ARR Press Reviews

[Kincard]

My point wasn't that people will always find the most efficient way of leveling their characters, but rather that people are doing it in XIV because there is nothing else to do when you switch jobs other than level up. This alleged advantage of being able to skip over content you've already done because it's all done on the same character doesn't really matter if you already finished all the content on your first job.

And how is all this stuff about "progression" relevant when the only MMOs that have story missions that are important enough that you have to do it or you'd get locked out of major areas and dungeons are FFXI and FFXIV? You're giving FFXIV extra points because it makes gameplay more convenient according to roadblocks only it has? I guess you can argue its cool that you can wear the same heavy armor on both your PLD and WAR but as far as talking points go I personally don't see how that's something a critic should take into consideration for pushing a game up from a "good solid MMO 7 or 8" to "made me blow my load MMO ever 9.5".

For the record I'm glad you love the game but I think you're losing sight of what a critic does, they're not here to simply go "this objectively has added a feather onto hats and it has gone beyond other games", they need to also score according to the experience of wearing that hat, if I'm allowed to stretch that analogy really thin. Also you've been making a big hullaballo about critics being unfair by not mentioning the class system, or ignoring it or something; are there ANY reviews out there that have somehow not mentioned the class system, including that Gamespot review?

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[Waraji]

inb4 "how much did they pay for that review".

[Kincard]

That was actually probably the best review of the game I've seen so far since it seems like they tried to go through the majority of the content before rushing out a review, which is a problem a lot of MMO reviews have. Only thing was that it doesn't seem like the guy did a lot of crafting.

Edited for non shitty English.

[Mabubeezareel]

That was actually probably the best review of the game I've seen so far since it seems like they tried to go through the majority of the content before rushing out a review, which is a problem a lot of MMO reviews have. Only thing that was missing was that it doesn't seem whoever did that review didn't do much crafting.

While I know what you're saying here (and agree with it, I generally think Gametrailers does a very good job and are fair with their reviews), I don't know if it's possible to write that any more confusingly than you did. Well, maybe if you throw a few more double negatives in there.

[Kincard]

Yeah, sorry, I wrote that at like 2 AM or something my time so it was pretty derp.

[Kelenae]

GT not shitting on a Final Fantasy game? SE must of gave them the bank for that review.

[Deadgye]

I kept cringing during that review. Those EN VAs are just uhg.

[dejet]

you can change to VAs to something else. LOL if you dont mind doing a subbed style reading. Lots of people would be ok with that. Just change the VA's to something better ~_~

[Northman]

It's very hard to review an MMO like this as most of the reviews are in before end game content and while considered by many to not be the core of the game it's obviously very important. End game is how you retain your audience after the first month of an MMO and many of done poorly for this reason.