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<blockquote data-quote="Mark W**a" data-source="post: 146294" data-attributes="member: 1196"><p>Man. What a waste of 40$.</p><p></p><p>Phantasy Star Online was one of my favorite Dreamcast games. It was so fun. Pick a class, customize your dude, enter the world, have fun. Play with people online, interesting locales, great balanced gameplay. Man, would I love to revisit that. If only Dreamcast servers still existed *tears*.</p><p></p><p>So naturally I got Final Fantasy XIV expecting the same.</p><p></p><p>Well after about an hour and a half of downloading updates and God knows what, entering code after code, sign up for this, make an account for that, I FINALLY get to the intro.</p><p></p><p>Hot damn! Looks amazing. Wow. And I believe the intro was real time, because it was shifting between 30 and 60fps. Absolutely gorgeous, epic wasn't even the word. Wow, I thought, can't wait to play this.</p><p></p><p>Create a character was very in depth. But cool. Made a hot chick, let's do this.</p><p></p><p>Get to the game. What the... Looks nothing like the intro AT ALL. I know I'm exaggerating but the graphics look like ps2 to me, except in HD. I mean low res textures, pixelated shadows, low poly characters. Granted the art is still very pretty - it felt like I was in that Forrest, thanks to the 1080P HD, it still is lacking graphically and has zero excuse for running at 30Hz for how it looks. I mean, seriously why the low framerate? And 30Hz just looks so juddery, so uneven and so wrong in 1080P. Somehow Phantasy Star Online is smoother at 480P and 30Hz. But whatever, enough graphics talk.</p><p></p><p>After a long and boring ride with some wired npc hitting on my hot babe, just skipping the dumb dialog, finally OMG GAMEPLAY.</p><p></p><p>Except it's not gameplay. It's a tutorial. Good God, what the **** am I looking at here? 25 menus all over the screen, just all kinds of confusing. Who the hell wants to sit here and learn all this ****? Is this a video game or a damn college RPG course. I mean seriously I just want to enjoy a good story, go on some quests with friends and have a good time. </p><p></p><p>I mean this is literally like that Southpark episode and I'm not kidding. Macro this skill that I mean what the **** is all this crap.</p><p></p><p>Finally get to a Forrest. So it's me and a bunch of I'm assuming other humans running around a field. The graphics are bad but the art is really pretty, and again I'm enjoying the Forrest setting, I'm a huge tree hugging kinda guy and I'm just like man, I want to live here. For real. So this kind of reminded me where I want to move to and be, at an area like this with a cabin and whatnot. So I'm happy for that.</p><p></p><p>Anyways I notice some creatures. Like a big spider, just chilling there. So I'm like jumping all over him, not sure what to do. Suddenly it locks on and I press X. Epic battle music starts and I'm suddenly fighting this thing. Uhh what? Why would I want to hurt this spider? What did it ever do to me? So having no ****ing clue how to attack, I'm just pressing buttons. We'll it seems my girl was automatically attacking it. I think. I mean there were 4 menus in front of me, and I still couldn't figure out what the **** to press. Man, all this over a damn spider. </p><p></p><p>And I mean I couldn't help but chuckle at the musical choice here. I mean really, is epic music like this necessary for what amounts to killing some harmless, innocent creature. It was literally the South Park where they kill a bunch of boars over and over. I thought that was a joke and exaggeration but no that's really how these games are.</p><p></p><p>And I know that in time I'll be fighting dragons and what not but I mean, come on man. Phantasy Star wasn't like this. In that game you were fighting threatening, formidable foes from the very beginning, not random Forrest creatures.</p><p></p><p>Anyways I tried running away from the spider, but was still taking damage from it. Wtf. So is there -any- strategy involved here? I mean, can I dodge stuff? Or do I just hope that I'm more powerful than the creature I'm attacking? What fun is a game that immediately throws you into a lame grindfest.</p><p></p><p>Look I'm well aware that there is a market for these types of games but. Man. This is just not for me in the slightest. I really should have done my homework much better. I have never played World of Warcraft so I didn't know what I was getting myself into. I figured its Final Fantasy, I love the turn based games, how could I go wrong? And especially loving when Phantasy Star went online, which was also originally a turn based series, I thought this would be a home run. But no, no you couldn't pay me to turn that on again. </p><p></p><p>I mean I'm sorry but when it takes an hour just to learn how to play the damn game that's just a major turnoff in my book. What ever happened to accessibility? Pick up and play? These types of overly conveluted, overly complicated, devoid of actual gameplay "point and click" type games just don't belong on consoles. This is exactly the reason I was never into PC gaming. IMO when you can't pick something up and play, then the game fails hard at accessibility. What a turn off. Games like these give gaming a bad name I'm sorry. Yuck. I need a shower.</p><p></p><p>Final Thoughts: I wasted another 40$, I could be playing Trials or idk, enjoying some drinks. I write this review for people like me. If you like Fighting games, Shooting games (2D and 3D), turn based RPG, racing, action Bayonetta Gears of War Halo Metal Gear solid you know GOOD **** stay the **** away from crap like this and thank me later. Sheesh.</p><p></p><p></p><p>*sigh*. The wait for Destiny Continues.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mark W**a, post: 146294, member: 1196"] Man. What a waste of 40$. Phantasy Star Online was one of my favorite Dreamcast games. It was so fun. Pick a class, customize your dude, enter the world, have fun. Play with people online, interesting locales, great balanced gameplay. Man, would I love to revisit that. If only Dreamcast servers still existed *tears*. So naturally I got Final Fantasy XIV expecting the same. Well after about an hour and a half of downloading updates and God knows what, entering code after code, sign up for this, make an account for that, I FINALLY get to the intro. Hot damn! Looks amazing. Wow. And I believe the intro was real time, because it was shifting between 30 and 60fps. Absolutely gorgeous, epic wasn't even the word. Wow, I thought, can't wait to play this. Create a character was very in depth. But cool. Made a hot chick, let's do this. Get to the game. What the... Looks nothing like the intro AT ALL. I know I'm exaggerating but the graphics look like ps2 to me, except in HD. I mean low res textures, pixelated shadows, low poly characters. Granted the art is still very pretty - it felt like I was in that Forrest, thanks to the 1080P HD, it still is lacking graphically and has zero excuse for running at 30Hz for how it looks. I mean, seriously why the low framerate? And 30Hz just looks so juddery, so uneven and so wrong in 1080P. Somehow Phantasy Star Online is smoother at 480P and 30Hz. But whatever, enough graphics talk. After a long and boring ride with some wired npc hitting on my hot babe, just skipping the dumb dialog, finally OMG GAMEPLAY. Except it's not gameplay. It's a tutorial. Good God, what the **** am I looking at here? 25 menus all over the screen, just all kinds of confusing. Who the hell wants to sit here and learn all this ****? Is this a video game or a damn college RPG course. I mean seriously I just want to enjoy a good story, go on some quests with friends and have a good time. I mean this is literally like that Southpark episode and I'm not kidding. Macro this skill that I mean what the **** is all this crap. Finally get to a Forrest. So it's me and a bunch of I'm assuming other humans running around a field. The graphics are bad but the art is really pretty, and again I'm enjoying the Forrest setting, I'm a huge tree hugging kinda guy and I'm just like man, I want to live here. For real. So this kind of reminded me where I want to move to and be, at an area like this with a cabin and whatnot. So I'm happy for that. Anyways I notice some creatures. Like a big spider, just chilling there. So I'm like jumping all over him, not sure what to do. Suddenly it locks on and I press X. Epic battle music starts and I'm suddenly fighting this thing. Uhh what? Why would I want to hurt this spider? What did it ever do to me? So having no ****ing clue how to attack, I'm just pressing buttons. We'll it seems my girl was automatically attacking it. I think. I mean there were 4 menus in front of me, and I still couldn't figure out what the **** to press. Man, all this over a damn spider. And I mean I couldn't help but chuckle at the musical choice here. I mean really, is epic music like this necessary for what amounts to killing some harmless, innocent creature. It was literally the South Park where they kill a bunch of boars over and over. I thought that was a joke and exaggeration but no that's really how these games are. And I know that in time I'll be fighting dragons and what not but I mean, come on man. Phantasy Star wasn't like this. In that game you were fighting threatening, formidable foes from the very beginning, not random Forrest creatures. Anyways I tried running away from the spider, but was still taking damage from it. Wtf. So is there -any- strategy involved here? I mean, can I dodge stuff? Or do I just hope that I'm more powerful than the creature I'm attacking? What fun is a game that immediately throws you into a lame grindfest. Look I'm well aware that there is a market for these types of games but. Man. This is just not for me in the slightest. I really should have done my homework much better. I have never played World of Warcraft so I didn't know what I was getting myself into. I figured its Final Fantasy, I love the turn based games, how could I go wrong? And especially loving when Phantasy Star went online, which was also originally a turn based series, I thought this would be a home run. But no, no you couldn't pay me to turn that on again. I mean I'm sorry but when it takes an hour just to learn how to play the damn game that's just a major turnoff in my book. What ever happened to accessibility? Pick up and play? These types of overly conveluted, overly complicated, devoid of actual gameplay "point and click" type games just don't belong on consoles. This is exactly the reason I was never into PC gaming. IMO when you can't pick something up and play, then the game fails hard at accessibility. What a turn off. Games like these give gaming a bad name I'm sorry. Yuck. I need a shower. Final Thoughts: I wasted another 40$, I could be playing Trials or idk, enjoying some drinks. I write this review for people like me. If you like Fighting games, Shooting games (2D and 3D), turn based RPG, racing, action Bayonetta Gears of War Halo Metal Gear solid you know GOOD **** stay the **** away from crap like this and thank me later. Sheesh. *sigh*. The wait for Destiny Continues. [/QUOTE]
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