Does it bother anyone else...?

Like I said it may have an engaging story later on. But to get there you have to go through a ton of very mindless and boring random encounters to even begin to hint at that story or stories.

Where as single player rpg's have the ability to engross you in the story right off the bat.

From what I have experienced through playing it myself and through reading critic reviews and player reviews alike is that FFXI is very similar to online games of the past. Where you have to go through alot of tedious and often boring encounters so you can actually become powerful enough to delve into the storyline.

One thing that I have always wanted to try to do and tried to do in FFXI is to not really go on any quests but instead just run around and explore the countryside without having to worry about leveling up or fighting monsters. But yet you can't even do that because if you try the monsters will come up to you and attack you and since the more powerful monsters are further away from the towns unless you have gone through hours upon hours of tedious leveling up you will most definitely get killed.

So no FFXI is not that game that can engross you into a world and into a story just as well as an offline rpg can.

Why pay $15 a month to do things that you don't even want to do.

In response to Darkchrono.

All I can say is you're wasting your time in responding to this thread. We all know what the game consumes off.

I'm level 75 and have other jobs leveled too -- I know what you're tryign to say, but I actually really enjoyed getting to 75 and I'm enjoying the story a lot. I know heaps of people enjoy this too, and FFXI has a huge player base.

To me it's not a waste of money, I would never pay for a game I don't enjoy.

And to note, not everyone plays MMORPG's for the story -- some have a lot of friends they like to just do stuff with, some like the end game (fighting the gods in sky, dynamis, etc). To places you visit, the journey, and the battle mechanics in parties is great (except Valkurm, of course).

I guess what I'm trying to say is, yes I can play offline games and I do, but I still like the whole idea of this MMORPG, and I get to play with my friends that are overseas. I don't see why you could tell people that this is not worth it as you'd get a better story with an offline, when many people don't *just* play for the story.

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Originally Posted by darkchrono

Like I said it may have an engaging story later on. But to get there you have to go through a ton of very mindless and boring random encounters to even begin to hint at that story or stories.

Where as single player rpg's have the ability to engross you in the story right off the bat.

From what I have experienced through playing it myself and through reading critic reviews and player reviews alike is that FFXI is very similar to online games of the past. Where you have to go through alot of tedious and often boring encounters so you can actually become powerful enough to delve into the storyline.

One thing that I have always wanted to try to do and tried to do in FFXI is to not really go on any quests but instead just run around and explore the countryside without having to worry about leveling up or fighting monsters. But yet you can't even do that because if you try the monsters will come up to you and attack you and since the more powerful monsters are further away from the towns unless you have gone through hours upon hours of tedious leveling up you will most definitely get killed.

So no FFXI is not that game that can engross you into a world and into a story just as well as an offline rpg can.

Why pay $15 a month to do things that you don't even want to do.

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*ahem* I know for a fact that most of them either havent played, or never got that far to be worth judgin it.

I saw on a webpage he even said there wasnt a battle system with this game, you just stand there and watch the person slash with his sword to the monster, no special or powerful skills.

this is what lead me to buying it, to prove him wrong, and I did.