Final Fantasy XIV Online

Final Fantasy XIV Online

When the simple act of a share of the massively multiplayer online game just bought a mess of confused, you know you're in trouble. It's a shame that the first impression you get a Final Fantasy XIV is much evidence of experience. It 'hard not to notice these gaffes - a strange and hostile to get your account set up, difficult to patcher, to leave the game, if you want to adjust the graphics settings, and so on. These deficiencies could have been forgiven had the developer Square Enix has offered an excellent because of these barriers, but in reality they have created a false effort to use the horrible user interface and the complex mechanisms of the veil for its basic simplicity and repetition infinite. Brighter aspects of the Gauls to talk about what could have been.

A robust graphics engine offers travel a little eye-l'oeil, an open class system offers the flexibility of welcome, and an emphasis on the narrative that makes the first few hours more bearable than they would have been otherwise . However, these minor peaks are offset by abysmal valleys of confusion and hostility. Final Fantasy XIV is not fun, it's a job.

Once you pass the complicated process of opening an account and to support the difficult patch, Final Fantasy XIV puts his best foot forward. The character creation gives a smooth appearance to choose race and class, showing a series of fantastic character models and dividing them into subcategories. There is an impressive number of ways to customize your character physically, but there are enough choices to keep the content and the races are very different visual excitement to explore a fantasy world again. After completing an avatar, choose one of three cities of departure and be treated with a breathtaking cinematic competition models expressed in the play and musical expressiveness idyllic. It's a strong statement of all, if it is short-lived. Another feature of film dubbing, even stronger, but most people are strangely silent and show their lips moving, but make no noise.

Unfortunately, Final Fantasy XIV suppresses good will, this openness can inspire almost time to control your character. You can lose after the introduction sequence, only to respawn started with a simple message that you left the area, even if the game makes it clear where you should go first. "Where do I go?" "What should I do?" These questions will be constantly present the first hour - and the fifth, and even after - when the battle to discover what the game is waiting for you. When you are in search of the first story, you'll never understand, how to promote the story. As we have seen, you can take the Quest, the most important is not the same player when the character reaches a certain class rank requirement, but the game does not tell you when or even if you should speak with the same characters or less .

This is your real home Eorzea Land. The interface is an abomination, it was clearly designed for a controller and can not perform basic functions. You can not just press a button to open your inventory - you must enter your main menu and select the correct setting from there. When you want to equip an item to a particular location, the game is not just a list of items you can choose to castle, but rather list your entire inventory. If you want faster access to what is standard in strikes of other games, create macros, which are shortcuts that require you to know an order for specific text. If you connect a controller, you can understand the thought process behind this terrible interface, but even that is not a simple task, you must manually configure the buttons and the joystick in the configuration utility, which exists outside the game.

You can add a number of "how" to the list. When you start earning an income, you must seek out new fishing gear and other important issues, but to find what you want or need to deal with an avalanche of requests Design Follies constantly wasting your time. A few major vendor NPCs are marked on the map, but most of them are in the tapes merchant, no. When you reach the area of ​​the supplier, it is difficult to know who sells what, because most of the monitors shows no sign of what they offer. As long as you remember who the supplier meets the requirements, click on them, hoping that it can be whatever you want. Similar drawbacks plague the player, the supporting documents. At the moment there is no auction house. Instead, each player can use one of the "brackets", which is a sign that works as a shop. You can use one, you must place the bracket market is in an area called Ward and equip it with items you want to sell.

Go to the operating room is a minor hassle compared to Eorzea general navigation. There chocobo stables and docks of the blimp, but for now, these sites are a Big Tease: These methods of transport are not yet implemented. Instead, you should walk to your destination (the long way, boring) or teleport there (more expensive). If you walk, you may be tempted to defeat the monster occasionally, but no obvious problems when considering a force on the enemy. Some monsters can "with" blue, indicating that should be easy pickings, but instead could create a fair fight. Others may "with" red, which indicates a tough fight, if not impossible, but it could be relatively easily, so it is not always easy to tell if an enemy is an even match. The variety is so disappointing mistake. Dozens of hours, you are still fighting rats and dodos during a meeting with ladybugs looking for the tiny insects that are very difficult to address.

If you prefer to avoid combat, and The Long Way Home, you can teleport to the camps, you have already visited, but it costs Anima, which is a resource that accumulates at a ridiculously slow pace.