What does XIV bring to future Final Fantasies?

[Kuwagami]

Isn't Ravana new? Could see that one as a Summon/enemy/whatever.

It's imported from Vagrant Story. Though one may argue it's new to the Final Fantasy series, as VS was never officially confirmed as taking place in Ivalice iirc

[siverstorm]

Maybe we might see cameos in the future from a certain inspector extraordinaire?

Not 100% likely but possible :P

[LystAP]

There's plenty of possibilities, especially given that FFXIV uses a watered-down clone of SE's next gen graphics engine, Luminous Studio. Mechanics can be transferred to future games, and FFXIV itself could be upgraded as SE develops Luminous in their future FF installments.

[VargasVermillion]

This is one of the small issues I have with this game, We get so many requests for things from "this final fantasy" to be put into XIV and while it's nice to have references and some creatures/abilities/characters from other FF games for nostalgic reasons I'd like XIV to have it's own identity as well, which so far it doesn't really. Hate to bring up FFXI but it was very much it's own FF regardless of being an mmo, I'd like XIV to go in the same direction as well.

[Izsha]

FYI full thrust was a dragoon weapon skill in ffxi, along with dragon kick, impulse drive, dancing edge, aeolian edge and a dozen other ones.

Ravana is the obvious 'new' thing that can be rehashed later.

Some of the beast men tribes are new to the franchise. Ixal, kobolds, sylphs etc.

That's all I got.

[Tsukino]

Hallowed Ground was in FFXI but it was known as 'Invincible', it was PLD's '2 hour ability'. But it basically had the same effect.

It is the same ability. It's called the same in Japanese. Similarly, "Defiance" is Defender.

[OMEGA_HACK]

Sorry if it came off as offensive lol, didn't mean it like that >.<

On topic though: Would be fun to get Chocobo Racing again in another FF, think it's only been in X and XIII so far.

its been in 7, 8, 10, 11, and 14.

New stuff that is in XIV only:

Ixal, Kobold, Am'ja beastmen. Ravana (new to FF series), Hildebrand, some of the monster sprites are newly designed (and better than previous iterations), Scions/Ascians (names maybe not but their cult is new)...prolly some more just cant think of anything else.

[Kassiekane]

The avatar not really original, look up omega weapon from FFV.

I think this game will end up bringing new jobs and such, plus crafting is highly original so we might see systems like that implemented. I'm sure ffxiv does have quite a bit to add. It's been mainly fanservice but as the game expands it will become more and more original.

It's not an incarnation of Omega, especially since Omega itself is mentioned in one of the cutscenes that its apparently somewhere in the Carteneau Flats.

Another thing, there is a distinct difference between Omega, and Omega Weapon

[Rau]

Side quests that are somehow central to the main story and side bosses that are weaker than the final story boss.

This has actually been around for a while.

[WellFooled]

The last Final Fantasy MMO had several types of monsters become new series regulars (Mandragoras and Goobues are what spring to mind), I wouldn't be surprised if we saw Snurbles appear in future games.