Dawntrails doesn’t feel like Final Fantasy

[Reap00]

I find it amusing that someone that spends all their time on the forum is already looking into playing the next expansion. You actually intend to support the game going forward? Of course you do. You are a lifer. Your ilk is a plague on the WoW forums. There is life outside FFXIV. I promise. Take a break from the game. Oh and the it isn't final fantasy assessment is really really weak. It didn't work when it was levied against FF16 and it won't work here. You can at least do better.

[Eisi]

Yoyoyo!

I just wanna say that "Tuliyollal" is the most Final Fantasy sounding name for a location I've heard since "Limsa Lominsa".

[seolhyun]

everyones already calling dawntrail the beach episode xpac which is gonna prob be real boring after this 2.5 years of filler arc we sat through.

[sindriiisgaming]

everyones already calling dawntrail the beach episode xpac which is gonna prob be real boring after this 2.5 years of filler arc we sat through.

i mean.. im sure that itl not do that... because there would be nothing there.. like think here... the opening cinematic us chilling.. but that could any cutaway. theres highs and lows in every expansions story. like WOL enjoying a drink with yshtola, urianger and thancred before heading off to U/T in 6.0

story wise.. who can say.. will it be good. but.. the question is more.. can it afford NOT to be good? i dont personally think so.. when ur ffxiv.. u have to many high standards to live up to... and with player distaste easily 70%+ yea.. it NEEDS to be good

[IkaraGreydancer]

everyones already calling dawntrail the beach episode xpac which is gonna prob be real boring after this 2.5 years of filler arc we sat through.

I think folks misunderstand what filler actually is and conflate it with "something I personally find boring".

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

I think folks misunderstand what filler actually is and conflate it with "something I personally find boring".

To be fair, and most cases, Filler is in fact ""something I personally find boring"
But I do think people are just being Dismissive of the whole expansion out the gate purely because it is very Bright, Colorful and happy go lucky....at face Value.
We have No Real information or a deep understanding of the story yet, we are just being shown the surface, and people wanna treat that as the whole premise because they lack any additional information. And people get excited and impatient, so its just easier to make assumptions.
Just LOL Beach Episode. Instead of waiting for more details, just meme it, and treat that meme as a fact, and pretend probly nothing else is going to be happening this expansion.

Thats the impression some people are giving me at least

[Payadopa]

I am just mystified as to how CBU3 redeemed themselves in my eyes when it came to all the things FFXVI did right only to completely throw all of that away with what we’re seeing in Dawntrails.

Personally, I'm not sure whether I liked XV or XVI less. The former was an absolute dumpster fire whereas the latter bored me to tears with the uninvolved gameplay, the unforgivably boring, boring, boring sidequests and an MSQ that was so predictable I thought they were subverting my expectations purposefully to surprise me later but... they never did. The only thing that was good were the kaiju fights and some bosses. Oh and I also liked the main antagonist's design and voice (even though he wasn't exactly complex).

I recently replayed DMC just to see whether I was being too harsh (the one where Dante has the wrong hair colour and must therefore be hated or whatever) and within like 2 levels I had more fun then after 60 hours of playing XIV. All you do in there is stagger the enemy only to dump all your CDs without a thought once they are vulnerable. There is almost no strategy. You even collect all elemental Pokémon and yet you can kill a bomb with fire...
Couldn't you at least give me an elemental wheel so I can swap abilities? The game has so much potential yet goes for the most boring stuff every single time.

Well, what about the sidequests? XIV's get away with it because it's an evolving world so it's interesting or even foreshadowing. XVI's just don't.

I don't care about your desert village that I go through to do 3 quests in only to never return after. And the fact that it's considered a "reward" to be bored to tears for an entire playthrough only to get a higher difficulty after the fact, now *that* mystifies me. That stuff should have died in the late 90s.

It's like they took the most boring ideas from XIV and, strangely enough, turned them into a single player MMO.

You have an open world with no people in it that serves no purpose, you only play as yourself with no party members you control, you have no buffs and debuffs, you press buttons for the sake of it, the quests are all fetch quests and every dungeon is a corridor.

It *is* XIV but prettier.

And it wouldn't be a modern SE game if they didn't obsess over graphics to the exclusion of the rest. Looking at you, FF XIII, XIV 1.0, XV and now XVI. lol

It's totally fine to make a game that is super casual friendly. But it's another thing if you pretty much amputate everything that made the series good in the process. Putting particles over everything looks nice but it cannot cover monotonous gameplay.

People who say "XIV needs to be more like XVI" can rest easy, because it already is minus the GoT skin. xD

In conclusion, please make DT into something other than current XIV or XVI.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

[Xlantaa]

The game isn't even out yet.

[Carin-Eri]

The game isn't even out yet.

Neither is the full trailer/cinematic.

I'm keeping an open mind myself, as the initial trailer didn't really give much away overall.

[Tanis_Ebonhart]

Didn't you quit FF14, TC?