Samurais vs. Knights

[Vyncent]

The Samurai is a Japanese cultural icon of might and justice and all around awesome. It shares the same space as a Knight of medieval Europe and the Cowboy of the old west.

I was going to make a similar thread bit it was going to be more along the lines of Cultural hero's and villain's and how it might be interesting so see at least some of that put into the game.

Samurai vs Ninja ect. with more or less the goal of planting the idea that perhaps the American Cowboy or Gunslinger might be worthy of entering the pantheon of cultural icons that make it into eorzea

Interesting stuff. Reminds me of the sharpshooter cowboy from FFVIII. What a great cutscene that was, taking aim during the parade and watching the bullet come to a stop.

[grandm]

the game has a western feel thanks to the old dev team. the new dev team is making this game more and more final fantasy every patch. so in that sense samurai will not be out of place

[Orophin]

Just to add on to what others have said, Samurai has been around the FF scene for a while. FF5, FF6 (Cyan although he just seemed more like a Knight with a Katana), FF Tactics, even Auron from FFX sort of had a Samurai style to him.

If you had played FF11, you'd know that there was a Far East culture in the Kazham area where you were able to unlock Samurai and Ninja. There were pretty decent quests that revolved around both of the jobs from the unlocking of them to the obtaining the artifact armor sets.

[Ryans]

The reason Samurai and Ninja weren't out of place in FFXI is because they were released in an expansion that dealt with going to the east and discovering the secrets that it held. They weren't just thrown into the game because people wanted to play a Samurai, it had a back story behind it. If they want to introduce Samurai into FFXIV, it would have to come from a place where they are still practicing more ancient type of combat.

[zaviermhigo]

Referencing XI but vaguely, samurais were tied to the more asian culture influenced expansion. If they add the far east and they add a more asian feeling culture and city, you'll probably feel like they fit more. Right now we're in "Westphalia" as I like to call it.

[MariyaShidou]

Ul'dah is certainly not Western-culture themed, and it's the only city with a Guild for Sword wielder. Are you saying that Knight make sense more than Samurai here? Neither of them are. At the very least, Ul'dah local levequests for Blacksmith made it pretty clear there are countries to the further East of Ul'dah that had clashed with them before, and that they wield exotic blades.

[Dragon]

Because they all want to be Auron from FFX...

[Zenaku]

samurai is like saying knight but it's more eastern so i don't see the issue playing AOE 3 the main thing from japan was samurai and the other had diff type of warrior for there history.

So i think it's very fantasy like

[Vawn]

I don't understand the point of this thread. There is a large variety of jobs and classes that are in the game or will be in the game.

[Choyi]

One thing I always loved about FF series is the mixing of cultures, mythologies, lore etc from all over the world and adding its own twist to fit in each games universe.

Samurai will most likely be added like many other past classic FF jobs will.
And like in any previous game they will be fitting into the setting nicely, SE is quite good at that looking at past games.

Just cause your ideal RPG doesn't contain a certain class/creature doesn't make that the ideal RPG setting for everyone else.

Simply look at real life history, while there where Knights type warriors in the medival europe there existed Samurai type warriors in the far east.
XIV takes place in a fantasy world and the Eozera we know is just a small part of it, what says other continents we later explore must have the same culture, customs and style as the one we know of now?