Hawkbit
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Like a Klansman in the ghetto.
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I wonder if they'll make their lowbies dress up in leather bondage gear and a beret like we did in FFXI.
I never made it past that part. The leather leglet things my guy was wearing killed it. |
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Nija
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It all goes back to the fact that the crazy asians will do whatever they want despite what we consider common sense. And they'll never bother explaining their position.
I guess it's exactly like playing a single player console RPG back in the day before console games received patches.
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LK
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I didn't like two aspects of it. Everything else felt fine. Granted, two major aspects, but I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. I need more information which I should get as we get closer to launch.
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"Then there's the double-barreled shotgun from Doom 2 - no-one within your entire household could be of any doubt that it's been fired because it sounds like God slamming a door on his fingers." - Yahtzee Croshaw
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Outlawedprod
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LOL @ release date. I guess I don't need to be worried about this game now. Then again I have to commend them on their short term business savvy. They're smart enough to not send it against Cataclysm launch. Better to feed off the PC transients and hopefully the brand will keep people some of them around. |
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fuser
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Preorders are up for north america. I will never learn, preordered yesterday
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Segoris
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Preorders are up for north america. I will never learn, preordered yesterday Same only I think it was last week I preordered. I couldn't even hold out a couple of days :( For those who are weak like us, here's the F13 Amazon referral link for preorder |
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Cadaverine
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Looks like another batch of beta emails went out.
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Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats.
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Quinton
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What the hell... went ahead and preordered. I played FFXI for 3+ years starting at NA launch and it was a lot of fun. I'm willing to give 'em a chance again and see if they've learned anything since then...
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Hoax
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What the hell... went ahead and preordered. I played FFXI for 3+ years starting at NA launch and it was a lot of fun. I'm willing to give 'em a chance again and see if they've learned anything since then...
I'm willing to give 'em a chance again and see if they've learned anything since then... see if they've learned anything since then... learned anything  |
A nation consists of its laws. A nation does not consist of its situation at a given time. If an individual's morals are situational, then that individual is without morals. If a nation's laws are situational, that nation has no laws, and soon isn't a nation.
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LK
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I put the ole' preorder down. Apparently a lot of co-workers did the same. With no SWTOR on the horizon, FFXIV should have a nice amount of players (assuming someone isn't chained at the foot to WoW).
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"Then there's the double-barreled shotgun from Doom 2 - no-one within your entire household could be of any doubt that it's been fired because it sounds like God slamming a door on his fingers." - Yahtzee Croshaw
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Vision
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Any idea if the PS3 version will support a keyboard setup? Or be able to play with friends using the Windows version?
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01101010
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You call it an accident. I call it justice.
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Any idea if the PS3 version will support a keyboard setup? Or be able to play with friends using the Windows version?
Never mind. That was not the right link to what I wanted to qupte anyway. I should not post and drink. I'll dig it up tomorrow after the effects wear off. |
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Does any one know where the love of God goes...When the waves turn the minutes to hours? -G. Lightfoot
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Kitsune
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The producers have confirmed that the PS3 players will be in the same servers as the PC players, and that if you for some reason shell out for both versions of the game, can play both with the same account. I dunno about the keyboard.
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Segoris
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The producers have confirmed that the PS3 players will be in the same servers as the PC players, and that if you for some reason shell out for both versions of the game, can play both with the same account. I dunno about the keyboard.
This answers my questions, thanks for that info. Also, that "some reason" which people may buy it for both systems could be some people share a computer meaning you can move over to a ps3 and play if someone is on the pc and vice versa. Also, sometimes it's nice to relax with the big screen and a couch, other times a desk and chair. If (and this is a doubtful) this MMO ends up being good and able to hold my attention for a while, I'd probably own a copy on both systems just for the second reason I listed. |
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Falconeer
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I'm fascinated by the idea of simultaneous patching for two different systems.
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Kitsune
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FFXI was on three systems and they managed it okay. Safe bet that any major game mechanic stuff is server-side and can be patched independently of the clients.
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Draegan
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This is why the UI is shit.
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Vision
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Can you really play an MMORPG with just a controller?!
Sorry, my brain is bleeding a little over this concept.
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Kitsune
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Yes, FFXI could be played with just a controller. Communicating with other players was the bitch; if you had no keyboard you had to laboriously scroll through dialogue options with the controller to talk to anyone.
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Lantyssa
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It was easier to play with a controller, in fact.
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Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
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LK
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You had to laboriously scroll anyway if you were playing with JP folks.
I'll bite the bullet and get guild stuff going on FFXIV when it launches.
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fuser
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I'll bite the bullet and get guild stuff going on FFXIV when it launches.
Did you order the CE? |
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I'm going to proceed under the working assumption that I should pre-order for the PC, unless someone out there can think of a good reason to not do so.
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LK
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Yes.
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"Then there's the double-barreled shotgun from Doom 2 - no-one within your entire household could be of any doubt that it's been fired because it sounds like God slamming a door on his fingers." - Yahtzee Croshaw
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Rendakor
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I'm going to proceed under the working assumption that I should pre-order for the PC, unless someone out there can think of a good reason to not do so.
As opposed to the PS3? Yea, go with the PC version based mostly on the fact that it'll be out in September, while the PS3 won't be here til March. I believe they've said that you can use both version for one account, so if you'd really rather play it on PS3 just buy it again then. |
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Vision
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I'm going to proceed under the working assumption that I should pre-order for the PC, unless someone out there can think of a good reason to not do so.
As opposed to the PS3? Yea, go with the PC version based mostly on the fact that it'll be out in September, while the PS3 won't be here til March. I believe they've said that you can use both version for one account, so if you'd really rather play it on PS3 just buy it again then. But it SHOULD function well on the PS3 right? If I thought I would still get a great experience laying in bed playing it on my PS3 then I would like to get it for that. Plus I dont own a PC :( |
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Rendakor
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Well in your case Vision, wait until shortly before its PS3 release to make that decision; it's still 9 months away. Of course, from most reports FFXI played better on PS2 than PC, so I don't see why the PS3 version of FFXIV would be inferior.
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"i can't be a star citizen. they won't even give me a star green card"
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Vision
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Well in your case Vision, wait until shortly before its PS3 release to make that decision; it's still 9 months away. Of course, from most reports FFXI played better on PS2 than PC, so I don't see why the PS3 version of FFXIV would be inferior.
Yeah, I just hate getting excited for something only to have my hopes dashed because I dont have the proper hardware, or $. |
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LK
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So there was some kind of benchmark floating around?
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01101010
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You call it an accident. I call it justice.
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http://www.finalfantasyxiv.com/media/benchmark/na/index.htmlI don't give it much credit... considering I run an 8800GT nVidia card and score just shy of what upper end cards make. Grumblings from the kids are about how their super cards score too low - and no, the game doesn't support SLI/Crossfire as of yet (or will in the future?).
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Does any one know where the love of God goes...When the waves turn the minutes to hours? -G. Lightfoot
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Ard
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It also isn't optimized for ATI cards right now either, which is why a lot of the super computers people are whining about are tanking.
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fuser
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Heck I cannot even get it to run. Two different Windows 7 boxes (iMac aluminum ati 2600 xt, cots with nvidia 8800gt).
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fuser
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Holy crap EQ2 again Recommended System Requirements
OS Windows® 7 32-bit/64-bit*
CPU Intel® Core™ i7 2.66GHz or higher
RAM 4GB or more
HDD/SDD Installation: 15GB of free space
Download: 6GB of free space on the drive containing "My Documents"
Graphics Card NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 460 or better with VRAM 768MB or more
Sound Card DirectSound® compatible sound card (DirectX® 9.0c or higher)
Internet Connection Broadband or better (always-on)
Resolution 1280x720 (32-bit) or higher
DirectX® DirectX® 9.0c
Others Mouse, Keyboard, Gamepad
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Numtini
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Dual core 8600, HD4870 1gb, 4gb ram gives me 2172 on high rez, supposedly low but usable performance and my actual resolution is 1650 not 1920. It looks very nice. If I'm on the low end of who can play though, it's going to cut really deeply into the type of people I know who are in the Really Excited category as few are serious gamers or have as good a PC as I do.
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If you can read this, you're on a board populated by misogynist assholes.
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Kitsune
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The GTX 460 is nvidia's new mid-class card, only $200. So it's not like they're recommending a pair of $500 SLI cards. i7s also took a price drop this week. So those recommended stats are stiff but not astronomical.
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