Final Fantasy 14 like a TV show that new players shouldn’t skip through, says Yoshida
While this weekend’s announcement of Final Fantasy 14’s subsequent growth Dawntrail was enormous information for followers, for new players but to leap into Eorzea the prospect of much more story to get by way of could also be a daunting one.
And with the sport coming to Xbox consoles subsequent 12 months, there will likely be a entire new viewers trying to begin their journey.
Producer and director Naoki Yoshida likened the sport to a TV show that players can binge from the beginning, and highlighted the Duty Support system as a method to ease in newer players.
“With the Duty Support system…we’ve allowed it so that you don’t necessarily have to play with other players, you can go solo and power through the story content,” mentioned Yoshida at a press convention throughout the Final Fantasy Fan Fest in Las Vegas.
“With the analogy of a TV sequence, that is like a season six that we’re simply now releasing, and other people is perhaps tempted to say ‘Oh, properly simply begin from six’ however I truthfully really feel like properly, it is on season six and we have made it so that season one could be very simple to get by way of and binge.
“So I think it couldn’t be easier to recommend for [new players] to just start at the beginning and take it from there.”
He additionally defined that regardless of expansions extending the sport’s narrative, older content material continues to be up to date and price enjoying.
“Even if we release an expansion pack, our previous content is not necessarily old or older, so to speak,” mentioned Yoshida. “We proceed to replace it, we have continued so as to add new content material. Plus it is very story pushed.
“And so, if we have a new expansion pack, would players only focus on the new expansion? Would people be eager to just jump into the new expansion pack? I wonder.”
Some players could also be keen to simply play the new content material, however because of the persevering with story that would not be really helpful. That mentioned, level skips are available to purchase for every particular person Job if desired.
What’s extra, the sport’s 6.5 patch due in October will broaden the free trial to incorporate Stormblood as much as stage 70, which means a enormous chunk of the sport is out there at no cost.
Speaking of TV exhibits, Yoshida mentioned he would “love to have a Final Fantasy 14 TV series” when requested about increasing content material outdoors of the sport. However, he would not really feel he can “squeeze in being a director of a TV series” on prime of his work at Square Enix.
Said Yoshida: “I won’t be able to do it personally, so we’re actually quite open to offers that we may receive if there is a passionate party that wants to bring Final Fantasy 14 in another medium – in a spin-off or some kind of anime or movie or TV series that our Warriors of Light would be involved in. We’ve never really rejected the idea.”
He added: “If the 14 team becomes committed to a project like that, we want to make sure that we’re not destroying the image that we have built, or that players have built in their minds, of what Final Fantasy 14 should be, no matter what the medium would be.”
Final Fantasy 14’s subsequent growth, Dawntrail, was introduced on the Fan Fest – here is all the pieces you have to know.
