Montsegurnephcreep wrote:
Dallie wrote:
Exactly, the soul has been completely missing from it since the revamp. Even 1.0 had some soul (though nowhere near XI's), and i've been saying just that since re-launch. I haven't ever been able to place my finger on what the precise missing piece or pieces are....I find myself subbing for shorter and shorter periods of time since 2.0, and while I normally give expacs a good three months' time for stuff to settle and WAI, HW only got 1.5 from me, playing infrequently. It's just become the same, which without any substance, isn't worth a lot of people's time or investment.
Honestly, I don't think there's anything missing from XIV that makes it different in terms of "feels". It's probably just the fact that you're no longer 14, 15, whatever young age, and experiencing this style of game for the first time. My fondest MMO memories are PSO and FFXI (as they were my first two online RPGs). The same goes for the first RPGs I actually played through. Sure I played FF1 as a 6 year old, but didn't get very far (mostly because it was a one day rental from the corner store). Link to the Past, FF6, Chrono Trigger though, I played through and feel they're some of the best games ever. No other game has since really given me the same feeling, mostly because I didn't play them in my formative years. Same goes with music from your teen years, that stuff seems to stick around you forever. You then proceed to act like an old man or woman claiming everything else is garbage.
I am going to totally disagree with this.
I started playing FFXI in my mid 30's.
Now my late 40's and going back to FFXI it still feels like a better game as far as things to do and fun factor.
The whole sparks system is awsume and you can get sparks by doing so many different things not just the same thing over and over.
Tesee loved the new monster raising and the new mog garden, I could not get her to stop playing.
There has been more added at least more fun things to FFXI than FFXIV in the same time and on a skeleton crew.
It still not the game it used to be but it just has something FFXIV does not.
They can not even fix the housing issue in FFXIV. By the way we should be at the point in FFXIV where all these people loose their homes and I do not see a bunch of vacant lots.
Tesee agrees when she went back to ffxi I would come home and she would be playing, be ready for bed and she still was playing.
She said with FFXI there always seems to be the one last thing you
want to do before logging off and with FFXIV you are just tired of playing when you log off.
FFXI=fun FFXIV=work
I still occasionally get that feeling when I pick up a game that is different. I had it when I started FFXIV but lost it so fast at end game. I even had it with coil till we hit turn 5 and it sucked the life out of me. Games are all trying to be the same with no risk. I picked up the new Rainbow six and it has lost that feeling to, it aint no different than COD. They took away the cover system and that is what made that series different. It defiantly is harder and harder to get that feeling but mainly because everything is a copy, it has nothing to do with peoples age.
For me FFXI was the greatest gaming experience of my life since playing Venture.
Doom was another highlight that changed gaming.
I wish SE actually would see these types of posts so they can change the game.
Edited, Mar 15th 2016 10:38am by Nashred