Final Fantasy XIV @ gamescom 2009 (Updated)

[Seph]

Tanaka admits that one thing they learned was how technology advances over the life of an MMO. When they first began development, single-processor CPUs were the norm, but soon after release, multi-core processors grew to become the standard. With Final Fantasy XIV, they are thinking five years ahead and plan to include support for multi-core and mutl-threading technology from the start.

If players were forced into parties all the time, they would most likely stick with one weapon and master that. However, when adventuring solo or with small groups, players need to acquire a number of different skills and abilities to be able to survive. The developers hope this will create a rich variety of players and really make each character unique. However, Tanaka admits that growth can come slowly if one focuses solely on adventuring alone. Grabbing a party and working together will help your character improve faster. So, there are positives and negatives to both, which is exactly how they like it.


nice ;o

[Hyan]

However, Tanaka admits that growth can come slowly if one focuses solely on adventuring alone.

I hope so! I'm bored with MMO's that take 2 weeks to get to level cap.. needs more games where journey is more important than the destination!

I wouldn't mind if it took me a year to get to the cap, if the game is fun enough.

[superzombie23]

I hope so! I'm bored with MMO's that take 2 weeks to get to level cap.. needs more games where journey is more important than the destination!

I wouldn't mind if it took me a year to get to the cap, if the game is fun enough.

Just imagine if a lot of the fights were at least as hard as the last AU mission fight. That's quite a challenge and very fun imo XD. A lot of those CoP missions were no joke, so I hope they don't make it easier and keep it hard. Plus, they say they want to make the story of FF14 epic, so the fights will be even more fun emotionally.

[Kurokikaze]

Just imagine if a lot of the fights were at least as hard as the last AU mission fight.

More like as hard as Ultima/Omega mission when it first came out. Never burned so much gil for pots/viles till that mission. haha

[superzombie23]

More like as hard as Ultima/Omega mission when it first came out.

Yeah, I just edited in CoP missions into my post o_O. That airship battle was HARDCOREEEEE! lmao... My group had to be prepared for every phase of those bosses and coordinate using the items perfectly. Vhazl was pretty bad too. I don't mind doing that all again with FF14. It's just great getting a challenge.

[Hyan]

I do hope when they say they want to make the game 'more casual' they mean "doesn't take ages to do shit"-casual instead of "every quest mission and fight in the game is easy"-casual.

[Seph]

Looks like I'm going to have to get build a new desktop around the time this game comes out. My Asus G1S-A1 laptop which is 4 GB RAM, Nvidia 8600m GT, Core 2 duo 2.20 Ghz probably can't handle that on the super high settings I want to savor it in. It was a really good laptop a couple years back, but it's starting to show its age. I'm never getting another laptop again for a very very long time cuz that one costed me 2K out of my dad's pocket Xd. I haven't invested in a new desktop for around 7-8 years.

well that was a laptop not a gaming laptop, gaming laptops from few years ago can run FFXIV @Max settings.

A gaming laptop similar to those can run FFXIV with max settings easily unless SE decide to use Directx11 which they will properly use, from the interview they plan to support Dual/Quad cores and multi threads (Core i7 = 4cores/8threads shows as 8 cores in windows though"
Newegg.com - ASUS G Series G51Vx-A1 NoteBook Intel Core 2 Quad Q9000(2.00GHz) 15.6" 4GB Memory 640GB HDD 7200rpm DVD Super Multi NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M - Laptops / Notebooks

[superzombie23]

well that was a laptop not a gaming laptop, gaming laptops from few years ago can run FFXIV @Max settings.

A gaming laptop similar to those can run FFXIV with max settings easily unless SE decide to use Directx11 which they will properly use, from the interview they plan to support Dual/Quad cores and multi threads (Core i7 = 4cores/8threads shows as 8 cores in windows though"
Newegg.com - ASUS G Series G51Vx-A1 NoteBook Intel Core 2 Quad Q9000(2.00GHz) 15.6" 4GB Memory 640GB HDD 7200rpm DVD Super Multi NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M - Laptops / Notebooks

U make it sound like my laptop wasn't considered a gaming laptop ... I think the Asus I got back in summer 2007 was the best laptop they had. I asked computer forums about what the best laptop would be, and everyone said that was the best at the time. They would have suggested a better and more expensive one. I probably should have waited a bit for the quads. Of course, the one you linked has the GTX, it'll kill my vid card.

[Seph]

U make it sound like my laptop wasn't considered a gaming laptop ... I think the Asus I got back in summer 2007 was the best laptop they had. I asked computer forums about what the best laptop would be, and everyone said that was the best at the time. They would have suggested a better and more expensive one. I probably should have waited a bit for the quads. Of course, the one you linked has the GTX, it'll kill my vid card.

Sorry man but 8600GT was hardly a gaming laptop even macbooks had them lol ;;
8800m GTX/GT were the gaming laptops but don't worry by the time FFXIV is out laptops that run it max settings will be even cheaper

I despise desktops too big/heavy/unmoveable/noisy/so much heat etc the only good about them is that the graphic is upgradeable and i do not care about it since i only game on consoles the only graphic power i require is being able to play FFXIV with max graphic on PC, it's already possible in 2009 and should be even cheaper by 2010 fall when FFXIV get released.

[superzombie23]

8800m GTX/GT were the gaming laptops but don't worry by the time FFXIV is out laptops that run it max settings will be even cheaper

The 8800 laptops came out a month or two right after I got mine -.-. I'm prob still gonna stick to building a desktop cuz I'm hungry for powarrrr. I know there's going to be a laggy raid in FF14. I don't want my FPS to drop o.o .

[hebi]

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[100percentile]

Wow so weapons change our appearance? our entire appearance? Don't like the sound of that..

[Hyan]

Wow so weapons change our appearance? our entire appearance? Don't like the sound of that..

Like changing jobs from MNK to WHM changes our appearence, I guess...

[Kurokikaze]

I think weapon types will change our appearance. Something along the lines of:

Lance = DRG
Great Katana = SAM
Staff = BLM
Katana = NIN

These are just examples. I'm also going as far as to speculate that within these types they are classified even further. Take sword for example:

Type: Sword
Family: Rapier/Broadsword/Longsword/etc

Equipping something of each family will allow usage of special techniques/abilities. Again this is just me guessing. :X

[Hyan]

At least this means that when a new expansion rolls around with new classes available we'll get new weapon types too =Q__ whips!

[Uzor]

At least this means that when a new expansion rolls around with new classes available we'll get new weapon types too =Q__ whips!

Nunchuks ftw?

[Trocian]

whips!

There will be no whips.

[Hyan]

They could make an Archaelogist class.... =/

[Datonare]

Since both hands have their own action gauge, I can picture dual wielding (if there will be DW anyway) being pretty cool. Maybe a certain weapons will just be a set? Sort of like how hand-to-hand is just one weapon, but affects both hands in FFXI. Maybe Katanas will come in pairs and will automatically be dual wielded in FFXIV... if there are katanas anyway.

[Kaslo]

They could make an Archaelogist class.... =/

Seeing how much SE is becoming a fan of measures as weapons I can see this happening.