Suggestion: Mount> Cloud's Bike

[Hollow_Tears]

It could come from the allagan empire for the lore and modified by cid and have him add in a simple booster or something like that to help make it jump.

[Leowilde]

NO! Please don't make this world even less unique. Eorzea was its own world in 1.0, now people from a dozen other games are flooding it, making XIV resemble Traverse Town in kingdom hearts more than a place of its own. And a big ass motorsycle, that Cloud from grim yet futuristic VII with its rusty metal theme used to ride, in the Shroud? No thank you!
VII is one of my favourite FF titles, but that doesn't mean I want it to infiltrate every other game out there. Let VII be VII, and XIV be XIV.

And yes, you may quote me on the traverse town statement. >: (((

[Leowilde]

I'll throw support behind it. Might be a hated opinion but I'd love to be riding around on a motorcycle. I mean, I've got a two-legged mechanical monstrosity already so it's not really immersion breaking at this point.

There's nothing wrong with a motorcycle mount, just not in this game. It simply does not belong here. It would be way better in the Secret World, where it would actually make sense. For the record I never really liked the magitec mount either, though it is incorporated in the lore well enough to work. It's also still a piece of clanky, quite slow piece of technology, not some fast paced futuristic device.

[Xzaral]

There's nothing wrong with a motorcycle mount, just not in this game. It simply does not belong here. It would be way better in the Secret World, where it would actually make sense. For the record I never really liked the magitec mount either, though it is incorporated in the lore well enough to work. It's also still a piece of clanky, quite slow piece of technology, not some fast paced futuristic device.

Fair enough. I guess for me I look around and it already seems silly to me at times. The goldsmith quest has that robot in it. The entire Garlean empire seems to use random technology with no reason to what's included. We have airships. The bomb balloon chair mount thing from the kobolds. The behemoth mount. Pretty much any quest that features a Lalafell. Plus motorcycles have been used in more Final Fantasy games than just VII (though that was the original post's suggestion I suppose).

[Black91CRX]

I'll take a Yamaha Vmax

[Uielyave]

The goldsmith quest has that robot in it. The entire Garlean empire seems to use random technology with no reason to what's included. We have airships. The bomb balloon chair mount thing from the kobolds. The behemoth mount. Pretty much any quest that features a Lalafell. Plus motorcycles have been used in more Final Fantasy games than just VII (though that was the original post's suggestion I suppose).

Mamets are actually about as far as we can get in terms of robotic technology, and they have Mamet Cores that allow them to have a bit of intelligence as well as emotion. It wouldn't work for a Motorcycle. Also, the Garleans arn't handing out their technology. The only reason we get the Magitek armor is because you essentially steal it.

I'd like more beast type mounts, and the ability to summon them as companions instead of just your chocobo. Giant burping Dodo mounts for everyone!

[JTribal]

Well, since there are no other motorcycles in the game I would say no. Maybe once they get added I could see it (still a stretch) but not really the best idea at the moment.

[IceWing]

Lore wise it would never happen, and would never meant to be in Eorzea. Was a stretch with Lightning (I felt Shantotto was more viable). If you want a "Fenrir" mount then....

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Yes, Please!

Actually XIV was stated to be a place where all the other FF's come together and there will be more content like the Lightning and Shantoto events someday. This is a possibility, however it is unlikely. We will more likely get some vanity gear like the Lightning event.

As for other sources of lore for this, Garleans could create bikes/motorcycles and we simply take their technology like we did the magitek.

the hell do you expect to do to make your motorcycle jump? Throw a ramp in front of it?

Simply make it shoot air out the bottom as a sort of exhaust

[Gramul]

That seems more like a 7/8/13/15 thing.
Most high technology in this world is bloated, industrial with a baroque facade, and belonging to the bad guys. You would need to heavily stylize it to make it fit. Something along the lines of 6, and even then it would feel like it's going very slow simply due to mount speed.

[Shougun]

I'd have to say lore wise it would make sense after a bit more time, we're definitely on a path where this could make sense and I'd argue that technically two civilizations at least could have done this already (Garleans, alive now - Allagans.. not so alive now).

Gramul's point is very good though.. it would feel slow until they up the speed at least or add some sort of sprint gimmick (special effects, zoom back a camera 80% feeling speed 20% speed boost.. lol)