Swim - Underwater Map! How about it SE!

[Naunet]

Hey, remember in a Final fantasy game where you'll be impacted if you wore certain armor in a magnet cave? Yeah what a silly restriction, its a video game.

Protip: It actually adds depth to a game if you have to actually take caution about your environment. No wonder MMOs are so lifeless nowadays lol.

This is the only FF game I've ever played, but even still - yes, I think it's a silly restriction. Restrictions that make something less fun and more cumbersome are not good. Slowed movement and completely locking you out of certain spells (which would be quite killer to THM/BLM) are examples of those. And your argument isn't exactly endeared to me by using snide "protip" comments, just by the way. You can have an engaging MMO without painfully cumbersome gameplay mechanics.

[KonaMochi]

No please. Ive yet to have seen any videogame- sngleplayer or multiplayer- do underwater scenes well at all.
Best keep the game on land...

[RocketUnderwear]

Something was bugging me when i was looking at the last Live letter, where they showed the next Primal.

We cant swim, and there are so meany places where would be nice to do it.

And how about underwater map, where we fight and adventure, wouldn't be nice?

What do you think about it, and do you think SE will do it ?

What self respected Miqo'te would ask for swimming option much less an entire underwater zone. You should be ashamed of you self.

[Vladislav]

minimum swim can't harm (remind me FFX) , but something like open sea , pirate ships would be nice

[AmalahRose]

Even if they never released an underwater area, I would settle for being able to swim at Mist or Costa Del Sol. Even if we were only treading water near the shore. *Sigh*

[FallenHero]

Yes please.

Anything to open up the game and make it more explorable. Sometimes it doesnt feel like an MMO with all the small zones, instancing, and invisible walls. Probably due to ps3 limitations.

Yoshi did say they are going to do both underwater and flight in different expansions.

This game needs something, it feels so small and confined, its another lobby waiting MMO for your instance queue to pop.

I miss big open world sandboxes, Im not saying this game needs to be a sandbox but sheesh give me a reason to go out and do something and give me the final fantasy feel of adventuring.

[YeaniNah]

I remember Zelda ... we had to go underwater to unlock a dungeon. and to go unlock part of dungeon we had to go in water to unlock door. But we didn't had to fight IN the water. that would be a nice Idea of dungeon/////
And in the elder scrolls ..we had to reach some secret place by going underwater.

[Tupsi]

Since you said its the only FF game then you wouldn't realize it's not as bad as you're thinking and quite staple in the series lol. I agree, you can have an engaging MMO without cumbersome mechanics...sadly we've yet to have one.

Basically you wouldn't be "locked" out, you'd get a potency hit (which means no facerolling, everyone wins). The armor thing in single player games wouldn't let you progress until you equipped a certain other types of armor (no iron/mythril etc) or the 'reverse' effect where weakest = strongest and strongest = weakest.

It's really not a restriction, it keeps a game from being shallow and lifeless, FF games have so many interesting mechanics people are afraid of.

[Ildur]

Since you said its the only FF game then you wouldn't realize it's not as bad as you're thinking and quite staple in the series lol.

That is not a good excuse for having terrible mechanics in any game, no matter how much of a tradition it is. A series of games is supposed to improve over time, not stagnate by being 'true' to a dated design choice.

Or if you don't think they have to improve, at least they have to evolve and adapt.

[Tupsi]

That is not a good excuse for having terrible mechanics in any game, no matter how much of a tradition it is. A series of games is supposed to improve over time, not stagnate by being 'true' to a dated design choice.

Or if you don't think they have to improve, at least they have to evolve and adapt.

And yet ARR regressed in order to meet the standard. What's funny is, XI made strides in not only MMO, but the series since it's the first you can play and level as a monster for example. A game or two in the past had you control slightly (Pictomancer for example) but it's actually trying different things.

What is new that ARR has tried as of launch? Multiple classes per character isn't even unique anymore as Eden Eternal before it also does it. Though it's "not a good excuse" it didn't keep WoW from utilizing things in it's Warcraft series.

People seemed perfectly happy with that.