Crystal Tower - A Cinematic Experience or a Mechanical one?

[firepixiedarien]

I don't understand this thread. From what I've read this is what I can infer: that OP wants the game to look nice while still having good mechanics. Doesn't it? The game looks nice! (Though, I would like better innovative game mechanics.)

I'm having trouble where the correlation between having bad ass looking bosses and their mechanics is. The mechanics are fine! I'm starting to think your issue is with animations and not the mechanics, and that you're confusing the two. Because, when you think about Dark Souls all the bosses have simple mechanics, it's the animations that make them look cool and different.

Coil 1 is a snake that splits in half and has lil minions.

Coil 2 is floating ball.






Ultima Weapon has the power of all 3 Primals and shoots green laser beams of death at you like he's Dragonzord.

Titan smashes your face in with Landslide, shoves the Weight of the Land on everyone's shoulders, puts his foot down and tells everyone to shut up with Tumult, tosses bombs at you like he's Donkey Kong, traps one of us in a rock where he does unsavory things to you, then alluva sudden EARTHEN FRIGGIN FURY.

He does all of this, while only wearing a thong.

Allow me to reiterate: A snake, and a floating ball.

[MomoOG]

Coil 1 is a snake that splits in half and has lil minions.

Coil 2 is floating ball.




Ultima Weapon has the power of all 3 Primals and shoots green laser beams of death at you like he's Dragonzord.

Titan smashes your face in with Landslide, shoves the Weight of the Land on everyone's shoulders, puts his foot down and tells everyone to shut up with Tumult, tosses bombs at you like he's Donkey Kong, traps one of us in a rock where he does unsavory things to you, then alluva sudden EARTHEN FRIGGIN FURY. He does all of this, while only wearing a thong.

Allow me to reiterate: A snake, and a floating ball.

You realize all the turns in Coil are just a lead up to eventually fight Bahamut right? And the final battle in Praet (Thancred) is the most anti-climactic thing ever.

[firepixiedarien]

You realize all the turns in Coil are just a lead up to eventually fight Bahamut right? And the final battle in Praet (Thancred) is the most anti-climactic thing ever.

We don't speak of Thancred here.

[ReithDynamis]

We don't speak of Thancred here.

the primals fights are getting extreme version cause they are wupposed be a big deal again cause..... they are primals. bahumet is a primal. not the the snakes or the ADS and are not ment to br bosses but mini bosses. do u not understand the difference?

turn 2 is intense are u kidding? ball or not i guerenty u only saw a video and not actually been there yet have you.

why do u think you a quantifiable opinion when i know you have not done it?

[Pellegri]

and a crap ton of mechanics to "make up" for it.

Tell us exactly which bosses have a "crap ton" of mechanics in Coil outside of Twintania. Because it sure as hell isn't the 1st boss when it is literally move out of bad and bring 1-2 slimes into the boss before burning both bosses and forgetting about the slimes. The 2nd boss where you chose the mechanics you deal with and other than rot it is literally just tank swaps and move out of bad. Or the 3rd boss where it's a gauntlet event and once you figure out what each thing does all it is is a dps race.

I'd honestly expect coil like mechanics(outside of turn 5) other than something like rot, everything is extremely basic for understanding and it just gets easier as more people see it. If moving out of the bad and having the possible kill order on bosses is too hard then idk how much easier it gets than that, because that's already on WoW lfr level there.

[Shioban]

the primals fights are getting extreme version cause they are wupposed be a big deal again cause..... they are primals. bahumet is a primal. not the the snakes or the ADS and are not ment to br bosses but mini bosses. do u not understand the difference?

turn 2 is intense are u kidding? ball or not i guerenty u only saw a video and not actually been there yet have you.

why do u think you a quantifiable opinion when i know you have not done it?

ADS isn't exactly a visual spectacular I can agree with that point...

But it is fun.

[Mistoltin]

I think people who agree with the OP need to realize just where the Binding Coil of Bahamut currently stands, in respect to story and placement.
Just because level progression and gear progression takes us here after the mainstory, it doesn't exactly mean that it's a continuation. The Coil that you see now is just the start, so when you look at it with the belief that the Coil is similar to the entire levelling experience through dungeons, the first few turns are in similarity of the first few dungeons, placing wise. As the Coil expands and we venture further into it, I'm sure we'll begin to see larger and grander things, along with the Crystal Tower when that comes out.

[firepixiedarien]

And this is why games suffer from Spectacle Creep

So? We're not savages playing in 1990 here on pen and paper.

Plus, this is an MMO with the JRPG sub-genre. This isn't a Western RPG where your character has a choice in how he or she acts: to the Japanese, you either save the world while looking badass doing it or GTFO

[KyoKunChan]

To Funny and your sig video is funny.