Good game but nothing special for me

User Rating: 6.5 | Final Fantasy XIV Online: A Realm Reborn PC
First impressions was how good this game looked. Love the day and night cycle, i was standing on balcony watching the sunset, just looked bliss. The art direction is just wonderful. The gui has a real polished feel to it and completely customisable. Good intro and some great humorous npc and story driven dialog. Its great how SE has designed the first part to draw you in with ease and not throw loads of complex stuff in you face soon as you log in. Also seen some awesome weather effects. Best ive seen in an MMO.

Unfortunately for me there are 2 gamebreakers that has caused me to stop playing already after a week.

1. Load screens....omg a so many load screens just to go different lvl in city. Load screen exiting and entering the citys, load screen. Getting in a lift in the city. Load screen. The list goes on.

2. Slowwwwww combat. I hate the combat in this game. I thought The Secret World was bad enough but its great compared to this. I was finding i had to take periodic rests killing mobs just because how painfully slow this combat is. Im sure it will get better as lvl up but for me this was the biggest deal breaker. Also it feels as melee like your throwing a wet fish around, not an huge great axe. Doesnt feel like your doing much to the mob, not much feeling that ur hitting it.