Dawntrails doesn’t feel like Final Fantasy

[Snorky]

Theyve been teasing us lands and continents beyond Eorzea, Ilsabard and Othard so us finally visiting the New World is both refreshing and appropriate for me.

Im a fan of South American culture so Im personally interested in it. I honestly didnt want for us to have another Shadowbringers 2.0 already. Let us explore the entirety of Etheriys first

I agree, I think it would be awesome. SA needs to be showcased too.

[DrWho2010]

They need to make the game 100% the way I want. Screw everyone else.

FTFY

Also devs make the game they want to make too. They can't just grab everything from the suggestion box. That would be a horrible game.

[Nebelheim]

I feel if they kept dawntrails strictly to the continents we have already visited it will feel the same as what we been getting with the same desert/semi-tropical/snowy or more Asian inspired environments if the expanded more on the island kugane is on or nagxia. The new world i hope will allow them to get a lot more creative with the south/central/north America aesthetics from pre-colonial times. I'm also liking the ff11 and ff10 vibes with the tribe that looks similar to spirans from ff10 and the mamool ja which looks to be drawing somewhat from ff11 lore.

[MikkoAkure]

Also devs make the game they want to make too. They can't just grab everything from the suggestion box. That would be a horrible game.

At this point I think he's hoping that SE will notice him and offer him a job. There's no other good reason for his continuing to return with these long drawn-out posts of his own vision of the game year after year.

It's unbearably dull even moreso when the underlying design philosophy for FFXIV's world nowadays is oh look this irl region is here so lets make it look like that instead of trying to be creative like they used to.

I'm not even going to start with your "Timbuktu aesthetic" and "developing world needs colonialism to be interesting" takes, but almost all fantasy is based on existing cultures. You're just focused on the "default" setting where the lion's share of fantasy is based on a 1:1 of medieval Europe.

DT's direction isn't from nowhere either. The End of Endwalker had Emet-Selch go on about things we haven't seen and we need to get out there and explore while the entire plot of the patches was kicked off by us trying to be normal adventurers again and looking for treasure on a map. The old plot has finally ended and the developers are finally free of most of the baggage left over from the original premise of 1.0 and can do something new. I'd rather have an expansion that goes back to "adventure" featuring fantasy versions of cultures that generally don't get representations in fantasy than to be chained to the old story yet again and deal with the same old problems or their repercussions and it's apparent with this new direction that the developers feel the same.

The game already appeals to a broad variety of tastes. Y'all are saying you want the game to appeal to a broader group, but you just want it to appeal to your specific individual tastes regardless of what anyone else or the developers themselves want. Every expansion has had dark moments as well as comedic moments scattered throughout. Even your beloved Heavensward has a commercial break where we have to please the cartoons in between segments of our gritty camping trip with the elves who despise each other and the other expansions all do the same thing. I'm not sure what you're looking for unless you just want knights beating serfs while complaining about political factions we don't care about.

If you don't like it, then feel free to wait until the next expansion that you care about and story skip.

[DPZ2]

Unless he can read/write and speak Japanese, he'll never get a job offer.

Writing an FFXIV fanfiction piece in Japanese might get him an initial interview. Although if it's the Garlemald piece, maybe not.

[IkaraGreydancer]

It's odd to speak about what "feels" like FF when we haven't gotten our hands on DT at all. FF1 feels vastly different to FF7 that feels different to XIV that feels different to XV. All still very much FF games. What I suspect "doesn't feel like FF" means is "not what I want to see". Also it's funny folks here make a bigger deal out of food than the game does. New lands means new locals, new people, new food. It's the same irl so chill tf out lol

[Avatre]

Honest question here Aveyond....why do you keep coming back to this game, if you decide you need to rewrite the story of it to fit what you want? Wouldn't it be better to invest your time, and money, in a different game that fits with what you are looking for?

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

FFX is likely number 1 for my favorite Final Fantasy in the series next to FF VIII, so tbh I wouldn't mind going to Spira for some reason. (forgive me I still have to go through the pixel remasters)

-Weird Fanboy scream because Im a (-Blatant-) FFX Fan-
Going to Spria or taking inspiration from FFX would be Interesting. I feel like that could be the "Summoners" expansion and should heavily Reference the Fayth. I think it might also abit religious if they lean to heavily into FFX, but of course they will take some Creative Liberties.

Seeing Besaid, the Calmlands and even Zanarkand (Final Zone?) would just be amazing.

[Themarvin]

But it is, and hopefully FFXIV is switching entirely over to a Baldurs Gate alike gameplay with some more twists...

[Shurrikhan]

But it is, and hopefully FFXIV is switching entirely over to a Baldurs Gate alike gameplay

You want to wait for 7 other people to hopefully not have nodded off so you can once again make your next "Attack" and "Shove" command before waiting a minute for your next spec of gameplay?

Don't get me wrong; I like BG3... but there's no way its gameplay belongs in an MMO.