(08-18-2013, 04:27 AM)Koyu Wrote: I'm in complete agreement. It pretty much feels like they took everything I love and shoved it in an MMO. - I adore WoW's questing style, because I love getting a bunch of quests, then doing them all, and turning them in. However FFXIV also takes the event systems from Rift, mashes it with GW2, and makes 'story / lore' based Fates pop up. While in Rift it was like "...Hey, guys... Monsters!" - It feels like there is a -reason- behind each event.
And the personal favourite for me is the fact that I can walk right past that Fate and keep doing my quests, because they're not embedded into the Exp grind, as they were in GW2. ( I remember being severely underleveled because I never did events in GW2, so I had to go back and do them. )Â
Combat itself is so slack, and easy. It's something I enjoy, due to the fact I'm one of those 'casuals' who just wants to laze about and not really pay attention. Usually I just talk to people while I spam buttons.
AND OF COURSE, best part is the appearance. Ugh, everything is so attractive in the world, and the Weather effects are what got to me. When I was leveling in the Black Shroud, there was so many cycles. From Fog, to Rain, to sun. Everytime it shifted I kept getting lost because the effect it had on the actual world, changed the view of it, I thought I wandered into a swampy place by accident when Fog first hit.
RP wise, the sitting mechanics are awesome, the animations for the plethora of emotes are amazingly adorable. Only gripe I have is the severe lack of base emotes that most other MMOs have, such as /yawn /hug /pat. Though, I understand why, as all the current emotes are character animation specific, and they didn't want to have emotes that didn't animate. (Hugging / patting nothing would be a bit weird.) HOWEVER, the lack of /yawn still perplexes me... But at least I have /doze... which is adorable.
Beta is beta, crashes are crashes. This whole 3102 is the only time I've been actually blocked from re-entering. I've had a few minute crashes at loading screens but that's it on a technical standpoint, no other issues to report.
WELL THAT WAS A RANT AND A HALF. THERE YA GO 10 / 10 WOULD RECOMMEND.
And as a side fun faact, according to the JP Twitter, the Beta hit 150,000 people. (Probably another million not being able to get in, right guys?! Ha.. Ha.. Haha... *Tugs at collar*)
This. All of this. I am in complete and total love with the game. I also love the class/job system from what I've seen and from what friends have told me thus far. I was super excited to try picking up Thaumaturge for a supplemental class for my arcanist (though 3102 saw to that ending fast. Cursed Beta glitches!) and just generally see more of the world.
