Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Awoken

Square Enix's MMO is reborn as the best in its class, and the most compelling Final Fantasy game in years.

Players are treated with respect by the developers, largely due to the game’s pay-to-play nature. You’re not a second-class citizen and everyone is on an even playing field. For fans of the franchise, ARR is absolutely worth its monthly fee, especially with the slew of new content that is already planned to hit in the coming months and years.

Dawntrail goes exactly where Final Fantasy XIV needed to go, experimenting with the player character's role in this world as its borders expand.

Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn is a great MMORPG experience on PC, PlayStation 3, and PlayStation 4. Grounded in tradition and learning from the lessons of the games that preceded it, it thrives on the strength of its excitingly varied and flexible class system and highly mobile combat. The challenge ahead for Square is to achieve the delicate balance of questing, dungeons, and FATEs for the second half of the leveling process as well as it has the first, because right now the late game bogs down in mindless grinds more than I’d like. But considering the stunning reversal of fortune that Sq...

A Realm Reborn is a pure product of Square’s admirable determination and passion. It’s not ground-breaking in any shape or form yet introduces enough new and refined ideas to warrant attention. Not only that, it manages to replicate that classic MMO feel on consoles, something which seemed like an impossibility not that long ago.

Finally figuring out a direction for your character