How many friends? Are they all willing to stay together for levels?
If so, I'm more willing to say FFXI. that game is great if you have a constant full group.
If not, go CoH, as it has solo capability, and is a good game itself.
Monotony can get boring, but FFXI does as well.. VERY fast.
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Darius! had this to say about Optimus Prime:
CoH. No contest. I havn't even played CoH but I know for a fact that it's at least 5 times better than FFXI.
But seriously, CoH sounds really fun, but does it get old fast? I mean, are there a lot of "reward" and other craps to go after all the time or is it just "beat up the vilains"?
And FFXI sound good too, yet it looks WAY too much like EQ (and I don't want anything more to do with this one game!)
Anyway, the answer seems to be CoH, I'll probably buy that next week, when it comes out (AND at the same time as my finals are over, what a wonderful coincidence!)
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Darius! was listening to Cher while typing:
CoH. No contest. I have played both and I know for a fact that it's at least 50 times better than FFXI.
Run around and beat the crap out of random bad guys.
Do missions. (Which involve beating up bad guys.)
Team up. (And beat...well, you know.)
However, it's fun! The powers are fun to use, and the "loot" is power enhancements. They can be added to a power to make it better, but there are limits to what ones you can use, and on what powers.
I have yet to play FFXI, but I am enjoying CoH.
Then again, who am I to talk? Rodent King fucked around with this message on 04-21-2004 at 11:05 PM.
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Kael was the win when they said:
After today's FFXI patch...CoH.
Yeah, that summoner change sucked. *hides from Fal*
If it's just a summer thing, like Tal said, CoH is the way to go. If you have lots of time to burn however, go with FFXI. Ballista (the first Player vs. Player event) was implemented today, gonna check that out once some folks finish up with the patch.
Go CoH. Great for the casual gamer. Great if you can only drop in for a little while. No worries about getting uber gear. No stupid grinding.
Go go CoH!
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Addy was listening to Cher while typing:
Yeah, that summoner change sucked. *hides from Fal*If it's just a summer thing, like Tal said, CoH is the way to go. If you have lots of time to burn however, go with FFXI. Ballista (the first Player vs. Player event) was implemented today, gonna check that out once some folks finish up with the patch.
Yes STFU, now i can finally play a summoner I honestly don't see how that can be an incredibly negative change for the game. I mean, really. PEople just begged for help with summons before. Now they can earn them on their own.
I still personally think summons should be done in a similar trial, but one per 10 levels or so. Falaanla Marr fucked around with this message on 04-22-2004 at 02:23 AM.
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Falaanla Marr had this to say about Captain Planet:
Yes STFU, now i can finally play a summonerI honestly don't see how that can be an incredibly negative change for the game. I mean, really. PEople just begged for help with summons before. Now they can earn them on their own.
I still personally think summons should be done in a similar trial, but one per 10 levels or so.
Sucks for the people who were 'forced' to level a job they didn't want to play to 60, just to get the avatars. But yeah, after reading up on the alternate quests, they're OK to me. Just glad they didn't do that to Fenrir, ~_~;; Otherwise people would've been pissed.
Ballista is awesome D: Yes, my team got owned, but I had one of the high scores at least~
Ok hijack done. ^^
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There was much rejoicing when Addy said this:
"o man my ass hurts ;_;"?
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"o man my ass hurts ;_;"?
Not to mention she's bending over in front of a bunch of enemy guys.....
omg addy
Except combat in CoH is fun from the ground up, lots of stuff to do. Unlike the shitfest that was FFXI, where you just stand around while your avatar autoattacks while looking at mithra panties. Bo-ring! 
Not to mention that CoH has really nifty story arcs.
Quite frankly, this game is badass.
We still completely hosed them last night though.They'd bind me facing a PLD, while a DRK uses Soul Eater behind me. Bastards.
And this patch was crazy good. As a Samurai, I'm suprised Kael isn't jumping for joy that his job finally has it's role back, as master of weapon skills. Skaw fucked around with this message on 04-22-2004 at 09:16 PM.
And I've had bad runs on MMORPGs lately. FFXI was great, loved it, was uber cool.. for a few months, then it just dull, redundant, repetative, and boring. Plus you couldn't actually play to have fun because you'd be ostrasized for making choices that were not optimized.SWG was really cool really fun, for like a month, but after a month... Why play anymore, there was nothing interesting to do. It was probably the biggest "Grab You" game, cause it did, but thats all it did and it couldn't back it up.
I've sworn off WoW, cause I know it will probably be good, but don't wanna get burned by an MMORPG again, and CoH is going the same way.
But it looks so coooooooooool. Faelynn LeAndris fucked around with this message on 04-22-2004 at 09:51 PM. Cept for the fact I bought and played Freedom Force, and it was pretty lame. So I'm wary in general of it.
I got half of a level's worth of exp and about 3.5k influence after selling all the unneeded enhancements I found. 
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Faelynn LeAndris painfully thought these words up:
I want CoH, but of course it will be too expensive.SWG was really cool really fun, for like a month, but after a month... Why play anymore, there was nothing interesting to do. It was probably the biggest "Grab You" game, cause it did, but thats all it did and it couldn't back it up.
I've sworn off WoW, cause I know it will probably be good, but don't wanna get burned by an MMORPG again, and CoH is going the same way.
But it looks so coooooooooool.
CoH isn't really a MMORPG in my opinion. I'd prefer to call it a Massive Multiplayer Online Action Game. It isn't anything like EQ, DAoC, or SWG. All your powers are chained together in combos and such, with short wait timers before you can use the attack again. Also, while this game does have support heroes, all characters will get some sort of attack power for whuping ass.
And you just have to admit, hopping from rooftop to rooftop looking for gansters to beat the crap out of is just way more cool than running and pulling to a safe point in a zone.
I give CoH a big thumbs up. I'll probably get the game on the first of May myself.
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Wow, what level were you JooJoo?
I got the mission at Lv.6, but I waited until I was Lv.7 to finish it so I could take it on with new, more powerful enhancements.
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Talonus had this to say about Optimus Prime:
Interesting how the biggest FFXI detractors either quit very quickly or powergamed and burned out very quickly...
I played for about 2 and a half months and only got to level 19. I'd rather go play Runescape than have to put up with FFXI again.
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When the babel fish was in place, it was apparent Darius! said:
I played for about 2 and a half months and only got to level 19. I'd rather go play Runescape than have to put up with FFXI again.
Ok, you're an exception partially. I'm just saying that most people posting against it stopped playing pretty quickly. FFXI is a good game and there's far more to it than CoH right now, it just takes a lot of time commitment on the part of the player.
CoH may be shallow (for now, at least), but the base concept is very fun. It is easier to build upon a fun foundation, then try to add in fun later ^-^
So I takes it to my contact, who immediately suspects they're going to poison the water. She sends me to beat up some zombies on the streets for lead. When I kill one of the reapers (alive surgeons who make the zombies), he has a scrap of paper with gibberish on it. After that, I get sent to do some unrelated mission while my contact finds out what it means.
And finally, the last mission of the series ends with me going to the sewer junction noted on the paper, which is where the purifiers are kept. I go to stop Slaughter... an eidolon with radiation powers. An eidolon is a boss level mob, a zombie with full awareness crafted from the bodies of fallen heroes.
So I kills him, stop the poisoning, get tons of experience, but the best part? They let me keep the ID badge as a souvenier, complete with a retelling of the arc when I click on it.
