New 1up.com Article: "Final Fantasy XIV: A Franchise Reborn"

I have to agree, it's a well written, unbiased article.

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Originally Posted by neorei

I think a lot of FFXIV is based on FFXII which is btw one of my top 5 in the FF world.

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Seven mainline Final Fantasies after Final Fantasy VII, the series is not what it once was.

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Honestly 7 was "ok" it wasn't the greatest FF of all time 9 and 12 are ( to me anyways). and 12 was VERY Final Fantasy. but then again I'm only 1 person so I can be considered the minority on when FF started to see changes. FFX was the FF game that got me into FF games. " The Series is not what it onces was" if that was the case.. there wouldn't have been like 3 million units sold for it for FFXIII.

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Originally Posted by Starlord

XII is an awesome game to me.. :D but I am the Minority :P

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Honestly I don't think you're in the minority. Everyone I have spoken to is generally a big fan of that game. In terms of FF it's generally the minority that's the loudest.

Also good article. Nice to see an informed writer for a change.

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Originally Posted by Starlord

Honestly 7 was "ok" it wasn't the greatest FF of all time 9 and 12 are ( to me anyways). and 12 was VERY Final Fantasy. but then again I'm only 1 person so I can be considered the minority on when FF started to see changes. FFX was the FF game that got me into FF games. " The Series is not what it onces was" if that was the case.. there wouldn't have been like 3 million units sold for it for FFXIII.

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lol i didn't say 7 :P, it's not even in my top 5 to be honest with you. I did put some time into that game but it'll never compare to when i beat zeromus for the first time. NEVER.

XII was by far an awesome game, it'd be #1 if Balthier was the main hero.

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Originally Posted by neorei

lol i didn't say 7 :P, it's not even in my top 5 to be honest with you. I did put some time into that game but it'll never compare to when i beat zeromus for the first time. NEVER.

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Zeromus was a beast. FFIV was my first Final Fantasy game, and it's still the one I have the most vivid memories about. My friend had it for SNES. I turned it on, entered a cave, heard the music, and was instantly hooked.

I tried my best to give my honest answers and what not, hopefully it pays off ^_^

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Originally Posted by alexhatesmil

Zeromus was a beast. FFIV was my first Final Fantasy game, and it's still the one I have the most vivid memories about. My friend had it for SNES. I turned it on, entered a cave, heard the music, and was instantly hooked.

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i swear it took me an hour to beat zeromus or something, i mean that fight was long but getting smoked out then your friends come and raise you in spirit while the FF theme was too epic.




BUT yes that is a extremely good article, but as i read some of the comments i just want to punch a wall.

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Originally Posted by Starlord

Honestly 7 was "ok" it wasn't the greatest FF of all time 9 and 12 are ( to me anyways). and 12 was VERY Final Fantasy. but then again I'm only 1 person so I can be considered the minority on when FF started to see changes. FFX was the FF game that got me into FF games. " The Series is not what it onces was" if that was the case.. there wouldn't have been like 3 million units sold for it for FFXIII.

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With FFXIII it seems they wanted to change it up, to attract new players this new vision wasn't to the traditional FF player which is why veteran FF fans didn't like it as much but other people did. I for one wasn't overly impressed with the game, why give mobs 10,000,000 HP, when you can do 4,000,000 damage with one stagger. That's the main reason I didn't like it. Think of Dark Anima on FFX with 10,000,000 HP (unless you want to cheat with attack reels) it will take ages to kill her.

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Originally Posted by Gemma

I tried my best to give my honest answers and what not, hopefully it pays off ^_^

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Yay, I thank you for doing this interview and lets hope it brings people to ARR :)

Interesting read. I don't think I realized that 2.0 was going to need a whole new client. I mean, it makes sense in a way, but I hadn't thought about it. I figured that existing players would "upgrade" same as always, but it sounds like everyone will need to buy and register new discs? That's how I read it, anyway.