Hizumi

We all have different perspectives people! Most of these things we/you layout are just opinions! Heres what I have to say.

FFXI - Doesn't really limit you with jobs, I love job switching and being able to combine different ones at a low level (18). Yeah it forces you to party but thats where you get most exp, it's better than doing Quests all afternoon and trying to get to level 60 and rush. But you could be having fun while your at 1-18+ in FFXI. The community is amazing, how people tend to be nice to eachother. It's not "competitive" as Corasked says. If it was, then there would be flames all over the place, and no one would get ANYWHERE in the game, right? Auto attack is really with the melee styled classes, but depending what you see it could be turn-on/turn-off. It takes strategy and brains to get anywhere, when you kill something or do a quest or anything involving 2-6 people, you feel like you've done something good, and make a Bond With Friends. You pretty much need 1 character, the jobs are really fun, unless you want to experience another race. Its very satisfactory, the one downside is waiting for a party, it could take up to five minutes, but patience is the key if you want to get anywhere. The menu and cinematics are good a along with the cutscenes, the story makes you wants to play more and more. The Linkshell community was a great idea, allowing you to communicate with all your friends at once without being in a clan or whispering them one by one. It also helps when you need to do a quest or party that takes moe than one person. Again, the classes and subjob combinations are really fun. A lot of creativity from Square-Enix.

Wow - From what I played, I really didn't know what to do. There was too little and too much at the Same time. I had 2 level 70's on their low level accounts helping me grind. In ONE hour I was level 3. Level 3, I wasted an hour doing constant quests and grinding, and this is what I get. The Quests!? kill panthers till you get 4 claws? YEAH RIGHT, its more like "kill 2000 for 4 paws and get a crummy reward". I was really stuck when I was on by myself, no one would heal me when I needed it. No one would help me when I needed it, or asked a question. There were real idiots in the chat, acting like they were the "win" and above me and calling me noob for trying to get help and advice. People telling me. "It takes 18-52 hours to get to level 50-70". Seems to me, the purpose of the game is to get to level 70 to do all the "fun" stuff. People tell me getting to 1-20 levels is a pain, and yeah.. it is, getting to level 5 is a PAIN. I was broke too most of the time, couldn't buy any gear, the beginner area wasn't as populated. I guess thats why I couldn't get any help. The attacking is really boring, its more of a basic skill belt where you press F4 to do a buff or a powered attack, nothing Dynamic. I really expected something from it, it builds so much hype, yet its a disappointment. Most people quit the first 2 weeks cause its boring, or not worth it. I really don't know what to say thats really positive other than the Voice acting and cinematics. The graphics were really genereic, as I said the skill belt area is really In almost every MMORPG, along with the interface. I shouldn't have to waste my time getting to level 70 to do something "epic" or "fun".

As you can see most of them are opinions, games have their ups and downs. But really, we're just pointing things off from perspective.

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