During the latest Final Fantasy XIV A Realm Reborn Letter from the Producer Live, Producer and Director Naoki Yoshida introduced the new Unicorn mount that will be available through the conjurer class questline. Today Square Enix released two screenshots, that you can see above and below, portraying the mounts. Even if in fantasy literature Unicorns […]
Final Fantasy Doesn’t Need A Phoenix Down, ‘Fans’ Do.
It’s getting tiring to hear so-called avid fans dictate how much life a certain video game franchise has left in it, or determine if it has any at all. Square-Enix is probably getting annoyed about hearing it too, because every time they release a new Final Fantasy installment, thousands of negative and offensive voices […]
Final Fantasy XIV’s beta phase 1 and 2
I’m going to completely fail to surprise any longtime readers of the site with this sentence: I am kind of a fan of Final Fantasy XIV. Of course I am. I write our weekly column about the game, I discuss the game in other columns, and I went across the country to preview the game […]
Final Fantasy XIV beta phase 1 and 2 – combat
I’ve mentioned in the past that sometimes plans get changed dramatically between when I plan my next column and when I actually write it. This week, it turned out that I could stop being mum about the Final Fantasy XIV beta. So that meant throwing out plans and starting back over. In fact, it meant […]
Final Fantasy XIV beta phase 1 and 2 – quests
We know now that the next test phase for Final Fantasy XIV will not be until June. This is good insofar as the next test will contain a lot more stuff and bad insofar as I want to play. Those of you living vicariously through impressions articles such as this one probably have less of […]
Final Fantasy XIV beta phase 1 and 2 – gathering
We all like to stop and smell the roses. And then we like to pluck those roses, bring them home, and melt them into component enzymes that will allow us access to a temporary attack power buff. Final Fantasy XIV is beautiful, sure, but you need that attack power bonus. If it isn’t obvious, this […]
Final Fantasy XIV beta phase 1 and 2 – FATEs and dungeons
Do you smell that on the wind, my friends? It smells like June is fast approaching, and more importantly it smells like soon we’ll be able to welcome the third phase of testing with open arms. Which is good, since I am currently going through withdrawal. I wake up in cold sweats, try to change […]
Final Fantasy XIV beta phase 1 and 2 – crafting
The thing about Final Fantasy XIV’s crafting is that it’s always been an odd mixture of wonderful and terrible, much like the game as a whole. You had crazily interconnected crafts that could be frustrating to level, the simple difficulty of trying to find the items you need, and a minigame that made mass production […]
Final Fantasy XIV job action trailer sighted in the wild
Square has released a brand-spanking new trailer for its Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn reboot. The three-minute clip centers on job actions, which is another way of saying three minutes of various classes standing in place showing off various attacks. Let’s see, there’s the Paladin, the Warrior, the Monk, the White Mage, the Dragoon, […]
Take a tour of Final Fantasy XIV’s monsters
It’s no secret that Final Fantasy XIV will host quite a number of monsters. Some of those are already familiar to players from both the beta weekends and from the original game, but there are a lot of monsters even after you count those. The team behind the game has put together a new trailer […]