The fact that you frequent these boards says otherwise.
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Far from the worst installment in the series. Far from the best, but far from the worst.
The worst and best title of a series is completely opinion based and varies from person to person. Doesn't mean much when in comparison to other things that are good. Such as I think strawberry jelly is the best with peanut butter. And grape is the worst. But grape jelly is still good. Another pointless artical by IGN.
Edit: in case people don't understand the jelly analogy. The worst of a series of great things isn't necessarily a bad thing.
cornelia
Baron
Mist
Cairo (sp)
Damasca (sp)
Fabul
Mysidia
Eblan
Toroia
Narshe
Figaro
Midgard
Wutai
Besaid
Guadosalam? (i think I'm so wrong on this)
Zanarkand
Windurst
Bastok
San D'oria
Jeuno
Selbina
Bodhum
Oerva (sp, Vanille and Fang last name)
Limsa Lominsa
Ul'dah
Gridania
Ishgarde
These are the town names I can remember without replaying or looking these up.
FFMQ was the awesome! *vampire-retreating-from-garlic-hiss*
I think FF7: Dirge of Cerberus would have been 100% better had they released the FPSMMO to the English side instead of killing it the day before US release of the game. I got the Japanese version of the game but I was not able to do much for the FPSMMO because of my only partial understanding of the language. It did think it would have made SE a ton of money had they released it in the states. And in that I agree it makes it the worst FF title.
I was looking at their comments over at IGN and a lot go back in forth on FFVIII, I played the Japanese version and almost beat it before US release. I didn't like the US release because some of the feel of the side characters were lost in translation. Namely Zell. He was using damn it almost every line of text in the Japanese version. the US release did have an upgraded draw system though that made the game easier.
I feel it is poor sport of IGN to slander this game. To imply it is the weakest and "...and one you should probably avoid." (taken from the title of the article) hurts us and this game. How can anyone judge this game when you have not played entirely through the game. The game isn't entirely released yet, even from a 1.0 standpoint. It would have been best for IGN to not mention 14 at all.
For me, FFXI will always be highly treasured for a number of reasons. The first being that I got to play my "own" character through the story, not some other character. Second, I also feel that the story itself was far more epic (I beat everything but WotG at 75 far before Abyssea) and larger then any other FF game has been. #3, my friends have seen me play it on my computer and say the game looks awesome. It for more or less is a PS2 game.
I actually hold high hopes for FFXIV to surpass FFXI in greatness.
"MMOs are long-term investments and perhaps once Square-Enix makes enough changes Final Fantasy XIV may live up to the brand's pedigree. Either way, Final Fantasy XIV remains a powerful lesson of how even the biggest names in gaming can crash and burn without the proper care. "
Fair enough.