What do you want to see in 2.0?Follow

Since there is a little lull in the flow of information which will last presumably until E3, I wanted to start a wishlist thread. This is not a bashing thread or a "what I DONT want" thread. It is a thread devoted to each of use making a Holiday Wish list so-to-speak. What would I like to see?

1.) Golden Saucer being really technologically advanced, contrasting pretty hard with the "simple life" of the areas we've seen so far. I want it to be grand and spectacular.

2.) To add to that, I would love to see a card game implemented like tetra master or triple triad. Maybe for the sake of control they can limit actual card play to the Golden Saucer "tournaments".

3.) As I've mentioned many times I would love to see slow travel options. Airship, boat, and TRAINS. I would love to see the train function like the Chocobo porter where once the ticket is bought we actually ride the train from point A to point B while able to look out the window and see adventurers grinding away at their levels.

4.) I wish for a solid, helpful, and friendly community of players.

5.) I hope the boss battles are epic

6.) I hope the storyline is well written and fun to actually watch.

What do you guys want?

I think you both covered all the stuff I want too. The only thing I would add would be mounted battle. Someone mentioned it in another thread too.

ETA: it's not an in game thing but I would really really like a controller/keyboard peripheral like the Logitech one I had for FF XI. I know some of you have had one before too. It was just so handy.

Edited, May 26th 2013 2:45pm by LebargeX

A lot of the above, but also:

I want the combat to be fun. That's what I'll be doing most of the time, I gather.

I want to see the inside of Ishgard. Not sure if that was ever implemented in 1.0 .
And most of what has already been mentioned here. I also hope they add a few surprises to the game at launch that they don't reveal before release.

I'm going to go out on a limb and predict that this is where the 1.0 characters will start off when we first log in with our characters in 2.0.

A ton of different classes.

They have stated that 1.0 characters will start off somewhere different than new characters. So we won't be starting in 1 of the 3 main cities, but they haven't said where that will be as of yet. I'm just predicting that Ishgard is where we will start off on our imported characters providing Ishgard survived the transition to ARR. Just a guess on my part.

Isn't ishgard going to be an instanced tower? Or is it a town?

I want both solo and party play to be challenging.

I want thief.

Global cooldowns scare me, I hope they are implemented well if they must happen.

Do you have any examples/theories as to why these would be a bad thing? I've only ever extensively played XI, so while familiar with a skill specific cool down system (as was explained to me earlier) I am unaware as to how a GCD might affect gameplay.



Now that is something I think we can all agree with

Edited, May 26th 2013 7:54pm by je355804

Generally speaking, implementing a GCD is saying, "We're going for strategic gameplay." You can't use abilities quickly and consecutively, which means they've taken reflex-based skill out of the game for the most part. That's not inherently bad if you can back it up with genuinely strategic skill, but most likely you're going to end up with a single move that is spammed over and over, or at times, have rotations that you use frequently. In better examples, you need to use a specific strategy against a certain type of opponent, but most often even that becomes easy to figure out, and it once again becomes rinse and repeat gameplay.

Strategic gameplay requires the game to throw surprises at you--enemies with complimentary strengths and weaknesses partnering up, etc. Complex problems that require analysis to overcome.

Hate to say it, but that's really just unlikely. Combat will probably suffer from the same identity crisis as most MMOs--not requiring much of any particular kind of skill, so not being particularly challenging, so become boring rather quickly.

Jetpacks! >=O

Some in depth fishing mechanics would be nice too I suppose (>©_©)>

I guess I only knew combos existed in 1.0