Anyone else feeling...uninspired?

[Fauxglove]

I was still in highschool when I played FFXI. I still remember sneaking through the bowels of a volcano, praying there wasn't a bomb around the corner while I re-cast Sneak, because if it smelled the magic it'd disembowel me. Knowing even if I killed it, every zombie in a mile's radius would smell the blood and come running.

I thrive on that kind of danger. Knowing there's a good chance if I mess up, I won't survive.

I have yet to experience that same thrill here outside of dungeons. I have to be romping around in a L50 area wearing L20 gear before I have to do anything more than spam a single skill to win.

I know this isn't likely to change in the future, but all the same, I miss the challenge.

[Xatsh]

It is the new age of mmo where Fun > All else.

Dying is not fun.

xi it felt dangerous because an mob at your level had about a 50/50 shot of killing you and a loss could cost you 20-30mins of xp. in XIV the hardest open world non-fate/hunt mob would be like in XI you at 75 going against a level 35mob.

As for blood agro and such, XIV is extremely dumbed down compared to the mob mechanics XI had. Again I feel this is for simplicity so people do not have it too hard outside coil.

[Alberel]

It is the new age of mmo where Fun > All else.

Dying is not fun.

The trouble of course is that these new 'dumbed down' MMO mechanics offer only short term enjoyment. It's the old risk vs reward paradigm at play again. Games are getting so much easier that very little truly feels rewarding any more.

Dying might not be fun but managing to accomplish something when you know there would be a harsh penalty for failure is a LOT more fun than doing the same thing knowing there is no risk at all. Developers are so scared of having any features that might be considered 'not fun' that they seem to have forgotten that a lot of the fun of videogames comes from overcoming such challenges.

[Immut]

Dying is not fun.

Nonsense. Dying is the most fun you can have in a game. What isn't fun is being punished with minutes to hours of tedium or even losing the ability to play entirely as a result of dying.

Taking a page from the dragon quest series, a low death penalty (half your gold as opposed to having to restart the game from your last save point entirely) is merely an excuse to kill you. That's why titan is so terrible, everything pre-heart isn't even remotely hard, it's just tedious. Dying in post-heart? It's almost expected, shit's tough. Dying in pre-heart? What the hell is wrong with you, you have to be half asleep to get hit by that stuff. It's just keeping those of us who can do it from getting to the actually engaging part.

But in terms of the open world, some areas should be tough to get to, sure. But in general it should not be a wildly dangerous place. At least, not in a theme park MMO.

What super doesn't help is the design team thinking people are going to steadily progress from i50 to i60, to i70 up to i110, when in reality people jump from i50 to i90 almost immediately. So when they design all this i70 content, they're designing content for an audience that simply does not exist.

[Mugiawara]

What super doesn't help is the design team thinking people are going to steadily progress from i50 to i60, to i70 up to i110, when in reality people jump from i50 to i90 almost immediately. So when they design all this i70 content, they're designing content for an audience that simply does not exist.

this game throws you your gear is why....heres an easy way to gain gear:

as soon as you hit 50 grats, you got your lvl 50 AF gear, hop in CT and get ilvl 80, hop in ST to get ilvl 100.
you dont have to do anything inbetween now sepct wait weekly for ST resets for the gear and spend a few
myths on things if you want.

[Gramul]

Dying is not fun.

Maybe, but successfully not dying in deadly situations is one of the most thrilling things you can experience in a game.
Personally speaking of course.

[Ferrasper]

Maybe, but successfully not dying in deadly situations is one of the most thrilling things you can experience in a game.
Personally speaking of course.

I actually try that in real life. I purposely try to put myself in situations while hiking that might seriously jeopardize me. As for video games, I prefer the trend they are taking now. I am kind of glad that old school way is dying out.

[Niota]

Maybe, but successfully not dying in deadly situations is one of the most thrilling things you can experience in a game.
Personally speaking of course.

This. The first time you stomped on Titan HM in your Darklight gear with some pugs or Titan EX with your FC/LS was amazing.

In 1.x of ffxiv there were a few level70/90 or whatever mobs that would brutally stomp you. It was fun for certain areas but I wouldn't desire that kind of feeling everywhere I go.

[Jasmine_Aurelia]

I disagree, the current mechanics are much an improvement over XI, in every way.

[Tupsi]

I disagree, the current mechanics are much an improvement over XI, in every way.

That's nice. Sad though that even in XI there's monsters with noticeable changes and nuances during battles that make them seem like they're actually alive rather than a script. For example many of the enemies ripped out of XI don't even behave like they used to - The Black Dragons for example, if you attack them from the back, they'll attack you with their tail (visually) and back legs, while someone in the front will get hit with their front legs/mouth, in XIV? Nope.

Then again, I think this post was sarcasm, since the only true improvement this game has over XI is accessibility in certain areas (since graphics only matter to a point.)

It's true that FFXI's overworld is a lot more dangerous than FFXIV's, and yet I vastly prefer FFXIV's.

The reason? Killing stuff that agros me is a hell of a lot more fun than having to sneak past mobs because they can kill me just by looking at me. That stuff gets real old real fast.

So does everything casting heavy to simulate "danger", and the overworld largely being meaningless.