Final Fantasy XIV @ gamescom 2009 (Updated)

[Zyuu]

<3 Zyuu thanks for the info, is there any pictures of the character screen or how to change jobs yet? or of the lalafell casting spells?

None of the character screen yet. Nor on how to change jobs. I'll try to get that tomorrow -- I have a thread on our site where you can post questions for SE, I'm meeting with the producer tomorrow.

[Ker]

Still can't believe what we seeing is an old built o.O

[Akiyama]

Still can't believe what we seeing is an old built o.O

What do.. what are... I don't even. What are you trying to say 'an old built'?

[Buttons]

Anyone know dutchy to translate what it says at the bottom of the article about rainy weather? FFXIV looks good so far, and I'm liking the whole FFIX ability points system.

Nope the article doesn't give any proper info on weather, just the day/night picture.
Bottom of the article just says it's too early to judge the game and that tomorrow interviews will follow that will hopefully give out more information. ^-^

I hope someone asks about character customization tomorrow, if we can make our lalafell very short and make their heads bigger, maybe they will look like our beloved tarus. :/

[Omniyoji]

bah, thanks Buttons ^^

They've pretty much taken everything in FFXI and added even more detail to it... makes me wonder how deep they'll go into other systems like fishing, star gazing, and transportation...

EDIT*

LMAO @ how Lala run

[xopher]

What do.. what are... I don't even. What are you trying to say 'an old built'?

I think he means an old "build". Like an out of date build of the software.

[akoru]

I won't count on the Jump actually being useful. It's not like you will be able to jump on to ledges considering they will make the ledges JUST A LITTLE BIT HIGHER TO JUMP ON TO during quests.

[Destinye]

What do.. what are... I don't even. What are you trying to say 'an old built'?

They said it's an old build being played which means we're not even seeing how far the game has exactly came.

[Headspace]

We're not giong to be able to put numbers in our names like in the videos are we? That'd be fucking stupid.

[Kaslo]

http://www.playstationpure.be/ftp/gamescom/FFXIV2.jpg

That Cactaur looks more traditional! Yay! :D

[Dein]

If this is an old build then hopefully the current build for the game is even further along. A release before the summer of 2010 would be pretty nice if they can manage it.

[Fallyn]

i woke up, and came.

[Destinye]

We're not giong to be able to put numbers in our names like in the videos are we? That'd be fucking stupid.

It would be..because then we'll have:

Sephiroth
Sephiroth1
Sephiroth2
Sephiroth3
Sephiroth01
Sephiroth02
etc

-.- ugh bad taste in my mouth already.

[Rautha]

None of the character screen yet. Nor on how to change jobs. I'll try to get that tomorrow -- I have a thread on our site where you can post questions for SE, I'm meeting with the producer tomorrow.

really appreciate your work
just out of curiosity: you needed 19 hrs?... for a 3-5 hr flight (Göteborg > Cologne)? what did you do in Amsterdam?^^

looking forward to the interview tomorrow

[Uzor]

It would be..because then we'll have:

Sephiroth
Sephiroth1
Sephiroth2
Sephiroth3
Sephiroth01
Sephiroth02
etc

-.- ugh bad taste in my mouth already.

And the worst of the worst: Xxs3ph1r0thxX

[Akiyama]

XxSSJ4S3ph1r0thxX

[Fallyn]

And the worst of the worst: SSJ3Xxs3ph1r0thxX

fixed.

edit, fuck beaten.

[Ryuushin]

I'm wondering what the specs are on those pcs? that they are testing the game on. The graphics look almost like the screen shots we've seen when they updated the website.

[Baha]

Malboro look badass and boats!

Posting pics in case people don't click the link. Hope it's okay.

It's ok. :3

I've translated the text real quick for my linkshell forum, I'll paste it here too:

Spoiler: show

Playing Final Fantasy XIV for the first time (click for dutch blogpost with pictures!)
EA Business Lounge, 13:00. My colleague Wesley is standing next to me. I tell him that I'd love to do an interview about Final Fantasy XIV, but that it's usually incredibly hard to get a hold of the people of SE. Wesley nonchalantly answers: "Um, I just played that game". Two-tenths of a second later, I'm at the Square-Enix booth.

For those of you wondering why my reaction speed approached Usain Bolts, you have to know that I've played FFXI for several years. Too long actually. In a time where I still had time to spare to build a castle of empty coke cans around my pc. With Final Fantasy XIV there's a good chance that my personal history will repeat. I've just set the first step, but for the main course I'll have to wait until sometime in 2010.

"Concept art... speculating time!"

After some nervous shuffling at the booth the presentation finally starts. In the background I see twelve screens with Lalafells, Hyurans, Roegadyn's and the other FFXIV races. What a tease! The Square Enix-dude explains the battlesystem, among other stuff. I don't understand one word, owing to the explanation being given in German, but I'm all set to storm one of the pc's.

Emotes!

After 15 minutes of German gibberish I finally get to step on the stage to get in front of a pc. I get control over a Lalafell (the race that would get teased by all the Tarutaru's in FFXI's Vana'Diel). I hide half of my Lalafell in a nearby bush: hehe, funny sight. I take out my camera to snap a picture. "Sorry, no up close pictures". Damn! It's immediately noticeable that the character animation is much better than in XI. For example: my Lalafell's hair moves along when I run. The game doesn't look finished at all though. Many textures need to be loaded or are just missing, but that's no reason to panic. This is a (pre?)-alpha, which is absolutely not representative for the final fame. The atmosphere is a lot like FFXI. The area I'm running around in looks a lot like the green pastures from eg. Konschtat Highlands. With my teammates I get the mission to dispatch 3 beasts, with a 30min time limit. This being just one of the quests you can embark on in the game.

"New enemies in FFXIV, but here are some old faithfuls: the Cactuar and the Marlboro"

Regrettably, it all goes wrong when I'm about to test the battle system. "Grahh, it's stuck", confirms the SE-employee. My version had a lot of problems (maybe that's why the textures occasionaly completely dissappeared). Oh well, guess I'll try out some emotes! '/laugh'doesn't seem to work (or I typo'd somehow), /point is back, /panic makes the Lalafell panic just like a Tarutaru. Despite of my limited - but enthusiastic - contribution to my party, my partners succeed in killing the three beasts. The third one posed some extra trouble, because it just kept running for its life. Somewhat the opposite of FFXI, where it's you who has to keep running until reaching a zoneline tp lose an enemy. I'm curious to see if they've gotten rid of that annoying element in FFXIV.

"Day-, night- and weather-cycle in action. Ooh!"

It's much too early for a first judgement. MMO-reviews often get criticized, because they're games that require a lot of time before you can make a real assesment. After only 15 minutes of play on this version of FFXIV, it only seems normal to not make any big statements. It's actually a bit surprising that SE has the guys to come show off such a short demo at gamescom, as a lot of people might - wrongly - be scared off a bit by this demo.
You can already see that the atmosphere is very recognisable, and that it doesn't seem that SE is going for an HD-version of FFXI, but is really trying to improve the game gameplay-wise. Tomorrow we have an interview scheduled, hopefully we can all learn more there!

[Ququroon]

XxSSJ4S3ph1r7hxX

You forgot that Sephiroth can never be spelled right.


And I'd really like to see the Customization. People mentioned the floor staff answering questions? Anybody know what has been asked?

Edit:

/panic makes the Lalafell panic just like a Tarutaru.

Yessssssss