Poll: Who reads all of the quest text, main scenario only, voice acting only, or none

I read everything. It's an FF game... it would be pointless otherwise imo.

(except beastmen dailies... I only read those the first time.)

I read everything except the beastmen dailies. On my femRoe alt I skipped most things, though, since I'd already seen them on my main.

I try to read everything, but I usually end up skimming through most of the text in La Noscea quests. That seafarer-talk is hard to read sometimes...

Being a long-time fan of adventure game genre, reading quest description and stories are a must. I have to admit though that I'm a bit slow to pay attention, so I have to re-read several times if needed. ^^;

Unfortunately as you can see, adventure games are kinda old trend now. lol

I've read everything.

Like a lot of people I read everything once first time through.

I don't understand why dailies need so much damn text, not just the beastmen ones but also the map daily in mor dhona.

I read until someone says "must needs" and then I spam my mouse button so hard my fingers bleed.

I skip everything except hildebrad cause I think the quests are sooo boring.

I did watch the entire mainquest at the inn though.

Like the moogle delivery quests, they really suck imo

Depends on how I feel at the time. I definitely read everything to do with Hildebrand. I skip through other things depending on how much of a hurry I'm in or how much I can be arsed caring.

I read every damn thing, because I don't want to miss a step. Even though I still end up forgetting some of the story, I'll still read everything to get a sense of what's going on.

Iffy. I read the main quests when they actually have something to do with the story, but a lot of the quests so far have felt like filler. I skip a lot of the side quests dialogue for similar reasons.

I read the dungeon quest line(some of it I've skipped on accident), main scenario quest line. I enjoy the writing style, and I have learned new interesting words like succor. Succor me!

I also actually enjoy the English voice acting, though I've heard it is somehow inferior to the Japanese voice acting, i.e., the Japanese version has more voice acting in it.

I'm just happy they recently patched it where if you accidentally click Apply For Promotion at GC when fully ranked you no longer have to click through 8 text boxes to get out of it.

Back in the beta and in the beginning I read ALL of the text and listened to everything, but those times are over. The NPC's use way too many sentences most of the time, and I get annoyed waiting for their emotes to finish so I can keep clicking through it all. Especially beast quests. ლ(ಠ益ಠ)ლ

I read everything and have watched every main story cut-scene in the inn a second time.

I'm sure most players of this game are modern gamers that just don't have the patience for the story in a story-rich game. Can't read anything unless it's actually read TO them. Gotta rush to end game and complain about lack of stuff to do after all.

I read Main Story Quest text

Read or Skim Side Quest text (depends on how much time/interest I have in the quest)

Skim Daily and Leve text

Skip text I've read before and don't want to read again (have an alt so it happens a bit)

Definitely read all text, no matter how insignificant it might be.Of course daily beastmen quests and leves I kind of skip eventually after enough repeats, but as a general rule, I read all text regardless of what it is, as I'm crazy like that. :p

Not to mention I screencap all of it too, a habit I started in FFXI, as I've kind of made it a little project of mine to compile screenshots of quests and dialogue into a coherent narrative at a later date. :)

I read everything, at least the first time, and I try to make a point when I can of talking to side NPCs at all quest steps (example: talking to the Scions in the Sylphlands before following the sylph to Ramuh). You get some really amusing dialogue that way, and a lot of story you wouldn't find otherwise - early on, for example, you have three other adventurer parties heading out to the same initial dungeons as you. You learn the fate of Edda's party through the main story, but only by talking to the older adventurer and his companion (who appears again in the Crystal Braves questline!) do you find out that the second party was brutally killed by the hecatoncheires within Copperbell.

Read everything. I play this game for the history.

I read most of the text unless it's that awful pirate-whatever-speak with 5 bajillion apostrophes that I can't understand for the life of me what they're saying half the time. >.>

Put me down for 'All the quest text.'

I read all the quest text for all quests initially. If it's a repeat quest like a leve or daily, I'll skip it the second time onward.

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Originally Posted by RyujinUzikin

I only care about the voice acting ones.

I'm not going to claim I know the difficulty around making most things voice animated, since they need to pay voice actors to do the job, but the fact that most of the scenarios in this game have no voice, it makes me feel like it's lazy. So if they're lazy to add voice to the story, I'm lazy to read it as well.

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...wow.

First of all, it's actually an immense amount of work to add in voice acting and it's done months in advance (I believe Yoshi said all the voiced parts for 2.4 were finished ~2 months ago). There's nothing "lazy" about it. It's time-consuming, needs to be planned out well in advance, and costs a decent chunk of money.

On a sidenote, your blind assumption about a process you know nothing about is really immature.

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Originally Posted by Enkidoh

Not to mention I screencap all of it too, a habit I started in FFXI, as I've kind of made it a little project of mine to compile screenshots of quests and dialogue into a coherent narrative at a later date. :)

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So happy to know I'm not the only one who does this :D It started in 1.0 for me when it was becoming evident the world was going boom. So I would screenshot nearly everything to use for a slideshow project and record every cut scene and event I did and use them as a video memory diary ^o^

1.0 taught me to take nothing for granted in story cos it can be something that's here today and gone tomorrow.

I skip nearly everything cuz I get a bit impatient or bored when walls of text fly at me nonstop. I will stop usually for story quests if its a key cutscene or something really engaging, but those aren't too common.

I generally only skip levequest text and dungeon cutscenes.

I read everything unless it's something I've seen before (dailies).

I read every scrap of irrelevant NPC chatter and arcane item description I can find. Localization team is A+++.

VA is terrible. I read the dialog box and skip the rest. Sorry voice doods.

I usually read almost all the dialogue. Sometimes I skip it for things like Levequests.
Repeatables I only read the first time (usually) unless I feel like idk what is going on.

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Originally Posted by Enkidoh

Not to mention I screencap all of it too, a habit I started in FFXI, as I've kind of made it a little project of mine to compile screenshots of quests and dialogue into a coherent narrative at a later date. :)

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And My Enki often wonders WHY I refer to her as OUR "Encylopedia Eorzea". Love you, sweetheart. <3 ^^

i read every quest and look every cut scene

I read everything, except beastmen dailies after the first time taken.
I even recently lvled an alt to redo the storyline and took time to screenshot dialogues with the Scions pre-massacre, hopefully to see if there's any callback in the future.

I read all quest text the first time. For dailies, I'll read them the first time I do that particular quest, but then skip it after that (wouldn't really be a point of reading through the same dialog more than once).

People can do what they want and I'm not one to criticize, but I don't really understand those who don't read the quest text. This is a Final Fantasy game, after all, you know there's some great dialog there (especially in the side quests).

Main story read only because the Voice acting is in English is so bad in FFXIV.
The JP Voice acting is good but I don't understand JP, It just sounds better.

As for Side quest. Depends on the type of side quest, but most non job I skip.

I would like rock solid Voice acting. But the pause on line breaks it for me.

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Originally Posted by Wishangel

Title says it all, if this proves popular enough I'll edit with results. :D

I honestly want to know if I'm the only one who reads every single quest, because today I did Tam-tara deepcroft (hard) and I was the only one in the entire group who recognized the lore.

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I read everything about the story. Really big fan of the voiceacting too. it's just another final fantasy story. It's interesting too.

I have always read all of it. As a writer myself, I have a lot of respect for the effort and time they put in. They are also, in many cases, excellent writing. I will always enjoy the writing when given a chance.

I read everything even levequest, so much lore in things like leves that people miss out on

i've read almost everything... excluding some sidequests when i was leveling up

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Originally Posted by Enkidoh

Not to mention I screencap all of it too, a habit I started in FFXI, as I've kind of made it a little project of mine to compile screenshots of quests and dialogue into a coherent narrative at a later date. :)

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i do this as well, at least for things important to the main scenario, and occasionally things that aren't (the anniversary quest from the minstrel, for example)

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Originally Posted by Urielparadox

I read everything even levequest, so much lore in things like leves that people miss out on

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haha, ok. That wasn't what was i expecting. i'm not sure i ever read the levequest close enough to notice.

I love the lore, and I'm always reading the quest information, even on levequests. I sat through every cutscene in the game, and even once I've read the flavour text, I'll still wait until any dialog has completed before advancing, since I love the immersion.

For me, Final Fantasy stands apart from other games because the storyline is genuinely compelling. I want to know more about the world we live in, and I'm always checking out NPCs for lore, and getting as much story out of the game as I can. It's probably one of the biggest selling points for the game, so skipping it seems like you're missing the whole point.

Even the side stories, in fact sometimes ESPECIALLY the side stories (Hildibrand is awesome), I enjoy to the fullest. I'm really looking forward to the next update to see where the Hildy quest line leads.