Quote Originally Posted by Shibi View Post
Heh. Granted.

But that whole 2.0 mess is still not a fun story line, and never was, even back in 2013 when I first struggled and gave up screaming with the gobbie cheese. Then in 2015 when i tried a second time and gave up screaming about the same point.

Even cut down, it still drags on and on with menial food-delivery tasks. Nobody can say 2.0's an engaging story.
It's kind of subjective there, while you can say it is long, I personally enjoyed it then, and when I redid it prior to them cutting it it down, in fact I actually enjoyed it less after they cut it down as I felt it lost some things I liked. I did find it engaging, so I guess someone can say it. Is it as grand as a lot of what comes after? No, but it is the beginning of the tale and they can be humble.
A lot of the issue stems from the mentality, a lot of people are "slogging" through it to get "past" it, it's a means to an end, a roadblock something in the way. I never saw it as that, it's just me going through the story, I wasn't trying to get anywhere else, I was where I wanted to be, enjoying the story.

Funny story, my brother picked up the game little over two years ago, he felt much the same, was "slogging" through the story, trying to rush, he wanted to catch up, to be with me, to be at the end with me. I told him to "Slow down, take his time." That I "Envied him having so much ahead of him and he'll regret it when like me he was just sitting patch to patch waiting for what was next." But he didn't listen, he just wanted to be at the end with me, he wanted to see all the cool stuff he'd seen in the trailers and get all the cool spells and gear, he wanted to see where the story ended up. So he played and played and rushed. Come 5.1 he'd finally caught up, only, he was one quest away from being all caught up, it was only a week till 5.2 was due out, so I asked him why it had taken him 3 days and he'd still not finished the last quest? He replied. "I don't want it to be over, you were right, I should have gone slower, I miss having stuff ahead of me." He now knew how I felt and he hated it.