Random Thoughts.....What Are You Thinking?

It didn't have "horrid" graphics for the time, it actually had more expressive character models and cutscenes. They toned those down to simplify everything in the rework. Now all the characters do is nod and hang their mouths open.

I am 77 years old and retired. I live in small town potato county WA. I have nothing but time. I am using it responsibly by playing XIV.

1, It helps keep my mind active and therefore still sharp.

2, It keeps me away from television. Television rots the mind.

3, It provides social interactions I lack IRL.

4, Killing people is wrong IRL.

Don't know if you ever tried XIV but early on they reference the "is all you are going to ever do is nod at me?" in a CS. Your character nods.

They pull this more than once.

77 yeARS old? Are you really

Like 10 years ago we played with a 60-something year old dude. Bunch of us had him on Facebook too, and he was one raunchy, perverted old ***.

i feel your pain, i prefer my nods mouth closed, too.


XIV must be drastically different to XI. i'm convinced if i switched my XI carrier for one of heavy drinking i wouldn't have lost half as many braincells.

1944. Which means I'm too old to be a boomer.

I love the UI of FFXI. I really dislike the standard MMO hotbar. I think it is a primary contributor to the 'cycle' that combat becomes. Look at a mage in FFXI vs a mage in FFXIV. They literally replace spells instead of adding to them in a lot of cases. Yes, there is an argument to be made that a majority of those lower spells are no longer useful anyway. However, the hotbar structure does limit the overall amount of things basically to what will fit on 3 of them. Look at weapon skills. Sure, there may be a couple dominant WS for a job, but they also often have other utility WS that shouldn't be ignored (HP recovery, MP recovery, skillchain setup, stun, etc.).

I like the overall gameplay of FFXI so much more than FFXIV. The main three reasons I play FFXIV are the better gathering and crafting systems (which actually might be too easy at this point), it is solo player friendly, and it is story-rich. Even then, I don't care to grind out dungeons and stuff. Once I finish Endwalker (today), I'll work on getting the rest of my crafts to 90 (2 done, rest at 80+), and then I'll probably drop the game until the next story update.

Every day, at least once, for the last... at least a week, I have been having a big sneeze or two. Each time, my cat is sleeping. Each time, it wakes him up. Each time he is awakened, he makes this annoyed meow twice. I swear meow #1 is: "Damn it. You woke me up". Meow #2 is "***, I'm going back to sleep". Then he kind of adjusts his head/neck and goes back to sleep. It's friggin' adorable.

We moved in April 2019 and I've still got a few boxes to unpack. Not for lack of trying, mind you. Most of it's just impractical, sentimental stuff that I don't have a place for.

Sucks you're missing some stuff. Maybe you just haven't unpacked a particular box or something? I hope it's not lost for good...

Normally when I open a box, it winds up being a mimic.

Ka-thwack!

Me doing "research" (google'ing it) solved the mystery.

hmmmmmmmmmmm new matrix is piratable already

Russian cam (in english though)

tempting......................

read it was released overseas so possibly

Azerbaijan 16 December 2021
Kazakhstan 16 December 2021
Russia 16 December 2021
Thailand 16 December 2021
Japan 17 December 2021

I fully dont understand the reason for staggered release dates in (current year) the second that ***hits russia, we get a pirate and you lose money, so what possible reason is there to still do it this way.

Dinosaur boomer ***just hasn't changed with the times.

Its wrong.

The greatest generation was, at its youngest, old enough to serve in Korea.

1939 - early 1946 is an unnamed 1/2 a generation often referred to as war babies.

Matrix Revolution gonna be my birthday event in january so all spoilers are strictly forbidden till then.

Also, just bought Xenoblade for Switch, gonna be my game for january-february

Graphics are not all that makes up games. There are still lots of people who play MUDs, D&D or retro games. If someone thinks a game is better just because of the graphics, I'd love to meet them. I would make a fortune selling them some lakefront property in New Mexico.

This game does such a ***job with new players.

I just saw a new guy, level 34, only his starter trust, never started records of eminence, trying to farm a magicked *** skull for TWO DAYS. Which he doesn't even need to do anymore.

Felt so bad for that dude. I'm actually amazed he stuck through that ***and didn't bail after the first HOUR to be generous. That's just sad on so many levels. Aggravating that it's even possible.

Everyday is Caturday.

Surprised Japan is getting it so soon. Friend who lives there is always complaining that he has to wait 1-2 months for movies to come out there

Right? As long as the game conveys enough visual information to fill in the rest of the blanks yourself, who actually cares? And games that try to go for hyper-realism and look great the day they come out always wind up being the ones that look the worst by the time the next generation comes out.

Like, I remember Perfect Dark 64 coming out and thinking we were barely a step away from having photorealism in video games. By the next console generation it was garbage. But that doesn't mean every N64 game looks awful: the more cartoony and stylized stuff like Banjo-Kazooie still holds up visually.

If they did give FFXI an overhaul, there are a lot of things I'd want to see tweaked, especially for the game's startup.
- Make the installation process easier
- Remove PlayOnline
- Change the default settings so you don't need to spend an hour messing around with them
- Make configuration settings available in-game
- Get rid of that awful character-creator and just show what your character looks like in-game

In there, I also would include making the "New Adventurer" content a lot clearer. They do get a few things right: making the tutorial NPCs stand out, making the tutorial optional, etc. But they fail in clarity.

They could add a quick camera zoom to the Adventurer Coupon recipient and even add their location to the quest log. They could maybe even make it a Records of Eminence quest and spend an extra line of dialogue to explain how to get to that menu. And then they could consolidate all of the "New Adventurer" NPCs into that same coupon recipient. That way, the tutorial is still fully optional, but it's clear for new players where to go if they're lost.

wait a few hours then ask that

I've had a pair of Cursed Cuisses -1 in my inventory for like 12 years but had never gotten the abjuration. Neither through fighting Kirin itself or through the Dial Key #Ab. But today I finally got it. Yaaaay!