If only that was FFXIV's relic gear for White mages....
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See this is my take on it, I agree with you. Story is all well and good but if the gameplay sucks then I will not enjoy the game. That was FFXIII's problem. The game was more linear than any other FF I have ever played.
Even the combat was linear! You only controlled one character and the rest used AI actions you could not directly control. It was horrendous.
Thousands among thousands looked upon their God, the great Yoshida, asking for silly glamour items instead of true content. 'No' whispered the great Yoshi P with a smile cast upon his face.
screw the content. I want my character to look good.
No it wasn't unless you were going for bad ranks. Actually challenging yourself to push 5 stars was pretty fun but you could just turtle in healing paradigms and get 1 stars if you really wanted.
It wasn't the gameplay that was the problem, it was the fact that the game doesn't really punish you as much as it should for scoring lower ranks and making the battles last longer. I had a lot of fun with the gameplay, more than I did with a lot of classic FF games which lets be honest, mostly involve hitting the attack command over and over again while keeping your party up with heals. I just wish there was a bigger penalty if you made the fights last too long but XIII-2 implemented the wounded mechanic that sort of addresses this.
With how fast the game is I do not want to manually buff the entire party using Sazh in every battle using Synergist. I would rather let the AI do that thank you very much. Paradigm shifts gives me enough party control and I have plenty to worry about with my leader when it comes to some of the harder optional fights.
I'd still like to control my own party like every other final fantasy in existence.Quote:
With how fast the game goes you do NOT want to manually buff the entire party using Sazh in every battle using Synergist. I would rather let the AI do that thank you very much.
Honestly I don't like that they add costumes and armors from their other games, it feels like it strips away this game's identity
Having influence from those costumes from other games is fine, like the assassins in Assassin's Creed games, the influence is there (white, hood, birds) but it always gives its own version of that, it doesn't just wholesale import it into key roles
I feel like having gear sets and hairstyles from other FF games in this game SO OFTEN as it does really makes me wonder what FFXIV "looks" like