If you play games for the experience, to take things slow and enjoy your time: Yes.
If you play games to ignore story and skip to endgame raiding: Find another game.
Not that it doesn't exist, but FFXIV is as story driven as SWTOR, so ignoring it means ignoring 80% of what the game offers. The old free trial offered a good amount of content gameplay wise if you fall into the first 2 categories.. and now this revamped trial offers literal weeks of content if you're especially into #2.
@KingWormer: Their tech is still archaic as all hell. Same thing happened to me years ago as an old 1.0 player, even on my alt 1.0 account I never paid anything on.
Sadly I don't see it improving anytime soon.. hasn't since 2014. I mean, they did just revamp the cash shop into a new site.. and it still doesn't have a search function. *shrug*
Going from level 35 cap in ARR to having full HW content to level 60 is MASSIVE. Like, weeks worth of gameplay (unless you're just grind rushing one class skipping everything; if so why are you even playing FFXIV?).
I keep a F2P account to logon casually and talk to people I don't have added outside of game, and this just opens up so much more possibility to enjoy that account if I ever feel like running dungeons or crafting.
@Barighm: I'm not ignorant; it's designed to emulate Bloodborne, not the OG Demon's/Dark Souls series, but that's what everyone refers to.
Code Vein is infinitely worsely designed than Bloodborne.
My comparisons to the 2 other games I mentioned were DESIGN QUALITY in their tier bracket, not combat systems. They're not well known AAA games, they're B-tier games (maybe A, hard to be objective about subjectivity).
If you think Code Vein's gameplay is on the technical quality level of the other games I mentioned, then you need to open your eyes.
@Barighm: The game just doesn't have a good combat system comparatively.
It feels like a Unreal Engine 4 game made by people who weren't experienced enough to know how to retrofit the engine to, well, not feel like a stock UE4 game. (Was the God Eater devs.. and that game series felt like a low tier Monster Hunter)
Lords of the Fallen and The Surge are lower tier Souls-like games, but they have better combat than Code Vein. Personally, I couldn't stand LotF, but I liked The Surge.
If you never played Dark Souls then maybe Code Vein is a good starting point, but if you have, then well, it's objectively worse.
Too many ports, even ones delayed to "do them right" (hello Capcom) fail to deliver such basic features like arbitrary resolution and framerate, sometimes even control rebinding, let alone making the mouse feel like a mouse instead of an analog stick.
Hope to see HZD actually feel like a real PC game for once.
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