Take a tour of Eorzea in this new trailer for Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn
2/24/13 9:40pm
It’s safe to say Final Fantasy XIV was disastrous for Square Enix not only financially but its less than stellar quality also delivered a rather damaging blow to the company’s reputation. However, Square still believes the game has the potential to be something special, despite all that’s happened. So, Square put a new development team together in order to rebuild the game from the ground up and after spending about two years in development, the release of Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborm is looming.
To celebrate the targeted springtime launch, the developers have released a trailer to give potential players a glimpse at the game’s bold new world.
The real-time footage of the PC and PS3 versions used in the trailer definitely looks like a great leap forward from the previous effort and I have to admit, the Final Fantasy team has put together a rather beautiful world. But the all-important question remains, “will A Realm Reborn play well enough to heal the wounds caused by its predecessor?”
With the first round of beta tests kicking off tomorrow, I suppose we’ll be finding out soon enough.
If you want to try your luck at sampling the game early, be sure to sign up on the game’s webpage.
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g1 DISCUSSIONS
They Call Me The Fizz
FF XIV: A Realm RebOH GOD PLEASE DON'T UNSUBSCRIBE!
Sidescroller Def
The game looks nice, and the music sounds good too. All I really need to see now is some gameplay features.
LordoftheDerp
Here's a question, did they keep any of Nobou Uematsu's original soundtrack (besides the Prelude, obviously) because that name recognition was the ONLY THING the original had going for it.
PLD_Danny1989
We're still looking into it. However, I have to say, Masayoshi Soken is doing a fantastic job as sound director and composer for A Realm Reborn. Examples being Rise of the White Raven from the original game, and the mashup of Limsa Lominsa and La Noscea tracks that Soken had to beg the PR team to release onto the FFXIV YouTube channel. Seriously, give them a listen, they are really good.
The Guardian
I want to say they kept the soundtrack, but I don't really know for sure. If not, hopefully they had him redo it.
anima22
not only does it have to be a great game it has to be competely fucking mindblowing is they want it to be successful after ver1.
Ruzlok
If Square Enix wanted me to play one of their MMO's they should have either made one before WoW was released or made it so the MMO took place in Ivalice (FF12 and Tactics)
The Void
they did, FFXI was out a full 2 years before WoW was and released in NA 1 year to several months depending on which system you would have preferred using(PS2 or PC)
The Guardian
I was confused for a second why some parts seemed to have frame problems, then I realized it was cutting between PC and PS3. Hope they get that sorted out for the PS3 version of the game.
And in other news, I'm kind of interested in getting this when it comes out.
PLD_Danny1989
Yoshi-P (Producer and Director of ARR) stated that the PS3 footage is about 75% optimized, and that they have Sony engineers helping them out building the PS3 version.