6.2 Dungeon, what are your thoughts?

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Originally Posted by Supersnow845

Pretty much the same as every dungeon since about holminster switch

A beautiful boring corridor

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I think you mean since HW...and if you think about the ARR ones that weren't just linear...we the playerbase made the runs linear anyway...

Personally, I really enjoyed the new dungeon. The atmosphere we neat, the fights were cool as dungeons go, I love the whole FFIV theme going on, and the boss battle music absolutely rocks! It's the first remix of an old FF battle theme that I think I actually prefer to the original NES/SNES versions. The only part that could have made it better would've been heading to the castle at the first boss. I saw the path leading to it and thought it would have an awesome view along the way, but just ended up being a threshold transfer. Would've loved to make that walk!

The dungeon was... a dungeon. Unremarkable. Which is better than an annoying dungeon, I suppose.

Really staking my hopes on the criterion system at this point.

The new dungeon…Its too awesome. that dungeon was made for reapers lol the ff4 boss battle 2 ost was banging!

Bosses where all they do is literally spawn trash mobs should not be a thing this many years in.

It's visually beautiful, I liked that it had some stairs without loading screens to really give it more of a dark castle with several levels feel instead of a flat corridor. I also like the aesthetic of the dungeon sets, going to farm a few of them.
Trash was very standard: hit stuff, dodge orange. That's it.
The trash boss was plain boring, the 2nd was okay, liked the last boss best. Not challenging by any means but overall nice last boss and the music was great, reminiscent of the older FF titles. Had some hiccups on my first run from everyone but since then it's pretty much smooth faceroll-sailing.

I really enjoyed it and can see this being one that I repeat-play.

And would have to agree that the music is great too!

Visually I loved it - I loved picking up all the FFIII, IV and IX references and kind of took my time heading through it (the dungeon's name itself, the music (Troian Beauty), the castle design, Beatrice's portrait, and of course.... Mr Poison Lich as the last boss - once I heard Battle II start playing, I roared with excitement, and he didn't disappoint - in fact he kicked my butt, as I went in expecting him to be just as much the pushover as he was in FFIV. He wasn't.) :P

But yeah mechanically it wasn't really that hard, but I think at this stage, main scenario dungeons are not meant to be hard at all - their mechanics need to be simple enough for the Trust System/Duty Support to work, and for those lamenting dungeons being corridors, well, we had alternate paths in dungeons years ago - players ignored them and always just went for the quickest route anyway, so all SE has done is accepted that as what players want. So they're simply not going to bring back the days of say old-school Toto-Rak in dungeon design, that's just being realistic.

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Originally Posted by Supersnow845

Pretty much the same as every dungeon since about holminster switch

A beautiful boring corridor

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I’m stunned the dungeon formula hasn’t budged a inch in 6 years. It’s not even a fun formula, it’s striking dummy simulator

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Visually:
Appealing. Music was good. Looked very cool and beautiful. Nice to see more voidsent mobs. Liked traversing a castle.

Mechanically:
Hate the first boss. While i love Art of Waring.. doing it for 98% of a "boss" fight is... I already do it for 50% of the dungeon. Why add another 16.66% to it.

2nd boss got me a bit with the double eye circle with aoe circle. Other than that. Just dodge.

3rd boss: Reminded me of Xelphatol 2nd boss. Other than that. Not to bad of a fight. Liked how our AOEs can make it harder. Add phase felt unnecessary. But didnt mind too much.


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Loved it. Felt mechanicly pleasing to clear. EX was a blast

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Originally Posted by Corbeau

The dungeon was... a dungeon. Unremarkable. Which is better than an annoying dungeon, I suppose.

Really staking my hopes on the criterion system at this point.

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Severely disagree, a annoying dungeon is a fun topic. A boring dungeon is so unimpressionable it’s basically ignored, question the point of its inclusion with questions like “If dungeons are this brain dead, why not just turn them into solo instances?l” or “Gee that tank buster hardly did any damage” or “why the hell is SE all of a sudden scared of death zones? With this dungeon and P8 not insta-killing you”