MSQ Needs Further Condensing

[SturmChurro]

So experience is only real when it matches your opinion?

I've been through the game multiple times now, and I won't deny some parts are tedious, but I also know I just didn't notice a lot of it as a new player. Everything was exciting and I was absorbing every bit of information about the plot and world to piece it all together. It's only on replaying it that it's clearer where the plot is going and how long they're taking to get there.

How about we look at my quote again:

Finally some REAL experience, rather than nostalgia.

Context matters. I don't have time right now to explain in detail what I mean. I'm tanking a dungeon right now. There are enough clues in place to make a good guess though.

[Iscah]

How about we look at my quote again:

Again, what makes my memory of my first time through the game "nostalgia" and not reporting what I recall of my experience at the time? The fact that I liked it?

I know I liked it because I remember being excited by things as a new player that were kind of disappointing on a replay. If anything that has to be anti-nostalgia.

If you want direct experience I can fish out the epic discussion thread where I kept posting on my experience as a newbie working through the story.

[SturmChurro]

Again, what makes my memory of my first time through the game "nostalgia" and not reporting what I recall of my experience at the time? The fact that I liked it?

I know I liked it because I remember being excited by things as a new player that were kind of disappointing on a replay. If anything that has to be anti-nostalgia.

If you want direct experience I can fish out the epic discussion thread where I kept posting on my experience as a newbie working through the story.

Now here is the real question, was I referring to you specifically in my reply to that post, OR was I speaking in general?

Because.. I've gotta be honest here, I never actually read your post.

Anyway, to me, I fail to see what we are arguing about here! We seem to have a very similar opinion!

I've been through the game multiple times now, and I won't deny some parts are tedious,


I feel like this is an inherent issue with RPGs as a whole genre, if not any game that is story-heavy, and I'm struggling to think of how else it might be expected to go. Any game story has to be set out as cutscenes interspersed with a balanced amount of whatever counts for gameplay, and FFXIV's battle system just doesn't have much to make this interesting.

Maybe I am reading you wrong, but our opinions seem to align, in my opinion! Me? I am just hoping for solutions.