Quote Originally Posted by MasamuneBranford View Post
Memorization has been part of video games since the beginning. Like it or not - but being good at memorization is a video game skill. There are countless amount of people who love the Dark Soul's series and those boss fights are all about memorization. In fact, many people love FFXIV because it's one of the only MMOs that offers that old NES style memorization gameplay. Most MMOs you can be good at purely by playing a lot and earning the best gear. FFXIV actually requires you to have gaming skill. I for one enjoy it.
I wholeheartedly concur with this sentiment. There have been "Master Boss Patterns" since way back when in gaming. Try playing through Contra Hard Corps (Sega Genesis), BattleToads (NES), or any of the Megaman games. There are parts to remember in all of these games in order to get through them.

Memorization has always been in games, it doesn't surprise me that it found its way into this MMO.