Not Liking the Mandatory Main Quest

[Ghostfreak]

Big fan of Final Fantasy but I'm starting to find the main scenario quests boring and tedious. I'm level 30 and it seems that most of the quests consist of talk to this person, talk to that person, interact with an object, maybe fight 2-3 enemies, talk to someone, teleport, talk to another person...

Whats worse is you have to constantly travel across the globe to talk to this person, just to travel back 10 seconds later.

This comic really describes how I feel:

http://www.8bitgamer.com/comic/final...quest-fetcher/

Thoughts on this? I don't mind questing but the mandatory questing is...a pain.

[Alavastre]

I hit a rut around 30. Does get annoying. But the quests get better. But you'll always have to run around for the main story quests. That doesn't change.

[Yagrush]

It will get better, trust me, there will be very important shit going on soon, storyline-wise, and the last instances dungeons for the Story are awesome. Just don't run em with speed-runners.

[Nuinn]

Yup, there's a lot of filler between major plot points, which does gets tedious after a while. Apparently saving Eorzea can wait while we fetch cheese and wine.

[Recycler]

Totally agree on this. I find the story as a whole poorly executed to be honest. It did get better starting around 44, but there was just too much "fetch quest" bloat for me to enjoy it. I'd prefer a shorter storyline over this artificially stretched quest train.

[Arriverderci]

Totally agree on this. I find the story as a whole poorly executed to be honest. It did get better starting around 44, but there was just too much "fetch quest" bloat for me to enjoy it. I'd prefer a shorter storyline over this artificially stretched quest train.

Agree'd.
Game starts rolling around 40. Last 10 levels are fun. The final dungeons were super fun with 8 peoples.

[Asiaine]

They wanted to have a 'quest' way to go from 1 to 50. They choose the story line.
Unfortunately, they could not come up with enough real story to make all 1-50 interesting / exciting, and filled it with lots of 'filler' (what I would describe as lovely side-quest stories, but should not be part of the main story line).

Still, pretty good overall and worth doing ^.^

[Orophin]

Big fan of Final Fantasy but I'm starting to find the main scenario quests boring and tedious. I'm level 30 and it seems that most of the quests consist of talk to this person, talk to that person, interact with an object, maybe fight 2-3 enemies, talk to someone, teleport, talk to another person...

Isn't this like, every Final Fantasy game ever?

The story starts out kinda slow, but after you get out of Coerthas it will really pick up. Just stick with it and it'll all come together eventually.

[RyujinUzikin]

Well, once you're done with the MS you'll wander around and then realize it was the highlight of the game in the first place.

[Seidaku]

If they increased the amount of money and exp gained from killing monsters they could remove some of the tedious quests and open the door to more rewarding leveling of sub classes. Also they could increase the difficulty of some areas, add rare spawns and drops and encourage the use of forming exp parties to clear and tackle these areas rather than the fate grind system which they should decrease the exp on and increase the seals for.