(03-14-2015, 11:30 PM)Ralyon Wrote: Welcome to "This game has an actual story and making you skip it will present confusion and spoilers".Â
I'm happy this is being done. I hate people that skip pretty key content because "WOW NEW STUFF YEAH". This game has an actual story and one that progresses over time, unlike WoW where it's kinda to the side and the game is much more focused on the "oooh levels and raids and rolling pandas!". When we look at FFXIV's story, Ishgard doesn't want anything to do with you UNTIL 2.4 to which there's a sudden waver from them. 2.5 is making the wave bigger and I'm going to guess that 2.55 is where Ishgard caves in and actually lets us "Warrior's of Light" to enter. Without that waver, Ishgurrdurr said "get out".Â
"But Rayyyy SE can just used a skip button!" - To which I say "well if the new kids want to be really confused over a rather interesting and different story then go right ahead. Don't go crying to squeenix when you find its not a good idea". Sadly SE (which is a Japanese company who heavily values story to the point of making Lightning Returns a 8 hour movie it was for me okay dont hate) won't do that because of said confusion.Â
Again, I'm happy this is being done.Â
As for games that did it and were successful, TOR did it and was quite successful. Then again I and a good umber of people were at 50 already when it came out so I just sat there and waited.Â
It's not that I wanted to skip it. It's more than I've always wanted a gun job in XIV, and for that I've holded back on doing the MSQ, planning to do it as a gunner when it'd be released. In FFXI, I wanted to go through the main scenario (city missions) as a Blue Mage, so I've bought the expansion, got in Aht Urhgan, unlocked BLU, and then went back to do the city missions.
I'm just not used to expansions being branches of the previous version of the game rather than things of their own.
To be an interesting, intriguing, well-written character, there needs to be something to allow the audience to relate to them. That is what the problem is with who wants their character to be "perfect". Perfect characters will never be strong, and strong characters will never be perfect, because WE (those who read, who watch, who RP) are not perfect.
"What makes a strong character is how they deal with their flaws, their fears, their turmoils, their troubles that get in the way. That's what makes them relatable." -- N.C.
"What makes a strong character is how they deal with their flaws, their fears, their turmoils, their troubles that get in the way. That's what makes them relatable." -- N.C.
