Fawkes

I think I hate it.

The dialogue really annoys me, especially since it's a time loop game. There are times where your character says something with no tact whatsoever and then the wife gets upset, and that's just the end of it. It's not like he says something rudely the first time and then the next loop tries to put it more gently. Or when you call Bumblebee he just blurts stuff out stupidly and you have to put him in the bathroom to navigate around his stupidity.

"They are going to type away that this game made sense when it first came out and that by playing it today, I lack the proper context for understanding its appeal."

Yes hello I'm here. It almost sounds like you tried to go in blind and avoided looking things up unless you had to. Even in 2003 everybody was looking stuff up and asking other players for information. Most of your problems seem solvable. Finding out what quests unlock what, or where to go to start a particular mission is easily obtainable information on any FFXI wiki. If you're getting aggroed by Malboros you can use sneak to avoid getting aggro, although if you have to go past aggressive mobs you might want a different EXP camp, and there's probably a million guides on "best FFXI exp camps" at this point, and hopefully you're doing records of eminence and fields of valor and using an exp ring. If someone told me they were going to do the paladin quest in Davoi, I would tell them to be sure to bring sneak/invis and a scroll of instant warp (you can get one for free every day), or any of the numerous other items like warp cudgel/teleport rings/chocobo stable scarves/event items that can safely transport you the heck out of there (when I did that quest back in the day, I went with a group of friends, one of them was a black mage, and once we all got our item he cast the black mage spell 'Escape' which does the exact thing you asked for in teleporting the party to the entrance of the dungeon).

I would probably equate exp loss to losing souls in Dark Souls, at least conceptually. Obviously it represents a greater loss of time. But it exists to make the world dangerous and give exploration and carelessness real consequences. And clearly not everybody hates it because FFXIV has it too, in the 'Eureka' content and also sorta in the more recent Bozjan Southern Front.

Also, while Home Point teleportation is the most recent teleportation system, home point crystals themselves have been in the game since it launched. They just used to only be a thing you clicked on if you wanted to show up there when you died.

I chose none, but then some pants I equipped had other plans.

Andromeda is a game I always kinda wanted to give another shot but never did. I think I was waiting to hear that they fixed or improved it through updates but I don't know if that ever happened. Maybe on the PC with mods wouldn't be so bad.

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Yep, I thought it was a regular Season Pass. I had no reason to assume it wasn't.

Also the Ultimate Edition comes with the "Elite Agent Pack" which is advertised as having additional stash space, but it actually just gives you one of the stash perks unlocked from the start, so you don't actually get any additional space, you just get access to it earlier.

Apparently clans are a thing? I'll be playing on PS4, so if there's a GB clan I'd be interested in joining it.

The disappointment for me is that I've been wanting this remake since the Gamecube remake of the first game came out. In my opinion that is the perfect remake, it faithfully recreates the original but also adds a lot to it. But I think this remake cuts too much out and doesn't get enough right, let alone improve upon it. Don't get me wrong, the gameplay is great, I think it's a fantastic game and I've had a lot fun playing it. But as a remake of what is probably my favorite game of all time, that I've wanted for almost 20 years, it just doesn't deliver. And I don't think I'm going to get another remake of it even if I wait another 20 years, so that's why I can't help but be disappointed.

Leon never gets the Heart key and Claire never gets the Club key, so they have slightly different access to parts of the station, and they do take some different paths after leaving through the parking garage. I think it's worth playing through both characters at least once and it might as well be with the second run.