Final Fantasy XI Beta Testing

There are several sites offering promotions that could land a spot in the beta testing of Final Fantasy XI for the PC. ATI Technologies is offering spots in the test to the first 1000 eligible applicants, FilePlanet is accepting applications from their paid subscribers over the next couple of days for the giveaway of an unspecified random number of spots, and likewise, GameSpot and Stratics Central are giving away some beta spots to their paid subscribers as well. Finally, The Final Fantasy Vault is holding a trivia contest to give away their spots. The Vault, Stratics, and FilePlanet giveaways are for U.S. and Canadian registrants only, but the ATI site mentions no such restriction, and details about the GameSpot registration cannot be viewed by non-subscribers.
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The first games where more RPG.. and did have lots of storyline/talking. The latter ones(PSX/PS2 versions) have been leaning towards interactive movies. Which a lot of the fans don't like. While the improved graphics are great, the loss of some of the RPG roots and making them into simpler games (for more mass appeal according to Square) has been a sad point in the series.

As for minimal continuity, as Zar said, it's more like almost none. The ages of the theroy has never really been confirmed, and I can't really think of any of the first 6 games that kept the same story let alone the same characters. I think one of them continued with the previous games childern, but that was as close as you got as the storylines have always been totaly different.

Overall I'd have to say all RPGS are interactive movies in some way, they are just seperated by how much you can do between the storyline elements. I can only hope they go back to the more RPG side, but it always seems that the more space you take up with the cutscenes, and better graphics the less you will have for the storyline/scripting/world exploring.

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