Gamespot Reviews FFXIV - 4/10
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Why are Square-enix making MMOs when Final Fantasy 7 needs to be milked in their afternoon schedule. (Not be sarcastic but they are making a 3DS FF7 spin-off)
More like there re-releasing a spin-off, but your point stands. and honestly is anyone surprised?SalamanderJoe said:
This game was announced like... what last year? it was getting tonns of complaints during the beta that they didnt fix and of course there's what happens in cutscenes compared to what it is to actually play the damn game.
You know what the sad thing is? the director behind this did FFIX, and before that he did XI, so what this is saying to me is THE MAN CAN'T MAKE AN MMO STOP TRYING TO MAKE HIM DO IT!
I mean it shocks no one else that the only good games coming from square are the ones still in development or being developed by people who keep getting there fucking game dates pushed back.
Versus XIII: The Kingdom Hearts team
Agito XIII: Crisis Core (yes it was spin-off milking, but it was FUN spin-off milking)
Dissidia 02
The games that DONT bear the FF name.
Sakaguchi may have driven square to bankruptcy with a movie of stupid proportions but Wada has ruined Squares reputation, he has driven a spike into the heart of the company from which it wont recover.
EDIT: Oh yeah 4 Warriors of Light is awesome as well. By the by is Wada trying to Kill Final Fantasy because it was Dragon Quests biggest competitor way back when he made the same stupid game 7 times?
What the game truly needs is a tag that says "not for the faint of heart".
While WoW caters to the mass, FFXIV is after its own audience. Is this a million dollar idea? I honestly can't say. But one thing for sure--this is how the game is meant to be.
I point you to The World in .//hack.
Can you notice some similarity?
Yeah..this thing is the Japanese' wet dream of an MMO. And frankly, I really like the idea as well.
Besides, it's the popular thing to bash FF nowadays. Every gaming outlet that bash FF since FF10 had their cred upped by 15 levels. Clearly that little trick is still working.
While WoW caters to the mass, FFXIV is after its own audience. Is this a million dollar idea? I honestly can't say. But one thing for sure--this is how the game is meant to be.
I point you to The World in .//hack.
Can you notice some similarity?
Yeah..this thing is the Japanese' wet dream of an MMO. And frankly, I really like the idea as well.
Besides, it's the popular thing to bash FF nowadays. Every gaming outlet that bash FF since FF10 had their cred upped by 15 levels. Clearly that little trick is still working.
They are not really experienced in the mmo department. Their focus is on story driven experiences tailored to single players, this kind of focus really dosen't help them when they want to deliver the same experience as an mmo. As a result you get the sloppy mess that was FFXIV and no brand name is going to alleviate that. They really should just stick to single player jrpgs and just innovate on what they are good at before making suicidal leaps into the unknown.CmdrGoob said:
Do you have anything to back any of this up?Sir John the Net Knight said:
Last time I checked...
FFXI has maintained a constant population of about 500k subscribers for the past few years.
There's never been a sudden decline, people haven't suddenly started quitting.
People not being in hub towns?
Uh, yeah, that's how the game works. There's one central town and three outer towns which are mostly occupied by new players. So, no, you won't see many people spending time here when there's a giant main hub of a city which centralizes everything.
Nobody to play with?
Partly true, the population of lower levels has gone down due to current players having levelled passed these staged, but, the level sync updated allowed players of any level to party together, thus this is no longer much of an issue.
"The game wasn't for a lot of people"
It's enough to keep a healthy number of subscribers, a good review score, constant updates and even spawn expansions and if it wasn't for the game, there wouldn't even have been an FFXIV.
A game doesn't need 12 million players to be a success, stop being ridiculous.
What audience is that? The audience of people who like unusable laggy interfaces and copy and pasted terrain but hate content and being able to trade without hours of searching? It isn't aiming for some niche audience - it's just broken and unfinished.olicon said:
And the Japanese don't like it any more than we do - it has almost only 1 star reviews on amazon.co.jp
It's kinda cute how fanboys are trying to defend this crap simple because it's a FF game and therefore can't be crap. There are j/p reviews that were even more harsh giving it a 1/10. SE has been going waaay downhill after FF10, it seems they just threw up their hands and said fck it we're SE we'll get paid either way. I played FF11 for a while but it wasn't great but it wasn't terrible either. once you got used to it and made friends it kept you playing, but FF12 and 13 was terrible, and have you seen those kane and lynch games? wtf SE. it's sad to look at old titles like parasite eve and chrono cross and see what the company has become now. mebbe they should'a stayed has square soft instead of merging.
How dense are you? Metacritic posts nothing but facts - scores and links to reviews of other places. It says nothing by itself, it aggregates. It's obvious you do never pay attention to Metacritic though, otherwise you wouldn't be spewing bullshit like that.Sir John the Net Knight said:
It's 15 parts all of 10-20 minutes. It is hilarious when they start to despair and the guy playing is completely oblivious to what to do, cause the game is just that dense.Karim Saad said:How long is that video? After 25 min., I can't stand it anymore.The Madman said:
Seems an amazingly appalling game.
I guess this only confirms what many of us were suspecting when FFXIII dropped; Square-Enix no longer has any idea what they're doing, in terms of gameplay. They sure can make some pretty graphics, though.