I’m the same, I’ve played every mainline game (plus a bunch of sequels, prequels, side games and spinoffs) and I never gotten into XI or XIV. I just find it weird that ppl don’t consider you a true fan because you don’t like MMOs. FFIX has been my favorite game since day one. So judging from what they said to me, it means my entire childhood is irrelevant lol
Note that FF14 is only technically an MMO. If you choose to interact with that side of the game you can, but the main story is very much a single player experience outside of the occasional dungeon or boss that you queue for in a multiplayer setting. Those are the equivalent of “this boss is important to the lore, in true FF form you need a party to defeat them”.
Most of these tend to be 8 players, which is actually good because it spreads responsibility around and allows for more room to make mistakes and not play “optimally”. Early on you’ll be queuing with players who can just blast through the content as they’re well past it with their thousands of hours already. There are smaller instances of 4 party teams which were originally required to queue a party to play but as time passed the devs programmed NPC AI to control the 3 other characters so you can play something like 80% of content solo.
The story itself is VERY “Final Fantasy”, and you get to grow with your character and watch as more and more people recognize you as a god/ beast slayer. It’s very interesting, to say the least. A lot of really dark shit happens too.
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u/dimaesh Dec 08 '24 edited Dec 08 '24
I’m the same, I’ve played every mainline game (plus a bunch of sequels, prequels, side games and spinoffs) and I never gotten into XI or XIV. I just find it weird that ppl don’t consider you a true fan because you don’t like MMOs. FFIX has been my favorite game since day one. So judging from what they said to me, it means my entire childhood is irrelevant lol