Final Fantasy XIV

As a mini fanboy of Final Fantasy and an avid player of MMORPG, I could not resist not blogging about Final Fantasy XIV online. Final Fantasy XIV is a 3D fantasy (well, of course it is fantasy, what do you expect? It is FINAL FANTASY, hello??? :p) P2P MMORPG. It is currently under close beta testing and it is due to release either late 2010 or early 2011 in English, Japanese, French and German. *Rumor. So do not bring your hopes up too high~ ^^

Beautiful landscape, dont you agree? ^^

To most, the name Final Fantasy is already worthy enough for them to spend their time on a game. However, not to me. I am not that shallow. :p In here, I will not comment on the graphics since graphics by Square was almost never an issue. Rather, I will let you guys judge them yourselves in awhile later. For now, I will like to talk about the gameplay. It seems that Square had abolished the usual leveling system and instead, it will be skill based which is called the Armoury system. I believe, this means that the longer you use a particular weapon, you gain experience and therefore become better at using that particular weapon with more skills available (so instead of your character leveling up, your skill level up). Also, your character changes appearance depending on the weapon you are wielding. And you can choose to change weapon at any point of time! This means you get to play any class you want at anytime, without the need to create new character~ Woot! xD Just the perfect solution for fickle minded people like me. :p Speaking for which, there will be many types of classes available. Mainly, they will be divided into 4 different disciplines which are Disciples of War, Magic, Land and Hand. Below, I will list down the class of each Discipline.

Disciples of War
Archer
Lancer
Gladiator
Marauder
Pugilist

Disciples of Magic
Conjurer
Thaumaturge

Disciples of the Land
Botanist
Miner

Disciples of the Hand
Alchemist
Blacksmith
Culinarian
Tanner
Weaver

DAI!!! xD

I wonder how the hell that thing caught fire in the water? ~.~

To be honest, I cannot wait to try out this system. Just check out the classes available. What the hell a Botanist do?? Grow plants? =.=;; And what the plants do? Heal? So much questions and so little answers. xD

Back to the game, currently, 5 races have been announced. However, it seems that the race you choose will not be affecting the choices of your class OR the gameplay experience. Besides this, not much details of the gameplay has been released. *There are still more, just that it does not really interest me. Hehe. Anyway, for more information, you can check it out at here.

Ciaossu~ ^^

PS: Chocobo will be back~ ^^