Good ideas from previous Final Fantasies that may be cool if incorporated..

[Richiealvian]

I love all the FF series I've played, especially the little things that make it very interesting.


Let's start with my favorite: FF8.

Aside of the numerous requests about Triple Triad (which I support wholeheartedly) how about a long chain of Levequests with a rating?

Like the SeeD mission, when doing this long levequest which can consist of numerous tasks (escort, kill enemies, use items..) You will be assessed on how well you perform. (Killing wanted targets, timeliness, not running away, special conditions! Like killing X-ATM-092) and then rated from 0-100 depending on the criteria you fulfilled and then get experience points and treasure chests or tomestones and gil accordingly.

FF9, I believe someone had posted an idea about festival of the hunt, which I love tremendously. Just probably make it level sync'd so everyone can have equal chances of getting top rank, which is usually a decent card or accessory..

FF7, I do hope all or most of the gold saucer games make it in our gold saucer. The boxing game, the motorcycle game.. Chocobo breeding and racing, all the arcade games, even the touch of the haunted inn.. The laser shooting! Oh god, that was glorious.

FF4, well.. not much of a minigame-y aspect to it, but I loved how there were hidden chests on hidden paths. We have one in the Sunken Temple of Qarn, but I'd love to see more of these..

FF10 I liked the monster collection kinda thing. I for one would love a massive hunting log that we have right now, for example, for a more interesting leveling experience make us kill like 30 kinds of monsters, and 10-20 of each kind. And the monsters you killed gets into some sort of bestiary and then we can view images and some background story to them..

And one FF that I'm sure not many have played or even heard of, but in my opinion is the king of minigames in the gaming world is the Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo's Tales. All the minigames there were awesome. I'd kill for all of these to be incorporated to XIV, but with its own touch of lore.

[OmniTgo]

I think it'd be awesome if the Gold Saucer had the same music from FF7. Also maybe make a few dungeons that use areas from old games like sea serpent grotto and temple of the ancients using the same mobs from thos games.

[ErikMynhier]

Dark Knight --> From --> Every game with Dark Knight.

[OPneedNerfs]

Skills learned become materia. When u switch jobs, only ypur stats change, armors and weapons allow u to slot skills inside. Ffvii, materia system. So much potential, so wasted here.

[Mikedizzy]

They need to make the Materia system more like it was in FFVII...this materia system is lacking in utility at higher levels.

[Sotek]

This.

I also really wish for the Job system from V, which XIV 1.0s original Physical Level system nearly replicated. They really dropped the ball on letting us respec whenever we wanted, it should have been more like "You played a lot of Conjurer, your Mind gets a boost when your Physical Level goes up", with the only way to respec it being reverting your Physical Level to 1.

[myahele]

Materia or gear that give you certain traits/abilities.

Ex: an staff that boosts free cure by 25 percent.

[Richiealvian]

Materia system from VII was amazing, but I think if incorporated in this game will become a bit too grindy. Which is very not casual friendly, and I think that wasn't where Yoshi-P is wanting to go. Although, I do agree that the materia system is extremely shallow..


I'd be much happier grinding a materia level 0 that I can buy off NPC than making one from crappy gears that I will lose permanently and feel like I'm forced to use it. And Horizontal progression.. we need customization, because it keeps things interesting. Or wider ilevel gaps, like for example level 30 to 32 there's not even enough time to finish your spiritbond!

It's very lame imo, it does happen in games like FF4,7,9,10 and hell, maybe all FF has vertical progression but at least those cool armors can last you a long time. Remember having to shop for mythril gears and have barely enough gil? Then you decided to skip the next one and jump to two upgrades ahead instead (For example, you geared your party up entirely at level 25. You then skipped 28, and upgraded at 32 instead. But your friend could have geared up at 28, skipped 32, and geared up at 36. Or even grind money and gear up to the teeth for every available upgrade. In XIV, we do NOT have that option. That feel was really good.. the way we have it now feels like there is little to no purpose of some gears.)

And then about the special effects in weapons, although it would be super cool I think due to the human nature we will just find an optimal configuration and go with it the entire time. For example, a 25% boost in cure spell in a staff would leave people calculating how much better is it compared to using one with higher MND or ILVL? and when the winner is clear if you decided to go against the flow you'd just get called out for being a "noob". Sad situation.. That is why we can't have nice things sometimes, but I am also guilty in that I love min-maxing. Not that I don't respect other people's choices, but I will use the best thing available.

I'm quite happy with how the battle system is, what I wanted more is the little touches of quality of life and fun mini games incorporated to all our missions and quests.. I'd gladly sub for another 3 years if they could make some sort of parallel world similar to FF fables or chocobo's dungeon.

[Shioban]

FF9, I believe someone had posted an idea about festival of the hunt, which I love tremendously. Just probably make it level sync'd so everyone can have equal chances of getting top rank, which is usually a decent card or accessory.

Yup that was me.

And I'd love a card-game, preferably Tetra Master (proven to work thanks to FFXI)

Dark Knight --> From --> Every game with Dark Knight.

On a completely unrelated note about those eyebrows, god they look awful, you're not fooling anyone with those charcoal caterpillars!

[Sotek]

Not Final Fantasy (though close enough), but I really want a /mrgrgr emote... <3 Edea~

(seriously, why was there no Bravely Default cross over event? Mrgrgr!)