Yeah, the GHOST Free Company is big and wealthy and very helpful to new people.
Unfortunately, Sargatanas can be difficult to create a new character on (you pretty much have to do it early morning or late evening).
I've actually been planning on getting back on after finishing Dark Souls to level up my paladin.
Saaaaaammmeee
I bet jehuty jones is kicked though
You can just ask to come back
They do purges of inactive members every 3 months to keep the list manageable
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GHOST seemed kind of whatever anyway
Actually running anything was basically not going to happen because everyone had their own linkshells and statics and maybe like four people actually talked in FC chat
Finally got the boat in FF9. This is a REALLY late stage to get your first transportation vehicle. Ah, that terrifying yet lovely feeling of needing to go explore too many places....!
I really thought they'd just lob the airship at me.
Boy, Alexandria sure blew up good.
Alexander's appearance was okay but it sure got shanked reeeeeeeal fast. That's 0 for 2 crazy strong summons being useful
And the whole "She's lost her voice" story dynamic is pretty contrived, but Garnet sure has had a lot of shitty things --in fact every shitty thing-- lobbed her way. Can't really blame her for going into shock. Pretty much every single plan failed spectacularly for her, eh
Actually running anything was basically not going to happen because everyone had their own linkshells and statics and maybe like four people actually talked in FC chat
Huh that's weird when I was there people were always talking and starting groups in FC chat for things.
I'm east coast NA so maybe it's a time zone thing?
Finally got the boat in FF9. This is a REALLY late stage to get your first transportation vehicle. Ah, that terrifying yet lovely feeling of needing to go explore too many places....!
I really thought they'd just lob the airship at me.
Boy, Alexandria sure blew up good.
Alexander's appearance was okay but it sure got shanked reeeeeeeal fast. That's 0 for 2 crazy strong summons being useful
And the whole "She's lost her voice" story dynamic is pretty contrived, but Garnet sure has had a lot of shitty things --in fact every shitty thing-- lobbed her way. Can't really blame her for going into shock. Pretty much every single plan failed spectacularly for her, eh
Also: Wug, souls and lifestream plot again eh
Getting the boat is basically the point at which you can really break the game, since you can get some REALLY overpowered items from chocograph hunting.
Man, the onboarding stuff in FFXIV really ought to have a "yes I've played WoW" option. As with any MMO the first impression is heavy with WHOA WAY TOO MANY ICONS WHERE DO I GO
turns out everything is just a thing I know with another name.
Also that's a lot of "go talk to this person" quests to open with. I did manage to start killing stuff at the end there.
1. Frog catching at every marsh so the frogs can repopulate as I do everything else
2. Grab the Blue Magic skills Quina missed so far
3. Revisit every town
4. Chocobo Hot and Cold for a few billionty hours
5. Advance the plot???
Heh, you're way ahead of me. My computer broke down last Friday so I haven't been able to play all week. At first I thought it was the PSU, but now I'm suspecting it's the motherboard.
Instead I've been watching Book 3 of Korra on my Kindle.
"Simple, real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time." -Mustrum Ridcully in Terry Pratchett's Hogfather p. 142 (HarperPrism 1996)
Man, the onboarding stuff in FFXIV really ought to have a "yes I've played WoW" option. As with any MMO the first impression is heavy with WHOA WAY TOO MANY ICONS WHERE DO I GO
turns out everything is just a thing I know with another name.
Also that's a lot of "go talk to this person" quests to open with. I did manage to start killing stuff at the end there.
If you don't like talking to people you're in for a bad time.
FFXIV is definitely a Final Fantasy game first. There is plot for miles and running across the world just to talk to people is not a thing they have an issue doing.
It is a fantastic MMO as well, but they had specific plans going into that game and they went hard on it.
I'm definitely getting the impression that it's a WoW clone first and FF second so far. But I can see how that's a thing they did to make the game relevant after they went all-in on FF and no-in on making it a playable MMO in the original version of the game.
I'm not against having a game structured and paced like a big-budget Jurp in the trappings of WoW, that said. In fact that's pretty much the entirety of the draw.
The mechanics are straight up copy-pasted from WoW. It's far from being the only game that did that, but it's hard to get away from how this is totally a cooldown action bar game.
Understandable considering it's one of basically two successful MMO paradigms so far (and hell, even Destiny went more WoW-like when Taken King came out).
Obvs this is early-ass impressions, and the multiple classes on one dude with their own quest branches are a really cool hook I haven't seen elsewhere (which I understand is an import from XI).
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fffuuuu don't start playing FF14 you guys
you'll start talking about it and then I'll have to start playing and make yet another lalafell with a silly name to level to cap and then stop playing
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Most of the jobs/classes are really cool at 60. Your mileage will vary. One to 50 is seriously MMO101 so you'll find that many of the classes don't get exciting until 38 and up.
1. Frog catching at every marsh so the frogs can repopulate as I do everything else
2. Grab the Blue Magic skills Quina missed so far
3. Revisit every town
4. Chocobo Hot and Cold for a few billionty hours
5. Advance the plot???
If you keep a male and female frog in a marsh they repopulate way faster. Even faster still if you keep the golden frog in there.
1. Frog catching at every marsh so the frogs can repopulate as I do everything else
2. Grab the Blue Magic skills Quina missed so far
3. Revisit every town
4. Chocobo Hot and Cold for a few billionty hours
5. Advance the plot???
If you turn on the speedup boost, Chocobo Hot and Cold is really easy. It's harder to control your position, but you can dig like 3 times a second and the timer moves at normal speed. I managed to get all my chocographs in the first forest in about 10 minutes, and had almost 2k points because about 70% of the time I was able to get the max items found bonus.
So I think I finally tipped the balance to system mastery in FF5. It happens around when you start getting the Legendary Weapons, and it just so happened I unlocked !Rapid Fire on Faris around then too. Finally feel I'm putting enough damage on enemies that I don't really have to worry about survival and can just mow through the game.
Got two Lithographs left to get, and the Fork Tower, then it's Job grinding time before I head towards the end. Exciting.
Also that's a lot of "go talk to this person" quests to open with. I did manage to start killing stuff at the end there.
A little after hitting 50, when you hit the period between the base game and the expansion, you get to do about 30 straight hours of nothing but teleporting between towns and talking to people. Every five or ten hours or so you get to do a dungeon. There's multiple 20-30 minute cutscenes in there. The full game end credits play twice, maybe three times. There's post-credits stingers after all of them so you can't skip it.
Pulled Bravely Default out of storage to finally finish it. I got to chapter five like a week after it came out, and only just mustered the will to finish the damn Groundhog's Day sequence this week, when I noticed the sequel was out.
So... Before I actually buy the sequel, does it have any similarly repetitive segments?
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Also, a page or so late, but I would kill for another jrpg with the FFX initiative system. I even endured that goofy as hell LOTR game where you beat up the eye of motherfucking Sauron with your sword, and all the cutscenes were basically a clip show from the films, just because it had a similar combat style.
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Also that's a lot of "go talk to this person" quests to open with. I did manage to start killing stuff at the end there.
A little after hitting 50, when you hit the period between the base game and the expansion, you get to do about 30 straight hours of nothing but teleporting between towns and talking to people. Every five or ten hours or so you get to do a dungeon. There's multiple 20-30 minute cutscenes in there. The full game end credits play twice, maybe three times. There's post-credits stingers after all of them so you can't skip it.
Enjoy!
Yeah, I hope they trim that stuff down soon. I just kind of did whatever I could while waiting on a group finder queue. Took me a couple weeks.
Good news is since you can be every class on one character you only have to do it once!
@Tofystedeth the speed boost while Chocobo Hot and Colding was really, really effective, thank you. It saved a lot of time, but was also terrifying how quickly you could mash for results.
@Wyborn destroyed his fingers in service of the last two chocograph pieces and chocographs. Thank you Wyborn!
Now I apparently have final weapons for most of my crew. And I'm still nowhere near strong enough to fight Ozma. I'm in a weird position where my team has learned nearly all the abilities they need, so other than a level grind I don't have to search down many additional pieces of equipment or do much setup for the end. Hunh... what an odd feeling.
I still think they waited way too long to give you the ship and the airship.
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Awesome! In case you still haven't found it, the thread is in the MMO Extravaganza subforum.
The Palace of the Dead stuff sounds super rad
Saaaaaammmeee
I bet jehuty jones is kicked though
You can just ask to come back
They do purges of inactive members every 3 months to keep the list manageable
Actually running anything was basically not going to happen because everyone had their own linkshells and statics and maybe like four people actually talked in FC chat
I really thought they'd just lob the airship at me.
Alexander's appearance was okay but it sure got shanked reeeeeeeal fast. That's 0 for 2 crazy strong summons being useful
And the whole "She's lost her voice" story dynamic is pretty contrived, but Garnet sure has had a lot of shitty things --in fact every shitty thing-- lobbed her way. Can't really blame her for going into shock. Pretty much every single plan failed spectacularly for her, eh
Also: Wug, souls and lifestream plot again eh
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Huh that's weird when I was there people were always talking and starting groups in FC chat for things.
I'm east coast NA so maybe it's a time zone thing?
They always seemed p darn active.
turns out everything is just a thing I know with another name.
Also that's a lot of "go talk to this person" quests to open with. I did manage to start killing stuff at the end there.
1. Frog catching at every marsh so the frogs can repopulate as I do everything else
2. Grab the Blue Magic skills Quina missed so far
3. Revisit every town
4. Chocobo Hot and Cold for a few billionty hours
5. Advance the plot???
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Instead I've been watching Book 3 of Korra on my Kindle.
If you don't like talking to people you're in for a bad time.
FFXIV is definitely a Final Fantasy game first. There is plot for miles and running across the world just to talk to people is not a thing they have an issue doing.
It is a fantastic MMO as well, but they had specific plans going into that game and they went hard on it.
I'm not against having a game structured and paced like a big-budget Jurp in the trappings of WoW, that said. In fact that's pretty much the entirety of the draw.
It plays like ffxi with a few more map markers and a quest journal that doesn't require combing a submenu (praise be.)
Which is no surprise considering.
Also original was very playable. Actually it was pretty rad in a lot of ways. The story is something I kind of regret losing out on. It was nifty.
They just built this absolutely crappy world to work with and it just wasn't anything they could functionally work on long term.
A good example is how a v1 barrel had more polys than an entire v2 character.
V1 looked really pretty.
Understandable considering it's one of basically two successful MMO paradigms so far (and hell, even Destiny went more WoW-like when Taken King came out).
Obvs this is early-ass impressions, and the multiple classes on one dude with their own quest branches are a really cool hook I haven't seen elsewhere (which I understand is an import from XI).
you'll start talking about it and then I'll have to start playing and make yet another lalafell with a silly name to level to cap and then stop playing
Arcanists are rad, good choice.
The level 60 summoner skill is basically the best thing in the game.
I had to shut off their chat because it moves way to fast
If you keep a male and female frog in a marsh they repopulate way faster. Even faster still if you keep the golden frog in there.
Got two Lithographs left to get, and the Fork Tower, then it's Job grinding time before I head towards the end. Exciting.
added benefits: less creepy pubs talking about "lolis" in fc chat
A little after hitting 50, when you hit the period between the base game and the expansion, you get to do about 30 straight hours of nothing but teleporting between towns and talking to people. Every five or ten hours or so you get to do a dungeon. There's multiple 20-30 minute cutscenes in there. The full game end credits play twice, maybe three times. There's post-credits stingers after all of them so you can't skip it.
Enjoy!
That hasn't happened in months.
Did we finally shame them into exile?
So... Before I actually buy the sequel, does it have any similarly repetitive segments?
The incidents I was thinking about were over a year ago so that's an awful long stretch of time
I was 300k in Gil before I threw some away at the Treno Auction
Too much Gil!
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Yeah, I hope they trim that stuff down soon. I just kind of did whatever I could while waiting on a group finder queue. Took me a couple weeks.
Good news is since you can be every class on one character you only have to do it once!
Yeah. It hasn't happened since.
Then he was all "Yeah they went off to serve Kuja" and I breathed a sigh of relief
You go and do whatever you want, buddies. Just be alive
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@Wyborn destroyed his fingers in service of the last two chocograph pieces and chocographs. Thank you Wyborn!
Now I apparently have final weapons for most of my crew. And I'm still nowhere near strong enough to fight Ozma. I'm in a weird position where my team has learned nearly all the abilities they need, so other than a level grind I don't have to search down many additional pieces of equipment or do much setup for the end. Hunh... what an odd feeling.
I still think they waited way too long to give you the ship and the airship.
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we ozma now