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

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.