Am I the only one who doesnt cry over this game's story?

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Originally Posted by LaughingBanana

Yes, you are the ONLY one, OP.

You are TRULY unique among the millions and millions that play this game. You are the ONLY one that doesn't cry, literally it's just you and you only.


















Sorry, "Am I the Only One" threads are just one of my biggest pet peeves, lol.

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wheres my achievement then? cant seem to find it in the menu's... halp!

No you're not alone. The game tries too many times to be emotional to the point where I became desensitized to it. It was almost kind of campy at times.

I'm a rather emotional person, I tend to tear up whenever the mood is right for it. I cried a lot throughout many of the games expansions, tho this one probably hit me the most.

I'm like that with books, movies, songs, etc tho. It's probably not "manly" or w/e but I've always been that way.


But not everyone is like that, and that's OK. We all react to things differently.

I didn't for this entire expansion until one scene:

When the WoL uses Azem's crystal and summon's both Hythlodeus, and Emet-Selch - with their memories in tact. After summoning the Elpis flowers, and talking with them both, and Emet smiling at the end. It had me smiling and crying in good measure. I liked their characters quite a bit.

I would say, overall, ShB did have more emotional moments.

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Originally Posted by lezard21

Disagree.

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I believe anyone claiming spoiled moments don't ruin literary design are daft on the subject of literary success.

However, to be fair, it also heavily depends on how the story is told. For example, if a story begins with maybe showing 10 minutes of a future moment and then doing a "but this is how we got here" kinda moment, and rewinding back to the beginning, technically you know the outcome but you become invested from the process to get there.

FFXIV employs this a few times throughout the story but it's not extremely obvious all the time.

However FFXIV also is told mostly in a forward moving perspective so it definitely depends on the progressive highs and anonymity helps lead those highs to bigger pay offs linguistically. Spoiling events hands down will undermind THIS particular story.

I shed a tear at a certain part in the story that revolved around loss, because I suffered a huge loss less than a year ago and it resonated with me. The story has definitely tugged at my heartstrings, but I don't cry over that. I can easily cry to other things in my life, though. I was very involved and very emotional when I came to the end of the story. My first words were "WHAT A RIDE THAT WAS". I really enjoyed it. It made me smile and be sad at the same time, it made me laugh and stressed me out at times. All in all 10/10 and I look forward to coming patches and another expansion.

Eh, I've been playing since Hw release, but incould never connect with any of the characters like that.

I didn't cry cry... but getting on the moon... I felt things. It's the moon. T.T I def cried a bit being there. It's ... just the MOON. T.T

You aren't the only one. I do feel it sometimes, then I just hold it in to avoid shedding any

Apple and orange---is all I can say.