Please stop trying to port 11 into 14

[NanaWiloh]

There has been fan service ever since AAR this not something new if your just realizing it now your late to the party as they would say. Bahmaut, Ifrit, Alexander,Cerebus, Omega, Darkness,Ultima weapon, etc all bosses from previous games you have been experiencing fan service this whole time.

[Skivvy]

There has been fan service ever since AAR this not something new if your just realizing it now your late to the party as they would say. Bahmaut, Ifrit, Alexander,Cerebus, Omega, Darkness,Ultima weapon, etc all bosses from previous games you have been experiencing fan service this whole time.

FF as a series has many staples that end up being used in various games, and that is to be expected. However, XIV has really gone out of their way to take so much more.

[splinter1545]

There has been fan service ever since AAR this not something new if your just realizing it now your late to the party as they would say. Bahmaut, Ifrit, Alexander,Cerebus, Omega, Darkness,Ultima weapon, etc all bosses from previous games you have been experiencing fan service this whole time.

Half of those are just part of the FF mythos, really. It's more along the lines of Ivalice, Exdeath, Kefka, etc. that people are talking about. It would be more of a surprise if Bahamut, or the other iconic primals, weren't in a Final Fantasy game.

[NanaWiloh]

Half of those are just part of the FF mythos, really. It's more along the lines of Ivalice, Exdeath, Kefka, etc. that people are talking about. It would be more of a surprise if Bahamut, or the other iconic primals, weren't in a Final Fantasy game.

As I said already there has been fan service since ARR, SB is not doing anything that has not already been done. But lets get back to what the thread is about adding FF11 content to FF14

[Alexandre_Noireau]

There has been fan service ever since AAR this not something new if your just realizing it now your late to the party as they would say. Bahmaut, Ifrit, Alexander,Cerebus, Omega, Darkness,Ultima weapon, etc all bosses from previous games you have been experiencing fan service this whole time.

There is a distinctive diference between paying tribute and respecting your predecesors. Implement them in a way they don't feel out of place, have a proper reason and grounded lore that explains them. Most of the content of ARR follows a very specific design that makes it well implemented to have things like Crystal Tower.
And then you have just basic, uninspired, cheap fan service shots. Like the out of nowhere aparision of Kefka or Ivalice, and even if they attempted to join them to Hydaelyn, at least for the first two tiers of each, they just felt so uninspired, so insipid, so out of place, with little to no more than "This is a dimensional BS, that is reason good enough."

Ivalice certainly picked up in it's last part, and honestly so did Omega, but only because both were episodes MUCH, MUCHISIMO MORE connected and grounded to the Lore, and with the end of Ivalice as of 4.5, that storyline is rather significant for main scenario developments which is kinda many have been asking for in a long while.
Stormblood felt almost as if it was a filler arc on an anime in MMORPG form. Everything mayor development was kinda put on hold for the sake of minor narratives, many of them Othard related, that if the game was more focused in its design and resource managment, could have been avoided. In fact, many characters feel like terrible bland filler episode ones, Ex.1 Lyse.

I just hope this filler expansion ends soon, so we retake the main plot once and for all, which it seems to be doing.

Othard and most of SB content, are so irrelevant from the main scenario perspective really, we should have have only got Ala Mhigo, focus on unifying Eorzea, then be beaten and forced to seek new allies (5.0 should have been othard) and finally topple the empire. But now, we got tangled with random events that just now are starting to close in, way too long and spread. I hope Shadowbringers is a much more focused, less time wasting narrative experience.