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I see, you're talking about the adventuring fellow.. ok. But then I'd point to your chocobo companion in XIV. Want it to heal you? Set healer skills and put it in healer stance. Want it to fail hilariously at tanking? Equip tank skills, set it to tank stance, and despair. Then switch it back to healer.



Ok but then we're getting into encounter design and not character progression. I agree that the choices of cross-class skills are super limited and does create an illusion of choice. I'd like that system to be expanded or scrapped myself because as it is right now it's just a trap, same with the bonus stat system.



Er no.. here I'm not following you. By this logic the GCD system used in XIV is akin to an ATB gauge that certain classes have the ability to speed up (MNK and NIN specifically). I don't think anyone would reasonably make that claim though. XI and XIV don't operate on a turn-based system, they operate in real time with swing timers and local/global cooldowns on abilities. XII was similar here.



I see. 10 didn't give you control over your airship either btw. You clicked a map and just went there. And I'd always assumed the "online lobby" thing was because MMOs are so heavily instanced now, not really sure what that has to do with the means of open world travel but ok. I'd also point to MMOs that have given too MUCH freedom in open world travel and have discovered that isn't always a good thing. WoW for instance opened up flight everywhere and it obliterated most open world encounters because people would fly down, do their thing, then pop back on a mount and fly to the next thing. They've actually stepped back from this idea by limiting flight until the end of an expansion (behind a big gameplay wall).







Actually most single player RPGs (especially when you're in control of more than just your main character) are largely about building teams with synergistic qualities. Sometimes that takes the form of combined attacks (Chrono Trigger, Suikoden), sometimes it means one character sets up an enemy to be nuked down by another character (Xenosaga is a good example of this), or any number of other things that enable teams to work as teams. For an XIV example I'd point to Trick Attack and Foe's Requiem as being pretty helpful to your team. Tactical RPGs are based entirely around this concept. It is by no means defining of the FF series any more than any of these others. It's just a team game thing.

Edited, May 12th 2016 12:25pm by Callinon

For the companion it is almost the same with chocobo except with companions you can have different jobs within the trinity each with their own skills. With chocobo it's a more generalized be a DPS but there is no distinction of a job within that trinity division.





This would be the case if the system was global and not relegated to two classes specifically that can alter their speed. Also the XIV system core is less based around auto attack and singular cooldowns, it is governed by a global. Yes it has auto attack but it plays a lesser role in the bigger scheme of things. The entire XI game was designed around weapon proficiency with skill ups and the speed up or down of parameters. It is not classified as turn based but RTB in both mmos are designed with ATB in mind. Does a Hundred fist monk or KC wielding Dark hits more turns in a span of one minutes than a standard one?



Well I think we are both right on why some players consider mmos online lobbies. The basic belief is that anything that takes you of a living, breathing, virtual space within a game can be great for convenience but it can takeaway from the immersion,surprise, and magnitude of the world. If everyone could beam me up scotty to an exact location in 30 seconds anywhere in the world. Most people would do it, become thankful for it, and maybe become spoiled by it. Some people might still ignore the teleport and do it the old fashioned way. But those little stories(some joyous and some dreadful) skipped by bypassing the longer way will be lost along the way.

I am torn between the two. I don't like the idea of a bypass feature because I believe games whole purpose is to immerse me and lots of time to be invested in a world. But at the same time, I don't appreciate when games go the opposite way with the excessive busy work like walking back and forth multiple times during a questline or mundane harvesting with uninteresting mechanics being pushed hard.


I agree that other rpgs have tactical depth. At least for me, Final Fantasy has more than any other rpg franchise when it comes to team synergy, controlling multiple characters. Now if we are talking single character control than Elder Scrolls or Dark Souls would be that for me.

Because I have answered this question so many times.


Edited, May 13th 2016 1:51pm by Nashred

So looking at SE's report, they're pretty much only staying afloat because of DQX and FFXIV which means if XV doesn't absolutely DOMINATE and the FFVII remake (that they're funneling funds to, let's be real) is actually not as good as people hope, there's definitely no hope for XIV ever straying from "what works" because they already make all of their money now doing very little and with the mog station stuff being insanely popular they really have no reason to "change" the game aside tweaks to stats here and there sadly. Then again, I'm just "cynical" because despite starting as a Wii MMO, DQX seemed to not really be hindered in any shape or form, even when they pulled people off (including Yoship) to relaunch XIV.

So I can actually see why they don't want to stray or take risks, because patch delays aside, there's a very good chance if they lose their revenue from their two fully supported MMOs it won't end well, since XV alone is a huge sink.

Since they're done with 3.x and most likely at best 4.0 intro scenario, 4.1 is probably the next time we'll see any major changes to the formula, swimming aside.

*cough*



Yeah that's pretty much right.