Herro

[Amras]

Just popped in to see if people were still alive and apparently you guys are... came across some old screenshots on my computer the other day and felt nostalgic

[ItsSeflol]

Apparently that rumour that you died was not true.

[Amras]

wait what? lol

[Ploid]

Hey Amras! Post the old pictures!!!!! I want to feel nostalgic too.

[Amras]

they are mainly just pictures of me after i got my algol nobody really wants to see that lol.. how have you guys been?

[Ploid]

I don't know, doing fine I guess. A internet person from a long time ago came to a forum I frequent then hyped up some old ffxi pictures, then when asked about them he under hyped them. Feeling a bit let down but other than that I'm doing fine. Got my Barb to 55, feeling good about that.

[dionious]

Long time no see, bud. How's life treating ya?

[Amras]

Lol Ploid.. ill post them if you really want me 2... and Dio you silly bastard how the fuck are you.... im good work work a lil sleep and a lil more work lol

[Bodycount]

Hey Amras!
I just had flashbacks of people bitching about not being top of the list for algol.

[Ploid]

Sukasaroth came to mind though I don't remember the algol order stuff.

And I was just messing with ya Amras. Trying to be funny.

[Amras]

Just for you Body



and some randoms

[Ploid]

FFXI is so old and I still think it looks great. Good times

Wow that's a old Bayakko, and Annatar, Eudon as bard with opo crown. This must be when he was in PD or whatever it was called, paradigm?

[Amras]

It's the game I base all other MMO's on and nothing holds a candle to it

[Ploid]

So true, I still can't find a bst type class that's anywhere near the style and ability of BST. Also the hate system in FFXI still seem like it's the best. Where is my offline ffxi Square!

[dionious]

So true, I still can't find a bst type class that's anywhere near the style and ability of BST. Also the hate system in FFXI still seem like it's the best. Where is my offline ffxi Square!

FF12

Lol Ploid.. ill post them if you really want me 2... and Dio you silly bastard how the fuck are you.... im good work work a lil sleep and a lil more work lol

Ever since I finished school, same here @_@. Although I still try to make time for less-time consuming games these days. Currently at about 60hrs in darksouls!

[Bodycount]

I still can't get over how long I played and you guys were killing Byakko and shit when I was lvl 30.
Xi was probably only as enjoyable as it was because Eden was funny as hell most of the time.

Kooyo and I were talking about how it would probably be more fun to play xi again at lvl 1 than it is to play 14 now ;3

[Yorke]

Day 1 PS2 launch.

I too judge other games off it. Looking back on it, despite everyone's bitching, that game took as much teamwork as a video game can take in my opinion. I remember first hearing about 64 people being able to team up to fight shit (which ended up being Dynamis) and being like holy shit that's awesome.

Lot of balance in that game, wish they hadn't raised the level cap.

[dionious]

ff11 did have it's time and place and I look back on my experiences playing it very fondly. You're really tested as a gamer as far as skill and dedication is concerned. For some reason whenever I think of difficulty in MMOs, what comes to mind for me is soloing all of the avatars at 20, then working on fenrir / diabolos later on in the game. Knowing that I only had enough gil for 1 fight at a time, and if I lost, i'd have to spend the next few days farming again.

That alone added to the intensity of the fight. It almost seemed like everything regarding summoner was difficult for the sake of being difficult (unless you had $$ or high level connections heh). As a gamer tho, I loved the challenge because when you actually succeed, you get to walk around with a sense of accomplishment.

With all that being said, I don't think I could ever play it again with that same level of intensity. The amount of time needed to get stuff done is too unreasonable by today's standards imo. My requirement for any game I play these days needs to have a jump-in/jump-out mentality whether it's an MMO or not. Maybe I'm just getting older and have more responsibility / less free time (back then I was in between highschool and college). I'd love it if ff14 could capture all the greatness that ff11 embodied such as teamwork, challenge, and sense of adventure but stripped the time-sinks.