where there is darkness there is always light
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where there is darkness there is always light
Spoiler: show
The light at the end of the tunnel is .... The Hildebrand Questline
You could say there are Beacons of Hope
But yes, the story overall is very good, but because of the format (being an MMO) there is quite a bit of filler at certain parts of the story. Now, this filler does actually add to the bigger picture in various ways (additional exposition on the world and lore, or just for comic relief), but it's not really central to the narrative. The story does get good though.
The filler is entirely unnecessary and has it's place along with all the other optional side quests.
I thought Skyrim had circuitous questlines but FFXIV's are more akin to Maple Story's...pretty much all the main quests can be refined down to:
1) Talk A...travel to B and talk to C. ->Reward
2) Kill X number of of Y's
3) Collect X number of Y's from Z's.
4) Weaken X number of Y's and then use Key Item Z.
5) Take Keyitem X and use it on spot Y.
6) Go to destination X and interact with the point of interest.
7) Go to destination X and interact with the point of interest and defeat mob(s) Y.
I kind of miss the FFXI open world dungeon crawls. Instanced dungeons right now feel like a Disney World railtrack theme ride. Enter, follow the linear path while completing the obvious outlined objectives(attractions) which are all conveniently in order for you(track).
Unfortunately what you just described is the typical quest MMORPG system lol
I think the open world will follow a path similar to crafting (just not as rapid): at 2.0 release, crafting was childishly simple and you could easily guarantee HQ on any item in the game (with macros, even). As the game progressed, recipes got harder and more expensive, culminating in the 4-star master book turn-ins which pretty much required every class at 50 and huge amounts of grinding/RNG luck.
I expect that 3.0 will introduce legitimately dangerous open world areas (I specifically expect to see many more enemies that directly inflict Heavy).
Wouldn't mind seeing enemies summon adds, or run away to other mobs to aggro or even try to fly away in 3.0.
Hoping to see semi unique monsters in 3.0 compared to 2.0's stand 1 spot and maul it to death, more like the alexandrite chest monsters that require some planning/dodging/thinking or you die horribly.
WoW did this with Warlords of Draenor with Garrosh escaping from his trial and goes to the past to influence the iron horde to do as he says, but is cut down at the end of the story arc and then you get the raid content that continues the main story quests. Spoilers that no one here cares about most likely.
Mobs running away reminds me of those annoying motherfuckers from 1.0 leves that would run across the map to get reinforcements.
They're in 2.0 leves as well.
I would hope the open world is dangerous regardless since we'll supposedly just be able to fly over everything anyways.
A shame SE dropped the ball on the maps system. It could have been so much more than it ended up being. Could have been decent midcore content. Random boss that may kick your ass as a group of 8.
isnt this........ what all MMO quests are?...........
what FFXIV lacks now are "elite mobs" that got very high HP/attack power that can actually kill adventurers and drop stuffs
but since lvling is FATE/dungeon onry, i wouldnt see it working at all, having party of 4 or 8 hitting stuffs in strongholds
thats the only thing missing now, yup something like open world dungeons but that would mean zerg fest i guess
Well compared to ffxi, ffxiv quests are ludicrously simple. True ffxi had its share of turn in quests but there were far fewer than in 14. 14 it's like a true staple where probably 20-30% of all quests are kill X of Y or bring me X item. FFXI quests were almost always multiple steps, involving going through dungeons, getting key items, bringing them to npcs, getting a cutscene, fighting an instance, bringing a KI back. Also in 14 when you retrieve items from a mob during a quest(e.g. get me 5 pelts from Snow Wolves) it seems like its 100% chance drop whereas in ffxi you had to rely on RNG drop rates unless you brought a THF for treasure hunter, so it doesnt seem much different from a kill X number quest. It was a bit less mindless and quests felt unique and less copy and pasted. I noticed after the first hour of 14 that theres hundreds of these turn-in quests or kill X mob quests whereas in 11 there were only a few "kill x# of mobs(unless you count magian trials which are more similar to relic/zenith type grinds than quests)
thats the modern MMO tho
NPC and quests line will always lead you progressively, and net you more than 1/2 of your level for that first job, be it kill 3 rats, or fetch 20 corpse
xi was very bad in terms of quests initially that no one does them except for exclusive items/fame. and its heavily reliant on grinding in the dunes, crawler nest or kuftal tunnels for experience
if you count those over excessive quests that require you to kill stupid mobs and fetch stupid things in XIV to the amount of crawlers you kill, they are both of braindead and serve no purpose
times have changed guys. this has been the way mmos are now way back, not just in XIV
now, for story quests its another issue. XI had more of a challenge and fun even for story that even the hardcores can meet problems, eg CoP prenerfed!!!!, while XIV story still stuck to the leveling/progression template...... i understand and i also feel that we should get more challenge, which in turns reduce stupid things we do for XIV story, but if even a step of faith can get so many negative feedback from the fucking casuals 2-3 hours into patch, you know we are now in a very dark age of MMO where fucking people cant listen and stay patient
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It may be the modern MMO but it doesn't make it good... and if you're not arguing its good and you're just sayin' it how it is, well, we all know thats how it is now, so the point is moot and I'm confused why its brought up. We know thats how much modern MMOs are now, doesn't make it suck less.
many games suck now, hence not many games nowadays made it past the 2-3 year mark
we all know each other in this forums since 9 odd years ago, since xi, we understand how each other feels in modern mmos
god damnit i feel so fucking old now