I don't know if I'd be underwhelmed on the content, just feels like the average MMO launch to me, I don't know. Playing hardcore in most MMO tends to burn people out quickly. Did the same thing in WoW, STWOR and GW2. Maybe it's just me, but I've gotten used to supplementing other games along with the eventual endgame burn of MMOs.
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I don't know if I'd be underwhelmed on the content, just feels like the average MMO launch to me, I don't know. Playing hardcore in most MMO tends to burn people out quickly. Did the same thing in WoW, STWOR and GW2. Maybe it's just me, but I've gotten used to supplementing other games along with the eventual endgame burn of MMOs.
Austriacus
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I have over 500 hours on GW2 and over 250 on final fantasy. I trully dont know what the hell you are talking about. Guild wars 2 world looks gorgeous, the scenery is fantastic and there are a lot of varied vistas to look at. Guild wars 2 has a lot of details(like final fantasy has) that set it apart and show the quality it has. Grass moves as you pass through it, the wind drives petals up and when you are swimming the algae also moves out of the way if you pass through. When you jump into the water and you get the splash effect, the amount showed varies according to the distance at which you jumped into the water.
The combat is meaty and responsive, its also has a very unique in its aproach.
The story is indeed crap
Im curious now, you said you were gona post some screens. Go ahead and do it then, i wana see them
If you really want an ugly game that also costs 60$ you can always look at Swtor.
PS: i still have no fucking clue why you keep bringing all of these up, my point was regarding content, not any of this.
BigBadShamoo
Banned
Siren looks awesome.
koji kabuto
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masterlobo
Banned
The Pharos Sirius music is beautiful btw, around 5:08
Riposte
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Then dungeons get repeated until they are boring (especially when they are designed to only be "learned" once) and/or people get bored with the filler they are doing while the DF is, inevitably, taking too long. Or they could do what I suggest, and rebalance most of the content in the game to be interesting (and efficiently so by establishing some rules across the board). I'm very much against the idea of negating FATEs (either by removing them or making them useless), because there is like nothing to do with FFXIV besides instanced content and FATEs. FATEs are what's little left to give the open-world, never mind the server community, any meaning outside quest hubs.
"Competing for FATE spots" could be worthy cost for making content fun and, ultimately, be alleviated by adjusting things so there is less disappointment. This is ultimately about making "public quests" work from a game design stand point (i.e. what would be acceptable game design outside easily-forgiven MMORPGs) instead of just putting them into your game carelessly and make the same old mistakes (as every MMO has done as far I can tell). Instead of arguing examples, I'll just link the one wall of text I made, although it was made before devs decided to balance FATE and dungeon rewards to some extent and it is very inclusive (I would go as far to say it is an attempt to fix everything outside dungeons). That said, once you make FATEs meaningful encounters, you can make them more plentiful or less plentiful depending on how many mouths you want to feed in any one zone (or put things in place to make players spreading out over many zones more enticing, as limiting FATE participation in a single zone in any form would already encourage).
Teletraan1
Banned
I just want to be able to sort my inventory lol.
bishopcruz
Member
Looks like I'll be resubbing. Finally more than 1-2 dungeons to grind for progression. Doing the same stuff over and over KILLED me.
Teletraan1
Banned
The problem is that there are plenty of fates in other areas but everyone does the same route of Aleport->Quarrymill->Costa Del Sol->Etc.
Doing my hunting log in other areas always had plenty of fates up where I would proceed to solo them or maybe one other person might show up. This is not the optimal route so nobody does it. Unless they just add fates to the popular areas its a waste of resources. It is probably my only complaint with this game. Everything is a speed run and everyone is some fake efficiency expert.
HylianScribe
Member
LOL @ Titan Extreme. Oh man, can't wait for the wipes.
Titan EX is going to melt minds.
Rising_Hei
Member
Im kind of bored about this pattern crap, Twintania is ridiculous as well, it's not about real skills :/
Wouldnt pattern memorization = skills? Especially when you still need to have said skill to take advantage of the patterns. Besides, what boss battles in any game dont have patterns of some sort?
This trailer is bait to ensure Shantotto wipes the maximum possible amount of people by herself when she arrives.
Something XIV ARR can do to set itself apart is to create multiple algorithms for boss behavior and to, quote/unquote, "randomize" the attacks bosses use as well as have them adapt to what classes/skills the player characters are using. To mitigate people trying to abuse this and go in with specific class setups/skills each boss could have a segment of its AI be completely random to disrupt any sense of security the party may have in using the same strategy over and over.
Of course that takes a ton of testing/coding and would be a major update, and then eventually people will figure out the best setup to tackle each boss with, regardless of randomization of attacks.
devious.one
Member
Right now its just an enemy type, but don't be surprised if Musketeer makes it in the game!
BattleMonkey
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Yes I know, the game is getting sad with how dead its becoming. It was such a full of life word with players everywhere, but now its empty as everyone just goes to the few popular fate grind hubs anymore. So many ignored fates everywhere, and empty world. Looks like its going to get just worse with players just doing the same and duty finder instancing.
razgriz417
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Lol I had this saved for Titan HM before I memorized it
Can't wait to see the Titan EX version
having finished levelling a class to 50, another to 40 and rocking through a couple 50 crafters and well into coil (up to turn 4), i think the one major thing that i've been missing is CASUAL hard content that's WORTH playing through. the hardest thing that you can just step into with a team of 4 right now is AK and it's pretty damn easy once you're geared up for coil. you can always find a titan fight, but there is literally no reason to do titan HM over and over once you beat it. i've run thru it maybe 6 times or so now to help out some ppl vs the literally hundreds of WP runs i've done.
i'm hoping these HM dungeons give rewards (tomes or crafting mats) that make them worth doing, else it's more WP for me.
i'm hoping these HM dungeons give rewards (tomes or crafting mats) that make them worth doing, else it's more WP for me.
Of course it does. FATEs are mindless spam fest, dungeons require co-ordination and a degree of jknowledge skill to do efficiently.
FATEs teach you nothing about how to play your class well, dungeons do.
It's a very good change.