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Massively also has a hands on with the smuggler class from Star Wars: The Old Republic. Pretty much what i figured.
After battling through the soldiers to reach my few objectives, I entered the control tower and disabled the main targeting system. With everything complete, I had a new pop-up on my screen: call my quest-giver via holo-com.
I clicked that button and my character pulled out a small holo-device — the classic Star Wars telephone. A little hologram of my quest-giver appeared, and it triggered a cinematic dialogue sequence right then and there, advancing me to the next stage of the quest. I thought this feature was very cool, and it gave a seamless transition into the next quest phase. It’s very much in the vein of Star Wars to use a device like this instead of hoofing it back to the quest-giver, and I really appreciated it.
Getting back to the quest-giver, however, was another story. I ran through the area that I had just cleared out like a madman on speed, getting shot but leading my pursuers back to the “town guards.” They took care of my aggro, of course, and I jetted into my hangar bay instance again, to finalize this gun-running deal and get my ship off of this planet.
The last sentence, however, reminds me of what I hears about another MMO many years ago….
So, in short, don’t get yourself super hyped about this game. It’s not amazingly innovative or a complete genre changer. It’s not re-inventing the wheel, but it is taking that wheel and giving it the gold plating it needs
Hmm. Wonder if this game will end up being a Billion seller like WoW…
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I like the fact this article is a rather positive outlook on Final Fantasy XIV. I also like that the writer is obviously familiar with Final Fantasy XI. She goes into a little bit more detail on what has or hasn’t changed between the games. As a veteran FFXI player, I do appreciate this.
Character creation
For the opening of the hands on, I got the chance to try out character creation and view all of the different possibilities. I tried to take as many notes on the options as I could, however my time was limited and I was off in the world before I knew it!
Character creation, much like the rest of the game, is a bridge between Final Fantasy XI’s legacy and today’s modern design. You’re given your choice of race, sub-race (like the Miqo’te’s Seeker of the Sun or Keeper of the Moon, which determines skin pigmentation), and your “character type” which gives you a few selections to get on your way.
If this were FFXI, that would be the end of it. However, there are no more pre-determined looks here! Players will be happy to know that many features on the face can be individually selected and changed, including lip type, nose type, hair color, hair highlight color, hair style, scars, jewelry, voice, skin pigmentation, and size. These aren’t included in sliders, like other games, so you can’t go off and create something totally ugly. Instead these are options presented in drop-down menus, which offer customization without adding unnecessary complexity.
The whole article goes in to a bit more detail about FFXIV. Very nice to see someone that knows about the first Final Fantasy MMO giving a hands on report on the new one.
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Game Informer has a nice little piece detailing a bit more about The Witcher 2:
The Witcher 2 is an unabashedly hardcore role-playing game from a group of Polish developers who barely care about getting an M rating so they can make it onto U.S. store shelves, much less the T rating that most RPGs shoot for. Developer CD Projekt showed off part of the game’s first chapter at this year’s E3, and it’s looking fantastic.
The all-new rendering engine built specifically for The Witcher 2 shows off the demo’s lush forests and badass heroes in gorgeous detail. Stepping off of a boat from parts unknown, Geralt and his two companions are quickly accosted by an elven revolutionary with beef with the dude at Geralt’s side. After a short exchange where it becomes clear that this antagonist is only interested in killing Geralt’s friend for past war crimes which appear to fall just short of genocide, the fight is on.
Geralt’s lady sorceress friend, Triss, brings up a forcefield to prevent all three of them from being instantly slain in the ensuing archer ambush. Like all magic in this world, this exacts a heavy price – Triss’ nose spews blood as she collapses to the ground, conscious but weak. Geralt’s assassination target buddy picks her up as the group makes its way through the murderous woods toward a safe town.
Sounds good. Looking forward to it (of course!) Click here to see the rest of the article.
Massively has an interesting interview with Vigil’s Mark Downie, involved with the upcoming Warhammer 40K MMO. (For those of you that don’t know, Vigil released the console Action Adventure game “Darksiders” earlier this year.)
All that we’ve seen in the trailer is actual gameplay footage?
Mark: Absolutely.
Is there anything else you can say about the game in terms of features?
Mark: The MMO is using the same engine we used for Darksiders, so people can expect the same quality of visuals. We’re working very closely with Games Workshop on this project, so we’re not going to be doing a lot of freelancing and going off on our own. Everything we do is with their cooperation and approval. Pretty much anything that gets added into the 40k universe in our MMO will get added to the canon, part of the war, and will receive the blessing of Games Workshop.
Will there be books or anything revolving around the MMO?
Mark: It’s too soon to tell. We’ll see where things go — we can’t put the cart before the horse.
It’s definitely important to show gameplay and get people excited.
Mark: That was our main goal, and I hope that works.
I like that what we saw in the trailer is gameplay footage. I could see my friends and I really getting in to this game, if it is a good game. If they can match Darksiders for fun, I think it will be. Click here for the full interview.
Over at Massively.com they have an interview with Hiromichi Tanaka. He is the Executive Producer of FFXIV and has been involved with the Final Fantasy series for many years:
Massively: Will Final Fantasy XIV retain the same difficulty as Final Fantasy XI? Will we be seeing the same sort of complexity as FFXI?
Tanaka: In terms of the amount of content we will have for FFXIV, probably FFXI will have more at launch, just because it’s been in service for eight years. We’ll make sure that we’ll introduce the same amount of content as exists in FFXI, and we’ll make sure that we go from there.
As for the difficulty — your main question — it’s slightly different, because we will be focusing on solo players also. So you can be yourself and be very flexible — in a short period of time, by yourself, you can level up by experience points, then customize yourself for higher levels. In terms of how difficult this is? We introduce [the game] as a very entry-level experience, so that a lot of people can enjoy it, but at the same time we’ll be making sure that all the endgame players have enough content, and it will be as competitive for them [as FFXI].
Of course, one of the most popular elements of the series are the chocobos. Will there be chocobos at launch? Chocobo racing? Will they be mounts?
Yes, chocobos will be there. It may be further introduced toward a later time, but there will be something. Of course, chocobos are something for you to ride on, but any more than that? Yes, we are planning to introduce that later. Chocobos as mounts will be there.
I hope you can actually own your Chocobo mount this time, instead of just renting them. I’d also love to see player or guild owned Air Ships… That would be great 
Read the full interview by clicking here.
And here is a video from IGN. I don’t think I’ve posted this one yet…