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PsychoPhreaker
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posted on 01-15-2002 @ 5:45 PM      
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Registered: Oct. 01
What do you think the screenshots of FF XI? Do you think it's gonna be worth it? Going along with this, does anyone know when the broadband adapter is coming out for PS2?

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posted on 01-15-2002 @ 5:53 PM      
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Registered: Sep. 00
My two favorite things in the gaming industry, Final Fantasy and MMORPG, being combined? Hell yes.


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posted on 01-15-2002 @ 6:07 PM      
Psychopath
Registered: Oct. 01
Is there gonna be any story line or is it gonna be just duels and things?

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posted on 01-15-2002 @ 6:46 PM      
Psychopath
Registered: Sep. 00
Heh heh, stole this from IGN:



Well, that clears things up a bit. After a considerable amount of vacillation and general lack of clarity, the key question regarding Final Fantasy XI is solved. According to a recent issue of Famitsu Weekly, the next game in Square's most lucrative franchise is indeed the first Massively Multiplayer Online RPG to grace a videogame console (or Computer Entertainment System, if you will), an online world where all manner of players may congregate, chat, and do battle with the forces of evil. This sets it apart from earlier efforts like Phantasy Star Online, where only a few players could coexist in a game at once. FFXI's servers will house thousands of different players at a time, and a massive game world besides.


The story takes place in a world that mixes swords, magic, and technology on the beautiful planet known as Vana'Diel. In the past this world was blessed by the source of all things in the world, the Crystals. Together with their power, those that believed in the light fought against the monsters that followed darkness. The monsters destroyed the beautiful villages and cities, turning the lands into a vaste wasteland, and the water into deadly pollution. Eventually, mankind was able to fight back the monsters and regain peace for their land. However, 20 year after the fighting, when people begin to forget the memories of the horrible war with the monsters, the scent of evil once again blows over the land of Vana'Diel. All is resting on the powers of the crystals.


Many different peoples and creatures inhabit the land, but so far Square has focused on three specific player races:


























Hume

If they're not exactly called "humans" in the lingo of the world (the katakana in Square's profile omits the "an"), that's more or less what they are. A balanced, middle-of-the-road species, with the ability to acquire many different skills.



Tarutaru

Cute little suckers, ain't they? And they even look big, if you angle your forced perspective right. These fellows mainly inhabit the Federation of Windurst, where they're very well-known for their magical ability.



Elvaan

Or "elves" if you prefer. The Elven generally make their home in the San D'oria Kingdom, a tall, strong, martial race. They make the best warriors in the game, but their proud nature lends itself to internecine strife.



Mithra

The Mithra are an elvish race that inhabit a small corner of the Federation of Windurst. They're opposed to the development of science and technology, preferring to remain closer to nature and rely on their innate physical abilities. They have tails and large pointed ears, as well as tails. Male Mithra are extremely rare, and only females ever venture into the outside world.



Galka

They're the tall, broad-shouldered creatures we've seen in earlier screenshots. As their build suggests, they're powerful and durable, which suits them well to the industrial life of the Bastok Republic. Galka, curiously enough, don't pass on many common physical traits to their descendants -- instead, they all look fairly different.


There will also be other player character races, some of which have a distinctly towering quality (presumably something along ogreish lines), and it wouldn't be a Final Fantasy game without any Chocobos to have fun with.






Meanwhile, the three major races inhabit three major nations. The world of Vana'Diel is more or less at peace, and peoples from all three can travel freely where they'd like to go, but tension between the countries does exist now and again.
















Republic of Bastok

The Humes or humans or whatever you're meant to call them raised up this nation with their advanced technology and special natural resources. The capital city grew up around a mine where the metal Mithril can be found -- it soon became a center of craft and research.



Federation of Windurst

This is a nation cobbled together out of many disparate Tarutaru tribes. Their magical powers have raised up huge, organic cities, seeming to blend naturally with the environment around them, where the Tarutaru continually refine and develop their magical abilities.



Kingdom of San D'oria

The homeland of the Elvaan rose up in fragile unity after a protracted civil war -- it holds together for now, but the presence of so much pride and violence continually threatens to break down order. The capital city is kept strong by the alliance between the royal knights and their religious counterparts.


Ronfaure Forest

The forest area close to the San D'oria Kingdom which contains a huge variety of beautiful green scenery. It's surrounded by a certain mysterious atmosphere.


Gustaberg

An area of barren space surrounding the Bastok Republic. No plants lives here...only the dried rotten husks of trees and rocks remain standing. To the north are caves that yield a wealth of minerals.


Sarutabaruta

A wide plain located to the north of the Windurst Federation. Here and there are plants that are unique to this area. In addition, various monsters, large and small, live in this area as well.


Final Fantasy XI is the first game in the FF series that is completely online, of course, with many characters simultaneously coexisting in one online world. Through the second reality created through the PS2 and PlayOnline, players can meet various people and together with them go on adventures. In Vana Dir, a vast variety of different peoples exist. One of the races of Humans, is a race that is balanced in various kinds of abilities. Of course there are many other kinds of races and people with different kinds of abilities for the player to chose the one that fits them the most. Humans have both male and female variations, too, so the choices aren't limited to just the race -- there are other, finer options.


The first thing a player needs to do when he/she starts a new game is "create" his or her own charactes. Because everything from the race, looks, body type, and so on can be set to the player's wish, it is possible to create a unique original character. This is one of the biggest points of FFXI, the ability to create your own Final Fantasy character. The Job System (from Final Fantasy V and Final Fantasy Tactics) allows a remarkable degree of breadth to the skills and abilities you can give your alter ego.


Communication will be taken cared of through a simple, easy to understand system. Everything from getting help on how to continue in the game, trading unwanted items, who to fight with, you can talk to anyone you want through a easy system of word inputs, like the icon-based communication in Phantasy Star Online.


Characters will of course want to join together -- the essential appeal of an online RPG lies the possibility for interaction and group effort. FFXI looks like it will offer a chance for a much larger scale of such efforts than Phantasy Star Online.


Party

You can show others that you want to join in a party by going into the Menu and select the Join Party option. This will cause the Join Party icon to show up beside the character's name allowing other to know that you wish to join a party. Not only can you show you wish to join a group, you can also invite others to join your group. The control is the same as showing your wish to join a party, except instead of the Join Party option you chose the Invite to Party command. This way, a party will be formed with the inviter as the leader of this party. From this point on, the party will do as the Party Leader commands with
groups that can have up to 6 members.


Alliance

The alliance system is one that must be considered if you're going to fight against very powerful enemies. It allows multiple parties to form alliances with each other. For those enemies where they're impossible to defeat with just one party, this Alliance system will allow the chance for victory to drastically increase. Alliance will allow up to 3 parties to join together, so up to 18 players can join together. To allow for easy understanding, the leaders of each party will be shown with a yellow mark, and the Alliance Leader will be indicated with a white mark.

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posted on 01-15-2002 @ 8:34 PM      
Psychopath
Registered: May. 01
No, you think i give a fuck about these hume. No i don't, FFXI cost a lot. $50 for game + 100 - 150 for modem and hard drive + $10 A MONTH for online gameplay = up to $200 + 10 for each month u play. Thats a lot for a couple of online games. But hey lets see how our human ginuee pig Japan thinks about and not jump to any serious conlcusions.


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posted on 01-15-2002 @ 8:43 PM      
Psychopath
Registered: Sep. 00
Give Squaresoft the first portion of your income!

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posted on 01-15-2002 @ 8:52 PM      
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ive heard that the online play might be free. or at least that they were considering it due to the high overall cost of being able to play at all


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posted on 01-16-2002 @ 7:44 AM      
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Registered: Jun. 01
Dist, how dare you steal my thunder!!?!?!?

I am the FINAL FANTASY WHORE HERE!!!! Check my god damn status! Lol... you dick. =)

FFXI: Yes or No? YES, you magnificent bastard, YES!!!

But, I still believe they should call it Final Fantasy Online... not FFXI.



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posted on 01-16-2002 @ 10:27 AM      
Psychopath
Registered: Sep. 00
Oh ya..... well check my status!

...... damn, im just a small part of Final Fantasy.

Well, im still the MMORPG and FPS whore, heh.

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posted on 01-16-2002 @ 5:11 PM      
Psychopath
Registered: Oct. 01
yeah. they shouldnt have made it into a sequential part of the FF games. It should have been a side game like FF Tactics or (do i dare mention?) Chocobo Racing. I have heard that it will be like $10 a month for unlimited gameplay of any games that are online (which isn't bad if you play about 10 games online). But still, any news on the broadband adapter?




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Sgt. Squeegie
posted on 01-16-2002 @ 10:42 PM      
Psychopath
Registered: Nov. 00
I'm going to laugh at all of you now... Ha Ha Ha Ha...If Square has any brains at all they will be releasing this title to both the Xbox and the PC. BOTH OF WHICH HAVE BROADBAND ADAPTERS (If you already have broadband that is).

Square would stand to lose a great deal of money if they did not release to these two platforms. Makes me glad I chose Xbox over Piece of Shit 2



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Kegman
posted on 01-18-2002 @ 8:18 PM      
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Registered: Dec. 01
squeegie, you forgot the most important thing: your x-box came with a modem while the ps2 didn't. microsoft did everything right with their system, even put in the 4 ports. give xbox some time, it will be victorious in the console race

Sgt. Squeegie
posted on 01-18-2002 @ 9:02 PM      
Psychopath
Registered: Nov. 00
quote:

you forgot the most important thing: your x-box came with a modem



See...thats where your wrong. Xbox did not come with a modem. It came with a BROADBAND adapter. In essence, a network card. A modem and a network card are two seperate things and you were right about X-Box becoming dominant. It will happen, have faith in the lord Gates. Microsoft RULES!!



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posted on 01-18-2002 @ 9:46 PM      
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X-BOX SPECS:
CPU: 733 MHz
Graphics processor: 300-MHz custom-designed X-Chip,
developed by Microsoft and Nvidia
Total memory: 64MB
Memory bandwidth: 6.4GB/sec
Polygon performance: 150 M/sec
Sustained polygon performance
(full features): 100 M/sec
Particle performance: 150 M/sec
Simultaneous textures: 4
Pixel fill rate (no texture): 4.8 G/sec (antialiased)
Pixel fill rate (1 texture): 4.8 G/sec (antialiased)
Pixel fill rate (2 textures): 4.8 G/sec (antialiased)
Compressed textures: Yes (6:1)
Full-scene antialias: Yes
Storage medium: 2-5X DVD; hard disk TBD (in range 6-8GB);
8+ MB memory card
I/O: Game controller x4; Ethernet (10/100)
Audio channels: 256
3D audio support in hardware: Yes
MIDI+DLS2 support: Yes
Broadband enabled: Yes
Modem enabled: Optional
DVD movie playback Yes
Gamepad included: Yes
Maximum resolution: 1,920 by 1,080 pixels
Maximum resolution (2 by 32bpp
frame buffers + Z): 1,920 by 1,080
HDTV support: Yes

PS2 SPECS:
CPU Core: 128 bit RISC (MIPS IV-subset)
Clock Frequency: 294.912 MHz
Integer Unit: 64 bit (2-way Superscalar)
Multimedia extended instructions: 107 instructions at 128 bit width
Integer General Purpose Register: 32 at 128 bit width
TLB: 48 double entries
Instruction Cache: 16 KB (2-way)
Data Cache: 8 KB (2-way)
Scratch Pad RAM: 16 KB (Dual port)
Main Memory: 32 MB (Direct RDRAM 2ch@800MHz)
Memory Bandwidth: 3.2 GB/sec
DMA: 10 channels
Co-processor1: FPU (FMAC x 1, FDIV x 1), Micro Memory (I:4KB D:4KB)
Co-processor2: VU0 (FMAC x 4, FDIV x 1), Micro Memory (I:4KB D:4KB)
Vector Processing Unit VU1 (FMAC x 5, FDIV x 2), Micro Memory (I:16KB D:16KB)
Floating Point Performance: 6.2 GFLOPS
Geometry:
Perspective Transformation: 66 million polygons / sec
Lighting: 38 million polygons / sec
Fog: 36 million polygons / sec
Curved Surface Generation (Bezier): 16 million polygons / sec
Image Processing Unit: MPEG2 Macroblock Layer Decoder
Image Processing Performance: 150 million pixels / sec
Gate Width: 0.18 micron
VDD Voltage: 1.8 V
Power Consumption: 15 watts
Metal Layers: 4
Total Transistors: 10.5 million
Die Size: 240 mm2
Package: 540 pin PBGA
Graphics Synthesizer - Features and General Specifications:
GS Core: Parallel Rendering Processor with embedded DRAM
Clock Frequency: 147.456MHz
No. of Pixel Engines: 16 (in Parallel)
Embedded DRAM: 4 MB of multi-port DRAM (Synced at 150MHz)
Total Memory Bandwidth: 48 gigabytes per second
Combined Internal Data Bus Bandwidth: 2,560 bit
Read: 1,024 bit
Write: 1,024 bit
Texture: 512 bit
Display Color Depth: 32 bit (RGBA: 8 bits each)
Z Buffering: 32 bit
Rendering Functions: Texture Mapping, Bump Mapping, Fogging, Alpha Blending, Bi- and Tri-Linear Filtering, MIPMAP, Anti-aliasing, Multi-pass Rendering
Rendering Performance
Pixel Fill Rate: 2.4 giga pixel per second (with Z buffer and Alphablend enabled), 1.2 giga pixel per second (with Z buffer, Alpha and Texture)
Particle Drawing Rate: 150 million/sec
Polygon Drawing Rate: 75 million/sec (small polygon), 50 million/sec (48 pixel quad with Z and A), 30 million/sec (50 pixel triangle with Z and A), 25 million/sec (48 pixel quad with Z, A and T)
Sprite Drawing Rate: 18.75 million (8 x 8 pixels)
Display Output
NTSC/PAL
Digital TV (DTV)
VESA (maximum 1280 x 1024 pixels)
Silicon Process Technology: 0.25 4-level metal
Total Number of Transistors: 43 million
Die Size: 279 mm2
Package Type: 384 pin BGA
Disc Device
CD-ROM and DVD-ROM
CD-ROM 24 times speed
DVD-ROM 4 times speed
Can play DVD movies
------------------------------
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posted on 01-18-2002 @ 10:19 PM      
Psychopath
Registered: Oct. 00
Donald, what is the point in posting specs when you only bash the appearance. Also, why is this turning into a PS2 vs Xbox debate? FFXI should not be a part of the series, but a side game instead. I heard FFXI is going to every console. Is that true?





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posted on 01-19-2002 @ 2:58 PM      
Psychopath
Registered: Nov. 00
quote:

I heard FFXI is going to every console. Is that true?



Yes, in my earlier post I said:
quote:

If Square has any brains at all they will be releasing this title to both the Xbox and the PC. BOTH OF WHICH HAVE BROADBAND ADAPTERS (If you already have broadband that is).

Square would stand to lose a great deal of money if they did not release to these two platforms.



FFXI would flop if it were only on playstation 2 because the users are going to have to pay $350.00 just to get the game and necessary hardware. (Broadband Adapter - $150.00, USB Hard Drive - $150.00, Game - $50.00, knowing your xbox already has the 2 most expensive of the 3 already - priceless)

People are not going to want to spend $300.00 to upgrade their PS2 just to play that one game. Most will just buy an X-Box instead.

As far as gamecube goes, I haven't heard whether or not it will get FFXI.



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posted on 01-21-2002 @ 6:39 PM      
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Registered: Jan. 02
I'm waiting for more information on FFXI before i get all excited. FFX is possibly the greatest letdown i've ever experienced in a video game, a 40 hour romp through a rehashed story with a few twists, easy as pie gameplay (i did not receieve 1 single fucking game over), absurd revelations later in the game, the cast of Dawsons Creek 2005, voice acting WTF?! ugh, just a whole fucking mess, if they want me to shell out money every month to play that garbage online Square can eat a big bowl of shit, if however, they do the smart thing and rebuild their game from the ground up and create a great Everquest-asherons-callish type MMORPG, i'm there.













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posted on 01-21-2002 @ 8:01 PM      
Psychopath
Registered: Oct. 01
Squeegie, you really think that the broadband adapter is gonna be $150? You can get a usb broadband adapter for under $50 (for your comp). What makes you so damn certain that the PS2 one will cost more? And why is a HD necessary? Why not buy the shark line thingy thatll hook ur PS2 up to your comp via USB so you can save on your HD. I think it's just hard for you to accept the truth.



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posted on 01-21-2002 @ 8:08 PM      
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Registered: Oct. 00
not to go off topic in here, but...
quote:

Ree Posted on: 1-16-02 @ 7:44 AM
Dist, how dare you steal my thunder!!?!?!?

I am the FINAL FANTASY WHORE HERE!!!! Check my god damn status!




quote:

Disturbed Posted on: 1-16-02 @ 10:27 AM
Oh ya..... well check my status!

...... damn, im just a small part of Final Fantasy


i'm the FF division, too.come on, ff2.remember goblez, rubcant, and ryda, the origional caller?




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posted on 01-21-2002 @ 8:15 PM      
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no fbd, your just a catfish frog.


In the memory you'll find me,Eyes burning up,The darkness holding me tightly,Until the sun rises up



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posted on 01-21-2002 @ 8:16 PM      
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Registered: Oct. 00
quote:

no fbd, your just a catfish frog.

i'm considering a transfer to the chrono trigger unit.is that so wrong?




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posted on 01-21-2002 @ 8:19 PM      
Psychopath
Registered: Oct. 01
hmm...NOT to go OFF topic, but how is Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross?



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posted on 01-21-2002 @ 8:46 PM      
Psychopath
Registered: Nov. 00
quote:

Squeegie, you really think that the broadband adapter is gonna be $150? You can get a usb broadband adapter for under $50 (for your comp). What makes you so damn certain that the PS2 one will cost more? And why is a HD necessary? Why not buy the shark line thingy thatll hook ur PS2 up to your comp via USB so you can save on your HD. I think it's just hard for you to accept the truth.



First off... Your talking about Sony here. You really think that they will allow you to use a third party link cable to connect to your computer when they can get another $150.00 bucks out of you? Cmon...Be serious.

As far as the prices go.. All I have to go by is what was up on IGN...Ya ya, I know, not a reliable source but thats all the info I have right now.

As far as the $50.00 broadband adapter for the COMPUTER, that damn thing needs drivers right? So where are you going to install those drivers on your PS2? What?



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posted on 01-21-2002 @ 8:51 PM      
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sony definitely will try to squeeze out every penny you have, but it will be worth it. i have ps2 so whatever they come out with i will buy.



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posted on 01-21-2002 @ 8:52 PM      
Psychopath
Registered: Oct. 01
ok, good point bout the 3rd party cable, but about the drivers, thats easy. Have u ever used the DVD remote for PS2? (no, cos u u say u play XBOX) With the remote comes a cd, it opens a program that copies all the info from the cd onto ur memory card allowing u to use the special features of the remote.



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