I wanted a game and all I got were cutscenes

[mekia]

- The first 10 hours of dialog were tolerable. (Can I play the game now?)

- The next 10 hours of dialog I wanted to shoot myself. But I forced my way through it.

- The last 10 hours, I still wanted to shoot myself.

With 8 quests left of 2.55 I decided to look at the quest list HW held in store. 95 quests already - the same number I just suffered through.

Screw that, I'm done. I love story, but not THIS much story. I need some gameplay to break it up, for gods' sake! I wanted to see XIV's endgame, but no game is worth that grind.

Sorry, Square-Enix. It breaks my heart but I can't play this game.

Oh dude do not watch the last 2.55 cutscene it's sooooo bad.

[HighMarshal]

Am I the only one playing the game FOR the cutscenes and wishing they were all voice acted?
Its ruining my immersion man!

[T2teddy]

Oh dude do not watch the last 2.55 cutscene it's sooooo bad.

>.< don't tell him that! He won't have a freaking clue what's going on otherwise!

@Occam Razor
I have a few things to say to you...

This character was started as a break from the THREE characters I have on another world [levels 55/51/almost 51]
Those three had to walk in to Ishgard at ONLY level 50!
WHY in hell are you STILL only level 50?

I started this char about two weeks prior to the release of 3.0. She is just now going to head into the Shiva primal fight which will bump her to 52. Shiva is still a long way from the finale of the original ARR.

You've apparently returned to FFXIV less than a month ago, presumably after hitting 50 before you left. If you have been doing just the MSQs since you returned and are in the last section of 2.5x you should be higher level than me. Yes, cutscenes abound but have plenty of action in between.

Here you are whining about the gear you have been given which all MY chars on the other server had to run CT for a million times over the course of a YEAR, gaining NO EXP for a single thing we did in the game, for that whole bloody year.

Just get on with it man! Either that or go back to WoW, which btw I played for 8 years until WoD killed it for me. The only reason you get few CS in WoW is they create the Xpacs around each BOOK.

[Jacosta]

You're a "diehard FF fan", yet you complain about cutscenes? What the what?

[AskaRay]

Cute. No, but seriously. New expansion comes out, all my gear is 110 from quests. Why do ilvl 80 content when my gear is 110?

For serious I've run dungeons below me for glamor.
By "run" I mean do them about maybe fifty runs because the stupid item won't drop-

Anyway there are tons of reasons to.

[Ransu]

To be fair, the OP does have a valid point. I love this games story but the questing in this game is pretty terrible. Most of it is nothing but talking to NPC's with very little fighting. I spend more time running around than I do fighting. The story is enjoyable but this game is pretty terrible at finding a middle ground. I love this game and I can't wait to do some end game, but when it comes to story progression and questing I think swtor did a better job at balancing story scenes and actually playing the game.

[Lux_Rayna]

I dunno. I think the "gotta get to endgame" mentality doesnt work for an FF games. Final Fantasy has always been a text/story heave franchise. The end is designed to take awhile. Enjoy the story for what it is, and take a break from it when youre tired of reading.

Raise your chocobo, go to Golden Saucer, play Triple Triad, gather/craft, or just plain hang out. If you dont immerse yourself in the world itll be hard to have fun.

[Reinha]

OP, ways to pace your journey that benefit your main:

Level the alts needed for cross class skills.
Level the crafting and gathering classes that support your main.
Spiritbond high level gear and sell IV materia. Play the market.
Most importantly: get some nice glamour from level 50 dungeons, for example vintage AF gear.

Some a little less useful but still fun things:

Hildebrand quests.
Moogle mail quests.
PvP for the thrill.
Edit. forgot about Gold Saucer and beast tribes even though I do them almost daily!

It's your responsibility to pace yourself so that you don't burn out. If you reject all other things to do other than main scenario, you only have yourself to blame for things feeling monotonal. It's a direct result of your choice of playstyle. Heavensward has as much story as ARR had at max level, so there's no need to rush. I started in early access and because I haven't rushed I'm still leveling! It's a blessing imo, that we have a story worth hours of gameplay that doesn't revolve around orcs timetraveling into other dimensions.

[Onikimaru]

Am I the only one playing the game FOR the cutscenes and wishing they were all voice acted?
Its ruining my immersion man!

Aheeem. MY IMMEERSSSIOOON - Aniero

[FoxyAreku]

If this game has a lot of text or cutscenes to you, you clearly aren't a diehard FF fan.

You can pick out literally any other FF game after 3 and it makes the amount of text in this game look like a children's book.