Quote Originally Posted by KisaiTenshi View Post
I think a lot of us are looking at it with nostalgia-tinted rose-colored glasses.

Such a bad phrase nostalgia-tinted rose-colored glasses, there where great features in 1.0.But it gets discared, swept under the rug, because 1.0 also had bad features and the elephant in the room was the copy pasted world . When ppl quickly want to trash 1.0 in explaining how it was bad they talk about the worlds copy pasted areas.

I would say "i think alot of individuals are looking at 2.0 and Yoshidas design philoshy, blinded by illusions of infatuation"
2.0 well designed world (visualy), bit small (very small world). It does however look very very nice. A shame all that hatred for the 1.0 copy pasted world doesnt translate into hatred for copy pasted content. Even greater shame that the new world is pretty, but useless no reason to be exploring in it. So we have this brand new world remade, with a theme park philosophy on all its content. But a world so empty and shallow, and we got flying so now its even more useless.

4.0 we dont even need a world just a picture of one that looks pretty. And lets add depth to the combat, lets add 5 more skills thats part of your rotation. That you spam away over and over til its muscle memory and brain is busy watching netflix on the side.

Combat not as fast paced as you might have belived. Modern mmos all use it, psychology you're constantly pressing buttons therefor your doing something important all the time. This game is fast because im pressing something all the time, if the buttons where made to only send you tells and make your character wave it would be just as important as that.

I hope that someday they will do something new and make something great, rather then copying content from Blizzard, bioware, arenanet and so on. Add more life into the world itself rather then putting everything in instances, and not F.A.T.E or Hunts. Fates and hunts are the same thing in terms of execution server roflstomp, mmos used to be an adventure in a dangerous world. Playing togheter with others, not just next to them at the same time. A world with substance, and combat with some thought and interraction with others. And no im not talking about the interractions we see now, where ppl only talk to berate someone, ask if they watched a guide, tell them to watch a guide, tell them to uninstall or just some ego stroking ilvl comparing contest.
No i mean interraction in terms of the combat mechanics, job x does something job y does something else this interracts and create rainbows.

Or we could rebrand the genre Massively single player online