What's your opinion about the game's story?

[Katana190]

Actually I'mma go more in detail. I don't care that my character doesn't talk ingame. I care that my character doesn't ACT in game movies. I hate that npcs can do all this crazy Street Fighter Anime battle crap but my character stands there like a little princess waiting to be saved. I'm the goddammed WARRIOR OF LIGHT! I save YOU! you don't save me. That is my issue with the story. Let me feel like the BA I'm posed to be. IF that means more solo instances where I have to actually fight things then bring it on. I'm posed to be the BAMF of this plot.. LET ME BE THAT. Show me, stop TELLING me.

Idk, I would love for our characters to actually do some combat in CS's rather then just standing still or unsheathing your weapon and just stare at the enemy and let someone just hop in front and protect us... because that literally happens all the time. Now obviously it would be hard to make every job do a unique action, so just give our character a universal weapon, I think the best go to weapon in that case would be a Sword of some kind, I don't think a Mage using a Sword in a combat scene would be too unorthodox if a certain ACN uses one. Just my opinion though, would make our characters feel a lot more alive.

[cammi]

Post limit REALLY needs to be sued

Naw they can use our job weapons. If they can put enough animation to have them pose in the battle stance then we can fight in the CS, there is no excuse SE. NONE. I mean it wouldn't even be a BIG change, it'll make our characters more believable being he BAMF they are and make the story more fun. They really should try it. Lets yell at SE to make this happen, I believe we can do it.

[Katana190]

Naw they can use our job weapons. If they can put enough animation to have them pose in the battle stance then we can fight in the CS, there is no excuse SE. NONE. I mean it wouldn't even be a BIG change, it'll make our characters more believable being he BAMF they are and make the story more fun. They really should try it. Lets yell at SE to make this happen, I believe we can do it.

Don't get me wrong, I would love for my character to do some crazy warrior stuff like the WoL does in the End of Era ARR Cinematic trailer, BECAUSE THAT S**T IS FREAKEN COOL. The only problem with making every Job do something unique is there are 13 jobs to cover (At the moment! With more to come, even if they did this in 4.0, more jobs in 5.0, they would need to backtrack and re-do the scenes for the newer jobs.) And if they did a really cool animation, people would be complaining that they want the said animation as an ingame skill.

Of course there is the solution of us just doing pre-existing skills like if it came to your character fighting multiple enemies they would do an AoE from their toolkit which is most fitting, or a when it comes to single target combat they would do the most flashy one, Royal Authority from PLD for instance. The problem with this is it would either come out really cool or really lame, but I think the latter as CS's have impact to them. Take one of the most recent CS's, where the Paladin of Darkness charges at us and Thancred steps in, rather then Thancred stepping in, we defend ourselves. As a MNK you would do something like the Forbidden Chakra, which sounds cool on paper but would probably come out lame.

BUT, if our character just used a Sword, which is a pretty iconic weapon, they could really pull some amazing scenes off with our character and have as much creativity with that as they want. Just my opinion though, I don't disagree with you! Just saying it would be hard to do, not like we shouldn't expect SE to not work hard! But yeah, just my 2 cents.

Edit: I'm sure you've watched it. But just for reference, this is how awesome the WoL fights as a WAR. Starts at 1:45: https://youtu.be/39j5v8jlndM?t=105

[cammi]

[QUOTE=Katana190;3907247] :O [QUOTE]

If my character did the FC at that moment I would've been hyped. I get what you're saying about it might come out lame, but wouldn't a stock sword do the same thing? In context that could work and the FC could work too. I would've been happy if my character busted out a FC at that moment shocking the WOD and making him jump back. And it's simple why, because it'll show why I'm the GD WOL! Hell at this point I think both our ideas would make the playerbase happy... cause then we'll be doing something and stop being pretty princesses needing to be saved. :C But trust, I know where you're coming from.

[Katana190]

If my character did the FC at that moment I would've been hyped. I get what you're saying about it might come out lame, but wouldn't a stock sword do the same thing? In context that could work and the FC could work too. I would've been happy if my character busted out a FC at that moment shocking the WOD and making him jump back. And it's simple why, because it'll show why I'm the GD WOL! Hell at this point I think both our ideas would make the playerbase happy... cause then we'll be doing something and stop being pretty princesses needing to be saved. :C But trust, I know where you're coming from.

I think it would just boil down to what skills they use, thinking back. I'm sure doing the Forbidden Chakra at that point would look pretty amazing!

[cammi]

I think it would just boil down to what skills they use, thinking back. I'm sure doing the Forbidden Chakra at that point would look pretty amazing!

Yeah. Agreed. Soo about rising up and yelling at SE to make this a thing.....you in? I'll bring icecream.

[Katana190]

Yeah. Agreed. Soo about rising up and yelling at SE to make this a thing.....you in? I'll bring icecream.

Sounds fun