My wife and I are finally done with WOW and we are now in search of a new PVE MMO.  I bought FF11 when it first came out on the xbox 360 but I only played a few months.  My wife and some friends drew me back to wow at the time.

I got my wife interested in this game and I was wondering if I should stick with playing on my 360, or if I should just buy a second copy of the game on the PC?

I have a USB keyboard so chat wont be an issue, and I believe the game chat will be totally readable on my HDTV.  Are there any reasons I should consider playing on the PC instead of my 360?  Would the game look better on the PC or is it mostly the same?

If you go the path of editing your regedit {which is simple} you can make your resolution and textures look 10x better than on 360.

This is the maximum basic settings on PC {1680*1050 resolution} but only at {1024*1024 textures} ~ this is about the same as on the 360, maybe slightly better!

This is using regedit and Forcing Resolution to 1680*1050 and Background Textures too 2048*2048!

If you're talking about graphics, PC is probably your best bet if you can do regedit. You can also do .DAT mods and such like that if you're into that kind of thing. If your PC sucks, probably want to go with the 360. PC is pretty much the best platform out of them all.

I think i was more into the fact that it would be on my HDTV, we have two PC's more then capable of playing FF11.  I will try the registery editing to see how that turns out on my wifes machine.

FFXI on a decent 360 and a PC are pretty much the same. Just use whatever you feel most comfortable in front of for hours at a time. You can even use a 360 controller on your PC and play just like you would on a console.

Originally posted by L4GameNub

My wife and I are finally done with WOW and we are now in search of a new PVE MMO.  I bought FF11 when it first came out on the xbox 360 but I only played a few months.  My wife and some friends drew me back to wow at the time.

I got my wife interested in this game and I was wondering if I should stick with playing on my 360, or if I should just buy a second copy of the game on the PC?

I have a USB keyboard so chat wont be an issue, and I believe the game chat will be totally readable on my HDTV.  Are there any reasons I should consider playing on the PC instead of my 360?  Would the game look better on the PC or is it mostly the same?

I have and play on both. It is just a matter of what I want to play with on any given day. The only issue I have is on the 360 some of the very small text is harder to see when I'm 10-15 feet away on a 40" TV. On a PC and only been a foot and a half from the monitor it is easier to see. The chat window is easy to see. Depending on zone and window background the time and player's hp/mp might be a little hard to read unless my TV just sucks.

Since you have a keyboard you should be gold. You will be able to switch between a PC and a 360 with little problem (The 360 chat pad works, but fails miserabily since you can't easily get to the / key which is one of the most important keys in the game and there are no F-Keys).

If you wanted to run both you can save one set of macros per account on the server. Just hit CRTL + ALT + SHIFT + B  to save your macros to the server and then CTRL + ALT + SHIFT + R to load them to the machine. Saves you a whole lot of time from having to type everything twice.

I spent 50 bucks on FFXI for xbox 360 and realize it was just a waste.

Beside the achievement unlocks, there is no merit using it at all.

Yes i do have a big HDTV with HDMI cable connect and with great setup on xbox 360.

But the problem isn't just control and graphic.

the problem is xbox 360 can't handle the game.

I have to say ... even a p3 computer run the game more smooth then xbox 360. I crash whenever beisged ends, the people never get loaded whenever i stand by moghouse in WG. And no i am not using the "wi-fi connect", i connect by cable.

The graphic did NOT change at all. My windower + personally game setting made the game a lot better then xbox 360 looks.

HD install ffxi and ffxi still require a disc to run, and it still sound like an airplace is trying to take off (i got the latest xbox 360.)

So .. really my advice is don't get it unless you don't have a PC that can run FFXI. IT will crash you a lot more. Like entering dynamis crash me in xbox 360 a lot too.

Originally posted by wrongfeifong

I spent 50 bucks on FFXI for xbox 360 and realize it was just a waste.

Beside the achievement unlocks, there is no merit using it at all.

Yes i do have a big HDTV with HDMI cable connect and with great setup on xbox 360.

But the problem isn't just control and graphic.

 

the problem is xbox 360 can't handle the game.

I have to say ... even a p3 computer run the game more smooth then xbox 360. I crash whenever beisged ends, the people never get loaded whenever i stand by moghouse in WG. And no i am not using the "wi-fi connect", i connect by cable.

The graphic did NOT change at all. My windower + personally game setting made the game a lot better then xbox 360 looks.

 

HD install ffxi and ffxi still require a disc to run, and it still sound like an airplace is trying to take off (i got the latest xbox 360.)

So .. really my advice is don't get it unless you don't have a PC that can run FFXI. IT will crash you a lot more. Like entering dynamis crash me in xbox 360 a lot too.

I'm sorry, but you are completly incorrect with 90% of what you just said. The only thing that is correct is the "graphic" which I laugh at anyways. They are /for the most part/ equal "out of the box", the difference is if you edit the PC version, then yes the resolution does look better. Everything else you stated is completly and utterly incorrect.

I have played and continue to play on each platform, depending on where in the states I currently am, and what I feel like using(I move around a lot). The X360 version may have an issue with besieged as I've heard about it freezing, but its not a completely widespread issue at all(I have done besieged/campaign/etc) since its conception, and rarely have a problem on any platform. Secondly, 360 does load less character models on screen then PC does(which is editable in the PC version), but who really cares? Finally, yes the game still requires the game to be in the disc tray, but it does not require the disc to actually spin , and as such the console makes zero noise 95% of the time. If yours is still making noise then you need to call Microsoft as you have a buggy console on your hands.

Aside from if you are a cheater or not, there is no real reason to play on any one console then another. PC offers ways to cheat consoles do not, and thats about the only difference. Play on what you believe you will be most comfortable with, or if you have the money to spare purchase two copys and play whichever on the given day.