Primal Mounts As Chocobos Instead Of Horses

I feel like SE really dropped the ball on this one. One of the FF mainstays are chocobos but for whatever reason they decided we should have a plethora of horses. I just think about how amazing it would've been to see chocobos with the same effects as the primal mounts running around and how many people would REALLY want them over a horse in a FF game, I can't be the only one.

So with this not being likely to happen, I really hope to at least see a special "Gold" chocobo that has the "shimmer" effect from the primal horses hair around the ENTIRE chocobo to make it really stand out. Not necessarily the effect around the feet since that is more exaggerated.

Whether it is a long term Veteran Reward or a really special prize from Gold Saucer I hope at least something unique like that is implemented in the future.

I am really fine with horses, like the frontline mount. An actual horse with body armor, that's cool.

However, rainbow unicorns I have no clue why they even exist. At the moment, they are just a trophy drop so you can brag you have it. Most people I know say they like that they have it, but not particularly fond of them. However, this is subjective, I'm sure some people like them too. I just personally think mounts like the frontline horse, the ahriman mount and the dyeable chocobos looks much more "normal" in a fantasy game.

I mean, where do these rainbow unicorns came from anyway. Some parts of the world outside Eorzea, but dunno, it just came out of nowhere.

But these primal mounts are created from sacrificed Nightmares. So you're saying you want poor chocobos sacrificed?!

Good kweh to you sir.

Year of the Horse, anyone?

Gimmie a dragon

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Originally Posted by SkylerStorm

But these primal mounts are created from sacrificed Nightmares. So you're saying you want poor chocobos sacrificed?!

Good kweh to you sir.

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bb...but..

I said GOOD KWEH!

To get the cool gold chocobo you need to trade the 5 primal horses(not counting nightmare).

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Originally Posted by chocomaid

I am really fine with horses, like the frontline mount. An actual horse with body armor, that's cool.

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Yes please. I just can't stand doing Frontline for 100 wins just to get it.

I think they should make Primal Barding, like they did with Leviathan. :B

Get rid of horses?
I say neigh.

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Originally Posted by kyuven

Get rid of horses?
I say neigh.

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"But, your precious horses are just unicorns with a big empty forehead!"

Sorry, I couldn't resist. ;)

Seriously though, I like the unicorn mount for levelling CNJ, and even the nightmare one is really cool looking, but yeah, it is now starting to get a little ridiculous with instead of getting interesting new (non beastmen) mounts, all that's been added are just pallette swapped horse mounts. And yes, this is Final Fantasy, chocobos should be taking priority over horses (in fact, the game's story even eluded to the fact that Eorzea's geography is better suited to chocobos than horses). But I digress...

Actually I agree SE did drop the ball with horses and especially unicorns - seriously its Lore breaking of an epic kind imo.

So far as I can telling having played VII through to XIV:ARR [including the awful X-2 and the better (than X-2) XIII-2] they havent been horses or unicorns in the FF series before, so it just seems really weird that after 25+ years they'd suddenly include them.
I understand (and love) that FF borrows from mythology, old relgions and even the real world for its summons/primals/monsters etc but its fantasy creatures have usually been original and unique to FF like the Chocobo and Moogles, so why suddenly include a real world mount (Horse) and a popular (cliche'd imo) fantasy creature like the unicorn?
Seems like a weird attempt to normalise the FF universe to first time players lol. I mean sure I thought it was odd at first when I played VII and found myself riding on a giant chicken but I figured 'hey its got 'fantasy' in the title so just go with it' :p

I'd prefered some kind of special chocobo or a dragon, or some cool mini-version of the Primals to ride a round on instead of unicorns.

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Originally Posted by Milmoko_Gemoko

So far as I can telling having played VII through to XIV:ARR [including the awful X-2 and the better (than X-2) XIII-2] they havent been horses or unicorns in the FF series before, so it just seems really weird that after 25+ years they'd suddenly include them.

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There are Mad Pony enemies in the first area of the original Final Fantasy and Nightmares in later areas, and zero chocobos so-

That being said, what's wrong with primal-based choco barding? The drop rate on primal crafting items may be low but it's much higher than the horses. Though I suppose it would be nice to have barding retroactive to the older primals too (and primal-theme armor).

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Originally Posted by Jeykama

There are Mad Pony enemies in the first area of the original Final Fantasy and Nightmares in later areas, and zero chocobos so-

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Not to mention, there was a whole quest event about horses that explained where there are horses and why there are horses.

SE didn't have to give us any kind of mount for rewards, just sayin'...

I don't want primal chocobos~ but Primal Chocobo armor~ Yes please.

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Originally Posted by Anarnee

I don't want primal chocobos~ but Primal Chocobo armor~ Yes please.

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Leviathan barding, it's a thing, and it looks pretty awesome :D

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Originally Posted by Nyhmrae

Leviathan barding, it's a thing, and it looks pretty awesome :D

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Yeah, but we only have Leviathan and Ramuh barding, you'd think by now Titan, Garuda and Ifrit would have their own too!

I don't use any mount other than my chocobo. I might use a normal brown or black horse if they ever gave us one, but all the horses have stupid looking glow effects or are draped in ugly clunky armor.

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Originally Posted by Anarnee

Yeah, but we only have Leviathan and Ramuh barding, you'd think by now Titan, Garuda and Ifrit would have their own too!

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Da fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuq!? I didn't know about the Ramuh barding! O_O But yar, it would be nice to see barding from the rest of the primals, too :3.

My personal chocobo "Karma" (that's his name), would be very sad if I had another chocobo friend. :( I'd never cheat on him!

Why should you get a chocobo mount as a drop...of all things? I think it's for the reason that chocobos *are* our special friends that they aren't mere drops. That would kind of cheapen them... cause we all know that some derpy person that was dead most of the fight is gonna win it anyway! :P (if you saw SE's 8bit Titan video you know what I mean.... lol)

They are our pals, we *all* get one. If you would like a glow or shimmer effect for a chocobo, how about like a special barding that gives them that effect?

We can already dress them up in barding and dye their feathers.... rename them whatever... level them up even and buff them... adding some glowy effect sounds like very little extra trouble.

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Originally Posted by Cherie

We can already dress them up in barding and dye their feathers.... rename them whatever... level them up even and buff them... adding some glowy effect sounds like very little extra trouble.

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Wrong. What may seem minute to us may very well actually cost a lot of time and effort by the dev teams to implement. I'm not attacking you, love, just pointing out that even the smallest things take a lot of time to work on.