I’ve been waiting for the release of the Manderville Gold Saucer in FFXIV for a very, very long time. While Lucek gave his own impressions of the Saucer in this post already, I wanted to add a gallery of screenshots I took from my arrival there.
In upcoming days, I plan on talking about chocobo racing and breeding.
I have to say, I don’t have any interest in the gold saucer (I’m one of those people who says “ANOTHER mini-game? We already had one!” in RPG’s), I’m glad you guys are having fun with it. 🙂
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Bah. Not just “another mini-game.” Gold Saucer, Triple Triad and chocobo racing are FF classics. :p
I spent many hours racing and breeding my chocobos in FF7. I’m happy to see it return again in more or less the same sort of way.
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Ah, but I don’t have the same fond memories of FF as you–I’ve only ever played 4 and 7. And 7, I only did the racing and breeding to get the best chocobo for getting the otherwise unreachable materia. 😀
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Well every person has their own preferences, still just give it a try if you want. You might actually like it 😉
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What are these ‘other minigames’ of which you speak? Most MMOs seem pretty cut-and-dry in that department. Gold Saucer seems to offer some of the deeper mini-games I have seen yet in this genre.
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I wasn’t referring to experience with MMO’s–minigames in single-player RPG’s tend to annoy me, so I’m theorizing that I would feel the same way about them in MMO’s.
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When you talk about racing and breeding I will probably go in and start adding or commenting. I really look forward to that post ^^
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Why does it say “GOAL!” when you win a race?
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I have no idea, but it reminded me briefly of something you’d see in a Mario game.
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Likely because you’ve reached the goal.
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I think it is just a quirk of the Japanese. They tend to apply English words in weird ways. Kind of like “Level get!” when you finish a level or level up.
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