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

This article explores the ongoing transformation of FFXIV, the inspiration behind the changes taking place, and how it relates to the Final Fantasy series as a whole.


http://www.1up.com/features/final-fantasy-xiv-franchise-reborn

Great article imo. There's more discussion on it at the reddit post here.

I read that this morning, linked it to all my shellmates. In my opinion it was a well-written article. I like that the author seemed to know what the hell was going on in the FF universe.

And people were afraid that the game will get negative reviews based on 1.0 launch.

a very inspiring article.

Great read! Nice to see 1Up actually writing an article I can stand to read.

That was the best FFXIV article I have read, it referenced everything relevant and gave the readers a good overview of what has happened and what is going to happen. Also it was nice of the guys to give the writer 100k, if he came to Gungnir I would have taken an interview :)

He also seemed to know a lot about the game, and seems to have done his research, unlike these review sites. I'm sure he didn't play much but this is a news article and he did all the research he needed to make a well informed article.

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

Inspiring and surprisingly unbiased.

I'm really happy he actually bothered to talk with the players and do his research, if all gaming "journalists" had this caliber of writing and work attitude we'd have a lot more respectable websites.

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

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

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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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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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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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.

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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.

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We have know about the new client for months now, but to answer your question, all subscribers get a free download of the ARR client, any new players, yes they will need to buy new disks.

That article don't speak a lot of ARR , it just says that they are remaking the game because it's was really bad( which is quite old news ) , that the autor love FFVII ( seriously he compares Nael ,that looks like an ivalice judge, to Sephiroth ! ) , and resume the story of 1.0 ( well forgeting about primals that's not related to the meteor , too different from FFVII ... ).

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

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Thank you for representing Sargatanas so well too :D.

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That article don't speak a lot of ARR , it just says that they are remaking the game ( which is quite old news ) , that the autor love FFVII ( seriously he compares Nael ,that looks like an ivalice judge, to Sephiroth ! ) , and resume the story of 1.0 ( well all that's near to the meteor others is too different from FFVII ... ).

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If you think about it Van Darnus is a lot like Sephiroth the way he acts, talking to Dalamud like he does, and his need to cleanse the world using Dalamud it is very Sephiroth-like. You are looking merely at looks rather than personality.

That's not the same thing at all , Nael wants to destroy the gods ( which is quite the same thing in FF XII ) .And Sephiroth talks like that to Jenova ? Except when he took his head , but he was totally mad , Nael kinda praise Dalamud's destruction powers .

it'll be funny if nael comes back as a super being that looks like sephiroth

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That's not the same thing at all , Nael wants to destroy the gods ( which is quite the same thing in FF XII ) .And Sephiroth talks like that to Jenova ? Except when he took his head , but he was totally mad , Nael kinda praise Dalamud's destruction powers .

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Just as Sephiroth praises Jenova's power, the similarities are there and are easy to see, it just takes a bit of thought to see them, I didn't at first but after that article I did see them.

Oh and in FFXII Achadia just wants to expand their empire and is bent on world domination, which is what the Garlean empire is trying to do, however Van Darnus is bend on using Dalamud to destroy the world, which is why the black wolf wants us to kill him and stop Dalamud, because you cannot rule what doesn't exist, its also why he never stopped us.

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it'll be funny if nael comes back as a super being that looks like sephiroth

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That is when I'll honestly burn SE to the ground and piss on their corpses.

anyway, the problem is that the author only speaks of FF7 all the time ...

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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.

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

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My comment was based on the Article when they said 7 was the last " Great FF game" before they went down hill, when 8/9/10/12 were all very good games 9 and 12 being my favorites, were very awesome games FFX got me into FF =).

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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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I probably would have given it a shot if SE hadn't forced the crappy dubbed voice acting on me. Ears started bleeding and I had to put the game down. =/

I should add I was also a latecomer to FF, I started with FFIX, and have subsequently played all of them except III and VI and I love them al.

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I should add I was also a latecomer to FF, I started with FFIX, and have subsequently played all of them except III and VI and I love them al.

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WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU'VE NEVER PLAYED VI GO PLAY IT RIGHT NOW FOR THE LOVE OF GOD

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WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU'VE NEVER PLAYED VI GO PLAY IT RIGHT NOW FOR THE LOVE OF GOD

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Yeah what the hell seriously you missed the first really really good FF imo ( gameplay , story and graphics )

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I should add I was also a latecomer to FF, I started with FFIX, and have subsequently played all of them except III and VI and I love them al.

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yeah you have to find a way to play VI, that is like the masterpiece of the FF

Haha too many to quote, I'll be playing it asap (will download from PS store) just money is very tight right now :p

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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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The thing With XI's combat take the final extra boss on 13 most ppl didn't have the skill to stagger him let alone beat him. You had to be very fast with your commands. To stagger and do good dmg.

Edit: also FF IV story was rly good but ppl seem to forget that -.-

Wow I totally thought that article would be lame but it actually made me feel good kinda. Good job 1up

That was a very good article. I didn't know we can go to jail though.

Really good article. +1 to 1UP.

and yes FF IV story was really good. Still my favourite.