Final Fantasy
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I've wanted to try this game, but I'm so bad at online games like this. I used to play WoW, but would never join the public stuff, or groups, because I'm slow and people would get mad at me for taking too long. But then it gets kind of boring just doing everything on your own.
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FFT can be played on mobile. War of the Lions. Source: I have it!
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There is a lot of doing things on your own as you work your way through the story, but when the game does 'force' you to do a dungeon or a boss, the community is extremely generous toward people that are new.
The game puts a little "I'm new" icon over your head until you've been playing for quite some time (Looks like a plant sprouting, so if people call you a sprout, it's not an insult) and the community is extremely tolerant of any errors committed by a sprout, and far more tolerant of mistakes in general. Unless you're raiding (which is optional and has no bearing on the story except for one), it's expected that your level of performance doesn't matter much. You'll still get the occasional jerk, but they're a rarity rather than a rule.
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To go further, I've found that people who are rude to sprouts generally are the ones that are find themselves on the end of being disliked by other players. There was a huge influx of WoW community a few months back and the FC I was in purged a decent chunk of them when they found out they were rude to new players. FF14 is really a good community (by and large) for this.
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@redjellybean Also, if you find yourself in a forced dungeon/boss, people get a bonus if someone hasn't done it before. It makes everyone more tolerant of a wipe or three.
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FFXIV has a 2.5 second cooldown compared to WoW's 1.5 seconds. While there are some skills intended to be used off of the global cooldown, some classes are more and some are less reliant on those things. That 1 second doesn't sound like a lot, but it slows combat down and increases the time you have to react to any given thing. Plus, for things like getting out of the fire and stuff, the majority of markers on boss fights and things are really well telegraphed with plenty of time to get out of the way.
The game also has heavy GM moderation. The community is great, because the GMs can and do punish people for being jerks (provided they get reported). It means even if somebody's slow in a dungeon or messes up, even the biggest jerks are going to be pretty mild about their reactions the majority of the time. Mostly, the way the systems are setup has created an environment where people are helpful to sprouts (people get rewards for doing so) and less negative than other games in the genre.
There is ALSO the Echo, which is a story-based mechanic that every time you wipe on a boss (excluding current content, and you have to spend a reasonable amount of time actually fighting) the party gets a 10% buff, all the way up to 60%. There are very few things that can't be done with a 60% buff.
I am slow. I tank and heal just fine, even on current content. I can even do SOME of the more difficult content, but not the hardest of the hardest. The main game is designed VERY intentionally to be accessible to very casual, non-mmo players. It's an RPGMMO, rather than an MMORPG.
eta: Oh! And the two most recent expansions, the majority of the story 'required' dungeons (not all, but the strong majority) can be done with an NPC party that has a tolerable AI, and how much damage/healing they do scales based on how much you do to ensure you get through at a reasonable clip. This makes it not great for the people who are really good at it (slower than wall to wall pulling), but fantastic if you want to take your time and be relaxed about it.
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I haven't touched FF14 since the servers were flooded with Endwalker, I should maybe get back into it. But I am also waaaay too focused on Space Engineers at the moment (praise Clang).
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So!
6.1 is launching in mid-april. The housing area in Ishgard is open for previews, though it won't be on sale until patch.
This patch, aside from new content, brings us the Trust system to the first leg of the game. The trust system allows you to run dungeons with a collection of NPCs from the main story. It was implemented with not the current expansion but the one before that, and you were able to go with the Scions (basically the group that's been your NPC party for the whole game). The ARR (a realm reborn; it's the name of the base game, 1-50 level of 90) trusts will be a little different -- since the Scions won't always be available for your journey, you'll get NPC adventurers at some point that will be part of the system.
It won't be removing ALL requirements for group content (some types of party content don't work right yet), but it will cut down the forced party-ing a SIGNIFICANT amount, if that's your jam. The AI is really pretty good.
Most servers (if not all) have lost their congested rating; they don't always have character creation available, but it's not long-term disabled any more.
As of 6.1, housing will be done via lottery system.
New 10 year story arc is starting.
(insert free trial meme here.)
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@sunny I may have to try it now. One of the big things holding me back is that I'm really bad grouping with people for dungeons and stuff. I played WoW and avoided all that stuff, because of it, but it stalled my play because I needed to go into some places to further the story. So I ended up dropping WoW. Then again, WoW is full of little jerks that get pissy if you're not quick enough and I hated that.
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@bear_necessities said in Final Fantasy:
I really wish I could find a copy of Tactics somewhere and play it, why isn't it on Steam?! Ahhh. That's my two cents!
Supposedly a remaster is being worked on. It was in a leak with Chrono Cross remastered and that's coming out in like a week.
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@redjellybean said in Final Fantasy:
@sunny I may have to try it now. One of the big things holding me back is that I'm really bad grouping with people for dungeons and stuff. I played WoW and avoided all that stuff, because of it, but it stalled my play because I needed to go into some places to further the story. So I ended up dropping WoW. Then again, WoW is full of little jerks that get pissy if you're not quick enough and I hated that.
You totally should give it a shot; there's a trial up to level 60. It isn't eliminating ALL of the group play (there will still be a few things you have to do for progression unfortunately), but it is the bulk of it. FFXIV does have its little jerks that get pissy if you're not fast enough, but they are not even remotely the majority. Peeps get rewards for playing with new players, peeps get bribed with hefty bribes to do instances with noobs, there's a mechanic called the echo where if you wipe enough the fights get easier....well, I've been pugging as a healer all this last week, and I have not once been squawked at.
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@sunny I'm definitely going to look into it now. It's either get into FF online and play, or try to find a MU* and I've had no luck with that. I miss RPing, too.
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I've been playing FFXIV since 3.5, so 3 full xpacs ago. I cannot tell you how good the story is once it gets rolling. I have cried. A lot. There's also a lot of casual friendly stuff to do, minigames and sidequests and all that. Just be prepared. Glamour is the true endgame. You will get addicted.
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Midway through Stormblood on an alt right now, and I ran into some dialogue that made me think it was Endwalker foreshadowing. Finished the stuff, switched over to my main, went to the place -- yup. I was not imagining it, it totally was.
They are REALLY good at their continuity, I have to say.
(I HIGHLY recommend, if you've finished Endwalker, do a non-quest tour of the realm. There are a LOT of people who have a LOT of really cool things to say to you.)
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I am replying to this merely because alt right is early enough in the first sentence that it keeps drawing my eye on the Categories page as the last post and dagummit I get tired of having that little mental quirk until I parse the rest of the sentence.
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@derp you realize you just alt right did the same thing again right?
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Alt right.
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Nazis.
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I hate all of you.
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Bah. I will never be able to do it on purpose.