Customer Reviews

Final Fantasy XI: The Vana'diel Collection 2008

5 star:		(2)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

Great buy! Great Online game. I have been playing since 2003 and I have not been everywhere in the game yet. One of the best MMO's on the market to date. Thousnads upon thousands of players play. You will have no problem finding someone to play with on FFXI. The in game mentors are very friendly & they help you learn the game. This game haves more depth than World of Warcraft. I recommend this game to anyone that wants to get into a solid, stable, and developed MMO.

It was really nice of Square Einx to release the original PS2 installs again after 3 years of not having them in print. This allows new players to come into the game by installing the game on a PS3 now that system update 2.10 has fixed the install issues with backwards compatible models of the PS3. Models like the 40 gig, the new 80 gig and the 120 gig will not work with this.

I'm really updating my review because of the new PS3 firmware update. The game itself is great and it works even better when you have friends along. The Wings of the Goddess expansion is included and so far it has some potentially fun features(although it takes SE awhile to add everything). The best feature off FFXI over other MMOs is the ability to swap classes on the fly with few penalties other than the fact that all of them start on level one.(you can be a lvl 30 warrior and a lvl 30 WHM on the same character...no real need to make more characters like oh say...World of Warcaft!)

This collection really great for new players and I hope to see you on my server. Be warned that these disks will not work on the thin models of the Playstation 2 since you can't install a Hard drive in them. Other than that used PS2 hard drives are available on ebay...just make sure you get the HDD utility disk!

Final Fantasy XI online is an MMORPG worth investing in. The graphics are beautiful, the jobs are diverse, and you can choose from four different races of inhabitants. The cities are fully functioning with Mog Houses for the players, where you are assisted by a Moogle, auction houses from which you can buy practally anything or sell any unneeded gear, and many NPC inhabitants from whom you can gather information or take on missions.

It is easy to get lost in this world of Vana'diel in your efforts to escape daily stress or just immerse yourself in the game play. I play a mithra (cat person) with my main job being thief. The game play is fun and the developers have made it easy for incoming players to level quickly on their own. There are still many fights that take an alliance of 18 or more people to take down, and there is the possability of getting better pieces of eqipment from these fights. I would highly reccomend finding a linkshell (an ingame community of players who have similar interests and goals in the game) to get help with learning the ropes and eventually getting through the missions and higher level fights as you progress.

My only complaint (and the only reason I didn't give this a 5 star rating) is that many of the higher level fights take soooooo long. For example, as a thief there is an item highly desired called a swift belt. To get this, you have to fight in one area for an item to spawn the enemy that will drop the belt. You then have to go to the other area where you trade this item to ??? to get the mob to spawn. Through out all of this, you are also fighting other mobs in the area, due to agro or just to clear the area. You cannot solo a swift belt run and so many of the alliance may also have/need the item to pop the mob. Then there is the possable disappointment, as this is not a 100% drop. I was on the computer for eight hours, (I know, insane.) And no, I did not get the drop. It was that moment of revelation (that my life off the computer is much more fulling) that decided for me. I play the game as I want to but I refuse to spend more than four hours at a time/ ten hours a week on the game.

So, enjoy it. I do, really. Just take it all in moderation, it is after all, just a game.

An extremely slow game that took me hours to make any headway. Combat is automatic and restrictive in what actions I could perform, based on a cooldown system that prevents players from doing anything beyond basic attacks more than once for certain amounts of *real time*, so I couldn't steal anything from monsters more than once every five minutes. The game's presentation can be a mixed bag with slowdown and graphics that are plenty plain by today's standards, with only the music standing tall as being noticeably good.

I personally found this to be an overall dull game. I did not sit well with the fact that a plodding experience like this is something one pays for, especially not how it is on a month-to-month basis. I'd rather do something more immediately gratifying or worthwhile, like playing an actually fun game, or reading. I sincerely hope Final Fantasy XIV, this game's online-only sequel, lives up to its promise to deliver a faster, more enjoyable experience and does better for itself and its community. We don't have all the time in the world.

Buying this release of FFXI for the PS2 allowed me to get everything in order on a newly formatted HDD. The price is a little steep since the other versions of this exact release are much cheaper on other systems. Overall it's nice to be back in Vana'diel.

This is a great way to start the ff saga on the internet, and if your about to start the game its great. Its also really cool if you just want it for all the 4 expansions for the price of one.

Ok, I have spent the last couple of hours trying to figure out the UI of this game. Perhaps I am not a computer freak, but I have played quite a few online games and have never seen anything less user-friendly. It should NOT be difficult to attack, run, adjust camera angle, etc. The map feature is ridiculous as well. Overall, this has been the worst game I have ever played (and that is saying something). Unless you are looking for an old-school MUD experience, I'd advise playing something more worthwhile. There has been incredible progress in the world of gaming and FFXI missed out somehow. Incredible, considering the wonderful experience FF games usually bring to the player.

I'm only writing this to save someone the hassle and frustration of attempting this disaster. Solitaire is more entertaining.