Quote Originally Posted by KoffeeBrown View Post
Wanna add something.
If someone haven't seen recent trailer of the elder scrolls online yet, please take a look. With all that blah-blah about next great MMO and so on, when you see animations you CAN NOT take the game seriously anymore! I was like: What...? and then hahahahaha till the end of the trailer.
My point is XIV 1.0 had its distinct (and I repeat still unrivaled) style that I'm sure helped the game get through all negativity in the first place.
Though I still have high expectations about ARR and looking forward to, hate to say, some kind of guildwarsiness is killing me.
I guess it's about new auditory SE aiming for...
I don't believe in comparing games... the whole style is different. ESO has a particular flavor that I like, despite unrealistic features. Final Fantasy has its own unique flavor. Minor oddities in visuals (animation) do not affect game play. The game is the real issue. Is it a great game or meh. I hope SE will tell us more about what they have done to overcome the meh gameplay in FFXIV-1. You can't level up all the time... there has to be story. ESO is obviously heavy on story... that is a very good thing. If FFXIV does not improve the story then it will fail. You can't do fetch and kill quests without a underlying story. Massive game play requires a multiplex story with tangled threads all over the world. The trailer does not show any story.