I’ll say it once, I’ll say it 10 million times until I am blue in the face. Final Fantasy XIV is the best game from the franchise in 15 years and one of the most beautiful experiences available on the video game market today. The more people who get the chance to experience it, the better, and that includes Xbox One owners who have been on the outside looking in up until now. With...
In addition to some other playable games and a mysterious Tomb Raider surprise, Square Enix’s “Road to E3 2016” has confirmed three more playable demos that will be on the floor, and all of them will be coming from the same franchise. Of course, this is Square Enix’s biggest franchise, Final Fantasy, which has not one but three games that require heavy representation. Naturally, Final...
Many Final Fantasy fans still have not given the time of day to Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn or its expansion, Heavensward, because they are subscription-based MMORPGs. How can something designed for multiplayer possibly live up to the standards of huge, single-player, story-driven experiences? Actually, many frequent players have correctly come out in support of the game,...
Batman: Arkham Knight isn’t the only game being pulled from shelves this month because of performance issues. Square Enix has pulled the Mac version of Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn from sale and offered refunds for those who bought it. Luckily for Square Enix, it has mostly dodged the same scrutiny Warner Bros. and Rocksteady Studios have because of the relatively small Mac gamer...
If you need more convincing of Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn’s supremacy as the most exciting MMORPG out there and that its development team employs some of the most “in-touch” decision makers, then let this trailer be the final say in your quest for enlightenment. A new fake trailer directly from Square Enix and main scenario writer Kazutoyo Maehiro re-envisions the popular MMORPG...
Is there a game out there whose screenshots I enjoy more than Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn? Not likely. A gallery of shots is like a fashion magazine or a DSLR trip through the most beautiful places on Earth for JRPGs enthusiasts. It’s the perfect representation of the first five games from the series fully realized in gorgeous 3D graphics. The latest batch of screenshots aren’t...
And it’s even better in motion! I know I slap Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn silly with praise, but I can’t just get over how gorgeous it is! Even with the relatively simple graphics required to run an MMORPG, I am hard pressed to think of any game in recent memory that is more, for lack of a better word, “beautiful.” What do I mean? Like I said, this is an MMORPG, so the graphics...
You remember the Gold Saucer, am I right? How many countless hours of your precious youth did you waste hacking through Final Fantasy VII’s ridiculous mini-games? My count stands at more than I want to admit. A giant meteor is hanging in the sky about to crush every being in existence, but Cloud’s desire to breed a few generations of Chocobos clearly takes precedence over the crisis at...
I know that MMORPGs are essentially big time sinks, but Square Enix has found a way to make its excellent Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn even more so with some classic mini-games from the franchise's highly celebrated PlayStation-era. Triple Triad and Chocobo racing are coming to its newest MMORPG to majorly distract you from the overarching story at hand! Both are being added to...
I’ve always said that Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn is the best looking Final Fantasy game in years because of how close it sticks to the classic look of the franchise. The recently announced expansion pack Heavensward, silly title and all, takes it a little far from those new roots with some interesting design choices. The “Heaven” part of the title certainly stands out the most...