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Final Fantasy XI PC Requirements Announced

Posted by Hemos on from the this-goes-out-for-all-the-neals dept.

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."

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  1. !!!GO USA!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Are we going to have the best soccer teams now also?

    I almost feel sorry for the rest of the world, we are kicking their ass in every political, social, education, and economic category..

    and now we are schooling them in their own sports? BAHAHAH!

    Whats left, world rugby and cricket champions?

    GO USA!

  2. too bad by ArchieBunker · · Score: -1, Troll

    it won't work on that shitty linux os. anyone who writes commercial games realized it was a money pit and either tanked or gave up.

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    Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
  3. Nicely done, fellow AC! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Logged in trolls won 13-to-5 in today's first posts. We need more AC first posters like you.

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  4. Re:consoles ARE cheaper by TheQuantumShift · · Score: 0, Troll

    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.

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  5. Re:minimum specs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Well, Lose 98 takes most of the horsepower.

  6. Can someone explain by Have+Blue · · Score: 1, Troll
    ...what the hell is the appeal of the Final Fantasy series?

    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...)