Anyone Else Excited For New Expansions?

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Originally Posted by IStolzI

Ishgard new city

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This is unfortunately a pefect example of something already in Eorzea they had better work on before starting an expansion. The rest sounds good though, and I'd definitely love to see a time when the basic game is good enough that they can announce a cap raise, new story, and new classes/jobs, and want to pay $30 or whatever for it. It just seems so far off....

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Originally Posted by Seif

No Egyptian themed crap no Asian themed bs no mini-Romes or pseudo-Aztecs just really good ORIGINAL designs that SE is known for.

No need to "brainstorm" anything let them hire the people who designed the world for FF VII-XII and let them be creative without referencing the real world any more than they already have.

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Nothing new under the sun.

VII has one of the worst stereotypical "Asian themed bs" towns of any RPG out there. VIII's locales by and large resemble modern real-life cities. X's landscapes are pretty plain.

I'm sure a creative person could take an "Egyptian" theme and turn it into something fantastic, just like VII took a massive industrial city and made it unique, or VIII took the generic "Japanese magic school" and turned it into something a little different. Creativity comes on top of basic cultural and historical concepts, not from thin air.

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Originally Posted by Tsukino

This is unfortunately a pefect example of something already in Eorzea they had better work on before starting an expansion. The rest sounds good though, and I'd definitely love to see a time when the basic game is good enough that they can announce a cap raise, new story, and new classes/jobs, and want to pay $30 or whatever for it. It just seems so far off....

Nothing new under the sun.

VII has one of the worst stereotypical "Asian themed bs" towns of any RPG out there. VIII's locales by and large resemble modern real-life cities. X's landscapes are pretty plain.

I'm sure a creative person could take an "Egyptian" theme and turn it into something fantastic, just like VII took a massive industrial city and made it unique, or VIII took the generic "Japanese magic school" and turned it into something a little different. Creativity comes on top of basic cultural and historical concepts, not from thin air.

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totally agree. its just exciting to me what Yoshida will do when hes done cleaning tanakas mess. :)

Ishgard and Ala Mhigo are cities on the map that haven't been implemented yet. Maybe those will be cool.

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Originally Posted by MrKupo

Ishgard and Ala Mhigo are cities on the map that haven't been implemented yet. Maybe those will be cool.

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Ala Mhigo has been utterly destroyed by Garlemald. Once we do get access I expect it will be as a field or dungeon type area, either with imperial soldier mobs or random fauna that have found a home there since the Empire left.

There's another city on the map too, Sharlayan, which is where the main story NPCs for each city-state come from.

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Originally Posted by AuroraBorealis

well you could put in a Mayan or Aztec theme area close to grid..with the step pyramids overgrown with moss ect..I don't think it would look as out of place as an Egyptian style pyramid might look

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We already have Central American weapons and fruits. And not many RPGs really explore the culture any further than surfase level "jungle ruins".

yes please. let SE do what SE has done in the past and create new worlds to explore.
not that any idea is a bad idea!! :) Egypt, Asia, great-white-north. those have all been done before
in other games. give us some thing new and fresh. of course we'll have to visit the far east in the game
and the northern part of Eorzea. my hope is that they'll capture the same feelings i got when i first ventured into zones in 11 or even any other FF game. in 7 when i first got out of Midgard. i was like "whoa, theres a whole world out here!"
i was like wow , very cool, breathtaking, unforgettable. all these years later i still never forget that.

i have a good feeling SE will not disappoint

The classes now are western based, I'd love an eastern based expansion.

Rather they need to make this more playable. :P

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Originally Posted by Tsukino

They need to get some serious content into the base game before they even consider charging for an expansion. There are a ton of places already shown on the Eorzea map or that have connections to existing areas with NPCs standing around saying you can't enter. They can get to those before anything on another continent is added.

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Zones require alot of resources to make, and they will hugely increase the patch downloads, we will only get zones through patches that are already in the dats, or they have been working on for a bit and slowly give us in patches as they complete parts.

Zones tend to come in expansions because they are too big for downloads.

My dream expansion is one where we infiltrate the Garlean Empire and get to see these (hopefully) massive hi-tech cities and.... not sure besides that. >_> But I want to see Garlemald!!! Please don't make it another Tavnazia ;-;