I've been playing FFIX the last few days and having a lot of fun (I haven't played through it since it first came out back when I was still in high school), but it's put me in a mood to play more Final Fantasy.
I used to play FFXI. I played it when it launched and got bored of waiting for parties and the frankly EMBARRASSINGLY inefficient travel systems throughout (basically, when I was having fun I was having a lot of it, but 80% of the time I was riding a chocobo through the same places over and over, waiting for a boat, or sitting with my party flag up reading a book).
I played again a couple years ago and I appreciated the new level-scaling system they had, which did away with a lot of the problems I had finding groups, but I didn't stick with it long enough to really explore anything else that might have changed (I unlocked Blue Mage and tooled around a bit...) I didn't have anyone to play with or a Linkshell to be in.
I guess my question is: Should I consider reinstalling? Has anything changed? Is solo play any more possible? I know Final Fantasy is, at its core, a series about party dynamics and that's why they made solo content virtually non-existent, but I wonder if they've taken any of the past ten years' advances in MMOs and added anything else to their game.
Really I'm just bored and I like Final Fantasy. Does anyone even still play?
I used to play FFXI. I played it when it launched and got bored of waiting for parties and the frankly EMBARRASSINGLY inefficient travel systems throughout (basically, when I was having fun I was having a lot of it, but 80% of the time I was riding a chocobo through the same places over and over, waiting for a boat, or sitting with my party flag up reading a book).
I played again a couple years ago and I appreciated the new level-scaling system they had, which did away with a lot of the problems I had finding groups, but I didn't stick with it long enough to really explore anything else that might have changed (I unlocked Blue Mage and tooled around a bit...) I didn't have anyone to play with or a Linkshell to be in.
I guess my question is: Should I consider reinstalling? Has anything changed? Is solo play any more possible? I know Final Fantasy is, at its core, a series about party dynamics and that's why they made solo content virtually non-existent, but I wonder if they've taken any of the past ten years' advances in MMOs and added anything else to their game.
Really I'm just bored and I like Final Fantasy. Does anyone even still play?