Lastest video is out and finally we get to see some group combat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sesZWFsluM

Originally posted by voltt
i love how fluid the animations and gameplay looks, Cant wait to play

Ditto, animation and environment art are both excellent.

Felt a tad static but nonetheless looked exiting.

Look I am a huge FF fan playing from the Nintendo ear up till now, but on the MMO front this looked BORING.  Pretty graphics doesn't make the game fun.  Yes the animations looked great but they all stood around and just attacked the big Mob with very little purpose. 

The level quest looked boring, go kill set amount of mobs ..and the bow action was slow and repetative.  He just kept shooting the same three arrow button combo.  It was beyond boring.  He didn't even need to move, just stood there and hit button 2. 

Please don't say it was the "player"  because it doesn't matter if you run around with your head cut off to stay active because obviously you can just stand in place and win anyways.

Pretty game = yes

Beautiful Squaresoft animation = yes

New UI = yes

Innovation = no

Boring Combat = yes  It is wow combat without the fluidiness.  I mean there are huge pauses between the next action.  If you are not geared in wow you have to move around and plan your attacks..even in one of the easiest games on the market.

Same old level system = yes...but that would be fine if combat was actually fun.  Tera does this well.

They have not made a game with the Final Fantasy feeling since Final Fantasy XI and X. 

Just very disappointed, I miss my old games.

Originally posted by Kumate

Look I am a huge FF fan playing from the Nintendo ear up till now, but on the MMO front this looked BORING.  Pretty graphics doesn't make the game fun.  Yes the animations looked great but they all stood around and just attacked the big Mob with very little purpose. 

The level quest looked boring, go kill set amount of mobs ..and the bow action was slow and repetative.  He just kept shooting the same three arrow button combo.  It was beyond boring.  He didn't even need to move, just stood there and hit button 2. 

 

Please don't say it was the "player"  because it doesn't matter if you run around with your head cut off to stay active because obviously you can just stand in place and win anyways.

Pretty game = yes

Beautiful Squaresoft animation = yes

New UI = yes

Innovation = no

Boring Combat = yes  It is wow combat without the fluidiness.  I mean there are huge pauses between the next action.  If you are not geared in wow you have to move around and plan your attacks..even in one of the easiest games on the market.

Same old level system = yes...but that would be fine if combat was actually fun.  Tera does this well.

They have not made a game with the Final Fantasy feeling since Final Fantasy XI and X. 

Just very disappointed, I miss my old games.

 

Let's be honest. SE was never going to make an MMO with very mobile, movement intensive combat. In that video it did look like a snoozefest, but it was only level 20. There is a positional/conditional combo system, or at least there was in the original. I haven't seen anything mentioned about it for ARR yet, but that would help to make combat less static. 

Originally posted by Faelar86
What's the difference between 1.0 levequest and ARR levequest exactly?

The big difference is that in 1.0 you had to "activate" the leve at the aetheryte. Basically, you were going to some random camp that has an aetheryte, activate the leve and go do it. Then teleport back to aetheryte, accept another one etc. This looks like there will be less running back and forth and also, NPCs give leves.

Originally posted by ezpz77

 

Let's be honest. SE was never going to make an MMO with very mobile, movement intensive combat. In that video it did look like a snoozefest, but it was only level 20. There is a positional/conditional combo system, or at least there was in the original. I haven't seen anything mentioned about it for ARR yet, but that would help to make combat less static. 

I seriously hope there will be more to positioning and combos with other player skills.   Right now that combat looks terrrrrrrrrrible.

I'm so excited I can't wait!

Originally posted by trepo

Originally posted by Faelar86
What's the difference between 1.0 levequest and ARR levequest exactly?

The big difference is that in 1.0 you had to "activate" the leve at the aetheryte. Basically, you were going to some random camp that has an aetheryte, activate the leve and go do it. Then teleport back to aetheryte, accept another one etc. This looks like there will be less running back and forth and also, NPCs give leves.

Actually, you'll notice that when they accept the leve from the npc it goes into their quest log and it looks like you'll be able to activate it from there whenever you want. That is a big improvement over 1.0. In 1.0, when you accepted the leve, it activated on its own, bringing up the 30 min timer for the leve. Then you had to check your map and rush to the location in order to get the time experience bonus. Now you'll be able accept the leve, check your map, run to the location and then activate it. The point is, you can activate the leve at any time, from virtually anywhere which is much more convenient!