Thread: These quests suck.

And I'm not talking about the lack of cutscenes.
Or how poorly delivered the dialogs are. (two page long monologs, come on.)
I'm talking about originality.

I loved that pugilist quest in which you go around collecting money for the guild.
The one in which you had to get gil off the floor was awesome.

But the normal sidequests? Come on. They are all basically get X item, kill X quantity of monsters, etc.

I was playing Deus Ex today (By eidos, which is owned by SE as far as I know) and I had this sidequest, right? The game runs on unreal engine, yet its so original it tells you to go kill infiltrate this building, find this mobster, knock him out with your fists, then throw the body off the building to fake a suicide.

They took the game's basic elements and spinned them into something *really* original.
So yeah, I'd like to see the game designers' imagination shine in FFXIV's quests. 'Cause so far they are WoW-bad. FFXI had really moving, really original quests. They made you explore a lot, and travel through dungeons with puzzles and gates that required a certain amount of people to unlock doors or certain keys or to open certain gates...

And I'm not even asking that. I'm not saying rip off XI (although you totally should). I understand that so far there aren't many zones to work with. But I don't think its even about that. Its about spinning things so its not so obvious its a bare bones gather/kill quest.

The regular sidequests aren't meant to be these epic quests that have you doing new things. That's what the class quests, main quests, and GC quests are for. The sidequests are just quick little things for some extra xp, loot, and lore. Simple and easy for the coders to make and for the players to do.

Originally Posted by Starlord

Complaining? Where have I seen this before.....

AHA! No one expects the spanish inquisition! There to label any form of critique as complain.

Did you even read the post? Or you just think that disliking anything about the game and talking about improving that aspect equals complaining?

Originally Posted by Urthdigger

The regular sidequests aren't meant to be these epic quests that have you doing new things. That's what the class quests, main quests, and GC quests are for. The sidequests are just quick little things for some extra xp, loot, and lore. Simple and easy for the coders to make and for the players to do.

FFXI had those too. And they definitively were on a different level. So I don't believe this to be acceptable.

Originally Posted by Starlord

I read it.. but I rather not feed into this conversation, I felt what I needed to say, so carry on with this thread =)

You just did. Twice. So hypocritical... :c