From the start I knew where I was and what was going on. The MMORPG I was playing before this one was The Elder Scrolls Online. Other MMORPGs I have played have kept me going despite the repetitive tasks because there was a story and many of the quest had something that furthered the overall story. You can not customize as many things as you can in other RPGs and what you can is limited to a few choices. I'm sure someone will say this has the greatest story of any MMORPG ever made and that may be so but to get to it you have to slog through hours and hours of mind numbing quests while not knowing whats going on.Īlso the character creator is limited. I think I got six characters to level 20 to 26 before I gave up on this game and quit. I leveled up a character doing the same type of quests with no connection to each other until I got bored and started a new character with a different class and starting area. Maybe this should be titled Final Fantasy XIV: The Odd Job Simulator. Oh great this again, another same old same old quest with no connection to anything else. Pilgrims are being attacked on the road by Y monsters, go kill X number of Y to clear the way. Ok I'll go do that but how does this help me understand whats going on I have amnesia you know, I don't know whats going on and none of these quests are telling me anything. Ok I'll go do that but what does this have to do with the story and the world at large? I'm to scared and shy please deliver this to person A. Like a person with amnesia I was totally lost and did not know who, what, when, where, how or why.įarmer Z needs you to kill X number of Y because they are destroying his crops. There were two quests where the same guy showed up so I guess those two quests were apart of the main quest story but there was not enough context to understand what was going on. Of course each quest had text that gave the reason why you had to go kill X number of Y but its was not part of anything else. There was no real story to go along with any of them. I could not keep doing the same mind numbing quests over and over again. I tried all of the starting classes but could not get any of them much higher than level 20. There are other examples of this arcane way of doing things. When you have to deliver something you have to manually open your inventory drag the item over the quest text box and click give to give it to them as if this is a late 80's early 90's RPG. Oddly some of the interface is way out of date. Go kill X number of Y, Go deliver A to person B, and so on and so on. You run around doing the same stuff as in every MMORPG. The "Your character has amnesia" has be done to death and beyond, I guess it was only a matter of time before it happened to the whole world. The whole world has amnesia! Dear lord I don't believe it. When you first start the game there is a cut scene that made no sense to me then you are in a wagon and some guy says something happened and now the whole world has amnesia. I like most of the Final Fantasy games and several other Squaresoft games. I have been looking into moving to a new MMORPG and with the great reviews I went to try this one first.
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