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Once again, Squenix played it safe banking on the nostalgia of fans and appealing to another favorite name, Nobuo Uematsu, traditional composer for the series.
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The Magitek armor and spiky accents of Dragoon armor are now rendered in full 3D, and for long time fans of the series, there’s a lot of wish fulfillment going on here. The art direction is another matter entirely, borrowing from numerous past games, but most prominently borrowing from none other than Yoshitaka Amano himself, the man most responsible for the early look of the FF series.
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This is a game that is clearly struggling on the PS3, but despite that, it still manages to function reasonably enough.
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Textures are a bit muddier, the frame rate mostly stays at 30 but dips noticeably during busy, effects heavy combat and the PS3 is far less capable of rendering numerous players on screen, meaning that while a PC player may see dozens of players crowding out a common hub area, or hectic public fight, a PS3 player may see half that, with serious performance hits.Įven in non-combat situations, just running through a city area too fast can cause a delayed response in the game as it struggles to load in NPCs (even quest related ones) that should be standing right in front of you. It’s about equivalent to a PC running the game on mid-range settings, and in some cases, it shows very obviously. The PS3, running on seven year old tech, with only 512 MB of RAM, should have collapsed under the demands of this game, but it doesn’t.
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The game on more recently built PCs can confidently handle sharp textures, 1080p resolution and 60 fps.
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Technically, the game is an impressive demonstration of software engineering on the PS3, not because it runs beautifully, but because it runs at all. But then, with a catastrophically bad initial debut and a skeptical audience, perhaps Squenix decided to take no chances with FFXIV: ARR and just give the audience what they wanted. There’s a certain Call of Duty-esque need for the familiar in the Final Fantasy fan base, and they have been poorly served by Squenix until now.
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The fact that it hearkens back to older Squenix RPG plots both in simplicity and in callbacks to past titles (Magitek armor from FFVI, for example, figures prominently) is both deliberate and probably more welcome to FF fans than the drastic reinvention the series has undergone in the current console generation. The simpler story of a hero on the rise takes centre stage in the numerous cutscenes sprinkled throughout the game, and provides a constant thread for players to refer to despite the huge, nonlinear nature of an MMO. It’s much simpler fare compared to the meandering, philosophical/existential angst of FFXIII, and it’s all the better for it. Into the realm of Eorzea comes you, “the adventurer,” seeking fame and fortune before a larger storyline involving conspiracies and rival evil kingdoms dominates the plot. The world and continuity of FFXIV (version 1) is kept intact, with a story of a narrowly averted cataclysm that “resets” the world. The story in the game follows similar lines. That’s the business story behind Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn. It’s an unprecedented story of a company valuing a brand so much that when an inferior product was released, they refused to let it die, and brought it back into the workshop to fix and re-release. Rising From The AshesĪt this point, it’s common knowledge amongst most of the gaming community that “something” happened with FFXIV that caused it to retreat back into production. And amazingly, it was the best thing that could happen to this game. It’s an unprecedented move for an MMO-or any game for that matter-to try for round 2, but FFXIV has done it. The game was so broken that Squenix, via new producer Naoki Yoshida, took the game back, completely revamped it, and rereleased it with an apology to the fans. They’ve been losing market share in the RPG space to the likes of BioWare, their flagship franchise Final Fantasy has been losing its way, and the launch of Final Fantasy XIV was a complete disaster. Square-Enix has not been at the top of its game lately.