I feel a disturbance in the air...

[h0tNstilettos]

I feel a bit like the whole "sky or sea based" thing the devs talked about was a joke, but at the same time, oh my god, the artists could do WONDROUS things with uncharted islands, dynamic weather, and even undersea zones. I LOVED WoW's Vashj'ir, though I know feelings about it were mixed...it had one of the most extraordinary atmospheres of any areas in any game I've ever played.

I don't think it was a joke. They said they wanted to do flying and swimming. They said first expansion would take to the skies and that swimming would come in a later expansion, which I assume will be opposite of Heavensward and take to the depths of the seas. I would also like to see them do an Underworld similar to FFIV's Underworld.

[SDaemon]

I feel a bit like the whole "sky or sea based" thing the devs talked about was a joke, but at the same time, oh my god, the artists could do WONDROUS things with uncharted islands, dynamic weather, and even undersea zones. I LOVED WoW's Vashj'ir, though I know feelings about it were mixed...it had one of the most extraordinary atmospheres of any areas in any game I've ever played.

I was put off my the slow walking in Vashj'ir (but the environment was awesome), and the million people clicking on the same clam for hours (that last bit was really only due to launch day influx but still lol)

[Mahri]

I was put off my the slow walking in Vashj'ir (but the environment was awesome), and the million people clicking on the same clam for hours (that last bit was really only due to launch day influx but still lol)

Slow walking? There was a quest that gave a gargantuan speed increase, and when you were on the ground, there was even a unique (hilarious) animation for bounding across the terrain at roughly the same rate as a normal mount on land. As to the other thing, well, I've come to feel that multiplayer game launches during my work week are a blessing in disguise for this reason...

Now, environment-speculation wise...for a game like this, I'm imagining an entire zone with the aesthetic of the City of the Ancients from FF7, complete with a "deeper" area that seems like these glassy fairytale structures suspended in a bottomless abyss. There's also FF10's subterranean waterways and sunken ruins, another game which did the sea right.

I tell ya, underwater places are a mostly-untapped goldmine of creativity for these kinds of games.

[SDaemon]

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You mean the sea horse mount yeah? lol. Without/before the mount though the bouncy slow walking was a put off. Though really people had no reason whatsoever to be walking on the ground. lol

[DarkStar]

I feel a bit like the whole "sky or sea based" thing the devs talked about was a joke, but at the same time, oh my god, the artists could do WONDROUS things with uncharted islands, dynamic weather, and even undersea zones. I LOVED WoW's Vashj'ir, though I know feelings about it were mixed...it had one of the most extraordinary atmospheres of any areas in any game I've ever played.

I personally had left WoW towards the end of WotLK, but I got a chance to play through the Cataclysm areas on a friend's account, and I basically fell in love with Vashj'ir. Out of everything post-WotLK (and before WoD), I loved those underwater zones the most, and wish they had expanded on it more with later expansions.

If FFXIV does go out to sea for the next expansion, I have rather high expectations myself. It'd be interesting if there were some sunken Allaghan ruins, perhaps a pontoon village... I'd also love to see some LESS advanced sunken ruins, something obviously manmade but long-since reclaimed by nature, full of seaweed, coral, native creatures, and maybe some Sahagin or something.

[Mahri]

I personally had left WoW towards the end of WotLK, but I got a chance to play through the Cataclysm areas on a friend's account, and I basically fell in love with Vashj'ir. Out of everything post-WotLK (and before WoD), I loved those underwater zones the most, and wish they had expanded on it more with later expansions.

If FFXIV does go out to sea for the next expansion, I have rather high expectations myself. It'd be interesting if there were some sunken Allaghan ruins, perhaps a pontoon village... I'd also love to see some LESS advanced sunken ruins, something obviously manmade but long-since reclaimed by nature, full of seaweed, coral, native creatures, and maybe some Sahagin or something.

I'd like to see Novv & pals show up again. They're our oarfish-colored fishman bros, so surely they'd put in a good word for us with the terrors of the deep that they're on good terms with, right?

Really I just want to see something that captures the sheer scale of the pelagic, and maybe plays up the unexplored nature of it. Like, maybe the Allagans, with all their advancement, could never go too deep (much like us in real life), so it'd be a good chance to send Eorzea's adventurers exploring genuinely uncharted territory, the first of the spoken races to have ever seen it...against all nature and reason, at that.

Your mention of WotLK, on the other hand, brings fond memories of northern landscapes as well. I know we're getting a lot of that in Heavensward, but I get all nostalgic for the faded greens of Howling Fjord and the uilleann pipes playing a complement to the wind.

[Pinkie_Pie]

That disturbance is pretty much WoW players crying about how they can't fly in WoD or any other future xpac. Many will be coming here.

[Yukiko]

Always two there are, no more, no less. A master and an apprentices.