Quote Originally Posted by fusional View Post
agreed ^^^
I agree that they did a great job with the dialog overall.

My main gripe with it is I think it's being spread a bit too much to different characters. The only people I find to speak in a manner that indicates who they are or where they're from, are the pirate folk from LL. However, even among people in LL, there's still NPCs who speak with an eloquence or flourish that is not typical of that area, yet they're supposed to be from there. It just seems kind of jarring when you find a supposed pirate speaking in alliterations and using more complex words.

It's not that I can't understand what they're saying. It's that in many cases I've seen, it seems completely out of character.

In FFXI, each race had a distinct way of speaking that made them stand out immediately. People from San d'Oria spoke in an overall consistent way. Mithra spoke in a consistent manner (the "rrrrrrr"'s in their speech being a good example, among several). Tarus tended to be more alliterative or rhyming in their speech. Galka tended to be generally rather harsh and blunt in their speech... and so forth.

I don't see that as much in XIV. It seems more arbitrary. I see NPCs of all races speaking like you'd expect a Taru to. I see Lalafell speaking in a manner of ways. It just makes it difficult to establish any kind of collective personality or behavior for any one of the races, at least for me.

So, I guess in a nutshell, while I'm fine with the way some NPCs talk, I think I'd like to see it applied and used more consistently in the future.

That said, what the hell is going on in your signature pic, fusional? I mean, I can tell it's a spoof on something, but is that from some kind of DJ concert or something?