Better Writers

There's wayyyyyyy too much dialogue to have such stilted writing. You need to cut 50% of the dialogue, most of it is trite and redundant. It's gotten to the point where all I need is to listen to the first sentence, maybe two and then skip. It's twice as interesting, twice as fast and it doesn't sound like someone doesn't know anything about writing or Shakespeare. It reads like you're trying to make it sound more sophisticated, but don't actually know why people spoke that way.

On top of that, your "epic movie story" is mostly faux-tech-jargon and pretend politics, nobody enjoyed Star Wars Episode I for this exact reason. And the big bullet points of the story are just standard JRPG fodder - I was bored watching Omega get released. It's BORING.

Also, you should get people who actually understand how accents work. Clearly, none of you do. Also, try hiring at least one American, not everyone needs to be British.

Also, FF7 had better looking cinematics.

Also, casting more then one person to the voice for one character is beyond stupid. And extremely obvious since the performances aren't consistent. Your directors are amateurs too.

The accents seems fine, and are actually real British accents, 2.0 had Americans doing the pretend British accents and it wasn't the best. Also, why does the game need more American VAs? Not everything in this world has to cater to the USA.

I don't get this post, do you think SE are goin to read this and hire a completely new writing staff, voice actors and cutscene director?

Do you get bored same way with narratives from Walking Dead (the game)? MMOs aren't designed to be box office scripts fit in 2-3h duration. I can tell you there's over 40h worth of cutscenes just from MSQ and job quests, and this is only up to 4.1. If we're comparing even with common tv scripts that's 2 seasons worth. Not all of them has voice acting so you don't get attached to the actor. Try the Japanese audio, they're very excellent imo

SW1 sucks because how they portrayed Anakin, I think they did fine on everyone else.

The decision to make use of mostly British voice actors is a stylistic choice that makes a lot of sense and adds to the game's appeal, depth and charm. It sure beats what many other MMO's do in regards to making every character - regardless of race - speak like a modern day teenager.

The storytelling in this game isn't perfect and I believe some parts are worthy of criticism...but if you're not going to bother doing so constructively then there's zero weight to your post as far as I am concerned. The developers have taken constructive criticism offered up in the past into consideration, after all. As evidenced by their decision to cut out a lot of 'filler' as well as their decision to give more screentime to the antagonists.

The only thing I can agree with is that the game needs a wider variety of accents. Having everyone speak with an English accent kind of ruins the immersion - while it makes sense for some characters to speak as such, if we're to believe the peoples of Hydaelyn are diverse they need to speak with different accents. Languages are understandable since having language barriers would be extremely inconvenient, but having, say, the Xaela speak with the same accent as the Garleans is kind of jarring, given their peoples are not known to have any interaction.

While the political intrigue is boring to some, others enjoy it, so please consider that. There's not much else to say but that I disagree with most of the rest.

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Originally Posted by Cilia

The only thing I can agree with is that the game needs a wider variety of accents. Having everyone speak with an English accent kind of ruins the immersion - while it makes sense for some characters to speak as such, if we're to believe the peoples of Hydaelyn are diverse they need to speak with different accents. Languages are understandable since having language barriers would be extremely inconvenient, but having, say, the Xaela speak with the same accent as the Garleans is kind of jarring, given their peoples are not known to have any interaction.

While the political intrigue is boring to some, others enjoy it, so please consider that. There's not much else to say but that I disagree with most of the rest.

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That's true, the Othard side should have had a non-English accent for sure, that was quite jarring. It fits well for Garlemald and Eorzea though.

This is coming from the same OP who wants vote kick removed because a very small minority only he has encountered abuse it... Who is now insulting an entire staff of writers and actors, placing his opinion above everyone elses’ because it doesn’t fit or cater to his interests or needs. Not worth arguing about with him, but, I personally enjoy the time you spend seeing every part of the story. Its pretty indepth and lets you peer even into the context of past events that inpsired a character to act the way they do.

I disagree - give us more. \o/

Mayhap find a different game? Not every game can be about angry Americans shouting and shooting at each other over a misplaced grilled cheese sandwich.

you sound like a fool trying to make demands of sqeenix just because you don't like certain things about the game is all good but the moment you start whineing instead of giving constructive criticism its over for you.

i disagree - more story plz ._.