Pulled this off the FFXIVPADS main page. Thanks to Premium Virtue and the crew for getting this out there.

Original source:
http://venturebeat.com/2012/06/05/fi...ble-franchise/


VentureBeat.com got chance to sit with Yoshi and see FINAL FANTASY XIV 2.0 running live on a Laptop, after he posted online his thoughts and explained a bit about the detail.

The first thing we noticed was the high degree of photorealism in the title. There are dynamic lights, shaders, shadows, natural foliage, and beautiful scenery. Screenshots showed us Chocobo mounts and Moogles aplenty. The game looks and feels just like other massively multiplayer online games, with a third person perspective that Yoshida rotated around his avatar character, zooming in and out to show us the high level of detail.
This is very good news, and its great to see the press impressed!


There will be a way for players to train their own Chocobos from birth, giving them unique abilities for taking a support role in-game, like a mage chocobo or an item-storage chocobo.
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He was less willing to share when the subject of a release date came up. More generally, said Yoshida, he hoped to bring an early alpha test online by late September, which will roll directly into a much larger beta test. He hopes to have the game out sometime in winter (“ish,” he said) of this year

Nevermind the awesomeness that is teaching your bird to hump equipment around for you, but teaching it how to cast!!!? Personal chocobo healer go!

What about it peeps?! What skills would you love to teach your bird?