Am I the only one who dosen like Final Fantasy A Realm Reborn??

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#1 c4fouru
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Ok, so first off I do not want fan boys to attack me because I have heard it already, "you just don't get the game, if you don't like it don't play it, troll." This is just my opinion and I wanna know if anyone else feels this way. Ok, so im not new to mmorpgs, not by a long shot. I know the basic things to expect and how they operate. I will start with what IS great about the game to me. Graphics are beautiful for an mmo, they are gorgeous, no doubt. The final fantasy world brings back nostalgia like you wouldent believe, and coming from someone who has been around since the snes days of ff3 it is nice to hear such a achingly beautiful soundtrack. The job system is pretty cool and adds some depth....but that's where the good things end for me. What turned me off is as follows- There is little to no story line, I did give the game a solid five days waiting for the story to unfold. with very very little voice acting the reading takes you right back to a wow feeling.....which in 2013 is not good. the story is like this- One main mission that follows some kind of piss pour plot followed by nine missions that are fetch quest or other things that have nothing to do with an already directionless story simply to drag it out longer. Then you reach points where you cant even progress in the story because your not high enough level. Nothing takes you out of the game more than being unable to continue because your level is too low, so you must go do side quest or kill monsters to raise your level (which takes forever) just to continue. So aside from a voiceless acting, directionless storyline that stops you periodically you may be asking, Why play this game? Well I can tell you its not for the pvp side because....there is none, rumor is its coming in a patch but who knows. And don't get me started on the new FATE system, sure they randomly appear in the world but its usually a mess, imagine 25 players and life bars jumbled into one area leaving you no room to see much less be able to click on the one of 3 monsters. you just spam and spam and when its over you get a ton of exp leaving you wanting for a challenge. The enemies in the world are also as lifeless as can be, the world is populated by generic final fantasy monsters that stand still until you hit one, even then only the one you attacked will attack despite being in a group of other monsters. Or you can simply run directly through a mob and not one will touch you. Basicly there is no feel of real danger, you are handed victories...im serious. There is also a lack of anything that makes the game engaging at all, there are no waring factions, no conflict of nations, nothing that pits other players against you. your all buddies holding hands smiling and killing monsters, super powerful players just mobbing monsters leaves much to be desired. That feeling of wow or swtor when you spot a enemy player in a contested area and begin to fight is gone.... replaced by a "everyone wins" feel.... this game is basicly for little kids ages 7-16 who simply don't want a challenge or who hate losing. The so called "open world" is false advertising, example- With other mmos as soon as the opening scene is over you can take off, any direction you please, you can head to low level zones and kill monsters or follow the quest line. in FFARR you must join this guild and must do this or that before even getting the chance to leave the first screen.... not to mention having to be a certain level to leave the home city.... you are very, very, very restricted... sure the world looks huge...LOOKS, but its a very liner path you can follow, id even call them trails, even loading points separate small areas.... so you see a mountain afar that could hold treasure or enemies? too bad, cause you cant go there...... The only damn reason to play this game is to experiment with the job system.....which that is even pointless as all the caster classes are exactly the same...... I found myself bored to death spamming blizzard and fire with my black mage...... same crap with other classes just different spell animations and names. looking forward to epic spells like bolt 3 where lightning storms form and bolts burst out in a powerful explosion? well to bad cause youll get a little spark and that's your lightning....... just one example of many. hoping to see your summoner call fourth a giant beast to do your bidding? Well expect a tiny monster/pet....(think world of warcraft pet size.....) serious.... So between the fetch quest, kill x of this, bring x of that, the same mmo formula we have played forever, no voice acting on a non existing story and just flat out boring combat I honestly don't see why so many people are so excited over this game. I WAS SO BORED I deleted my character and am now pissed that I spent my labor day weekend on it...but hey you have to find out somehow. Does anyone else feel this way? I mean one quest had me giving cookies to kids.....Im clad in bad ass armor giving cookies out..... Im sure the typical fan boys will attack my spelling and grammar, its a typical response when someone has nothing good to say. but I said it and would like to see if there is one single soul who feels like I do because I feel like its me against the world!!!
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#2 DefconRave
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Oh god...my eyes.....
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#3 Bieberfan147
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Nah it's horrble game they could learn more from call of duty model
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#4 Tokeism
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Paragraphs please
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my corneas

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#7 l0ner_1
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Ya didn't like it, move on. No point in posting this wall of text... 

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#8 jer_1
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Holy wall of fvcking text. Dude learn how to type properly for christ sakes.
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#9 Miroku32
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Holy mother of... Dat wall of text.
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#10 Elann2008
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I feel like that's a product of a drunk rant. Nice wall of text. :P
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#11 mrbojangles25
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I feel like that's a product of a drunk rant. Nice wall of text. :PElann2008

its actually quite impressive, isn't it?

I'd either give up on that wall by the should-be fourth paragraph, or feel too guilty to hit "submit".

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#12 ionusX
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[QUOTE="Elann2008"]I feel like that's a product of a drunk rant. Nice wall of text. :Pmrbojangles25

its actually quite impressive, isn't it?

I'd either give up on that wall by the should-be fourth paragraph, or feel too guilty to hit "submit".

here here /thread and im going to go rotflmao now

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#13 Ricardomz
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A wild c4fouru has appeared

It used Wall of Text... it's super effective

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#14 slimjimbadboy
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Give him a break guys, he's already edited it twice. :lol:

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#15 flipin_jackass
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Give him a break guys, he's already edited it twice. :lol:

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lol... Yea, for all we know it was probably in paragraphs & GS's f***ed it up. Post editing seems to kill paragraphs. In any case, I haven't played the game. Honestly, I didn't even know there was a new FF game on PC. lol
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#17 vfibsux
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A Wall of Text hits you for 3,545,789 damage!

 

Op, I don't know why you don't like it because no one is going to read that...(no sane person anyway). But there are plenty who don't like it. It is just an MMO that happens to have some deeper elements than others and more than the usual carrots to chase. People love grinds for some reason. It is well done for what it is.

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#18 FelipeInside
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A Wall of Text hits you for 3,545,789 damage!

 

Op, I don't know why you don't like it because no one is going to read that...(no sane person anyway). But there are plenty who don't like it. It is just an MMO that happens to have some deeper elements than others and more than the usual carrots to chase. People love grinds for some reason. It is well done for what it is.

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Believe it or not I actually tried to read it and honestly I started to get dizzy around the fourth sentence...
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#19 vfibsux
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[QUOTE="vfibsux"]

A Wall of Text hits you for 3,545,789 damage!

 

Op, I don't know why you don't like it because no one is going to read that...(no sane person anyway). But there are plenty who don't like it. It is just an MMO that happens to have some deeper elements than others and more than the usual carrots to chase. People love grinds for some reason. It is well done for what it is.

FelipeInside
Believe it or not I actually tried to read it and honestly I started to get dizzy around the fourth sentence...

My mistake....it was not damage, it was crowd control.
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#20 Lost-to-Apathy
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idontknowwhatyou'retalkingaboutmate.

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#21 c4fouru
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I did edit it, actually when I posted it, it looked fine. Paragraphs and all. I have no idea why its still this way..... Sucks cause it takes away from what I was trying to say.
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#22 deactivated-5acbb9993d0bd
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I managed to read through it. TLDR version: 1) No PvP I like PvP. 2) Too easy... I clearly didn't play past level 30. 3) FATES and monsters are not hard. 4) only kids can like this game. yada yada. In other words another "MMORPG Veteran" that doesn't actually like MMORPGs. And there is voice acting, ok its not all, but are you REALLY complaining about READING? muppet.
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#23 FelipeInside
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[QUOTE="MBirdy88"]I managed to read through it. TLDR version: 1) No PvP I like PvP. 2) Too easy... I clearly didn't play past level 30. 3) FATES and monsters are not hard. 4) only kids can like this game. yada yada. In other words another "MMORPG Veteran" that doesn't actually like MMORPGs. And there is voice acting, ok its not all, but are you REALLY complaining about READING? muppet.

I don't mind reading, but personally it looks a bit weird with them moving their mouths and no sound, lol. Also, I believe that a voice actor gives the character more realism, but I understand it's about budget as well.
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#24 Alpha_S_
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so4332wa.gif

Anyway, the answer to the question "Am I the only one who doesn't like [game X]?" is always going to be "No".

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#25 Croag821
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I did edit it, actually when I posted it, it looked fine. Paragraphs and all. I have no idea why its still this way..... Sucks cause it takes away from what I was trying to say.c4fouru

Yeah that happens to me sometimes, it deletes the formating or something when you post, pretty annoying. 

That being said I did read it.

A lot of what you said was accurate, FFXIV:RRA is a pretty generic MMORPG.

I don't really understand complaining that a PvE game (that didn't advertise PvP) doesn't have PvP. I do like PvP though and look foward to it being added in the future but I'm not holding my breath.

I also think it's pretty immature to say things like "this game is for X year olds."

So far it has been just as easy as any themepark MMO I've played. Most themepark MMO's are not to challenging untill you get into higher level raids and group quests. Mobs do agro to you when you get out of the starter areas. FATEs are just a cluster #$%@ and will be until the population starts to spread out more.

As for the world not opening I'd agree it is somewhat restrictive at the beginning, but compared to other themeparks it's not much different, they all hold your hand. Also a lot of themepark MMO's restrict content based on level when it comes to certain areas and story quests.

I honestly skip the cutscenes and conversations so I can't comment on the story.

It sucks you just waisted money on the game but it seems like you didn't really research it much before you got it, you seemed to expect more of a sandbox experience.

 

 

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[QUOTE="FelipeInside"][QUOTE="MBirdy88"]I managed to read through it. TLDR version: 1) No PvP I like PvP. 2) Too easy... I clearly didn't play past level 30. 3) FATES and monsters are not hard. 4) only kids can like this game. yada yada. In other words another "MMORPG Veteran" that doesn't actually like MMORPGs. And there is voice acting, ok its not all, but are you REALLY complaining about READING? muppet.

I don't mind reading, but personally it looks a bit weird with them moving their mouths and no sound, lol. Also, I believe that a voice actor gives the character more realism, but I understand it's about budget as well.

I've heard that from a few people but i dont understand it.... it would look MUCH worse if the characters did not motion voice .... ALOT worse. many games do this.
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#27 FelipeInside
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[QUOTE="MBirdy88"][QUOTE="FelipeInside"][QUOTE="MBirdy88"]I managed to read through it. TLDR version: 1) No PvP I like PvP. 2) Too easy... I clearly didn't play past level 30. 3) FATES and monsters are not hard. 4) only kids can like this game. yada yada. In other words another "MMORPG Veteran" that doesn't actually like MMORPGs. And there is voice acting, ok its not all, but are you REALLY complaining about READING? muppet.

I don't mind reading, but personally it looks a bit weird with them moving their mouths and no sound, lol. Also, I believe that a voice actor gives the character more realism, but I understand it's about budget as well.

I've heard that from a few people but i dont understand it.... it would look MUCH worse if the characters did not motion voice .... ALOT worse. many games do this.

Yeah probably, I think WoW does it.
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#28 Geminon
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yeah super not reading that.... and if you dont like it, i dont know what to tell you. the game is very well made, and easily one of the best MMOs on the market right now. maybe MMOs just arent for you.
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#29 soolkiki
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Didn't read. Moved on.

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#30 MLBknights58
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TLDR

And no, you're not the only person in the hundreds of thousands of people that tried this game not to like it.

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#31 uninspiredcup
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Nope. Went back to Guild Wars 2. Game is still outdated.

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#32 masterdrat
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[QUOTE="FelipeInside"][QUOTE="MBirdy88"][QUOTE="FelipeInside"] I don't mind reading, but personally it looks a bit weird with them moving their mouths and no sound, lol. Also, I believe that a voice actor gives the character more realism, but I understand it's about budget as well.

I've heard that from a few people but i dont understand it.... it would look MUCH worse if the characters did not motion voice .... ALOT worse. many games do this.

Yeah probably, I think WoW does it.

I think I saw an option somewhere in the settings to turn it off.
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#33 deactivated-5acbb9993d0bd
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Nope. Went back to Guild Wars 2. Game is still outdated.

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Outdated but actually has structure and challenge and progression. Call me "old fashion" but new =I better.
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#34 Gladestone1
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Wow at least im just a horrible speller an there used to that..Man ill even use paragraphs lol...No one has changed mmorgps yet..Every one states that they have the next best thing..Im even sure elder scrolls will be the same ol thing..

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#35 FelipeInside
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Wow at least im just a horrible speller an there used to that..Man ill even use paragraphs lol...No one has changed mmorgps yet..Every one states that they have the next best thing..Im even sure elder scrolls will be the same ol thing..

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No one I think CAN change a WHOLE MMO, but many have successfully changed parts of it to make it different and for different tastes, or else all of them would be a WoW clone which thankfully they are not.
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#36 Elann2008
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If only I had the first post reply, I would have used it as a reserve to format his essay.
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Dat wall!