FFXIV Story. Do you like it as much as I do?

The story is great. There just needs to be more of it. We know what they are focused on fixing for the next few months, so get ready for a long cliff hanger lol.

I expect some side-story/lore from the ifrit battle and the quests we're meant to get that unlock jobs. :3

I love the story when I'm in it, then 2 hours afterwards I'm like "i've wanted more for so long, i'm freaking a lil angry" haha, but its not a big deal, just would like more outlets to learn about main storyline and they said they were gonna add it eventually, I'll wait I guess. Lore for me is a big issue in games, I've been known to not play a game based on how awful the lore was, and I'm weary of the new Star Wars game because the classes are based after the original trilogies but the game is set in the old republic, so they changed the class names but its still like "basing old republic classes on the time period of the movie in which we were rediscovering the old republic time period and hence people had changed the way they used classes." sorry for my rant but if the devs see anything its that lore is important for some people so don't half ass it just because we changed teams.

I have really been enjoying the storyline and lore as well! I just wish the missions/quests weren't so far apart from each other and we still had more of our home nation's missions. As Shai said, the story was really getting good back home and then they push us off to another nation and storyline.

I've seen clips of the last mission fight cutscene we have and I soo can't wait to experience it for myself! It looks so awesome! ^_^

I love the story, cinematics, zones, and characters so far. If it wasn't for the space in between the missions (like others have said.), I would think it was probably the best story in any Final Fantasy game. *continues grinding up to 26 to continue the story*

I like the story a lot, it's too bad that a lot of it is convoluted or uses boring mission structures to show it off. Also yeah cliffhanger. I wonder how it's going to develop after

the lead characters just kinda poof off and Judge Vader moves on. It wouldn't surprise me if he turns out to just be the commander of an expeditionary force in charge of prepping the new Garlean invasion of Eorzea. Of course there are so many other questions left unanswered such as who the hell is Trevaunchet(shadowless elezen in LL story) and what really happened years ago in Limsa Lominsa? What is to become of the Order of The Awakened now that they're considered to be in league with the beastmen? Just what the hell is the echo? What are the primals' and the Twelve's roles in all this? Who the hell are the Ascians and why are the Sylphs so worried about otherwordly powers?

Things are definitely going to get much more exciting.

Well for many its what we have to hold onto is thought of everything that can transpire as the game evolves. I hope yoshi and the story design team continue in tanaka's foot steps of what his te started with the story. However, i do want the missions to be more interesting and have party elements.

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Originally Posted by Jabo

Am I the only one who thinks that the story is really great?
People always talk about the music and the graphics when listing the pro's but in my opinion the story is the best part of the game so far.

Sure, it's a bit short, but the characters, the changing development and the last cut scene were all pretty awesome to me.
It is the one thing that really makes me feel that i'm playing a fantasy game at the moment.

On top of that I'm really excited about the Garlean Empire.
They seam very different and overwhelmingly powerful with their technology.
They also have some kick-ass leaders.

I can't wait to learn more about it.

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I like the concept of the echo and the mystery of why we were chosen to have it.

There seems to be a strange quest for "answers" by these "walkers of the path", but what is the path? Is it just a futile struggle for purpose that amounts to nothing? Are we just the god's playthings?

And why do the dragons keep attacking us, the same with the Garlean empire?

Those are questions I would like to find answers to.

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Originally Posted by Anonymoose

I most definitely agree that the story is fantastic; but I will say that it's entirely too disconnected.

The main scenario is easy; meant to be experienced by anyone who picks up the game - however, it doesn't connect very well to the guildleve lore or the class scenarios that you have to work for, and I doubt it'll integrate with the new Company scenarios that we'll have to win the content of. Every storyline seems isolated, and the people in it only seem to care about that particular scenario and the people within it. Some overlap would be great.

I'd love to see all these disconnected lore pieces tied together somehow, because the full experience is going unnoticed by many.

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There are overlaps, LNC quests involve LNC Guild trying to make a pact with Ul'dah in anticipation against Garlean Empire; ARC Guild involves the Beastmen, the Elemental and Ishgard; PUG Guild involves some Ala Mhigan refugee now reside within the Guild, I can see they eventually meet up with the main storyline with the struggle against Garlean and the Dragons in Ishgard.

i started in gridania and i absolutely loved the mission storyline there, papalymo and yda are a pair of characters where i just enjoy their chemistry and im craving for more of the two^~^

the later storyline of the path and the echo is very intriguing as well with the empire comeing closer till you can feel their breath on your neck.
Its also interesting that the empire excludes us players (since we all have the gift of the echo) from their effort if a "peaceful takeover" and just bunches us up with the beastmen tribes they see as their main focus because of the primals.
im curious how this setting will play out in the future

I just wish there was more of it, not so spaced out. I'm sure future quests and such will fill in the gaps. :)

Kudos to the story team for being able to tie in all the existing class quests subtlely into the overall storyline.

If I remember correctly, the Garlean characters speak with a North American accent. I always thought that was a nice touch.