Animation Lock: Why don't you like it?

[Firon]

People who are playing games like minecraft are looking for something different than what people who are playing games like Final Fantasy are looking for. People play minecraft because they want to play with blocks. You can build things, and go exploring for more things so you can build more things. It's the game equivalent of legos.

Now, Final Fantasy, for instance, is different. The first things that people who are fans of this series critique are "How pretty does it look" and "What's the story". The gameplay comes in third. Beauty and storytelling are what FF fans are looking for. And if it's good in that regard, excellent, that draws them in and gets them to play the game. Gameplay mechanics are judged later. Come to think of it, there also wasn't much story to the early build of FFXIV 1.0 either, and what story there was you had to level up to get to it, which was hard to do thanks to the lackluster levequest system... One of the big complaints about FFXIV was that there were too many roadblocks in the way or progressing lore-wise.

Everyone plays games for different reasons tho, Like me I play RPG's for this reason in this order. Combat > Story > Graphics. I love number crunching in rpg's and trying to get the most out of it so in that regard sometimes I don't even care if a story is bad in game cause when i grew up games did not really have stories anyway. It's a reason pokemon is my fav RPG cause no game can macth skill and strat of the game, you have so many options in the game and you never know what someone will come at you with.