FFXIV Looks like a generic piece of s**t.
The battle system has actually been described about just about as good as it can. I can already picture what its going to be like and... how I wish that I'm wrong about this.
I mean I pray to be wrong, because if I am right, I haven't just lost all hope in square, I will lose hope in a majority of the gaming community. I like Square games, I defend games I don't like that they make, and even I'm upset by the decisions they are making in this game.I liked FFXI but allow me to quote the team.
"You can be a mage by equipping a staff, you can be a warrior by equiping a sword, But you can't be all classes because you can't carry all the equipment."
"durability system."
It just boggles my mind, how they could change like this. There is no classes, no instead we are treated to arts. Which you know what that is? Its basically an upgraded version of Runescape. You learn abilities by practicing in them. Which doesn't make it a bad thing... no... no games do this right all the time. Square always screws itself over with it, the only one they've actually done right with a free learning system was FFX and that still failed because you couldn't call it "free."
People progressed like classes in that to. This is just the type of system that Square should never try. What is going to end up happening is its going to be a combination of ideas from 3 games, one of them fake, and its going to be a scrambled mess.
FFXII, WOW, and The World.
I'm pretty sure how you can imagine how it will be like WOW if you've looked up any information on it. and up top I told you how it is going to be like FFXII. In fact thats pretty much all you can say. Even without the "Armorer class system" thats all there is too it. Actually it would be more like comparing it to FF2 but FF2 wasn't free roam and not active time... So imagine a system like FF2 and FF12 combined. Then imagine it combined with the game physics, and I didn't say combat, I said "physics" of World of Warcraft. Then add "the quest personalization system" which is you take cards and mix them up to create your own quest 3 cards to be exact. Remind you of something from a game, that is a game, of a fake game?