Quote Originally Posted by Niwashi View Post
At least the different part is all isolated to the beginning of the game.

Levels 1-15 are all different quests (equivalent in gameplay execution, as Enkidoh mentioned, but different in the stories that are going on). Then the next few quests have just some slight dialog differences (mostly amounting to which NPCs will greet you as an old friend and which greet you as a stranger they've heard good reports about). And then there's a level 17 quest that will have different NPCs involved depending on where you started and which NPCs you met there. But then that's it and it's the same story from there on.
Yeah but the difference is not as tiny as like, just talking to this npc or that is it? I mean like in Gridania there was the whole thing leading up to the guardian tree fight, and in other areas there are different things. those are the storylines you miss out on though I'm guessing.