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MMO I want to be excited about but can't quite get worked up about - Final Fantasy XIV

(I tend to like Final Fantasy games in part for their worldbuilding - see Midgar and Spira - and I'm just not getting a feel for that from XIV. It seems so...generic high fantasy with chocobos :<)

MMO I didn't expect to be excited about and am - Guild Wars 2

(It looks gorgeous, and while the races play into some of the fantasy tropes they also all manage to look really unique. I want a cute little Asura already, augh. And the lack of extreme sexual dimorphism - contrast with WoW - makes me happy. Female cat people aren't hypersexualized, hooray!)

I also keep wanting to reactivate my WoW account, but most of what I want to do is raiding and as far as I know there are no non-shitty two-night-a-week raiding guilds, which is all I have time for right now. I'm an elitist bitch and I don't want to play with lousy players, but I think pretty much anyone who is a good raider is in a three-four raid a week guild which I just...can't do.

Date: 2009-12-16 09:45 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] ext_8317 (from dreamwidth.org)
I had the same problem with FFXI. It never felt like the world really had the same punch that most of the games' worlds did. I've wondered if it can be attributed to the lack of an overall driving idea or plot - without a plot that needs a floating continent or a cyberpunk city, do you even wonder if you should have one? FFXI's world just kind of felt like all the places were beautiful and fascinating, but tragically forgettable compared to anywhere I've ever been in a game. FFXVI looks ready to make that same error in worldbuilding, and I can't get any enthusiasm for something that attractively bland.

Date: 2009-12-16 09:55 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] momijizukamori.dreamwidth.org
Yeah, I think 'attractively bland' about sums it up. I know balancing plot and open-endedness in an MMO is hard, but seriously, this is SE. They have the money, they have the people, they're just...too busy making three different FFXIII games I guess :(

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