Mob mounts. Do you want them? (Poll)

[Estellios]

As fun quests and adding flavour to different areas, and in PvP, then I really want mounts. It will add points of interest to the game.

As a replacement to chocobos, im not too sure. I think they look tacky.

Im still not too sure though. I imagine seeing 100 Gobbue riders running around and the game starts being WAY TOO CARTOONY.

The chocobos are pretty gimmicky too, but there is still a nobility to them. Gobbues and ahriman and all these other stupid things, again, are just ruining the artistic fabric of the game when they are implemented as personal mounts.

This is FFXIV, not fucking Pokemon.

They probably wouldn't be replacements to chocobos since they are getting entire systems added specifically for them so you could gear up, train and battle with them. Kinda like pokemon!

[ellohwell]

They probably wouldn't be replacements to chocobos since they are getting entire systems added specifically for them so you could gear up, train and battle with them. Kinda like pokemon!

Oh, so it's like a pet-battling side-feature where you mount the thing you're fighting on?

or are you talking about chocobos?

[Estellios]

Oh, so it's like a pet-battling side-feature where you mount the thing you're fighting on?

or are you talking about chocobos?

My bad I'm talking about chocobos. It was worded oddly.

[ellohwell]

My bad I'm talking about chocobos. It was worded oddly.

Oh... well even if chocobos arent replaced in terms of their value and importance, the mount system kind of serves no purpose then, other than to pollute the game with cartoony imagery.

[grandm]

Oh... well even if chocobos arent replaced in terms of their value and importance, the mount system kind of serves no purpose other than to pollute the game then with cartoony imagery.

at the moment the main reason for the mount's are to get you from A to B as fast as you can without using anima. i don't understand your view of cartoony. the game is final fantasy just coz something is not realistic don't make it out of place in this game

i don't really mind either way it will be nice to have something that shows i was here before 2.0 and a mount is the most visible way. but i can understand ppl not wanting to ride mobs

[Efrye]

[...] i don't understand your view of cartoony. the game is final fantasy just coz something is not realistic don't make it out of place in this game [...]

There's a difference between believability and realism. Compared to the current tone of the game, riding Ahriman and Goobbues is way too ridiculous to fit in with the rest - it's not believable. I guess that's what he means with cartoony.

Anyway, I actually like the beastmaster idea as well, that sounds reasonable enough. But something's telling me that it's not what they have in store for us at all.

[grandm]

There's a difference between believability and realism. Compared to the current tone of the game, riding Ahriman and Goobbues is way too ridiculous to fit in with the rest - it's not believable. I guess that's what he means with cartoony.

Anyway, I actually like the beastmaster idea as well, that sounds reasonable enough. But something's telling me that it's not what they have in store for us at all.

in a fantasy world. in any final fantasy, the player is only restricted by the imagination of the dev that create the content. if some1 had told you a year ago that a rock is going to fall from the sky and change th whole game as you know it. would this not have sounded ridiculous? i'm sure if we get mob mounts there will be lore to tie it in with the game