(09-08-2013, 12:31 AM)ashkir Wrote:(09-07-2013, 03:36 PM)Siobhain Wrote: Welcome! Hurray WoW-players!Well, I love lore. The stories of World of WArcraft made me quite happy. Really, with Pandaria it was so nice that all the major quests/story lines spoke out loud to you! I was hoping Final Fantasy doesn't have them. I heard FFXIV 1.0 was really bad, I asked around about it and the best description I think I got it was it was like 10% complete so I responded: 15 minutes of a 2 hour movie at a theater, only the first 15 minutes done, the rest is just pictures of a pretty mountain. Does that desribe it well?
I think a lot of people aren't 100 percent on the lore yet; I'm not and I've been hanging around, reading like a crazy person for a while. I -have- played other FF games, but rest assured that the only one(s) that have anything in common with this are FFXI and FFXIV 1.0 (And FFXI isn't really connected, lore wise, but all the character races were pretty much the same).
Nothing from the older FFs are really connected to one another, with a few exceptions. You'll still see the Cactuar and the Chocobos and the inevitable Cid but otherwise each is unique so that should make things a lot easier.
If you have any questions people here are happy to help. Rolling a Hyur that's young and possibly inexperienced is a great idea on how to discover the lore OOCly as you do ICly or in game, IMO.
So, again, welcome~
So far I've noticed the Chocobos have a good storyline in themselves, as they were introduced to me by the game and what they were by the game. Hyur Midlanders seem to be the youngest and most inexperienced of the races. I also like how they look. I choose based on look before story, and now quite pleased.Â
Thanks for the welcome!
 FFXIV/ARR is, of course, very new compared to Warcraft. I -loooooved- Warcraft lore. It was so in depth and always expanding (the only complaints I had were a few inconsistencies here and there that a lot of people complained about). FFXIV doesn't have any novels or things that I know of (yet) so of course there'll be a little bit less. Not hundreds of pages of lore about any little thing you could think of, but I imagine those come in time. I dunno because I wasn't around for vanilla WoW and though I was there are the start of SWTOR, there's already huge bits of lore for Star Wars to begin with.
Hyur -do- look great! I like them a lot compared to humans or human-equivalents in some other games.
And dun be sad you rolled on Balmung~ I hear it's a good place. *is rolling there too, but just got the game today*
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