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The sequal to Final Fantasy XI, but not Final Fantasy XI, it promises to lead the next generation of MMORPG's. Check out more info at http://www.finalfantasyxiv.com.

Nice.. I heard about this, and was I'm really thinking about getting it..  Wanted to play FFXI, but I was in college at the time with absolutely no money... Then when I got the money, FFXI seemed so stale compared to WoW..    If this game supports Japanese character input, I'll buy it for sure.

Pretty sure the majority of the FFXI fan base hated FFXI, I know I did.

For the sake of old times and many good games beforehand though, i'll have to check it out.

BluntObjection:

Pretty sure the majority of the FFXI fan base hated FFXI, I know I did.

You mean userbase?  They wouldn't be in the fanbase if they hated the game..

I know this is way off topic, but Call of Duty: World at war has an awesome Multiplayer Nazi Zombie mode that is just so darn addicting.. The single player is pretty lame though..  The game just feels so unrealistic unless you crank it up to the hardest difficulty level and then you end up going into an ambush scene.. Even if you know that it's an ambush, you're still forced to play it because it's part of the story..  No way around it,and the only way to beat it is to know where the ambush is coming from and to chuck grenades so that the ambush runs right into it..   I really like to have more freedom in my FPS games.. In games like Crysis and return to castle wolfenstein, you have 101 ways to kill a guard and dozens of different approaches to choose from... Call of Duty single player, I always feel like I'm being crammed through the neck of a very thin bottle when it comes to freedom of doing stuff..  Hate that.  My little sister loves it though, she always gets frustrated by those games that give you tons of freedom because she can never figure out where she needs to go..

 But ironically, I also don't typically like MMORPGs..  For a different reason though, they're like black holes that endlessly suck down your time.. The little time that I do have, I'd rather use it playing more exciting games..   Everytime I think about getting into something like WoW, I then think about how the MMORPG is going to be dead someday and all the hours put into it wasted..   There are a lot more exciting games out there than those MMORPGs..

Oh yea, and Ghostbusters is really awesome even without multiplayer and with a few glitches...

 

Sidicas:

You mean userbase?  They wouldn't be in the fanbase if they hated the game..

Haha,  change to first FFXI to FF in my sentence, I meant to say the general final fantasy community.

I'm more of a fan of sandbox style gameplay myself, Dark Messiah MM, while had very linear straight forward maps, you had the freedom to kill enemies in multiple different ways, loved it. That being said, I can't wait till Mortal Online finally releases, this september or october.

I played FFXI but was not a fan. I am a fan of the FF series, I own everything released American side that is final fantasy (non of that chocbo garbage though). But FFXI just didnt do it for me.I liked how it had the job system but the grind fest and super slow leveling was just too much for me. And the classes have a lot of balance issues even today.

Meh.. The more I look into FFXIV, the more disappointed I get.. Why did they have to build a storyline that's practically the same thing as Final Fantasy XI?  C'mon! They should have taken it in the future like FFXIII... Or into space like final fantasy VIII...  I just get the feeling that all Final Fantasy XIV is, is just an upgraded version of Final Fantasy XI with a few tweaks to make things different..

They should have taken the course of something like Final Fantasy VII, VIII, X, or X-2 instead of staying to the original "Final Fantasy" + Magical crystals themes with jobs and all that jazz.. I'm very disappointed..

They probably put a lot of money into FFXI and it's artwork and so they plan to reuse a lot of it in FFXIV..  

They need to come out with something more original if they expect American gamers to be impressed.