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2.0 ingame footage
Steene
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From the Gamescom some brand new 2.0 scenes: 
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yea, i was just gonna post teh article.
http://gematsu.com/2012/08/final-fantasy-xiv-a-realm-reborn-off-screen-gamescom-gameplay-presentation
its in some other language that I do not know, but you can see logs of gameplay from someones horrible camera lol.
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this 'some other language' is german
this looks SOOO much better then it was at launch. wife and i both bought collectors editions and played for a few hours. game was just awful. it looks like they've really fixed a lot of issues with this game from the vid.
jumping, moveable interface, no more lag when you bring up your invintory, easy to use character screen, etc. i never thought i'd be saying this after that turd of a launch, but i'll be playing FFXIV again when 2.0 comes out.
Hmmm, horrible youtube quality aside, not too bad. I'm normally not in favor of "WoWifying" a game, but in the case of the interface for FFXIV, I think it was the perfect move. Everything looks cleaned up, and the combat looks more like what we are used to seeing from AAA MMOs. And of course, graphically and aesthetically, it looks terrific, as it always has. If they truly have revamped the world design to get rid of the copy/paste terrains, and removed some of the grind, this will definitely be worth keeping an eye on.
The world IS completely revamped. The game isn't even on the same engine. They've completely redone/rebuilt the entire game from scratch and just remade the things they wanted to keep because they couldn't use what was on the old engine.
For instance one of the major problems of XI and XIV is that you can't have a ton of people on your screen at once, it refuses to render tons of people. This new engine, will not have that problem.
There are no more copy/paste landscapes at all. They'll be trashing them as soon as 2.0 goes up; 1.0 will go down, permanently.
Awesome. Thanks for the info. Very encouraging. I'm assuming you've played the game a bit. How big is the actual game world? Does it have a wide open feel to it? I've only got some videos to go off of.
Don't forget all the shiny new screenshots.
Please bear in mind that these are not high quality. SE never seems to release any SE's in high quality. All of these were taken on a standard PC.
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The gameworld at the moment is quite large. On foot it can take a lot of time to get from Point A to B without a Chocobo or other means of transportation. That being said, in 2.0 I have no idea. I know that they've chosen to steer away from the seamless worlds and go for zoning in order to make the game better. How zoned will it be? I'm unsure of that as well. Hopefully it won't be ridiculous. I'm assuming probably along the lines of EQ2 zoning. Big zones and when you leave it, you get a short loading screen. But don't take all of this to heart, I don't know the extent of the zones, as I said.
The game has had a lot of love recently. There is a storyline going on that will never be able to be played through again after 1.0 dies and 2.0 goes live. You can get the game fairly cheap - I know that Amazon has a digital download of it for $15 if you're interested in it. Gamestop may even have it cheaper. Never too late to jump in, really.
Everyone who has the game prior to 2.0's launch gets 2.0 for free, they'll just have to download the new client (unless you want the PS3 version, then of course you'll have to fork over some cash for that).
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
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I haven't heard anything about that, particularly. I'm sure that there will be great weather effects as they have them in XIV already and of course XI. In fact, they just added a new meteor one to XIV so I'd assume that weather will still be in the game come 2.0.
But I've not heard of any snow accumulating on the ground. However, that would be totally freakin' awesome, just sayin'.
Who the fuck cares about people like this? I am not playing games because of opinions of others. You should ignore people like this because they destroy every discussion with stereotyping.
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Alice, firstly, I love seeing you 'crusade' for this game. I don't know why, but it's both amusing and pleasing to see someone being such an advocate for an MMORPG this day in age. For some reason, all the cynisism born out of the last few years has really shut this kind of behavior down. It's nice seeing you run around championing this.
Second, I'm interested enough to sign up for the beta. However, a brief visit to this game's site and I couldn't find anything regarding it. Is signing up still possible and, if so, where does one go?
And supose those same people tell you drugs are good, alcohol makes u leet, smoking makes you more sociable, you believe them right?
As far as beta sign ups go, they have not yet begun. Stay tuned! I'm sure they're right around the corner.
I think you can still get it if you buy a 3-month subscription, instead of paying for 3 separate months.
I got mine a month ago by doing this, and I got it right away and not have to wait 2 or 3 months.
Actually they already removed multi-month subcription, at least until they launched 2.0.
Subcription for now is just month to month.
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Man I don't even remember my login to that game lol. Guess I'll need to get in touch with support.