Remember - you cannot review an MMO until 6 months after it's launch - which is today

[gifthorse]

You guys fall for Abigail's antics every time. Nice derailing of the thread into a discussion about battle-spam. Fact is, game is still boring. Hyperbole or no hyperbole, battle is boring, and even in NMs you just spam 1 over and over 90% of the time while waiting for cooldown timers/TP.

[Rhianu]

You can't simply give a valid opinion of a game (and especially paint it as a "review") until you experienced the majority of it first hand. Second hand info, theorycraft and blatant hyperbole do not a valid opinion (and even less a review) make.

Hey, guess what? Not everyone who plays the game is a professional game critic writing a review for a magazine or website. Yes, we generally want our professional critics to play entirely through a game (or at least a good chunk of it, in the case of an MMO), before they write up their final reviews, because we want our professional critics to be informed, since the rest of us make purchase decisions based on what they say. But for the ordinary players? They only need to play for as long as the game can keep them entertained, however long that may be.

Besides, FFXIV really isn't any different from 16-50 than it is from 1-15.

[BelgianRofl]

FFXI battles were more fun because when you're about to die, you're like, "Oh *!! Everyone 2 hour!!! Oh Dear God RUN!!!... RRRRRUUUUUNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!


In ffxiv if i die, it's like... meh, bfd...

[Xatsh]

This is my review in its current state, and it is not that great of a score. But then again if look where I mainly hit the game is in its content. With the content level say ffxi had at NA release, and which this hopefully will before PS3 release, I would probably give the game between a 8.2-8.5. Would be an easy 9 if they redo the heavily copy/pasted terrain and bland parts of the world and make the battle system more engaging.

Honetly I consider this game a beta, and technique it is still only month 3 of this games existance... considering the fact Yoshi-P trashed basically the whole content update Tanaka was working on. So they went back to square 1 when he took over.


My review: Over all game with these criteria (Gameplay 50%, Graphics 30%, Music 10%, Longevity 10%) = 100%

Gameplay is a measure of content and game systems
Graphics is a measure of Design, Texture, Details, and Animations.
Music is composition and Variety
Longevity is the chance that the game will continue based off of the populations view of the game and the companys ability to continue funding.

Total FFXIV Rating based on my rating scale: 7.05/10 Rating C- (below average)

Game Play Overall (100%): 5.6/10 Sub Par ( lack of content issue more then anything)
Group Content (40%): 6/10 - horribly lacking and in my opinion the worst thing about the game in general
Solo Content (30%): 3/10 - Yea the game is near the level of impossible to play solo.
Combat System (20%): 6/10 - Needs a ton of balancing in its current form, but there is much worse out there in the game world.
Crafting/Gathering (10%): 10/10 - Simply no other mmo has the detail and indebtedness as this game does. If you like crafting and gathering then this is your game, if you hate them you will really hate them in this game.

Graphics Overall(100%): 7.8/10 Above Average (World design is lacking, and weaponskill/spells are horribly subpar animations)
World(25%): 6/10 - It has horribly bland spots then and awesome looking in other spots. Over all it lacks the dept and immersion factor but the detail is extremely high in the terrain.
Character and Mob Animations (25%): 10/10 - simply nothing else comes close in the mmo world
Spell and Ws animations (25%): 5/10 - bad, the movements look natural which is good but there is no flash to it. Everything is boring.
Textures and Details(25%): 10/10 - once again nothing comes close

Music Overall (100%) 9/10 Excellent
Composition(80%): 9/10 - the music by itself is a 10/10 it is that great but it does not really give you a feeling like you are in the zone in several spots. Worst spot is probably Thanala great song, does not sound like a wasteland though. So in a way it hurts immersion some.
Variety(20%): 10/10 - over 70 tracks in the OST and they are different in style, feeling, and sounds. More variety and different feelings then almost any other mmo. I feel they captured the FF feel in most the tracks.

Longevity Overall(100%): 7.5/10 Average (one again all a content issue)
Company(50%) 10/10: The game can make 0 profit and could be up and running for a decade with 1 year of SE's profits on a normal year. Very strong financial backing and their flagship brand, very unlikely they will pull the plug anytime soon.
Current Playability (50%) 4/10: The game lacks content, soloing is boring to the point of making you quit, and the community is rebelling against partying... so until more content and balance is added this game is simply not fun to the majority.

[Chardrizard]

I hate to say that i completely agree with Belgian this time around, lol.

[AdvancedWind]

Here's my review.

Sound - 10/10 awesome OST.

Review is over.

[weeble]

Something which discourages me about the state of this game is the following:

Closed Alpha
"The game only started testing phase guys shut up."

Closed Beta
"It's only a beta stop complaining so much the point is we need to test the problems."

Final Closed Beta
"Open beta will open up a lot more content and most of the problems will be fixed."

Open Beta
"It's still only open beta and a lot of the content is closed off and there are still bugs to work out."

Collector's Release
"Some of the content is probably being held off until standard release."

Main Release
"Let's give it a few months."

December
"The development team is being restructured. I bet they have a lot of content done already and it will probably be released around the time the PS3 release was supposed to come out, which is in March. I'm gonna wait until then to make an opinion."

Now
"Let's wait about 6 more months."

The game will never be "finished" as it's an MMO. As for when it'll be in a completely better state than it is now, don't be hopeful that it's going to happen anytime soon.

lol to this, and what someone else said, they seem to be going the wow route and i will be saying my good bye to that. u casuals can have this game, and i'll consider ffxiv dead to me along with any mmo se makes. but yeaaaah i'll wait another 3-6months>< ...

[NoMX]

(Removed the long, stupid review made by a big dumb Roegadyn troll.)

[SIZE="5"]FINAL VERDICT[/SIZE](not an average)
I GIVE THIS GAME A 99


out of 200.

Belgian, I have mixed feelings on whether or not I like or hate you. You're quite funny at times when you're trolling in Ul'dah... But I also dislike your face. I want to slam your head into a gelatin mold so i can make Halloween masks. The problem is, I'm not sure there is that big a market for Rosanne face molds. (Just kidding, lets have Roegadyn babies.)

I do actually agree with most of what you said about the game, though. There is so much room for improvement, but we all know it will eventually get there. I'd personally rate the game about a 5.5/10 in its current state, but I'm planning to stay because I know it will eventually at least be an 8. When the time comes, and the game is actually good... I want to have all my shit leveled so i can enjoy it. That's my one driving point.

The major point i disagree with you on, though... Is the music. I have it muted full time. I can't stand it lol.

[Rhomagus]

While I disagree with Xatsh's review on certain aspects I'd much prefer that than an immature troll post. You can actually see where the majority of the score came from and it's broken down quite well from point to point.

Solo Content (30%): 3/10 - Yea the game is near the level of impossible to play solo.

Solo Content (30%): 6/10 - A crafter can experience the entire plot line by themselves. Guildleves give a heightened amount of experience and their difficulty can be adjusted to fit your schedule, time, and skill level. Gathering classes are pretty much only solo right now. Compared to XI, this game is much more feasible as a solo grind. If you battle though, once your 8 leves are expended your really gonna start to feel the grind if you're a solo player.

Composition(80%): 9/10 - the music by itself is a 10/10 it is that great but it does not really give you a feeling like you are in the zone in several spots. Worst spot is probably Thanala great song, does not sound like a wasteland though. So in a way it hurts immersion some.

Composition (80%): 5/10 - There are a lot of songs that really aren't that great... at all. The music for the Market Wards is akin to listening elevator music from the future.... from the 80's. A lot of music is done with a keyboard synthesizer, in some parts it almost ruins the music. The rock tracks that play when you do leves are actually pretty rocking... until the synth comes in. I agree with Xatsh's point "does not really give you a feeling like you are in the zone in several spots." Just replace "zone in several spots" with "setting of Eorzea". Some tracks are utterly beautiful though. Like the solemn piano tracks of Coerthas and the Merchant Wards. "Twilight Over Thanalan" is another great track but it's even better when done by a full orchestra. Same can be said about "Navigator's Glory" A lot of the music in the game has a great foundation, but this is a AAA title from a huge company in the new millennium. The music is a great conceptual skeleton but should have been finished by an orchestra or at the very least, real instruments.

I can agree with Xatsh's overall assessment and it really belongs in a thread of it's own rather than on the seventh page of a troll thread.

[BelgianRofl]

The major point i disagree with you on, though... Is the music. I have it muted full time. I can't stand it lol.

Actually, you're right. I have the music turned all the way down and run soothing music in the background instead.

But I also dislike your face. I want to slam your head into a gelatin mold so i can make Halloween masks.

I knew I shouldn't have posted in the Show Yourself thread.