Thread: Guess the gimmick of 5.0

God please no time travel for the love of Hydaelyn its like the worst thing to do... It suck 90% of the time, bulls*** paradox everywhere, deus ex machina from hell, more plot hole than a godamn cheese and the worst of all "don't touch a flower or you destroy the world... joking go kill half the beast tribe population who care anyway".


Actualy, i'd rather fly/swim in the old area and call it a day than godlike power out of the butt of a uninspired dev.


For the next new area, Garlemald seems logic... but i'd pick another bad guys to confront and put down Garlemald for a long time at the end of stormblood.

ARR = Garlemald ; HW = Dragon ; SB = Garlemald ; XX = other ; XY = Garlemald ...



Yeah... I godamn hate time travel or any time related activity... Its overused and cliche.

Originally Posted by stardrifter

they better not do the time travel thing, I absolutely hate that...

Exactly, I agree. Wings of the Goddess in FFXI showed that only too well - time travel became a convenient go-to plot for uninspired zone and game design by FFXI's old development team, in that they didn't even have to make new zones but just retouched existing zones and called it "<insert zone name here>, but in the past!". The Abyssea mini-expansions only underlined that fact.

Also, and for those specifically hoping for time travel to allow them to see 1.0 Eorzea, that specifically will never happen. ARR's whole concept specifically was to change the design of 1.0's zones which were hated for being large expanses of nothing punctuated by copy-pasted aetheryte camps and the occasional unique landmark.

So even if there was a hypothetical time travel storyline in FFXIV that somehow allowed travel back to the Sixth Astral Era just prior to the Calamity, the zones you would visit would merely be ARR style zones retouched to look "five years in the past", and not 1.0's zones rendered with a new coat of paint. That's just being realistic.

Prediction: Vehicles of sorts, but they force blackscreen loads on entry and exit. To enter a bus, walk across a boarding plank, etc., you will have to talk to some obligatory NPCs or Destination point. Once on, you are free to move OR turn about -- not both -- but whilst flying one cannot actually look down and while on a land or sea-based vehicle, there is still no relation between the visible terrain and your actual location.

Hopes: Climbing and a polished revision of object interactions, now including ladders and ropes. Also, the ability to orient one's body in more than just straight up or down, allowing one to spring off even surfaces that are not perfectly lateral, to vault over certain others, and run at a gradual banking arc over others. Improvements to visually three-dimensional movement abilities such as Elusive Jump, to (again) better match their animations. Improvements to Sprint. Snap-adjustments situationally added to movement. All this with the intention of allowing for some aesthetic and gameplay alike to platforming, without the frustration or absolute precision necessary, as to permit more interesting uses of vertical space for mountainous and/or multi-storied environments.