Quote Originally Posted by R041 View Post
Do you like FF? I honestly don't know how to summarize the game really. Because you kinda can't. The gameplay in Retail with Trusts (Your NPC party) is more similar to oldschool CRPGs with a Final Fantasy skin than an old MMO. I feel like it's a mix of older Ultima games and Final Fantasy. It's not linear, it's both extremely wide, and deep - With that, it's also painful, confusing, cryptic, but extremely fun. I'd equate it to kind of a Souls-like in pain tolerance and reward. You need to pull your brain back to like 1993, not K-MMO era. Way further back than that.

Idk how, but it feels more like a pure mainline FF than XIV for me. But combat is roam / open world. So similar to XII.

I'm going to unlock Blue Mage right now, and it's a whole ass adventure just to get there. Then after I get BLU, will be a whole ass separate adventure getting spells.

Normal MMO NPC: "Can you go gather those 3 horse butts 10 feet away from me?"
XI NPC: "I need you to solve a rubik's cube, also I won't describe what a rubik's cube even is or how to solve it, and it's 4 zones away, and it's invisible.. (cutscene)"

There's so much STUFF, gear and jobs are unique. Places are interesting and scary. Nothing comes for free. Look both ways before you cross the street.

Oh, yeah and to answer your actual question - No, enemies are plentiful, zones are adventures with secrets, exp is very easy.

If you don't want an FF open world adventure, then it's def not for you.
Thanks for that, it actually painted a good picture of the game. It definitely sounds different from your everyday Ragnarok Online, and I can see the appeal somewhat. The issue I tend to have with cryptic questing, is that if I can't solve it in 10 - 20 mins, I just Google it up, or in the past I would have gone for a strategy guide, printed or GameFAQs I guess. Old School written guides and such. I don't think an MMO like this would be a bad idea inherently in today's market, so long as there can be a (somewhat) happy middle where you're not told outright what to do, but you're not also just.. left in the dark entirely. I don't think porting XI one-to-one would really be a good plan. I guess the next secret key for an MMO is finding a way to modernize that old school formula without going Theme Park.

Yeah, I can see the appeal. Thanks again.