Not Liking the Mandatory Main Quest

[Zantetsuken]

I would have really liked to have the last 4-5 storyline boss fights split up a bit more throughout the whole leveling process.

The main quest storyline largely consists of fetching trinkets from 1-49 and then changes to a rapid-fire succession of awesome battles at 50.

Maybe it was done for DF purposes.. but it seemed like there could have been some interesting story and development content placed between those last fights.

[MageBlack]

Ya, the quests to get to Titan were long, tedious , and felt very unnecessary but the story tied it together eventually. Power through it though, the Story later on is well worth it.

[Orophin]

Ya, the quests to get to Titan were long, tedious , and felt very unnecessary but the story tied it together eventually. Power through it though, the Story later on is well worth it.

Titan was frustrating. Even the events in Coerthas felt pretty pointless, but I guess it setup a backdrop for what's to come when they eventually release content for Ishgard and the Holy See.

[ufufu]

Yeah, I would say that for a Final Fantasy game the main story is pretty friggin bad. Good thing the game is fun.

[Zezlar]

The main storyline is terrible until about level 43.

[Altanas]

The irritating thing is the main story tries to compete too much with the citystates quests. I didn't like all the going back and forth and around and around. It was much more enjoyable once you hit Coerthas and all quests intertwine.

Because everything overlapped early on, it led to a lot of players rushing to get it done because there was a lot to do. It would have been better had the main story take off around level 30ish when the citystate quests die down. Then there would be less contradiction in dialogue (hero v errand boy)

[Astarica]

The fetch quest 101 style is just terrible. That has nothing to do with the game design or difficulty. You can hire a random fanfiction writer and he'll be able to come up with a storyline more interesting than the whole Company of Heroes arc, which didn't even pretend the whole series of quest is literally a waste of time. Outside of Gaius, the time you fought the Garlean guys is literally the first time your character has met them face to face. Perhaps if you actually ran into those guys instead of fetching cheese across the land, it'd at least be more intersting.

[ItzKris]

Completely agreed. The rewards were not very good either. A 6,000 exp reward when I needed 150,000 to level. I thought they were very annoying to do. The money rewards were good though, only reason I kept doing them was to get the five 500gill sack rewards.

[Sylve]

You realize that every single quest, ever, is just:
Talk to X
Fetch X
Kill X

Right?

[Zezlar]

You realize that every single quest, ever, is just:
Talk to X
Fetch X
Kill X

Right?

It's the presentation that determines how good or bad it is, and ARR does it extremely poorly up until the later stages. It is quite embarrassing for a FF storyline actually by today's standards.