More Chocobo Info (6/19/06)

[Cleveland]

Just thinking...

We may be able to ride them in Ugly Range, Beautiful Glacier, and Xarcabard. These are outdoor areas, which generally chocobo's can ride in. The elements for summoner quest can be gotten in these zones, and they appear to have the exact same limitations as chocobo's (no dungeons).

The only reason we can;t ride them there now is that we would have to pass through Roger Pass, which is a dungeon, to access these areas from the nearest stable.

Man, getting to ENM would be so easy.

[Kurokikaze]

All I can say about this latest addition to FFXI is "Fuck yes!". What we need now is for them to implement the Fat Chocobo from FFIII/IV and it's a wrap.

[Septimus]

To all of you haters who said that raising Chocobos was going to suck, "bite it".

You will be able to ride them; you will be able to call them.

The long, horrible nightmare of CoP is finally over. Now we have ToAU and developers who do not get their jollies from making people suffer.

[BRP]

I'm hoping the racing is either manual or is a decent 'simulation'. I hope either way, Cactuar Rapido is a boss race, Diddy Kong Racing style.

[Elcura]

HNM races, the first one to Nidhogg gets claim!

[Kurokikaze]

I fear the day when the fun of Chocobo Racing is killed by assholes who speed hack.

[Koga]

I'm hoping the racing is either manual or is a decent 'simulation'. I hope either way, Cactuar Rapido is a boss race, Diddy Kong Racing style.

lol and you have to stop and kick open chests open with your chocobo's feet to get items like in FFX? XD

[Jeryhn]

Sounds like racing might involve different conditions per race. Example, one day it might be exceptionally hot on the track... the blue chocobo is best suited for dealing with the heat of the desert. Sounds like the jockeys might also be able to use the chocobos to kinda fight mid-race... the big black chocobos could be the best for ramming the shit out of others, while the small green ones might be the best for evading or not being targeted by these attacks due to their camoflagued nature.

Some of these characteristics sound like it could also benefit outside of the races... like a blue chocobo would not experience reduced speed running in desert areas...

Sounds like interesting stuff.

[Huggo]

Off topic kinda.
Anyone remember the name the chocobo in black mage town in FF9? It's bugging me for a few hours.

Bobby Corwen

I'm hoping the racing is either manual or is a decent 'simulation'. I hope either way, Cactuar Rapido is a boss race, Diddy Kong Racing style.

That'd be rad, I just hope it's not like Yoshi racing in Super Mario RPG XD I hate the "hit B and A alternatively to go faster" style.

[Jeryhn]

I fear the day when the fun of Chocobo Racing is killed by assholes who speed hack.

I think SE has already accomodated for this by not allowing the players to directly control the races speed-wise, but it might be possible to issue commands to the chocobo.

Player >> Fuck his couch my nigga chocobo!
Choco >> K-Kweh?!
Chocobo readies Tackle.

[solsovly]

What I wouldn't give to be able to blue spark my chocobo, or dig for items to use during a race. That said, grabbing a bunch of your friends and doing the XP scroll delivery races is actually pretty fun, better than that crappy PS1 Chocobo Racing game they made a while back.

[Demosthenes]

Give me an all white chocobo with gold frosted feather and I will never remove my iron musketeer gear... ever...

[Sixtail]

wow this is hot.

to the people who called SE worthless and lame in the other chocobo topic, if I EVER catch you riding a chocobo you raised by yourself, I will call you a fucking hypocrite.

Cant wait for my pure white chocobo :D

This would have been nice 3 years ago. Now it's just SE trying to play catchup to WoW. It's actually pretty sad that they're making a big fanfare about adding a feature practically every other game already has. Meanwhile ToA will still lack any end game content.

People have told you this before, but it seems you're still not listening.

QUIT OR FUCKING KILL YOURSELF, YOU MASOCHISTIC RETARD.

Thank you, that is all.

Quoted for pure truth. Damn, I almost allowed myself to think he was gone, but noooooo.

Flux, you must understand. This is not Alla. SE's Dev Team is not reading the website, only the GM's are (Maybe). They do not give a flying fucking shit about your endless "Damnit, I fucking hate this game but i'm gonna bitch about it anyway because I can't quit" wah fests. No one here cares.

Fuck banning Joe/Max. Ban Flux due to his failure to quit or to stop bleeding from the vagina over his failure to quit something he clearly hates.

[Jazelon]

I hope they let tarus ride the huge galka-sized chocobos.

Me too!

Along with the already stated points, I think the Summonable Chocobo would also be good in the "Oh shit, no cudgel or blm in this pt." Another great addition by SE and we can only hope they keep it up.

On a side note:

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LOL!!!!! I'm the Juggernaut bitch!
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[solsovly]

stuff

We are moved to tears by your avatar.

[Mufferino]

I'm hoping the racing is either manual or is a decent 'simulation'. I hope either way, Cactuar Rapido is a boss race, Diddy Kong Racing style.

Wow, Diddy kong racing... that brings back memories...

http://www.videogamecritic.net/image...ong_racing.jpg

[genome]

Pretty awesome, after over 3 years my chocobo digging is still not 10 (level 8 so far) but it's kinda been ruined by chocobo bots etc, still it's a pretty enjoyable activity and a quick carefree way to get certain raw materials. With the new chocobos, it sounds like you will also be able to get new/different items while digging with your own chocobo (really cool), and if you can actually call them in ule.range, new toau areas etc, that's other pools of different items as well.
I am hoping they might make the pool of items from digging with your bred chocobo separate from all others, maybe even their individual ones, since you can only call them so often (say 20hrs or whatever it might be).
The worst part about digging is that zones quickly become empty of all items and you just get the 'couldn't dig anything" message.

Btw I like kuno's idea of operating a skylift service in ule.range and xarcabard, you'd need sky rentals too though, unless it's just for scenic rides...

[Jazelon]

Wow, Diddy kong racing... that brings back memories...

Tiptup ftw.

[jiang]

OMG I WANT THE GREEN TINY ONE

[Mufferino]

Wow, Diddy kong racing... that brings back memories...

Tiptup ftw.

Fuck that! Drumstick ftw!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...gdrumstick.jpg