[Suggestion] replaying storyline quests and playing the questline from other cities

This suggestion is twofold:

1: I would allow players to replay main scenario quests once they have done them. The cutscenes are nice, and many (me included) can be interested in giving them another look after they are done with them.
After a main scenario quest is completed once, it should be repeatable, but it shouldn't offer any more rewards at the end. So the repetition should be available just for the fun of it.

2: After they completed the main scenario quests for their cities, player should be able to pay a certain fee to change citizenship to another city. That should open to them the possibility to restart the main questline, playing it from the point of view of their new city.
I understand there might be storyline discrepancies, but I think it would be beneficial, since the game, at the moment, doesn't have very many quests. It would add quite a few new and enjoyable ones with the expense of very little development resources.

1) I don't know about repeating the main storyline, but at least giving the option to view the (really awesome) cutscenes again would be nice.

2) Agree. Being able to swap and see the different city questlines would be awesome. That was something I liked about XI. Mostly because I generally dislike getting locked out of story content in a story-heavy game.

Though, the storyline appears to be far from complete thus far, so that might be something they'll add in the future.

What I'd really like are storyline quests that involve delving dungeons and fighting epic enemies. Rather than quests that are so easy a DoH or DoL can solo them.

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Originally Posted by Suzaku

1) I don't know about repeating the main storyline, but at least giving the option to view the (really awesome) cutscenes again would be nice.

2) Agree. Being able to swap and see the different city questlines would be awesome. That was something I liked about XI. Mostly because I generally dislike getting locked out of story content in a story-heavy game.

Though, the storyline appears to be far from complete thus far, so that might be something they'll add in the future.

What I'd really like are storyline quests that involve delving dungeons and fighting epic enemies. Rather than quests that are so easy a DoH or DoL can solo them.

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I completely agree

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Originally Posted by Suzaku

What I'd really like are storyline quests that involve delving dungeons and fighting epic enemies. Rather than quests that are so easy a DoH or DoL can solo them.

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Unfortunately the game is based on the premise that if someone wants to play DOH/DOL mainly/exclusively he still isn't locked out of the story.

I personally agree with that premise by the way. But don't worry, as you gain levels you'll see that the quest will gain much more epic proportions, if not in difficulty, at the very least in content. The latest story quest I played (rank 38) was REALLY epic, with the appearence of a old, big friend :D

More than anything else I would really, really, love a past cutscene viewer NPC. I don't mind waiting for it either so long as I know it's coming down the road.

Right now I've taken to recording the cutscenes just so I can re-watch them, and god forbid I botch a recording, there will be no way to view that cutscene again save leveling a brand new character. I've even created a few alts for the sole purpose of recording the other nation's cutscenes.

I fully support this, to make do I frapped all cutscenes in 1080p for my personal use, but in XI you had bards you could visit to review cutscenes and I'd really like this.

Wouldn't it be kind of tough to allow you to go back and do the main story quests from other cities though? It would clash with what you had already done. How would that work?

I didn't get to play FFxiv because I had started playing right when I had the money to build myself a new PC and wanted something that would test the limits, and when it released I didn't have a way to pay for the game monthly :( (22 now)

Handwaving and relying on the player to not care that he or she is technically stepping back in time because it was the player that actively and knowingly initiated the change. Kind of like "you knew what you were doing, so don't blame us if something doesn't make as much sense as you want it to."

Yea, that's kind of what they had to do in FFXI. They pretty much covered it by saying they would have to wipe your character's memory if you wanted to change allegiances.

A cs viewer could be added into the menu , i would be more for this rather than the golbin footprint system they used in ff11.

I agree with max, you can already see the "opening" scene in the main menu why not expand on that

Justification is pretty easy:

There's already an ingame story ability used for appearing in the past. From the dialogue, it seems like interactions are possible and it wouldn't conflict, since whatever's done isn't carried over.

Just use the Echo.

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Originally Posted by MaxWinter

A cs viewer could be added into the menu , i would be more for this rather than the golbin footprint system they used in ff11.

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yeah the goblin footprint system was rather inconvenient.

I agree with this proposition 100%. I was almost reluctant to create a forum post myself.

Allow players to replay all of the previously completed Main Story/Class Quests at any time by talking to a certain NPC in any given city.

Also, at the main menu when booting up the game. They should add a movie viewer for all the previously unlocked cutscenes in the games story and class quests.

Furthermore, I guarantee by the time we get more main story quests we all might forget about most of the characters in the story and important plot points by then. Unless of course your one of the few who have been recording all the scenes personally. it lends to us getting all the missions and scenes to replay again to catch up with where we last left off when new content is added.

Of course, after completing the quests the first time you can no longer earn sp, gil or any type of reward for completing them. They'll just be purely for enjoyment of the lore.

Yeah just use the echo to explain it.

I liked the goblin footprints lol, i agree that we should be able to repeat CSs

Was about to post a thread on this myself, and found this one to bump instead. I'd love to have a way to review past cutscenes and events in games- especially if your character appears in their current gear. And most especially for the ones that I've missed recording due to FRAPS deciding it didn't feel like cooperating.

I wouldn't mind it being from a menu or some sort of echo ability with a cooldown, or even the wandering bards that would charge you for the service in XI as long as its there.

I've seen a number of people put up all the main scenario quests and cutscenes on Youtube, so watching them again for content reminder's sake isn't an issue for me.

But what I WOULD like is to be able to get copies of the footage in high quality. Does anyone know where I might find such higher quality videos?

I just signed on to make a thread about this and it's good to see other people already started discussing it.

I'd like some way to replay cutscenes and animations for quests that were previously completed. Your character could be placed into the cutscene with the gear he or she currently has equipped.

There have been so many cutscenes where I noticed something that caught my eye and I really wanted to take a screenshot or video of it but it went by too fast for me to get a chance to.

I was thinking about this last night as I redid the R46 mission with a friend and wanted to record the super awesome cutscene but once we finished the battle I was teleported back to the camp while my friend got to watch the cutscene ; ;

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Originally Posted by Nephera

Yeah just use the echo to explain it.

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Interesting idea you brought up. once we get the ability to echo people, we should have the skill (in the form of a menu selection or something) added. That way we can like.... Echo ourselves and watch the cutscenes. Or echo other people and watch their cutscenes!

I really like the idea of an echo ability to watch past events and cutscenes.

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Originally Posted by Reika

...Or echo other people and watch their cutscenes!

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It would be really neat if they could do something like this as well. And it would take care of the other request in the OP - we could see the other city quests by watching them through someone else.