Swimming and underwater content?

[Veasna]

I'm against swimming. Swimming quests are annoying or doesn't anyone remember finding those stupid blue pearls anymore..(okay, most prolly have no idea what im talking about) Besides more often than not the animation seems seriously off anyways, i rather have them put their time to use in other departments. Like giving us better looking weaponskills..

[Balbanes]

Definitely in favor. But I wouldn't expect a swimming system until years down the road..

Same here. But I would love to see something similar to EQ2's system of underwater play. It's just awesome

[Balbanes]

In favor! !

Haha, nice

[Moth]

Only if it has a point... like spearfishing would be done underwater or something like that.

[Hitoriki]

Why? they have much more important thing to worry about before we should be asking before you new content. I just want the game to be actually enjoyable to play.

[Demoleon]

I'm against the idea of swimming.

However, I am totally one hundred percent in favor of underwater transportation (like how airships are for air, underwater vessels for water)

I too and 100% against Swimming and the Jump feature. Underwater travel into possible future underwater dungeons or ruins would be awesome though.

[Onidemon]

Why do so many people think WOW invented jumping and swimming? Or that it makes the game cartoony. Other ff games(FFX) had swimming and it was not meant to be cartoony.

[Galamantyl]

But underwear content? Bring it on.

We already have that. They're called subligars.

[Onidemon]

You are for underwater dungeons but against swimming? I have to say that a bunch of us walking at the bottom of the ocean is pretty bad ass. Swimming is for pussies

[Malakhim]

Why do so many people think WOW invented jumping and swimming? Or that it makes the game cartoony. Other ff games(FFX) had swimming and it was not meant to be cartoony.

Yes, but it made sense within the context of Spira/Zanarkand. Tidus and Wakka are Blitzball players, which is essentially water polo mixed with soccer. It makes sense that they'd have a high level of aquatic mobility and breathing due to their conditioning. Also if you'll notice, whenever you came to a pool of water in that game, you were automatically limited to Tidus/Rikku/Wakka, because it wouldn't make any sense for any of the other characters to have any sort of underwater ability.

Although it hardly made sense that Wakka's ball could move like that underwater, but that's a minor detail.