VanaFest 2012 Recap: The Facts by Elmer

[Raydeus]

Re: VanaFest 2012 Recap: The Facts by Elmer

I know the feeling, but suffice to say this expansion pack is scheduled for 2013 and by then maybe they'll have done enough changes to warrant the game another chance.

[Armando]

Re: VanaFest 2012 Recap: The Facts by Elmer

talk me out of going back to FFXI

The game mechanics will still be horrible, getting anything will always be a grind and going back will be pointless if other people don't play with you.

[Raydeus]

Re: VanaFest 2012 Recap: The Facts by Elmer

Yeah, going back right now and crashing into the old walls that are still there doesn't sound like fun somehow. <_<;

[Malacite]

Re: VanaFest 2012 Recap: The Facts by Elmer

Well, besides Cosmic Elucidation being pretty bad-ass and his sword having Phoenix's spirit, he had the brains and willpower to kill you to guarantee saving the world, unlike Prishe. He was also managed to knock everybody else out when Promathia got in their heads and they started trying to kill each other, all the while resisting Promathia's temptations. Then he was ready to let you kill him to make amends, and he had real issues like committing genocide on his own people.

Prishe made you chase her all over the world without telling you what she's up to and gambled the fate of the world without having a plan.

But more importantly the Emptyness was still eating away at Tenzin's homeland and top of that civil war was breaking out because of drought and famine. Add to that the whole Phoenix thing and there was real potential for a storyline there. I would've preferred that to the alternate universe comic book nonsense of Abyssea.

Yeah, funny how doing that would have just caused Abyssea to happen in our own realm as well


Also, with regards to Phoenix, didn't they literally sacrifice an entire town just to restore that little bit of power to Her within the blade?!

[Armando]

Re: VanaFest 2012 Recap: The Facts by Elmer

Yeah, funny how doing that would have just caused Abyssea to happen in our own realm as well

I didn't play Abyssea, but I thought that was basically what happened if you lost to Promathia on the last battle? If Tenzen got away with killing you Al'Taieu would've stayed separate from Vana'diel.

Also, with regards to Phoenix, didn't they literally sacrifice an entire town just to restore that little bit of power to Her within the blade?!

That's what I meant by genocide. I don't remember exactly how many died. Don't know if they even said.

[cidbahamut]

Re: VanaFest 2012 Recap: The Facts by Elmer

I got the sense that it was a lot more just a small town.

[Etra]

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I've decided that after this news I feel like:


But it's just not working out. Unless they do allow a lot of solo content mission-wise, I'll pass.

[Kailea]

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yeah I agree....I really want to go back, but I know I really should not. After the Abbysia stuff I just felt (to me at least) they ruined it...... I had no drive to play anymore.

[Malacite]

Re: VanaFest 2012 Recap: The Facts by Elmer

Does anyone care about Abyssea spoilers?

Yyg Spoilered it to spare Ray and others from having a sad. Shame on you Mal

Basically, you lost the fight against Promathia (only Prishe survived because she's immortal) and then Promathia absorbed Sehl'teus and became Shinryuu and pretty much began the end of the world. As for Phoenix, I'm pretty sure sometime around the airship fight Tenzen specifically says an entire village was sacrificed (burned) to restore merely a sliver of Phoenix's strength.

[cidbahamut]

Re: VanaFest 2012 Recap: The Facts by Elmer

Does anyone care about Abyssea spoilers?

...he says as he proceeds to not put anything in spoiler tags.

[Raydeus]

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I stopped myself from reading the moment I read the first line.

But I'm afraid my subconscious has already read it all and will probably give me a nightmare or two tonight.

[Firewind]

Re: VanaFest 2012 Recap: The Facts by Elmer

Am I the only one who doesn't care about solo content? It's always ridiculously grindy in asian MMOs and if I wanted to play an FF game solo I'll play one of the other FF games in the series. There's quite a lot of them to choose from.

[Feba]

Re: VanaFest 2012 Recap: The Facts by Elmer

I stopped myself from reading the moment I read the first line.

But I'm afraid my subconscious has already read it all and will probably give me a nightmare or two tonight.

I'm sure your subconscious has terrible English.

[Armando]

Re: VanaFest 2012 Recap: The Facts by Elmer

@Mal: Nobody would've even had to have fought Promathia if Tenzen had killed you. That dumbass Nag'molada wouldn't have gotten absorbed and ruined everything.

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

Re: VanaFest 2012 Recap: The Facts by Elmer

Dear SE,

Stop taunting me with FFXI references in Dissidia an Theatrhythm and get to a single player version of FFXI. The first trilogy arch at least. It's seriously better and more worthwhile than any of the crap you have planned for FFXIII and that vaporware FFvsXIII.