FFXIV Trailer Revealed!

Well the official FFXIV site is up and running, so I would like to draw your attention there for a moment to view the official trailer, and hear some of the amazing new music for FFXIV done by Nobuo Uematsu!

Final Fantasy XIV official site.

On june 2nd at E3, Square Enix announced it's much anticipated, and highly secretive next MMORPG title, which will indeed carry the Final Fantasy Franchise name. Final Fantasy XIV Online! As you can see in the trailer, it is a very beautiful looking game so far, stunning in every way possible, and highly captivating. But what can we learn from this video?

Well, some things are obvious. It looks like some of the old races from FFXI will be making an appearance in the new FFXIV game. In a recent interview at E3, Square Enix developers said they wanted to bring some of the familiar styles of Vana Diel over to FFXIV to give the FFXI community a more welcoming and familiar feel, to help the transition over to the new game.

But will there be other, new races? If I had to bet, I would say most definitely. But no one knows for sure yet, or in what form they will come. I will do another writeup with more info on the speculated new races, and the highly anticipated "Male Mithra" later on.

It looks as though the world of Eorzea will have a high tech element, while still keeping the midevil/fantasy feel to it. The world itself looks spectacular, but what can we expect from graphics? In a interview, the Square Enix developers pointed out that a lot of the trailer was indeed made to look very stunning to captivate people, but that some of it was actual in game play. Supposedly, according to them, the part where you see the battle scene at the very first, with the (what looks to be) Galka, should be what we can expect from in game graphics. It's hard to gather too much off of it though, especially being a night time scene like that. So we'll just have to wait for more to make further judgments, but so far so good!

We can also look forward to music and themes done by Nobuo Uematsu, who has a renowned title for his amazing music, especially in the video game industry. You FFXI fans can rest easy, knowing he did the music for FFXI. I cannot wait to hear more! But from what I've heard in the trailer, and on the official FFXIV website, the music so far is simply stunning!

In closing, I would like to say the trailer looked absolutely beautiful, and I simply cannot wait until the highly anticipated release of Final Fantasy XIV online!