Story quests

[Aeyis]

Speak for yourselves, some of us actually enjoy the story. Sorry, but you do realise you're playing a Final Fantasy game right? I mean, story is sort of central to every FF game ever made, and most of that involves the same runaround that we've enjoyed for over twenty years now.

I think the problem is that there are too many ''fetch and help a npc with something a random rank 1 goon of the crystal braves/scions could help with''- quests/scenes and not enough of:


[Spoiler]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_9onp9h74g

It would also help the quest progression if we had the 1.0 system where NPCs would actually contact you via linkpearl, instead of having to go [the waking sands] just to confirm what they already know, and then go back again to a place you already knew you had to go to.

I'm reminded by this feature from 1.0 every time a Scion gets contacted via linkpearl..

[ValyrianBlood]

I was really interested in the story at the beginning but geeeez, the NPCs were talking so damn much and I just wanted to progress with my char in this (for me) new awesome game so I started skipping everything. I'm sure I'll read the lore and story somewhere online when I have nothing to do
I just know some things from the past when I researched for writing the past of my own char

But I find actually the most irritating and annoying thing ever is that our characters are ALWAYS THE BEST IN EVERYTHING. Whether u speak to a NPC after defeating a primae or finishing a quest for a crafting/Gathering class. You char is always the most perfect in everything they do and actually the most popular and famous adeventurer in whole Eorzea...=_= I know it's for motivating and making u feel special and stuff but bleehhh, as if I didn't know they say this to everyone. I know I suck as balls sometimes so being called all that just feels odd and dishonest ö_ö
This always grinds my gears when I happen to read it

[Mugiawara]

Speak for yourselves, some of us actually enjoy the story. Sorry, but you do realise you're playing a Final Fantasy game right? I mean, story is sort of central to every FF game ever made, and most of that involves the same runaround that we've enjoyed for over twenty years now.

There are people who will almost instinctively skip every line of dialogue in the game just to 'get through the scene'. Those are the people who, in my opinion, are unfit to judge the storyline since they have absolutely no clue what the story even is. Maybe if they took their time, they might enjoy it more? Just a thought.

You're geting up in arms for no reason. We're all expressing our feelings about the story
and lo and behold, SOME of us don't like it. I've read it, and dislike it.
The NPC's are near all jokes. The only ones to me that aren't stupid and have character is everyone but the Scion's.
Our own team is bland as hell except Papalymo and Yda that provide a bit of comic relief.
If you didn't begin in specific starter city then you missed 2/3 of the story. [If you went Ul'dah, you went along with Thancred mostly.]
I wish the Scion's were more enticing as we are connected to them the entire way through.
I also wish my character had personality...Take GW2 for example. That was one of the best things GW2 did.

[Intaki]

The japanese dialogue is much superior to the english dialogue.

You've got that backwards.

[Meklore]

IMHO I think the story isn't quite Final Fantasy 'grade', and I've played them all from the original FF on NES to now, but I've played a lot worse.
I can say I have mostly enjoyed the story so far.
But it must be taken into consideration that ARR is a remake of a 'failed' FF game and that Yoshi was under a time constraint to get the game out.
Also, there is the fact that ARR started with the level 50 1.x characters so the 1-50 grind had to be reachable rather quickly so that the lvl 1 players didn't get discouraged and the lvl 50 players didn't get bored waiting for everybody else to catch up.

[Aeyis]

You've got that backwards.

I take it then, that you've read/heard both of them? The english dialogue contains a lot of things that arent said. The characters are also portrayed quite differently. I can understand if people find the characters uninteresting if they only read the english dialogue.

[myahele]

The story quests up to defeating Ifrit was pretty good IMO. After that it just tapered off to the point of being insulting to the PC. We defeated Ifrit....now we have collect ingredients? The list goes on.

Since 2.1 the quests have been getting abit better and more involving and I'm hoping that 3.0 will have more engaging main quests since they have more budget and time compared to 2.0.

[Elkya95]

I agree that the lore, Hildibrand, coil and story quests like those are superior to the MSQ...
If I didn't like Dragons as much as I do or was interested in how Ul'dah works, I'd skip most of the story as well. Heck everytime I get to the Rising Stones/Waking Sands I get ready to skip dialogue, I'm spoiled by earlier FF titles I guess where the plot is really good. I also wish I had a PC to play 1.0, I even bought it, and I really wanted to experience that story.

I also find the "battles" we get during the MSQ boring and just lazy 'Quick! Go into that purple circle and fight some enemies! Now do that 5 more times for me pls'.

[HReincarnate]

I really liked the 2.5 MSQ in terms of how it was executed

Pissed off about Moenbryda's death though, she was so much more interesting than everyone else

More specifically, it had a lot less fetching and fewer quests - but they were all longer & deeper.

I also really enjoyed the main story from 1-50. The fetch quests were nice in that they stretched out and helped me level. I was hardly expecting top notch stuff all the time, since besides telling the story the MSQ were there to help you level to 50 quickly.

2.1 & 2.2 were quite bad.
2.3 was not as bad
2.4 I enjoyed
2.5 I enjoyed

[Battlewrench]

I would be happy if not thrilled if from here on out the story was replaced with Hildi quests. Better than the "chosen one" going to fetch things for people.