So, I just gave a try to the trial, I am not gonna compare this game by names to any other games, but seeing how much backup this title has it could have been a lot better, so far i am playing as a mage, Pyromancer, Elementalist, Stormer, problem is, those classes are hardly living up to their names, Pyro spell damage is funny (low), I played very old games where a single fireball meant big devastations, newer games have a fireball that still does devastate, even if at smaller ranges, this is definitely not a class for those that want to deal damage even early in the game, Elementalist is a joke, basically I can summon and control an elemental, the name Elementalist generally made me think I could use some cool spells, but when I read it wasn't very interesting, no wonder a lot of necromancers and dominators walk around, I barely see any stormers, for good reason too, it appears their very basic spell, electrocute, often doesn't even work, Thunder Blast as some players say should have been a small AOE spell hitting 2-3 targets that are close together, back to pyro though, one spell made me want to have that class, Flame Jet, according to the tooltip, the spell damages any enemies group in front of caster at 7 m, well, it appears we, players, are fucking huge beings cuz the spell doesn't even go past my shadow, hell, even with 5 enemies in front of me attacking the tank, they are around 4-5, and they are directly in front of me, only 2-3 are affected, another bad factor of the game is death and ressing, you die, you get a choice of soul walk, which is simply idiotic, or do a corpse run, well, enjoy the latter, why ? you will do that a lot if you die, reason simple, you have no idea what is in your corpse's vicinity, how many enemies simply camp for you to respawn, many times it happened that when I respawned, I got insta killed by a mob that was around me like probably behind me, just waiting, to kill you again, another aspect of dying that terribly annoys me is vitality, what actually happens to you when you lose all vitality ? i tried to read up about it but there is no information about it.
The only good thing about this game is the Rift events, they are actually pretty challenging, especially when mobs are 2-3 levels ahead of you, this is something a lot of games could benefit from, i remember WOW had a similar event but it stopped, at the very least.
The visual level of the game is not it's good point, a game that is launched in an age of very advanced graphics adapters could benefit more from more advanced visual effects, sadly there are very few of those in this game. Even with my crappy old Athlon XP 64 5000+ on highest settings I run the game without much problems, and still the improvement to the visual level is very small.
This game lacks a lot in my eyes, but at least I am not wasting my time on a full game, the controls are terrible, and from what I see only one race is good enough to play, the defiants middle race, they are colorful, and interesting, every otehr race is very meh, I was actually hoping to see something new for a change, but yet again, humans, elves and dwarfs in a single alliance, and a lot better races in the other on the opposing side.
At this point it is hard to say but FF14 has very interesting races, even FF11 is better, I'm personally fed up with Humans, elves and dwarves, it's so unoriginal, I han live up with orcs, they are always stupid and you can expect them to be bad, but at least you can smash their face in and there is no difference
I am very disappointed.
