Dr Gadget - Final Fantasy XI Online: The Vana'diel Collection 2008

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Amazon Maximum Age: 20 Amazon Minimum Age: 144 Batteries Included: 0 Binding: Video Game Brand: Square Enix EAN: 0662248907192 ESRB Age Rating: Teen Feature: Answer this summons and step into an online world like none you've ever experienced. Label: Square Enix Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product. Manufacturer: Square Enix Model: 90719 Platform: Xbox 360 Publisher: Square Enix Release Date: 2007-11-20 Studio: Square Enix
Features Answer this summons and step into an online world like none you've ever experienced. Experience dramatic quests, fierce battles and a flexible job system. The stakes are higher. The risks are greater. The rewards are bigger. Free Subscription for 30 days. Includes original game plus four expansion packs.
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: A final fantasy mmorpg Comment: I've started my third year playing this game after a six month break and am now enjoying it more than ever. This is a game that requires a lot of time for everything. Time to go from place to place, time to level up your jobs (I don't say character because you play any job you want to and switch from job to job without making a new character). It also takes a lot of time to make money and there are many ways to make money in the game it just requires ALOT of patience. Getting started in this game can be very difficult and frustrating at times but if you talk to people most of them will help you out and guide you to where you need to get to. The game starts you out with you choosing the race you want to play as throught the game. The races you get to choose from are Hume's (male or female), Elvaan's (male or female), Mithra's (female only), Galka's (male only) and the Tarutaru's (male and female). Although there aren't a lot of different races there are many different combinations you can make for each character so running into a similiar character isn't so frequent. This is also where you will pick your main job and there are six jobs to choose from when you first start. After that you choose which country your character lives/comes from and there are three to choose from. The three countries are Bastok, Windurst and Sandoria. Bastok is made up of the Hume's and Galka's, Windy has the Mithra's and Tarutaru's and Sandy is home of the elvaans but you can choose whichever one you want. Races: Depending on what job you want to do might help you choose the race you want to play as each race is proficient in certain jobs. The Galka's are made for jobs such as Paladin and Warrior classes (tanks jobs in pt's), Elvaan's are geared towards Monk and Dark Knight (Damage Dealer's in pts or DD's if you will), Mithra's are for the Thief and Ranger jobs (support or pullers for ur party), Hume's are the basic all around character and are proficient in any job but don't specialize in a paraticular one and Tarutaru's are the magic wielding jobs such as the White Mage and Black Mage jobs (healer's and debuffs in the party). However, you can pick whatever race you want and whatever job you want just remember that Galka's are not gonna be as good as Tarutaru's in magic and Tarutaru's aren't gonna be as good as Galka's for tanking. Jobs: The player is given six jobs to choose from called your basic jobs. They are warrior, thief, monk, white mage, black mage and red mage. I'm not gonna go into details because that could take to long. There are 14 other jobs available once the player reaches 30. The player has to do quests to unlock the other jobs and can find out how to by asking someone or just looking it up online. The other jobs are ranger, dark knight, paladin, blue mage, samurai, ninja, corsair, bard, beastmaster, puppetmaster, summoner, scholar, dancer and dragoon. Also for jobs you get to have a subjob which means you have a main job and a job to support it. For instance, say the player is a paladin, the player then gets to choose a job to support that. The player will want to choose a subjob that will support the main job. So that player will most likely choose warrior for the defense bonuses and job abilities that warrior has. Also the subjob is half the level of the main job so if the paladin is lvl 30 the warrior will be lvl 15 with all the abilites the warrior gets at 15. Also by adding warrior as a subjob extra hit points will be added. The storyline progresses at the players leisure and since there are tons of quests and missions that the player will be doing its easy to forget what you've done unless you're progressing really fast which is highly unlikely. Doing missions and quests will earn you fame in different countries which definately benefit the player. One example is the "Lure of the Wildcat" quest which when completed gives the player to get teleported to Aht Urghan Whitegate which will save a lot of time and only costs 300 gil per teleport. The game is definitely geared for the hardcore people who can spend a lot of time in the game. This is definitely a game where you reap what you sew. If the player just wants to casually play the game and just party and level and talk to friends they can. The thing is that by playing casually the player will most likely not get the really best gear in the game and around level 50 will either start another job or just slowly stop playing the game. The game requires a lot of time, gil and patience for the good armor and weapons in the game if the player is willing to sacrifice it. This particular edition of final fantasy xi combines the original release plus all the expansions up to the latest wings of the goddess. Each expansion has added new jobs, areas to explore and more missions and quests. I found it a really good buy when it first came out and now that its twenty dollars its well worth the buy. I've heard people complain about the monthly charge of the game on top of the xbl charge. Thing is that most people don't just play this game, they play others as well on xbl and the monthly fee is from the maker's of the game. Alot of mmorpg's have a monthly charge and this one is no different. The updates and installing can take a really long time, maybe to long but you really shouldn't let that deter you from at least trying this game out. There is so much more to this game and is hard to put in a review, I really don't think its possible to review even half of what this game has to offer someone who really is interested in playing. The only areas that I can think of where this game suffers is the exceptionally hard to make money or gil for weapons and gear and the long installing process and the sometimes very long updates. All I can really tell you is try the game out and decide for yourself whether or not its a game you want to put a lot of time into. Just remember if you get stuck there are people you can ask to help you out and most of them will be more than happy to. Don't be quick to judge the game from just the beginning, it takes awhile to really get into the heart of the game itself so get out there try it and keep at it. Customer Rating: Summary: Expats and servicemen beware Comment: I used to love this game and played it since launch. I ordered this version for my Xbox 360 and was dismayed to learn I cannot even install it. The reason being that Square Enix, a company whom I used to have enormous respect for, has decided to lock out entire countries from their servers, including South Korea, where I am currently living and working. If you live abroad, avoid this product at all costs. In addition, customer service at Playonline and Square Enix were very rude and most unsympathetic. Given that I have been a customer of theirs since their NES days, I found this particularly disturbing and will likely avoid their products all together in the future. Atlus and others make better RPG's now anyways. Customer Rating: Summary: Great Game Comment: Now i have played MMO's before but this one is by far my favorite right now. It's very detailed and will take a long time to accomplish stuff but its well worth it. The only problem I hav is that the booklet they give you isn't very helpful. I had to ask people lots of questions to fully learn it all. The instruction booklet is very brief. This is a much harder version of World of Warcraft. Customer Rating: Summary: A Wonderful Game Comment: This game is a wonderful game, I have been playing it for nearly 4 years now and I am no kid... what is wonderful about the game is it teaches about life in general. You must do things to earn money to buy food and buy items for your character... just like in real life... you are free to barter and to do all sorts of enterprizing things to make your character geared to the max. And just like in real life, there are those that take advantage of each other by hiking prices and giving bad advice, etc.. but these too are life building skills... learning how to deal with them teaches kids as well how to 'out fox' and rise above those types. This game teaches about team work for the majority of the "monsters" you kill require more then one player and groups called "Linkshells" are formed of people that work together to accomplish many of the great features and quests in this game... also, the "monsters" you kill are made up ones that do not resemble people... so unlike games that teach violence against people, this game focuses on killing made up "mobs" and not human forms. This is great for us parents that worry about the de-sensitizing for our children againsts crimes of violence in the real world. I know many parents that play with their children in this game, I know if my daughter or granddaughter were interested I would be delighted. Sure there are other games with better graphics, and games that are more realistic out there, (I play some of those too), but overall, I find that the FFXI game has many fine qualities that teach about life. Customer Rating: Summary: Re-repackaged Old Game Comment: For those of you who don't already play this game there is no reason to jump in now. It came in in 2002 and although it was a decent game for the time there have been no improvements made to the game. Two additional expansion packs have been released, however. They add new armor and story for devoted players, but these features will not initially be accessible to newbies. Also, this game has an incredibly high learning curve. You will feel very alienated when you first start and probably have a lot of trouble figuring out the convoluted world you're placed in. As for the actual game itself you required to invest a lot of time and effort for very little reward. The combat is good when you find a nice group of people, but by the time everything comes together for a battle, you've probably already spent 3-4 hours online. Graphically the game really shows its age as well. The 360 version does not improve on the PC, or even PS2, version of the game at all. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: Join in on the popular, long-running massively-multiplayer-online adventure! The Crystal War has ravaged the land of Vana'diel. Three solitary nations are now all that remain in the desperate fight for survival against the forces of the relentless beastmen. A call is put forth for new heroes to join the fight - heroes like you. How you play is entirely up to you - you've got the ability to customize every aspect of your character, a range of skills to discover and master, the choice to travel solely or as part of a team, and limitless possibilities for adventure! This epic collection contains the original game, as well as the Rise of the Zilart, Chains of Promathia, Treasures of Aht Urghan and Wings of the Goddess expansion packs. ESRB Rated T for Teen