Pros and Cons post Gamescon Alpha

Bellarion

Having received further information into the game I thought we could do a pros and cons list of what we see so far.

Pros:

Fast movement- It seems to me that character movement speed has been increased. Which is awesome. I think this balances other time sink aspects necessary in a good MMO. I don't think walking is a good time sink and judging by what I see in the Alpha videos I am hoping movement speed truly has been increased.

Slow Combat- Combat speed does not seem to have drastically changed! Yay, we still have slower combat allowing for all the intricacies that SE will no doubt throw at us in combat gameplay.

Beautiful scenery and character models- Its amazing, even from a camcorder/phone recording of Alpha material I am impressed.

Character movement style and emotes- Very nice, I will enjoy watchting my character move around the screen with the ineresting stances, pauses and emotes I have so far seen.

Very FF11 like feel- I feel like I could jump into this game and be really comfortable. While still enjoying all that is new. Just the look of the game and combat has eased some of the feelings that maybe this game will be a lame attempt to reach the masses.

 

Cons:

Buttons- Ahhhh I do not like stuff on my screen and I hope that GUI customization is well implemented.

Mouse controll- I don't ever want to even think of a mouse while playing FF14 on my PS3 as long as this is not in the slightest bit necessary, I am content. Again probably a non-issue as the game is going to be comsole based and have GUI customization.

No new race as of yet- No biggie really

Level System- Still do not know whether I level me or my weapon, Id like to come out of this convention knowing that answer if nothign else.

 

Feel Free to add your own Pros and Cons

ImperialPand

From the vids on gametrailers looked liked a crappy alpha build to me.

I dunno the point of showing it since virtually everything could change before release.

Two things that jumped out are: stop-running animations are incredibly annoying to play with, in this application and in general, and the taru's running animation sucks too.

whatamidoing

Originally posted by ImperialPand


From the vids on gametrailers looked liked a crappy alpha build to me.
I dunno the point of showing it since virtually everything could change before release.
Two things that jumped out are: stop-running animations are incredibly annoying to play with, in this application and in general, and the taru's running animation sucks too.

 

Nice. Very constructive...

Overall I agree with the OP. I don't have much else to say at this point since we still don't know how everything really works so until then we shall see.

Rajen

 Well the videos didn't really show 'anything' to be honest, just a character model running around. I liked them none the less though since I have wanted to see more content on the game.

 

Pros.

The game looks pretty good visually, especially being recorded from a distance by reporters.

 

Cons

I wanted to see some mage blowing stuff up xP

Also wanted to see what Gridania was like but in due time heh

 

 

But yeah there isn't really much I can say since we really weren't shown much of anything, but I welcome what was shown none the less

ImperialPand

Originally posted by whatamidoing

 
Nice. Very constructive...
Overall I agree with the OP. I don't have much else to say at this point since we still don't know how everything really works so until then we shall see.

 

Didn't realize we were in an English class. Though I could just say what I thought about the vids.