Alpha Video 4- Quests and Battle

[Chardrizard]

Yes everyone prefers FFXI style quest where it doesnt tell you where the NPCs are or their position, i am sure you are very skilled person because you browse quests guide at websites. Theres reason people doesn't do quests in FFXI, nobody knows which npc gives out quests and they make u walk somewhere unknown without guide, in the end everyone just go to zam or somepage for walkthrough.

Real skill.

[madolyn]

looks good but naturally a few minor gripes.

- the big "QUEST XXX" text across the screen and jungle it plays seems annoying.
- floating / scrolling combat text, hope it can be turned off or modified at least.
- "targeting rings" under the mobs + giant arrow overhead seems unnecessary

other than that i'm liking it.

[Coombah]

I like it so far it would be cool if the exp earned fell a little faster and you could see it added when it reached the exp bar

[Zumi]

So you are saying you like someone to hold your hand while you do a quest? Thats what it sounds like. This is easy mode and there's no point in playing if everything is handed or if you are exactly told where to go. I really wouldnt call this MMO standards I call it baby mode.

So you prefer FFXIs don't give you any direction, no problem open up ffxiclopedia to tell me were to go.

[Venat]

New ffxiv stuff here, vid related.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...413#post914413

[KiriA500]

So you are saying you like someone to hold your hand while you do a quest? Thats what it sounds like. This is easy mode and there's no point in playing if everything is handed or if you are exactly told where to go. I really wouldnt call this MMO standards I call it baby mode.

So, you're telling me you have never once gone to a third party website for assistance on a quest? Every single thing you did in FFXIV you figured out on your own with no help from others?

If not, shut up. Having no direction at all is terrible game design.

[urban]

Thank you for sharing this Vid with us im watching it atm while typing.
Great stuff SE keep it up!

[Wolfie]

So you are saying you like someone to hold your hand while you do a quest? Thats what it sounds like. This is easy mode and there's no point in playing if everything is handed or if you are exactly told where to go. I really wouldnt call this MMO standards I call it baby mode.

I can't believe posts like these still get likes.

[urban]

I like the way the quest synopsis is set up as neutral, followed by the actual interaction. Reminds me of FFT tavern stuff or FFTA2 sidequests.

Text bubbles is a good addition. But they might need to do a little work on the pacing (sometimes an entire bubble with only one word)

I really dislike the new text scrolling. What happened to my FFT style text popping. :[

The giant circles and arrows around your target are an eyesore. Especially with both of them. And the circle has a frickin spinning arrow on it. I'm sorry but that is just overboard. It adds too much clutter to an already busy UI. If you have a billion indicators everywhere eventually indicators lose their purpose. Another instance of being overcluttered, clicking on npc to turn in the quest, you have an arrow on top of their solid quest marker. TLDR; UI needs a ton of polish.

Combat is erring on the side of being way too flashy. Don't get me wrong I love my FF special FX but they are going overboard to supersaiyan level kaioh-ken stuff.

there might be an option to turn those arrow off in the config...i hope

[casker]

Like how you get choices of rewards!

Yeah, it looks pretty good. The choices actually seem class neutral, so its not like WoW where you have the non-choice items that are obviously itemized for your class and the ones that aren't.