>Good storytelling in mmo can't exis-
Good storytelling in mmo can't exis-
Jack Cruz
Juan Powell
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David Sanchez
Statement is true.
Nathan Richardson
Brayden Diaz
It's boring until the raid on Eulmore though
HW was good throughout
Nolan Sanchez
Blake Rogers
>800 hours of cutscenes
stop shilling this shitty mmo
Hunter Nguyen
Shadowbringers had a genuinely terrible story. If you want to celebrate XIV's story, post Heavensward.
Gabriel Parker
>Theme park MMOs are good
like, yikes, sweetie.
Evan Carter
>Heavensward
lol
Anthony Carter
Seriously; cool your fucking jets on the XIV threads. The last 5 have all died terrible deaths over the past 12 hours because you keep forcing it.
Dylan Wright
>there exist non-Theme-Park MMOs in current year
>any of them are actually massively-multiplayer
Welcome to the future user; we split into the worse timeline circa 2006.
Isaac Anderson
>implying FFXIV doesn't have a dogshit story
L O L
Joshua Ramirez
Are there any good ice-themed outfits in this game?
Gabriel Baker
There is the Hailstorm set if you're a healer or a caster.
Ayden Carter
Only 5.0 was good the rest of the story was dogshit.
John Myers
G'raha Tia and Urianger claim to be the WoL's friend but are repeatedly deceitful in ways that are too major to be ignored. I get why Urianger felt he had to be sly in post-HW. I was even willing to forgive the First since he got conned into it by G'raha, but not a week later in Eden, he says to Thancred "I have a big theory that could be important but don't tell WoL."
I get that they keep presenting it as having no choice. I get that if they spilled the whole plan up front it could hurt the narrative tension and drama. I still don't think it's okay, and it bothers me that they keep getting written as our best friends.
A big theme of HW was various characters learning to trust one another basically from scratch;
>Ishgardians learning to trust WoL and other outsiders
>Ysayle earning the party’s trust after fighting against them
>WoL & allies having to earn the trust of Hraesvelgr, Vidofnir, and other Dravanians
>Estinien sort of having to learn to trust everyone since he had been so isolated by his thirst for vengeance for so long.
This resulted in bonds between the characters that felt very genuine and very much earned, and in turn culminated in a quite satisfying resolution in 3.3.
In ShB, a good deal of the dramatic tension stems from some of our closest friends purposely obfuscating their intentions and challenging our trust in ways that are patronising. The biggest offender is the scene in Rak’tika where Y’shtola and Urianger realise that the process of killing the Lightwardens is harming the WoL - rather than telling us there and then, they ignore it and go ahead and kill another Lightwarden first, knowing that the outcome is harmful to us. Exarch being set up as an elusive character from the get-go (Y’shtola says she hadn’t spoken with him in years because he wouldn’t be straight with her) was a bit undercut when half of the player base identified who he really was within basically minutes of the ShB trailer first being shown
Austin Parker
>weebshit
>good storytelling
Dominic Fisher
good guess, but nope.
Noah Stewart
Six month content drought after a shit tier patch lmao
Liam Foster
Don't worry, the next patch is going to be shit too.
James Long
Yup. SHB got off to a great start, and now its easily been one of the worst expansions aside from the story. I feel its worse than SB. Each expansion seems to be worse than the last, hope its not a trend.
Dylan Turner
What not enough trannies for you?
Caleb Cox
>Exarch being set up as an elusive character from the get-go (Y’shtola says she hadn’t spoken with him in years because he wouldn’t be straight with her) was a bit undercut when half of the player base identified who he really was within basically minutes of the ShB trailer first being shown
It's more of a yet another case of the scions being conveniently stupid. WoL, despite being pretty much the only scion with 0 connection to g'raha barring Crystal Tower questline figures out instatly that he's the Exarch upon introduction.
You can see more of it throughout ShB as they struggle with most inane shit that takes you a minute to solve and "recently" in 5.2 couldn't wrap their head around Elidibus' plan despite the fact that he stated exactly what he was going to do outright.
Connor Rogers
This game peaked in HW, its getting shitter and shittier ever since. No fucking point in playing this dumpster fire anymore.
John Myers
It's the cultists. They don't like the fact people are talking about WoW again with all of the Shadowlands updates, so they're desperately shitposting in such threads and counter making their own. They are sick in the fucking head.
Jack Young
Still waiting for this to kill WoW.
Waiting....
Leo Garcia
>The biggest offender is the scene in Rak’tika where Y’shtola and Urianger realise that the process of killing the Lightwardens is harming the WoL - rather than telling us there and then, they ignore it and go ahead and kill another Lightwarden first, knowing that the outcome is harmful to us.
This is in-character for them though. All the Scions outside of Alphinaud and Alisaie just treat WoL as a weapon and don't trust him with anything he doesn't absolutely need to know to do his job. Remember Lyse?
Bentley Ramirez
This, anyone who stuck around for SB/SHB got fucking trolled. HW was a fluke lmao
Grayson Reyes
>Squeenix
>good storytelling
Michael Stewart
*nods in your direction*
The fucking state of the WoL. I can't believe they've gotten away with absolutely terrible cutscene animations for YEARS.