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sc94597 on 26 April 2015
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osed125 said:
Materia-Blade said:
osed125 said:

Really good game, only major complains I have with the game are:

 

  •  MMO like side quest with zero variety and extremely boring to do (halfway through the game I only did them if I needed to grind).
  •  Stupid and cliche moments in the story (won't go into detail because of spoilers), there are 3 parts specifically in story that truly pissed me off.

 

There is variety on side quests. some of them lead you to secret areas and optional bosses. they are few but do exist.

I don't consider that variety, the core of all quest are basically the same:

Kill x number of monster

Collect x number of this item

Kill x monster

Talk with x character to deliver x item

And that's pretty much it, it's impossible to not get bored after doing the same thing over and over again, just with different names for monsters or items.

There are two types of quests, basically. Story side-quests and non-story side quests. A lot of side-quests create affinities between characters in the areas you are doing them in, and it builds up a repetoire for the people who live there. I don't think I ever played an MMO that has done this well. Furthermore, many story side-quest lines merge together into a very sweet story. For example, there is a side-quest line where you find out that a Nopon you helped out was a drug dealer supplying drugs to High Entia. This quest line was the merger of three seemingly unrelated lines. Furthermore, a lot of side-quests hint at the lore of the extinct giants. 

How exactly would a side-quest be done where you don't kill monsters, don't run errands, or don't collect items. What exactly would you do?