BloodHecate

You know, you're a someone who really makes me smile. After I failed to get into A.E.T.H.E.R., and have been lost and sad without a Roleplaying Guild, you're really making me want to try out for Elements. I don't know anything about it, but it must really be fun if you're a part of it. /creepy stalking I have to say, this certainly makes my wallet happy. And I'm so happy that this site is overall much more positive than many other sites that talk about this game. Perhaps I should stop going to FFXIVCore and stick to my time here. It makes me feel a lot better. And I love festivals and "seasonal events" so much. I remember back in Final Fantasy XI I almost never took my Yukata off.

I'm not adept in wiki coding, but this is really worth the effort to learn! I'm hope I'm on the path to making quality wiki pages for my two characters.

I would have to say that I pretty well share the same feelings and sentiments as Volkai. I also think that the lack of excitement some people have this this game could be some of the more hateful people out there bashing the game and wearing other people's down. Because a good portion of the time here on the internet, out on places that discuss the game, for every person who likes the game there seems to be a response of "well, that's just you". I know people wouldn't want to admit people on the internet very negatively affecting them in any way. But it can work like a negative sugar pill that will affect you more than you'd like. Something is vibrant and exciting when people tell you it is, and not so vibrant and exciting when people tell you it's not. No matter how much we try to resist caring what others think. That's why I've been kind of scolding myself surrounding myself with so much negativity for the game the past few weeks, if you convert it to money, forum and review site going with negative opinions about the game has probably wasted a good hundred dollars or more of my own money.

Eh, forgive my ignorance that used to be in this post. I sleepiness is clearly getting to me.

At the cost of a possibly extreme case of stating the obvious. I do see Roleplayers as the sorts of "gameplay creators". People like Square Enix lay foundations, while building upon that story and creating a good environment and expounding upon that foundation is the job of the players. And it is because of that responsibility that not everything is handed to MMORPG players on a silver platter like it is on non-online games. Because the job of the creator is really nothing more than to give the player a really advanced version of a Pen and Paper Role Playing Guide in Computer/Video Game form. And the Roleplayers, being a major type of gameplay cultivator, have the greater tendency to "Life Simulator" and general immersion improvement to the point of a greater likelihood in things like crafting and fishing. So I must admit, that "Psh, stupid RPer." joke make me chuckle. There really is a "cultivation" versus "non-cultivation" mentality within the MMORPG, the later of which, who only seem to enjoy grinding and what they are handed, I have never been able to understand. Enough so that making a sarcastic joke about immersion activity versus grinding is fairly amusing, at least to me. [Never explain the joke rule, broken. Socially oblivious activity, engaged.]

I'm nowhere near to having a dream computer, but I'm just happy to be able to play it.

Final Fantasy IX was the game that gave me the most hope for the franchise after Final Fantasy VI had ended. I couldn't stand the direction Final Fantasy took after VI, I enjoyed the games for being what they were, but it didn't feel like Final Fantasy. It was so wonderful to have a Final Fantasy game I truly liked back with IX. A game that finally felt like a Final Fantasy since their SNES days and Tactics. It was so nostalgic and perfect in so many ways, unfortunately they haven't done much of that since then. Thankfully though, the MMORPGs have gone down the path of the classic Final Fantasy. I would hope that Final Fantasy XV has more like the games behind it, like another IX, but I don't have my hopes up. Necron was a bit of a silly idea, I must admit. But the overall game aside from aspects like that were pretty good. It was still awesome and foreboding by the time you got to Necron, and I loved how mysterious the whole endgame was, but I will admit aside from that it was easily one of the worst developed wrap-ups. Still, it and Final Fantasy Tactics are the only two on the PlayStation that make me feel like they have something to offer to the series on par to that of the Super Nintendo. The only successful kindred spirit and continuation of the Super NES glory days.

I'm a more classic Final Fantasy fan myself, I must admit. And prefer the far more high fantasy and steampunk influenced Final Fantasy games than the science fiction ones. To me, Fantasy is where Final Fantasy gets it's real charm. I don't dislike the other, more futuristic Final Fantasy games, like Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VIII, Final Fantasy X, and so forth. But I'm glad . And I like representing my better memories. I love being able to represent how I love places and being able to say I was from a place like Mysidia, that has some of the strongest positive memories for me, would be amazing. Also, it wouldn't bother me so much if Final Fantasy XIV was a game with a setting more like Final Fantasy XIII, but it's clearly more along the line of the classical vein. So it just doesn't seem fitting to pull something from the other type of Final Fantasy in a world that greatly resembles classic Final Fantasy backdrops and surroundings, and Ivalice. The Besaid thing isn't bothering me as much now, mostly because I haven't been thinking about it as much, and of course because it's be several days since I first discovered the news. It's a lot easier for me to think about it if I envision Besaid as some pirate ship beside the port of Limsa-Lominsa. And no some horrible situation where someone is like "so, you like Besaid and Final Fantasy X, I just though Final Fantasy X was great and Yuna is so pretty and blahblahblahblah". Ugh, I brought the cringeworthy thoughts back. My mind is in pain now, the cringe, oh the painful cringe, I'm going to force myself to go back to thoughts of Faris on a Pirate Ship and the Prima Vista. Interestingly, we got back on this topic all over again.

I live in the South, Arkansas to be more specific. I hate Arkansas weather, it's too hot. It's only good for going swimming in lake Hamilton or lake Ouachita or the like. Hot weather is simply nasty. However, I do romanticize the so called "redneck" and "hillbilly" culture in some ways. The Tennessee hills are especially pretty. I myself don't have much of a Southern accent at all, but I do enjoy it a bit. Not near as much as many other accents, but it's cute in it's own way. I, personally, love the voices of Eorzea so far.

I don't like Narshe quite as much as Mysidia and Lindblum, but Narshe brings quite nostalgic, proud feelings to mind, as well. A land of snow and Magicite. And I am dedicated to snow gods.

May we take this pirate ship called "Besaid" as far as it can take us.

By far the Collectors Edition. Even games in this world that haven't been on the far side of impressive I have simply loved getting the gear. I love artbooks, and the like. I have the Collectors Edition gear of Final Fantasy XII, and it certainly wasn't one of my more favorites of the series, and I don't regret it one bit. In this case, for a game that I am planning to spend great amounts of time enjoying and roleplaying, the best game I've played in 3 years, the choice is ever so obvious. Even if just for the excitement and collection alone it would, but I firmly believe this was event to have waited for, a Final Fantasy XI that is upgraded and will drag me in and never let me go with it's sheer universe warping madness. I could not miss that enhancement of being able to get a head start, that vastly superior, mysterious, haunting, Yoshitaka Amano artwork, the gorgeous, stunning journal filled with map and all sorts of things I am not even yet revealed, and a DVD to hold me over watching in euphoria, like all the others I current have before it's time, before it's release, I'm also obsessed with my character, and will cherish the Rite of Passage that I get with great care and fancy. I could not skip out on this for the world.

It really creeps me out how much that list seems directed at religious fundamentalists. I mean, all those things like "witchcraft", "false gods", and demons beside obsession, violence, suicide, arson, rape, torture, and genocidal fascism.

I don't see how anyone can be against roleplaying in a roleplaying game. In any case, given some of the talk in this thread, I actually expected worse from that site than I got. I guess I'm just incredibly used to negativity and trolling? Of course, I didn't agree with a lot of it, but I didn't get very irritated, and I get irritated by things said on the internet more than I'd ever like to admit. I'm playing an MMORPG to play a roleplaying game, and the games have a lot less worth and entertainment to me otherwise. They can not understand how I feel this way if they like, I certainly don't understand why they, those who don't like roleplay, feel the way they do.