Thread: What type of regions would you like to see for 5.0?

After RR, Sky and Water, it's time to go underground with caves, network of galleries, tunnels, etc.
Maybe we will have an entire zone like this towards Ilsabard via Othard.
Otherwise I would like to see a very beautiful place with forests, flowers and water (different from Gridania).

1 - Garlemald
2 - Thavnair
3 - Meracydia

Doma.
Like, go 2.0 on it and actually make it an acceptable size with some diversity to it. >_>

Other than that though, I hope wherever we do go, they restrict their focus (rather than give us multiple disparate regions) and make it feel grand and impressive. Unlike Doma.
Something surreal or fantastical could be good; I rather like the area around the Crystal Tower.

Something else that could be amusing would be traveling to a reflection that's reminiscent of 1.0 though. <_<

don't care what the zone style is, they just need to be BIGGER, with more things to do in them, and no instancing

Originally Posted by Brightshadow

So with Heavenward we had snow/sky regions, with Stormblood we had mountains/grass plains/water regions. As the title says what type of regions would you like to see for the 5.0 expansion?

I personally would like a whole expansion based on Jungle regions like the FFXI final expansion. While we do have one some small jungle in this game I feel like it would be a great opportunity for when we go to Meracydia. I also think a proper desert region would be nice too, we get a small one but I think it would be something different and refreshing from what we are used to.

Anyways back to the point of the thread what type of regions would you guys like to see in 5.0?

I dont think it matters nobody will take the time to enjoy them they will blow through the story in 3 or 4 days and hardly step foot in any area

Originally Posted by DamianFatale

Bukyo. We still have the rest of Hingashi to go through, and it bothers me. Kugane makes me feel so trapped an empty. There's also a crisis going on that could get interesting.

I have the feeling Ascians will try to influence leaders from Bukyo as they did for Ishgard.
Bukyo could be a treat with the removal of Garlean Empire from Othard.
Let's not forget the 4 beasts showed on the map.

Originally Posted by Antonio_Xul

As far as geography goes, any fantastical, otherworldly looking areas. These new areas in Stormblood are nice, but they are too earth like. I want something with strange skies and landscapes that don't exist on earth. I'm a big fan of space related things, so I know there are a lot of different planets with different weather, sky and terrain that we could try to replicate in game, or they could come up with some unique ones on there own. I just don't want anything that looks "normal" so to speak. Anything unique.

You might get what your after. I know its cliche but, this is a FF game.. so I'm expecting to go to the moon at some point. I remember it being hinted at in a tech demo of the game. I'll try and find it.

I don't really care about what the next land is as much as how it's done.

Throughout XIV there's always been a failure to scale things in a way that seems realistic. How does a nation the population of which—at its zenith—was only some twice or triple that of Ulduh at most have a city some fifty times its size? How does entire nation of Doma have only some two villages' worth of population, and only one of which still producing or self-supporting? And how do you possibly maintain so many diverse and mutually semi-hostile tribes as the Xaela's in a land as small as the Azim Steppe?

The format always feels about the same, too. Early hub, late hub, and neither particularly a place any adventurers would have reason to hang around apart from acquiring and cashing quests. I'm not saying I want dedicated dungeon entrances or anything of that sort—gods no—but I'd like to see some variation from the entirely quest-gained-from-NPC-leads-to-nearby-area-to-kill-a-few-mobs-or-right-click-on-destinations-and-return-only-to-move-over-a-quarter-mile-and-do-more-of-the-same formula. I'd like to move away from the thus-far conventional take on quests and open up the world more to openly accessible lore, world story, zone thematics, challenges, and so forth. I want to see something new in its gameplay, mechanically and in gestalt, not just in its skin.