Final Fantasy XIV Beta Applications Open
Back at E3, everyone was shocked when at the Sony Keynote a new Online Final Fantasy game was announced. “We already have Final Fantasy XI, and that sucks!” was one of the things that I heard fairly often. Nothing other than a trailer and the E3 announcement has come out, so details are fairly scant. But hey, the Beta is open for applications!
I played FF XI for about a month, in a brief World of Warcraft hiatus, while a group of my friends that played were trying to find a new game to replace WoW with. Needless to say, I went back to the comforting, dumbed-down numbness that I got when playing WoW over the complex, slow, and bland-looking starting areas of FF XI.
Hopefully FF XIV is more accessible, and more of what I’m looking for. My only gripe with this game is that it’s part of the numerical Final Fantasy ‘” much like FF XI. Hopefully, they can either fix what I didn’t like about their first MMO, or they’ll just rehash what they’ve already done with prettier graphics and new names and assets for the characters. I’d prefer the former.
Via: Joystiq
Well FFXI is two years older than WoW and WoW pretty much changed MMORPGs forever. Still FFXI is a big hit in Japan, so I wouldn’t be surprised, if they keep it the same.
this playonline shit was so annoying.
but the game itself rocked. and considering the eye-cancer that is WoW, i really liked the enemy designs and mild coloring.