I wanna give some appreciation here - This week I started playing XI for the
first time.
I'm blown away - everything about the game is amazing and extremely engaging. I never wanted my hand held in XIV, I never wanted choices made for me, I never wanted my rotations pre-planned, and I sure as hell never wanted a visual novel forcing itself on me for hundreds of hours.
XIV has kinda just felt like a museum of FF, which was OK but difficult to get truly immersed. Mostly feels like I'm watching a movie of FF where they just stole old FF assets and put them in new stories.
XI has challenged me in almost every way possible so far, and it
feels like an actual open world Final Fantasy mainline game. It's pulled me directly into a universe of it's own design.
If you've only played XIV like me, but absolutely love FF - Do yourself a favor, push past the initial install/setup woes and
experience it. (Use a controller)
