SE: Please tone it down a hair

[Zaaku]

I applaud your writers and their use of every single page of the Infinity Flux Time Extensive Thesaurus of large words and fancy idioms but I'm begging you.

Please stop.

Pretty much every encounter with the Empire is a pretty good example of over doing it. Cloud an NPC's words in mystery and perhaps some foreshadowing riddles but not a 5 pages soliloquies about the nothingness of still could be happenings of what was once never there. I fancy myself an intelligent creature but trying to decipher every single sentence because it is so overladen with foreign Yoda speak is bringing down my self worth as a thinking man with every syllable.

[Rau]

[Majidah]

The writing on this game is so bad I don't even stop and see whats going on anymore. I force myself to do it in the main storyline missions... but god. The dialogs are impossible to believe.

And they are all god damned 5 paragraph monologs.

[Elexia]

The writing on this game is so bad

Lol..the writing in this game is quite a few leaps above the forced 'epic' writing of games like Skyrim and Tera >.>

[Buddhsie]

I find it easy to understand... I quite like the subtleties of the dialogue in this game eluding to certain things, I think it's great. On the other hand, whoever comes up with the names of quests should be 'pun'ished.

[Starlord]

I find it easy to understand... I quite like the subtleties of the dialogue in this game eluding to certain things, I think it's great. On the other hand, whoever comes up with the names of quests should be 'pun'ished.

Are you my... "Brother from another Mother?"

[Eldaena]

Hm... I like the writing. I think a lot of people are rushing through it because they are in a hurry, but I don't think the dialogue or background that is in the cut-scenes, etc is difficult to understand. IF people actually read it, though, is another matter. If SE took the same words that are written and have it voice-acted, I scarcely believe anyone would complain then.

[MStowastiqVahlshdeh]

Hm... I like the writing. I think a lot of people are rushing through it because they are in a hurry, but I don't think the dialogue or background that is in the cut-scenes, etc is difficult to understand. IF people actually read it, though, is another matter. If SE took the same words that are written and have it voice-acted, I scarcely believe anyone would complain then.

Rushing through a storyline/cutscene to finish purely because you want to get to the battle should not, in my opinion be a reason to make the storyline suffer. We have playback in our Inns for that.

But if you are forced to, due to the way the battle is created and have no choice but to rush, I think ample time should be allotted to finish the story line real-time for all speeds of readers before the battle starts instead of people having to rush through to get to a battle.

I want more voice acting but I definitely would rather have good intelligent and beautiful dialog than dumbed-down, simpleton text. One of my favorite aspects of storyline is elaborately written storyline.

Hell yes I would rather it be all voice acted but if that is not an option, please don't cut the writing down to simple one-line type stories. I love especially how the game's races and character personalities are diverse in their own particular way of talking.

I can tell who is speaking by reading not just the name before the dialog but the actual style of the dialog written out. Oliver Goodfellow, for example or the mysterious sleuth that appeared with the inn room quests.

Something of a tradition I have come to depend on and expect in FF mmorpg's is the beautifully written storyline and dialogs. I loved how 'Taru' was added to the language of the race and felines roll their R's. This makes for longer reading but I like that and it brings me deeper into the story. If a large amount of players are having trouble finishing the cutscenes and have no choice but to rush to battle, it should be adjusted so they can take their time.

[HiirNoivl]

please don't cut the writing down to simple one-line type stories.

No one is asking for dumbed down simple one line anything. Why let's do a better example? Who's complaining about the job quests? I'm sure not. those were extremely well done. My favorite was dragoon. The story was compelling AND it had loads of dialogue. Why did that one work? Because the dialogue wasn't written in a disjointed way.

Or the dialogue between Cid and the Black Legatus (forgot his name) It was sharp, clipped, and revealed a lot of info and it was interesting to read! In fact, the Legatus didn't say much at all at all.

From the look of it, it is mostly the main scenario quests that have the problems, and that's really too bad.

There's no need to "dumb down" anything. Just edit more. That's my opinion anyway.

[Asiaine]

Hello,

If you are referring to the choice of words used and the way sentences are made, I can understand your difficulty. It is by no means the modern vernacular, choosing rather to rely on words that are less common but more prominent in slightly archaic literature.

I think it is healthy and to be admired that they choose to keep it more sophisticated. Also gives it that sense that it's 'English' but not quite 'English'. Almost if you are reading Olde English of Yore ^.^;