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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."
Final Fantasy 11 was the topic of the conversation. FFX requires no extras besides the mem card that you already have, and beats the crap out of any D&D based "Dungeon Crawl". Story=Good Thing. Click Click Click...=Diablo-like bullshit for "Dungeon Masters". Online "Games" are nothing more than chat rooms for obsessed Losers. Get a life. Get a PS2, and stop bitching about HD space standard Linux install is a couple a gigs or so. If my OS takes that much, than a game taking 4.5 is no big deal.
Shift happens. Fire it up.
As far as I can tell, the games consists entirely of:
- Watching a very long cutscene that tells essentially the same story as last time (even though the game are described as having nothing to do with each other)
- Wandering around the land until a monster attacks (randomly and unforeseeably).
- Fighting the monster in a way that involves a lot of trips to the inventory screen.
- Lather, rinse, repeat.
Someone please tell me what I'm missing or I'll have to lump it in with all the other elements of Japanese culture whose only point of attraction seems to be how incredibly addictive they are.(For the record, I do consider myself an otaku, it's just FF that has me confused...)