Final Fantasy XIV makes me happy for a variety of reasons. Some of them I’ve written about, and some things make me slightly less than happy on a whole. The point is made either way: I like the game, and there’s a lot of stuff to write about, a lot of big issues that easily ….  Read More

There are certain things I hate in MMOs. One of those things is a forced group quest. Final Fantasy XI introduced me to this idea in a roundabout way by giving every player a single quest (“accomplish something”) and forcing him or her to group for pretty much all of it. I didn’t need a ….  Read More

Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn is little more than a month away from its release, and today Square Enix released four new screenshots of the content under development. We get to see the hard mode version of the Titan Battle. Players will face their primal earlier during the main story quest in a four ….  Read More

In the past few weeks, I have been able to spend a little time in the reimagined world of Eorzea. Eorzea is the world in which the MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV is set. FFXIV was released in September 2010 to largely negative reviews. Claims that the game was poorly optimized, that it offered a sluggish ….  Read More

Final Fantasy 14: A Realm Reborn launches August 27 on PS3 and PC. VG247′s Dave Cook has been played the beta and charted his noob-like progress every step of the way.   I’ll admit that I never played the original Final Fantasy 14, so I’m not au fait with exactly why gamers and critics hauled ….  Read More