{Spoiler} Main story woes

XIV's story is so much worse than VII. And I hated VII.

Hear me out.

In vii, you could spends DAYS at the Golden Saucer, ignoring Metoer,, the planet wide apocaypse. You culd spend your time snowboarding or....whatever. I didn't spend much time there.


I miss the Gold Saucer. At least it was optional. Here? It's not. AND it is very weakly justified.


The Ifrit storyline was ok. Set the tones, setting, everything. But it's been downhill from there.


The leadup to Titan dragged way too long, and felt largely pointless. I beat Ifrit, but have to prove myself to 5 different peple before they even tell me how to GET to him??? And even then, Ishtola is the one who makes it possible..........

Then stuff happens, then Garuda is said to be the next big threat, but we need an airship to get to her. Now, I'm a bit fuzzy on primal lore here, but doesn't Garuda hold sway over the dragons in the north, and pretty agressive for a primal to boot? So WHY THE FUCK DO I SPEND TEN LEVELS MIRED IN ELVEN POLITICS ABOUT HERETICS!?!? I play a paladin. Try to RP her as such. But half of thesse quests were driving me up the wall.

Your "heretics" may destabilize your country, but Garuda will DESTROY it! Just tell me where the airship is!!!!



Then I need to retrieve it myself, and Alphinaud is a general d-bag once I do. At this point, about the only thing I care about storywise is what happened to Minfilia. Anyone else this disappointed with the main storyline? Does it ever get better?

My complaint is that what happened to Noraxia left a really bad taste in my mouth. I'm just starting the leadup to Garuda, so I'm at that point. Noraxia's fate was unnecessary for a good story; they could have hit the JRPG emotional low without it.

Garuda hols sway over the Ixal (birdmen), not the Dragons. The dragons saw Midgardsormr as a leader, and the rumor is that they worshiped Bahamut.

Ikr... the death of Noraxia made me really sad as she was one of my favorite characters. She was almost on waifu levels for me ;___;

OP: Personally I think it gets alot better after you defeat Garuda. I do not want to spoil anything, but almost each story quest from now on is related to the main story (sadly, they are very very few. (I hope you like FATEs)). Overall I loved the story of this game. Story gets 8/10 for me. Could have had more story twists, but I understand they can not do so as the world is not allowed to change too much.

So finally beat Garuda. Shit has hit the fan. O.o

Quick comment. This should be on Lore: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/forums/646-Lore

The real problem is so many of the main story quests are filler. I understand they wanted to make it last from 1-50 with unending questing, but I'd have rather just had a main story quest every 5 levels or whatever without the filler. The story is IMO the best FF... at certain points and moments... but the majority of it is filler, which drags it down as a whole.

As to the complaints about Noraxia, I felt it was largely useless, because Noraxia seemed like a throw-away character in the first place. I think it would have been much more shocking and emotional if it had happened to Minfilia instead of Noraxia.

I did not think the story was very good. Too many filler quests and the only thing interesting that happen imo is when you end up fighting something from one of the previous FF games.

The story may have worked better in a single player game but not so much in a mmo. The nations rely on the scions way to much considering how few scions there are and the scions all rely on you. I'm not taking into account other players as scions because then scions would make up most of the population.

The end dungeons for the story are just annoying. They should have had them be 4 mans instead of 8 since most people don't ever go back to them after finishing them. Waiting around 2 hours to finally get into the dungeon just to progress the story is just fail.

CM and Prae get run constantly for tomes. If anything, it's every pre-50 dungeon that never gets touched again.

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Originally Posted by Delphineas

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You are going to have a conniption when you get to the very end of the story quests, before the final instances. One word, sandwiches.

I think I raged about that in vent for about 3 hours straight.

Despite the stories flaws i'm looking forward to what will happen next with future expansion, it doesn't surprise me that the story is very plain as it was probably rushed considering it's a revamp. But with how it ended i can see it getting stronger later on, especially now they should have more funding for the game.

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Originally Posted by BlueMage

As to the complaints about Noraxia, I felt it was largely useless, because Noraxia seemed like a throw-away character in the first place. I think it would have been much more shocking and emotional if it had happened to Minfilia instead of Noraxia.

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Her death wasn't useless. It's going to be the catalyst that results in Ramuh being summoned again. You saw how angry those sylphs were with the Garleans.

Indeed, that whole scene in the Waking Sands I was role-playing my character, and

felt my character would have been deeply affected by what Livia and her goons did -not content to just arrest Minfilia and anyone associated with her, she stormed the building with all guns blazing, killing wounded in cold blood (she shoots a man in the back without a care), and even her own troops were shown to be bloodthirsty butchers stabbing already dead victims relentlessly. And that's to say nothing about the apparent sadistic relish in Livia's voice as she mentions as to what she plans to do to Minfilia.

And what happened to poor Noraxia - the sylph was definitely brave, if not a little foolish, trying to protect Minfilia from Livia, and paid the ultimate price for it. I was reminded of Flickblix's death during the original storyline in FFXI when Noraxia died in my character's arms, it showed that the beastmen aren't quite the savage mindless monsters they're made out to be - that the Empire are the real monsters - them and their Ascian allies. I actually typed in emote about my character swearing revenge on the Empire after the scene ended, as being a PLD, such barbarism and brutality is something she simply cannot abide.

And yes it's easy to see that with Noraxia gone this might be the straw that breaks the camel's back and forces the hand of the tempered sylphs into summoning Ramuh. But I guess we'll see.

It's a shame, as up to that point the game plodded slowly with endless fetch quests as filler, and really was putting to me to sleep (specifically, the lead up to the Titan fight). I disagree the main story as a whole is substandard though - I've enjoyed the twists and turns so far in it (especially the murder-mystery substory in Fallgourd Float leading to the haunted house Haukke Manor) and I can't wait to see how it ultimately resolves. It's just the 'Company of Heroes' section to Titan that is lacking a certain something sadly.