Final Fantasy XI

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First Impressions

After enduring the lengthy registration and installation process I was finally able to play the game itself. You aren’t really given much of a boost to get started and I’ve had to rely on an FFXI website to point me in the right directions. There aren’t any pretty markers showing you what characters need help but there are plenty showing NPCs so it’s a hit and miss for the most part and you have to really search around to find ones that you can do at Lvl 1. So after wondering round and doing a side quest involving delivering a receipt to a prince I decided it was high time for me to man up and wonder out into the open with no armour and kill something. My first level up was quite easy as all the monsters are more or less to your level and the only way to engage them is if you choose. It’s fluid turn based for want of a better word. You and the monster can attack at the same time, just like WoW. The only problem I’ve encountered is that it’s hard to make your first few bits of cash to buy things like decent armour and healing items which I have yet to find. But hey, we have Google.

I have yet to have a proper playing session as I’m forced to find work in the real world and that takes up a fair bit of time in itself so I haven’t completely come to grips with it yet and for some reason the camera is invert even for left and right and it doesn’t want to change. However if you move with the left the camera adjusts itself accordingly so it isn’t that bad.

I can see myself becoming more involved with the game overtime but at lvl 2 I can’t honestly say if it’s good or bad and will have t wait until I can do a main mission to give a real in depth opinion.
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