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i played ff 11 for 5 years. i no longer have access to my characters. was thinking of buying the game and starting over. is the game worth starting over again now? is it still everyone leveling by themselves or is it back to where you need to level in parties again?

I played this game to death back when level 75 was the level cap. I got to the point where I was working on job #4 (BLM, WHM, RDM, and then BRD) and eventually with the HNMs taking all day it just felt like a job. Had a great time building all the RDM subs, the early game with even a halfway competent party was amazing. There was also a great zen of the RDM buffing cycle that I really miss. I mean, I was totally /that/ BLM that would see the enemy at 20% health, blink, stone skin, and absolutely dump damage on it until it died, rotating blink and stone skin to tank as needed at the end. Don’t forget the echo drops! Good memories, but just way too much of a time sink.

First of all, I wanted to say thank you for all those great content you created around Final Fantasy XI! I can't tell how happy it makes me to learn more about one of the Final Fantasy I unfortunately never got the chance to really play. As you said so well at the end of this video, I have been within those people that discarded FFXI and for me the reason was mostly because it is an online game... But I have to say, I felt like I missed out quite a lot of things from the FF lore by not playing FFXI; and I could tell this from Opera Omnia Dissidia that gave some much more weight to a few characters of FFXI such as Iroha, Selth'teus, Eld'narche, Kam'lanaut, Aphmau, Prishe, Shantotto, Lion, Lilisette, Arciela and so many others! And the fact I could watch your reviews and somehow get even more sense of it all, really made me want to play FFXI. I always adored the music from the game, and I feel Naoshi Mizuta is underrated while being as much of a music genius as all other composers from Square Enix games. I had the opportunity to barely play FF11 a few years ago but didn't go that far. Your videos really make me want to go back to Vana'diel and explore this fantastic land that I barely visited. My biggest wish from Square Enix is that they remaster/remake the game to be more accessible (but as an option, not as a replacement) because I really believe it would help provide more interest to the game for those that never had the chance to even try it.

I just finished WotG last night, and its easily my favorite expansion thus far. Looking forward to Seekers of Adoulin and beyond.

As a FF fan playing XI back in 04-06 and being very interested in the story, it was very frustrating how hard it was to find people to do some of the fights, especially for those that didn't have endgame content locked behind. But also, it was so satisfying beating those fights. Endgame content is interesting and fun nowadays, but it has moved away from alliance content, so that's not particularly good for linkshells, but it's easier to find 5 other people to fill a party.

No, playing FFXI is not essential at all as the gameplay did not age well, & the story is almost non existent or forgettable since the pacing is so far & between that most players will forgot the plot/goal of the story.

Ah BLU the one jog that makes you hold so much gear on hand just for the stat modifiers

I'm sorry to tell you FF11 is not made for brand-new players. Beginning with the install, to setting up an account, to arriving in a world with MANY++expansions in place , to the outdated controls. FF11 refuses to adapt to an old aged game, by re-creating progression servers so new fresh blood can learn it from scratch with an interactive population. The FF11 community eats its young by fighting with emulated servers that are trying to keep this game alive for the newer FF generation so they can transition to FF11 LIVE. I personally played on Asura since day 1 of the server and made it to mid 30's.. coming back to this monstrosity of game is quite overwhelming and not very friendly

The thing that bothers me most about retail is the armies of bots in the starting zones (and probably elsewhere). Really takes one out of the immersion.

The PlayOnline music at the end hit me like a ton of bricks. You gotta give a nostalgia warning for something like that, man.

Haven't laughed about a final fantasy 11 joke meme and so long since the one @40:10 😂

Yeah I've been playing off and on since 2004 and I got to say 11 is in its best state ever honestly.

I'm a final fantasy fan, I must say. there is no game that will ever beat the fun i had in the lvl 75 cap era of ff11. Man... I made friend with people all over the world, even gamed with Japanese people wo do not speak English and we all enjoyed each other’s company. The game felt like a real live world where everyone needed each other to progress. Never had such communion with diverse people all over the world. This is how diversity is supposed to be, it was there all along, not the forced modern kind. I haven’t even started about the game mechanics and the story… o boy I truly mis the old ff11 times. Even after 20 years when I hear the music, I think about valkurum dunes, the pain of lvling down after lvling up. The moments of sacrifice for the party , the hard punishments that I loved. It brought out true danger that you did not face alone that no game ever managed to generate. Games now are a shadow of ff11 back then. I played ff14, but it does not have what 11 has. So going back to 11 to check it out. I did not know it was still up. The warning that you should not to forget the people in your real live, when you started the game, was really needed haha. It really hit a true spot there.

I played FFXI when it first came out, and I hated it. I gave it 2 years. I was on Asura, and ran into horrible player & creeps. I had to play the game and jobs exactly as the hardcore players demanded. It was just awful. I did hear that the game changed, but I will never go back to that horrible game. To me, a series name doesn't get a pass for a such a toxic gaming experience I had.

I was trying to give this game a try for its story but it really doesn't respect your time and i didn't think it was worth the hassle. It's just too cumbersome to play and get around

Played it for a short while in 2006. I was really excited so I naively bought all the available expansions at once, thinking I was ready to get lost in my very own FF experience. One of the biggest wastes of money of my life. Even my housemates who convinced me to try it never once sounded like they were enjoying it; all they did was complain. Meanwhile I had so much trouble navigating the atrocious user interface that I had trouble shutting down my subscription and paid for extra time during which I never even logged in, and unsurprisingly Squenix refused to budge when I disputed those charges. I'm told it's much better now (what you said about soloing the story definitely wasn't true in 2006) but I'm also told that even "better" is still mostly "autoattack to level 99." FF14 was a considerably better game but still gave me the same drama with the subscription management just a couple of years ago. Never again.

OMG what's that sick San'd'Oria remix at 20:15?

Making it a numbered entry killed the series. So few had the funds except for the house living whitest upper middle class kids could afford the whole setup and subscription. Just call it ff online only and don't go dark side fomo greed. Why combo breaker your entire fanbase (except for the rich kids?)

When it first came out I wanted to try it but I was only in elementary/Middle school and the idea of a game subscription didn't sit well with my parents. All these years that went by I contemplated starting it but was never motivated. Steam today notified me that FFXI Ultimate Edition went on sale below $10 so I feel extremely incentivized to start playing. I'm sure most of the player base is gone, but from all the things I heard, I hope I'll enjoy the story even if it may be a more solo experience.

I played 11 back in my college years in the early 2000s and story was definitely not what people played it for. You had to pray that other players around your level were around and available to help you through a dungeon or just level up against the mobs in the environment. Every mob hit as hard as an A Rank from FFXIV and getting a level or two a day was considered a miracle. It took a very long time to level and dying would lose all your progress. What hurt most is that it was hard to gear up, as all the gear on the market would be insanely overpriced so you couldn't get your gear appropriate for your level and people won't bring you with them into the next dungeon for that level range. Old FF11 was rough. Shadowlord was also considered the end game and there was nothing past that when I played.

I did wings of the goddess years after it came out but it was absolutely the best of them ALL! I spammed through most the others but actually engaged in this wonderful story

Wow .. what an excellent video. You brought back so many memories for me. I played when the game first came out and up to the TOAU expansion. I play for many years and had more than 1 year of actually gameplay time. So so so many great people I played with and many many great memories I had with this game. Thanks again for this video.

Wii U pro controller GODS here.

Thinking of getting back to the game. I miss it. Felipe Seraph-Bismarck 2003-2015

I tried this game when it was new, but between the exp loss system, the shared gathering nods and the bots that flood them, and other reasons I cannot recall I ended up quitting the game and never looking back. It was so bad I didn't even try ff14 until 3.x because I could not trust them to make a good mmo. I have not tried it since, and I do not plan to. I have never heard anyone say they changed any of those systems, so I will stick to 14.

FF11 passed me by in my youth. I was barely aware of its existence and my parents were heavily against the idea of playing games on a pc, let alone paying a subscription to one. It's a shame because at that age I would've loved such an absurdly challenging and esoteric game, an experience completely of its time. It looks like peak fantasy rpg vibes as well. Hearing about how good it still is, I want to give it a go even just to witness the story and get a feel of the world, since it won't be around forever.

Voracious ressurgence review when?

FF11 still shapes FF14

The golden age of this game will never be replicated, your battle linkshell buddies rallying around a member to push them through the story was something you just don't see anymore.

Thank you for this, love XIV but new to XI keep making vids!

Me and a homie just started on HorizonXI and it's been amazing. we're freaking addicted now tho so I dunno how good of an idea this was..

Do I need to install add on to help me go from quest to quest? How do you navigate? Does it have question marks?

I never played 11 after watching this video I’m going to give it a shot. What’s the easiest class to play?

Does ff11 have flying mounts?

They really changed the game if anything is soloable in FFXI, and the story was minimal if non-existent when it first came out.

I agree with your point about FFXI hardly getting the credit it deserves for influencing future Final Fantasy games, but moreso, it never gets enough credit for its influence on fiction in general lol. Pretty much every anime that involves an mmo ALWAYS pays direct omage to FFXI.

What song is playing during the master trials section?

I played FFXI when it first came out and it was and is the best MMORPG especially back in their golden age!

XI is skipped mainly because it's not "anime" like XIV. As a XIV player im happy i played XI, having a blast and BLU mage is awesome.

Sporkonafork, 75 BLU Taru from Asura server 2010. Catch me on HorizonXI with the same name 🙂

You will never find a better battle system then in FF11!

quick video with amazing tips. I got all these from a much longer video, but i enjoyed hearing it all again for confirmation

Amazing review. I just started playing again 2 days ago. I've been loving watching / listening to videos like these while i'm working. Gets me so excited to get home and play. I never beat FFXI yet, but am WAY more excited for the story. I agree with you that the music is top notch. I really love Windurst music so much i always play MIthra or Taru because of it! my first character ever was a Taru from Sandy though. Sandy music also really good

I'll play FFXI when comes off as an offline game which according to Square and Yoshi-P isn't too far off into the future.

Beautiful video. As inaccessible as the CoP missions originally were, I'll never forget the thrill of finishing the missions and joining the few elite on the servers with the Tamas/Rajas ring. Me and 5 other friends worked harder than I could have ever thought. I think we wiped on some of the fights over 30 times. We leveled new jobs just to finish the story quests together. I haven't had that sort of experience in an MMORPG ever since.

I purchased this game at release, I was so excited😂 I was young, and I learned a hard lesson about graphics cards and such that day when the game couldn't even load the start screen😭 still haven't played it

If they included FFXI sub with my FFXIV sub I'd give it a try but as it is I cant really justify the extra cost at the moment.

Hearing that Zi'tah music reminds me of when I was noob and trying to discover the zones, asking friends and linkshell.. 'Where is Li'telor?' and no one knew. We all found it, eventually.

Horizon server (free download) Is the old days of ff11. Level 75 cap.