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twesterm on 12 October 2010
.jayderyu said:

WOW? people actually think you should base a review on an MMO or judge an MMO on story? That sounds like part of a niche console gamer perspective. You don't judge MMO based on Story. It's all about the game play. If the game play fails then the game should get rated alow. From what i'm hearing FF14 is missing the core gameplay element. 

I think it's clear whom this game is for. Extracting a monthly fee from SE FF Fans not for creating an MMO community.


Actually, FFXI was all about the story and that's one of the things that set it apart from WoW.  It actually did a good job of making you feel like an integral part of the world and story just like you were playing a single player story based game.  FFXIV is set to do the same, it's just it's failing on nearly every aspect of the game.

And I know I'm being incredibly negative on the game and I keep saying I think it will fail miserbly but that doesn't mean I want it to fail.  If it does somehow as unlikely as it may be pull itself out of the mess it's in I'll gladly play it.  I just really don't have high hopes of that happening.  I don't think the game is really getting any good press at the moment and I assume subscribers are dropping like fly's.



 

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darthdevidem01 on 12 October 2010

ANOTHER Bomba review:

 

http://play.tm/review/32098/final-fantasy-xiv/

49% -- Play.tm



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twesterm on 12 October 2010
darthdevidem01 said:

3 More reviews come in:

 

Vandal Online -- 8/10 

Honest Gamers -- 7/10

Gamespy -- 2/5


Jesus, and I thought the Gametrailers review was brutal, it's like the Gamespy review was trying to make SE cry!

I do love the pros though-- "Not quite Star Trek Online bad."



 

Rainbird on 12 October 2010
twesterm said:

Jesus, and I thought the Gametrailers review was brutal, it's like the Gamespy review was trying to make SE cry!

I do love the pros though-- "Not quite Star Trek Online bad."

Holy shit, that is pretty brutal. xD Good read simply for the fun of it.



darthdevidem01 on 12 October 2010
twesterm said:
darthdevidem01 said:

3 More reviews come in:

 

Vandal Online -- 8/10 

Honest Gamers -- 7/10

Gamespy -- 2/5


Jesus, and I thought the Gametrailers review was brutal, it's like the Gamespy review was trying to make SE cry!

I do love the pros though-- "Not quite Star Trek Online bad."

I am finding it hard to believe why Gamespy didn't give it 0/5 after what they wrote. It was like a hate letter to SE

And they aren't FF haters cus they gave FFXIII 4.5/5......FFXII 5/5......and FFXI 4/5

So FFXIV isn't half the game FFXI was to them at launch......of course review scores can't be directly compared like this as standard change.



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darthdevidem01 on 12 October 2010
Rainbird said:
twesterm said:

Jesus, and I thought the Gametrailers review was brutal, it's like the Gamespy review was trying to make SE cry!

I do love the pros though-- "Not quite Star Trek Online bad."

Holy shit, that is pretty brutal. xD Good read simply for the fun of it.

Want more laughs?

See this



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Mad55 on 12 October 2010

Man this is horrible maybe they will fix it by the time the ps3 version comes out.



benao87 on 12 October 2010
darthdevidem01 said:

Now that FFXIV reviews are starting to roll in its best to make a Thread for reviews so as to not clutter the forum with review threads of it.

You can still post review threads on the forums for the IGN review as its deemed "important" by many.

_______________________________

Reviews so far:

Gamespot -- 40%

Gametrailers -- 42%

CheatCC -- 84%

GamingXP -- 84%

CNET -- 2/5

IGN -- 5.5/10

Vandal Online -- 8/10 

Honest Gamers -- 7/10

Gamespy -- 2/5

Play.tm -- 49%

Meta score will come in once we have more than 4 reviews.

Do post reviews here if you find them on your leisurely stroll across the internet! (don't forget to look left and right while crossing the road!)

57 right now.

And they also include 3D Juegos, which gave them 6,7/10 http://www.3djuegos.com/juegos/analisis/5946/0/final-fantasy-xiv/  its in spanish tho.



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zarx on 12 October 2010

ouch

http://www.gamerevolution.com/review/pc/final-fantasy-xiv

D
  Beautiful graphics and cut-scenes
  Some decent potential
-  That hasn’t come close to being utilized
-  Forced limits on how much you can do
-  Boring combat
-  Broken interface
-  Broken design
-  Broken map
-  Just broken everything, really


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Mirson on 12 October 2010
darthdevidem01 said:
Rainbird said:
twesterm said:

Jesus, and I thought the Gametrailers review was brutal, it's like the Gamespy review was trying to make SE cry!

I do love the pros though-- "Not quite Star Trek Online bad."

Holy shit, that is pretty brutal. xD Good read simply for the fun of it.

Want more laughs?

See this

 

LOL! That video was hilarious, but it also killed any interest I had in FFXIV. I'm not a big fan of MMOs, but I was thinking of trying it out for the PS3. But wow! The long walks are ridiculous, and the combat/quests look boring.

Though I did find 3:30 funny, where he couldn't walk on that part of the bridge.