Crystal Tower

[Reinheart]

To be quite honest, from the pics and the TGS vid, the design of it to me looks at the very best boring o___o Purely talking about the aesthetics of what we were shown so far, but I guess I'll have to wait and see whar it ACTUALLY looks like once it's in the game. Dunno, judging by the exterior pics (which I loved) I was expecting something.... prettier?

you do understand that, those images were actually, ancients maze right? In original FF3 you had to go through that first to get inside crystal tower, they are doing same here.

[Nuinn]

you do understand that, those images were actually, ancients maze right? In original FF3 you had to go through that first to get inside crystal tower, they are doing same here.

Right, I do understand that and I am sorry to say that my eyes are not being pleased. Then again, when you have mobs swarming a 24-man raid I doubt I'll have the time to even pay attention to anything but the laser show.

[Kroktar]

they shouldnt wait for 2.1 to introduce CT :/ it was an initial content and now things are messed....people already with ilvl 90 and farming only AK for mythos its so annoying and so are monday AK queues.

[Voormund]

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Oh heavens, you mean to tell me they might have to actually do work?!? How terrible that must be for them!

It's not so much to do with the amount of work of "rendering" (and I doubt they'll need to render them since the source material already exists) and animating the physical models, it's lazy in the sense that instead of taking the time to come up with a dungeon that has some overarching tie-in with the story of this game or at least some form of original set of fights specific to this game they just pulled a dungeon from one of the old FF's that gives them the ability to pretty quickly pack in a bunch of bosses that have nothing to do with this game as an easy fix for those asking for more content. I liked FFIII, but if I wanted to fight those bosses again, I would just go play that. I was just hoping they would put more thought into something unique, not just essentially more filler content with no substance to it - I feel like there's plenty of that already.

But to burst your bubble a little bit there, there have been at least two 3D remakes of FFIII that I know of, and the mechanics of the fights won't be anything that isn't a variation of something that is already in the game so lets not get too carried away with the description of the process. Don't get me wrong, I hope I'm absolutely wrong and they blow me away with how cool this dungeon is but if all the dungeons are just going to be re-imaginings old FF bosses - I mean what's the point of even putting in the backstory of this game?

[Mikejconnor]

iirc the crystal tower is supposed to expand on the main storyline, probably why its being DF'd

[Sho86]

Don't get me wrong, I hope I'm absolutely wrong and they blow me away with how cool this dungeon is but if all the dungeons are just going to be re-imaginings old FF bosses - I mean what's the point of even putting in the backstory of this game?

It was mentioned a long time ago that they were going to throw a lot of old FF references into ARR, dungeons, story, certain fights, whatever. If thats really gonna bother you, might want to look for another game to play. I personally welcome the "rehashed" content. Its fun to fight old bosses with your own character years later after seeing it the first time in sprite/chip-tune format with different heroes altogether. My personal favorite so far was getting to see Demon Wall again. Loved the FF4 version, FF7 was barely a nod though, so this was nice.

[seekerofpower]

But to burst your bubble a little bit there, there have been at least two 3D remakes of FFIII that I know of, and the mechanics of the fights won't be anything that isn't a variation of something that is already in the game so lets not get too carried away with the description of the process. Don't get me wrong, I hope I'm absolutely wrong and they blow me away with how cool this dungeon is but if all the dungeons are just going to be re-imaginings old FF bosses - I mean what's the point of even putting in the backstory of this game?

It doesn't mess up the backstory. They have already mentioned that any fan service boss will have reason to be here. Maybe you never played FFIII, but the crystal tower exists outside time and space, and can cross dimensions, therefore, it can be easily explained why it would be here. Same with why Lightening can actually make sense here. Valhalla is the place between worlds.

[Kairgon]

I was of the understanding Coil was stronger..

So as I did. Until i saw the part of "Extremely Strong" Which got me curious..
Since you will be climbing the tower. Meaning as higher it get and it'd be stronger Obviously. And if they label as Extremely Strong, meaning some of boss from there could be harder than few floor of Coil of Bahamut is what I'm curious about.

I feel like i said it wrong... Sorry if its confusing grammar.

[Vod]

I want that "I BEAT TITAN" shirt that one guy is wearing in the first video.

[Yucie]

Oh heavens, you mean to tell me they might have to actually do work?!? How terrible that must be for them!

stuff about ignorance

They're not going to port DS models into one of the prettier FF games. They're going to remake, re-animate, and re-render the models as they should be - an FFXIV reimagine of FFIII bosses.

Plus, FFXIV isn't a turn-based game with an ATB battle system, or anything even remotely close to the handhelds. They'll have to reimagine the mechanics to work with the system already in place.