Climbing & Swimming

[MageBlack]

I seem to recall them having a choice to add swimming or flying with the first expansion. They chose Flying first (if you got to see any of the fanfest stuff, i nerdgasamed). Next will be swimming, probably have to wait for 4.0 for that one. As for climbing, havent heard them talk about this at all. It would be neat but I think you would be limited to what you can climb. specific wall textures, ladders, etc. It would be neat but I don't think climbing would be too high on a priority list. I'm just thankful we can jump now...

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As for those who claim swimming and underwater battles and holding breath breaks immersion. it is easily remedied as they have in many other Final Fantasies, with an Item. FF1 had Oxyale you got from freeing a fairy, FFX had almost all residents able to swim and fight underwater, never broke immersion (yuna's voice acting did that for me... lol) They even had one of the more requested minigames for this FF, Blitzball! I never did like blitzball but I would support it for those who did enjoy it. As for barriers underwater, going into deep ocean could sweep you away back to a particular point. you could ride currents of water for "fast travel" underwater, or those currents could flat out prevent you from going further. Get iron boots do you sink to the bottom. Not all underwater content needs have you submersed in water, underwater caverns are a great place to have a instanced dungeon or some harvesting points.

If you want to just end the conversation by saying "its not possible" then you are only limited by your imagination. as you can see, i found ways to solve a few issues in a quick little rant. Imagine what the devs could come up with using player input, past FF's and the drive to make it happen.