Quote Originally Posted by Ceasaria View Post
With CD reset, maybe we can expect trash for the last floors of Alexander Savage (even after wipe ^^)
What annoys me, is that they've kinda got it right with the 24 man raids? I guess Faust worked as a mini-boss (although he doesn't hold a flame to the original ADS IMO), but then A2 just had some goblins standing around to mow down... In Weeping City, even the trash tended to be an event itself... Crocs jumping out of the water, buildings falling down as you kill stuff, even some more mechanically interesting trash... Were it not for the fact that they're complete jokes, the 24 man raids would be pretty amazing... Instead, the difficulty of those instances is such that I sometimes go in just to see what I can get away with... Machinist using Split Shot and literally nothing else? Sad thing was, I wasn't even the worst person there, since I actually dodged mechanics/etc....

Like I said though, Coil did this a lot better than Alexander... Alexander is very claustrophobic with very little going on, and savage actively skips stuff IIRC... Coil didn't do a lot with its trash, but the levels did at least invoke a sense of grandeur which informed the story well... Fighting on Bahamuts hand was much more impactful than fighting in Alexanders... I expected Alexander to be more of an antagonist, instead he is solely a setting...I expected to be fighting my surroundings just as much as the bosses, given I'm meant to be inside a Primal... I think A4 was the only time I ever got a sense of that... Could have done a lot of that with the level design, but instead there's just none of that...

I guess ultimately it's a budget issue... Although I really don't think that works as an excuse when I not only see the crap they put in the cash shop, but see as many people in game buying that crap... I was never bothered by the loss of the third dungeon (because dungeons are crap) in favor of the developers trying new things (although Diadem was one of those new things... Jesus Christ...), but I guess I really should have been... Where is all the money this game must be making going? They should be hiring new staff to work on more stuff, not cutting corners... Oh right, our subscription fees are funding a Final Fantasy VII remake... yay...