Game Design Concepts that the Devs and Playerbase has Forgotten

[ThorneDynasty]

Garlean Roe, Zenos 1, Zenos 2, Naadam, Infiltrating the city... That's 5 fights. 5 fights in, what, 12 hours of cutscenes? This is not my idea of action-oriented game design. It was, what, an hours worth of gameplay? The rest of the time is spent sitting back, reading, watching cutscenes, and walking from one place to another. I guess it doesn't come as a surprise to me that expansions are just more of the same - plot in lieu of gameplay.

Those are just the ones that immediately come to mind, jesus. We fought the roe multiple times too. And I'm fairly certain we had solo duties in Kugane and the back half of Ala Mhigo too, and a lot more combat in general in the non-instanced quests.

This is an expac I played years ago and I can still remember more than I can from the one I just finished.

EDIT: Oh and as I think on it a bit more, yeah, we had the Namazu-napping in Kugane, Fordola bossfight, the wolfman fight before the battle for Ala Mhigo. Again, just from memory and only counting solo duties specifically.