Not enough stuff to get me emotionally invested

[Betelgeuzah]

Half true, i can understand not revealing all of the story, but so little ? really ? you get to R50 and nothing ? not one villain ? Lmao!

http://www.ffxivcore.com/index.php?a...attach_id=6906

Not a siiiingle villain. Not even close. Nope. 50 ranks and.. n o t h i n g a t a l l.

And that guy > shadow lord, anyday.

[Leowilde]

I see your point - look at the latest single player FFs. I still hasn't finished half of FFXIII, and I used to be so eager about the series before. But as we all know, online games work somewhat different, and I have been more than thrilled with the storyline of FFXIV so far. I only wish there was more of it; more sidequests like the class quests to flesh out between the main storyline, for example. It's easy to get cut off the story when spending too much time solely on grinding and doing leves with no cut scenes.

[Alcide]

http://www.ffxivcore.com/index.php?a...attach_id=6906

Not a siiiingle villain. Not even close. Nope. 50 ranks and.. n o t h i n g a t a l l.

And that guy > shadow lord, anyday.

Damn, that CS is so cool *-* You can tell that both the villain and the good gang have the potential to be amazing characters.
And Papalymo and Yda... <3

[Ostia]

http://www.ffxivcore.com/index.php?a...attach_id=6906

Not a siiiingle villain. Not even close. Nope. 50 ranks and.. n o t h i n g a t a l l.

And that guy > shadow lord, anyday.

Grahf ? Really ? We dont know if he is a villain, for all we know he can be one of those tragic/villain/hero NPC that gets in your way and in the end was trying to save the world, or he can be a real villain or whatever, the point is, WE DONT KNOW ***, about him or anybody in the empire, 50R of gameplay and all we see is a grafh look alike and thats it

[Corrderio]

Actually I would dare to say that the rank46 mission signs the start of the real storyline

Pretty much, remember how useless most nation storylines were until about rank 4 or whenever you go for Magicite? Outside of the dragon/ahirman fight there wasn't any hint at the Shadow Lord.

[Betelgeuzah]

Grahf ? Really ? We dont know if he is a villain, for all we know he can be one of those tragic/villain/hero NPC that gets in your way and in the end was trying to save the world, or he can be a real villain or whatever, the point is, WE DONT KNOW ***, about him or anybody in the empire, 50R of gameplay and all we see is a grafh look alike and thats it

The point is that you are trying to make up *** to diss the game, and are failing horribly at it .

[Ostia]

The point is that you are trying to make up *** to diss the game, and are failing horribly at it .

Making up *** ? Really ? So tell me, who are the villains of the game ? what motivation should i the player have to seek them out and destroy them, oh please do tell me what that grafh look alike is, and what is he doing, what is his part on the plot ? is the THE VILLAIN or is he an underling ? Is he even a villain ? whats his background ?

As i said, we dont really have a villain, grafh came out, had a cool CG and left that was it, thats hardly enough to say "OMG HE IS DA BAD GUY" Specially in a FF game, when many times, the cool looking mean guy, ends up being on your side, just not a goody good guy, nor a supreme villain(Seifer for example :P)

[Cairdeas]

I wrote an Op-Ed about this on Eorzeapedia a while back discussing more the Interaction with individual NPC's, Cutscenes and side quests.

http://www.eorzeapedia.com/2010/12/2...-to-the-world/

[Arcell]

http://www.ffxivcore.com/index.php?a...attach_id=6906

Not a siiiingle villain. Not even close. Nope. 50 ranks and.. n o t h i n g a t a l l.

And that guy > shadow lord, anyday.

Limsa Spoilers R15

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egh3lxTp_cM

9:40

Don't forget the guy from the Limsa storyline who stole the key to Seal Rock and stored it in his body via darkness. You can't tell me he wasn't evil, just look at him!

[Randis]

woops, double post