more characters, can personalize your hero more, etc. It is kinda a pain that the equipment costs so much but it makes the game more challenging. I suggest this game to anyone who has free time and the money. It is really fun to play and whether you get it for PS2 or PC its good.
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Summary: this game is the wurst game evar !!!!!1111
Review: Man this game sucked. I played Clay fighter and it is soo much better. The graphics are better in Clay Fighter cause the characters really look like clay. In FF XI none of the characters look like prime. That is why the sound is bad. I like clay fighter cause it is better than FF XI. The fighters really look like clay. I beat the game 3 times and it was better than the first level of FF XI. That is why the sound is better in clay fighter. In clay fighter you can hit things. In FF XI you cannot. I was dissapointed in how much this was not clay fighter. The music in clay fighter is awesome. In FF XI you shoot things, that is why the sound is better in clay fighter. I almost beat clay fighter once and it was good. You cannot beat FF XI cuz it is stupid and cheap. That is why the sound is better in Clay fighter. FF XI is a stupid name for the main hero and the graphics are not good. I like gamecube but this game is not good. go buy Clay fighter. Cuz it is better than a bowl of ice cream in my ass. That is why the sound is better.
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Summary: Manditory Time Sinks
Review: Let me start off by saying I've played a lot of mmporgs. Played EQ, AO, DAOC and SWG. So .... I'm use to the leveling treadmill. I played this game for roughly 4 months before I couldn't handle it anymore. It was more like a job than a game. I didn't mind the insane amount of exp it required. In a good group you could get 100-200 exp per kill. I even didn't mind the lack of monster animations. What got me were the time sinks they placed in the game. There are tons of time sinks designed to slow down your leveling. All 20+ missions and quests literally take hours. If you want to travel faster (Choccobo? Airship?) you have to do a very lengthy quest. You want to level past 40? Another lengthy quest. You want to get to the new expansion areas? Another lengthy quest. Even though experience points are hard to come by, leveling to 70+ wouldn't be so bad if they would just let you level rather than throw up several road blocks. My major gripe with the game are the astronomical prices of items in the game. Equipment, spells, temporary buffs (needed if you want your group to be efficient) and travel all cost money. Items cost so much that you are forced to farm and look for monsters who drop specific items. You don't usually gain gil when you experience so farming is a necessity if you want to keep your equipment up to date. I spent just as much time killing monsters, that didn't give me experience, for gil as I did killing monsters for experience. You want that new spell? That new piece of armor? Chances are it will take you 2-10 hours of farming to afford just one item.
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