MSQ Needs Further Condensing

[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.