M_Shini

I don't think everyone hates it, i think everyone doesn't like it. I think its easy to see from the other side and see why.

I liked whatever perfect dark was on the gamecube, and only cuz whenever i played it it was at a friends house, without that its just a lame game to me for the most part, same goes for allot of games though.

I like that you can do your leveling on your own, the boring part of XI was when you didn't have anyone to level with or there were no party's going all you could do was sit and wait, i do like xiv forces you into group play with the storyline quests and all the dungeons though, and even more so with the duty finder, hoping someone does a shout for the specific dungeon asking for your specific job or class so you can get the class specific piece of gear you want was always lame since it was a race to see who could send a /tell the quickest to the person shouting for it.

I will say though ive never stuck to any mmo that i end up 'soloing' so try joining up with GB or friendly people once you get settled in if you can.

yup

Thats correct, grouping isn't necessary for leveling to 50 but at the level 15 main quest-line does have you complete 3 dungeons that you have to take on with a party of 4, the duty finder will be there though if you don't know or don't like being social and joining groups and guilds right off the bat though. So the hope is it ease's you into grouping up with party's at least at some point since you will need to for other later story quests too and for endgame of course.

So i heard this would be a special event, which would basically be the close equivalent to the holiday events that usually end up going on and for a limited time and that they would be making a dungeon that lighting would be your helper in for it to earn the lighting costume for female, and snow costume for males, as well as a few XIII themed weapons.

Apparently it will be happening around February next year and the premise is she is visiting different worlds which i guess fits in some way with the whole time travel n world stuff going on in XIII-2 but still is a bit off for me.

Also those Monk weapons are massive.

Kinda sums up how i think about xiv, theres so many moving parts that help bring it all together, with the style, music dialog, the way your character moves like an actual game character and not a tank, and how the game totally encourages party play through quest-lines to try and make sure your not just going to jump in be play it as a single player mmo, ive played at least most modern mmos that came out in the last few years and other than eve(although allot of the time ive been too intimidated to interact with other people) none of them made me ever want to interact with a person as i kept to myself doing my own thing.

I hope this is a joke, they have been pretty good with justifying new additions into xiv arr with how the lore turned out but this might just be stretching it.

Nice that its been added, beats final fantasy XI and xiv 1.0 old school standing around in Ul'dah city waiting afk for shouts to show up for hours.

@enns: Theres plenty beautiful environments to see if your able to venture out and go explore, and ive only been too a couple of the cool locations, seems they haven't placed any npc's in those areas for phase 3 but then cap is at 35 so not like people could do those quests unless your 50 anyway, still its nice to have a peak at whats there and see that there's great looking views where ever you look majority of the time, so much more craft in the environments that what was there in 1.0.

I know graphics don't make a game but it sure hella helps when everything you look at looks great, just sells me on it more on top of the stuff i find entertaining playing with groups.

More screenshots from last weekend, because i can!