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yes...the game is fun, but.....

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I would definately reccomend the pc version because then you dont have to pay for all the extensions for you ps2 and you dont have to break any bones setting it up. if you buy this item you will end up paying much more than the price for the actual game, you ight have to pay for extras and of course an extra dollar is added to the monthy price you already have to pay for each character you make, doesn't sound like much? It adds up so be careful.

Now, let's look on the bright side, the game is very enjoyable and you never run out of things to do, but lets face it, it's very hard to get on the same channel as your friends. I know people (including myself) that kept starting over for about a month until the finally got on the same channel as their friends, it can be very agrivating and almost everyone who owns is complains about the same thing. But you will find very helpful people on there that are willing to help you out sometimes even when you dont need them.

The game is very fun and you dont run out of new thigns to do because you can intereact with other people and there are plenty of jobs to have and things to get. I just hope that you are a real computer person when you try to set this all up....

Buy it? Yes, jsut make sure that you have the money and time to get the right use out of it, this happens to be a very good price compared to some of the ones I've seen

Incredible gaming experience

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: October 25, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I was also a member of the beta (IYO). FFXI is incredibly addictive fun! It's all about collaboration, meeting and playing with other players doing quests, missions, level parties, treasuring hunting and so much more! Battles are all in real-time. And, yes, while you tell your character to attack, you have special attacks, spells, and items that you must choose to use as things happen in the battle! You "could" sit there and do nothing as your character fights - but what fun would that be? The overall interface is very similar to everquest with enhancements like MAPS, and mission/quest tracking. I HIGHLY recommend this game! Oh, and the chocobos, character types (white mages, black mages), summons, crystals, and other signature Final Fantasy elements are all in here!

Good at first, bad later

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: February 17, 2004
Author: Amazon User

FFXI started off as a great game; huge world to explore, beautiful graphics, nice RPG feel. Until, I met my first death. And my death wasn't later in the game, it was within the first 15 minutes! My death wasn't caused by my sucking at RPGs, but at the mobs themselves. It seems that unlike every other MMORPG out there that gives the player some kind of notice as to a mob's strength by give it a different color name (blue=weak, red=can kill you with a sneeze), FFXI decides to go a different route. I was killing wild hares when I incountered a forest hare. Since it looked just like the wild hares, I attacked it. BIG MISTAKE! This furry little ball of death killed me in 4 hits! FFXI forces you to examine every mob to see how strong it is compared to you, which I think is a huge waste of time. And of course, when you die, you lose experience points, so much so that you might actually level DOWN! You should never see the words LEVEL DOWN in a RPG, online or off. But that's not my biggest complaint. My biggest gripe is the fact that after level 18 or so, the game gets a little boring. True, you can always take up blacksmithing or cooking, but I don't playing RPGs to do stuff I can do in reality, I play them to excape reality. I play RPG's to kill stuff, which FFXI allows you to do solo, until level 18. After that, the mobs get so hard, that even an easy prey monster can kill you. Even if you are able to solo a mob, you will spend twice the amount of time healing as you did killing it, unless of course you're a white mage, who only have a problem living long enough in a solo battle to heal afterwards. After level 18, you HAVE to group, which I HATE! I don't hate playing with other people, otherwise I would not be playing a MMORPG, but I hate being forced to group when I would rather solo. Most of the level 18+ groups on Final Fantasy XI are composed of bossy little runts that just want to find the most deadlest thing around and attempt to kill it. Often what ends up happening is the whole group dies and the one moron that got everyone killed either leaves or says: "Come on guys, we can get it this time." If you didn't have to do insane missions in order to advance the storyline (what little you might find), have more stuff to kill, and if it was geared more towards solo play and less on forced groups, than FFXI would be the best MMORPG on the market. As it stands now, all it has going for it is great graphics, near god-like monsters, and the Final Fantasy name. If you like having to group with a bunch of whiners, than pick this game up, otherwise, stick with the other GOOD Final Fantasy games.

Big fan of Final Fantasy Series, but....

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 19
Date: March 31, 2004
Author: Amazon User

As the title states, I am a very big and dedicated Final Fantasy fan of the series but when I purchased this game I had a total letdown. This game is soooooooooo booooring and nothing compared to any of the other Final Fantasy legends. This is a big waste of your money. I regret buying this ridiculously lame game. If you think this game is still worth the buy, then by all means go for it. But you have been warned!!! I give this game a big fat ZERO!!!

Nice try

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 13
Date: November 13, 2003
Author: Amazon User

My problems with this game are that if you play as an amarican there is no server for you. Your forced onto a server with people who dont understand you or you them with a small translation tool that is hard to use and hardly solves the mass problems of all the people who you dont understand being a million times higher leveled then you or domanateing the econemy. In my opinon this game really treats you as tho your second class for being amarican and becuse of that I canceled my account after the first week. Haveing there team with better support and new servers for the amarican population would have helped but that was the choice they made.

Bag... of ...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: September 06, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I had, unfortunately, very high expectations of this game. I mean, Final Fantasy... MMORPG? Whoa! The best of two worlds collide!

Unfortunately, they collide in a horrible way. Square smashed this game out of the park graphically, and the sounds effects and music are decent too. Unfortunately as well, that's where the positives stop.

- The UI is awful and unintuitive.
- Play control is cumbersome at best.
- Players are (mostly) unhelpful to new players.
- Race/Class combination is pretty boring. Each race has a "best" class and most people go that route.
- Did I mention play control is horrible?
- The combat system is, also, unintuitive. I *highly* recommend playing a melee character as a first. Any casting class will be killed over, and over, and over. And apparently this is just blindly accepted.
- The chat system is pesky.
- Oh yeah... the play control? Don't even get me started on it.

Now, the reason I weighed Play Control so heavily is because, in ANY MMORPG, you're going to spend a LOT of time traveling around. A *lot*. That, mixed with the horrible UI and combat system just make for a very frustrating experience. If you want a game with any sort of substance? Do yourself a favor and check out World of Warcraft. Or even Dark Age of Camelot.

short and sweet...don't waste your money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: July 24, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I can't begin to describe how boring this game was. After sitting at home for 3 hours for all the install and updates I finally was able to play. I couldn't believe how dumb the controls were on the XBOX controller. We have microphones...and if you play games like call of duty 2 you can talk to different people, but not in this game. You have to scroll through a picture of a keyboard on the screen...it takes 1 minute to write your name. Just don't get it if you are not into games that have a really really deep storyline...100's of foreign names for everything, lots of walking and way too many controls. I played FF9 and absolutely loved it. Can't say that about this one. I am pretty bitter about spending the money on this game. Hope this review was helpful. I read a lot of positive reviews on this site and I am assuming those ones are from people who really are into intense, never-ending role playing games.

$$$$$$$$$$

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 14
Date: October 29, 2003
Author: Amazon User

One thing that just is crazy is how much money square wants. Its soooo much. Im sure you guys know and everyhting but i just want to emphasize it. A normal MMORPG cost about 13$ a month with 5 charecters. Square wants like 19$. $^&%!!!! 1$ per guy. OUCH. Then they want 50$ to buy. Have you seen Asherons Call price when it came out? 20$ to buy 10$ a month. Boy has it changed over the years. Greedy basterds =/.

pricy! BUT EXTREMELY FUN!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 14
Date: September 19, 2005
Author: Amazon User

i think its pricy for the monthly fee i wish we only had to pay like 5 bucks b ut its fer a good reason nway the games really fun i play it at my friends house all the freakin tyme nd im getting an alienware computer soon so i can finally buy my own copy nway plz buy this very veru fun game

Do not buy game used

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 8
Date: July 04, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game on ebay and stated new. New as in the person did not play the game because you need a certain graphis card to run the game. So I bought the game, just bought the graphics card. And then when installing the game on playonline the registration code was invalid.. The reason was the person did not play the game but just to install the game he used a registration code just to install the game.. So I paid almost full price for a worthless game that I can't use. Gotta love that.

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