Homage Locations and Zones

[ShinigamiKayla]

can't actually find a link on the FF Wikia... mog dens were places where you could go in and paint your moogle and gets stamps for minigames for crystal chronicles and they were spread across many zones o.o/ so maybe kind of like a go and collect stamp minigames for FFXIV would be cool scavenger hunting with random appearing mogdens!~ talks about them here http://cube.gamespy.com/gamecube/fin...de/page_2.html







god I loved crystal chronicles a lil obsessively I wonder if I'm the only one...

[Mudd]

The Great Crystal


Couldnt find a better picture

[KaMuiSouZou]

I guess the coliseum could be considered a confirmed homage area? While the FFXIV version is original, it continues a series of coliseums in multiple ff games.
FF2

FF6

FF7


I mentioned this in my first post, but I think our personal chocobo farms can be considered an homage area to the FF7 one, since someone posted about that.
Other than that, it's implied the city-states already have Chocobo farms/stables. We just can't see or enter them (yet?).

Underneath the moogle balloon is a chocobo sign. Maybe we can enter this new building as a Chocobo stable like the FF7 version?

[Shougun]

Good lord KaMuiSouZou lol, let me think of how to organize that lol. Maybe Ill just quote through you instead of by location :P

Later though, got some other things to do first .

Another location from me:

Farplanes (Reminds me of what Silvertear falls could look like, which flows with aether)

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXoyDkynfgg

[KaMuiSouZou]

Good lord KaMuiSouZou lol, let me think of how to organize that lol. Maybe Ill just quote through you instead of by location :P

Haha sorry, couldn't resist and I just had to get it out of my system. I don't expect SE to put all of this in (it would be overkill) but it's pretty easy to throw together a list of possibilities. Final Fantasy just has so many memorable places! ^0^

[Enkidoh]

Well, there is constant references to a 'Crystal' in some of the trailers, so who knows? Maybe a 'Great Crystal' zone could fit into ARR without too much trouble.

As for areas I'd like to see, I can't say I'd like to see any earlier zone really in ARR - I'd rather SE come up with original zone ideas than simply recycle old areas for 'fanservice's' sake. But that's just my personal opinion.

[KaMuiSouZou]

Well, there is constant references to a 'Crystal' in some of the trailers, so who knows? Maybe a 'Great Crystal' zone could fit into ARR without too much trouble.

As for areas I'd like to see, I can't say I'd like to see any earlier zone really in ARR - I'd rather SE come up with original zone ideas than simply recycle old areas for 'fanservice's' sake. But that's just my personal opinion.

If SE implements any homage zones or locations, I think they should always be "original." I would hate to zone into an exact copy of any previous FF. The coliseum is a perfect example of how it's a recurring thing from previous FFs, but it's our original version of it. Similarly even the crystal tower, while more specific, is our version of the crystal tower. I expect the gold saucer to follow suit and not look exactly the same as the one in VII.

It's also why I'd like the XIV version of recurring places made in-game first, like a library or chocobo forest. These are things that evoke the FF series as a whole and not just throwback to one specific FF.

However, I also think SE should be careful not to overdo it and do it just for fanservice's sake.

[Shougun]

If SE implements any homage zones or locations, I think they should always be "original." I would hate to zone into an exact copy of any previous FF. The coliseum is a perfect example of how it's a recurring thing from previous FFs, but it's our original version of it. Similarly even the crystal tower, while more specific, is our version of the crystal tower. I expect the gold saucer to follow suit and not look exactly the same as the one in VII.

It's also why I'd like the XIV version of recurring places made in-game first, like a library or chocobo forest. These are things that evoke the FF series as a whole and not just throwback to one specific FF.

However, I also think SE should be careful not to overdo it and do it just for fanservice's sake.

I expect there to be many more unique zones per closely fan serviced zone / location, and many more "like a fan service" zones then an actual fanservice zone.

So while we may have 40 locations listed 3 may be fanserviced and a few more designed in honor of classic zones.

Also somethings are easier to fan service then others like dungeons or places (like the chocobo farm that sort of looks like FF7 farm in structure and hardly takes up a whole zone of work).

I really hope to see a memoria mind bending zone, where you just are like LOL WUT!?

[Lady]

Got another one that I'd be pretty happy to see added:

A central city that is no ones home city. A watering hole to get groups, sell stuff, etc. I suppose Uldah was this in 1.0, but I just think a neutral city would be better

[Phe]

a garden-like school or guild.
fitting into the style of ARR of course.



wouldn't that be great for scholar?