Final Fantasy XI
Final Fantasy XI or Final Fantasy XI Online is a MMORPG (Massively multiplayer online role playing game) which is developed by Square Enix as part of the Final Fantasy series. The game has a monthly subscription system. There are a grand total of three million players playing this game every day. The game has had four expansions which allowed it to be a cordial success in the MMO gaming industry.
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The plot is set in the world of fantasy, the world name is Vana’Diel. Players will have to perform here to improve and advance in their character’s powers and abilities. They can complete quests or go free style, but still mainly quests will allow players to advance. Character Customizations is available like all the other MMORPGs. There are many and varied types of quests available which even allow players to gain special rewards and the game even has a growing number of Player Versus Player (PvP) competitions.
The story of the game is set on as told before the fantasy world Vana’Diel. Vana’Diel has two main continent land masses, and there are two smaller islands flanking the main landmasses. There are four main cities named Bastok, San d’Oria, Windurst, and Jeuno. The expansion allowed even more cities in the game. The rest of the world is made up of outdoor environment, dungeons and the whole RPG environment. The events in the game take place after 20 years of crystal war, 20 years after the defeat of the shadow lord and his army. Now the evil Shadow lord has been resurrected and players must band the nations together against the evil lord.
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There are 5 races to choose your character from which are Elvaan, Hume, Galka, Mithra and Tarutaru. The Elvaan are strong melee fighters and healers. The Hume are a human like race and are a balanced type. Galka are a male race which are weak in magic. Mithra are a cat like human race in which only female characters can be chosen, they are dexterous but are weak at charisma. Lastly Tarutaru are small but human like race that are weak in physical abilities but very strong in magic.
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The gameplay of the game has missions that allow players to advance in the storyline, while there are quests too but they do not allow the players to advance the game in storyline, which players will find favorable. Each nation has its own type of expansions and abilities meaning the nation the player choose will have an impact on the style of gameplay as well the storyline itself. The missions and quests are basically like all the MMORPGs that are about, to get a certain item or to kill some NPC monster etc. Furthermore the game has a job system that allows the player to do jobs which are also a kind of quest system but this job system has a leveling leverage, players can choose six types of careers with 20 different job types at each level, as the players will advance completing jobs they will get new career advancements allowing them to reach and do higher level of jobs.
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The PvP is consisted of competing with other players, which does not allow the player to compete with each other in the gameplay but rather in a small mini games. Which rather ruins the PvP of the game. Socially the game has a marriage ceremony system which allows extreme users to get married which is touching, but the touching thing would be there are no same sex marriages allowed sorry for the gays and lesbo’s.
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Finally in conclusion of the game. The game can be said to be a 3.5 star attraction, the game has polished RPG elements but it lacks a uniqueness of its own.
