Dragoon using omnislash

[reefo]

You are assuming "fans" all think alike.

Other Final Fantasys, including Final Fantasy XI, show us you can have references without drowning out the world with them.

You saw one ability and all the sudden we are drowning? Don't you think you are being a bit over-dramatic?

[yoshikwalla]

Giant swords don't fit the theme of a Final Fantasy game? I don't get that impression at all. This is the same game with 40-year-old toddlers wearing subligars, moggles downing hard liquor, small children with horns, gigantic muscular white mages, and giant robot mechs. Yet when put together, Hydaelyn is an original world in itself with its own charms compared to the unoriginal, Tolkienesque settings from games like Dragon Age.

I doubt giant anime 2-handed swords will make this game's setting any more wonderfully ridiculous than it already is. Wonderfully ridiculous indeed...

[Alaltus]

I don't really have any issues with FF7 esque moves + weapons... i was thinking that maybe it was a soldier > dark knight using the buster sword and omnislash V2. Looking at that picture though it is definitely a Dragoon... Not sure what to make of it entirely but i'm not happy if thats what they think a Dragoon using a limit break should look like. Where are the dragon themes? Jumping or lances or something atleast relevant to Lancer/Dragoon itself. I guess it is a aerial attack so it has that for it...

[Zahak]

As a Dragoon, I don't understand why we get a buster sword omnislash. I'm not hating, it just seems weird!

[Yrusama]

Ok there were sufficient FF allusions in Live Letters IV and V (i think those were the ones). They're really pounding those out.

Ultimately they do want to show off as much of the flashy FF-ness as possible during E3, but I think there's still enough for XIV to stand out as its own thing. It'd be a matter of playing the game and getting immersed in the unique world before you stumble on all of the fan service.

[Atoli]

Aren't some of the other Limit Breaks from FFVII as well?
At first I thought it was weird that DRG got Omnislash, after all it's using a lance and not a sword normally..
But after some thinking..it makes sense. It's an aerical attack, involves lot of jumping around, etc.
There is no job more fitting to that than the dragoon.

Still...kind of weird to see a sword on a lance-using class.

[Ruethryl]

Aren't some of the other Limit Breaks from FFVII as well?
At first I thought it was weird that DRG got Omnislash, after all it's using a lance and not a sword normally..
But after some thinking..it makes sense. It's an aerical attack, involves lot of jumping around, etc.
There is no job more fitting to that than the dragoon.

Still...kind of weird to see a sword on a lance-using class.

its what?!? and cool! all rolled in one >.>

[indira]

dragoon fail, lance to buster sword lol.

[KamikazeMan]

Giant swords are fine. A Dragoon, whom specializes in spears, putting his spear away and using Omnislash -a sword technique- isn't fine. Make no sense at all.

[KaMuiSouZou]

I'm in the camp that thinks the sword looks fine. It's Final Fantasy but also, they reserved it for a Limit Break- ultimate player moves that are supposed to look extra big and flashy. If it were a regular weapon, I would be more inclined to say it's too big for the overall style of this game, but as a limit break? I'm fine with it.

However, I also raised an eyebrow at what looks to be a dragoon using omnislash. IMO dragoon should've gotten a "super" jump attack where they literally jump as high as the clouds then come crashing down in FF awesomeness. Call it "Highwind" or something to allude to Kain lol who's easily the most famous DRG in FF.

Even though it's never explicitly stated, VII's characters are modeled (in general) after the class system. Tifa is a monk, Aeris a white mage, Cait Sith is a puppet master, Yuffie a thief etc. In my mind, Cloud is a warrior, but more specifically the warrior in FFI or FFIII, where they generally use swords (Cid's the drg!). Interestingly, I think of FFXIV's warrior more closer to the Berkserker or Viking class even though in general warriors could equip axes anyway. But the Buster sword/Omnislash is probably FF's most famous SWORD attack, which makes me want it on PLD or DRK. Whichever the case, I def think it strange to see a DRG with it. Because of the conundrum of omnislash being a sword attack but warriors having axes in XIV, it feels like they just forced it onto a completely different class just because they needed something Cloud in the game and couldn't decide between warror and paladin.