Follow Slashdot blog updates by subscribing to our blog RSS feed

 


Forgot your password?
Close
typodupeerror
×
PC Games (Games) Role Playing (Games) Hardware

Final Fantasy XI Benchmark 3 Released 44

Posted by Zonk from the have-a-shiny-for-the-weekend dept.
Sidicas writes "Squaresoft has released a new version of the benchmark for Final Fantasy XI. The new version includes a preview of the Tavnazian Archipelago from the Chains of Promethia expansion pack. The benchmark is full of eye-candy and makes for one heck of a screensaver!"
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.

Final Fantasy XI Benchmark 3 Released More

Final Fantasy XI Benchmark 3 Released

Comments Filter:
  • I dont think that this will replace 3dmark anytime soon. Nor will it replace the new HL2, Doom3 or Far-Cry benchmarks. Maybe it will add onto them, but, never replace it.
    • The benchmark isn't meant to gague how powerful your system is, but how well your system can run FFXI. They give a list of scores on the page and tell you what kind of in-game experience you can expect. This is mainly the result of a console developer trying to cope with a multi-configuration platform (i.e. you can't complain so much if the game doesn't work on your system, as you could've tried the demo first for free).
  • Squaresoft is dead you insensitive clod!
    • we could be so lucky.
      if it were "dead" we could put it to rest.
      unfortunately its more of an "undead" as it wanders around trying a ghostly shell of its former self trying to suck the blood of those that once loved it.

    • Re:Square Enix (Score:4, Interesting)

      by Guppy06 ( 410832 ) on Friday December 03, 2004 @07:34PM (#10992819)
      From what I can tell it seems Squaresoft was by far first among equals in that merger. Final Fantasy this, Final Fantasy that, and yet very little seems to be on the horizon in the world of Dragon Quest/Warrior. The old FF games have been ported seventeen different ways to Sunday but we still haven't seen ports of DQ 5 or 6 in English. Going to the Square-Enix homepage [square-enix.com], I don't see anything that looks like something that would have come from Enix, and you really have to dig before you see the phrase "Dragon Warrior." You give us an update to Seiken Densetsu 1 for the GBA SP that manages to break the beauty of the ring menu system but you can't be bothered to finally bring Terranigma to North America? It's not like you even have to translate it...

      Squaresoft is alive and well, it's Enix that seems to be floating belly-up. Where's Soul Blazer IV? Can we at least get a Chrono III?
      • Well, about the only thing Enix has done that's high profile of late is Dragon Quest, and that series takes even longer than Final Fantasy between revisions.

        Nevertheless I wouldn't count them out just yet.. though your point is valid and I agree-- the part of the company that faces the outward world the most is the Square side of Squeenix.
      • Are you kidding? Enix has always taken a long time to put out Dragon Quest games, but they are FAR more popular in Japan than Final Fantasy. DQ8 just came out. At the end of November DQ8 was the best selling game in Japan. According to the Magic Box:

        Dragon Quest VIII (PS2, Square Enix) - 2,236, 000 units

        More tellingly is that the company is using the game to promote a new franchise, Code Age. SE knows very well that DQ8 is enormous in Japan but won't see much action in the U.S. SE is a Japanese ori
  • On Win2k, the installation fails with the error 'data1.cab' is missing :(

    -m
  • After watching this benchmark, my system is indeed sutible to run this game. The question do I have the time to play?

Slashdot Top Deals

"What man has done, man can aspire to do." -- Jerry Pournelle, about space flight

Close