Story Missions/Quests Improvements

[AlexiaKidd]

While I did enjoy "reading" the dialogue from the new quests with all the buzz about Companies and the "incoming threat" I hope that down the line they add little cut scenes to them to drive the story a little bit better. I know it may seem like a waste of dev time because most current players will have already done them but I am thinking of the new players that will be joining us and it would be better if the stories flowed a bit better.

That goes for the all the story missions as well really the whole thing needs looking at and tweeking to get the flow right. SE and Final Fantasy are supposed to be renowned for their stories, which the story is great (eventually^^) they just need to work on the delivery of it.

For example:

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In the R46 current final mission, when they are walking along and they don't notice all the dead people around them until they are stood in the middle of them. It would have been better if they could make them out lying on the ground from a distance away and then ran over to them and then let the epicness that follows carry on. So just something as simple as that to help the story kind of feel more real. It seems a bit silly that they wouldn't have noticed all those people lying there until they were stood in the middle of them all.

Another example is one of the new quests added in which you gather 5/6 stones for someone in the CON guild so that they can communicate with the elementals or something. You get the stones, hand them over (this is all done in a text box) and then they say the stones broke when they tried to use them and that is a bad sign. It would have been better to have a little CS where you hand them over and you saw the person try to use them and stones shatter instead of just standing there and reading about it. Doesn't have to be some huge extravagant CS just a little something to show what is happening and help drive the story along.


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So you can see it is not huge issues but they are just little things that will help deliver the story in a better manner and hopefully get the player more involved. Also if you could get more voice acting into the cut scenes that would be great though I am sure that may require a lot more work when you are so busy with other things right now.

Another thing is the difficulty of the actual missions themselves, don't get me wrong I don't require it to be insanely difficult but it should at least provide a little bit of challenge. At the minute the missions and quests are little more than run there, read story, run back and maybe 1 shot a few things in between.

Finally the spacing of the story missions. I would be ok with it if you left it as is, however could you please add some mission between the current ones. Maybe use the Public Companies or something. Coming from Limsa it would be great if we could get some more missions back in our city state to fill in back story and find out more about Seal Rock and things like that. As it is now once you go to Ul'dah at R20 you don't hear anything more about any of it.