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- Final Fantasy 11 is a classic MMO that everyone seemingly forgot about, I know I did. In today's video I explore the current state of Final Fantasy Xi and if it's worth playing in 2024?
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Items do auto stack you just have to adjust it in config.
@@pipz420 ah, thats good news then lol
Pirates of the Caribbean Online. I remember mostly spending my time sinking ships then spending all my loot on BlackJack
I just got the Horizon XI client and joined that private server. It recreates the glory days of the FFXI lvl 75 cap era and it's extremely populated and definitely not dead. It's almost like FFXI is experiencing a revival.
2005-2010 ffxi is an era that simply can never be replicated. If you missed it, all you'll ever experience is stories from people who were there.
RIP
Started in 03 which happened to be when I moved out and got my first pc on my own. It was amazing.
It was the peak of gaming
Amen to this
Was there for NA release. Talk about smooth. Played on PS2 then went to PC. My wife and I have fond memories of the game. We quit when wings came out and the cap was raised. It just didn’t feel like FF11 anymore.
FFXI was the best MMO at it's peak. Treasures of Aht Urhgan era was amazing.
Absolutely my fav dlc for xi
I'll never forget taking th first boat to Aht Urghan at launch.. So many memories.. So much sky.. So many HNMs.. There will never be another mmo like it.
Hell yeah so many memories I’ll never forget
@@UltrEgoVegeta Wings of the Goddess for me... Time Travel shenanigans and everything
Come to horizonxi, the game is 75 cap and will be getting this expansion soon.
Ah yes the game where a rabbit would murder you in the starter areas
FFXI is a game where, no matter what level there was always a rabbit that would murder you.
YES!! Love this game so much! I play a private server original 75 cap era everything so niicee
Rabbits were the thief job class. That's why they were tough
In retail, there’s a high level NM rabbit that has Endeath lol.
@@Bootus123 Wrathare is no joke
Also fun fact final fantasy 11 was squares Golden child for decades It literally saved the company from bankruptcy after the failed spirits within movie. Square leaned on the profitability of final face 11 for year after year to recover. Only 5 years or 6 years after final fantasy XIV came out did it surpass final fantasy 11's revenue finally.
1.0 in FF14 was bad…..really bad.
FFXI needs a remaster
Yes!
If FFXI got a remaster it would be a guarantee that I would return
If anyone could make a good UI for ffxi combat and macros. It would be the perfect mmo.
It does, but it'll never get it. Square Enix is content to continue pouring endless cash into their cash cow FF14.
@@Nightweaver1 Then we need to encourage indie devs that this is what we want. It needs more but I think there is a lot of good here.
FF11 was my first MMO. I still have a lot of fond memories of the game and how brutally hard it was. FF1 didn't hold your hand like modern MMOs, it punched you in the face and then mocked you for thinking you knew what you were doing. What an experience.
It was certainly an experience having to work everything out, I had like 20 in game hours and like 5 hours reading stuff on the wiki
if that really is the kind of experience I can "look forward" to with FFXI, it has gone from a "alright, let's see what we got" to a hard pass in an instant
I do not understand how anyone finds that fun
I play games because I feel like life does that to me enough, and want to feel powerful
if I wanted to feel like I was getting kicked in the face for fun, I'd go get a 2nd and 3rd job and just stop playing video games entirely
@@dragonriderabens9761 From what I understand the game has had a lot of quality of life improvements and other things added that make it not quite the same difficult experience it was 20+ years ago.
back in the day everyone wasn’t necessarily min/maxing from the jump. it was more about exploration and partying up to get through story content. people literally halfway lived in game it was a sort of escape.
it was so vast and interesting relative to anything else going on while still having all the final fantasy charm.
so by modern standards, yeah very frustrating stuff. Though it made it feel more organic and immersive vs. quest icons and waypoints to everything important.
@dragonrider Because of the incredibly rewarding experience you feel inside yourself on top of the incredibly charming world of FFXI.
"Paying a monthly sub and not getting any new DLCs" the game is actually still getting updates to this day! They're not super frequent but I believe the latest expansion wrapped up like just last year? I don't play the game but I do get notifications on any new patches that release and one just came out the other day, however I believe most of it's end game related.
So when it comes to Final Fantasy XI, because of the state of end game more or less requiring daily login to play a few hours for grinds that can last up to a year, my recommendation to those interested is get the game, pay the first sub or two, clear the full story, treat it like a single player game, enjoy your time, and move on. I started playing in 2004 when the game launched in the US.
Inventory cap is 80, not 60, you also get a mog sack, mog satchel, mog case, lots of extra storage. Plus you get wardrobes for your equippable items. There is an option to auto sort your inventory to items will auto-stack.
When it comes to the story, because FFXI was originally designed to be horizontal, you didn't need previous expansions to play current ones, the narrative is more story driven rather than character driven like XIV. When it comes to MMOs XI still feels like home to me after playing for so many years. I've taken long breaks, but I always come back because I miss it. Your experience on servers will vary though because of huge population differences. The game has also reached a point where savvy users will create multiple accounts and run them as bots. Think of it as a fancier version of the Trust system, which is usually not enough to let you make good progress on end game content, but it is enough that you can still comfortably do MSQ and side quests.
The game is charming, I love the art style, the armor designs are better than most of what's in XIV to me, the music is nostalgic. I've loved my time in XIV over the last 20 years.
"The MMO Everyone Forgot" Me, who never shuts up about it, despite also playing XIV. Lol
right, im stoked for the XI collab in nov on 14.
@@Derek9598Wait what they're doing it!?
the sound when you logged on... oh man that brings back so many memories!! i absolutely loved ffxi back in the day!! i play ffxiv now, but ive been thinking of getting my old account back on ffxi !!
Felt the same way when I heard it!
I just created a new account the other day after being gone for god knows how long. It just makes me feel so legitimately sad inside playing it because a world I remember as alive and vibrant is just empty and quiet and lonely. Almost every zone I enter brings back a memory I made playing there and I go back to those exact same spots and see... nothing.
FFXI, there are a number of private servers basically trying to recreate the ToAU era experience, but ToAU is held together by the most spaghetti of codes.
and none of them are functional, just play retail
@ImmortalDraylo eh Horizon is alright if you don't take it seriously. Retail has a problem that Horizon fixed which is the multi box meta. If playing retail didn't make me feel like I had to multi box then I'd play it but here we are. Trust can only get you so far.
@wretchedabyss1394 what makes you feel you have to multi box? Like what is forcing you to do it?
It's the same thing as shouting to find a group or linkshell on those private servers.
@@ImmortalDraylothere’s so much “daily” grind in retail that your progress is crazy slow without a static. Because of this, lots of people multibox so they don’t have to coordinate schedules with five other people.
@@ImmortalDraylohorizon is absolutely functional. Not sure what you’re going on about lol. I like both retail and horizon.
The trust system didn’t come into the game until it was like 10 years old or more. For a very long time you had to group with people after around level 13 unless you played Beastmaster. It was very grindy and there were few quality of life elements. You could t even teleport to a crag unless a White Mage they learned the spell for that crag took you there. Now you can teleport from crystal to crystal like FF14.
I kinda like that idea, I think theres too much hand holding and making everything easy in modern mmos...
@@sawmanUK if u like a challenge private server catseyes have a hardcore mode. Cant use ah delv to 1 when u die until you hit 75
@@user-fp6mi7lj1sHorizonXI has something similar, but there’s no way I’m spending all that time just to lose everything lol
The top things ffxi did I wish returned to mmos. Hundreds of Open world Named monsters, Sub job system, Weapon combos with other players (Skillchain) and magic combos (Magic burst), In combat macro systems, and level cap areas with level sync.
@@pipz420 yes! BCNMs and other capped fights really added to the feeling that endgame was not a destination, but something along the journey. Capping content like Promyvions also made it so gear wouldn’t be invalidated as you progressed. It’s one of my favorite parts of the game.
I still play ffxi to this day and have a sub running. It was such a magical time and to this day i still feel the pull to go home to Vana'diel.
My wife and I (Baronless and Baronlector, respectively) have "come back" to this game for easily the 10th time in the last 15 years. Currently on Sylph. We started our most recent pilgrimage less than 24 hours ago.
Hey I just started up again on Sylph a couple days ago. It was my home server back in the day. Tyru in game.
I was actually in your guys' linkshell way back in the day on Sylph. Hope all has been well!
@@DuskLumoria We jump between FFXIV and FFXI these days (currently in XIV). What's your XI name?
I actually just downloaded the FFXI Horixon client and joined that. It's amazing!!!! Its a completely free private server that recreates the glory days of the 75 cap era. And it's populated like the good old days too!!! Y'all should check it out.
I absolutely love FFXI but yeah it's hard to justify its sub price these days. I kinda wish they'd bundle its sub with FFXIV at a discount.
I know some retail people are hesitant to try private servers but it's crazy how much of a better experience it is, Horizon XI for example has:
- it's free (it's highly speculated that Ninja pays all the costs of running the server)
- 1 click installer and login (no PoL)
- Addons built right into the launcher, can click them on and off, including UI addons
- Active GMs who monitor for cheaters and respond to tickets
- High player population and because dual boxing is forbidden every player is really a person and not someones 5th bot account.
- it's free
@@Jambara Seriously stop shilling HorizonXI. Aerec and Kipling are running that server into the ground. The economy is overinflated by dupers and the staff got caught selling RMT to the player base. Just stop trying to funnel people into it, it's morally corrupt the amount of time you're wasting of people's lives if you promote HorizonXI.
Am I alone in always being nervous about watching FFXI content? It’s always an emotional roller coaster the second I start hearing some of the music and seeing the zones again. Floods of memories.
Omg yes... I actually bought the game again a couple days ago and Im starting fresh, chugging along doing my leveling grind... But i've had to wipe actual tears because many many zones I had great memories in and now when i zone in and go to those exact same spots, theyre just quiet and empty.
Originally there was no in-game tutorials. In fact, one of the memes about the documentation of this game is there was a Brady Games guide that is the butt of all jokes as it was out of date and incorrect about many aspects of the game upon its release. Players relied heavily on FFXIclopedia for information.
Oh god... yeah I had that guide. It was still a handy reference for vendors, crafting recipes, some maps, and for repeatable quests.
The anime "Welcome to the NHK" Had a Hikkikomori in it that played it all day. The protagonist also had a look in the future where he was 55 and still a hikki living with his parents and playing it, it was this good.
What I miss from FFXI;
- No teleporting (real travel)
- The Subclass system
- Leveling skill with Weapon types
- Skill chains
The best era social at it peaks, lots of shouting and interaction. Especially raise hah
Skillchains + Magic bursts are awesome. Now that just about everyone can solo Skillchains, it’s still fun to make your own multi-step Skillchains and have other people burst on them as you go.
@@brandohernandez9991 GOBS TO ZONE!
I miss pre-MPK patch when aggro mobs could chase someone across a whole zone and then walk back to their starting area, massacring low-level players along the way. It created a lot of variability in the state of each zone at any given time and made the world feel more alive. It was also hilarious. 😂
@@spotifyseascapessmoothjazz it definitely added a real world element of danger, but also MPKs were a HUGE problem and needed to be addressed.
You played the first few hours on hard mode. Melee only on BLM without a sub, and with the race with the lowest hp. Honestly if you can survive that grind you can survive just about anything the game has to throw at you. Also I 100% recommend getting through Chains of Promathia. It is one of the best MMO storylines ever created.
FF11 was really great back in the day! It reminded me of Morrowind in a lot of ways; next to no holding, no quest markers, etc.
Amazing social scene, challenging from level 1, multi-classing like the FF Tactics games, amazing storylines and soundtracks.
I really like FF14, but FF11 still takes the cake for me.
I’m glad I found this comment; I’d always say ff11 was like an mmo morrowind in some ways and they always thought I was crazy lol
I actually remember playing that game when I was a kid.
This takes me back :D Played for 5 years since NA launch... great memories but also the reason why I did not touch another MMO or even a MP game for 10 years. if you wanted a 2nd job with ungodly 'working hours' boy did it have a Dynamis for you.
People play private servers because the game was just different back then and some of those servers try to recreate that feeling. The incredible hardships created tight knit communities and worthy achievements.
FFXI on private servers is probably one of my favorite MMOs.
I'm a FFXIV main, but I still put FFXI in my rotation. I still disagree with your views on FFXIV, but I'm glad you checked this (imo not at all forgotten MMO) MMO out.
Honestly, after playing FFXi , im tempted by FF14 again...
You will do more talking to people in one day of ff11 than a month of ff14 even in 2024.
@@sawmanUK Do it :D
@@sawmanUK Assuming you're on the free trial of FF14, you have essentially three full game's worth of story content for free (base game and the first two expansions)
I like 14 for what it is, but man every time I go back to something like HorizonXI the feeling of playing is just 10x better imo. Both are great but nothing has ever given me the same satisfaction that FFXI has given in many iterations of the years.
I really enjoyed the video, and I think you did nail the real core of what make Final Fantasy XI great. The players. As a 20+ year player myself, from the Bismarck server, I commend Leeja for being such an outstanding example of the kind and open nature of the players in FFXI. Thank you!
That was the biggest stop gap for a lot of players upon US release... the game does not hold your hand at all, not days there are tutorials but starting out... you had a booklet guide that is it... figuring it out is part of the fun(as you seen). As a huge XI fan, the game needs some love as there is so much content, like a mountain of story you can do.. such a good game and when 1.0 XIV released all those years ago we had hoped for something similar but alas wow semi clones are popular with the masses compared to grindy, hard, social MMOs. While they have made it more user/solo friendly over the years with trusts, grouping used to be mandatory, no getting around it, ever. Well, unless you took up beastmaster, which in itself was a grind but rewarding. I come back to the game often and love to see people doing first time gameplay of this game, great video! Also additional note, you can sort and auto stack by turning auto stack on, which I swear needs to be on by default. If you ever consider giving it another go by all means, pm me. Learning the ropes is fun, but doing it solo can be daunting to see the real light shine!
I’ll be coming back in 2 weeks. I can’t wait! My character name is dargo
My friend you haven't even touched the surface of FFXI. The first thing you should have done is start the rhapsodies of vanadiel. it would have guided you through the things you needed to do. The expansions added to this game will give you solid year of play time.
Man I used to be addicted to this game back in the day. I miss those days
I got a good chuckle out of "4 hours , 30 minutes later I had setup and configured FFXI and was ready to play"
Can someone please tell me what game the song that starts around 9:30 is from? It’s driving me crazy.
I’m tripping it’s literally from Minecraft lol
Horizon XI Private Server. Come join the fun, its amazing
I was a 13-year-old kid living in a third-world country at the time XI released, and while online gaming wasn't exactly off the table, it was definitely not as ubiquitous as it is nowadays. I can definitely say that if I'd had the chance to play FFXI on release, I would have 100% become addicted to it. Though my taste in genres was broader when I was younger, RPGs were (and still are) my favorite genre... and the prospect of being able to go adventure with OTHER PEOPLE would have likely blown my mind lol.
Anyways, I've been playing FFXIV since 2.0 beta and I'd always been curious about FFXI. These games are clearly just different experiences. You play them over the years and develop an attachment to them the likes of which isn't found in other genres. Think I'll try FFXI out at some point... I'm kinda dreading interfacing with it since I've gotten SO used to the XIV cross bar haha... but that's fine, will adjust.
I actually just bought this game again three days ago and started playing after being gone since... 2010? So many memories I had in this game with my friends, plus all the new friends I made. I never even hit a level 75 despite playing the game for years. Playing now just makes me sad remembering the long past fun times of yesteryear. Every zone I enter brings back a memory I made there. You still see the occasional person in a town or at a warp crystal but the world seems so empty now, sort of like a metaphor for my life and all the friends i've lost contact with over the years.
My favorite game of all time. I miss the golden era of it. It could never be replicated even if they made a faithful remaster. Different era and different days.
Horizon xi feels very similar to the old days.
If you are a super hardcore no lifer, some cracks will show, but honestly back in 2005 my journey felt exactly the same as when I revisited the game last year on horizon.
Got two jobs to 75, redid all the story content, and quit haha. The endgame was never for me. The idea of it was cool, but it’s just too much of grind.
@nickv3085 OH I played there before, it's awesome. But what I mean is that MMOs aren't really social hubs anymore, and youtube and the internet is now takes away from a lot of mystery ffxi had back in the day. Back when you had "written testimonies" instead of videos
@@nickv3085 I've heard about this server. How populated is it?
your little quips are so damn funny! usually breaks for jokes annoy me.... but you do it so damn well!
If you want an MMO that I think you would love, try Warhammer Return of Reckoning. It's like an open world pvp focused version of WoW. It's completely free and insanely popular with massive 100 person+ battles in open world maps.
Ff11 opened my eyes as a kid that thr world is so much more than just me. I played from the ages of 11 to 15 and they were the absolute greatest times, still talk to some people I met on there. We didn't have google back then, took forever too. I miss the social days, people would hang out at the start of an area and eventually party up, thats the biggest thing i have against mmos today
Loved this, dude. Great stuff, and I saw you did a DAoC vid.... I''m subbed.
I loved FFXI, but it was very hardcore and punishing for a game. I still play today on a private server.
But it was indeed punishing, couldn't level at all without a group, (unless beastmaster) at the time. I only played up to Treasures of Otter-Gaunt or whatever that expansion was called.
Aggroed mobs that will simply never stop chasing you until you died, being deducted EXP if you died, ya it was punishing.
I had a Tarutaru character, or as they were called "Tawutawu" that always was fun to play. The cuteness was always at overload status.
But FFXI's best feature by far was the subjob system where you could combine classes in a virtually endless set of combinations. My favorite is still Redmage/Dancer combo where he can cast, melee, restore and be so self sufficient he can do pretty much anything :)
FF XI has such a special place in my heart. I LOVE this game. You can play the game solo now and that's so cool too...
I played FF11 before Steam, on my PC, and I still have all the discs, going to Wings Of The Goddess, which was the last Expansion I played.
I had printed out papers that explain Magic Burst and Skill Limit Breaks so we could use them in party camps.
I had one character who do dragoon (my main job), Red Mage, Dancer, and Summoner (Summoner is amazing in 11).
I miss it sometimes, but left when they made it more solo friendly.
The community of FFXIV comes from the community in FFXI. This game was so great and so longgggggg. I would love to relive this game I just don’t have another 5 year grind in me. ❤❤❤
I only tried this as the free trial version, and the only thing i remember was fighting squirrels at lvl 1, bunnies at lvl 2, and rushing agead to get merced by a lvl 4 lamb.
As an Info for ppl interested in XI: U pay the Sub a bit different to XIV as in its 1$ per Char u create + 11,95$ for the Base Account. So to play the Game with a single Char u pay 12,95$, 13.95$ for 2 Char and so on.
In XIV u pay 12,99 for up to 8 Chars in total PER SERVER (if i remember correctly the server part)
Also MAX Inventory is 80 n the Quests (yes there are several, 10 Slots each time i think) for them r located in Jeuno (another City which is more or less the Main Hub for Mid to End Game)
But nice vid for a recap ^_^
I was 90 days of logged time, and never saw level 75. My black mage was 71. Bard was 51. But this was back in 2006, and things were different then.
I played this back when I was 14 or 15 years old lol....never again. It was painfully grindy back then and boring. It looks like it hasnt changed much.
That's right, nobody remembers this game anymore, except us old guys. If you go on Twitch any given day of the week, you'll see thousands playing FF14, but MAYBE a few dozen total in FF11 streams. Hell, even TH-cam seems to think you're talking about 14, since that's what the gaming tag has it listed as. It's so incredibly sad that a superior game like this has been totally forgotten by almost everyone, but especially young people.
Also yeah if you think retail FF11 is hard, don't get me started on the good ol' days of the PS2 launch in '04 when I started and things were MUCH tougher. If you want that experience, try the Horizon XI private server. It's... uh, an experience. Like bashing your head into a brick wall over and over again until either the wall breaks or you do.
Great video chap. Never had a chance to play this in a heyday.
Played FFXI on NA release & played for the next 15 years! My favorite MMO! Love this game.
Thanks for this video; it was immensely nostalgic for me from my early days in the Navy stationed in Japan and playing this game on the computer I built.
It was so complicated, that everybody teamed up and helped eachother. Many friendships beyond the online world were forged.
In my FFXI years, I never heard someone be agressive or talk down on someone else. (aside from the picky 2brd pty onry)
everything took ages. Even finding a group and getting to a camp spot could take almost an hour.
Unthinkable these days.
Also, current generation FFXI is great for people who want to play every FF title. It takes maybe one or two months to complete the story line with all expansions and can be done solo for almost all of it. The story is great, and definitely is worth the price at this time just to play amd experience.
I played FFxi from 2005-2015.
Lakshmi server end game whm. A million wonderful memories
Hi excuse me I don't want to be obnoxious but evaluating ffxi from where you are serious about it--doesn't that seem a little premature? (btw in endgame there is always ppls to do nm etc)
I would play this again in a heart beat but a 12 dollar monthly fee is so greedy it's crazy especially with all the other MMOs out there now. If it was 5-7 or free which it honestly should be at this point it's player base would double or triple at least. I still remember the Dunes, and Quifim like it was yesterday. Honestly everything about this game was a masterpiece and I remember vividly. House parties, hitting the dunes and the difficult leveling jumping tremendously making being social a must, quests like sub job and dragoon, weapon and job leveling, everything was so much fun. One of my favorite games of all time and would love to play again but again that monthly fee for a 20 year old MMO is just crazy
I just started playing this game about a month ago for the first time. I am having a ton of fun with it, but I must say, Google is an absolute must. I have beaten the base game missions and started with the extra missions added to the nations in the Rise of the Zilart expansions. I am looking forward to seeing where the story goes from here. Thanks for the vid, made me even more excited to keep chugging further in this game.
Servers like HorizonXI that you showed there exist to give people the level 75-era, which plays WILDLY different than the game today.
Do not waste your time with HorizonXI. For anyone reading this, I repeat, you are willingly accepting a Trojan Horse if you get invested in HorizonXI. It's not what it appears to be, though it seems to have a high pop and you will hear people praise it, many are regretting this decision once they get deeper into the truth of what Aerec and Kipling are doing with this server. The ownership and leadership are abysmal, duping runs rampant, and the devs have been caught already selling RMT to the playerbase. Seriously, I know it because I fell for the same bait, and several months in, started seeing tons of unfulfilled promise by the devs, constant walk backs of plans and poorly managed Nerfs of jobs, and this is just the tip of the icebergs. Are there nice and great ppl in the community (playerbase), yes, absolutely. Do those nice people know what they are in store for? Not likely, because they are so on board the hype train for nostalgia they cannot see the forest for the trees that is HorizonXI is none of the things it claims to be, especially not the grandiose claims the leadership makes. But hey, if you're a glutton for punishment and love to be talked down to and berated/abused by the staff of a ps, then by all means, learn the hard way.
How populated is the server?
@@Thingsyourollup not sure of the total population, but it has anywhere from 800-2,500 people on at a time, depending on the time of day.
@@Bootus123 I downloaded it today already nostalgically in love.
@@Thingsyourollup it’s a great time! If you haven’t already joined the discord, make sure you do ASAP.
Can we switch the ff14 elezen with the ff11 elvaan pls?
Wow! I remember playing hours and hours on this. I wonder if there are still linkshells I use to play with. That was the best part in this game. Your whole linkshell get together to fight bosses for drops.
Back on the PS2 over AOL dial-up, the initial update would take me 16-24 hours as it first checked each file individually, and then downloaded each file individually.
Skipping along the ledges of Valkrum Dunes as an under lvld player was peak MMO.
This was hands down one of my favorite if not most favorite gaming experience. I still listen to the soundtrack. It’s my most listened to playlist on Spotify. This game will always have a free home to live in my heart. If I could choose to live in another world it would be that one. I would literally leave everything behind in this life to live in that one. Which these days isn’t saying much. The world sucks.
great content bro. I remember being an early teenage or some thing and trying to setup ff11 on my PS 3 I think it was at the time or 2?
I remember going to Jueno and demoing AM2 with my black mage when they first got released. What a game.
Nice video. XIV player, was wondering how XI looked these days
FFXI was the best imo. I met life long friends. Played from the beginning for pc users. Staying up til 3am waiting for an HNM pop was everything 😂 - fighting fast Japanese players using flash as whm to get Fafnir. Those were the days!
Duncan on Carbuncle ❤
Creating the white mage teleport fee scheme 😂 charging for raises in the dunes, Yuhtunga Jungle and Boyada Tree
FFXI was and still is to this date the best game I have ever played in my entire life! Almost got addicted! Still in love with the awesome music! Naoshi Mizuta and Nobuo Uematsu are forever in my head!
Come to HorizonXI, yall. Huge population and biggest dev team I've seen for a private XI server. In CoP atm, soon enough releasing ToAU.
The install process was streamlined for HorizonXI, btw. 10 mins + install time.
Love the Fable music being used in the video. Very good 'fantasy' vibes from it!
*I want you to know I Subscribed because you played this.*
*The music is outstanding, and parts of this game are still ahead of it's time.*
It's wild to me that one of the cornerstone aspects of MMORPGs, the sharing of information, is so completely centralized to a few datamining websites for modern MMORPGs that nobody wants to engage with questions about the game when asked while they're playing. Just condescendingly point you to one of those websites.
The easiest way to get a conversation going while playing an MMORPG is to talk about the MMORPG and asking a question about it is by far the simplest way to start such a conversation.
It's unfortunate that trolling and memeing by asking the same questions repeatedly - "Where is mankirk's wife?" - led to questions being scoffed at, especially after being able to get answers quickly, online.
At least this behavior isn't prevalent to the same degree in older and smaller MMORPGs like FFXI, EQ and City of Heroes.
P.S. Keep playing FFXI for a bit more and learn about Skill Chains and Magic Burst. It's one of the single best mechanics in MMORPG history.
I was playing Vanilla WoW at the time and my buddy was playing this game. He loved it. I tried playing it, I really did. Man, it wasn't good lol. I got to about level 35 before I had to tap out. Also, at a certain level you can get a subjob that was capped at half of your main job's level. I got my subjob up to like 17 or whatever it was and I couldn't. My experience was that you had to be in a group to do anything, but it was also difficult to find a group. Those bunnies will MURDER you a bit later on lol. My buddy had some CRAZY played time, like 300 days.
Great video. I would highly suggest giving horizon xi some time. They devs have done a great job of making an experience in line with the original design while updating the user experience with optional mods built right in the launcher. Very easy to download and get up and running.
You say the mobs will chase you down and kill you if you run away. But the mobs do have 'zones' that if you get far enough away they will wander off back to their zone. I mean, it's not the 10 feet away that FFXIV seems to have. But it's a sensible distance.
This DID NOT used to be the case back many years ago. When you could amuse yourself by aggro-ing a high level mob miles across a zone, and drag it with you all the way to a zone line far away. Leaving the mob to slowly wander back to it's spawn point. Potentially aggro-ing and/or killing anything low enough level in it's path. Top bants at the time.
I love new memes with old video games
I had this biggest love/hate relationship with this game. I was fascinated with the Pet jobs in this game and gravitated towards Summoner and Beast Master. I'm actually a little upset with the fact that summoner doesn't function more like it's FFXI iteration in FFXIV. You don't even get the ability to summon the usual Titan, ifirit, garuda, ect. in their actual forms until level 90 for gods sake! I started way late in FFXIV's life but I assume that means you didn't get them until they released End Walker however many years after the game launched. Never mind the possibilities opened up in game play with pets having their own Enmity, TP, MP, Stats, move pools, ect. I feel like there was more creativity involved in dealing with every situation in XI rather than... just starting your rotation. EX: I used to repeatedly send carbuncle to fight Bomb mobs 10x my level, from a large distance to get self-destructed on for massive xp. lol I don't miss competing over end game monsters with 24+ rl hour wait times for a sword or a robe I HAVE to have to be relevant at that job/level, loosing xp and de-leveling when dying, and shouting for help in jeuno cause I can't solo a gods damn thing, and party finder doesn't exist. At least in FFXIV I can experience the story cause it's not a waste of Gil, EXP and time helping other people do it. I hope they get BST right in Downtrail.
Dude I think it took me a freaking day to walk outside. The town was so huge and it was my first mmo I was just overwhelmed.
I started up FFXI 20 years ago on the North American release. It was quite the experience having played EverQuest prior. The graphics were better, the quests were better, it had a linear storyline with cutscenes (completely unheard of at the time), and QoL features baked in from the start (EverQuest didn't add mounts and server based teleport systems until it's third expansion, about 3 years after its release in 1999). FFXI was amazing and the fact that you could play it on PS2 was even better. I played it on PS2 until Sony shut down all PS2 online support in the 2010's. That was a sad day. I hope you enjoyed your experience and give each storyline a shot. They're all great expansions with fun battles and compelling stories.
I haven’t seen a saw man vid in like 2 years since. We quit ESO about the same time, glad to see your still kicking
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Definitely correcting you on the lack of updates. The last full expansion was in 2015, but they’ve put in equivalent content of like another three full expansions since then. They update the game every month.
Hey, thanks for the video! Always happy to see FFXI appear on my feed :D
What server did you start out on?
I still hope they will remaster or remake FF11 sometime. FF14 just doesn't scratch my itchy spot for complex open world design... as every dungeon there is instanced and you don't even really need guilds...
In FF11 you could not do shit alone... Nowadays yes, with Trusts, but still need other people to coordinate, as there is no ingame mechanic for "Duty Finder" sort of stuff.
I guess I picked a good day to search for this ❤
That Playonline tune took me back ❤
3:35 😂 seriously, I wish the game got overhauled. I'm a big fan of ToAU/WoTG era, and I believe there are some great and beautiful stories to be told in there. It's still kind of social though, some players are dying to help for content to see how OP they can get ☺
This was the MMO! You mention this is from 20 years ago, don't forget that WoW is from 2004 my guy.. they aren't limited to ps2 hardware... but ff11 in its peak required you to play with friends or strangers. Was so good.
Someone I know actually did find a plugin that would change the UI to be more similar to 14's controller UI. Haven't tried it myself, but it's definitely a viable option
12:51 It's a bit sad that this isn't enabled by default but auto stacking (sorting) items is hidden in the Options menu and, if i recall correctly, there's a goblin in Jeuno which you can do quests for to get 50 slots (not sure about the number) of inventory; like 5 slots at a time per quest.
But cool video, man. I thoroughly enjoyed it :).
I heard about this so much later on from a friend I met around 2009 to now, how he would play with a few people and how much he loved it. So many stories from it. Funny ones, exciting sounding ones. I loved old school mmos, but I always stuck to PC and was an FF single player puritan so I ignored it. I really wish I played it back then, I can’t imagine how much it would’ve stuck with me growing up.
Back at USA launch, the Brady Games guide (which at the time helped, but in retrospect is complete crap) was the best way to get started of you didn't have friends in game. JP players who cpuld speak english were the best source for help in game at that time.
Love this game my first mmorpg, it still playable today. Beside beastmaster you can’t solo and delevel when you died.
FFXI was the best mmo of all time in my opinion. It wasn't easy. You had to form parties. It wasn't instanced. The economy was tough. The graphics and soundfx were perfect. The lack of instancing made it feel like a real world. To me it will always be the best, I can still hear the PROVOKE sound effect echoing in my ears as the mages cast. Easily the tops for me. Cheers from Georgia
this game is still fun ! i still paly it and i started playing this since 2004
Best game I've ever played, and ever will play. Would I recommend this today to a new player? Probably not... not without a mentor to at least help get the game installed and updated with Windower and graphics upgrades etc. There will never be another MMO with the depth of FFXI.
My first FF game, and still is my favorite. Love the job system, combat, art direction, world, lore, music, skill-chain system, gear progression, and so on.
Hey glad you enjoyed your trip!
All those FFXI memories are flooding back in from watching your video. I must've had 1000's of hours in that game. I stopped with 14 (1.0) came out and when it failed, I waited for Realm Reborn to come out. When I quit RR, I moved on to Black Desert Online and that's where I've been ever since. But man, do I have FOND memories of XI!!! 🤗
I didn't even know it was still around and with so many new expansions.
Wonderful video. Played back in 2004 and I can assure you that it was just as obtuse then. Nothing was explained. Kinda refreshing in a sick way.