So, the story

[flavored]

I just wonder how Minfilia has bigger breast than the limit of the slider in character creation allow us to do for our characters.

That's definetely what would bother a girl the most within a game's plot.

[Yoko_Kurama]

Haha i loved the point you made about the castlevania music in the snow area, to be honest though i found that a breath of fresh air from the rest of the areas with their super nintendo zelda sounding music.

[Aneres]

So far, the story itself has been pretty meh - but, it gives me a good excuse to go explore new areas, and that's all I really wanted. The writing for the main story isn't great but SE did a great job at coming up with an atmosphere and back story for every area. Honestly, I think the zones have a lot more personalities than the NPCs. I really liked Coerthas. A land of gallant Elezen knights, torn apart by scheming dragons and feuding houses... it was all very romantic. Every place feels so unique but they fit together so well to make up Eorzea.

Personally, If I had to choose between a sub-par main story with excellent world design, or an excellent story with sub-par world design...I'd choose the former every time. The story I'm only going to do once, but hopefully I'll be running around Eorzea for years.

[rabbitzero]

I will agree I got a bit tired of the earn our trust crap, but I don't tend to think of fetch quests as story, just crappy commercials.

I'm just glad there were quests. I remember in 1.0 when i started, there were almost no quests at all. You had leves, a handful, and story quests every few levels (quite a few if i remember right). The trust quests were probably added to give more quests. There just were none before, which was one of the complaints of 1.0.

[Canopia]

Story was good as a whole... oh and did you know you didnt have to post three times, could have posted and simply edited the first post. The 1000 character limit is only for the initial posting. I found that out awhile ago, by simply cutting the message in half then hitting Edit, then pasting the remaining portion of the message in.

[redisdrunk]

I admit, by the time I was done with the Coerthas quests, I pretty much wanted to punch every Ishgardian I could find in the face.

I'm with you there. Spent 3/4 of that quest line glaring at the quest givers.

[FritoBandito]

I never even bothered to read the text. It was just too much, IMO. Even without reading, I could pretty much tell what was going on.

Be sure to hang in there for the scene after the credits when you finish the story quests.

[Nanga]

Yeah I liked it too.

I will agree I got a bit tired of the earn our trust crap, but I don't tend to think of fetch quests as story, just crappy commercials.

I thought of them more as XP fillers.

[Holyhunter]

At the end of Costa Del Sol arc I was hoping the story would again pick up, but no luck, instead I'm sent to the shallowest place in the whole game: Coerthas (by the way, whoever decided Castlevania type music is what should fit a snowy wasteland filled with dragons has a really uncommon imagination) where Company of Heroes plot repeats itself, this time actors being named differently though. Boy, isn't every Coerthas npc a scum. Every speech line of theirs burned my heart with hatred for the plot in general at the time.

Anyway, I would like to hear your opinions on storyline, as it's not so commonly discussed. Really interested to know what people think.

just suffer through the story until you get past Garuda.

Then enjoy the fuck out of it.

[Slambo]

Story lives up to the name, but its an mmo - I expected filler.