EQOA vs. FF XI which one wins?

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I know most people will say FF XI right off the bat, but I'd like to get honest answers from you guys who have either played both or at least one of them.

I was hooked to EQOA for about six months, actually I was hooked until my PS2 broke. The game was really fun right up until you went into the mid-20-level range, then it was just grinding away, and the fun was quickly zapped away.

EQOA didn't really offer a whole lot in terms of extra features like building houses or different jobs, but it did have a pretty cool community. And they just came out with their expansion, which is supposed to be pretty cool.

Now, I haven't played FF XI, but I'm extremely interested in it. I know the graphics really blow in EQOA when you compare them against Tobal No. 1, and FF XIs graphics are really pretty. But that doesn't mean everything to me.

I want a game that gives me a feeling of accomplishment after I'm done playing. Too many times in EQOA and PSO, I found myself wondering what the hell I was playing the game for. The whole goal in EQOA is to get to the highest level you can.

Well, I want a game that gaining levels isn't the goal, but having fun and adventuring with your friends is. I don't know too terribly much about FF XI, so any thoughts on it would be greatly appreciated.

So can you guys tell me if FF XI is that much of a better experience than EQOA to warrant spending $100 on it when I could grab EQOA for $5?
 
i haven't played EQ, so i won't compare the two. but i have played FFXI and i loved it...for a little while. you see, most MMORPG's you have to walk around..alot, FFXI is no different. i spend more time walking than i did fighting!

when you do get a group to fight with, the game's fun parts really take off, and there are a ton of things to do, so you won't get bored. the thing i hated tho was walking, it's just so boring walking to this guy to get this item to bring it to this guy, but the item isn't the right kind, so then you have go kill a monster and get the right item then walk....
things like that happen a lot, but don't think i'm knocking the game, because once you hit lv 20, you can apply for a chocobo lisense and you don't have to walk anymore.

i'd get it and try it out, i played it for about 4 months, but it wasn't for me (plus being on 56k sucked)
 
uesc, you just need to get teleport and warp ;)

don't get into ffxi unprepared, go to:

ffxi.allakhazam.com
www.killingifrit.com

for quest/mission references so it will save you time/frustration.

leveling your first job from about level 5- 10 is painful, but the game flies from there on when you start partying.

learning curve is a bit steep, definitely not your average pick up and play game. feel free to ask me anything, I'm a level 36 rdm right now
 
Every MMORPG has a point where youstart wondering why you;re playing unless you're an MMO addict or you really have nothing else to do that you can obsess over the latest rare item or skill.

With that said FF does everything any other game does and tries to do it a little better. There are numerous jobs, numerous subjobs (both of which can be changed at almost any time), numerous weapons, items, etc. The world is huge, atmospheric and perilous. There are plenty of story arcs to follow, things to do, enemies to kill and people to meet.

EQ is concidered the "old hat" it's familiar and does a lot of the same things that any MMO does in familar ways, the classic themes, the classic looking environments and all that, but if you want to see something a just little different than you;re used to give FF a try.

(I'd almost suggest you take a look at the PC version since it'd run you a lot less as long as you have a decent set up.)

Also: 56k dosent matter on FF because the information delivery is capped so Broadbanders dont have an advantage over others. Either way it comes of very playable.
 
In EQOA, you would sign ledgers at a coach in each town. From there you could instantly travel to different towns via the coach.

This was really awesome since you didn't have to worry about running all the way across the world. It would probably take you an hour of straight running to get to one part of the world to the next. It was pretty big.

Also, you could cast spells that made you run faster. That was mighty handy. Especially when you have a train of poisonous spiders chasing you.
 
[quote name='Alpha2']Every MMORPG has a point where youstart wondering why you;re playing unless you're an MMO addict or you really have nothing else to do that you can obsess over the latest rare item or skill.

With that said FF does everything any other game does and tries to do it a little better. There are numerous jobs, numerous subjobs (both of which can be changed at almost any time), numerous weapons, items, etc. The world is huge, atmospheric and perilous. There are plenty of story arcs to follow, things to do, enemies to kill and people to meet.

EQ is concidered the "old hat" it's familiar and does a lot of the same things that any MMO does in familar ways, the classic themes, the classic looking environments and all that, but if you want to see something a just little different than you;re used to give FF a try.

(I'd almost suggest you take a look at the PC version since it'd run you a lot less as long as you have a decent set up.)

Also: 56k dosent matter on FF because the information delivery is capped so Broadbanders dont have an advantage over others. Either way it comes of very playable.[/quote]

My PC is good for nothing but surfing the web. Although it has some potential. 1.8 P4, with 256 RAM, 60 Gig HD and a damn integrated video card.
 
I'm pretty sure every MMO has an /autorun function, FF is no different, you can get a speed up ability but you have to be a certain level in a certain job for the skill.

The thing is for the most part untill you get strong enough to get past certain valleys of the map you are confined to your respective country side by the difficulty of the enimes you run into.

Dont get me wrong It's not impossible to run to another country, a friend of mine ran from Sandoria to Bastok on his first day with minimal deaths and he'd never played an MMO before that but there's really no reason to do it as no mission requires you to really do that untill you;re ready. I wouldnt suggest getting to far from home untill level 10 or 15 unless you fancy a little stealth action sneaking past enemies. :p

Intergrated... eew. I mean if it's about close to a GeForce3 you could swing it but if its just something that keeps your computer from smoking when you load up a flash movie..
 
EVERQUEST WINS!

everquest is addicting as hell..

i remember they sent me a FIVE DAY free trial demo... i was happy and pissed at the same time.

at the end of the 5 days i was like.. level 15 and addicted as hell..

alot people say they dont like the game, but i thought it was pretty cool
 
Yeah, I thought EQOA was a pretty fun game.

I bought it the first day it came out for $50, and then damn Sony dropped the price to $15 a few months later!

I wasn't a hardcore player by far, though. I probably played about an hour a night and then a total of four hours on the weekends.

I had a lvl. 24 Bard who was so bad ass. Groups loved me because I could buff them, but I was also strong enough to solo when needed.

But the devs began to nerf the bards and make the other classes stronger, which blowed big time. But overall, EQOA is a very fun game.
 
I beta tested Everquest.....i liked it alot at first but since i was a level 3 beta tester there were bugs(ofcourse thats what i was testing for lol) but i picked up FF last month and love it ......i just got my subjob quest done and now the game is starting to pick up and yes if u get this game try to find sites with good info as i wish i did b4 i started.
 
In my opinion EQOA was much better than FFXI, for the simple reason of the Japanese players. They started what almost 2 years before the U.S.? And every single one of them is a KS'er (Kill stealer). I was trying to get bubbly bernie near Bastok so i bought a Quus and spawned him and a Damn Japanese caster stole him before I could, I thought alright I'll just retry so I run and buy another Quus and spawn him again, guess what? stolen again by the same person. And also every mob is camped. I wound up hating FFXI in the end. I went back to EQOA and decided it was still stupid as well, (I had a level 51). So now I am playing champions of Norrath which is cool as hell. And now they cancelled True Fantasy online so I am waiting for Middle Earth online or EQ2.
 
I've never played Evercrack, but I do have XI, notice I didn't say that I actually play it. I played XI a lot for around two weeks when I first got it (on launch--oh, BTW, I'm talking about the PS2 ver). It just doesn't pull you in, I only got to lvl 9 and stopped playing. But, supposedly, you really start getting into the game around lvl 20, but I just couldn't bring myself to playing it for that long.
 
[quote name='XboxMaster']I've never played Evercrack, but I do have XI, notice I didn't say that I actually play it. I played XI a lot for around two weeks when I first got it (on launch--oh, BTW, I'm talking about the PS2 ver). It just doesn't pull you in, I only got to lvl 9 and stopped playing. But, supposedly, you really start getting into the game around lvl 20, but I just couldn't bring myself to playing it for that long.[/quote]

you stopped right before you get to party for reall at level 10 lol, very understandable. 5 - 10 really defeats you when you're doing it for the first time.
 
What's so bad about lvls 1-10? Is it just that you can't venture very far outside the cities cause you'll get killed?

Also, how fast do you level? In EQOA, from lvl 20 up, leveling is the biggest PITA.
 
[quote name='Grave_Addiction']What's so bad about lvls 1-10? Is it just that you can't venture very far outside the cities cause you'll get killed?

Also, how fast do you level? In EQOA, from lvl 20 up, leveling is the biggest PITA.[/quote]

Probably every couple of hours if you've got a good party. I remember EQOA being longer, and the battle system just wasn't as interesting as FFXI's, so it dragged on.
 
i dont know if FFXI is like this.. i havent played any of the recent FF games, but the reason i havent gotten FFXI is because the older final fantasies battles kinda blew IMO.. you had to attack through a menu.. so u basically didnt do anything. I'm guessing FFXI isnt like that? cause it would be really gay if it was.
 
I bought FFXI the day it came out, having been an Evercrack addict, and it just feels....empty. EQOA was so fucking stellar in my opinion, and you don't have to blow 100 bucks on it.
 
EOA was pretty damn cool.

i heard that its gotten kinda gay now. like high level guys running around killing everything and taking all the items and the lower level people get screwed. also heard that its now just a bunch of nerds cussing and shit.

might not be like that, but thats what i heard...
 
[quote name='Cracka']EOA was pretty damn cool.

i heard that its gotten kinda gay now. like high level guys running around killing everything and taking all the items and the lower level people get screwed. also heard that its now just a bunch of nerds cussing and shit.

might not be like that, but thats what i heard...[/quote]

Ironic that you complain about people cussing on Everquest when you use terms like gay and shit in your post...
 
well since gay isnt a cuss word... and i used 1 cuss word out of the 50 something words that i typed, its not ironic at all.

what i meant when i said the people on everquest running around cussing, is that i heard they go around cussing everyone out, and cussing excessively, to try and be cool.

also i wasnt complaining, i was saying that this is what i've heard. i dont play everquest anymore, so its not bothering me.

were u just trying to be cool by posting this? i dont really see how your comment helped at all.
 
[quote name='Thunderscope']You get a $70 HDD with FFXI...[/quote]


If I'm not mistaken, it's only a 40GB HDD. So how the hell does it cost $70 or $80-$90 like someone else said.
 
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