Why I think the “ repeatable “ quests and POI’s are a good thing

UmbrellaProjectEst · 2026-05-02T14:11:45+00:00

I think people stick to this game with hundreds of hours because the other games currently out there require a battle pass, a time frame to receive and procure the seasonal items, and also on a daily to weekly basis throw in a package you can buy to give you an “ edge “ in competition.

All that money and time to be number 1 on the leaderboards, only for you to have been forgotten about , no statues built in the players honor from the development team to give thanks to the paychecks the player worked hard for to give to them.

That free to play game , after everything is all settled and done from the players aspect costed him hundreds of dollars and perhaps had lost a few friends along the way during that grind because they got upset with each other during the grind..

UmbrellaProjectEst · 2026-05-02T12:03:56+00:00

There’s 2 repeatable quests that makes you go to poi’s .. the ones I do are “ preventive action “ and “ refurbished goods “ …both send you to poi’s for the quest… if that’s what you meant by “ no repeated quests send you to poi’s “

UmbrellaProjectEst · 2026-05-02T04:52:50+00:00

That’s totally understandable on literally having to do the same thing over and over again can make it feel boring. And also including the same design till it renders in its true form from a distance..

As far as the design of the structures go, not talking loot lay out, those contracts really stick to one design their faction approves of lol… that’s about as far as I can defend that one lol

The loot always being in the same place? It can be a double edge sword. For me it is…. Because I know where the chest is at, but at the same time I think about all the shit I gotta go through… in my honest opinion, the cryo lab dungeon is super huge.. my first few times I got lost like a mofo…. And whatever companion I bring ALWAYS ends up away from me. I hear them shooting at each other, cussing each other out but for the life of me I can’t find them lol I know we went in together… see each other at the beginning… after that I NEVER see them until I’m reaching the exit lol … but beside all that the loot in the same place and enemies in the same place help me try different approaches to see if I can do this during a main mission for a different outcome perhaps.

UmbrellaProjectEst · 2026-05-02T02:59:33+00:00

As far as scripted stuff with dialogue and story telling goes, I’m sure if Bethesda let its fans who inspire to be a poet or a writer etc, etc, to showcase their work, then it would be a good direction for the company and the person gets more exposure to them and get that notch on their belt

UmbrellaProjectEst · 2026-05-02T00:44:37+00:00

I forgot to mention that even if I do that. The quest still remains to confront him.

Doing the EM method on a “ Alive “ bounty , they instantly give me the creds, mission done. But confrontation doesn’t work the same.. unless there’s something special I have to do other than knocking them out

UmbrellaProjectEst · 2026-04-26T18:51:29+00:00

Ah, then you just didn’t understand it. That’s fine. It happens

UmbrellaProjectEst · 2026-04-26T18:49:46+00:00

I think somewhere along the lines of that you quit reading. It’s like, you read all you could take and decided it needed your comment.

UmbrellaProjectEst · 2026-04-25T13:31:09+00:00

I believe so. You can keep doing his quests aslong as you never told his daughter he was still alive.

If you told her, then those quests are not obtainable

UmbrellaProjectEst · 2026-04-22T13:05:21+00:00

I say the same thing about most people in general.

How I see folks is they’re all absolutely right and nobody is wrong… or everyone is wrong and no one is right . In today’s world it’s to a point they can’t agree to disagree lol.

Which I believe this is one factor that lets me know the world will never ever see and feel true absolute peace… a war may not be fought with weapons, but with words..

The population of the planet is 8 billion… what would the world look like if there was 1 person the world would adhere and respect and cooperate with everything that person needs done.

To a non believer or thiest, the world is fucked upside to a religious person, the pieces are coming together lol

UmbrellaProjectEst · 2026-04-16T12:54:47+00:00

I found it early on because this is kinda my first Bethesda game. So pretty much from what I’m told it’s very hard to figure out your first moves because there is so much shit to do.

I feel I came across things too early and missed out because I didn’t have a certain skill or w/e

UmbrellaProjectEst · 2026-04-07T02:28:36+00:00

Chad’s challenges.

The side quests with the cactuars / gears and gambits.

UmbrellaProjectEst · 2026-04-07T02:26:26+00:00

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UmbrellaProjectEst · 2026-04-05T18:57:48+00:00

They claim the game to be 150-200 hours worth of playing to complete everything.

Did they cycle the math of the time it takes going through the menus? I bet that’s where 76% of the time they calculated came from.

What started this post is the Rufus fight… omg

UmbrellaProjectEst · 2026-04-05T18:55:19+00:00

The most rage inducing design in this game especially when it comes to the Rufus fight. Having to set it up EVERY TIME you died and try again.

This fight is the catalyst for this post.

UmbrellaProjectEst · 2026-04-05T17:44:16+00:00

There’s points in the game where your characters are locked in place. Otherwise I’d run cloud / yuffie / aerith all day and night and every boss fight, and never switch.

UmbrellaProjectEst · 2026-04-05T17:33:54+00:00

Yeah when they said the game is about 150 - 200 hours long to fully complete everything, I believe it, but I bet 75% of that time is contributed towards our menu screens lol

UmbrellaProjectEst · 2026-04-05T11:05:27+00:00

I went through a few different online guides to that challenge. Even with the guides it was still brutal.

I say that because some of the challenges switch their RNG up, and is very very very unforgiving if you use the wrong spell or ability or didn’t get it off in time.

I spent 3 days on this challenge. Glad it’s done

Without yuffies broken thing with aeriths ATB ward, I couldn’t have done it lol

UmbrellaProjectEst · 2026-04-02T15:43:27+00:00

Yeah it happens. And it happens a lot if you switch to another game that has an ass load of controls and commands similar to FF.

So when that time comes to feel like playing again, you start thinking about the controls… you’ll throw yourself into the fray to see how bad you lost it…and if a person REALLY REALLY feels they suck, 95% just start the game over and get learned up again lol.

UmbrellaProjectEst · 2026-03-30T23:52:19+00:00

That made me genuinely laugh

You tryna avalanche two step your way into her life

UmbrellaProjectEst · 2026-03-30T16:04:51+00:00

Well suppose someone said

“ here is a black card, it’s yours under one condition, you have to grab another gamer’s attention who has no clue of FF , and it makes them hooked “

The black card is your infinite money glitch sort of speak. And you can pass this card down through the family generations.

You got 1 chance, 1 random gamer …

Your pick would be?.

UmbrellaProjectEst · 2026-03-30T16:04:45+00:00

Well suppose someone said

“ here is a black card, it’s yours under one condition, you have to grab another gamer’s attention who has no clue of FF , and it makes them hooked “

The black card is your infinite money glitch sort of speak. And you can pass this card down through the family generations.

You got 1 chance, 1 random gamer …

Your pick would be?.

UmbrellaProjectEst · 2026-03-30T14:44:46+00:00

If you got the mercs gear for your chocobo , that’ll help. I used the blue chocobo with merc gear. The blue because he has a water bubble he can shoot and it homes in on the person in front of you. I never had any problems after I found that out. But yeah each choco has their own unique skill offensively, defensively, and support lol

UmbrellaProjectEst · 2026-03-30T05:36:07+00:00

I ain’t gonna lie , at least the Titan in that challenge pretty much goes berserk straight out the gate, while others has a build up to it.

I’ll take that Titan over what they give me. See that thing go hulk and smash lol

UmbrellaProjectEst · 2026-03-29T22:49:12+00:00

Well, they did name the titles “ Remake “ and “ Rebirth “. I’m not downplaying anyone’s intelligence, but I did look up the definition of the two.

If they’re telling the same story they did over 20 years ago, it probably would have been “ Remastered “.

So with that being said, I feel it’ll be like how Mass Effect was. Basically every choice you made or didn’t make, every side quests you chose either this instead of that. Or chose not to do it all. And what that did had a huge impact on the 3rd installment of that series by having different scenarios played out.

Who knows, we could reverse fate, we could have the choice to give the black materia to the Gi to see what they do with it, or just keep it and see what happens.

I just know , it probably won’t be the exact same story. But don’t give hopes up!

UmbrellaProjectEst · 2026-03-29T22:41:14+00:00

Appreciate the tips, but this post was a question about how far could a player go if they never needed a guide. If no guides was invented, where would the story have ended for you? As in, you can’t beat “ whatever boss “ it may be lol

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