Gameplay Video ( of the Presentation) is up!

[Stanislaw]

http://game.watch.impress.co.jp/docs...16_553498.html

Quick translation of the key points of the article above:

- August 15th was a 'business day', and hence was only open to the media and (I'm assuming) distributors. Tomorrow onwards it will be open to the public with up to three demonstrations a day, but it will cover the same topic/information.

- Gold Saucer confirmed as a 'casino' area, but will not be available immediately after launch. It will be implemented in the future.

- Confirmed avatars available for summoning/will be in story: Ifrit, Garuda, Titan, Leviathan, Shiva, Odin.

- Lots of content available in public areas for casual users.

- The 'Limit Break' system is indeed the replacement for the Battle Regimen.

- The demonstration was done through a private server located in Japan, played by Mocchi behind the stage at the Gamescom presentation.

- The specs for the computer running the demonstration was a 'high-performance desktop PC' (by today's standards). They did add that there will be no problem running the game smoothly if you can run the current FFXIV, however.

- The BLM Limit Break was, matter-of-factly, Meteor.

- Yoshi-P explains that the reason behind SE's decision to forgo an release of an official gameplay video was in part due to him not being totally satisfied with the current quality and to avoid neglecting the Japanese users/playerbase. He also adds: "please look forward to the Final Fantasy 25th anniversary event".


I predict there will be some rage over the last part, but take it what you will.

For a more through translation (although not complete yet), please refer to this post here, done by Snowy.

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- The specs for the computer running the demonstration was a 'high-performance desktop PC' (by today's standards). They did add that there will be no problem running the game smoothly if you can run the current FFXIV, however.

I have no problems playing FFXIV with the settings I have now, aside from the normal crowded areas like Ul'Dah, which my framerate drops 5~10 FPS.

However, if I can run Skyrim (don't what else to compare to)on Ultra with very little to no issues in framerate, I think I'll be just fine.

i7 920
6GB RAM
5870

All in stock, too. No OC whatsoever.

[Fear]

I have no problems playing FFXIV with the settings I have now, aside from the normal crowded areas like Ul'Dah, which my framerate drops 5~10 FPS.

However, if I can run Skyrim (don't what else to compare to)on Ultra with very little to no issues in framerate, I think I'll be just fine.

i7 920
6GB RAM
5870

All in stock, too. No OC whatsoever.

Skyrim is a single player RPG, FFXIV is a MMORPG so you can't compare the 2 graphic-FPS wise, I can run Skyrim on max. settings but can't run FFXIV on completely max since the lag/skipping is unbearable (Thank my 1GB 6950 for that)

[GodseijuroHiko]

Skyrim is a single player RPG, FFXIV is a MMORPG so you can't compare the 2 graphic-FPS wise, I can run Skyrim on max. settings but can't run FFXIV on completely max since the lag/skipping is unbearable (Thank my 1GB 6950 for that)

It's bad for 3D too, makes my eyes hurt a lot.

[Fear]

- The demonstration was done through a private server located in Japan, played by Mocchi behind the stage at the Gamescom presentation.

This makes me happy, so this is the actual latency us europeans should be getting in 2.0? FK YEA!