Did solution 9 reveal like a jump the shark moment yesterday?

[Arzalis]

Potentially, imo. It's hard to say without any context or story.

But my faith in the writing team has been almost non-existent lately, so I'm leaning towards probably.

[sindriiisgaming]

The presentation last night went allright up to the moment when yoshi p presented solution 9...it just felt so awkward and out of place. I don't know. It just felt like a jumping the shark moment for me. The beastmaster reveal saved the presentation for me though, I'm excited for that job, even though it's a limited one!

How did you all feel about solution 9...? Was it exciting for you, did it feel odd and out of place?

dont agree, solution nine looks gorgeous and the music is funky

[Ath192]

dont agree, solution nine looks gorgeous and the music is funky

Thats clearly a new york/singapore/beijing/tokyo style futuristic city though, and while I agree it's beautiful, I just don't see a bunch of armor weilding sword and axe users fitting in. It does invalidate a lot of the old school armor and weapons in the game because it makes the players look like a bunch of renaissance faire attendees.

I mean it is what it is, its not like they're going to undo it but yeah its just a jarring transition. It's not that there aren't other places like that in game already, I'll concede that, but yeah I'm just =/ about it..

[sindriiisgaming]

Thats clearly a new york/singapore/beijing/tokyo style futuristic city though, and while I agree it's beautiful, I just don't see a bunch of armor weilding sword and axe users fitting in. It does invalidate a lot of the old school armor and weapons in the game because it makes the players look like a bunch of renaissance faire attendees.

I mean it is what it is, its not like they're going to undo it but yeah its just a jarring transition. It's not that there aren't other places like that in game already, I'll concede that, but yeah I'm just =/ about it..

like how they fit in here yea?
not even getting into the glam of ffxiv-

also- this is more along the lines of how tokyo looks. and its nothing like solution nine

[Jojoya]

Time to take off my DRK hat and put on my lore hat.

In Encyclopedia Eorzea Volume 1, on Page 92, there's a section about the tribes of Aura Xaela that mentions the Haragin tribe.

To quote:


As the Xaela tribes hail from the Othardian Steppes, what an "eastern sea" means to Othard loops back around the planet to the New World, if we take a look at our own world. Based on the footage and artwork we've seen so far, grey monoliths checks out. So not only is this a real thing on Etheirys, it must have been here for long enough for legends to be made and passed down about it from an entirely separate civilization. Conjecture until proven otherwise, but it's compelling, I'd like to think.

Personally I dislike when games force players to go outside of the game to get information lore about the game. WoW did it to an extreme but at least every player had the option to purchase the books.

Much worse if that information is contained in a limited edition book that not everyone can get.

Solution Nine is on Etheirys. It's also on the opposite side of the entire world, which had been completely uncontacted until Merlwyb knocked on their door 20 years ago. The Allagans didn't even go to the Western Continent based on what we know. Not only is it in a place unexplored by Eorzeans, it's in the middle of the desert there and we don't know how much people in Tural are aware of it. It could be a whole Wakanda situation for all we know.

Making contact goes both ways.

Why would what appears to be a very technologically advanced society not have been exploring and making contact with other societies around the globe? Even if Eorzea was skipped for whatever reason, places like Radz-at-Han have trade partners from all over the globe for rumors to have circulated.

Easy to compare it to another fictional country but Wakanda being hidden from the rest of the world didn't make sense either.

If SE is setting it up as another Wakanda, color me extremely disappointed in them. That sounds like jumping the shark to me.

also- this is more along the lines of how tokyo looks. and its nothing like solution nine

It was giving me Blade Runner vibes. Someone else in my FC mentioned Shadowrun and something else (can't remember what) as possible inspirations.

[Ath192]

like how they fit in here yea?
not even getting into the glam of ffxiv-

also- this is more along the lines of how tokyo looks. and its nothing like solution nine

I'm talking about the big skyscraper vibe and silhoutte. What you are showing there is a picture of shibuya crossing. And yes, just like all those pictures you posted, it makes the game feel like the original aesthetics and looks of the game don't really fit that well with all the modern stuff they've been adding over time. So I do feel for the OP, its not my cup of tea.

In essence, there's other stuff like it in game in terms of futuristic looks, and all of it make for a jarring change when the ARR setting was much more set in the imperial age and early industrialization. Like, Limsa lominsa is still sailing wooden pirate ships around.

It would be difficult to argue the game feels super cohesive at this point.

[Anarnee]

It just got me all the more excited for DT cause I KNEW it would have some technological bits from the other previews but for it to be the second hub city has the wheels in my head turning.

[Remember_The_Name]

I acutally really appreciate that they are creating such place for Dawntrail.

Because for me, Final Fantasy had plenty of momentis with that transition between, you know, medieval style fantasy with swords, bows, wooden staffs, magic, etc. and downright futuristic combat with lasers, plasma guns, neon, supercomputers, SPACE and so on and so forth. Somehow they made it to work. The sheer juxtaposition between those Wild West looking towns and literal Cyberpank city was good. Solution Nine looks amazing so far. Also, the 8 men raids are gonna be tied to it.

I am so looking forward to it. This place looks very promising and I really hope they will come up with an interesting suiting story. And I will be sorely disappointed if it will end as just a pretty place after the raid concludes with no follow-up story for Post-Dawntrail patches and maybe further.

[RaideDuku]

Gonna wait til the game actually comes out before going straight to THIS GAME IS DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMED. As someone else pointed out, this game has had just as outlandish places pop up, and they've always made it work. Look, I can do it. *AHEM*

"Solution 9 is the "Fabled City of Gold". You find it by finding a portal that randomly appears in Tural every so often, maybe even in random locations when it does appear. The portal is actually a planer fissure to the...oh, dunno...Fourth. The time difference between shards is supposed to be typically wibbly-wobbly. This one happens to be way further along in the timeline then the Source, maybe slowing down in recent (recent in a "considering the age of the world" sense) years. Emet did say that some of the civilizations in the reflections would surprise us. It'd also give a reason why we've been beaten over the head with the idea of interdimensional travel between shards lately."

[ForteNightshade]

Quite the opposite. Solution Nine immediately made me interested in the zones more than anything else they've shown because it's so different. A lot of the zone reveals from JP fanfest piqued my interest since it's not simply "beach vacation" anymore.