For braving the dangers that lie outside of the walls of each major starting city in Eorzea you'll have a number of combat options. It's rare to ever feel as though you're questing for a reason outside of bumping up your class rank. More story missions become available at later progression milestones and eventually unlock other extras, but are so spaced out that feel more like bandages to remedy a general lack of narrative context throughout. These story-driven scenes are some of the best parts of the game as it stands right now, helping to tell the tale of the world, showing you around the land, and foreshadowing events to come. Before stepping onto the game's various progression treadmills you'll be dumped into a sequence of cut-scenes filled with character dialogue, combat, and exploration around whichever city you chose to start in. In Final Fantasy XIV you're never locked into one particular class, so the one chosen at the start only defines your character for as long as it takes to get to an item shop. As tends to be standard in the genre you'll also be asked to pick a class, though the choice isn't especially meaningful. A number of races, from the hulking Roegadyn to the cat-like Miqo'te, can be chosen and customized in a few different ways. At the beginning you're given a chance to create and name your character.
Things do start out in a directed fashion, though.
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