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RE: Lightning Returns video - K'dath - 09-27-2013
You know, I never had a lot of love for FF13. In fact, I vehemently detested it and made people go sit in the naughty corner if they brought it into my house. The other day someone who'd never played it before asked me what exactly about thirteen was so bad that prompted such extremist reactions... and to be honest, I could not actually articulate a reason why. I don't even remember why I hate it, and it makes me feel very idiotic.
It was kind of an earth shaking revelation. I even called my ex, who of the two of us is drastically more qualified to review a Final Fantasy game, and asked him why he didn't like Thirteen. To which he couldn't answer justifiably either. I feel like my whole life is a lie...
To the actual subject and the possibilities it opens, I actually highly doubt they'll liberally allow cross-overs from other games. Lightning is from their current IP, which is in need of sales. They're trying their damnest to sell /this/ character. "We are going to shoe-horn her into every facet of this company until you like her!"
Or, if you're not mean and cynical like I am about everything, the technical limitation of "Well, we'd have to actually make unique character models and outfits and dynamic events/behaviors for them, and that's a lot of work." Which is a legitimate enough reason to limit it to a promotional thing. Assuming FF14 is still around when 15 comes out, they'll probably do a tie in with that. Maybe with subsequent Kingdom Hearts and Dragon Quest releases as well, since Square seems to like sharing characters across IPs.
I doubt we'll get an 'ohfuck, Sephiroth came here through a dragon break and is gonna drop another meteor on your face unless you wail on him! Oh, and use this redonkulously large sword!' And I seriously doubt we'd get anything with more dark horse characters like Theodric suggested. But who knows? I'd lob my wallet at the screen to run amok with Balthier.
RE: Lightning Returns video - TheLastCandle - 09-27-2013
Yoshi-P has said in the past that he wanted to include more nods to past Final Fantasy games in ARR. The upcoming Shantotto boss and Dragon Quest golems FATE show that the team is keen on making good on that promise.
RE: Lightning Returns video - Naunet - 09-27-2013
(09-27-2013, 09:11 AM)Teveriel Wrote:Theodric Ironheart Wrote:As for the F.A.T.E system, I feel it suffers from similar issues to the dynamic event system in GW2. Too many players show up, the events either take too long to complete or are over far too quickly and if you're not in a party it's near impossible to earn a high rating unless you're a tank or healer.
I agree with this. I'm not sure what can be done about it, though. People are using FATEs for easy exp because there simply aren't enough quests once you go through the content with your first class. I suppose one solution might be an overall buff to leves, giving more allowances per day, along with increasing exp rewards from Battlecraft leves.
A very easy boost to the fluidity of FATEs would be to implement a public grouping system a la Rift. Make it absurdly easy for people to group. If you're in the vicinity of someone who has not marked their group as private (which is something you have to deliberately change - the default is public), then a little UI button appears. Click it and bam - you're partied. It would help solve the "do a FATE and get no to zero credit" thing significantly.
RE: Lightning Returns video - K'dath - 09-27-2013
I haven't experienced this issue with fates. In fact, I don't actually have to do anything to get gold. I just spam Tab+1 (Bio) and consistently get gold. No parties or... you know, actually thought needed. This may very well be part of the larger problem with how utterly unbalanced Arcanists are though.
RE: Lightning Returns video - DAISHI - 09-27-2013
Disclaimer: I hate FFXIII.
Post Disclaimer: I'm all for this.
RE: Lightning Returns video - Naunet - 09-27-2013
(09-27-2013, 11:50 AM)X Wrote: I haven't experienced this issue with fates. In fact, I don't actually have to do anything to get gold. I just spam Tab+1 (Bio) and consistently get gold. No parties or... you know, actually thought needed. This may very well be part of the larger problem with how utterly unbalanced Arcanists are though.
It's a problem at higher level FATEs where there are dozens upon dozens upon dozens of people.
RE: Lightning Returns video - DAISHI - 09-27-2013
I don't worry about gold because 1.0 showered me in curtains of it.