Sorry: this is a rant, and am fairly sure that it has been said already over and over again. But as you see from the number of posts I'm new.
And I have to vent.
I just finished the 45 - FOURTY-CRAZY-FIVE minutes of cutscenes at the end of patch 2.55.
Am not joking, this is the image proving it:
Ok, the story, I get it, 2.x builds a DOZEN different subplots but it's great as most of them are resolved in the end (I had a feeling this would happen). I liked it, but am annoyed as I only watched and didn't feel part of it!
Why I can't fight my way out?
I'm the *** warrior of light, dammit, I've felled Ifrit, Titan and Acians and countless other Primals and I should be scared of figthing a few Brass Blades and Crystal Braves?
The biggest complaint I have of all the 2.x patch series is that there are plenty of filler quests (go there, come back, go another place, come back), with very few combat parts. You watch the story unfold but don't feel enough drawn into it.
Quote:
SPOILER ALERT: this is how, just fresh from the story I see it could be turned into a fantastic finale; mind, all this can probably work with nearly no changes to the current cutscenes.
* Once I get swarmed in the sultana apartments, let Teledji exit and have me fight: we've all been framed, let's jump to the rescue! btw: a level 50 at that point is full IL110 or 120, fighting 4 or 5 enemies should be a piece of cake. Clamped duties can also be an option for all these fiths.
* Then show the video of accusation in the feast hall, Raubhan desperation and Ilber's betrayal.
* Make me enter in the feast hall and fight with all my companions. Here we can even take on 10-15 enemies, maybe while Ilberd and Raubhan do their stuff in the background. Or even with Ilbert coming to fight (invulnerable) the various groups of us.
* Break for cutscene, make Raubhan buy us time to leave the hall.
* Out of the feast hall, have another fight outside: then break again for cutscene where Yda and Papalymo buy us time and Thancred suggest we aim for the tunnels
* Show Yda and Papalymo fight and then the rest of the group in the tunnel, break for another fight.
* Show the cutscene with Thancred and Y'Stola
* Break for a last fight (let me defend Minfilia once for real!) and then show the remaining cutscene till Alphinaud.
In the finale of the ARR MSQ, Castrum Meridianum & Pretorium, you were part of the story, although with other people, but still you were part of that moment.
Here you only "watched" that long moment, your character was there but there was no involvement.
All felt like a movie and not a game, where you can _be_ part of the moments in the story.
Hope this is not how the rest of the story works, because it's irritating and frustrating.
Continue reading...
And I have to vent.
I just finished the 45 - FOURTY-CRAZY-FIVE minutes of cutscenes at the end of patch 2.55.
Am not joking, this is the image proving it:
Ok, the story, I get it, 2.x builds a DOZEN different subplots but it's great as most of them are resolved in the end (I had a feeling this would happen). I liked it, but am annoyed as I only watched and didn't feel part of it!
Why I can't fight my way out?
I'm the *** warrior of light, dammit, I've felled Ifrit, Titan and Acians and countless other Primals and I should be scared of figthing a few Brass Blades and Crystal Braves?
The biggest complaint I have of all the 2.x patch series is that there are plenty of filler quests (go there, come back, go another place, come back), with very few combat parts. You watch the story unfold but don't feel enough drawn into it.
Quote:
SPOILER ALERT: this is how, just fresh from the story I see it could be turned into a fantastic finale; mind, all this can probably work with nearly no changes to the current cutscenes.
* Once I get swarmed in the sultana apartments, let Teledji exit and have me fight: we've all been framed, let's jump to the rescue! btw: a level 50 at that point is full IL110 or 120, fighting 4 or 5 enemies should be a piece of cake. Clamped duties can also be an option for all these fiths.
* Then show the video of accusation in the feast hall, Raubhan desperation and Ilber's betrayal.
* Make me enter in the feast hall and fight with all my companions. Here we can even take on 10-15 enemies, maybe while Ilberd and Raubhan do their stuff in the background. Or even with Ilbert coming to fight (invulnerable) the various groups of us.
* Break for cutscene, make Raubhan buy us time to leave the hall.
* Out of the feast hall, have another fight outside: then break again for cutscene where Yda and Papalymo buy us time and Thancred suggest we aim for the tunnels
* Show Yda and Papalymo fight and then the rest of the group in the tunnel, break for another fight.
* Show the cutscene with Thancred and Y'Stola
* Break for a last fight (let me defend Minfilia once for real!) and then show the remaining cutscene till Alphinaud.
In the finale of the ARR MSQ, Castrum Meridianum & Pretorium, you were part of the story, although with other people, but still you were part of that moment.
Here you only "watched" that long moment, your character was there but there was no involvement.
All felt like a movie and not a game, where you can _be_ part of the moments in the story.
Hope this is not how the rest of the story works, because it's irritating and frustrating.
Continue reading...