Quote Originally Posted by Jandor View Post
It has been ages since I played it, but if I recall correctly I was turned off by all the info it just dumps on you in rather long and boring cutscenes. I guess maybe it's far more popular among tactics & XII players because that info is more like a refresher for them, but for me at least it felt like a lot of poorly presented contextless fluff.
I've played through Tactics and I didn't care for the rather long and boring cutscenes either, and not just because little of what I liked about Tactics was brought into FF14.
Half the time I was all "I know this, get to the point where I play," only for the playing to be strongarmed into an extended fetchquest to get overpriced wine for an unpleasant NPC.