Gridania Vs. Ishagard. Who won?

[Sephr]

By the way, Ishgard's dragoons are not dragoons in the FF sense.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragoon

It just means mounted infantry, FF added a new spin to it because of the oh-so-clever similarity with the word 'dragon' I guess.
The lore is pretty lacking right now, like most of the game it feels rushed and skimmed over, which baffles me considering how much lore (and even more so in its expansions) FFXI had. No idea what the hell Tanaka was thinking.

[Renegade]

The lore is pretty lacking right now, like most of the game it feels rushed and skimmed over, which baffles me considering how much lore (and even more so in its expansions) FFXI had. No idea what the hell Tanaka was thinking.

Honesty I've seen tons of lore, the problem is most of it comes in walls of text from sidequests and you have to kind of patchwork it all together which takes work. It really reminds me alot of the warring of the city states of ancient Greece. Many people though don't even read or do sidequests, let alone read the captions in the cut sequences, they just want pretty pictures with epic fights.

[Gath]

There's a lot of lore to this game, you just have to look for it.

[Anty]

P.S.: I doubt the developers know. That would require a fleshed-out timeline of historical events.
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They didn't even manage to flesh out the first round of holiday events.

and they don't know if they will have use for beastmen coins yet...

[Anty]

If YOU don't know, Azuryamber (if that IS your real name), no one will.

Most people just skim through NPC dialogue because they assume it's all pointless flavour text (the flavour being yuck).

yeah and it lacks good proper "next-gen" presentation. Or some voice acting including CS for the important stuff, which is... standard imo, especially with a game focusing on graphics so much.

[Sephr]

yeah and it lacks good proper "next-gen" presentation. Or some voice acting including CS for the important stuff, which is... standard imo, especially with a game focusing on graphics so much.

VA slows down the development of new content pretty dramatically, it's going to be a real bitch for SWTOR down the line. That said, for the more important storylines and quests we should get at least some.

[Anty]

VA slows down the development of new content pretty dramatically, it's going to be a real bitch for SWTOR down the line. That said, for the more important storylines and quests we should get at least some.

like i wrote, the "important stuff", things that get you into the lore, the main story, the "danger". VA compared to the CS creation isnt a lot to ask for. But if people are more involved by good CS and voice acting, they will also bother reading textwalls. If they left out the quest markers, where to go, etc. etc. but instead give us better stories and descriptions (with a journal ofc), people would have to bother reading. But then still... the quests would have to be much more interesting for people to even attempt them.

[Catapult]

Azurymber, I found myself "liking" each of your posts in this thread. You seem to be exploring the game and finding ways to enjoy it. You allow yourself to be entertained by side-quest lore expansion and don't expect the main story line to present everything to you on a silver platter.

Don't let anyone take that away from you! Better to enjoy the game for your own reasons than to hate it for someone else's.

While I don't have any answers for you, I share your sentiments on a different topic. I would like to know more about the city that existed before Ul'dah, which is alluded to in the Miner's Quest.

[Renshi]

Don't worry, Azury. Once Ishgard will be opened, you'll be able to talk to the crowd there and they'll give you the answers you seek =)

Just hang in there!

[Vahzl]

During the French Banana War, the Ishgardians would fly about on their magic carpets, firing rockets from their head mounted launchers at the Gridanians, because they don't trust the "little people". Gridania retaliated by stealing every left sock in the Ishgardian empire.

Thousands were killed.

Many boring years later, everyone was outside Ishgard killing raptors.

and they all drank lemonaaaade.

The end.