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Final Fantasy XI PC Requirements Announced
PKFC writes "Square has begun taking applications for the Final Fantasy XI PC Beta test which starts on June 18 in Japan. The minimum specs are: Win 98, PIII 800 MHz, 128 MB RAM, a GeForce card and 4.5 GB of hard drive space, while the recommended specs include a 64 MB video card and a Pentium 4. The 4.5 GB is used for game data, the PlayOnline software and the ever popular, Tetramaster. The PC version will be fully compatible with the PlayStation2 version allowing people on either system to play together. Be warned that the links go to Japanese web sites."
If you played the game you'd know.
Each one is the final one for the group of people involved.
It is a quest to save the world. And each one in the series is on a different world.
Therefore it is a do or die quest. Therefore the "Final Fantasy"
Yeah, but don't forget that FFX for the PS2 requires that you buy added peripherals, including an external hard drive. Altogether, the game will cost up to $150, ignoring monthly costs. The PC gamer can ignore that added cost.
4x4 Evolution was Dreamcast/PC/Mac interoperable like....2 years ago. This is NOT anything new.
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The reason it's so big is because PS2s can read DVD-rom, but square doesn't require that their beta testers can. So they give you a bunch o' cds and load them to your hard drive.
I'm pretty sure in the Final release will allow reading content off dvd.
The thing that makes me sad is that I think they say you have to be in Japan to beta test =(
Things like this make me care enough to make me stop lurking, get an account, and finally post =)
If final fantasy was indeed the final fantasy, why are there so many sequels?
This is explained nicely here
At the time Square made Final Fantasy #1 , they had just released a couple of unsuccessful semi-RPG-ish games, were nearly out of money, and honestly expected that when the game that became Final Fantasy was complete, they would have to go out of business.
That Final Fantasy #1 became a massive success, and they subsequently had the resources to create more RPGs, was a complete surprise to them, however pleasant..
What about Quake Tournament? I think that may have been released BEFORE 4x4 EVO with Dreamcast/PC compatibility.
Too bad that broadband adapter i bought only worked with 2 games.
> well, this end the arguement on whether PCs or consoles are more practical for gaming.
> A $299 Playstation 2 sounds quite better if you're just in it for gaming.
Add to that the cost of a PSX (not all PS games play perfectly on PS2), a Gamecube and N64, an Xbox, thousands of arcade machines, etc. because the PC is a unified gaming platform and the rest aren't. I can play almost any PC game from 1996 on my PC today, yet the same isn't true about playing every Nintendo game from 1996 (N64 era) on a Gamecube today--can't be done.
In addition, the generalized hardware of the PC allows for all consoles to eventually be emulated as PC processing power increases; every console prior to the N64 and PSX is emulated with near-100% accuracy, so that all of those consoles' games can be played on a PC with ease. Not to mention the over 1600 arcade games emulated at the moment by MAME, upping the ante significantly. Oh, and add to that all of the classic 68k Mac games, which can be played on a PC perfectly using Basilisk ][.
In other words, maintaining a PC gaming platform allows access to literally tens of thousands more games than a PS2 or a Gamcube will ever be able to play. It also offers near-complete backwards compatability, great future compatability due to easy and inexpensive (if nothing radical is done except every couple years) upgrade paths, and compatability with most of the console systems through their eventual emulation.
In addition, the hardware specs you listed for FFXI on the PC aren't very grat--I have a system superior to the requirements in every way, and I built it a year and a half ago.
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