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  • I'm not playing a game to mindlessly drone my way into level 99. I want it to be a journey...

  • Okay time to put my two cents into this. Frankly I am so sick of all other MMO's just being a rip off of WOW. The interfaces are essentially the same. Final Fantasy is the only MMO that sets itself apart. EVERYTHING negative that was mentioned in this video is exactly why I love Final Fantasy: because it's challenging. In real life you don't have way points or glowing orbs or question marks floating above characters, NPC's. I hate the button mashing of all other MMO's, it just kills a game.

  • Wow, I'm glad I watched this review before buying the game. I keep seeing it at stores for $20 and have been curious to play it. This review is 1/5 years old though...has the game gotten better and worth playing? Or is everything he says still true? Maybe I'll just wait for Tera

  • @Yukito590 Wait a little bit. There about to release a re release of it called Final Fantasy XIV 2.0 for PC and PS3. Its gonna fix all the issues.

  • the game is potentially good but square enix rushed the release of it, personally im gonna wait a couple years for them to fix problems and introduce those greatly needed updates then i might consider playing it. i think SE should never have made the game in the first place and just focused on FFXI which in my opinion is still a good game.

  • @bran6464 Final Fantasy XIV 2.0 is coming out either in January of 2013 or late 2012. It should fix all the issues. I'm pretty excited.

  • i thought this asa review not a huge troll video 

  • ff6 ff12 ff10 best ones o and ff3 was a good one

  • FF11 is still the best

  • i was planning on buying final fantasy 14 cd but, this changes everything

  • @neroflame13 don't let this biased and over opinionated tool from gamespot sway your opinion. He is obviously just having a rage fit over what he doesn't like about the game. He should be fired for this. XIV is a good game. It has it's problems like crashing and bugs. They are releasing an update later this month that will add shit tons of new content and bug fixes. Also fuck gamespot

  • @merral1 tell me about the game, is there duel blades or huge swords cause i would love to know if there is.

  • @neroflame13 I'm not sure about Duel Wielding. My main class for the time being is an Archer. I know there are huge swords and huge bows. I can only assume that the ninja class and gladiator classes will have duel wielding now or in future updates. One great thing about FFXIV is that you can switch your class simply by changin your weapon and equipping the appropriate armor. The game consists of very large maps full of beautiful scenery. In it's current form it is quite impressive

  • @merral1 awesome~ I will have to wait until my laptop get fixed, the game needs a good graphic

  • GARBAGE JUST LIKE THE LAST ONE! i love FF but they fucking BLOW with mmo's!

  • @wolfmoon2682 lol you did not even try FFXI. And FFXI is very good and fun.

  • @AktiebolagetAB I just started FFXIV, I must admit, I AM enjoying it however I've never played an MMO before so, y'know

  • @AktiebolagetAB So true!

  • Lol and here we go wit dakonvict lmfao!

  • @smokedatshit you are obviously engulfed by mediocrity. Just look at your name. You are a pathetic wanna be gangsta nerd. All of your comments try and make people who hate this game sound stupid. Well I recently brought over a FFXIV player to SWTOR and well...I know why people play the game. It is a mindless gutter of nonsafisticated trash just like your pothead ass. So yes pot probably does help with this game, but I like to play games where space and time aren't warped and it still is fun. Th

  • I just think people should stop bitching. If you hate it don't play it. I personally love it. None of these "problems" he talked about aren't any problem whatsoever to me.

  • This review is spot on. I am a big Final Fantasy fan, and this game is complete shit!

  • Final Fanstasy 14 can suck my scrotum!!

  • To the multiple and vast developer teams of the Final Fantasy franchise: Please stick to the ol' plain RPGs that we know and love FF for and consider this your punishment for attempting to make an MMO.

  • This is like total rant video but I agree this game is a atrocity

  • @LordMarcusX We all do, we all do.

  • I hate Final Fantasy 14.

  • hands up if you think Square Enix should release an SDK for Crystal Tools Engine like Epic Games did

  • How do i know where to go next ?? A: LOOK AROUND!! ITS FINAL FANTASY !

    Where are the market ward ??? A: LOOK AROUND !!

    Why isnt the game using hotkey to change Equipement : A: BECAUSE ITS TOO EASY !

    WHY NOT MAKING A EASY FREAKING XBOX360 GAME WHICH YOU FINISH IN 20 minutes? A: we are TIRED of it !

    WHY SO MUCH WASTE OF TIME: GIVE ME A BREAK ! ALL MMO ARE WASTE OF TIME LOL

    Finally... THE MAP IS NOT USELESS!!!!!!!!

    i hate this guy if i see u on the street i will boo you ! lol go back home

  • First of all, let me tell you that you are really stupid and you are NOT a final fantasy player ! If you dont know what to do is because you are totally STUPID lol !

    Seriously.... comon dude ! i do agree that there is some bug to fix ! and i totally would not pay to play until 2.0 but what you say into the video is STUPID !

    I hate how people hate on final fantasy ! if you cant make macro ? do NOT play !

    Stop hating final fantasy and DO NOT play ! WHY DO YOU NEED WAYPOINT???????

  • This game reminds me off a better mor mytsical version of runescape.

    I do play this though but have not been into it as much as the others.

  • This game is Pathetic, Im so disappointed of what these nob heads came up with.. -_-

  • Oh even the single player final fantasy square enix made.. which was ff13 SUCKS!

  • FFXIV is still very bad, it's not improving... Patch 1.20 is just another fail.

    Still no auction house, there is a new acheivement system that just recycles the game and expects everyone to do all the crafting and gathering jobs all over again.

    I have been playing since the launch and I am done. They can't fix this game.

  • How is the game now? it's been a year, hope they fixed everything this guy bashed on because I actually planned on trying it out.. but with the subscription, I'm wondering for the PC or PS3? add me PSN: Tekneeq1

  • FFXIV good videos nothing else ;)

  • dam i wanted this to be good... its basically the only mmorpg on ps3 right now apart from dc online but thats all like superheroes and villians

  • are u fukin crazy? theyve forgot about the regular final fantasy all together.... what happened to what i call the "take-turn system" and the rigged bosses, and the great storyline. i know this is ment for pc but even so its horrifying.

    thumbs up if u miss those old FF games with like Cloud and Tidus!

  • @KLParkour - I can't agree more. I'd rather them just release a new final fantasy every couple of years that was actually fantastic, rather than wave after wave of crap - all the while hoping that we won't notice and will buy because it has Final Fantasy in the name..

  • @KLParkour Or, y'know, Terra or Cecil

  • @KLParkour Fuck off ff7 was a piece of shit try playing a good game, like ff6

  • @KLParkour lol old FF games. Then...Tidus. fail. This game is actually more towards the model of old FF games. FF 10 is when FF started veering its' coarse. 10 was total shit. 10-2 on the other hand was good. FF 10 is not old FF. Please go away and stick your thumbs up your ass

  • @KLParkour Yeah, and you're obviously older than 12.

  • @KLParkour i agree witth u ff games are falling off the face of the earth but hopefully ff versus 13 will be good

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  • SWTOR > Every Other MMORPG

  • @ktown4life1337 nooo, dont like mechas and comsos ;( pew pew pew laser bam !

  • это че за дура

  • its just like the original Final Fantasy online with just new graphics and changing the names of the city's and the races.

  • Why did they male this game so complex? Omg and the gameplay looks so slow and mega grinding feast. If would rate this 1 to 10.

    1 M0TH3R****%%%--S$TAR!

  • Oh this is why it costs $10 now ...

  • Honestly. This is way better than what they did for final fantasy 13...They should just stick to this style for offline Final Fantasy games. Add in tons of quality content and a lag free gui and we're in business.

  • Thats not what i read.

  • Omg I'm a final fantasy fan but, this ff 14 online freaking suck! What the he'll were they thinking!!!!!

  • Ok I just brought this game I really hope it’s not as bad as he said.

  • @mothrabattra I dont like it didnt even use the free 30 days

  • @HyperCrushFTW so how is it? still that bad?

  • Final Fantasy XIV >> FAIL

    Case Closed

    Both online XI & XIV are failure, still believe SE will make another online FF...the question is will they learn their failure??

  • Everything he said was completely true. I spent hundred on it and SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO disappointed!!!!!

    Even a free mmo is about 3x better

  • Im getting it on the ps vita.

  • @sonnavabich its not coming to the ps vita

  • this game and wow, if they had a baby it would be.... well...... BABIES!

  • Have you asking that age old question: " Why did i try to find a substitute for wow?"

  • and i havent played a single mmo that isnt all about grinding have any of you? atleast they tried with cutscenes and comeone every mmo game recycles environments and enemies seems unfair to shit on this game for having the same exact traits every other mmo even the praised wow has.

  • another review should be done with mmos after patches its been a year no doubt many things have been fixed with patches since the original debut. well hopefully i will be done patching this game soon and be able to judge for myself.

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  • Apparently people can walk through walls also. 6:49

  • i thought this game would make a difference damn i ain't buyin' it but instead i'll by conan and plus it's price is triple of the conan in the store huh

  • SMH...........................­...

  • they forgot about patches when they reviewed this game lol

  • 12 stabs from spear cant kill a rat? wtf

  • Guys, this game is originally created for Ps3. Now stop complaining about all the shit that you don't like.

  • all the hate for FF14 is a direct result of new "gamers" who have only ever played WoW. WoW is a horrible MMORPG. If you hatred of a game stems from "uhh, why do i have to click twice to get to my inventory?" Then you are a spoiled WoW brat who has never scoured the dungeons of Hythloth or Destard, and you really have no idea what you're talking about.

  • @PrkchpsNaplsaws or maybe people prefer the smarter and easy menu control in wow rather than a complicated and unnecessary menu system because of lazy/stupid game design.

  • @PrkchpsNaplsaws Yeah making a game ridiculous complex isn't rewarding or satisfying. I would rather have clarity over confusement anyday, thats the problem with Square Enix, they think they can have pretty graphics and that will sell the game, they are wrong. Plus they need to stop blaming "Western gamers" because they were liked before they tried to Westernise their games, its ridiculous. Westernise has no meaning, except for covering up development mistakes.

  • @PrkchpsNaplsaws My first MMO was Final Fantasy XI and I love it. Guess your blanket statement fails. Fail Fantasy 14 sucks balls, period.

  • @PrkchpsNaplsaws can't tell if trolling or mentally retarded...

  • @PrkchpsNaplsaws Uhh, the review listed about 50 other reasons besides having to click twice to open your inv, most of which are pretty significant and add up to a really frustrating and dull game experience.

    And since you mention it I've been playing games since about 12 years before WoW came out, I've had max level characters in 8 MMOs including WoW and I have some idea what I'm talking about when I say that having to click twice to open your inv is a majorly awful piece of game design.

  • @PrkchpsNaplsaws

    i happen to play Atlantica online and it's one of grindest games i've ever played but compared to FF14 it's much more accessible.

    I can spend time ingame but to make me spending it on useless things like trying to find a sward in the market or browsing thorough my inventory...not cool at all.

  • Square-enix sucks shit. Bring back squaresoft.

  • I just don't get it, why do they keep trying MMORPG? Clearly, they're not good at it...

  • @SJW255

    His point is propably that after 2003 they just started to make crap games. X and X-2 were the last two good games they made in my opinion. X-2 was not really the greatest either.. But since X was insanely good i enjoyed X-2 aswell ;)

  • I will forever love you Final Fantasy, but this one actually seems...Final.

  • i changed my mind, dang it i though it was really good with those graohics and cut scenes.. but who knows

  • They had to pay me to play this game, I havent even played it yet and im already bored.

    There were only 2 Action RPG I never got bored , SACRED 1 and SACRED 2.

    The only problem they had were the servers. Still hope tht some company buy its rights and create Sacred MMO.

    And I cant wait for DIABLO 3

  • with a game this bad made by a high- level company like square enix it makes you think if this were unpurpose or if the were stoned. this game does'nt deserve to have final fantasy in the title.

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  • Lol i love it when people rag on something new, tell me, was Ragnarok any good when it stared, NO, it was boring EVERYTHING starts somewhere, they need input from players and other people in order to grow the game, i am currently building a new computer for the exact purpose of playing this game AND look forward to it IMMENSELY!!

    Everything starts out slowly, its a huge game with HUGE potential and will in time grow into something im sure this "reviewer" will FAWN over

  • I'm sorry, but this isn't a Final Fantasy game.

    Where on Earth is the story? The emotions of the characters? The amazing classical scores? The "personalized" feeling you get when playing a Final Fantasy game?

    SquareSoft has gone down hill at such a rapid rate and its a real darn shame :( The really need to go back to the basics and the classic ideas that made the games so amazing in the first 9-10 games.

  • @TranceBeforeWeDie

    The games pretty much got shit after X-2. (X-2 wasnt the best but it wasnt bad either. But X was amazing)

    And all the games before X are great but to old for me to enjoy now.. I grew up with FFX and FFX will always be the greatest one in my opinion :D

    This game is a online game tho, so i dont think its supposed to have story and emotions.

  • their production team just doesn;t know enough about MMORPG's I guess. eh, if they don't go bankrupt, they will improve and make something great in the future I guess.

  • it's a real shame that FF14 is actually poorer in just about every aspect than it's predecessor (FF11). Obviosly the graphics are better, and it's a little better for the soloing crowd, but just about everything else fails atrociously. Why not keep what was working in FF11 and import it ? Why spend time developping a WORSE interface ? Add to that, No Auction House, No auto-attacks, and plain obvios cut'n'paste mazes instead of the open-ended zones of FF11.

    Tried to love, failed :-(

  • we need a good online rpg game for ps3 just like pc has wow......

  • does anyone know if the patch inproved anything yet?

  • Look at 5:21 , it has 6 guys beating up a little rat. That's a quest for you all who are still playing FFXIV.

  • i was so excited for this :(:(:( its really sad it turned out this way :(

    i hope they learned from this and listen to the feedback.

    goodluck

  • So, @gamespot, around a year later, is the game any better?

  • AHHH SQUARESOFT PLEASE STOP MAKING MMOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • I acturley like the game.

  • this video is almost 1 year ago

    i dont play ffxiv but planning to do and i believe that the is changed to a better system than this on video

  • god this really do look like its suck

  • How badly is GameStain biased against FF and its MMORPGs?

    Google " Final Fantasy XI: Ultimate Collection (X360) "

    They could not be bothered to troubleshoot its links so badly, the links to the FFXI UC reviews & product are instead, links to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

    Or perhaps they replaced them on purpose?

    Did GameStain get paid off by WoW to pan FF?

  • GameSpot and IGN have always been part of the racist, introspection-free FPS & PK (Diablo, WC, SC, WoW) community

    They hate RPGs, even overtly complaining about having to review RPGs, & consistently rate any RPG lower than they do the shootemups

    FFXIV may actually have had or even continue to have flaws after its release, but you won't find out here; what you should be concerned with is the quality of the criticism. To paraphrase the critic, "this is not the review you should be watching"

  • The criticisms here boil down to two things. "I want EZ now" and "I hate everything that RPGs have always done"

    Wikipedia includes this review in the criticisms of the game's interface, including the "step backward" quote

    Now I KNOW that is flying bull crap, because the interface is the reason I quit FFXI, and the standard I used to compare the 11 interface with was Anarchy Online and Dark Age of Camelot, which both used a similar number-key quickbar interface to the one that 14 uses now

  • @VvAnarchangelvV The interface in 11 is amazing. you must have meant 14

  • lol its all true i still dont know why i ever bought this game xD usualy final fantasy was always great but this sucks only the graphics are great. great revieuw though

  • I'v heard that they got pushed to launch the game to early so they didn't have time to finish it. That's why the PS3 version still isn't released as they don't get pushed to release it there.

    I'm still waiting for the PS3 version and hope they fixed most of the important stuff when it gets released.

  • worst game since fff13

  • @bluballzzz

    nope ff13 still holds the crown as one of the worst rpg's made.

  • @hungoversundays are you joking? it was awesome, it has one of the best combats systems I have ever seen! Yeah yeah its linear, but frankly I'm bored with that complaint.

  • @theseakker ff 13 story,characters,and plot was bad too. i don't have a problem with linear games but you got to admit this game was lame, it wasn't bad, it was just lame. lol

  • @Gamerkillzone I'll agree with bad characters, but I liked the mythology that they created and the plot had its good points but yeah it was bad for the most part especially the ending. But the combat system was all worth it! xD

  • @theseakker the mythology to me wasnt that creative, games like ff9 had great mythology, its just the fact that the graphics covered up the games lack of creativity. I can still go back to game like zelda who dint have great graphics but had a great strory and great creativity especially with there characters. with this game and me being a ff fan it just didnt hit home for me

  • @hungoversundays FF 13 may be linear, But it was still a great game. I don't know what you're talking about.

  • @hungoversundays  You better take that back before Lightning comes for you...

  • @TheFlashyGamer

    Oh no, I might have to do "The Sex" with her to wipe that awful smirk off her face once and for all..

  • Before he even had to say it, I was like "What were they thinking?"

  • I love how difficult it is to kill a rat with a spear xD

  • this guy plays too much WoW

  • @cloudzers777 No. He's just a experince critic.

  • do agree with review seems bit harsh ,voice acting seemed very good ive not loved a ff game since ffx , but im still in hope a ff 7 8 or 10 type game comes

  • just show how much you guys are noobs and dont know shit about the game, ITS been 6 patchs since the horrible launch and the game is much better, and yes ,its free to play cuz Yoshi-P wants to make the game perfect for ps3 launch, when that happens with chocobos, materia system, jobs ,jump feature,refined combat and lots of content , PS3 will be launched =D

  • @alef321 since u know alot about this game and i dont, can u please tell me whats the most current FF out there? and what do u mean its free, i thought u had to buy this game...

  • @xbox360nerd123123 the most current one is Final fantasy XIII type zero for PSP, japan only, FF14 is pay to play and you have to buy a copy but square turned the game free to play until the game gets his first content pack and ps3 launch.

  • @alef321 ohhh okay, ty

  • @alef321 People moved on from this joke of a MMO.I'm playing Rift now and its great and guess what the game was not broken its actually fun and you feel like your accomplishing something.Face it FFXIV was a joke and is dead in the water

  • @nash3timemvp google lodestone o/ have fun

  • @alef321 i tried rift after ffxiv that game was so boring just another carbon copy of wow like most other new mmos right now i cam back to eq2 and play xiv on the side both are much better than wow in a mask, yes its launch was terrible but its had some patches that made it much better + what is your definition of dead plenty of people still play it (my server anyways)

  • Your presentation is a lot better than the game was!

  • this guys hilarious

  • so wierd. that square enix developers could actually sit down and say hey i think this game is good lets ship. i never liked ff11 either but ive liked the single player games. this was just pathetic

  • its good damn slow !

  • worst game ever made..

  • warcraft really set the standard for mmorpgs. i find it ironic because they (blizzard) are rts makers who made the best mmorpg and yet the best rpg makers (well last century anyway) cant make a decent one

  • @xierotron Yeah they did, and lots of other game makers have used ideas that World of Warcraft has essentially polished up in their own games.

  • *since launch.

  • I just have to say, they have made a lot of changes with launch. The new dev team is very dedicated to overhauling some major aspects of this game. Another really great patch is due this week on July 21st.

  • This game will be good...one day...hopefully

  • 3:28

    Gackt Camui (Japanese Actor/Singer reference)

    Arriety Nausicaa (Studio Ghibli reference)

  • That music in the background needs to stop.

  • FFXI with these graphics would be nice...

  • @ 1:47 seconds he ask a very important question. The same question i asked when i first played World of Warcraft. I no longer play that game as i got confused. My first online game was FFXI, guess that's why this game came a bit easy for me. And I knew what i was getting into when i bought the game, I knew it wasn't gonna be polished to the way people expect. But, neither was WoW when it first came out. Give it time, and maybe, you'll be playing this game too.

  • @OhayoFurankii I don't think you play it. It's been F2P since launch because even the people who made it think it sucks too much to pay for. Look it up, I'm not even making this up/

  • @OhayoFurankii Ah, you and your love of terrible games.

  • when is this coming out for ps3

  • @Bartman487 dont bother..its horrible

  • @damianson is final fantasy 9 worth getting on ps3 instead of black ops retaliation map pack when it comes out

  • @Bartman487 No announce for the PS3, maybe because they want to fix everything first before release date. You might want to wait until the PS3 version comes out because as right now it hasn't much stuff to do since they are too busy fixing it.

  • @Bartman487 october 31st

  • I'm guessing Gamespot asked Enix to pay for a good review. Enix refused and Gamespot went on a rampage making a giant bash-fest for their review.

    I obviously haven't played the game but its pretty obvious this guy has a motive to make this game sound as bad as possible.

  • @13LatinPride13 That's cuz it IS bad >:O

  • @13LatinPride13 That would be all fine but this game really IS that bad

  • @13LatinPride13 Gamespot asked them for the money?? Sounds like greedy, that's why I won't listen to those reviewers. This game has been improved alot better lately.

  • @13LatinPride13 yeah, looks like gamespot aren't the only ones who think this game is just awful all round.

  • lol this man ripped FF 14... lol it is horrible... looking forward to15.. i hope it does not crap out like 14 and turns out awesome like 13

  • Anyone know if any of these problems are fixed?

  • @FreewheelinLibertine The interface is a lot faster and responsive now. Some in game tutorials now appear after dialogue with NPC's. An item search (i.e. auction house) system has been put in place to see what retainer sells what. Parts of the map are now labeled. That's about it.

  • @FreewheelinLibertine Not 100% but close enough. I suggest you wait until PS3 version comes out because it's new and there isn't much stuff to do yet.

  • It needs to be testet a new xD now its much better and i guess after the re release its just hyper awesome!!!! so i guess in 6 months it need to be retested!

  • Behold! One of the worst MMO's in history! Oh Square Enix. You should stop making Final Fantasy games and work on the GOOD game you've been throwing to the side lately. Deus Ex 3.

  • @FLAMINGBABYPUNCH That's Eidos.

  • @realkman666 eidos is a subsidiary of square enix

  • I purchased this game last year, when it first came out in Australia and it was so buggy I uninstalled it the next day.. decided to give it another go last week. but i just cant get into it. does it get good? at all? lol

  • so many bad comment on ff14, i guess i wont start ~

    but still i love ff11 a lot ~ peace ~ ff14 ~

  • Silly fan boys hanging on to their shit game.