Quote Originally Posted by ScarecrowJames View Post
1.0= better cutscenes- Heavensward improved on ARR cutsenes but even the ARR looks very choppy and cheesy and no where smooth as 1.0 or imo epic(1.0 starting quest was amazing). 1.0 story line though was shit but they looked better. 2.0 arguably is a better story line but imo I find them both forgettable as they are nothing more than pages of text with bad voice actors without much going on the screen. Its an ADHD users worst nightmare.

2.0 is a better Solid game. Sadly 2.0 isn't as Soloable as we wanted. I know MMOrpg= Players. but the fact these players don't appear on my screen in the story yet im the only 1 there engaging in this single player story-multiple player required instance game.
Just to repeat...

I played V1.0 beta... the developers were not receptive to ANYTHING. I bought V1.0 anyway and once I got to play longer than a week, the copy-paste scenery and the overtly-long starting quests were a real downer. Adding into that I loved that the maps were huge, but I hated that they were copy-paste.

What finally did it in for me was seeing this:


Everywhere.

I loved the V1.0 starting quests, but I hated that you never really got into any of the game content (remember v1.0 release) even after 60 hours of play.

Like if you back to the thread in this forum about people wanting to skip the storyline entirely, you know there is a problem. I'd rather people play the storyline and be able to skip it if you've seen it. But V1.0 tried to cram like 10 minute cutscenes in, at every opportunity (go look up the v1.0 starting quests on youtube) and there's at least and hour and 15 minutes before you even get to the path companion.

By comparison FFXIV has nothing after the 10-minute opening if you defer your class quests until after you choose a Grand Company.