SE where are the memorable memories?

[Blissa]

I played FFXI from 2004~2010 and I have so many fond memories of that game. I played this game since release and I don't even have 1 fond memory. This game is fun but you don't really need anyone for anything in this game.

Making people work together is what made memorable memories in FFXI. Having everything instanced keeps you from making any memories because you never see the same people for more then 30~40 minutes. I don't think this game is going to make 10 years like FFXI did.

[Milmoko_Gemoko]

you can see the same people and play with again though, theres these things called 'friends list' and 'free companys' dunno about anyone else but I have a nice time chattin and playin with my FC friend and even my RL friends who joined up
I also have memories of finally beating Garuda after me and a mate spent a week trying, same with finally beating a few other dungeons.

[BunnyChain]

1. First time stepping outside if Gridania.
2. Scholar quest line, summoning my Faerie for the first time.
2. My first FC and Coil static.
3. My current FC:
3.1. Buying our mansion.
3.2. Clearing turn 5.
3.2. Drama, etc. :P
4. Turn 7 petrifications. xD
5. Hildibrand Manderville.
6. There's more but you get the idea... :P

[Vladislav]

This is not FFXI , can't say more....

[Platinum_Disco]

yeah, why don't I get the feeling of nostalgic memories from this game, yet? I mean it's been, like, a whole 9 months.

[Elvin]

This is a different kind of game, Blissa. Enjoy it or leave it, that's all, and don't want to be mean with it I'll probably leave it soon too after my subscription ends.

If it will last 10 years or not, we'll see. There are fun games that doesn't give you any kind of "fond memorys". Manny people play counter strike year and years and years without any fond memory of it. They just have fund, wich is great.

Also ,there are things that need you to put the same people together. I mean, I'm sure that you have not defeated T9 if you are never playing with the same people. It may be a diferent kind of effort of the one you are looking for, but it is there.

[Amberion]

I'm sure that pretty much everyone who played FFXI in some way remembers their first run to Jeuno.

I wonder if people will have similar memory of anything from this game in 10 years.

This is not FFXI , can't say more....

So because it's not FFXI, it should not have memorable memories?

[Logo]

1st Jueno run was epic.
so much unknown.

[Rhas]

So because it's not FFXI, it should not have memorable memories?

No, people make their own memorable memories. Sure great cutscenes are awesome but not everyone views them the same way. I have plenty of memorable memories from the game.

If the OP doesn't find the experience memorable, that's not on SE but on the OP's personal view alone.

The OP seems to be trying to say that because there isn't much open world content (for his opinion) that its not memorable for him where we are forced into spending hours trying to find parties to grind the same group of monsters for 5 - 6 hours on end at a time, barring noone in the party drops and you have to sit and wait for a replacement.

Rose coloured glasses is how most of us view the past experiences we had that were good. But those past experiences can never really be replicated. Even if thy made this FFXI-2 it still wouldn't be the same experience as the first time you did it. People would all still be complaining about everything, just different things. Probably complaining that the game wasn't a new experience.

Games like FFXI in this current era is a pretty small niche group of gamers to be honest. Anyone who starts fresh today in XI would *not* have the same experience that those of us had on the US launch. In fact, they would probably get frustrated with it and quit unless they found a really good group of people with alot of patience to help that person get up to speed.

[JemC]

FFXI was born in a generation that had yet to get tired of mmo's. It's not this game, it's you. Marriage over. Welcome to the honeymoon. I daily see dynamics in FFXIV-ARR that I'm proud of. I think, "Wow, you devs and artists put some time and thought into this." Also, FFXI wasn't all as great as you remember. When you were in it you were just as bitchy about it. You're just peering thru the looking glass with nostalgia. Let's say SE makes yet another mmo and does everything everyone on these forums asked them to. You'd all be bitching about that new game and telling them how it should have been more like ARR. Your enjoyment of what's around you comes from inside you not from what's around you; assuming shiz isn't borked. This is about the smoothest running themepark I've played in years - more polished than anything else I've touched. That said, there is always room for improvement in anything.