Areas from previous FF Games!

[Zantetsuken]

Ugh; I really hope this game doesn't turn into a goofy ass FF fanservice game like dissidia. That said, I can see how they could slip some stuff in without it clashing too drastically, if the Void keeps being involved in the plot, and I trust Yoshida and the writers to handle things without obvious awful shoehorning-in of things from other games. It's my one worry about 2.0, and while on one level I can see the appeal of goofy fanservice, I'm much more interested in XIV being about Eorzea and what happens to it than about an onanistic trip down memory lane.

This is a concern I have as well.

The key is how well it's integrated into the lore and design of FFXIV. The devs should use the Zodiac Espers of FFXII as model for this. While they were the old FF Bosses, they were designed in such a way to become very much part of the Ivalice universe.

I do have confidence in the Devs on this though. Gunblades are in the game, but they look different enough from the FFVIII versions that they fit here. Same with Materia, Artifact Armor, etc...

Then again.. Cait Sith and Fenrir look like 100% imports from FFXI...


Anyhow:

List of locations from other FF games that I'd like to see in FFXIV:

• Magnetic Cave (FFIV) - Wooden/bone weapons, leather/cloth armor ftw!
• Sunken Shrine (FFI) - Fight underwater~
• Magitek Factory (FFVI)
• Ultimecia's Castle (FFVIII) - Only in design style.. obviously not the name.
• Pharos at Ridorana (FFXII) - same as above.. don't use name.
• Iifa Tree (FFIX)
• Macalania Forest (FFX)
• Feywood (FFXII)
• Sky (FFXI) - ancient floating garden (stolen from Laputa btw) -- I'm a bit torn on this one though because I don't want too much FFXI in this game.

[Teakwood]

Then again.. Cait Sith and Fenrir look like 100% imports from FFXI...

To be fair, those are -awesome- designs for Cait Sith and Fenrir.

Basically agree with you, though; a good friend of mine is kinda worried about the magitek armour mount concept art of the live letter looking way too much like VI and not enough like XIV's context for magitek armour, but I think the writers, Takai and both Yoshidas won't let anything through that looks or feels out of place.