Alpha Version Gameplay Videos

To the delight of Gamescom attendees, it appears our speculation of a playable demo for Final Fantasy XIV was right on the money!  Here's a video of some gameplay courtesy of 1UP.com.  The convention will run until August 23rd, so expect more information to pour in as the event opens to the public tomorrow.

More and more videos are beginning to surface, so read on to check them all out!

A second video has been added:

Character animations from Gametrailers.com:

Lalafell Gameplay Video:

bear in mind they alpha only so will only get better and better.

i dont like test play in game convention...they usually zoom in too close instead of max zoom out which gamers prefer usually.hard to see how smooth the movement is when so close zoom in.

char animation is good.i think i will pick the light elf race or the moggle race that reminds me of lapin in pandora saga hehe.

screen video is too bright also but overall i like the world they showing.hope the music will be good when its officially out.

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Final Fantasy XIV has shown its first real face, the gameplay trailer at GamesCom, as time goes on, more and more were leaked. Here Ffxivcore.Com brought us some news from Cologne, Germany, including some monsters and Armory System. And according to their playing experience the game could be described without exaggeration as an amazing game.

Something to note is that even the farthest objects are detailed and beautiful. Even with this amazing quality, there was no load time. We were told that FFXIV will be "seamless," unlike its cousin FFXI. So far the alpha played smoothly and there were not large issues which is quite surprising for the stage the game is in. (Things are still in development so there are just a few bugs but largely the game seems very polished.)

Here are some new screenshots from Ffxivcore.Com

Ariman

Field

Handcombat Master

The graphics look nice but I never played any FF game and I havent done any reading up on it yet hehe I am hoping I dont need a history degree to get up to date lol

There is no need to know anything about FF to jump in.
Every FF release was a standalone to start with anyway, so you could simply jump in ff9 or ff2 or just start out straight in ffXIV

is this going to be the 1st online FF game? If i wanted to play one of the earlier ones are they all console games? I would like to see for myself why this game is such a hit hehe

All other FF games were console except FFXI which is an mmorpg, but it's p2p

think there is online pc version of some FF games.they did port some to pc i think.
like FF VII or something.

kind of forget hehe

I found a free trial so I will occupy myself with that for the moment hehe
http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/index.shtml

hehe i never did try ff xi free trial.worried i get addicted to a older game haha ^^

Yea I just need something to do xD

Keep in mind that this game is 7 year old or so and a totally different system then what FFXIV gonna have.

I will ty xD

haha even after all those years, installing this gives huge trouble :P
I remember reading revieuws how it takes agest to dl, update, install, install more, update, check, update, register, dl, update, check, dl, update, and what not ^_^

Never tought it would still be like that after all those years lol

lol u went download the trial for ffxi also?

Yea Shu it took hours and hours then my pc had a hissy fit and wouldnt respond at all even after restarts. I had to system restore to get my pc back lol
So I wont be trying again hahaha

^^ old games....best dont touch :D

Ashura wrote:

^^ old games....best dont touch :D

Isn't that what you'r mom told you about old guys :laugh:

All FFXIV site is saying is 2010 so max 17 months away hehe

LOL

I tought it said 10minutes update

IT ACTUALLY MENT A FREEKING 10 HOURS ! ! !

All in all it ll be arround 14~15 hours later at the least (this is with an average 550kb/s download of the game, which took like 1h 30min)

Ok I finally got the game to run hehe.
I tested it out for 15 min, and so far my main conclusion is, that the game is really too old now hehe.

The opening cutscene was just amazing, I loved the vid.

After that it is just a lot of hassle on my lappy. Since the controls are for multi platform, it uses the numpad, so I had to fish up my old & dusty keyboard from somewhere to play propperly

It is a long while before ya get used to the controls, also the map is really hard to read, and it is easy to overlook the quests. It is as if you play a console ff but with an open world. You know how in console ff quests don't really show, but you don't have too much freedom of getting lost. But this is way bigger so it's too easy to miss your quests lol.

Also since the game wasn't really made for a HDwidescreen my char looks slightly fatter. Uhh simply said. It is really time for the next FF online. Even though this one is an amazing game. If ya think that this all is like over 7y old it's crazy how good the game is for such an old one.

and u only starting the game.i heard the real fun start when u get ur
first class to 75 and reclass again to get ur second class on same
character to make it more powerful hehe.

but yeah the new ff should be very nice.

Played it a lil bit more, I have to say, this game sucks ya in kinda.
When you get past the controls, and the fact that EVERYTHING is shown in the same chat bar. (Quest text, npc text, player messages, dmg, dmg of others, emotes, item drops (of others), item crafts (of others), etc etc everything in the same chat box omg.

It is such an amazing game, even though it's super old. It just got the ff console games feel all over it :o