MMO on rails confirmed!

[bobbygunz]

So...instead of wanting to be an adventurer, who wanders the land for adventure and seeing if people need help...you'd rather just be some lunatic who runs all over the place looking for things to kill.

That's how serial killers start out...

There's no adventure doing exactly what the game tells you though anyway so you might as well not.

There should be quests and all that crap obviously, but handholding you through everything can get very insufferable very quickly. "Go here" "go here" "go here" "go here". Especially when the quest objectives are barely 100 meters from the quest start.

It's been done very poorly in the past. And SE seem intent on repeating the mistakes of past games, so... you do the math

[Nuinn]

There's no adventure doing exactly what the game tells you though anyway so you might as well not.

There should be quests and all that crap obviously, but handholding you through everything can get very insufferable very quickly. "Go here" "go here" "go here" "go here". Especially when the quest objectives are barely 100 meters from the quest start.

It's been done very poorly in the past. And SE seem intent on repeating the mistakes of past games, so... you do the math

I didn't know some of the current players already have access to FF X|V ARR and know exactly how things will work! Colour me amazed~!!! :O

[KiriA500]

There's no adventure doing exactly what the game tells you though anyway so you might as well not.

There should be quests and all that crap obviously, but handholding you through everything can get very insufferable very quickly. "Go here" "go here" "go here" "go here". Especially when the quest objectives are barely 100 meters from the quest start.

It's been done very poorly in the past. And SE seem intent on repeating the mistakes of past games, so... you do the math

I know, it was so much better before.

Let's use XI as an example.

Level 1? Go outside any city.
Level 10? Go to Valkurm Dunes.
Level 20? Go to Qufim Island.
Level 30? Go to Yuhtunga Jungle.
Level 40? Go to Crawler's Nest.

Just because the game actually tells you where to go isn't a bad thing. Cryptic gameplay is a thing of the past, get used to it.

[Rokien]

I know, it was so much better before.

Let's use XI as an example.

Level 1? Go outside any city.
Level 10? Go to Valkurm Dunes.
Level 20? Go to Qufim Island.
Level 30? Go to Yuhtunga Jungle.
Level 40? Go to Crawler's Nest.

Just because the game actually tells you where to go isn't a bad thing. Cryptic gameplay is a thing of the past, get used to it.

You do know that the game didn't tell you where to go, people made that, not SE, PEOPLE found the best areas to leveling not se. PEOPLE EXPLORED not se

[Dawiichan]

You do know that the game didn't tell you where to go, people made that, not SE, PEOPLE found the best areas to leveling not se. PEOPLE EXPLORED not se

Except SE made these areas, and placed monsters in a way to make it a leveling spot. There's a difference between finding the spot, and creating the spot. The only thing SE didn't do is tell you where it was at, but they did form a "clouded path" towards your leveling experience.

[Kikosho]

You do know that the game didn't tell you where to go, people made that, not SE, PEOPLE found the best areas to leveling not se. PEOPLE EXPLORED not se

You do realize that "exploration" was completely planned by the devs and you were funneled to those areas right? Each map/area, just as now in XIV (especially with leves), all levled up with your character. The higher you went, the more equivalent areas opened up but they were all connected to the previous leveling area.

Aside from that, you're still going to be doing the same thing. Killing endless amounts of mobs except this time, the mob might actually be different and challenge you instead of just another tier of crab/raptor/*insert easy to kill with no dangerous moves mob* that grind parties gravitate too.

[Vmage]

There's no adventure doing exactly what the game tells you though anyway so you might as well not.

There should be quests and all that crap obviously, but handholding you through everything can get very insufferable very quickly. "Go here" "go here" "go here" "go here". Especially when the quest objectives are barely 100 meters from the quest start.

It's been done very poorly in the past. And SE seem intent on repeating the mistakes of past games, so... you do the math

the questing is what separates role playing games from the rest though, it's the tool used to tell the story of the area.

...and speaking of story telling - order is usually important.. you start at the beginning, work your way through the middle, then get the end.

there's a reason you had to play through all the GC quests in order before fighting darnus - would've ruined the story to not play through them in order.

...and about square repeating the mistakes of other games? ...honestly their biggest faux pas was constantly trying to reinvent the wheel. the biggest complaint during beta/early release was how they tried to put their own unique spin on every little detail of the game - stuff that's already well established in the genre (even their own ffxi)

squares refusal to repeat things that other games have done is the reason we have market wards and retainers instead of an auction house - for starters.

anyone who was around back then can probably remember the plethora of other things they tried to make unique.. (fatigue, stamina, parley to name a few...)

[Xmbei]

There's no adventure doing exactly what the game tells you though anyway so you might as well not.

There should be quests and all that crap obviously, but handholding you through everything can get very insufferable very quickly. "Go here" "go here" "go here" "go here". Especially when the quest objectives are barely 100 meters from the quest start.

It's been done very poorly in the past. And SE seem intent on repeating the mistakes of past games, so... you do the math

I know that self guided story measures used in old FF's are so boring and poorly made....