SE: Please tone it down a hair

[Starlord]

Long Paragraphs about X stuff: SE TONE IT DOWN A BIT ITS TD;LR
Short Paragraphs ( I can foresee this happening lol): SE PLEASE BE MORE CREATIVE THERES NOT MUCH TO SAY IN ANY OF YOUR NPCS.

Forums Logic is awesome! Yeeeeehawww!!

[Majidah]

Long Paragraphs about X stuff: SE TONE IT DOWN A BIT ITS TD;LR
Short Paragraphs ( I can foresee this happening lol): SE PLEASE BE MORE CREATIVE THERES NOT MUCH TO SAY IN ANY OF YOUR NPCS.

Forums Logic is awesome! Yeeeeehawww!!

Amazingly enough its like this. The NPCs in XIV talk too much without saying much.
Just like cheerleaders!

[Starlord]

Amazingly enough its like this. The NPCs in XIV talk too much without saying much.
Just like cheerleaders!

1...2...3...4 Everyone is Stupid, ya Your stupid.. ya ya your Stupid... ( thats what I feel like I'm getting when you or other people like Rokien or Bobbygunz talk!) Yay us were stupid! *Cheers for the team in red and black!* Goooooo Dalamud Crusaders! .

[Majidah]

1...2...3...4 Everyone is Stupid, ya Your stupid.. ya ya your Stupid... ( thats what I feel like I'm getting when you or other people like Rokien or Bobbygunz talk!) Yay us were stupid! *Cheers for the team in red and black!* Goooooo Dalamud Crusaders! .

Well, then you are clearly misreading what I'm typing.

LMAO! Okay well I agree then! lol. ^_^ *kisses*

[Starlord]

Well, then you are clearly misreading what I'm typing.

Isn't that how it always is with the forums a bunch of "Misunderstanding"? I FEEL LIKE EVERYTHING IS A LIE! ( except for DEV comments.. because they are official.. :P)

[Cendres]

Someone said it really well in an old similar thread; brevity is the soul of wit.

In a video game you really do not need that much verbosity, people are here to play not to read a lengthy novel. If XIV was a novel it would be damned thick! If some of you have written plays before and you know you have to present a whole story in as little wording as possible and you can still evoke a lot of background and emotion in one to two line dialogue, so I'm sure SE can cut back on those paragraphs and still manage to give us the same feeling and keep the tone the same.

[Majidah]

Someone said it really well in an old similar thread; brevity is the soul of wit.

In a video game you really do not need that much verbosity, people are here to play not to read a lengthy novel. If XIV was a novel it would be damned thick! If some of you have written plays before and you know you have to present a whole story in as little wording as possible and you can still evoke a lot of background and emotion in one to two line dialogue, so I'm sure SE can cut back on those paragraphs and still manage to give us the same feeling and keep the tone the same.

THAT WAS ME! MWAHAHAHAA http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...n-XIV-s-quests give me a kiss!

[Cendres]

THAT WAS ME! MWAHAHAHAA http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...n-XIV-s-quests give me a kiss!

LMAO! Okay well I agree then! lol. ^_^ *kisses*

[Frein]

I find the actual language used to be amazingly well crafted most of the time and I've praised the localization work several times. Sometimes there is just too damn much text, though. Louisoix, the primal quest NPC, just never shuts up.

[Eagleheart]

I'm going to go ahead and link everyone to this thread with 102 likes.

When pondered against the portion of people who purportedly play, and privately purpose to pass up the possibility of purveying their ponderous posings amidst a protruding pyramid of perpetually put-out prattling posters...

That number is not very big.

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.

There is nothing at all difficult about the reading level of XIV. Perhaps you need to bring your reading level up, rather than have the writing fine-tuned to something more appropriate for grade schoolers.

People, take a look at FFT's rewrite. It uses old english but the dialogs are superv. Can you say the same about XIV? Hell no. There are no dialogs in XIV. Just monologs.

Can you picture a FFT character speak as much as a misc inn NPC in uldah? Get real.

One's a single-player RPG with a character who is not only your avatar, but an established personality within the game's setting. Of course it's a dialog.

In XIV, much as in XI, your character is only your avatar, appearing in CS and communicating with gestures and expression, much like Link. Of course it's a monologue.

The two are so wildly dissimilar, I am forced to wonder why you see fit to comment on it at all.