Quote Originally Posted by Nekodar View Post
But you didn't have anything in 2.x that was hardcore, when compared to Gordias and Midas.

People loved coil and coil difficulty. And they hate Gordias and Midas difficulty. How can it possibly be a bad thing if next Alex is going down to coil difficulty again?
Second Coil of Bahamut(Savage)

I would argue also that 2.0 did a better job working you into raids. 3.0 is you take on a ridiculously easy story mode, then take on a brutally challenging raid. No in between besides maybe one EX primal. 2.0 and 3.0's style is different. Its not so much about the difficulty, it is about how well you are worked into that difficulty. 2.0 made you take on Ifrit, Garuda, and Titan before going into Coil on their hard mode. First Coil worked you into Second Coil naturally and so on.