Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn is almost out of the door, with less than a month to go to the game’s release on August the 27th. With such an important date incoming, you’d think Square Enix is pulling all the stops in order to promote the game, and in fact they are. The publisher […]
Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn – Job and Class System
Chomping at the bit waiting for the open beta of Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn? Of course you are, since the character you level on the open beta gets carried over when the game goes live, it is essentially a huge head start. With any sort of head start, you don’t want to squander […]
That’s Quite an Ignorant Statemen:“Final Fantasy is Dead”
On July 27th I reported, not without a fair bit of levity (not everyone in video game journalism feels the need to take himself ultra-seriously all the time), on a Q&A session held in Tokyo where Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII Director Motomu Toriyama and Character Modeling Designer Nobuhiro Goto shared some details about the fact […]
Final Fantasy: A Realm Reborn impressions the closed beta left on me
Final Fantasy XIV was a disaster. I never played the original version, but from what I hear it was pretty bland and uninspired in all areas. It takes some serious gall, as well as business sense, to straight up cancel an MMO and rework it from the ground up. Square Enix has done just that with […]
Final Fantasy XIV Producer Responds to Criticism on Lag
One of the aspects of the latest beta of Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn that many criticized was the presence of a degree of lag that caused a mismatch between the graphical representation of some monsters’ area attacks and actual damage applied to players. Basically players that thought they were safe outside of the […]
Final Fantasy XIV Won’t Have a Character Creation Benchmark
Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn players are eagerly awaiting for the release of the new benchmark that is scheduled to happen on August the 1st, especially because it’ll include a character creation utility that will allow new players to actually create and customize their characters and save their appearance, in order to load and […]
Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn Moving Forward and Looking Back
I feel that I have more reason to take umbrage with Final Fantasy XIV than most, as I have discussed. This was an MMORPG that I decreed as so desirable that I would purchase a new PC, opted for the more expensive, special edition, and settle in for extended revelry on my 20th birthday. Now […]
Final Fantasy: A Realm Reborn HD release coming to PC
Square Enix announced yesterday that they’re working on an HD release of Final Fantasy for the PC. While a release date and the addition of any fancy extras have yet to be announced, the HD spruce up is itself enough of a tempter to have me picking up a copy. The Final Fantasy series […]
Final Fantasy XIV:children statues and floating crystals
Square Enix have sent along a new batch of screenshots of Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn in preparation for the next round of closed beta testing next month. The images show off some of the sights of Eorzea. Particular highlights are the large floating crystals which act as teleportation hubs between locations in the game and […]
Final Fantasy XIV poster blows whistle on PC release
Final Fantasy series lineage can be a complicated business, so pay attention: Lighting Returns isn’t a remake of Final Fantasy XIII, as its title might mislead you into concluding; nor is it even a direct sequel to that game. It’s actually the sequel to Final Fantasy XIII-2, and sees the end of the Fabula Nova […]