Coils of Bahamut... and its inconsistent challenge level.

[Dualgunner]

Want the challenge and the story? Run Savage
Don't care for the challenge but want the story? Run Normal
Static broke up/taking a break but you REALLY want to see the story through? Switch to running Normal.

I see no real loss in letting both kinds of players get what they want out of it. But having to run normal for the story, then Savage for just challenge and gear felt disjointed. I think that's another reason we look back on Coil with pleasant nostalgia. The story was a reward, not just something to slog through on the way to Savage.

I always thought it would have been cool to have extra scenes from the savage raids, personally, things that fleshed out the story and added to it that one couldn't get in normal. I remember a game that had different endings based on the difficulty you picked, but for now I think of Kingdom Hearts II ReMIX, where on the hardest difficulty you were guaranteed the extended ending.

[technole]

Going to love it when people think they can just un-sync A8S and get-by in 4.0. If you fail enumeration mechanics you take 99,900 damage. We're not going to get reach that anytime soon, and you can't kill Brute Justice before Gavel since he regains all his HP after intermission 2. I hope they continue to space out these things so that you are forced to learn mechanics for quite some time.

I always thought it would have been cool to have extra scenes from the savage raids, personally, things that fleshed out the story and added to it that one couldn't get in normal. I remember a game that had different endings based on the difficulty you picked, but for now I think of Kingdom Hearts II ReMIX, where on the hardest difficulty you were guaranteed the extended ending.

They already confirmed at JP Fanfest that Omega 4 Savage will have something different than the normal version, and not just mechanics. Hopefully more than just the A8S Winged Justice form, that isn't in normal.

But as far as these raid cannon stories, they have resorted to not locking them behind high-end raiding anymore.